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[Lunatic_Gamer]

Edit: Extra info thanks to yurinka

• Deviation's CEO works there since November 2019
• Game mentioned as 'new large-scale IP'
• They're looking for designers experinced on AAA single-player or multiplayer RPGs/Action/story games
• Mention 'ballistic weapons, vehicles'
• Co-op multiplayer
• Mention 'persistent world'
• Mention 'Quests and missions'
• Mention 'fluid and grounded "next-generation" animation'
• They seem to care about facial animations
• They mention 'Create or Improve existing tools to empower content creators' in multiple job offers, maybe has something more than a cool photo mode
• Many job offers mention Unreal Engine or UE4 specifically (they still didn't release UE5)

 

[elliot5]

"world class" means literally nothing rn, but it sounds like they're trying to make a COD game which makes sense given their background. Best of luck to them

 

[Hobbygaming]

Story driven single player campaign you say?

 

[SLB1904]

 

[Hobbygaming]

Yup this will be Sony's answer to COD and the studio has COD veterans so it makes sense. It sounds very ambitious too

 

[Phase]

All talk

 

[SlimySnake]

Yeah, all these games are 2024 and will get delayed to 2025 because covid.

 

[Snowdonhoffen]

I was afraid of this game being a multiplayer only game, glad it has a single player campaign and I guess this is one of those 10 GaaS Sony was talking about.

 

[TidusYuna]

 

[Tschumi]

 

[Hawking Radiation]

About damn time.

Been wanting a Call Of Duty competitor for years.

 

[ReBurn]

Is this the new studio that just formed last year?

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Sony now has a team with COD veterans creating a new FPS for them...and the studio that created Halo as well.

Well no one can't say they aren't trying to do different things for sure

 

[Thirty7ven]

Thousand dollars on SOCOM.

 

[custardbun01]

Hopefully it's kinda like titanfall where they kept the tight CoD gunplay mechanics and gave it a fresh twist.

 

[EDMIX]

Thousand dollars on SOCOM.

I mean, it does say FPS and they did say new IP.

That rumor of GG working on Socom though could be true, but even if we are to say this new team is making Socom, then it would likely be swappable from 3rd to first person or something. Maybe they are listing it as new IP and FPS to throw people off to have a hype reveal.

Keep hope alive!

 

[StateofMajora]

Hmm interesting timing. Might be worried about losing cod.

 

[EDMIX]

Hmm interesting timing. Might be worried about losing cod.

This team was formed before that deal and this partnership with Sony started before that deal. Even the Bungie deal started before that Activison deal, like 6 months ago. So we won't know what their move will be to combat that until later if they even do anything at all as they might feel what they have going might be enough or something. Who knows.

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[FrankWza]

Thousand dollars on SOCOM.

I mean, it does say FPS and they did say new IP.

That rumor of GG working on Socom though could be true, but even if we are to say this new team is making Socom, then it would likely be swappable from 3rd to first person or something. Maybe they are listing it as new IP and FPS to throw people off to have a hype reveal.

Keep hope alive!

A Socom FPS wouldn't make much sense. Needs to be a TPS

 

[Three]

How can they call it world class if it hasn't even been made yet? Seems a little cocky/hype building to me. Hope it's good though.

 

[Swift_Star]

Story driven single player campaign you say?

I can't believe I'm seeing Cirilo on GAF.

 

[Swift_Star]

Hmm interesting timing. Might be worried about losing cod.

You do know they've been working on this for a while, don't you?

 

[W11d]

And who is this Oops Leaks?

 

[RevGaming]

You do know they've been working on this for a while, don't you?

Can't believe cod will be the cause for Sony's death.

Who could have guessed?

What's this?

MS bought EA? No Respawn and Dice shooters? Oh nooo Sony.

You have no shooters...



In al seriousness, they knew they were lacking and xbox guys were asking for one, so they are making like 4.

 

[Swift_Star]

How can they call it world class if it hasn't even been made yet? Seems a little cocky/hype building to me. Hope it's good though.

It means it's a high budget game.

 

[RevGaming]

And who is this Oops Leaks?

Kaz Hirai

 

[nemiroff]

They can just say it and it'll happen? Why didn't other developers think of this, it's genius.

 

[KingGhidorah]

world class?!? I've never heard anyone describing a game, world class. does he mean high production value?

 

[Three]

It means it's a high budget game.

Fair enough if it's budget or production value. I took 'world class' to mean best of the best in its class before it's even out.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

world class?!? I've never heard anyone describing a game, world class. does he mean high production value?

It's just a job advert. It's fluff (edit nevermind it's not. Just sounds like marketing speak though)

 

[kingfey]

Is that Socum? Since that game is kinda open world.

edit: i guess we wont see open world socum soon.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Is that Socum? Since that game is kinda open world.

