Posts by Beck

Quote from Radu

25 minutes ago, Radu said: Yeah, ok, I can probably deal with the massive segmentation of having several launchers and services as long as I can play the games. What is troubling me more lately, and this is something that Ross Scott is also stressing a lot, are the games that require authentication to an online server. With this subscription service that is being pushed and also stadia's streaming, I think this will become even more of an issue in the future. Sure, you can argue that this is an issue even with regular platforms that offer digital copies. If the platform dies, then shieeet. But that's less likely to happen than say a game's servers being shut down. Take for instance the Games for Windows Live. When they shut that down they also killed a lot of games. Some of them were patched to use Steamworks, but others not (Dirt 2).

Ross Scott tried last month to push forward the idea that some games being advertised as services are fraud. While he does have some fair points, the argument was partially shut down by various lawyers. However, some pointed out that he could instead try to branch into the duration of granted copyright time. Here's his video:

This is one of the lawyers responding with the copyright idea:

Ultimately, shitty monetization and segmented as the market might become aside, I'm more concerned about the actual games and being able to play them long after their release.

Yeah I don't care about multiple launchers, I've already got like 4 or 5 on my PC. I meant subscription services (ala Netflix, Prime, HBO, Disney etc...) and the fear that gaming equivalents will become the norm in the future doing away with physical/digital copies of games. There would be no way for those games to be preserved except in YouTube lets plays like Jim Stirling mentioned.

I saw that Ross Scott video and it was really good, hopefully it does get somewhere and will lead to a way to keep games alive once their servers are switched off.

Yeah, I'm not liking the look of all the subscription based services. I doubt physical/digital copies are going to go anywhere too soon but the industry could definitely go the same route TV/Film has gone with every studio having their own service with their own content locked to that service.

In other news, unskippable adverts in full priced games.

Been offline for a week so missed all the hype (Thank god for E3Recap!) but it was an alright E3 by the looks of it.

For me I'm most excited for:

• FFVII Remake - After seeing the combat system in action it put my fears to bed. Fully looking forward to this now. Damn them for making me want to spend £250 for the collectors edition. Not happy about the exclusive summon materia for pre-ordering or paying more though. That shit can fuck off.
• Luigi's Mansion 3 - Looks great. Loved the original and this has co-op elements too!
• New Zelda BOTW sequel. Nice surprise!
• Cyberpunk 2077 - Already hyped for this nice to have a release date!
• Shenmue 3 - Again, already hyped as I've been waiting nearly 20 years for a sequel

Hey guys,

LIttle bit late to the E3 party but I've been away all week. Zombie Army 4: Dead War got revealed at the PC Gamer show last week and I can finally talk about what I've been working on!

I've been working on a couple of levels in ZA4, part of one can be seen in the gameplay below

Cinematic trailer:

Yeah but she's never burnt innocents. She's always harped on about being the breaker of chains and freeing people from tyranny and then she goes and one ups her dad and actually burns everyone in the city.

I'm not happy with this season, everything feels super rushed and not much of it makes sense. So many character arcs have just been disregarded or fizzled out. I'm not claiming to be a writer or anything, I can't write for shit, but there's been a noticeable change since they ran out of book material.

What FMPONE said.

On top of all that the materia system was awesome fun to experiment with. I hope that makes it back for the remake.

Can't wait to explore Midgar again!

It is a load of drama, I agree, but it's pretty much been made by Randy.

I'm kinda outward facing for Rebellion. I take part in a lot of their streams, spend time on their discord and engage with fans on twitter. You see a lot of angry people talking shit about your games but you either ignore it or try to explain why it's that way and you've taken the feedback onboard. You don't go all Randy on a news outlet because you yourself misunderstood what a microtransaction was. No way did GI fuck him lol.

I guess Gearbox/T2 don't mind since it's keeping people talking about Borderlands 3 a lot.

What @dux said.

This season has been a massive let down. After the initial excitement of a new episode is gone and I think about what happened I'm just left facepalming. I wish the books were finished so D&D could have just copied what was in them and given us an awesome TV series to go with the books.

