The likes of which we probably haven't seen since Battlefield 2.
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So for ROHOS they're planning a very, very long upgrade chain. As in, they thought 3 months, players maxed in 3 days in KF. Plus, they learned from KF that people max out very fast. So I expect them to balance it pretty stringently. They know people like a level playing field. But TWI was pretty conscious of this throughout KF's development and beyond. Highest level players get access to the rarest weapons available,Īnd the highest level players become heroes, who in addition to providing passive bonuses to players around them, might do stuff like suffer less due to suppression. That raw, scrappy-feeling gunplay strikes a compromise I’ve been waiting for for years: a nuanced multiplayer shooter that doesn’t place success at the top of its learning curve like an out-of-reach peanut butter jar. You forget how much organic tension you’ve been missing out on when a bright “+10” isn’t stamped on the screen to pat you on the back every time you shoot someone. That gap in immediate feedback stirs drama-even when you’re sure you’ve tagged a German between the lungs, there’s a bit of breath-holding after every kill. It sounds absolutely simple: if you kill someone, a pop-up won’t appear until five or six seconds after they’ve expired. More subtly, I love the delay RO2 introduces between death notifications. This single streak sells me on RO2’s gunplay: kills demand precision-bullets feel small, and leading moving bodies (accounting for bullet drop) makes firing easy, but hitting moderately hard. I can’t put them down fast enough I clip a kneecap, pop one in the stomach, and-squinting at the death animation-yep, I pinged one of their helmets. Quote Germans are rounding the city hall perimeter in packs. Now is the time to stop feeding FPS players only cotton candy, and give them some steak and potatoes along with the sweet stuff.” For too long I feel that multiplayer shooter designers have only been trying to give players joy. “Little moments of panic are the why we enjoy being scared by movies or amusement park rides. The mechanic is in place, Gibson says, to generate tension. It gives the player a brief moment of panic.” “You never know exactly how much ammo you have in your gun, so you end up having those ‘oh crap’ moments where you run around the corner to shoot at enemies, pull the trigger, and nothing happens. Gibson chimes in over my shoulder when I ask about the design. This might sound like realism for realism’s sake, but in practice, it simply means that reloading is a tactical decision. There’s no on-screen counter for bullets you hold the R key to swipe the clip from your weapon, and a message reports if the clip feels heavy or light. Quote In cover behind some steel rails and debris, I check the magazine on my Russian SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle.