Sony has announced that a new State of Play stream will place on Thursday 8th July at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern / 10pm BST / 11pm CEST.
During the 30 minute stream, there will be a 9 minute look at upcoming PlayStation 5 timed exclusive Deathloop, and how Cole can use his abilities to stealthily sneak through the world or go through the island of Blackreef guns blazing. In addition to this, they will have updates on some indie and third-party titles.
However, Sony know that people love to speculate, so they have decided to keep everyone’s expectations in check. “This showcase will not include updates on the next God of War, Horizon Forbidden West or the next generation of PlayStation VR,” they say, while promising more updates through the summer.
Deathloop is currently set for release on 14th September for PlayStation 5 and PC – this after a lengthy delay from the previously announced 20th May release date.
The game boils down to a more murderous Groundhog Day, as Cole wakes up on the shore of Blackreef at the start of the day, goes about your business of trying to assassinate all of the Visionaries and then, whether he survives all the way to the end of the day or not, starts all over again. The one way out of this? Well, to murder all eight of the targets and break the loop.
Here’s a previous explainer for how the game works.
The key to success is to learn how what makes the island tick, with four periods through the day and four districts to acquaint yourself, piecing together how the Visionaries can be manipulated so that you can kill all eight of them before the day is out. You can take as much time (or as many loops) as you need to figure it out. While you might always be sent back to the start of the day, this isn’t a roguelike (so the island and its routine remains fixed each spawn), but you will be able to keep weaponry and upgrades between loops, including supernatural abilities like blink teleporting as you might be familiar with from Arkane’s hit series Dishonored.
Source: PS Blog
