We haven’t heard that much about the title since State of Decay 3 was announced at Xbox Showcase 2020, but now there’s at least some exciting information.
State of Decay 3 was announced at the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase in 2020, since then the game has been pretty quiet apart from a few reports of toxic work environments and management errors at developer Undead Labs. There are supposed to have been improvements, but not much has really been heard of them.
Anyway, Xbox Games Studio Head Matt Booty has probably been a little more specific about what’s currently happen ing in the game’s development. According to this, State of Decay 3 is apparently being developed on the basis of Unreal Engine 5 and Undead Labs has received help.
Apparently the Gears of War developers The Coalition are involved in the development to support Undead Labs in the development. “[Undead Labs] is working with The Coalition in Vancouver, our Gears of War studio, and is taking some of the technology from Unreal Engine 5 and some of the stuff that was already used in Gears of War to bring it into State of Decay,” says Booty.
Whether these are good signs remains to be seen. The silence since the announcement two years ago was definitely worrying.