FBC: Firebreak players won’t have to wait too long for the game’s first major update. Remedy Entertainment has announced more details for the late September update, codenamed “Outbreak”, which will include improvements based around community feedback collected since the game’s launch last month.
Due to the focus on the upcoming update, the team will be posting fewer news items pertaining to Firebreak. However, during that time, the development team will be focusing on four key areas for the update:
- Understanding the game: Improving the onboarding process and playable tutorial level to help new players understand the game and its systems faster.
- Upgraded Gunplay: Giving players more control over how weapons progress with a new gun mods system. Introducing three new (heavy) weapons and dropping all “generic” upgrades to start players with a playable and powerful version of everything a Firebreak needs from the beginning.
- New Ways to Play: Major changes to the way players access Jobs and to the content of jobs themselves, giving more ways to play and a more surprising and exciting way of getting there.
- New Job: This first major update will bring a brand-new Job into Firebreak, requiring players to identify and eliminate and hopefully not eat strains of mold using something that is internally called “the sushi train” … but more about that later. This will include a new handcrafted level, three Zones, a new status effect, two more enemies to deal with, and all the rest you would expect from a new Job.
Including Outbreak, all future playable content for FBC: Firebreak, including new Jobs, will be free. Players will have the option to purchase cosmetics, but none of these items will affect gameplay, and there will be no limited-time rotations or daily log-ins.
FBC: Firebreak is available now on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, Xbox Series, and PlayStation 5. And in case you missed Aaron’s review, check out the what Jay and Neil (and Aaron) had to say about FBC: Firebreak on the Safe Room Podcast.