In my humble experience as an online gamer, I have become puzzled as to why other developers dont learn from their competitors success' and failures. It seems as if every dev is disconnected from the next. For example, why dont FPS/Team games learn from Resistance Fall of man and incorporate that games terrific community support into their games. This led me to think about what exactly I have come to expect from FPS/Team/Clan based games.
The List:
1. Party/Lobby System-Every game that requires teamwork whould have a lobby/party system where you can invite people from your buddy list and just talk. Resistance is a great example of where that was an amazing success.
2. Chat support-this sounds obvious but alot of the newer games are going gold with very buggy chat support. What cant one segment of code that works for one game be distributed amongst all the developers so that they all have equally great chat support. UT3 and CoD4 are prime examples of where the chat support is lacking.
3. In-game and PSN buddy lists-Some people will disagree with me on this but I think having two separate buddy lists is a key feature that should be incorporated into every game. My rationale for this is such, when setting up clan battles or gbs it is important to have a person on the competing clan on your buddy list to coordinate the gb. Resistance is a great example fo where this worked. While I agree in a system also where you dont need to re-add you current PSN buddys to every game, I also think it is very important to have a separate in game buddy list. Maybe the two could be incorporated together so you could have both.
4. In-game message system-Warhawk is a prime example of a game that an in-game message system and/or a lobby system is in desperate need. I cant tell you how frustrating it is to be in a game where you cant communicate with someone unless either a, you are already in game with them or b, you have to sign off the game and send a one line message over PSN and hope they have they announcements turned on.
5. Dedicated Servers- Speaks for itself I feel. I am sure there are many of you that have joined a game where the lag was so bad the game was unplayable. While I think it is also neccessary to be able to host private, unranked games, all ranked games should be run through dedicated servers.....peroid.
6. Ranked game searches-In my opinion, all games whould have an auto search function (ie joins the first game that meets the criteria) and a selectable search function (ie lists all the game that meet the criteria and allows the user to select the one he/she desires). Warhawk is a great example of where this works to some extent. It has selectable ranked games but it does not have the auto search function. Along with the list of games and their descriptions, it should also have the host connection strength, even for dedicated servers.
7. Stat tracking- what gamer isnt interesed in their stats, their friends stats and the stats of the highest ranked person in the game. Every game shoud come equipped with stat tracking. THe level of stat tracking could be determined by the developer and the type of game but some form of stat tracking should be included.
8. Customization- whether it be weapons, characters, interface, etc., customization is a key feature that allows the individual gamer to have their own unque identity online.
To conclude, I feel that these features should become a standard among all team based games. That lack of one of these features can cause a great game to get a bad reputation that it shouldnt deserve. Let me know if you guys/girls think of anything else additional that you would like to include in thei template. I think it is fairly complete and would benefit everyone and not be too costly to the developers. Heck, maybe Sony and MS sould get together and distribute a packet that includes a standardized community support system that would be required to be implemented into every game.
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
I am very surprised that I have received no comments either in complete agreement or complete disagreement.
So do you agree with everything I have posted? Would you add anything else? I posted this on my clan forum webnsite and my members went nuts in agreement with me.