Third-Person Destiny Spinoff “Payback” Cancelled by Bungie

It’s been a chaotic few days for Bungie, with the Future developer having laid off 220 folks, along with shifting on many extra folks into positions exterior of the studio. Now, a brand new report revealed by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has shed additional mild on the state of affairs, revealing extra behind-the-scenes particulars on the internal workings on the firm.

Particularly, the report claims that Bungie cancelled a undertaking codenamed Payback two months in the past, with focus shifting to the event of Marathon. Previous experiences had steered that Payback was the codename given to an in-development Future 3, however Schreier says that wasn’t the case, and that Future 3 is just not (and has by no means been) in improvement.

As a substitute, Payback was a third-person spinoff set within the Future universe. Although some perceived it as the subsequent large Future sport, it was designed as a considerably completely different type of expertise, permitting gamers to play as quite a lot of completely different characters within the Future universe. The sport would have concerned co-op, with gameplay revolving round preventing enemies and fixing puzzles, with inspiration allegedly being taken from the likes of Genshin Affect and Warframe.

The report additional goes on to disclose that longtime Bungie veterans Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy have additionally left the studio as a part of its shake-up, following which there are allegedly some inner doubts over the way forward for Future.

Along with the cancellation of Payback, and one among its incubation tasks being spun off into a brand new and separate studio, it’s reported that Bungie will even be reformulating its future content material plans for Future 2, with annual expansions supposedly being ditched. Learn extra on that by way of right here.