The upcoming Frostpunk 2 is about to increase and construct on its beloved predecessor in plenty of methods, from the introduction of districts to factions and extra, however one specifically that’s positive to assist significantly lengthen the sport’s life is the truth that, not like the unique, Frostpunk 2 goes to function full modding assist.
Talking in a latest interview with Polygon, co-director Jakub Stokalski defined that because the authentic Frostpunk was constructed on developer 11 bit studios’ proprietary Liquid Engine, giving gamers entry to full modding instruments proved fairly difficult. Nevertheless, with Frostpunk 2 constructed on Unreal Engine 5, enabling mod assist grew to become a lot simpler, which, as per Stokalski, is one thing that’s doubtless going to elongate the sport’s shelf life considerably.
“It’s one thing that we really had been desirous to do even since Frostpunk, however weren’t actually capable of,” he mentioned. “We constructed Frostpunk on our proprietary engine, which allowed us to do quite a lot of cool customized issues, however the funding wanted to make it out there to the gamers was simply not warranted. This choice is rather a lot simpler now, as a result of Unreal is a longtime recreation engine with a identified pipeline for such a stuff.
“Technique video games, and PC video games specifically, profit from having a vibrant modding group. Folks take pleasure in taking part in with the video games — not solely by taking part in them. That’s an awesome factor to assist, interval.
“The group for Frostpunk and Frostpunk 2 appears to be very invested not solely within the recreation, with the way in which the sport works, however on this planet of the sport. There’s individuals arising with fanfiction, like writing totally different situations, taking part in situations on Reddit in correspondence kind. So simply having the chance for individuals who want to have a go at attempting to increase this world to what they think about is thrilling for the entire workforce.”
Frostpunk 2 is launching for PC on September 20. PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S variations are additionally within the works, however don’t but have a launch date.
