Treatment has delayed FBC: Firebreak‘s Rogue Protocol replace to January 2026, reporting it “nonetheless wants a bit extra time”.
Whereas the long-requested characteristic, cross-platform voice chat, has rolled out as deliberate this week, Treatment’s bigger Rogue Protocol replace has slipped to an unspecified date in January, taking the brand new mode Infinite Shift with it.
The staff mentioned the additional time “will assist us make certain all the things feels proper: polished, balanced, and worthy of your time”, and to ease the ache of the delay, it has shared some extra particulars in regards to the new wave-based survival mode.
“Every Infinite Shift drops you and your staff right into a sealed area the place waves of enemies develop more durable with each spherical,” the replace explains. “You at all times begin with solely the naked necessities to battle with. After every wave, you’ll gather Corruption, a wierd residue left behind by defeated enemies. This vitality may be spent between rounds to unlock highly effective upgrades, weapons, and enhancements, letting you form a very new construct each run.”
When it does arrive, Rogue Protocol will probably be Firebreak’s second huge content material drop since September’s Breakpoint replace, whereby Treatment admitted it had “taken numerous suggestions to coronary heart” and had labored over the summer season to convey “important enhancements and new techniques, in addition to content material, into the sport”.
Final month we discovered that FBC: Firebreak, has nonetheless not reached the studio’s inner targets “regardless of improved participant and gross sales metrics after the replace”. Treatment issued a revenue warning to traders because it lowered projected working earnings “resulting from weak gross sales of FBC: Firebreak”, claiming the missed goal had “a considerable impression” on the studio’s funds and revising its forecast downwards. It now expects working revenue to be “destructive and beneath the earlier 12 months”.
Ten days after that monetary report, Treatment Leisure CEO Tero Virtala stepped down from his place on the Alan Wake studio with rapid impact.
