Control Developer Remedy Releases Final Update for Beleaguered Multiplayer Spinoff FBC: Firebreak, Lowers Price and Launches Friend Pass

Alan Wake developer Remedy has launched its last update to FBC: Firebreak, its Control multiplayer spinoff which has failed to find overmuch of an audience.

Available now, the last update adds a Friend's Pass strategy to the game, truthful that up to 3 radical tin play erstwhile lone 1 owns a copy. Going forward, FBC: Firebreak has a caller little price, too: conscionable $19.99.

Remedy says it intends to support FBC: Firebreak servers online for the foreseeable future, and the crippled patched if indispensable to guarantee it remains playable if issues bash arrive. But this is the extremity of caller contented drops for the game, it said successful connection connected the matter.

"Open House volition beryllium the past large update for FBC: Firebreak," Remedy wrote. "We won't beryllium adding caller playable contented aft this update. FBC: Firebreak volition enactment online and proceed to beryllium playable for years to come. We person done engineering enactment to guarantee we tin prolong the upkeep of the relay servers erstwhile the subordinate measurement is lower.

"We're incredibly grateful to everyone who has played, supported, and shared feedback connected FBC: Firebreak. As Remedy's archetypal online multiplayer crippled and our archetypal self-published title, it has been rather the travel for the workplace and a invaluable learning acquisition for the teams involved."

New contented disposable present includes 5 much areas from Control repurposed arsenic combat arenas for FBC: Firebreak's Endless Shift offering. Tweaks person been made to healing and harmful conditions, making them easier to manage. Perks person besides been overhauled, with each perk lone equippable once.

FBC: Firebreak launched successful June 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, though received mixed reviews and ne'er recovered a ample audience. From the off, adjacent fans of Remedy's narrative-driven games took a sceptical attack to the title, which has been worked connected successful parallel to the studio's emblematic single-player fare. Remedy's CEO stepped down conscionable 4 months later, though dubbed Firebreak arsenic "technically successful."

Next up for Remedy volition beryllium Control Resonant, a afloat single-player sequel that volition instrumentality the workplace to its emblematic trippy action. "After seeing Control Resonant’s aggressive, fast-paced combat for myself, I’m adjacent much fired up to get my hands connected it," IGN wrote aft going hands-on with Remedy's upcoming rubric earlier this month.

The institution is besides moving connected remakes of Rockstar's Max Payne and Max Payne 2, though we've not heard overmuch connected these for immoderate time.

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