Big Updates on State Of Decay 3 -This 2024 (Everything We Know Today)

so guys state of De K 3's first and only trailer dropped in the summer of 2020 and fast forward all the way to 2024 and technically we don't have a lot of info but that's actually not totally true there's actually a lot of information we even have guys an official timeline when we're about to see gameplay for this game maybe even a release window and it's just not even that far away and I have personally found features coming including something I found recently within the last couple of months that no one has talked about yet and it's going to make everyone happy so stay tuned for that if you guys don't know me I'm sunny here at Sunny Games we have a lot of juicy info to cover and let me tell you guys State of Decay 3 is literally set to be the biggest and the baddest postapocalyptic Survival game we have ever seen but before that I do have some bills to pay as extra wallets is going to show us how their wallets help us survive in upcoming apocalypse like in State of Decay I don't 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additional 5% off trust extra for all your wallet needs and thank you to exter for being today's sponsor all right let's start from the very beginning on things that we know about SATA Decay 3 that are all but confirmed and let's of course begin with the trailer itself now within the trailer we see quite a bit happening for one the thing that stood out is a zombie deer right at the end is eating a wolf and truth be told I don't think I've ever played a game that had anything other than just a normal zombie so this would be completely new and I feel safe in saying that this new threat will be something us players have to contend with other than just the normal zombies and the normal freaks now if you guys don't know what freaks are it's the current dangers within the State of Decay franchise things like ferals Juggernauts and then bloaters and these are all creatures that are just these much bigger looming threats so Undead Labs has always liked having new threats other than just your typical zombie and then of course there's the other survivors out there who might also kill you now also years back I found something that was confirmed within a job listing that they were hiring an artist that was familiar with modern methods of character rendering as for hair fur and skin I also noticed various jobs that have shown things about creatures how to implement a creature system so that is double confirmation Wildlife is set to be part of the State of Decay franchise and I would not be shocked that it won't be just in the form of zombie animals guys don't be surprised we will now be hunting animals for food for their fur to craft clothing and a lot more different things and for me guys I have to say that is super super super exciting now another thing about the trailer that really stood out that we've never really seen before is simply just snow there's been no weather across the franchise all these years and funny enough weather is one of the most requested features and it makes a lot of sense we'd like to see things like rain snow winds really anything that adds to the immersion and well remember when I told you guys earlier in this video that I actually found something you recently within the last couple months I did find a new job posting that finally talked about whether weather itself as Undead Labs was searching for a senior technical artist who specialized in weather now if you look under the bonus traits and experience it says experience within creating volumetric weather and atmosphere and then a few lines down experience in building interconnected time of day weather systems so there you have it I feel safe to say based on the trailer and now this little bit of extra evidence we're finally going to see weather in many new forms within this franchise and believe it or not that a first and with that guys we've actually gotten a lot of other confirmed things and one thing that really stands out that is going to be different from past statea Decay games is now the fact that State of Decay 3 is set to be Undead lab's first AAA title now the previous games especially the first were more like indish than anything else and then the second game I wouldn't say was really Indie but more of like double a quality well over the years not only has there been wording throughout job listings looking for new developers who actually have experience working with AAA games but also Xbox themselves have really invested into this game with new Studios a few years ago a studio opened up in Orlando that was set to help this franchise work on improved animations and Technology now Undead Labs itself is now a much bigger Studio than in past years as well just reading within the lines of the heads over at Xbox they have said they plan for this game to be super big another aspect that really drives this point home is that this game is set to be using Unreal Engine 5 this was actually confirmed in an interview from head of Xbox Studio Matt booty some time ago he also talked about how the Coalition the makers of the gears franchise has been working hand inhand with Undead labs and really assisting with various parts of the games now go ahead and take a listen to this part right here so you mentioned Undead Labs they're uh working with the Coalition up in Vancouver our Gears of War studio and um using some of the uh technology around unreal 5 and some of the stuff that's been in Gears of War before to bring that into State of Decay which is another one by the way uh most recently I think it was just the week before last we spent all day down at Undead Labs over in Seattle which was great getting the update on state of K3 which got some cool stuff in