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Former XCOM devs say their Star Wars strategy game is “unaffected” after EA cancels Respawn FPS amid layoffsBit Reactor are working with the Jedi: Survivor studio on the mysterious project
Bit Reactor are working with the Jedi: Survivor studio on the mysterious project
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA
The developers of EA’s upcoming Star Warsstrategy gamehave confirmed the project survived last week’s mass layoffs at the publisher and the cancellation of a first-person Star Wars shooter fromApex Legendsstudio Respawn, who are collaborating on the upcoming title.
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We still don’t know much beyond that, except that Bit Reactor had partnered up with Respawn - who of course have experience in the Star Wars universe viaJedi: Fallen OrderandJedi: Survivor- to work on the new strategy title.
Happily - or, at least, as ‘happy’ as things get when you’re talking about hundreds of people losing their jobs at the whims of overpaid CEOs and shareholders - it turns out that Bit Reactor’s Star Wars strategy game was “unaffected”, as the developers put it on X.
As for when we’ll hear more, Bit Reactor replied to one commenter saying that a first look will arrive “as soon as it’s ready”.
Katharine spoke to Foertsch about Bit Reactor’s ambitions todo for strategy what Baldur’s Gate 3 did for CRPGs, aiming to “really push on the genre” and presumably make more than anXCOMclone in Star Wars cosplay.
“[Strategy is] the genre with the most room to grow, innovate and change, and have rich stories and immersive art, and it just hasn’t gotten its due,” Foertsch said at the time. “We want to make a game and just have people say, ‘Man, that’s an amazing game, and oh, it happens to be strategy.'”
