Death is a big part of most games, in fact unless your playing Kirby it’s likely to experience death quite frequently, but not many games dare to include permanent death as an option. In this respect Undead Labs upcoming ‘Class 3‘ is breaking the mold.
Once again the folks over at ‘Class 3‘ are cryptically releasing hints about game mechanics through the medium of a supposed survivor diary. This weeks entry gives us some interesting details about damage, healing and death.
What does it mean?
I´d played both State of Decay games and I can safely say that this teaser image has nothing to do with it.
New Next Gen IP? O.o
Why are they teasing a new game when state of decay isn’t even close to being released?? Let’s not pull a Bethesda and insomniac
Please focus on state of decay 3.. I’ve been waiting patiently lol
One of the comments is quite interesting:
Asked deepseek again with New images **"State of Decay 3: TEMPEST"**
(or "WINDS" / "STORM")
featuring:
**A survival system with up to 8 survivors** in a dynamic environment (floods, winds, resource scarcity).
### Key Elements Explained:
1. **"TEMPEST" / "STORM"**
→ From the repeated character **风 (fēng) - "wind"**, implying extreme weather as a core mechanic.
2. **Up to 8 survivors**
→ From **八 (bā) - "eight"** + **人多 (rén duō) - "many people"**, suggesting squad size limits.
3. **Dynamic Environment**
→ References to **水 (shuǐ) - "water"** (floods) and **风 (fēng)** (storms) signal environmental threats.
4. **Resource Struggle**
→ **米 (mǐ) - "rice"** and **木 (mù) - "wood"** hint at survival mechanics (food, building).
"Today we are excited to announce that the Undead Labs Studio Head and Founder, Jeff Strain, is launching an exciting new initiative."
Great to see that all of Microsoft's new studios are seeing growth now that they are a part of Xbox Game Studios.
Phil Spencer is not only acquiring new studios he ´s making them bigger and better. Great job, Phil!
A studio not headquatered in Washington or California? I..I need to sit down..
Now that the acquisition has slowed down, it all about heavily investing in the studios. We already saw great talent reaching Obsidian, Playground games. the initiative and the Inxile. Ninja theory in the midst of building a new studio in Cambridge and now undead labs are starting a new one.
The only studio that has been under the radar is Compulsion games.
As rumours of ArenaNet employee layoffs have been appearing today, Undead Labs sends a message of support and says that they will do everything they can "to help people find their next great opportunity" and that they will do "their best to coordinate" the job opportunities "with the entire Xbox Game Studios family".
"We’ll do our best to coordinate with the entire Xbox Game Studios family to ensure we have broad representation of opportunity within all of our studios."
Nice, permadeath. This title sounds promising.
Still longs ways off but i cant wait to get my hands on this game.