Beck

Earlier in the year I got promoted to Lead Level Designer at Rebellion. My website is down, can we update the link on my name to just point to my twitter? https://twitter.com/Beckmech Cheers!

Hey guys, We have multiple experienced (or higher) level design roles available here at Rebellion right now. We're working on something big and new! Job posting here: https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/7E052E40C1 The advert says Warwick but we'd be open to any studio being your "home" studio and of course we offer a hybrid working environment. If anyone is interested give me a shout and I can get you referred and I'm happy to give any feedback on portfolios and CV's too! We've also got a bunch of other design roles open at the moment too EXPERIENCED GAME DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/4269C57690 SENIOR MONETIZATION DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/ECF580F902 SENIOR ECONOMY DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/B105A0D677 LEAD GAME DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/4449757E38 ..and more! We're on a big recruitment push at the moment so if there's anything you can't see on the website feel free to get in touch as there's probably more roles upcoming soon. Cheers!

So when are we getting our Cloverfield walking simulator? Very impressive though!

I think people still enjoy cinematic trailers. I do myself as they're just nice to look at. They're kinda like short movies I guess and help to set the scene for the game. The cinematic trailer we put out introduced a new feature of our called the Axis Invader where players can invade your game as an enemy sniper to try and take you down which has a lot of fans of Sniper Elite excited.

Not sure who did the voice over for it but I think it was meant to be Churchill. I don't think it did harm though, the feedback we've been getting has been very positive so far! New trailer dropped yesterday too!

Hard to believe that other thread was 3 years ago! Really excited that SE5 is having trailers released now, I love this stage of the project as the public gets to see more and hype starts to build!

Never really played a souls-like game but this one has really got me interested. I think I just prefer how it looks more open world and has a few more mechanics like crafting and stealth over other DS games. Beat the first boss in DS3 once but kinda got overwhelmed by all the stats etc when levelling up I just put it down and never went back. This just looks really good though so I'm really tempted.

Yeah I was talking to one of the level designers at work about this today. I'm finding it harder and harder to find a game I can really stick with and put a lot of hours into. Whereas 10+ years ago there were quite a few games that I would really enjoy and put many hours into. Now some of this is probably down to me getting older, having less time to play, my friends not playing as much and my tastes changing. But then I think about Battlefield 2042 and how bad that's been received. Before it came out and all we had were trailers I was pretty hyped for it. I wanted a modern day Battlefield like BF2, BC2 or BF3 but with modern graphics and that's exactly what the trailers looked like. Obviously, that never came to pass and I cancelled my pre-order after playing the beta. But if DICE/EA did release a modern day BF2 I reckon I could really dedicate some time to it. Now, I guess we're in the minority since the games industry is pulling in some serious cash. The masses must be loving it but I guess most of the money is going into a small number of franchises (COD, LOL, Pokemon, Mobile games etc). I dunno, maybe when we can't progress with graphics any more without a significant jump in graphics power the games will get better and we'll focus on the gameplay instead? Old man shouts at cloud!

Does look great. Basically caught up with all those movies where I used to say "Imagine if games looked like this!"

Got promoted to Assistant Lead Level Designer a couple of months ago at Rebellion!

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I gave it a go on stream and quite enjoyed it, finished the first two chapters. Will probably continue it, kinda gave me Alan Wake vibes in terms of gameplay but god damn are the black bars annoying! No real idea what's going on in terms of story but I'm sure all will make sense soon enough!

Mostly Dead by Daylight when I get some downtime (Currently free on Epic by the way!) but I am doing some charity streams this month so might dig out Skyrim and if I hit a goal I'll do a scary game. Someone sent me Evil Within (is it scary?) so will potentially play that!

I know these games aren't everyone's cup of tea but the music (again) takes me right back to my childhood.

Happy to hear you enjoyed it. It kinda makes me sad but listening to some of this music takes me back instantly. Jeremy Soule's music is great.

God I miss this era of gaming.

What a guy. I miss working with him!

I was only talking about the Hazard Zone game mode. I still think have the same specialists on both teams in any other mode is rediculous. Apparently, there is going to be a lot of customisation, and some people are saying this will help players differentiate people, but unless EA/DICE force different teams to have different colours/skins it's not going to help at all. You could still have the same characters looking the same on both teams. A colour change in itself isn't ideal either as the silhouettes of those characters will be the same on both teams too. I just meant this same situation never bothered me on other games where you have small teams sharing the same characters. BR games PUBG, Apex, COD and other shooters like Tarkov.

