Cossacks 3 announced by STALKER devs GSC Game World

• Designed like a remake, with new story.
• Same big scale battles.
• Each soldier on the battlefield is a separate unit with its own AI, life and combat parameters. You can command in groups or order just a single unit.
• 12 playable Nations.
• 5 historical Campaigns.
• Multiplayer support.
• Infinite variation of battles.
• Realistic physics.
• Full Mod support from day one.
• Coming Q4 2015 for PC (Win, Mac and Linux)

Developers also showed interest in STALKER 2 but that will happen after the release of Cossacks 3. More info, screens and interview on following links.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/cossacks-3-announced-developed-by-gsc-gameworld/

http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/5/18/8615339/cossacks-3-announcement-release-date-gsc-stalker

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-19-the-next-game-from-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-dev-gsc-is-cossacks-3

wasnt GSC world closed after they announced stalker 2 for consoles? If indeed they are back i cant hardly wait for a stalker sequel

Too bad SNIPER isn't around. lol

OMFG!!! I adored Cossacks 1 and its expansions but didn't care much for 2. I'm very surprised that a 3rd is coming but great news indeed.

They said Cossacks 3 will be modern execution of the original.

They officially reopened last year.

Only played Cossack 1 which was pretty great - it's a hybrid of Total War's battles scale action with Age of Empires base building. But there were some flaws like absurd difficulty spikes and somewhat boring campaign missions. I also remember cheap win tactics like making 20 fully upgraded canons and steam rolling AI opponent with them. Nothing , literally nothing could stop 20 fully upgraded canons, they had rate of fire of a machine gun lol.

Can't wait for the Bandido expansion lol

There were options in the expansions that would let you disable cannons and towers. They are redoing the campaigns so hopefully they get them right this time.

An RTS? Yeah, that's sure to turn some heads. lol

Not bad

nice.

@adamosmaki: that's what I thought. Hell, we even had a 10 plus page thread on system wars bemoaning their departure into the game dev graveyard. It was a sad day.

Anyone know the details on how the got the band back together? And where the hell is stalker 2? That game was almost done when they went kaput..wtf!

STALKER 2 was nowhere near finished when the studio was closed but a lot of assets and engine was mostly done. They said they had more than enough budget to make STALKER 2 but not on the scale that they wanted, so they decided to shut down the studio for time being. Cossacks 3 will most probably be used to fund STALKER 2.

Never cared for European War, so not all that enthusiastic about this. But, if this gets me one step closer to the true sequel of Shadow of Chernobyl then it's all good.

i will hype this to the moon if it means we see another stalker.

Look at all those Bethesda fans GSC didn't steal because they didn't announce STALKER 2.

You have to have the money to make a game like that. They basically just came back from the dead.

Is this even the same developer at this point? It seems like GSC has been a mess for quite a bit now.

So glad they are back. And so glad they are back with another cossacks.

I loved that series, and so when GSC went under I was mostly sad about the fact that there would no longer be another Cossacks, which I found way worse than there never being another STALKER.

Amazing news. Simply amazing.

Polygon had a very interesting article with one of the devs.

He said most of the team was back that made the original Cossacks. And judging from just the screenshots this is look really faithful to the original.

The team that didn't do RTS though, the ones that made STALKER, are gone though. And are now making STALKER-like games.

Yeah lol, what a milked genre.

Please name me 5 historic RTS like this from the past years.

You won't find 5. But please correct me.

I guess every game is going to get a thread now?

How is GSC being back not System Wars related ?

One of the best developers the PC platform has ever had.

If Rare came back from the dead, you could bet that there will be threads about that.

Not to mention, even in worst case scenario, it can't be worse than Destiny ;-)

You can take a jab at a game I like all you want......it doesn't change the fact that all I was saying was that every obscure PC game or franchise or whatever doesn't need an announcement thread.

@mr_huggles_dog: but you're cool with obscure console/handheld games getting threads?

@lostrib: Haha

@lostrib: I don't feel you're worth involving in this conversation....so feel free to love yourself for your loaded yet spinning question.

Quite a strange definition of obscure you got there.

Cossacks or GSC are by no means obscure

Did you even bother to read anything in the links ?

"But even then, it was the Cossacks games that kept the lights on at GSC. They were popular in Western Europe, less so in the United States, but an absolute smash hit among players in Eastern Europe."

Yup, what an obscure franchise.

@mr_huggles_dog: you specified PC games

@R4gn4r0k: so half of a region liked the game......wow that's the same as a huge game like Street Fighter or GTA, for sure.

Can't believe I've never heard of it in my 15 years of dedicated PC gaming with a huge following like that.

@mr_huggles_dog: just because you haven't heard of it, doesn't make it obscure

@lostrib: not many threads like that so I didn't even think about the clever semantics.

Games need to be as popular as SF or GTA in order to get talked about on System Wars ?

Yeah, I can't believe you haven't heard of this either. It's not like you come into threads and immediately write of games as obscure and not worthy of a thread. How strange.

Are we going to keep this sarcasm up ?

@lostrib: you're right....that's why that's not the reason.

Apart from half of every page,

http://www.gamespot.com/profile/SolidGame_basic/forums/

@R4gn4r0k: we can stop the sarcasm.

Let's be honest...this isn't SW material....this is PC discussion material.

This is a "OMG PC HAS SO MANY GAMES!!!!!!!" thread in disguise.

Aaaaaressss

Nah, I see this thread as some praise for GSC and a franchise that has been long gone.

Ok, you may not like the game, or even heard of it. But there are many that do.

Eastern Europe is not half a region. I don't know what you mean by that :/

Also if you would finally read the article you would see it also did really well in Germany, France and the UK.

Yeah, and the game was even pretty well known in a small country like mine. So calling it obscure is just totally wrong.

Glad I loved the Cossacks games because even if I hated them I'd buy it. I loved STALKER more :)

@R4gn4r0k: you said nothing refuting that this is not even SW material.

This could easily have gone in the PC discussion forum.

Be sure to thank your fellow forum goer who makes such threads SW material...like I have.

You're welcome.

@mr_huggles_dog: not many threads like what?

good thing you are not a mod but a random nobody gives a fuk.

As a small reality check....this thread has been up for more than a full day and half of the 40 posts are 4 of us arguing about something other than the actual game.

Yup, this series was a smashing success.

PC > consoles.

There.

Thanks man.

Now will you read the polygon article and check this game out ? :)

@Krelian-co: how did you know I dont give a ****?

You actually are kinda insightful.

Being able to play RTS > not being able to play RTS

Yeah a pretty huge plus I see there.

So I see my thread has turned into a "opinions are facts" thread.

Such a shame.

You mean when Charizard makes a thread for every 3ds game to be released lol. Or cows, for every Sony exclusive and sometimes not exclusive.

@jhonMalcovich: I agree. That's what the hermits in this thread don't get.

I don't know why Cranler is so butthurt. May be he wanted another resolution comparison thread. Threads about actual game discussions don't get many views here and I didn't expect many views either. Look at Doom thread, only 2 pages. Look at dualshock 4 thread. No one cares about cry babies. Grow up.