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According to their End of Year report Paradox has already started working with another studio. They don't name who though, could be Hardsuit.

Edit: My bad, meant HBS. Was going to sleep.
 
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Hardsuit getting cut out. Smells like someone missed an important milestone.

I can't wait for the Hardsuit abortion post-mortem. Get Annie VanderMeer to make a VN about it. :takemymoney:

Paradox probably hired them in the first place cos they were cheap. I bet they're regretting that short term cost saving right now.

Paradox owns part of Hardsuit.

That just adds to my assumption that Hardsuit were the cheapest option.
 

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Swecucks at paradox actually thought they could make a big dick blockbuster RPG on a shoestring, and with a shovelware studio developing it.

Utterly delusional.
They did have at least some of the right people working with them - until they fired them all over either nonsensical allegations or who-knows-why-they-let-go-Mitsoda.
 

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That just adds to my assumption that Hardsuit were the cheapest option.

Think Hardsuit were just the ones to pitch it as they had Mitsoda onboard for the sequel already. Paradox bought part of the company on the back of that. And the reason they did either was because Fred never saw an 80s IP for sale he could turn down. It'll end up being written off with the rest of them if it's as bad as it looks.
 

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Wonder what small medium sized studio can be hired to salvage this shit.

The only thing they can salvage from Hardsuit Labs works is probably just assets? Maaaybe the storyboards as well.

For Action RPG there is.. Spider? The team has experience of getting game out with limited budget but with decent enough result.

Piranha Bytes? Besides ELEX 2 are they even working on something?

That HBS hiring means that they are expanding and might be another choice but I don't think they have the record in making action RPG. Their fully 3D game also run like absolute ass.

Cyanide is probably another strong contender. They are very much like Spider, limited budget decent/mediocre stuff. They also have just finished the Werewolf games and that means Paradox already has a working relationship with them.

If Obsidion didn't get bought by Micrsoft they probably is another candidate as well but right now I don't think that's possible.

Arkane Studi seems like a logical choice because the kind of games they are making, but same as Obsidian, Zenimax and its subsidiary has been Mircrosoft-ed so very unlikely we will see them.

I don't think there any small-mid sized development studio in Murica that specialized in RPG that is still independent?
 

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I think Spider is supposed to be working on Steelrising? But then again most studios should be working on something already, it would be a challenge to find a decent studio on such a short notice.
 

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Wonder what small medium sized studio can be hired to salvage this shit.

The only thing they can salvage from Hardsuit Labs works is probably just assets? Maaaybe the storyboards as well.

For Action RPG there is.. Spider? The team has experience of getting game out with limited budget but with decent enough result.

Piranha Bytes? Besides ELEX 2 are they even working on something?

That HBS hiring means that they are expanding and might be another choice but I don't think they have the record in making action RPG. Their fully 3D game also run like absolute ass.

Cyanide is probably another strong contender. They are very much like Spider, limited budget decent/mediocre stuff. They also have just finished the Werewolf games and that means Paradox already has a working relationship with them.

If Obsidion didn't get bought by Micrsoft they probably is another candidate as well but right now I don't think that's possible.

Arkane Studi seems like a logical choice because the kind of games they are making, but same as Obsidian, Zenimax and its subsidiary has been Mircrosoft-ed so very unlikely we will see them.

I don't think there any small-mid sized development studio in Murica that specialized in RPG that is still independent?

Every dev you mentioned here other than Harebrained Schemes is owned by another publisher.
 

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