For sure. We lived through the golden age of gaming I feel and it could just me being old and shouting at clouds but I don't feel like modern games suit me well. There aren't many new games I enjoy like I did back in the late 90's to about the early 2010's. See, this is where the specialists work. You and 3 mates. You know who your friends are and where they are since you're most likely on Discord with them. Everyone else is an enemy. It doesn't really matter that everyone else is playing the same characters like in other BR and Tarkov-like games. Other modes in BF2042 really could do with having classes back and everyone plays a nameless soldier unique to their faction. But I guess that won't bring in the dollars from skin sales. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Man, I really am an old man shouting at clouds

I think BF3 was the last time I truly enjoyed Battlefield. BF4 was ok but never really enjoyed the levelution, usually it would make the map worse for me. Haha, life in a pandemic got us going crazy.

Did anyone try the beta at all? What were your thoughts? Personally, I was really looking forward to this game. I've been craving a new shooter for so long as I'm bored of everything else and Battlefield used to be my jam. I was hoping for a return to the BF BC2/BF3 days but after playing the beta I feel like I'm not going to enjoy the game. The biggest thing for me was the same characters used for both teams. It baffles me how this got through the design process. It's impossible to tell at a glance what team anyone is on. Did this game start as a Battle Royale then get turned into a Battlefield game because that would kind of make sense. You would know who's in your squad and anyone else is fair game, just shoot them. I lost count the amount of times I shot at friendlies or didn't shoot at enemies because of this. Also, everyone being able to use any gun/gadget just removed any sense of team play. Nobody was reviving, it was impossible to find ammo and I couldn't easily tell who was anti-vehicle so I could support them with ammo/cover fire. The whole class system made Battlefield what it was. You'd have to have a mix of all classes to succeed. Now it just feels like a big deathmatch and everyone is just chasing that kill they wanted. There were a load of other things which put me off, the vehicles felt horrible to control, the map felt way too big (and it's not even the biggest map), AI was pointless filler and the tornado felt like it'd get old fast. Graphically it was alright and I think Portal might be where I spend most of my time if I do end up picking it up. Just based on the beta I wasn't impressed at all sadly.

We have another Level Designer role open working on the next Sniper Elite game. https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/11D5372A0B As above, we're ideally looking for a Junior who is ready to move up to an experienced level or an experienced level designer. If anyone wants to chat or apply for this give me a shout and I can give you a hand with the process

Two months ago I became a dad for the first time. Mom was amazing and I can't be more proud of her and baby is doing really well. Sleep was hard at first but we're finally getting some kind of routine going and I'm getting maybe 4-6 hours of sleep at night which isn't bad and since I'm working from home it's not really an issue, no danger of me falling asleep at the wheel driving into the office! We've also been in our house for a year now, decorated thoughout and had the garden completely redeveloped so we can spend time in it and our little one with have somewhere to play outside when he's older. To top it all off I just got promoted to Assistant Lead Level Designer at Rebellion. I would never had imagined I'd get to a leadership role when I joined the industry just under 10 years ago and young me would never have thought I'd even get into the industry! Fair to say I'm pretty happy with life at the moment... just wish I had a bit more time for some games ?

Our cases are growing 40%+ per week at the moment. We don't have many deaths, less than 20 per day I believe, so right now, the vaccines are definitely helping. Hospitals aren't being overrun. But obviously, the more cases there are the more chance there is of it mutating and it finding a way to make the vaccines less effective. It is really frustrating watching out government plough forward as if nothing is going on. Sure the vaccine is working, but there are a lot of people not getting the vaccine too. I guess with the exponetial growth we're seeing right now some form of herd immunity could be achieved but it'd be so much safer if everyone got their bloody vaccines. Also, with so many people getting infected again there's going to be more cases of people getting long covid, which again, is probably going to put a strain on our health service. I'm seeing people from my school who I thought had their heads screwed on spouting a lot of anti-vaccine and conspiracy bullshit on social media.

Please be good. The trailer was great and really reminded me of the older Battlefield games. I'm looking forward to seeing the gameplay this weekend!