I have been hard at work on the next version of SOAR, here is some of the stuff I have to show for it: Faction Level play.
Basically, next version will come with a premade setting with 3 big factions, all with their playbook, the game will work much more on a day by day basis.
!["We wanted to do something different," Wright, who co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall, explained to Empire for the magazine's June 2026 issue. "We wanted him to be the spark of the revolution. That was in the first draft."
As for Ben's revenge against the Games Network, it's not hard to see why the original denouement was never feasible.
"We were never going to do the ending from the book," explained the director. "It obviously has real-life parallels with a horrific real-life tragedy. We through it'd be in incredibly poor taste to evoke 9/11. That was not ever a discussion. But in the original draft, we did do the thing where [Ben's wife and daughter] Sheila and Cathy passed away. But to be honest, as soon as you cast actors in those roles, I don't think I could have done it, even if it had been in the script. Like, this is too brutal."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5j2subtw3azb2bud72ls2t2e/bafkreicouqtyneusn5i7ghp2hwdefducn3njzkuofpgnelginuxltwyuji)