Yeah I'm really happy for the team, I'm glad they're seeing success. They got a couple more maps in production, more armour and weapons on the way and mod tools out later in the year! I haven't really seen much negative being said by anyone after the initial server bugs were ironed out.

Would love to see some more Cyberpunk 2077 and any of the big first party titles Nintendo might have for the Switch.

Other than that I'm not really looking forward to anything. Maybe Sony can surprise us with another first party title or Valve can actually announce a game - Are Valve even going?

It is basically Chivalry 2. It's made by fans of Chiv but the combat is way more refined than it was in chiv, it's had constant feedback duing development from the alpha and beta backers. It feels really solid.

There's none of those weird animation exploits where people would wind up an overhead swing and then spin around to hit you with the sword over their head with their backs bent back. There's also new combo's, morphs and chambers - if you swing your weapon in the same direction the enemies weapon comes from you'll clash weapons and you'll get a chance to quickly attack to counter.

There's also horses, siege weapons, building fortifications and tons of armour and weapon customisation (Pretty much all of it can be earned in-game).

If you enjoyed Chivalry I really recommend it.

I've not heard about any VR support.

The devs are pretty active on their Discord though. Might be worth an ask.

Streamed a few games last night and had a lot of fun. I think it had ~50k viewers on Twitch which was nice to see but I guess it's not too surprising as most people go to Twitch to check out new games these days.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/629760/MORDHAU/

I believe it's going to be $30(or 30 Euro or £27ish) with 10% off for a short while after release.

I've been playing it in beta, got about 20 hours of playtime in, and it's a lot of fun. The combat is great and some of the duels I've had 1 on 1 have have been really exciting. Feels great when you outsmart or trick your opponent into blocking too soon and you lop their heads off. Combat in big groups is as you'd expect, mental.

I die a lot to players who have thousands of hours but they aren't unbeatable if you think about what you want to do.

Anyway, looking forward to the full release and to some fresh blood to spill.

Saw someone on Reddit has already made Gun Game and silver surfer Mei. Pretty awesome!

Wonder when (if?) we'll see Valve change any of their policies to do with Steam to try and combat this? Do they need to? They've still got a crap load of games on there and still have some big releases. No doubt they will lose a lot more in the future though.

Quote from MikeGon

3 minutes ago, MikeGon said: I bet someone out there is working on some kind of hub software as we speak. A program that regroups and launches games that are on any game launchers...

Bring back Xfire!

I don't get the hate Epic is getting. I'm so used to having multiple launchers on my computer now that it doesn't faze me at all.

• I've got Steam for most my games
• Origin for anything EA
• Battle.net for anything ActiBlizz
• GOG for old games
• UPlay relunctantly
• EGS for Unreal 4 and now some of the big exclusives.

Of course I'd love all my games in one place but that's not going to happen anymore. Everyone wants a piece of the pie Valve has been hogging for 15+ years. Steam isn't what it used to be either.

Nah, sadly not! Would have been fun to be a part of.

Quote from FMPONE

14 hours ago, FMPONE said: If graphics get crazy enough such that hardware manufacturers can't keep prices low enough for the average consumer, or developers can no longer afford to optimize what they're making, or consumers get sold on the idea of "hyper-realistic" rendering that only Google data-centers could provide I can see this taking off. Not sure America's shitty infrastructure could handle the streaming aspect.

Ultimately this being successful wouldn't be great for anyone except Google.

Yeah, I think something like bigger worlds, more players, super realistic graphics and zero loading times is the only thing which would draw me to this service.

I don't think it'd ever be great for competitve games unless they can get the latency right down which just isn't possible right now - but for the average gamer it'd probably be an ok service.

Not sure I can talk about teams and such at the moment. Should be more announced soon.

In general though, juniors will usually get their own level or take over work on a level which is already in production - Just depends when they join and what we have left to work on.

We've expanded quite a lot in recent years so I've been training and overseeing a lot of juniors and newcomers. I still make levels but I sometimes get the time to play, give feedback and help out on other levels where I can.