The footage is straight from gameplay and 2 months old. Obviously the current build will only look even better.
We've played Crackdown 3's ridiculous, awe-inspiring Wrecking Zone multiplayer: "the results really are something to behold"
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Almost feels like as if Wrecking Zone made it into the game. Wait a moment ...
same here. Really looking forward to this game. The mp should keep the community strong.
I hope it's good. But we've heard hype before about games in development hell and they don't always live up to the hype. Also the whole "power of the cloud" stuff... I'll echo the poster earlier saying I'd love to be proven wrong but I won't be pre ordering for that reason
Idk, I don't think that should be the main focus of a conversation about the game, not today and not years ago. I mean, Fortnite also "syncs all destruction (and construction) in real time with all players", that isn't an achievement of any sort for an AAA game. It looks better because of physics (from the cloud!), sure, but is it the main focus? Is it the thing that will make the game better?
Not the best example
I mean, have you seen Titanfall 2 AI? It's horrible compared to 1. It's a night and day difference.
Wether that's down to Azure, I can't say, but the AI in 1 is leagues above what it is in 2. And a ton more of it to boot.
It's just the title of this article. In the same magazine there was a longer piece on the singleplayer part. We haven't seen the cloud destruction in action for nearly 3 years before they showed it off at X018.
We got 3 or 4 singleplayer campaign trailers, one multiplayer cloud destruction trailer.
I do agree that they shouldn't have made it so important at Gamescom (2014? 2015? don't know anymore) about the power of the cloud. Spencer even admitted that was a mistake. But lately they don't seem to be hammering on that aspect as much.
To be fair, the AI players/grunts in Titanfall 2 pale in comparison to their inclusion in the first game. In Titanfall, the battlefield feels like a war. Tons of AI dropping in everywhere that will legitimately fight you. Grunts in Titanfall 2 are small groups of fodder that drop every so often in predetermined locations. I love Titanfall 2 but I thought the AI stuff was massively reduced.
Campaign and overall project overview by Sumo Digital.
Multiplayer by Certain Affinity and Elbow Rocket.
I cant believe this is entrenched in some of you as a pejorative. What else would you call new Azure reliant tech responsible for computing some of the gameplay?
The AI in titanfall 2 sucks compared to the first game though. One of many ways the sequel regressed.
Looking forward to Crackdown 3's campaign. The first was one of my better Xbox 360 memories. As long as Sumo nailed the traversal of the 1st, it'll be fun.
The multiplayer is a mixed bag. Both Jez and Games Radar said within a few minutes everybody is as good as everyone else. 0 skill gap. No sweaty competitive modes.
...but the game serves as a cloud destruction demo. I'm a little suspicious that Microsoft wants the multiplayer to be nothing more than a demo for the future. Not sure it is intended to have legs and keep those servers loaded for too long. Crackdowns significance will be how the cloud tech can be implemented in future Xbox games.
Edit: it wouldn't be that difficult to add skill gap to the game. Make one of the starting weapons a non lock-on precision weapon that does double the damage. Casuals and lesser skilled players would use the lock on weapons. High skilled players would use the non lock-on, higher damage weapons.
The multiplayer is a mixed bag. Both Jez and Games Radar said within a few minutes everybody is as good as everyone else. 0 skill gap. No sweaty competitive modes.
...but the game serves as a cloud destruction demo. I'm a little suspicious that Microsoft wants the multiplayer to be nothing more than a demo for the future. Not sure it is intended to have legs and keep those servers loaded for too long. Crackdowns significance will be how the cloud tech can be implemented in future Xbox games.
Edit: it wouldn't be that difficult to add skill gap to the game. Make one of the starting weapons a non lock-on precision weapon that does double the damage. Casuals and lesser skilled players would use the lock on weapons. High skilled players would use the non lock-on, higher damage weapons.
You can incorporate new tech into whatever and still be a fun. All because it's new tech does not mean it's a demo.
I'll take this as seriously as I take previews from Playstation Universe. To my eyeballs, wrecking zone looks fucking rough.
How Microsoft let Cloudgine slip through their fingers is beyond me.
They seemed like the perfect company for Microsoft to acquire to aid them with their Cloud gaming future.
Unless they have already learnt all they need and have improved on the formula seems like a missed oppurtunity for them.
On Topic
Was day one on this game literally since it was announced way way back, Im so happy my patience seems to be paying off.
