I went looking for the answers to a few questions people had about Rage 2 after the debut.
Highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF5gammd3O0
https://www.msn.com/da-dk/video/spil/rage-2-magnus-nedfors-interview/vp-AAyyepI
https://www.pcgamesn.com/rage-2/rage-2-multiplayer
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/rage-2-battle-royal-1202840316/
https://stevivor.com/features/unpacked/rage-2-things-we-know-about-the-game/
Highlights:
- The game is 30 FPS on XB1 and PS4 and 60 FPS on XBX and PS4 Pro. PC can be whatever.
- Rage 2 runs on Avalanche's Apex engine.
- Avalanche is also the main developer on the game with id giving advise and guidance.
- Rage 2 is currently singleplayer only. I say currently as there's a bunch of "for now" type language here followed up with immediate assertions of a bunch of post launch and live service type updates to keep bringing people back. (Also take a look at recent Prey and Wolfenstein announcements for examples of what Bethesda's been doing post launch.)
- The reason Rage 2 is singleplayer only is that the game is very large and it's the first id type game Avalanche is making, so they thought it made sense to focus on the campaign.
- Avalanche states that the game has hundreds of hours of content.
- id stated that they will be talking about whether your character's gender is selectable in the future (which, uh, presumably means yes?). The character is also fully voiced.
- id notes that there is a lot of skin customization for weapons and vehicles, and that they're still figuring out how you will acquire those. (They were asked if it was lootboxes or crafting.)
- Crafting does return in general though.
- The first game's protagonist will not be back.
- id also notes that there are some social community elements at launch even though there isn't multiplayer.
- id notes that extending the life of their games with post launch services is something they're looking at more generally too (like, perhaps, a game called Doom "Eternal".)
- Most other things Avalanche and id talked about were stuff that was apparent from the Bethesda conference video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF5gammd3O0
https://www.msn.com/da-dk/video/spil/rage-2-magnus-nedfors-interview/vp-AAyyepI
https://www.pcgamesn.com/rage-2/rage-2-multiplayer
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/rage-2-battle-royal-1202840316/
https://stevivor.com/features/unpacked/rage-2-things-we-know-about-the-game/
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