On October 5, developer InXile Entertainment will put Wasteland 3 up on crowdfunding site Fig, seeking $2.75 million. A party-based role-playing game, complete with a renewed focus on complex story reactivity and strategic combat, Wasteland 3 will launch simultaneously on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC if it’s funded.
In addition to evolving on Wasteland 2’s turn-base combat and encounter design by including vehicles, environmental dangers, and a more fluid action system, Wasteland 3 lets you play through the campaign with a friend; each of you controlling your own squad of rangers. Wasteland 3 will still offer an offline single-player experience, but if you play online with a friend, you can share missions and join up for key story moments, or split up to cover more ground. “Once a game is started, you can play Wasteland 3 while your friend is offline, and do a lot of missions without them,” InXile adds. “Be aware, however, that the actions you take while your friend is off-line are not without consequence!” Set in frozen Colorado, Wasteland 3 will offer up difficult moral choices and a story from the writers of Torment: Tides of Numenera:
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, ...