Arkane Austin has just released Game Update 4, the final patch for Redfall, which adds an Offline Mode. This patch is 16GB in size on the PC, and it’s available right now for download on Steam.
Alongside the Offline Mode, Game Update 4 revamps Neighborhood and Nest systems, and allows you to pause in single-player. It also brings numerous bug fixes and tweaks.
For what it’s worth, Arkane Austin hasn’t yet shared the full patch notes. As soon as it does, I’ll be sure to update this story with it.
This update marks the end of support for Redfall. After all, Microsoft has already announced its plans to close Arkane Austin. Still, the fact that the devs went ahead and released this patch is commendable.
The previous patch for Redfall, Title Update 3, was released in November 2023. This means that this final update came out around six months after it.
Redfall was a game that pretty much nobody wanted. Bethesda and Arkane Austin tried to get their hands on the GaaS jar which backfired. It’s a shame really as Arkane Austin was the team behind Dishonored and PREY. Yes, these weren’t big commercial hits, but they are the games that established what Arkane Austin was capable of.
Anyway, Redfall currently has Very Negative Reviews on Steam. So, this game didn’t have the redemption arc of games like No Man’s Sky and Final Fantasy XIV.
Stay tuned for more!
UPDATE:
Bethesda stated that it will not share any patch notes for this update. However, the company confirmed that this patch also brings new enemy encounters in Redfall Commons, continued AI improvements, a Story Mode difficulty, and a new Unrivaled Weapon.
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“Redfall currently has Very Negative Reviews on Steam.”
who knows … this last update might improve the game slightly?
I will forever hate Microsoft for killing the Studio that could've made Dishonored 3 & Prey 2
Microsoft axed the studio that made the best immersive sim in the last 30 years
Arkane Austin made Prey (arguably a good game too), but it is Lyon guys who are working on Dishonored mostly.
Prey is pretty good, just some poor aesthetic choices bring it down a notch.
Arkane was already dead before Microsoft closed them.
If you want help studios like Ninja Theory or Arkane you should buy games. This is how you help game developers. MS closed those studios because nobody play those games. Ninja Theory will be closed in next 3-6 months. Hellblade 2 sold worse than HI-FI Rush and Ghostwire. Game have only 400 users on Steam.
It is really easy to save those developers. All you need is open Steam and buy game or download from Game Pass
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They greenlit a sequel to Hellblade 2 already, who is going to make it? They've made a ton of baffling decisions but surely they don't expect a 5 Hour movie game to do gangbusters of sales.
at this point, weird to say perhaps but I wish Sony would’ve just bought Tango and Ninja from Microsoft, that way they would’ve been able to make this stellar games for us. At least these gaming studios knew how to make proper games, even better than current Bethesda if you ask me. Although I dont cater to microsoft or sony though. All I care for is a proper product that I can enjoy, no matter what company is the head of the products.
However at this rate I wonder if Microsoft will be making consoles in the future, Sony is beating them ever since the PS4, their last proper console was the Xbox 360, which is an absolute shame imho.
I mostly agree with you. In hindsight I think Microsoft was planning to cut the most of the studios from the zenimax deal that werent making Doom, Wolfenstein and the Bethesda Games Studios Franchises and any games that came up as successes were just boons. Given the little marketing for Hi Fi Rush and then them also being surprised that it was a success and still making the decision to close it makes me think they just didnt want to manage that many more studios especially in foreign markets with notably different business laws. Not that they couldnt but that it wouldnt be worth keeping them.
I think we’ll still be seeing the consoles for a while. I think what will be interesting though is what they do now that the value Series S outsells the Series X 3 to 1. Will they keep doing 2 tiers of product or will they just make a mid cheap entry level hybrid console like nintendo but can still play most titles through gamepass or modern apu?
Tango Games and Arkane worked on new games when studios were closed. There is only one way to save Ninja Theory – buy Hellblade 2 or play it from Game Pass. Game development cost at least 100 million (5 years). This game need more than 436 players on Steam
This just screams unsustainable.
