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Video Sharing
Dit lijkt me heel erg vet. Kan ik eindelijk mijn sniper skills ( ) opnemen zonder zo'n dazzle ding.
Character Customization
Interessante Games On Net Interview
Enough of all that, time for the interview Games On Net had with Todd Alderman, Lead Multiplayer Designer at Infinity Ward. They talk Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, matchmaking and DLC and we took the most interesting parts aside for you. If you would like to read the complete article, take the jump over to Games On Net »
I have a concern though about the disparity between gamers that are about to play for the first time versus those that have levelled through the unlock system. With all these new features how do you ensure newcomers can come in and be competitive and not just be the cannon-fodder for dudes with red-dot sights and all the perks?
Custom Classes in Multiplayer
The first way we do it is by ensuring the matchmaking system is good. When we matchmake, we match you with players of your skill. So when it is your first time playing online you will be playing against people who, for the most part, are enjoying their first online game as well. We try to find people who are like you.
Another thing we do is give the default classes a lot of stuff that you wouldn’t normally unlock until later. [..] They are simply there so you can compete and have things that other people have, but which you might not get for a while in the create-a-class option. You can use these to level-up.
You mentioned matchmaking playing a key role: one of the big problems we face in Australia comes from our relatively low population and the inherent difficulty in finding local players that creates. This is intensified by the fact that playing overseas players doesn’t really work. It begs the question: can you customize your search with a country filter?
There has been a lot of matchmaking and network optimization we’ve put into the game to try and make sure that we find you the best possible game that we can.
What about an age selection criteria? Have you put any thought into the idea of allowing gamers to say ‘hey, I only want to play dudes over 25?
Well we have a thing that we call Super Mute where if a guy or girl just will not stop talking during the game about something like, I don’t know, Harry Potter, you can just select their name and press mute, and he/she will be muted forever. Xbox has its way of doing that through the dashboard, but we enable you to do it in-game. You can just go right to the scoreboard and see the guy talking and mute. So when you get back to the lobby they’re still muted. Into the next game, muted. It’s just a way we can make sure that if someone is annoying you in a game, you can just turn them off.
Todd Alderman - Lead multiplayer Designer
What about the idea of video sharing: in games like Halo 3 it has gone down quite well with the online community, have you considered implementing it in Modern Warfare 2?
Yeah we looked at it... it’s not something we are going to do in the initial release. But it is definitely something we’ve looked at and thought about... we have it in our future to-do pile.
Is it possible to implement a feature like that as DLC?
Anything could be DLC right now, so yeah.
So it's still on loose ground and nothing has been confirmed yet, but it sounds like Infinity Ward will at least check out the possibilities.
[..] Could you not just merge the original maps and population into the new experience for a greater player pool? Would the old maps work with the new tech?
There’s definitely a reason why we can’t, although it is not a technical reason, it is a game reason. For the longest time we had Crash from the last game as basically our barometer map: as in, we would have a bunch of new maps cycling through a game session and then Crash would come along. You know, just to see how it works and how it feels compared to the old game. And it is insane the difference the new stuff makes. We could bring in the old maps with some massaging, but there are just so many new things in Modern Warfare 2 that break them.
Simple things too like the Light Weight perk that makes you run faster, and you can combine that with Marathon and sprint forever. So you can run faster and forever on a map that wasn’t really designed for that. [..] You’ve now got all these kill streak rewards from the air that just wouldn’t work in most of the old levels too.
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