ZeniMax Media has announced that their newest studio Battlecry Studios is currently working on AAA free to play titles.
According to one developer at BattleCry Studios, the developer's titular free-to-play multiplayer game is officially cancelled.
Karam Elahi writes: "At Battlecry Studios, ZeniMax’s newest studio in Austin, TX, there have been a number of interesting job openings posted. ZeniMax is the parent company of such prolific game studios as Bethesda Game Studios, Arkane Studios, id Software, and many more. Though the requirements for this mysterious game might point to a number of possible projects like new IPS, or work on sequels to existing ones, the biggest contender to the sequel crown right now would be Fallout 4 from any one of ZeniMax’s studios. And the more we read the requirements, the more it looks like Battlecry Studios is heading this endeavor."
They better not be, if it was a spin off like New Vegas then fair enough but if we're getting a main Fallout game then I want it from Bethesda themselves
Couldn't agree more....fallout 3 was masterfull.
New Vegas, not so much. Anything besides bethesda's in house studio is nothing....while they may bare the same name they will feel different :(
Exactly. If we've all waited so long for Fallout 4 then I want it done properly with that same Fallout 3 charm from the main studio.
Couldn't agree more, I also don't think any studio other then Bethesda themselves would do a numbered sequel, they may be helping with aspects or maybe a fallout mmo.
i would love to know why we have been waiting for Fallout 4 for this long. Fallout 3 and new Vegas sol quite well. Come on Bethesda
“Experience developing for online multiplayer environment”
Boom. Not Fallout 4.
I highly doubt the next fallout game will come with an online mode. Not after Bethesda just piled huge dollars into Eldar Scrolls Online.
I mean seriously, Fallout fans are Eldar Scrolls fans. Any Eldar Scrolls fan would play Fallout 4 and it's online component. This would take players away from the ESO universe, which is not what they want to do, especially so close to release.
I would say, that Battlecry could possibly be taking over development of ESO after it releases. It is quite common for a developer to hand the ongoing maintenance and support of a game over to another studio after it launches, so they can focus most of their attention on a new project. Maybe this will enable Bethesda Software to work on F4 anyway?
If ESO turns out to be good (which I think, since I played the beta), I definitely would be interested in a Fallout MMO.
But multiplayer in the normal Fallout? Hell no
Better question would be what is Bethesda working on if they can't get to Fallout 4....
"In October 2012, ZeniMax opened Battlecry Studios as part of their Bethesda Softworks subsidiary. But since then, we’ve pretty much heard nothing. So here’s what we were able to dig up." - PSLS
I call bullshit on this one.
Cryengine is great and all but has one big limitation. Map size. It is not possible to create openworld games using CryEngine, unless you want long ass loading screens here and there.
Ive worked long enough with CryEngine to know that.
Dont get me wrong, its an amazing engine that provides great graphics (especially PC). But openworld? No way.
It doesn't need huge maps. Open world games can easily consist of smaller maps put together a la Stalker or borderlands or even the first Crysis (kind of). Clever map design can create a large play space that is confined through natural geographic borders that make sense, while also creating and taking advantage of vertical space. This can be seen to good effect in games that don't have map size issues such as Skyrim, or in games that have clearly limited space options such as Stalker. Point is engine limitations can often be overcome with clever game and map design.
If done right I wouldn't mind a fallout mmo. Though I wouldn't mind a new IP MMO either. I do have mix feeling about being F2P. I don't mind it being F2P but this type of model usually gets ruin by gold spammers, bots or hackers.