addition to the fact that State of Decay 2 just continues to grow its user base which is um it's kind of this just stealth thing that just keeps growing um and it was cool to get an update I we're I think we hit 11 million life to- dat players on state of K2 now which is pretty cool and all of that the things that they're doing in stated ke2 are really uh the test bed The Proven grounds for all the stuff that's going into three now another somewhat confirmed item is that Undead Labs plans to really double down on story within State of Decay 3 more specifically the story your playthrough will tell some time ago Xbox insiders had said that Undead Labs plans on placing a greater emphasis on characters and the narratives within the game but don't take the word of just the those guys actually I want you guys to take a listen to a current state of decay 3 developer who some time ago reinforced what they're going to do with story take a listen to this wondering you know because uh you know Dying Light 2 really really doubled down on storytelling they're wondering if uh if State of Decay 3 is going to do something similar I obviously cannot answer any questions about State of Decay 3 so I can't give you anything solid to go on but you know I mean we've definitely taken to Heart the uh the criticism that State of Decay 1 got where you know a lot of players felt like uh just there wasn't really a story at all and that really I mean our Focus was on the mechanical elements of the game trying to make it feel like it was it was your story that you were telling and not some story that we had authored and I think that that that um sense that we really want it to be your story I think is going to continue I think that's an important part of the franchise but there are better and worse ways to handle story uh in that context and so I think that we probably can theoretically do a better job of managing story in that context than we did in you know in State of Decay 2 so I mean yeah I think there's definitely improvements we could make and so if you're looking for improvements I mean yeah I I think that there's a good chance that state of DEC 3 would do a better job how exactly it would do a better job though um I don't know we're we're we're going to try hard and see see what we can accomplish now with that the thing that I found in all of these years that really excites me the most is something based on the story that your playthrough is going to have and the story that you're going to tell something that I found many years ago and that is a brand new relationship system looks to be implemented fully in state Decay 3 now before I actually go a little bit further with this technically this is not confirmed but within Undead Labs own job postings on their own website some years ago actually back in 2021 they posted for a job for a narrative designer and within this job description it says that this person will lead the implementation of our relationship system and character designs using proprietary tools not only that I have further Evidence we're going to see this new relationship ship system this one is a little bit less obvious this little clue but there's still more evidence first I want you to take a listen to this before we get more of that evidence I will say this about the things that I know that are coming they do come from the wish list and they've been on the wish list for a while I guess that's a big plug for keep engaging with the wish list folks like we are listening and and we're doing our best to to stay up on things it's also a very important part of what how we're going to inform ourselves for stated to K3 uh going forward so um you know what you like about two what you don't like about two helps us helps us make decisions uh on a much more meta level about like what the game can and should be now he mentioned things from the current state of decay to wish list well if I direct you to this wish list and you look at the top votes of things that people want to see right near at the top actually the number one feature because the number one thing here listed is actually a language but the actual number one feature people want is a relationship system so guess guess what when there is smoke there is fire for me this is all but pretty close to confirm but technically all we do have is a job listings from some years ago but let's say Undead Labs is fully aware that that is the number one feature that everyone wants to see and it was in a job listing so I fully expect to see it but all right guys that's all the story stuff with State of Decay 3 but multiplayer always been kind of a sideshow especially in State of Decay 2 where I have to say it's pretty lackluster while not yet to get confirmed though technically guys multiplayer in State of Decay 3 to me it looks like it's set to be a lot more improved and on a much bigger scale now I've actually found at this point pretty much like half a dozen pieces of evidence multiplayer is going to be much more of a focal point than in years past I've now found a bunch of job listings even ones that I've never talked about including this past year in 2023 and if you guys want to see older evidence check my previous videos but let me show you guys the upto-date evidence as they were looking for a ux director this past year and in this listing it says experience working on multiplayer open world titles and within that same time frame they were also looking for a senior level designer who has experience in designing levels for areas for Cooperative multiplayer experiences and finally if I haven't convinced you enough there was yet another job listing recently as of the last four months for a senior gameplay engineer where it says write and maintain code focused on a address in core Loop