Terminator: Survivors will no longer include multiplayer co-op, with developer Nacon announcing an indefinite delay that will now see its video game spinoff ditching early access for an eventual full launch.
Nacon Studio Milan creative director Marco Ponte updated fans on the release date for the open-world offshoot with a post on its Steam page. It comes with the news that Terminator: Survivors, as many may have guessed, will no longer make its previously announced plan to launch before 2026, but the delay isn’t the only bad news for fans.
Multiplayer co-op, which was said to allow players to survive a post-Judgment Day Earth with up to three friends, has been completely cut from the experience. Ponte stops short of explaining exactly why co-op will no longer be included but says the decision follows “months” of testing.
“After months of internal testing, discussions with players and fans of the license, we came to the conclusion that to give you an authentic ‘Terminator’ experience with the best possible shooting and exploration gameplay, we would have to put aside the cooperative multiplayer,” Ponte says. “We know this may come as a disappointment, but we believe it is the right creative direction for an uncompromising vision of the world after Judgment Day.”
Nacon announced Terminator: Survivors in July 2022 as a survival experience set in the classic sci-fi universe, eventually going on to reveal a release date of October 24, 2024. Of course, that plan never came to fruition, with a delay in August 2024 pushing launch to an unspecified date in 2025.
Now, with not so much as a launch window on the calendar, Nacon says it’s shifting its focus away from early access, too. Ponte says Nacon wants players to step into a “complete and polished experience” when the release date eventually arrives. The studio directs players to sign up for closed playtests while development continues.
“We know expectations are high, and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on,” Ponte adds. “For now, I can only thank you for sticking with us as we do our absolute best to create a game worthy of the Terminator legacy. We’ll be back with more news as soon as we can.”
Terminator: Survivors is currently set to launch for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. In other Terminator video game news, Reef Entertainment and Bitmap Bureau launched their side-scroller Judgment Day reimagining, Terminator 2D: No Fate, just last week. For more, you can read up on our collection of all of the best, worst, and weirdest Terminator games.
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