A sequel to Wasteland 2 is in development at inXile Entertainment, the studio confirmed on Wednesday, and will once again look to crowdfunding to help finance costs. And the first details from the Wasteland 3 team have us wishing today’s announcement had been a Fallout -esque “it’s coming later this year” reveal, because waiting years for Wasteland 3 sounds like a real bummer.
Wasteland 2 debuted on PC, Mac and Linux back in 2014, following a successful Kickstarter campaign that brought in just shy of $3 million, before making the jump to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One last October. Now the studio is hoping to crowdfund a third game in the Wasteland series that would hit PC and consoles simultaneously, and the first details on Wasteland 3 suggest inXile has learned from the few complaints that could be lobbed at its predecessor. The biggest change to be confirmed thus far is undoubtedly the addition of multiplayer support à la the Divinity series. But it sounds like we can expect a drastically different setting for the next Wasteland, too.
Here’s what inXile says about the plot of Wasteland 3:
You start the game as the sole survivor of Team November, a Ranger squad dispatched to the icy Colorado wastes. This is a land of buried secrets, lost technology, fearsome lunatics, and deadly factions. No one here has ever heard of the Desert Rangers. Your reputation is yours to build from scratch, and your choices may save this land or doom it. With a renewed focus on macro-reactivity, you’ll be picking between warring factions, deciding whether locations are destroyed or saved, and other far reaching decisions that have a marked impact on the shape of your world.
inXile is promising a new dialogue system, developed by the Torment: Tides Of Numenera writing team, and a renewed emphasis on rebuilding Ranger Base. The studio also hopes to improve the game’s already stellar combat systems “by including vehicles, environmental dangers, and a revamped, more fluid action system.” The Wasteland 3 team is hoping to raise at least $2.75 million via Fig to help offset development costs.
Wasteland 3 is in development for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. There’s currently no timeline for the game’s debut.
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