If you want to get your hands on the next Arkane vampire role-playing game to play with your closest and dearest, here’s a quick warning: You can only save any progress you make on the Redfall campaign if you’re host.
Speaking to IGN, Redfall game designer Harvey Smith revealed: “Whoever is the host of the session or who is logged in … their progress is persistent for them. But [for] other people, it is not. As for which missions you have unlocked and such, the host, their progression is important. “
Revelation of the gameplay of Redfall.
He went on to say: “If you sign in with a friend and they are in the middle of the game and you play the second half of the game with them and then you have to go back and want to play on your own, you will start the campaign with a character “.
Smith went on to say that Arkane’s team had been thinking about all this for a while.
“When we started talking about it and working on it, we imagined a scenario where every mission you played, we ticked the box you were credited with.
“But then you end up with this weird ‘Oh, I’ve been playing with you, but now I’m going to play on my own. So I start playing during the campaign, but then I start doing the missions I have.’ So, in terms of the flow of things, you want to redo it.
“The story would be very confusing if I got to mission eight and said, ‘Skip this one because you’ve already done it.’
In the end, the developers decided to keep only your hero and his experience points and vampire killing equipment would be transferred to your own game.
“Whatever weapon you find, whatever level you win … it’s all persistent,” he said.
Smith also added that once you’ve started a campaign with a character, you’re “bound to [them]”for the rest of the game.
Redfall will be released in 2023 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S and PC.