Insomniac Games have laid out their plans detailing content updates for their Oculus Touch launch title The Unspoken – and there’s a lot of stuff on the way.
Insomniac Games have once again provided one of the highlights of an Oculus hardware launch in magic-duelling title The Unspoken, built for Oculus Touch which launched alongside the motion controllers this month. It’s primarily a multiplayer combat title which has you, a Spellcaster, utilising hand gesture-powered spells to destroy your opponent across various arenas inside ‘the veil’, a mystical dimension unseen to us mere ‘normos’.
The title launched flagged as a ‘Beta’ initially and developers Insomniac Games are now laying out their support for the title through the whole of 2017. In a new blog post on the company’s website the developers are looking to bring a whole host of content additions, including new arenas, skills, classes and characters to the title.
First up are arenas, which Insomniac are promising to extend over next year. The developer is sketchy here but promise more of The Unspoken‘s setting of Chicago to be revealed featuring “dramatic layouts and dynamic pedestals.” Here’s a sneak peek at one of the planned environments.
New classes for players to adopt are also on their way too along with new relics for them to wield inside the battle arena. Again, details are sketchy here but Insomniac seem to hint at new spells for the existing classes too.
Perhaps less substantial, but nevertheless welcome, is the ability to customise the appearance of your Spellcaster with new cloaks, examples of which Insomniac has provided.
New play modes too are on the way and Insomniac’s statement “The very nature of Spellcasting will evolve, even as the 1v1 duel lives eternal” may hint at modes which allow more than 2 players to join an arena, which could open up the scope of the current game significantly.
Finally, a new Spectator Mode is being added for those who like to watch, with Insomniac promising “all-seeing views of the duel, with an information overlay for informed viewing.” To go along with that, they’re also opening up streaming options to allow you to broadcast your crushing victories or humiliating defeats to the Internet at large.
There are no timelines cited here other than ‘2017’ of course, but Insomniac’s roadmap here shows a significant commitment to The Unspoken from the developer and the publisher (Oculus) who is financing the game’s development. It shows an understanding that in this day and age any multiplayer gaming prospect needs to be nurtured long term in order to flourish, especially titles which are created exclusively to a small VR-only audience.
The Unspoken is available now via Oculus Home for Rift and Touch.
