Lehto co-created the concept for Halo: Combat Evolve when he began working at Bungie in 1997 as art director. After the first Halo, Lehto was an art director on Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo: ODST, becoming creative director of Halo: Reach and an unspecified new game (most likely Destiny). Lehto left Bungie in 2012, founding Disintegration development studio V1 Interactive and beginning work on the new game.
V1 Interactive and publisher Private Division revealed Disintegration in a new trailer. The trailer features a robotic pilot speaking to a vehicle later revealed to be called a "Gravcycle." He discusses the past with the cycle as he performs a pre-flight inspection before the trailer cuts to gameplay footage. The footage shows the pilot flying (in a first-person perspective) behind three other robotic characters - a large, mech-like humanoid and two smaller robots - into battle in various environments, including some PUBG-like farmland. Private Division later revealed in a press release that Disintegration takes place in a fictional near-future where humans have placed their brains inside robotic bodies in order to avoid extinction in a process called Integration. In the game's single-player campaign, players take on the role of the pilot from the trailer, Romer Shoal, to fight against an organization called Rayonne that seeks to force all of humanity to Integrate. Disintegration will also feature three distinct multiplayer game modes that focus on team-based battles where players coordinate ability usage among ground units and the Gravcycle.
