Remedy's Thomas Puha notes that the budget, team size, amount of content and day-one features are all "intricately linked."
Cross-progression could arrive later, as Remedy's Julian Fondum says the backend allows for "a bunch of things down the line."
Despite lower hardware requirements than Remedy's Alan Wake 2, the co-op shooter facilitates many contemporary PC features.
Remedy wants to "ensure you never feel like you're forced to play" and "make it as fast as possible" to get into missions.
From the Piggy Bank and Garden Gnome to the Teapot, each Altered Augment adds a powerful yet unstable new spin to each Tool.
Remedy Entertainment outlines some of the tasks and special tools to utilize when dealing with The Oldest House's biggest threats.
The first responders battle through the Executive Sector teeming with hostiles and attempt to curtail rogue sticky notes from propagating.
Entering the production stage for Control 2 means that Remedy has completed stages of pre-productions, like the proof-of-concept stage.
2025 is looking like a great year for fans of the co-op genre.
Set after the events of Control, the co-op first-person shooter will launch later this year for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC.
Remedy Entertainment wants as many people to play its co-op shooter as possible, so lower PC requirements are a priority.
Remedy wants FBC: Firebreak's features to help tell emergent stories that are only possible in multiplayer thanks to the players.
Remedy Entertainment is expecting 3-4 million units sold for Control 2 to be the mark where it doubles its investment, and 3 million for FBC: Firebreak.
The co-op first-person shooter features the same location as Remedy's Control, where players embody first responders to various threats.
The developer also outlined Crisis Kits, which offer different weapons, grenades, support tools, and "paranatural augments."
The first-person shooter isn't a games-as-a-service title but will receive content post-launch. It's also coming to Game Pass and PS Plus Extra/Premium on day one.
Remedy Entertainment announced back in 2021 that it was working on a co-op multiplayer spinoff set in the Control universe, codenamed Condor.
