The Astronauts has released five new screenshots for its upcoming first-person dark fantasy shooter, Witchfire. Witchfire is said to be a first-person shooter focused on challenge and mastery, that is being made by eight people, targets a 2020 release and won’t be story-based.
The game will be using Photogrammetry and will be powered by the latest version of Unreal Engine 4. As the development team revealed a while back, it’s currently porting the project to Unreal Engine 4.22.
The Astronauts is currently putting emphasis on Witchfire’s gameplay mechanics, and has been experimenting with various ideas. And while the game will not be story-driven, it will have a lore (my guess is that it will have similar ideas to Dark Souls), will feature a lot of enemies to slaughter and will have some boss battles.
Basically, and from what we’ve heard so far, Witchfire feels like a Dark Souls-type of game in first-person mode with weapons and gameplay mechanics that The Astronauts has developed/expanded since the days of the first Painkiller game.
Enjoy!
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Looks very cool to me honestly.
Aye, shame it’s EGS exclusive. I was looking forward to this since last year.
Hopefully it’s not because i’d be very disappointed. And i’d have to pirate the game even if i wouldn’t want to.
>i’d have to pirate the game even if i wouldn’t want to
If you’re going to pirate, do it without making up rationalizations.
Meaning what? If they put it on steam you can bet i’ll buy it.
How do you know that?
Swear to god I saw some info months back on them and EGS.
I did some searching just now and found that one of the people behind the studio making the game, wasn’t happy with Tencent’s involvement with EG, so they might actually not want to be involved.
They have been involved in the past though, just like all those other studios going EGS exclusive, that had “connections” with EG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts_(company)
Painkiller spiritual successor in 2020 with emphasis on gameplay and not STORY? Count me in!!!
Actually looking forward to this game unlike some crap multiplayer Square Enix has the remaining members of People Can Fly develop.
Medieval Doom? Sign me up! The original Painkiller was awesome, I loved nailing monsters to the walls with the stakegun!
Let’s hope it’s a medieval doom-like game!
looks so good
Nice! Been yearning for a game like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zqjNkdXT94
Super hyped for this game, was sort of gutted it missed E3 for I am dying to see a new gameplay footage.
Please be good.
Super hyped for this game, was sort of gutted it missed E3 for I am dying to see a new gameplay footage.
Please be good.