Overwatch Director Reveals Subsequent Recreation Is Pink Useless Meets Rust

Jeff Kaplan has a brand new studio and a brand new recreation. It won’t be what you anticipate from the Blizzard veteran who led design for years on World of Warcraft and directed Overwatch. It’s referred to as The Legend of California and it seems to be like for those who turned Pink Useless Redemption 2 right into a survival crafting sim.

It’s the debut recreation from Kaplan’s new studio, Kintsugiyama, and it’s being revealed by Dreamhaven, the corporate shaped by ex-Blizzard president Michael Morhaime. Revealed out of the blue late yesterday, it’s a multiplayer, action-survival FPS “set on the Island of California in the course of the gold rush period,” based on the brand new Steam web page itemizing.

Right here’s the trailer:

The Legend of California options an open world that takes place on a legendary landmass impressed by the sport’s namesake, solely it’s the nineteenth century and gamers will likely be working collectively in teams or going solo off into the wilderness to collect assets and construct up your ranch with stables, mines, and different buildings.

The best way Kaplan described it on a current episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, every server will host a distinct configuration of the world map. Totally different areas may have totally different issue tiers, and factors of curiosity will transfer all over the world as you play. The music and lighting play huge roles in defining the texture of the sport, with Kaplan saying the heightened aesthetic is impressed by the work of Albert Bierstadt.

A web-based survival crafting sim with hyper-realistic graphics set throughout a earlier historic period isn’t what most followers might need anticipated Kaplan, who labored on fantasy and sci-fi video games at Blizzard, to create. He defined that Kintsugiyama has 34 builders, together with fellow Blizzard veteran Tim Ford, and needs to outline its personal recreation fashion quite than borrow from the previous. “I don’t wish to crib Blizzard and make a pseudo-Blizzard recreation,” Kaplan stated.

There’s no launch date for the sport but however a public alpha is deliberate for a while this month with an eventual Early Entry launch on Steam down the highway. It doesn’t sound just like the workforce is in any rush, a reprieve from the company stress that drove Overwatch 2 off the rails. You’ll be able to presently request entry to the upcoming alpha take a look at on Steam.