momentto moment gameplay including networked multiplayer development and in that same job under preferred qualifications it says explicitly experience with multiplayer game development now you don't look for people with experience in these Specialties if you're not going to work on multiplayer not only that but Jeff strain the former head of Undead Labs within the past few years has been quoted that State of Decay 3 is now finally on its way to achieving its ultimate vision and what was that ultimate vision for him and his team back in the day well actually actually it was a full online World game that will allow thousands of players to run around at the same time in a much larger server hosted world so basically an MMO of sorts now I have no clue if that's exactly what is happening right now and I'm not sure I'd even bet on that I think what would be a much more improved and dynamic multiplayer than previous games I kind of think more of what I could see and that's something like maybe dayis Z only in a state of decay world with a lot more PVE but we'll see multiplayer though does look to be more of an emphasis in the next game how though that's really anybody's guess at this moment and finally the last piece of information which I don't think's really a big deal but either way it is confirmed is that State of Decay 3 is s to have in-game cinematics a gentleman named Allen who works at Undead Labs is a senior cinematic artist and according to what he specializes in it's in storyboarding and in-game cinematics and this was found on LinkedIn all right guys with all that though let's talk about the very big elephant in the room and the actual release date and information well believe it or not we actually have some really cool official updates on this this past summer in 2023 Matt booty head of Xbox Studios went on to talk about and I quote as we think ahead even into 2025 I know just because Undead labs are in Seattle what's going on with State of Decay 3 we've seen these things so as I look ahead to the next 18 months in terms of what we're going to be able to show and deliver and do that kind of gameplay reveal I'm iously confident because the teams are hard at work and they get that kind of bar that is set now which is let me show up with gameplay let me do a deeper dive whenever we show up now this quote was this past 2023 in the summer we are actually now 6 months after that leaving us with now a year left in that 18-month window if you look at a year from now that would actually be the 2025 developer direct we just had the 2024 version of that about a week ago I could see a deep State of Decay 3 gameplay dive next year at this exact time with the big thing being me personally predicting that we're going to see a Showcase of State of Decay 3 at this year's 2024 Xbox Showcase in the summer so maybe in the form of a new trailer with that deep gameplay dime being at the start of next year in 2025 and I feel this is an educated guess just based on the timeline that he mentioned in his quote and it's not really any sort of inside information but it is my prediction it is my guess let me know what you guys guess down below make sure you guys hit that sub and thumbs up if you guys enjoyed this video now there was a rumor of 2027 being the release date that was basically fake news and this information came out some months ago multiple insiders confirmed that was fake and guys even I can tell you that was fake based on my own information and that's about as far as I'm going to say on that so that does though give us kind of a window for the actual release date now I will be insanely shocked if we saw State of Decay 3 release this year I just don't see that happening sadly but I do think middle or late 2025 is a more realistic release date and since multiple people including myself know for a fact that 2027 is an absolutely outrageous year that really gives us from here now until 2026 so in a way we are still kind of really far away but we're not too far away either I mean either way I'm going to be kind of glued and definitely praying for some news at this year's summer at the Xbox showcase but if we happen not to hear anything this summer then maybe we'll hear something at the game awards at the end of 2024 and that's always a possibility now if you just cringed at this far away release date information well you're actually not the only ones we actually have information this past 2023 that the devs are actually just as frustrated as you guys are recently Brans Fitzgerald wrote in a Reddit post titled wellp no news about State of Decay 3 and the context of this was that this was about the 2023 Xbox showcase and Brandt goes on to say he's as frustrated as anyone maybe for different reasons but don't be upset don't be angry we're trying to make the best game possible and then later in this thread he says I've asked repeatedly that we all be allowed to be transparent like we used to what he means is like we used to back in our Indie days but that it's much more difficult since the acquisition he goes on to say that the message is more controlled due to Xbox and all the red tape and keep in mind that was all a little bit of a paraphrase and truth be told guys the trailer did release back in all the way in 2020 and I'm telling you we won't see a release date for a while and that's honestly due to a lot of factors that I won't explain to you but I'll actually let a recent video from a developer at State of Decay 3 explain what exactly is going on so quiter uh I'm I'm sorry that State of Decay 3 was not uh at the uh at the Xbox EV we are not ready to show anything and uh people kept asking me about uh whether state of K 3 was going to be on that and talking about press events in advance is just a thing that someone cannot do and so