Have they already talked about transforming vehicles?
Im such a sucker for simple gimmicks like that, Crackdown: Keys to the City I would change transformation modes just for the fuck of it.
IF that has returned im more sold than I was the day this was announced.
Believe in Sumo!
They seemed like the perfect company for Microsoft to acquire to aid them with their Cloud gaming future.
Unless they have already learnt all they need and have improved on the formula seems like a missed oppurtunity for them.
On Topic
Was day one on this game literally since it was announced way way back, Im so happy my patience seems to be paying off.
Have they already talked about transforming vehicles?
Im such a sucker for simple gimmicks like that, Crackdown: Keys to the City I would change transformation modes just for the fuck of it.
IF that has returned im more sold than I was the day this was announced.
Believe in Sumo!
Just had lasik a while ago. They work fine. What doesn't convince me is that lock on jumping and jetting around is going to make for a consistently compelling multiplayer experience after a few matches. I'm in for the singleplayer and co op mode, but acting like impressions of this have been overwhelmingly positive and that a seeing deficiency is the only way one would be unimpressed so far is a bit loony.
Heres 40 minutes of unedited gameplay, or does this also not count for some reason.
qft
I know they said they aren't working on a br mode with cloud destruction but they should look into making a mp mode without destruction that has BR. Of course they'd need long term content plans etc, but Crackdown's IP lends itself well to the genre.
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Yeah, I don't remember much of CD, but I believe this is suppose to be more focused on platforming and using surroundings as defense. That is why the game offers a Lock On Feature. The shooting comes after.
MS had to basically recreate what Cloudgine did based on the interviews that I read. So they still have the tech and they probably just have to make it extensible which I have no doubt MS will be ready to sell to devs.
The reason Microsoft invested so heavily in this game was because the multiplayer was a R&D project for cloud compute. It's implications will go well beyond Crackdown.
Obviously Microsoft would be idiots to communicate this directly but when Staten admits that they didn't know whether they could make it fun...and you combine that with 5 years of development while many other things in the pipeline were canned during that time, preponderance of the evidence says the multiplayer is a tech demo first, game second.
I'm waiting to hear if there's a roadmap for Crackdown. Microsoft made it known up front that SoT would get continuous support and I assumed Crackdown would as well but the lack of commitment to iterating Crackdown has me thinking they'll release the game and move on to implimenting the tech in other IPs. The roadmap for Crackdown might end Feb 15th.
Just because it's a demo first, game second doesn't mean it can't be fun. It doesn't sound like Microsoft is all that concerned with whether the multiplayer has legs.
Of course I'm talking multiplayer only. I'm thinking the campaign will be fun. Multiplayer will be a tech demo.
Where's the 'something to behold' in this footage. I watched 40mins of French voice over and ok-ish tps mp.
Ohh they rebuilt dat shit already.
Cool. So strong chance they impliment atleast part of the tech into Scarlett games, by then the Azure network will have grown and with constant updates to Crackdown 3 they will have all but perfected it.
Im so excited....I see why Epic jumped on Cloudgine, they must have seen the potential and since Cloudgine has already had this implemented into UE4 Epic will no doubt have this available for UE4.x or UE5 come nextgen.
Looks like the cloud is finally gonna start paying off?
I am curious about latency though, for Australian who might be buying this game and connecting to NOT Australia 100 - 200 is whats to be expected, how will this affect the game, because BF3 at launch with that kind of ping was broken.
Everyone close to an Azure server will be in heaven with this game....closest one to me is about 70ms away, bad signal has it jump to the 150ms range, hopefully this doesnt kill the experience too mcuh.
Just try to enjoy the game and see how it is...luckily it is on GamePass.
Also, Cloudgine being implemented in Unreal actually benefits Microsoft since customers can use Azure still. So it's not a total loss for MS.
I expected to see you in here lol. Still pulling out the "this game doesn't exist" card, eh?
Thanks
Now I want to see more. Or rather, I want to play it. I think the game plays like Recore and that one was also hard to show, you need to feel the speed
Gamepass will be it's saving grace
From the gameplay videos, I'm sure it will be some great fun, but all this hyperbole ....
... Yeah, take it with some salt, people
From the gameplay videos, I'm sure it will be some great fun, but all this hyperbole ....
... Yeah, take it with some salt, people