Berlin-based studio Yager Development, the studio behind Spec Ops: The Line, announced Dreadnought , a futuristic multiplayer aerial combat game.

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In Dreadnought, players assume the role of a mercenary commander in charge of an armada of battleships, which come in a variety of classes. Players can customize individual spacecraft, from their appearance to the their engines, armor, abilities and crew members. Yager will also be incorporating player feedback into the development process once Dreadnought enters public testing in early 2015.Yager has also previously worked on a flight simulator, the self-titled Yager.“Dreadnought harkens back to the PC space combat game we developed when we first started out,” Mathias Wiese, art director and co-founder at Yager, said. "In the years since, we’ve been developing and testing some incredible ideas that now perfectly come together in Dreadnought."Dreadnought utilizes Unreal Engine 4, which points to j ob listings that appeared in December stating that Yager was working on an "unannounced next-generation AAA game" using the engine. The listed job qualifications pointed toward a multiplayer-focused title that would require experience with either Xbox Live, PSN or Steamworks. As of now, though, Dreadnought has only been confirmed for PC.

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