Sales could not be the metric for success for a title like this.
nobody bought that, didnt the studio basically put up a death notice on twitter?
I’d have to see the tweet. I also don’t expect most people to buy it for $50 when you can just play it on either platform with gamepass for a fraction of that. I thought it was a fine 5 hour experience but they’d be crazy to assume this was going to do any kind of real numbers.
Then don't put the same 5 hour movie game alongside the reveal of the "world's most powerful console". It took them over 4 years to confirm the scope of the game since its BIG overblown CG trailer reveal (yes, the final game looks NOTHING like that, clear as day now that the game is out, CG reveal trailer where you could see the detail of the bones on her face and nose in the expressions).
Let that salt flow idiot, just because one plastic toy has a game that looks much better than the other plastic toy you kids play with, isn’t a good reason to get your little panties all twisted. Just stop being a whiny idiot please, thanks đź‘Ť
I rather Microsoft go out of business, nothing against devs for the most part, but i rather not stain my hand with blood.
So you are have nothing against developers… but you are against Microsoft who pay them? This is dumbest thing I ever read. People like you really hate PC
Yes, they pay them but the money comes with strings attached, and i reject Microsofts values and everything they stand for.
No, if the game/s is/are trash, why should we as customers be funding these studios 'until' they produce a decent game..
Choice is very simple:
– you buy their games and studio will survive
– you don't buy their games and studio is closed and people are fired
Thousands game developers have lost their jobs in 2023/2024. More people will lose their jobs. People are buying fewer games than they did a few years ago. Gamers can choose which studios should survive and which should be closed. You can vote with your wallet
I would never support any studio that creates woke games, regardless of who owns them or whether they are starving after being laid off.
Whats your suggesting is non-sequitur. Your essentially asking people to fund something with a vague hope that they ‘might’ produce a good game once in a while, er no.
lmao. They got fired. The best thing ever happened and well deserved.
They closed just half of Arkane. Lyon, the main, original studio, still exists. The Prey and Dishonored IP are still with Arkane. Both of those games can still happen.
prey 2 was pitched and was shut down by ms.
Yeah and so can a new Conker lol.
prey 2 was pitched, ms rejected it.
I dont get how ms bought all those studios spending billions of dollars only to shut them all down. Then again they had a black woman in charge of xbox, Sarah Bond, SHE/HERS.
Xbox and Playstation produce such mediocre games that I don't see them surviving much longer.
The 1 or 2 exclusives PS has every year is just cinematic trash. And Xbox no longer has exclusives.
Almost everything is moving to PC, and the tech illiterates who can't move to PC will switch to Nintendo or mobile.
Sad it had to go out like this. I have a friend who's still excited for this title and only hope he has fun with it. I wanted to like the title and thought a big title update could save it if they really were comitted to it but you know what? Im just glad I can move on to something worthwhile now. Can't wait for Shadow of the Erdtree and then Outlaws later!
Also known as Bury it with a hatchet update.
Xbox and Playstation produce such mediocre games that I don't see them surviving much longer.
The 1 or 2 exclusives PS has every year is just cinematic trash. And Xbox no longer has exclusives.
Almost everything is moving to PC, and the tech illiterates who can't move to PC will switch to Nintendo or mobile.
And this game took up 2 E3 events that the usual Xbot shills went crazy over. Just a month before launch, the king of the Xbot shills Cope Eastwood was flown out to Austin to play that game. He shilled so hard for it and looked like a complete idiot when the game launched and flopped so hard.
Watch the same people losing their minds over the most generic stuff shown at Xbox's multiplatform game showcase next week…………….. and then play the game in July where they try to remember a single thing shown at the same showcase.
REMEMBER Redfall, Starfield, Forza 8, Back4Blood all the overhyped flops and go into the showcase with an ounce of realistic expectations and maybe, maybe you won't look stupid this time.
Us PlayStation fans can call out a terrible showcase when we see one like last year and that State of Play yesterday. Why can't you? There hasn't been a good Xbox showcase since the "good ol'" 360 days, let alone a great one.