Arkane Studios has officially confirmed that Deathloop takes spot successful the aboriginal of the beingness archetypal built successful the Dishonored games.

This confirmation comes by the mode of Deathloop manager and Arkane Lyon workplace manager Dinga Bakaba, who appeared connected The Official Xbox Podcast alongside Arkane Austin workplace manager Harvey Smith.

Xbox's Jeff Rubenstein asked Bakaba astir the rumors and hints that Deathloop is connected to this larger universe. While Rubenstein said helium didn't person to corroborate anything, Bakaba went supra and beyond and not lone confirmed that this was true, but helium besides discussed the thought process down making it so.

"Not everyone has seen the aforesaid thing," Bakaba said of Deathloop. "Not everyone has heard the aforesaid opus that you mightiness person heard hidden somewhere. Not everyone has seen each room, et cetera, et cetera. So, it was bully to spot the assemblage peek astatine the small clues we did sprinkle everyplace that, yes, indeed, we envisioned Deathloop to beryllium happening successful the aboriginal aft [Dishonored 2's standalone expansion] Death of the Outsider."

Bakaba said the squad didn't privation to marque this transportation excessively evident and front-facing arsenic it wanted Deathloop to person a communicative and individuality that stood connected its own, but that didn't mean it couldn't usage the crippled to research what would hap aft the events of Death of the Outsider.

"As we were making Deathloop, we said, hey, [this story] could beryllium 1 of the things that could hap aft [Death of the Outsider.] So, we person a definite timeline to nexus that and determination are a batch of clues, actually, successful the game," Bakaba said. "There are immoderate that are abused, 1 of them is truly spoiler-y, truthful voila, but determination are a batch of tiny things and immoderate that were nether people’s noses each the time, but radical are conscionable figuring it out."

One of these references tin beryllium seen connected the shotgun known arsenic the Heritage Rifle. This limb has a logo connected the broadside of it that couldn't beryllium seen intelligibly until the caller Goldenloop update added "idle breaks wherever the quality plays with his gun." Now, the logo tin beryllium identified arsenic Dishonored's Dunwall Tower.

As Bakaba enactment it, these threads are similar "this small scavenger hunt wrong the scavenger hunt" that is Deathloop, and they are conscionable waiting to beryllium discovered if players look hard enough.

"We tried to spot everything arsenic an evolution, but each clip they mentioned the past, either we were vague capable oregon we disguised in, I would say, earthy ways the names," Bakaba said. "Like, they speech astir the Motherland, and not astir Tyvia, but you tin definitely… erstwhile you know, you tin unravel everything. And yes, it does marque sense. So, it was bully for america to beryllium imagining 1 of the futures of the Dishonored satellite and to person that marque sense."

Even without knowing each of these references to a larger universe, we inactive awarded Deathloop a uncommon 10/10. In our Deathloop review, we said, "Its unique, high-concept ideas astir clip loops and non-linear probe enactment are implemented with elegance, making its systems consciousness effortless to navigate, larn from, and yet master. A caller precocious watermark for Arkane and developers of akin games to aspire to, Deathloop is simply a crippled similar nary other."

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