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[Draugoth]

People Can Fly is the studio responsible for Outriders, created in partnership with Square Enix and which was very reminiscent of Gears of War. The good news today is that this team confirmed again that they are working on a game with the Xbox, which should imply exclusive to consoles and PC, in addition to probably being released directly on Game Pass.

Klobrille shared this information on X/Twitter. On the job search page, People Can Fly states the following:

"Project Maverick is a yet unannounced AAA game developed with Microsoft. The game development involves our European and North American teams."There are 40 open positions at People Can Fly for the Project Maverick team, including many lead positions. This likely means production on this project is still in the early stages.Career descriptions for this team mention "Knowledge and passion for RPG games" and Unreal Engine.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

People Can Fly is the studio responsible for Outriders, created in partnership with Square Enix and which was very reminiscent of Gears of War. The good news today is that this team confirmed again that they are working on a game with the Xbox, which should imply exclusive to consoles and PC, in addition to probably being released directly on Game Pass.

Klobrille shared this information on X/Twitter. On the job search page, People Can Fly states the following:

I don't like the lack of polish and basic-ness of Outriders, I hope they get their shit together for their next game.

 

[adamsapple]

Another Gears spin-off?

They made Gears: Judgment, which was ok/good.

 

[Lupin3]

Another Gears spin-off?

They made Gears: Judgment, which was ok/good.

The campaign was fine, but they completely butchered multiplayer with those maps, and don't get me started on the idiotic control scheme.

 

[Darsxx82]

Interesting to know what it will be. In the description it says "RPG", but do I identify PCF with shooting games and not making RPG games before?

When the size and direction of the project is presented and known, it will be time to evaluate it. For now it can only be said that XGSPublising has quite a few projects in the pipeline and it is time for them to be presented.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Excited for this! Outriders was well-intentioned, thoughtful, high quality… but rushed. And I didn’t like the *extreme* linearity of the game structure. Outriders basically played like a single-player MMO. Everything was instanced and segmented. Even jumping was a cutscene.

Aside from that, the game itself was promising and I wanted to like it so much. Very hopeful their next project gets the time and resources it deserves, and things are a bit more open.

 

[LordCBH]

Decent studio. I’ll be watching for this and hoping it’s good.

 

[Deerock71]

 

[Goalus]

Painkiller
Bulletstorm
Outriders

PCF are world-class developers who know how make shooter gameplay feel really, really good. Compelling story in both Bulletstorm and Outriders too. Looking forward to their next game.

 

[Unknown?]

But I was told 3rd party exclusives were bad! I guess Sony should buy them and force them to release only on PlayStation because that's the only way it's okay to have exclusives and the only way to compete.

 

[adamsapple]

But I was told 3rd party exclusives were bad! I guess Sony should buy them and force them to release only on PlayStation because that's the only way it's okay to have exclusives and the only way to compete.

What the fuck you on about here? It reads like MS is publishing the game and PCF are developing it.

Calm your complex, lol.

 

[Not_A-Cop_Maybe]

Even tho its unlikely that Maverick has nothing to do with Top Gun, im secretly praying its a crimson skies reboot or new game.

A man can dream tho right?

 

[Fess]

A Gears Action-RPG would be awesome, if they can keep the lore, design and attitude and don’t get forced by MS to ruin it to suit a modern audience.

 

[StealthGoblin]

They've got a game with RPG mechanics in that works for SIE too.

They seem like a busy team.

 

[TransTrender]

Were these people pulled in for the Quadruple AAAAIDS Perfect Dark game, or was that someone else?

 

[Snake29]

What the fuck you on about here? It reads like MS is publishing the game and PCF are developing it.

Calm your complex, lol.

Well i think because when Sony does publish a third party game. Sony constantly gets hated by that with the words “They are taking games away from us”.

So yeah, he does have a point.

 

[Majormaxxx]

I don't like the lack of polish and basic-ness of Outriders, I hope they get their shit together for their next game.

But the devs ARE Polish. You can't get more polish than that!

 

[adamsapple]

Well i think because when Sony does publish a third party game. Sony constantly gets hated by that with the words “They are taking games away from us”.

