Launch and the adventure that awaits us – PlayStation.Blog

With Of concord We're launching next week on August 23rd. We wanted to take a moment to talk about the adventure ahead. We see launch as just the beginning. The beginning of not only the vision we've set for Concord, but also the beginning of how we support and grow the game with our players.

The base game is a foundation we can build upon over time, through systems that will expand the universe, introduce new ways to play and master each character, give you hundreds of unique rewards to earn and unlock, and narratives to unfold week after week, along with seasonal updates that will introduce new characters, new maps and worlds, new modes, new stories, new features, and more.*

As we look ahead to launch, here's a look at what's coming to Concord:

Concord Season 1 to be released in October

From the beginning, we wanted Concord to be a complete experience, where all core content was available from day one and beyond, unfettered by paid expansions or a Battle Pass. We take your investment in the game seriously, and we want to make sure all players are along for the ride.

Our first major content release is coming in October with the launch of Concord: The Tempest Season 1. Season 1 will mark the introduction of a new playable Freegunner, as well as an all-new map, new Freegunner variants, more cosmetic items and rewards to earn, and a new season of weekly cinematic vignettes that will continue the story of the Northstar crew.

With Season 1, we will also be introducing an in-game store for those who want to further customize their Freegunners with additional customization items and continue to support the game. These will complement the hundreds of rewards that can be earned through progression and will be purely cosmetic, optional, and will have no impact on gameplay.

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We are also hard at work on upcoming seasons, starting with Season 2 releasing in January 2025 and further seasonal releases throughout Concord’s first year. We can’t wait to fully reveal what we have in store for Season 1 before it launches in October.

The continuous evolution of your crew

When we formed Firewalk, we thought a lot about the kind of game we wanted to make and what we could bring to the multiplayer FPS genre. We knew we had to focus on the fundamentals that can make a great FPS game: precise, responsive shooting and fast, fluid mobility. Those qualities had to be the foundation of everything.

However, we also wanted that special touch that character abilities bring. Beyond the impact their skills, roles, and equipment could have on moment-to-moment combat, we saw interesting opportunities to add strategic layers to how and when you choose to deploy them throughout a match. In effect, we wanted to infuse the theorycrafting of a deckbuilder with first-person PvP shooter gameplay. This became the root of our team-building system.

Crew Builder allows you to create custom crews of Freegunners that you can take into a match. Each custom crew offers 12 configurable slots, which you can fill with characters from what will become an ever-growing roster of Freegunners and their variants. Each Freegunner will have multiple variants, which are unique versions of each character that have special modifiers to their core abilities and can be unlocked by completing various in-game challenges.

Each custom crew should have five unique Freegunners, but you can stack up to three copies of any Freegunner variant, allowing you to really focus on specific characters that you enjoy playing and that best align with your broader team composition, the modes you're playing, or your overall playstyle.

However, while Crew Builder lets you hone your own unique approach to combat strategy, it's also meant to inspire experimentation with different characters. Each custom crew comes with four backup slots, which are randomly filled with free gunners who wouldn't otherwise be in your custom crew.

Crew Builder also encourages you to fill your custom Crews with characters of different roles. Unlike traditional archetypes, such as Tank or Support, every Freegunner in Concord is designed to deliver high DPS and be effective in a firefight. Instead, our characters are defined by one of six distinct roles and the impact they can have on combat, whether it’s locking down an area, commanding long lines of sight, or flanking enemies.

Balancing your crew with free gunners from different roles can give you an advantage through special in-match benefits called crew bonuses. When you deploy free gunners from different roles for the first time during a match, you gain special bonuses that can increase mobility, improve weapon recoil, reduce cooldown times, and more, which apply to any character you deploy from that point on.

When you combine all of these systems (crew builder, backup slots, free gunner variants, and crew bonuses), there’s a lot more depth to how you can create, refine, and master your builds in Concord as your experience grows. It also allows for the meta to continually evolve in new and exciting ways, as you unlock new free gunner variants, and new free gunners and variants are introduced over time each season.

Ultimately, when we step back and think about what drove us to create Concord and what we love most about multiplayer games, it's exactly that: the potential for continued evolution. It's the excitement of the potential possibilities of how far we can take the experience in the future. And it's the sense of adventure in discovering it together.

Prepare for launch

We can’t wait to welcome you to the Concord galaxy and watch you learn and master each Freegunner and all of our systems in exciting new ways, starting with Concord’s Early Access launch for Digital Deluxe Edition owners on Tuesday, August 20, followed by our global launch on Friday, August 23. Pre-loading for all editions on PS5 will begin today, Tuesday, August 13.