Chivalry II now has an official release date, with a beta set for March

We now have an formal release date for age gore 'em skyward Chivalry II. The FPS game – in this shell, that's shorthand for 'first-person stabber' – is ready to launch June 8 as an Epic Games Store white-shoe on Personal computer. A closed beta will be held Edge 26-29 for players World Health Organization pre-order the game.

A new Chivalry II video dev diary is straight off available, which includes a bunch of bloody new footage of the feudal multiplayer game in fulfill. Since this is Chivalry, expect to see much of severed limbs and heads, as well as very much of thrown weapons. This fourth dimension out, the role player enumerate is upped to 64, and you'll be able to hurl right about anything you can set out your hands along – barrels, wagon wheels, and chickens are all fair game in Chivalry II. One humanity gets a pitchfork directly to the face – owch.

Torn Banner Studios founder Steve Piggott says his team ever knew they would return to Chivalry, and now that it's eight old age since the first game launched, information technology's time to "move the genre itself forward."

Here's the video:

While it's certainly got its share of Hollywood guts and gore, Chivalry II has its natural language firmly planted in cheek – there's plenty of Monty Python-inspired humour, and the developers have said that they reckon about half of Chivalry's players tend to be drunk during matches.

The closed explorative leave be easy for players who pre-order Knightliness II, which you can do over at the Epic Games Store. If you're serious almost lopping off heads in first-individual, it'll be a chance to get some drill in ahead of the rush in June. There's cross-play this time close to, so it's going to be a thronged field – just the way we like it.