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RUMOR: Modern Warfare (2019) will have a 200-player Battle Royale mode; Infinity Ward dev address this rumor with "No Comment"
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Damn there's a lot to unpack in this one. Making people require a perk to stack killstreaks is great, and if they actually go back to killstreaks instead of scorestreaks? Even better
I would not be shocked if Apex's recent bumps caused a lot of plans to change behind the scenes. Sure you will see the glut of BR games for a while, but those were too far in the process to change. But beyond 2021? I will be shocked if the genre isn't still just the old standbys Fortnite, PUBG, and Apex
Damn boy this bodes well, looks like the MP is going back to be skill based.
EDIT: even more in light of no specialists
I'd rather have that then half the crap they have in Black Ops 4.
Honestly unless they do like 100v100 this is just a gimmick. 100 people will die in the first 2 minutes.
Blackout added a 50v50 as a limited mode, i'd assume they'd try a 100v100 for this.
Game ending streaks are the worst cod has ever put out, and there's been a lot of bad ones.
It has the potential to allow for a more interesting map and vehicle play imo at the very least.
the more players the larger you can go in scale,
something like
becomes more feasible and plays better.
Its not so much the players you directly encounter but the player density overall making for more interesting, deeper and varied locations.
Then eventually you get to something like 1000 players and your map could actually have a legitimate sized city in it.
Thats not even to mention the possibilities that opens to a Ground War mode.
you could literally turn off all of the BR mechanics, let people spawn in with MP loadouts and have a 100v100 Team Deathmatch or even Search and Destroy.
Heck imagine a 50v50 Search and Destroy on the current Blackout where the Dam is B and the Construction area is A.
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It has the potential to allow for a more interesting map and vehicle play imo at the very least.
the more players the larger you can go in scale,
something like
becomes more feasible and plays better.
Its not so much the players you directly encounter but the player density overall making for more interesting, deeper and varied locations.
Then eventually you get to something like 1000 players and your map could actually have a legitimate sized city in it.
Thats not even to mention the possibilities that opens to a Ground War mode.
you could literally turn off all of the BR mechanics, let people spawn in with MP loadouts and have a 100v100 Team Deathmatch or even Search and Destroy.
Heck imagine a 50v50 Search and Destroy on the current Blackout where the Dam is B and the Construction area is A.
In CoD? All everyone would do is camp in a bush for 7 hours.
Thats why you adjust the circle characteristics.
They could actually do something like the Battle Royale movie where it isn't a circle getting smaller and smaller within itself but could
1. move outside the initial circle
2. have random grid spot/s be safe zone that alternate slowly down to a single one.
I think he later clarified in a tweet that if you deposit you keep it regardless, but if you don't deposit and win (thus taking the risk of losing it all) you get a bonus.
If true, I find it kind of hilarious that they took maybe the most stupidly obvious route to beat the competition, and I really don't understand how they think doubling the player count will magically make their game more appealing. BR rounds in current games last long enough as-is.
"MORE".
"MORE".
Yeah I have to agree with this, 200 player BR sounds like something you'd do if you assume bigger = better. Doubling the player count leaves you with 3 options: extremely long games (30-40 minutes), normal length games but extremely fast pace or a middle ground.
I already explained why its more appealing for me
I'd like to have more larger locations than just one or two of
around the map.
also more is certainly better for a groundwar gametype.
thats why I legitimately want that discussed 1000 player BR,
I want to see a BR map with something like
Meh. It'd just take way too long, or there'd be too many ways or too few to get across the map as the "storm" closes in. I'd be curious to see how it works, but I don't know...it still seems like a bit of an asinine idea to beat the competition.I already explained why its more appealing for me
I'd like to have more larger locations than just one or two of
around the map.
also more is certainly better for a groundwar gametype.
thats why I legitimately want that discussed 1000 player BR,
I want to see a BR map with something like
Fortnite didn't become successful because it went "bigger" than the competition, it's the constant updates, changes to the game to keep it fresh, likeable cosmetics, map changes, mechanic introductions etc.
Funny thing is this will be with Modern Warfare but I actually think my most wanted character skins would be Salter and Reyes from Infinite Warfare
The leaker who was right about a lot of other stuff is saying Terminal, the Gulag and Broadcast are part of the map,
that definitely gets me excited for the scale of the map(and theme as well).
that definitely gets me excited for the scale of the map(and theme as well).
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Oh, I have played them. Just I stopped at 3 since like all these mod files or custom maps? something made the game unplayable
It has the potential to allow for a more interesting map and vehicle play imo at the very least.
the more players the larger you can go in scale,
something like
becomes more feasible and plays better.
Its not so much the players you directly encounter but the player density overall making for more interesting, deeper and varied locations.
Then eventually you get to something like 1000 players and your map could actually have a legitimate sized city in it.
Thats not even to mention the possibilities that opens to a Ground War mode.
you could literally turn off all of the BR mechanics, let people spawn in with MP loadouts and have a 100v100 Team Deathmatch or even Search and Destroy.
Heck imagine a 50v50 Search and Destroy on the current Blackout where the Dam is B and the Construction area is A.
Well... Yes... But No.
Pretty much every BR game today has its performance (both clientside and serverside) tuned to the assumption that half the lobby will die in the first minute because they all dropped in the same place and slaughtered eachother. Basically they're able to crank the playercount so high because only a fraction of that cap will be actual contenders who exist on the server for more than 60 seconds - Short enough that their impact on the server and other players will be nullified before anyone really notices. "100 Players" is essentially a "lie" more or less. Ultimately the games have been optimized for about 50 players and the other fifty are just fluff.
Don't believe me? The reason Epic scrapped 50v50 from Fortnite was because players weren't dying fast enough and it was straining their servers (as well as any lower-end hardware playing), and likewise that's the reason all the respawn-mode LTMs are 32-player at best. And both of EA's Battle Royale games (Apex and BFVFirestorm) opted to cut it down to just 60 and 64 respectively outright.
Battle Royale for more than 100 Players with "Console Quality Gameplay" is Pie in the Sky with current gen hardware. After 100 Players, a ton of compromises have to be made that essentially mean jankier and jankier game design in order to get it to work.
I think you'll understand when Planetside Arena comes out. IIRC it's supposed to be 500-player BR, and potentially 1000-player BR later on - Like you were hoping for. It'll be a Battle Royale FPS with more than 100 players, yes, but you're gonna find a lot of... Peculiarities - As a simple consequence of how the sausage gets made. You can see for yourself if you play Planetside 2 as it is, which doesn't have the BR benefit of dead players leaving the game.
please play planetside 2 people thx bye
Bumping because MW has released and one of overhead maps in the Spec Ops Operation Paladin intro looks a lot like a drawing of the rumored BR map
The drawing is from July
The drawing is from July
They're not doing a "Season Pass" this year but are instead doing "Battle Pass" this year, right?
Launching a 200-person Battle Royale mode would be the perfect time to also launch a first (or second) Battle Pass with cosmetic goodies to work toward.
Launching a 200-person Battle Royale mode would be the perfect time to also launch a first (or second) Battle Pass with cosmetic goodies to work toward.
I enjoyed Blackout so I can see myself enjoying this. As long as it isn't an absolute travesty from a performance standpoint. Cautiously Optimistic on this one, but hope it does deliver if true.
I don't know what to think about such a huge map (it's apparently 2-3 times the size of Blackout) with such an insane amount of buildings you can hide in.
Wow imagine the lag and performance hiccups if true. I hope it will be well studied and optimised.
Hopefully they go with a moving closing circle or do it like the Battle Royale movie and have a grid pattern of random safe and not safe grid squares.