https://www.pcgamer.com/breach-game/
Alpha Signups here:
https://playbreach.com/
Sounds pretty neat. Quite interested how it pans out.
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Breach, F2P action-RPG by Ex-Bioware devs, announced
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Alpha Signups here:
https://playbreach.com/
Sounds pretty neat. Quite interested how it pans out.
Sounds really cool, but something that you have to organize with 4 other friends for a play session. Cant see this being too fun with mute randoms.
It sounds awesome, but asymmetric games always give me a huge pause. It seems like 90% of the time, no one wants to be the 1 player who has to vs the others, in this case the Veil Demon. I'll keep my eye on it, but I have my worries.
Been working on this for three years as well as Shadow Realms at Bioware. Really excited to finally announce it. The team has done an enormous job building the game and studio, and I hope some people here will get a chance to try it out at Gamescom this week or PAX West soon.
We have a solo matchmaking option as well as the ability to play with any number of friends (1-4) for custom parties.
We have a solo matchmaking option as well as the ability to play with any number of friends (1-4) for custom parties.
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Congratulations!
I take it that this is based on Shadow Realms? Considering the 4 player co-op dungeon crawl gameplay etc.
A spiritual successor is probably more accurate; EA owns all of the IP related to Shadow Realms. We took what we learned on that project and applied it to Breach, though there are a lot of differences between the two games in systems and settings.
Currently, Breach is only available on PC. You can get some more information on the site: https://www.playbreach.com/news/article/3/breach-faq.
blocked at work :/
I doubt my laptop is strong enough to play it though.
Just found out about this game today.
Looks decent. Dunno how it flew under my radar all this while.
Signed up for the alpha, hope I get picked :D
Looks decent. Dunno how it flew under my radar all this while.
Signed up for the alpha, hope I get picked :D
We're getting close to our early access launch on Steam this month. We should have a big weekend test before that so you may get an invite soon.
- F2P
- functionally, the game plays out in 15-minute sessions as an asymmetrical multiplayer dungeon crawlerCombat
- like in many MMOs and MOBAs, is a mix of auto-targeting skills and aimed skillshots
And I'm out. Good luck to them.
- functionally, the game plays out in 15-minute sessions as an asymmetrical multiplayer dungeon crawlerCombat
- like in many MMOs and MOBAs, is a mix of auto-targeting skills and aimed skillshots
And I'm out. Good luck to them.
Sounds really interesting but my biggest problem with these kind of asymmetrical games so far - Evolve, Friday the 13th, etc - has been that i find it far more fun to watch on twitch than actually play, because I play most of my games solo and playing with 3 strangers isn't really that fun.
I guess going f2p alleviates some of that concern, I don't have to "invest" in the box price and can play anytime but I can't really come up with a reason why I'd play vs just watch anytime. Its a dumb reason and I'm sure i'm in the minority so hopefully going f2p lets them be successful.
I guess going f2p alleviates some of that concern, I don't have to "invest" in the box price and can play anytime but I can't really come up with a reason why I'd play vs just watch anytime. Its a dumb reason and I'm sure i'm in the minority so hopefully going f2p lets them be successful.
Oh, this looks amazing.
Hope it comes to consoles so I can give it a go. Then again, maybe my new laptop can play it. Guess I'll see today.
Eh, game play is a bit slower than I thought.
Hope it comes to consoles so I can give it a go. Then again, maybe my new laptop can play it. Guess I'll see today.
Eh, game play is a bit slower than I thought.
A lot of the team, including myself, worked on Shadow Realms but Breach isn't directly connected to Shadow Realms in any way. I like to think Breach is the more fully realized version of some of the ideas we explored for Shadow Realms.
We support both Solo and Coop game modes (with AI companions/enemies filling out the rest of the teams) and a custom game mode with any number of players from 2-5.
Oh, that's awesome ... That's a lot more player friendly than a lot of the asymmetrical games out there. I've stopped playing several of them because of the problems matching up with randoms.
This is intriguing, and makes me less hesitant to embrace the game. *signs up for alpha*
This looks really good, I'm definitely in if it comes to PlayStation.
Yeah, that can sometimes be annoying. It'd be interesting if they tested the balance of having multiple veil demons.
When it works and is balanced, which historically speaking seems to be a small minority of games.
Look how quickly Evolve and F13 died.
Yeh true. Depends on the game.
Dead by daylight I was addicted to for 3 months straight.
We haven't committed to a F2P launch date yet but stay tuned. Here is our development roadmap over the next few months: https://www.playbreach.com/news/article/29/thank-you-alpha-testers-early-access-roadmap
Yeah we're using Unreal Engine 4 for the game client/server. We have a custom service layer that we've written using Orleans (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/orleans-virtual-actors/) for things like authentication, account management, matchmaking, and more. I wrote a little bit about our gameplay architecture over on the Unreal Engine blog in case anyone's curious: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/unlocking-breach-s-combat-with-unreal-engine
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Reason why Taiwan is blocked? I live here as a foreigner so I can't really read Chinese.
Reason why Taiwan is blocked? I live here as a foreigner so I can't really read Chinese.
Not only Taiwan, seems like lots of Asian countries are blocked too, including mine.
I hadn't heard of this before, but it looks and sounds very cool. I look forward to trying it out when it's F2P.
Sorry about that. We hope to add additional regions in the future and will make announcements when any new region opens up.