So yeah, he does have a point.

No he doesn't, you don't have to lower yourself to that standard. The one time one document listed Bloodborne as an exclusive that Sony paid to keep off of Xbox, entire multi-page topics about meme-ing it were made. Don't forget that.

 

[Snake29]

No he doesn't, you don't have to lower yourself to that standard. The one time one document listed Bloodborne as an exclusive that Sony paid to keep off of Xbox, entire multi-page topics about meme-ing it were made. Don't forget that.

Never seen that topic...

 

[adamsapple]

Never seen that topic...

Must have been merged with the main topic at that time after the fact, but as you can see, searching for bloodborne brings 5 pages worth of results

Anyway, we have no idea what this Project Maverick is but based on the linkedin they are mentioning publishers by name, like "Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix".

Maverick is an MS published game "Maverick is a Triple-A game developed in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation".

 

[Beechos]

I think I was one of the few people who enjoyed outriders. I'm hoping the next gears follows in its steps with hero powers and rpg elements. Gear 5 and hive busters did dabble with these mechanics slightly.

 

[Bennytehsmeghead]

I would be excited for this, but the People Can Fly behind Painkiller and Bulletstorm and the People Can Fly behind Outriders, aka. the most generic AAA game of the past few years, are not the same people. And the People Can Fly behind Outriders is doing this game. Y'all ready for more generic AAA gameplay, cheap enemies, and try-hard edgelord storytelling with insane amounts of unnecessary swearing?

Because I'm not. I'm supporting The Astronauts aka. The People Can Fly behind Painkiller and Bulletstorm and their game, Witchfire.

 

[ungalo]

Were these people pulled in for the Quadruple AAAAIDS Perfect Dark game, or was that someone else?

That's Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal (edit : Eidos is co-developing Fable not Perfect Dark)

 

[SportsFan581]

Will be interesting to see what they are working on. Outriders wasn't a game I liked all that much, but let's see what else they can do.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Well i think because when Sony does publish a third party game. Sony constantly gets hated by that with the words “They are taking games away from us”.

So yeah, he does have a point.

What point? Nobody was even talking about this subject and the dude just came in here to put his persecution complex on display.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Hoping for something with a fun solo campaign. PCF knows gunplay so shouldn’t be any worries there.

 

[ManaByte]

Another Gears spin-off?

They made Gears: Judgment, which was ok/good.

It’s a third person Halo spin off. Being worked on by them and a MS studio.

 

[ungalo]

Two things you don’t want to hear mentioned…”Square Enix” and “Game Pass”.

I love PCF, but I’m not expecting something that would please me.

Square Enix are out of the picture for this next game.

 

[adamsapple]

It’s a third person Halo spin off. Being worked on by them and a MS studio.

Another spin-off separate from Tatanka? hmm

 

[SmokedMeat]

Square Enix are out of the picture for this next game.

Oops, I misread. Well that’s good!

 

[King Dazzar]

I wonder if any wires are getting crossed here, because insider gaming says the Far Cry spin off is called the same:
The result was two Far Cry projects, Far Cry 7, which is Ubisoft’s next mainline title and is internally known as Project Blackbird, while its multiplayer game is called Project Maverick. Both games are now completely separate entities, with Maverick morphing into a Far Cry extraction-based multiplayer experience

 

[SEGAvangelist]

I really enjoyed Outriders, so I'm pretty excited to see what's next for PCF.

 

[ManaByte]

Another spin-off separate from Tatanka? hmm

This is more of a third person shooter with RPG elements. Kind of like Outriders.

 

[Unknown?]

What the fuck you on about here? It reads like MS is publishing the game and PCF are developing it.

Calm your complex, lol.

Don't be so obtuse, you know exactly what I was referencing and how stupid those posts were/are.

 

[Ozriel]

Well i think because when Sony does publish a third party game. Sony constantly gets hated by that with the words “They are taking games away from us”.

So yeah, he does have a point.

I don’t think anyone has ever made that claim for a new IP being published by Sony.
It’s just bottom barrel shitposting.

People Can Fly pretty much don’t own any IP of their own.