 Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today I want to talk to you all about a little upcoming PS viewer title called Alvo. Now fans of Firewall Zero Hour may already be well aware of Alvo as it was and still is being touted by Manny as being direct competition to our favorite PS viewer shooter. Now let me get one thing out of the way, I am a community moderator for First Contact Entertainment so if you perceive me as being negative towards Alvo you may want to think that I am just a Firewall fanboy and if you want to believe that then go ahead but I am just going to say that I am going to attempt to be as impartial as I can and you can come to your own conclusions whatever you think yourself. Anyway let's just jump right into the video. So Alvo is a very interesting title I think, I mean it's very noticeable for it's trouble development so let's start from the beginning here. So in November 2017 a studio by the name of Merdon Paul revealed Alvo with the trailer so Merdon Paul was a studio noticeable for one previous game that also released on PS viewer called Quiz Night Tonight. Some of you may know about Quiz Night Tonight but for those of you who may not have heard it was a quiz game that was pretty much universally panned by just about anyone who played it. I've never heard anyone say a good word about it I don't think at least so when I heard that Merdon Paul were developing Alvo that was a huge red flag for me straight away. But looking at the trailer that they released alongside the Alvo announcement you could see that Alvo looked a lot more ambitious than Quiz Night. It had 5 vs 5 first person shooter combat with aim controller support, it had cross play with riffs and vif players, it had 3 different game modes, it had function scopes on the sniper rifles you know it had a lot going first but I had my suspicions that nothing in that trailer was actual gameplay at least not PS viewer gameplay. Maybe it was in engine but judging by the way that the supposed players were moving around and what not it just didn't look like viewer gameplay it was all very scripted looking in my opinion. Now that's not necessarily a bad thing there's plenty of games out there that just show CGI trailers and back then Alvo had a 2018 release date window so there was plenty of time for them to show off PS viewer footage later down the line. So what happened next? Well nothing. Weeks became months and not much was heard about Alvo, eventually rumors started to spread about the possibility that Alvo was cancelled with reddit user deadbringer28s here posting this on the PS viewer subreddits where he emailed a developer at meredin poll and they responded saying that they had lost their investor and unfortunately Alvo was cancelled as a result and the team had split up. This was in early 2019 and so it became widely accepted that Alvo was dust. I even made this unbelievably slick play on words at the time when reporting on us. Alvo more like no though. Fast forward to 24 days ago in the middle of the firewall zero hour operation nightfall downtime a new post was made on the PS viewer subreddits by developer from meredin poll. The dev went by the name of redrad56 on reddits and he posted a lengthy message to the PS viewer community in regards to Alvo. Most importantly he told us that Alvo had been brought back from the dead. They explained that Alvo had been cancelled all the way back in early 2018 but never informed people as he had lost all his savings and entered a depression as a result of their original investor pulling Alves and leaving them with nothing. He then explained that he moved on to another project before being approached by a member of the PS viewer subreddits to put together a new team met up of both new and old members and get back to work on Alvo. So it sounds like that this person from the PS viewer subreddits became the new investor if I'm understanding this correctly. So redrad went on to say that they don't want to overhype or overpromise on Alvo but that it would be releasing this year for sure before posting these nice images of one of their maps that is in development right now. Redrad then went on to say that they've been paying close attention to the frustration of the community in regards to other online PS viewer games and that we could rest assured that Alvo would address those issues. Now he didn't name us but it's pretty blatant that this is a remark about firewall zero hour and this may be his way of saying that Alvo will have host migration or dedicated servers something which firewall doesn't have and which has been a source of frustration for firewall players since launch. Finally redrad addressed the haze for Quiznice explaining that Quiznice had very little budgets and was made more of a way for them to test out the PS viewer and PS4 development and on top of all of that he states that Quiznice was made by a single dev and that this developer is no longer on the team. Redrad urged us not to judge Alvo by the quality of Quiznice tonight and instead pointed out another game that merdan pole have since been working on as a measuring stick as to what they are capable of and I must admit that here in this new info has made me less concerned about Alvo if all this is true. Anyway so I checked out the link and it's a steam game called tech core and you can see the gameplay style of this in the background here it's a tech core simulator type thing maybe looks like the sims something along those lines not really comparable to an online first-person shooter like Alvo but it does look better than Quiznice. I did some more digging on that steam page and found that the game was originally supposed to go into early access in February with the planned release dates in April but then it got pushed back to June 20th then just one week before it was due to launch it received a further delay to somewhere between July 15th and July 20th. The reception to this news from those interested in tech core has not been too positive many of whom are tired of the repeated delays. Checking out Red Red's profile on Redis and checking his submitted post history shows that as recently as 12 days ago, Mardenpole were hiring for new developers with PSVR experience as well as QA testers and 3D modellers. So when you combine this with the fact that Mardenpole have a history of delaying their other title tech core multiple times plus the fact that they're actually developing tech core alongside Alvo plus the fact that Alvo will be multi-platform with PC viewer unless things have changed in that regard. I have some reservations about Red Red's claims that Alvo will be definitely out this year but I'd be very happy to be proven wrong on this. It also kinda rubs me the wrong way that Alvo had been cancelled in early 2018 and the devs kinda just kept us all hanging in the air for over a year before letting us know about that, during which time they went off to work on tech core. Finally, I'm also concerned that with 6 months left to go in 2019, we haven't seen one second of actual PSVR gameplay fuzzage from Alvo yet. But regardless, I'm still very interested in Alvo, I'll be keeping my eye on it for sure. I love Firewall, so if this game is similar to Firewall I might love it too. But I want to know what you guys think. I did a poll on the channel recently asking you guys what 2019 PSVR title you are most anticipating. Between 4 big games and Alvo came in second place. So I know a lot of you out there are interested also but I want to know what you think about Alvo in more detail. Should we disregard Quiz Night Nights like Red Rat asks? Should we be worried about the delays that their other Steam game is currently in the middle of? Are you concerned that we actually haven't seen Alvo in action yet? Or do you think Alvo will take Firewall's crown as best PSVR shooter? Let me know down below. That's it for this video lads and ladies. Before I go, let me give a huge mass of thanks to my Patreon supporters. I gained two more last night, so that was amazing. Thank you lads and ladies very much. I truly do appreciate the help. We're working towards a new mic and capture card and we'll get there in no time thanks to you. If you'd like to join the Patreon link is in the description. But if you want to help out the old fashioned way then I'd also appreciate giving the vid a thumb down even if you didn't like us. And comments, shares, all that good stuff. I'll see you in the next one. Bye for now.