First Timeshift Multiplayer Details
IGN has scored an interview with developers of upcoming game Timeshift. A shooter with Sands of Time like extras. The game looks great (running on its own proprietary tech) and will play great, but the multiplayer is still up in the air somewhat.
“The first idea was to have Time Shifting work just like in single player. Sounded great on paper, we even figured out how Slow would be trumped by Stop and Stop by Reverse. Ultimately there were two primary problems… One; it sucks to have 15 people frozen in time while one person runs around; we called it Fun For One. The second problem was what reverse looked like… Lag. Even though the game was doing EXACTLY what it was supposed to do, the other people going in reverse thought the game was lagging out since they were telling it to do something and it wasn’t responding.”
Overall the multiplayer is sounding fleshed out with all the basics, but to make it truly shine against upcoming enigma Halo 3, I really hope they figure out a way to properly utilize the Time Shifting. At least they recognized early on the problems with translating the single player dynamics, it’s never fun to see a project completely crash and burn on the multiplayer front.
Read (IGN)
June 28th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Wow … you guys really need to get your facts straight before you publish articles. This game DOES NOT use the Unreal 3 engine. It uses it’s own proprietary engine that was totally revamped so that it could better compete against this gen of games (currently being dominated by UE3). Man do some research some next time please … you can’t go around the net giving out incorrect information. That is sad people.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:51 am
I don’t actually think Halo three will be such an “enigma”. Timeshift has more interesting features.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
You are correct, although I did do my research, however other sources are also incorrectly reporting this information.
[snip] from the images it looks like Gears of War 2 — which isn’t a bad thing. Yes, yes, we know it’s the same engine, but the visual similarities are strong [snip]
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/27/new-timeshift-details-about-shifting-time-online/
It has been edited, thanks for the correction.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
No problem … I like seeing this place get the stories correct since I still get some of my news here. Sorry if I was harsh.
June 28th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
That’s no problem. Normally I can catch things like that, although I really haven’t been following Timeshift in the least.