It's a new IP so no

Socom is third person as well. Not an FPS

 

[Three]

Is that Socum? Since that game is kinda open world.

Is that the porn parody where a chick goes at it in an army tent?

 

[Kokoloko85]

Glad it has a single player

 

[kingfey]

Is that the porn parody where a chick goes at it in an army tent?

 

[tmlDan]

Lots of people from the coalition, zenimax, activision and blizzard are at Deviation now.

we'll see what they can do but we can't take anything from it until we see something.

 

[kingfey]

It's a new IP so no

Socom is third person as well. Not an FPS

They can make it open world. Like open war environment.

 

[cash_longfellow]

It would be nice to have a Call of Duty competitor again, seeing as Battlefield has a shovel and is about .5 feet away from completion of their own grave.

 

[W11d]

The studio never even said they are working on a FPS game.

 

[StateofMajora]

You do know they've been working on this for a while, don't you?

Lol now I do. EDMIX

But you never know, they could transform a project to be more of a cod competitor esp. if the game is way far out.

Me? I just want a damn killzone 2 successor.

 

[kingfey]

It would be nice to have a Call of Duty competitor again, seeing as Battlefield has a shovel and is about 4.5 feet away from completion of their own grave.

They need to keep that game 2 year period time. This way, they can polish the game.

 

[Punished Miku]

Telegraph of Obligation: A WWII Story

 

[Jennings]

I don't want an involved story in my shooter campaign. I don't even need objectives, but can tolerate those. Just give me an arcade action shooter like DOOM.

 

[kingfey]

I don't want an involved story in my shooter campaign. I don't even need objectives, but can tolerate those. Just give me an arcade action shooter like DOOM.

Old shooter games had good stories. New ones is just useless story, and more of chore objectives.

 

[yurinka]

Is this the new studio that just formed last year?

The studio was formed in 2019, last year they announced the deal.

 

[Shanomatic]

Serious question: how many times has this "studio made up of industry veterans making a game similar to one they previously worked on" even resulted in a smash hit? The one example that keeps coming to mind is Yooka-Laylee, which didn't exactly capture Banjo's success.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

Can't wait.

 

[yurinka]

Nice to see they'll have single player campaigns, I typically don't like to play multiplayer.

Is that Socum? Since that game is kinda open world.

edit: i guess we wont see open world socum soon.

As I remember the director of Rainbow Six Siege is rumored to be directing an online squad shooter at Guerrilla since over 4 years ago. Some even rumored (or assumed) it's a Socom game.

Serious question: how many times has this "studio made up of industry veterans making a game similar to one they previously worked on" even resulted in a smash hit? The one example that keeps coming to mind is Yooka-Laylee, which didn't exactly capture Banjo's success.

Yes, there are many cases. In shooters, Destiny. Or Infinity Ward, created from people who came from making shooters like Medal of Honor. Or well, basically any big AAA studio since most people they hire come from other AAA games, if possible similar to the one they'll make, and as successful as possible.

world class?!? I've never heard anyone describing a game, world class. does he mean high production value?

Yes, an AAA game that they aim to be a big hit. Like any big AAA game from any big publisher and specially made by people who come from making super successful games.

Hmm interesting timing. Might be worried about losing cod.

They started to work on it 3 years ago and they announced the Sony X Deviation deal a year ago. The ABK acquisition started 2 months ago.

 

[Shanomatic]

Yes, there are many cases. In shooters, Destiny. Or Infinity Ward, created from people who came from making shooters like Medal of Honor. Or well, basically any big AAA studio since most people they hire come from other AAA games, if possible similar to the one they'll make, and as successful as possible.

I was more so talking about studios that kind of label themselves as "made up of X studio devs" or "the devs behind Y game."

I didn't really count Bungie/Destiny since that was (more or less, from what I understand) the same entity/culture just moving onto another project, whereas games like Yooka-Laylee or Mighty No. 9 specifically drew attention to who was involved in the game (Banjo and Megaman devs) as a means of drumming up excitement, while no longer being a part of the entity that made those original games to begin with.

Wasn't aware of the Medal of Honor/Infinity Ward connection, will look into that more myself.

 

[yurinka]

I was more so talking about studios that kind of label themselves as "made up of X studio devs" or "the devs behind Y game."

I didn't really count Bungie/Destiny since that was (more or less, from what I understand) the same entity/culture just moving onto another project, whereas games like Yooka-Laylee or Mighty No. 9 specifically drew attention to who was involved in the game (Banjo and Megaman devs) as a means of drumming up excitement, while no longer being a part of the entity that made those original games to begin with.

Wasn't of the Medal of Honor/Infinity Ward connection, will look into that more myself.

There are many of them. Kojipro, the makers of MGS. Their first game as new studio is on track to be the best selling Kojima game ever and got many GOTYs.