14 DAY TRIAL // Yager, the studio behind the stellar Spec Ops: The Line, has just confirmed that it's building alongside publisher Grey Box a free-to-play "aerial armada action" game called Dreadnought, which is set to debut on PC and has received a great video and a few screenshots.
Yager may have gained recognition for its latest project, Spec Ops: The Line, but the studio made its debut in the industry with Yager, a combat flight simulator that appeared in the early 2000s, first on Xbox and then on PC.
Now, the studio is going back to the flight simulator roots with Dreadnought, a brand new free-to-play experience that's set in a futuristic universe in which players assume the role of mercenary spaceship captains that fight for glory and riches in a chaotic galaxy.
"Dreadnought harkens back to the PC space combat game we developed when we first started out," Mathias Wiese, art director and co-founder at Yager, said. "In the years since, we’ve been developing and testing some incredible ideas that now perfectly come together in Dreadnought."
The ships of Dreadnought will come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, according to Yager, and players will have complete control over them. They'll be able to dedicate power to specific sub-systems, customize weapons, engines, armor, abilities, or the crew, not to mention personalize the ship's aesthetics with different elements.
"We all have that dream of sitting in the Captain’s Chair," Tony Medrano, creative director at Grey Box, added. "It’s an awesome feeling to control something so huge and powerful, and that feeling is present in Dreadnought. Our goal is to nurture that feeling at all costs by working with players to fulfill the creation of their dream armada. With the game announced, that feedback starts now. It’s going to be a lot of fun."
Dreadnought is powered by the Unreal Engine 4 technology and will make its debut as an open beta in early 2015, according to Yager and Grey Box. User feedback is crucial for the free-to-play experience, so the two companies are inviting as many people as possible to try it out once it's available globally on PC.
In order to get the hype going surrounding Dreadnought, the two companies have also rolled out a special cinematic trailer showing a few of the possible ships in action, as well as plenty of screenshots depicting both space battles and those in the atmosphere of certain planets.
