Dead Rising 4 Is Still Using Forge Engine Rather Than UE4; Mall To Be Huge, No Cross-Play at Launch

Before this twelvemonth, Capcom Vancouver announced that they had chosen the Unreal Engine four instead of their proprietary Forge Engine for their upcoming projects. That led many to assume that Expressionless Ascent iv would run on the Unreal Engine 4, with the supposition that Capcom might accept used UE4 to build the game well earlier the announcement actually took place.

Still, the official fact sheet that Microsoft shared with the press confirms that the Forge Engine is still existence used in Dead Rising 4, likely for the final time. The document too mentions that the engine is still running on DirectX xi, so information technology doesn't seem likely that DirectX 12 will exist available at all for this game.

The fact sheet provides a few boosted tidbits on the game itself. Every bit usual, protagonist Frank West will try to uncover the truth behind this new zombie outbreak, but "a hole-and-corner armed services performance, a former student gone rogue, and a cunning new brood of zombie are all after the same evidence".

There will be two brand new zombie types in Dead Rise 4. The Freshare newly zombified victims that will turn in front of Frank's optics and showroom superior speed and ferocity, while the Evo are zombies with superior strength and mobility that mimic the behavior of predatory hunting animals.

Of course, players volition go the necessary tools to fight them, starting with the new Exo Suit showcased in the featured image right above. This super-powered suit of armor grants Frank enough enhanced strength to rip downward parts of the earth, such as behemothic pipes or parking meters, and use them as weapons.

Fifty-fifty more juicy information was shared by Studio Manager Joe Nickolls, who appeared in Rooster Teeth's E3 live stream. According to Nickolls, Frank is lured back to Willamette right around Blackness Friday time, when everybody goes to the Mall and of grade that'south when the new zombie outbreak happens.

The camera will be an even bigger function of Dead Ascent four. Not only is it possible to take selfies, merely our protagonist will need to use the camera with filters like spectral analyzer and night vision to observe the clues and solve the mystery.

Nickolls also said that the Mall will be huge in this game, hinting that information technology'll be much bigger than in the original Expressionless Rising, and the photographic camera will be useful to find out where to go.

If you're interested in the Survival mode, Capcom Vancouver focused on the co-op for Survival this time around. You tin play with up to 4 people in full and that's where you'll get the achievements for surviving longer, equally opposed to in the chief game.

None of the co-op characters are Frank, and there are playable female person characters for the first fourth dimension in the franchise. There will be a series of missions sectional to co-op fashion. Unfortunately, at that place won't be cross-play functionality at launch though it'southward something that they may expect at in the future.

Dead Rising four volition launch on PC (via Windows Shop) and Xbox One on December 6. As covered by our report, it volition be available on Steam afterward iii months and on PlayStation four after twelve months, in a similar deal to Ascent of the Tomb Raider.