From official information and gameplay footage, we are under the impression that Hyenas it was just a bright shell Team PvPvE shooter. This impression was reinforced by Sega’s latest moves. The company has canceled the new product from Creative Assembly. However, in the days following this news, new details are emerging and many may immediately regret that he will no longer play the unconventional heist event.
According to the latest unconfirmed information received by YouTuber Volound from anonymous developers and confirmed by VGC through their sources: Hollywood director Neill Blomkamp helped direct the story.. The director of District 9 and Elysium should have come to the conclusion that good bad guys steal not to survive, but because movies, music, games and all physical media are very valuable in this future. Netflix, Steam and other services are long gone. This matches the game’s official synopsis: players raid huge raiding shipswhich house treasured pop culture memorabilia such as old VHS tapes or vinyl records.
Blomkamp was a fan of the movie Alien: Isolation., Creative Assembly’s previous game, and helped shape the direction of the Hyenas project. He came up with the idea to add to the game a lot of internet humor etc. The studio boasted about his visit in 2019 on Twitter. Before his advice, Creative Assembly’s goal was to create a multiplayer game in which 15 players in teams of three would fight for valuables, break into a vault, and face not only other players, but also AI-controlled opponents and the environment. It should have been a success like Destiny, Escape from Tarkov or PUBG..
However, over time, problems arose. During development, the engine had to be changed. The tools used in Alien: Isolation led to frustration during the development of Hyenas. However, the transition to the Unreal Engine took time, and part of the team devoted itself to the Total War series. However, the biggest problem had to be that The team management had no idea what the final game would look like. You could say they missed their chance.
At some point, Creative Assembly and Blomkamp had to part ways. The game was announced in June 2022, and at that time it had not yet been decided whether it would be a full-fledged game or a free online service with microtransactions. This summer, Sega called the development of Hyenas a challenge, saying it was something they would have to deal with. adjusting the business model. This meant the rebirth of the free-to-play game.
But even this did not save the Hyenas. After the closed alpha tests, player opinions were no longer so positive and Sega was not satisfied with the progress. Before the project was cancelled, people from Sega Japan were even present at the studio to watch Hyenas. This has never happened before. Even though the project was supposed to be one of Sega’s biggest budget projects, surpassing 1999’s Shenmue (rumored to be $70 million), it didn’t work out and now people who didn’t work on Hyenas are taking it all away. Creative Assembly announces layoffs across the company, including IT, HR and marketing. Apparently, nothing will happen to the management.
Source :Indian TV
