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Donald_J_Trump said:
What do you guys think will be the next trend after extraction shooters?
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Roblox clones and metaverse. Tim Sweeney recently gave an interview claiming that's the direction Epic is moving in.

“Because we're seeing players increasingly drawn towards social experiences, that’s causing a rise in games like Fortnite and Roblox, but a decline in single player games and a decline in smaller multiplayer games as well,” he explains.

“That’s a real challenge that the industry's facing. And there's no solution to that other than getting every standalone game much more socially connected, and economically connected, to an interoperable metaverse ecosystem.”

Epic’s developers are all making games for this interconnected vision

“What we're really thinking about is how do we either redefine Fortnite, or how do we redefine the place where Fortnite lives”

Epic didn’t used to be all about Fortnite. From Unreal Tournament to Rock Band, Gears of War to Rocket League, Epic and its studios have made plenty of popular standalone titles. Yet most of Epic’s teams today are focused on Fortnite, whether that’s the Battle Royale mode or creating entirely different experiences within the Fortnite world.

Does that mean Epic has stopped making non-Fortnite games? Well, sort-of.

“We have somewhat of a challenge, because when you think of Fortnite, you think of the Fortnite characters and battle royale,” Sweeney says.

“But what we’re building is actually something quite a bit larger than Fortnite. It's a tool set and an ecosystem in which any content can exist, including photorealistic content, or totally differently stylized content than Fortnite itself. You have the ability for developers in the ecosystem to build content that looks nothing like Fortnite. And yet it's called Fortnite. And so what we're really thinking about is how do we either redefine Fortnite, or how do we redefine the place where Fortnite lives, to create a much greater realization that there's many different kinds of games that can exist here. And Fortnite is not just battle royale anymore.

“The future of Epic is in developing a huge variety of awesome games in different genres. Everything we develop in the future is going to be centrally and economically interconnected to this thing we have here, which is the app currently known as Fortnite.”

Again, it’s back to the metaverse vision. This idea of a single thing with a number of separate but interconnected experiences,
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This game is not new, it was announced by Embark a LONG time ago, it was originally free to play, but I'm sure the finals flopping changed this decision.

Embark is a Stockholm-based studio, Created by Ex-dice people, if you have seen any Battlefield or Battlefront announcement or E3 showcase you probably recognize some of the faces, Their publisher is NEXON, famous in the gaming communities for being absolutely dogshit and running f2p games into the ground, and former publishers of one of the biggest flops in gaming, Lawbreakers.

Anyways, Embark made The Finals, a game that is too complicated to explain, but is online only, team based, whatever, The finals had had a similar closed beta hype, it was really popular, then it shadow dropped in The game Awards, to not so impressive numbers, and it dropped constantly, Nexon openly admitted that it was a flop. ↑
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Arc raiders have been building some Hype and momentum because it had closed betas at the same time as Marathon, The Bungie extraction shooter that everyone is dogpiling on, and a lot of streamers are hyping this game to their gullible audiences, this is great because normies have low attention span and they consume without thinking, so catering to them is how you make the cash, these people are not loyal customers and they will move on to whatever new thing comes up, shadow dropping this game in early access would have generated some upfront cash, and you can still say is just Early access, so its okay if it doesn't work.


The other issue is that the trailer had no gameplay, featured a ugly black woman and gay generic art, so any normie that didnt know what this game was, has a tainted perception on arc raiders from your trailer, that I'm sure it was not cheap, and paying it to be featured on the Soulslike and roguelikes Summer fest also was probably not cheap, everyone in the chat was spamming "concord 2, DEI, concord-like" these people wont bother to check a gameplay of your game, tell people about it, Wishlist it or look forward to it.

So you just wasted a bunch of money, to not get a lot of new fans and to piss off your low attention span consoomer audience, not looking good for embark, but considering their only other true competitor is Marathon maybe they can pull it out
 
Satan SoJoe said:
So you just wasted a bunch of money, to not get a lot of new fans and to piss off your low attention span consoomer audience, not looking good for embark
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Devs responded and apologised :story:.
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Fellas. It comes out this month. We've seen plenty of gameplay at this point, and they're doing an open beta October 17-19. I'll try to get some time in with it and then give general impressions.
 
