Overview
- Three hobbyists known as Red, Real (open_wizard), and gwog reverse‑engineered Concord and rebuilt its backend, enabling full matches on their own servers.
- Test videos showed players loading in, selecting characters, and completing a Clash Point match, though the build is still playable but buggy.
- Hours after the project gained attention, YouTube clips were removed on copyright claims by MarkScan Enforcement, and the team paused new Discord invites citing "worrying legal action."
- Developers say playtesting will remain private as they finish infrastructure and they will remove posts linking to copyrighted game files to limit legal exposure.
- The effort runs a PC beta client and PS5 play would likely require jailbroken consoles, and it follows Sony’s 2024 shutdown of Concord with refunds and Firewalk’s closure.