Redfall has disgusting 'milk cow' vampires that ooze blood
What is particularly striking about the gothic co-op FPS Redfall is how much more gnarly enemies appear than in previous games from Arkane Studios. Deathloop, Prey, and Dishonored have spooky moments but nothing approaching full-on splatter horror vibes. Redfall‘s vampires, on the other hand, are utterly nasty.
During QuakeCon 2022 on Thursday, Bethesda released an all-new developer diary for Redfall. It goes over crucial aspects of design, like how approachable the campaign is for one player in contrast to a team of four. Or how you can attach whaling harpoons or broken guitars to firearms, because what else would you stake vampires with?
In the world of Redfall, humans have to become vampires of their own free will. So high-ranking members of vampire society must share blood with a person that wants to transform. The catch is those people might become some other beast rather than an atypical creature of the night — notably a ‘blood bag’ offshoot.
“ is this grotesque creature that is a vampiric version of a milk cow,” Ricardo Bare, creative director at Arkane Austin, said in the video. “It just produces excess, bloated amounts of blood for other vampires to sip on whenever they’re a little thirsty.”
The team explains that blood bags think highly of themselves despite how unflattering this sounds. Sharing is caring — even when it’s crimson life essence, I suppose.
Redfall is coming out sometime next year for Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.