The Saltening said:
man the character cumstomizer is pretty bad.
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"Body type A" "Body type B" BULLSHIT which makes my inner CHUD angry, but at the same time I like the outfit customization, even if it's super limited for the first time.

I played 2 real-player games, not including the tutorial and the EZ mode first "real" match, and I had fun. What works really well is how immersive the entire experience is. I did solo because I'm a FRIENDLESS FAGGOT so a lot of my time played was sneaking around and trying to find the higher ground. I think they buffed the AI enemies because they seemed harder to deal with than what I saw with the first play test. This also meant that accidentally getting caught by a hornet and some wasps in the early game was basically GG.

I prioritized quests and the first one is really easy, just loot 3 containers and I got the fuck out of there. I got filtered by the second mission which requires you to find a few batteries and wires. Since I was solo I avoided combat, and found my way over to a loot spot that had what I was looking for. I got like 1 battery and no wire and thought "ah fuck I should probably extract now" so I made my way to the elevator. I sær a player crouching and moving towards my extract point from about 200 meters, so I watched him carefully, because honestly I didn't want to engage, but then a squad of those fucking ARCS (wasps and hornet) ended up detecting me so I just started booking it to the extraction point. I lost a fuck ton of health from them shooting at me and it also aggro'd the player I was watching, so he started shooting me too. I ended up being downed like 20 meters away from the extraction point and I bled out before I could initiate the opening of the bunker elevator thing. I was definitely pissed, because I lost my ferro with attachments and a few smoke grenades, as well as a stack of stim shots and the lvl 2 bandages.

I still had fun though. I will be doing a shit ton of playing later today and see how it goes.
 
Only played 4 games during the test. First 2 I was absolutely wasted by the robots, third I extracted comfortably with no dramas and 4th I encountered another player whilst waiting for a lift and we helped each other extract.

Very wholesome although I was shitting myself he'd turn on me whilst I was on the lift console.

I like the single shot rifle, I couldnt seem to kill anything with the rattler.
 
Saw the hype around the game with the first play test so I applied and sadly didn't access then so it's nice being able to try out the game now. Incredibly immersive, excellent sound design, and surprisingly well optimized. Although with the focus of PvP, players seem to be a lot more pensive and willing to co-operate compared to other extraction shooters. It's a nice change of pace compared to other games, but I don't see this lasting for long especially with people learning how to optimize gameplay in the future.

Playing the game solo is a little boring, but playing with friends is a blast (unsurprisingly, everything is fun with friends), checking corners, watching each others backs, lots of communication. I just hope that this game can keep a some what consistent playerbase and doesn't get completely taken over by no-lifers.
 
I didn't have any real interest in this game or extraction shooters as a genre, but I got a copy of this for free with my new video card so the least I can do is try it out. It seems a little more approachable than something like Escape from Tarkov at least so I'm willing to give it a fair shake.

I know people got pissy over the fact that they used AI voiceovers in The Finals and there's a disclosure about some sort of use of AI in the product description. Is it still voices or is there anything else for people to lose their shit over?
 
Keine said:
I didn't have any real interest in this game or extraction shooters as a genre, but I got a copy of this for free with my new video card so the least I can do is try it out. It seems a little more approachable than something like Escape from Tarkov at least so I'm willing to give it a fair shake.

I know people got pissy over the fact that they used AI voiceovers in The Finals and there's a disclosure about some sort of use of AI in the product description. Is it still voices or is there anything else for people to lose their shit over?
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i dont notice anything. the voices might be AI. which would make sense because the voice lines appear to be dynamic with callouts and such. Honestly using ai for voicelines works pretty well because it can dynamically change whats being said for more accurate callouts.

aside from voices maybe being AI i dont see anything standing out or screaming AI to me.
 
Keine said:
I didn't have any real interest in this game or extraction shooters as a genre, but I got a copy of this for free with my new video card so the least I can do is try it out. It seems a little more approachable than something like Escape from Tarkov at least so I'm willing to give it a fair shake.
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funny because all the videos i'm seeing from ARC raiders end up reminding me of Dysterra, now it's a matter of time to see all the cheaters popping up, just like in many games lately but at least there isn't ring0 spyware to install.
and no, EasyAntiCheat only works during game runtime rather than 24/7 like the infamous spywares that started this whole debacle.
 
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