I couldn't tell you yes or no uh about it but uh yeah sorry that that was uh disappointing but you know we've uh this this game has taken us a while uh to sort of you know get what we're doing up on its feet and so yes we're not ready to show anything but uh at some point we will you know and and you know you all you know people who follow our channels and and and sort of are connected to our community you're going to be the first ones to know whenever anybody is allowed to know anything yeah so coiso is is drawing comparisons between the Gap you know with the gap between state of De K 1 and two and I mean I would honestly I would expect our Gap to be a little bit bigger because we are taking an even bigger sort of Step Up in sort of the the the scale of project that it is the number of people working on that that kind of thing things go slow the bigger you go um you know state of K 1 was a very small Scrappy team state of De k 2 was a midsize team you know and and so like as we keep sort of escalating our Ambitions things take a while and it's and it's hard to sort of learn how to uh you know how to handle each each new scale of of thing that you do uh makes you think about like you have to think about your culture your studio culture in a totally different way and you have to make decisions in different way ways and it can be you know it's it's just a challenge to each new project is not just like oh we'll just do the same thing you did last time only you know slightly better like people actually get disappointed if that's what you do you know the people expect a certain amount of um sort of like uh escalation from uh from a game series especially when you're spanning generations of hardware and so it's it's it's a challenge and you know I think I think we probably would be happier if we'd managed to do this faster too but but we haven't cuz yeah I mean the last thing we want is to spend forever you know uh working on a game and and not having you see it my favorite thing has always been you know the the fast turnaround we always had an updates to State of Decay 2 where I could just we could turn something around really quickly and uh you know and I could you know I got to have like feedback for the stuff that I was creating really fast that was a very emotionally satisfying experience I would love to get back to that scenario so I'm not just we're not just sitting there holding back for fun you know we we we really you know we're we're eager to get to the point where we can share this stuff with you and there you have it guys development it's been pretty slow but this community and myself I feel like we're a pretty patient Bunch it's still tough to wait though my final thoughts are quite a few now you guys saw that the relationship system is the thing that I'm definitely the most excited about and I really feel like that's going to change the dynamic of the post-apocalyptic game that we've all grown to love over the years and I think the future of it can really make this be a game changer of a feature then you add in the fact that multiplayer could be expanded further and you have a game that is going to be there for the Long Haul reports are that a new Xbox isn't coming out until 2028 which if this game releases in 2025 it actually gives Xbox a pretty big system seller at the end of this current generation's lifespan I really think Xbox is going all in on state of thec franchise and for one big huge reason PlayStation actually has The Last of Us Xbox equivalent is actually this franchise and it's why I think they're making sure that they're going all in on this franchise going forward heck you don't even have to believe me me listen to the head of Xbox himself say how excited he is about State of Decay 3 more than any other franchise they have in development this is so hard because we have so many teams that are doing so much great work um another another team and this one's probably not that big of a surprise for people who have watched me play but I was a big State of Decay 2 player um and Undead with you know the looking at State of Decay 3 I'm I'm incredibly excited about some of the advancements they're going to make uh they've had this pattern they've talked about it publicly from State of Decay 1 to two to three and what they want to do and we haven't shown a lot on State of Decay but it's it's a game that I just I really enjoy playing I'm a big Co-op player I like building I like resourcing and I I just I'm I'm really excited about where that team's going but you know again it's hard because we we do have a lot of games in development as you said some of them talked about some of them not so I don't I don't mean to exclude anything and if this whole video guys isn't proof to you that this game is s to be the biggest the baddest and and the coolest post-apocalyptic game we've ever seen I honestly don't know what'll convince you but before I leave you guys I want to let you guys know that a lot of the developers at Undead labs and State of Decay watch my videos so if you guys have a feature or something that you want them to know about write in the comments below and tell me what you guys are looking forward to the most for me personally the expanded relationship system excites me I'm also really excited about the new animal creatures and how they're going to implement that and I'm really looking forward to the very best best post-apocalyptic zombie Sandbox game available to ever be made and for me I really think it's going to bring this genre to whole new heights and new levels we've never seen before if you guys want a more expanded video on the release date for this game though make sure you check out that video on the screen

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Published: Thu Feb 15 2024