During a recent Reddit AMA, Cliff Bleszinksi shared a lot of new information about his new sci-fi free-to-play FPS shooter. According to Bleszinksi, BlueStreak needs to look fantastic on high-end PCs and – at the same time – run on really dated systems. Whether the team will be able to pull this off remains to be seen.
Although Bleszinksi has not shared any details about the engine powering it, he implied that Unreal Engine 4 may be the engine of the team’s choice. From what it looks like, BlueStreak is in its really early stages so don’t expect it to see it anytime soon (a 2015 release seems unlikely to be honest).
Bleszinksi stated that BlueStreak will be a skilled based game, and that Boss Key Productions does not want to create another Pay2Win title.
“Sure, once in a while the person who sucks might get lucky with a stray shot and take that person down, but I want to craft a game that has weapons and moves that are easy to learn but to really make them sing takes thousands of hours of play just like a professional athlete would. Anyone can toss a football, but Drew Brees can get it through the tire at X yards every time.” said Bleszinski and continued:
“I’m DETERMINED to not do Pay To Win. Since this game is a shooter I want that one player who likes the game and doesn’t feel like spending any money to be able to take down the trust fund kid that’s spent a ton of money to have All The Stuff.”
Bleszinksi also claimed that the game targets 5V5 with FFA initially, and that it is ‘closer to TF2, but it remains to be seen if we’re going to do no classes, light classes, or super identified roles.’
Last but not least, BlueStreak will emphasize on story, but not in the traditional sense.
“Weapons will have manufacturing corporations, players will have lore/history, and the world will feel there and lived in. We also want to make live action shorts quarterly to help tell more about the universe outside of the game. If you’re doing a Sci Fi IP you need as much of the fiction to come through in other mediums (and with lore) so people care about Plasma Rifle 3 or Player X.”
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that all sounds great… too bad its CliffyB saying it 🙁
So in other words people who Spend $100 on items will be able to crush players without said $100 items.
Seems legit
Well, he did state the exact opposite of this but it remains to be seen how they plan on making any money. He mentioned TF2 so I guess they’re trying to go the “cosmetic” customization route.
Ugh. 5V5. Thats counter strike’s wheelhouse
UT was at it’s greatest with 32 player all out wars, straight up death match and vehicle CTF in 2004. It was scaleable and thats how the community liked it
But then everything is e-sports now. Shameful
Yeah this “target the one size” thing isn’t warming me up either. He’s basically saying there won’t be any flexibility in Map Size, so you won’t be doing 2v2, 4v4, 8v8, etc. IN AN ARENA SHOOTER. Seriously? >.>
I can see the twat focusing on trying to make it an E-Sport a lot, but I can’t actually see it successfully competing up there with Quake Live, Counter-Strike, etc.
Also – Classes? Seriously, is he making an Arena Shooter, or a new Team Fortress Game?
P.S. Why am I supposed to care about “Plasma Rifle 3” & “Player X” in an Arena Shooter? I’m there to blow shit up, not get emotionally attached to the Lore. This guy has obviously never played Quake 3 in living memory, as Carmack dealt with the Lore perfectly there: Badass mofo gets nabbed by Aliens, thrown into an Arena, & get infinitely revived so as to fight for their entertainment until the end of time. Simple. Fucking. Genius.
Q3A was also scalable from 1v1 out to 8v8 CTF to 16+ Player Deathmatch. That was the beauty of games like Q3A, UT or even Halo as Arena shooters. It always scaled well and was accommodating of multiple types of gameplay. Singular focus leads to online getting boring quick unless you throw the sort of massive investment Valve has put into TF2 and DOTA 2 to constantly pump out new content and unless they have some grand plan. I don’t see this taking off.
Agreed, & nicely said 😉
“Why am I supposed to care about “Plasma Rifle 3” & “Player X” in an Arena Shooter?”
Are you aware of Unreal Tournament and its detailed “lore”? And before you call someone a “twat”, I’d assume you’d have made a name for yourself instead of jerking off in front of the keyboard. Makes you looks stupid otherwise.
You mean the thing where that one Mega-Corp created the thing that exploded into a sport, or whatever? Yeah, so what? That’s about as in-depth as Quake 3’s UFO Abduction story.
There are only a handful of Old School Arena FPSs that have Stories people actually care about, like Quake 2/4’s Strogg Story, or Halo’s ever-continuing Master Chief Saga, which has yet to reach its (inevitably mediocre) conclusion. UT was never about Story, it was about awesome Multiplayer Gameplay.
Far as jerking off…. I think we all (if not most of us) do it in front of a keyboard…. Well, unless we’re stuck living in the 20th Century, like someone here apparently is. 😮 This is the Internet, not GCD; Welcome to the Real World, Jackass.
“You mean the thing where that one Mega-Corp created the thing that exploded into a sport, or whatever?”
— No. Have you played any UT entry from start to finish? Intelligently I mean. Every single map, every single weapon and every single character has backstories and details. Just because YOU don’t find them worthwhile doesn’t mean others do.
“There are only a handful of Old School Arena FPSs that have Stories people actually care about”
— People… you mean yourself? But seriously, what makes you think you speak for all “people”?
“Far as jerking off…. I think we all (if not most of us) do it in front of a keyboard”
— “We” as in “just you”. “Us” again, as in “just you”. Of course, you might have other twats for company.
Actually “people” generally means the general consensus, but as I can see from your post history, you’re just trying to increase your troll post count, so I’m really not interested in arguing the political correctness of that phrase with you.
Btw, “just you” – I’m really starting to wonder here….. do you NOT do it? Because if you don’t, then I seriously must recommend you do, it’s great Stress Relief, & unlike so many dumb twats believe, it doesn’t actually cause you to go blind, you know……..
Unless your problem is that I, much like many other men & women across the world do it in front of a Keyboard, rather than in a Bathroom with a magazine that I’ve stashed in my jigsaw puzzle box under my bed since the 8th Grade.
“Actually “people” generally means the general consensus”
— General consensus as per you, correct?
“but as I can see from your post history, you’re just trying to increase your troll post count”
— And as I can see from your post history, you’re trying to increase your dimwit rating, but don’t find me holding that against you, do you?
“Btw, “just you” – I’m really starting to wonder here….. do you NOT do it?”
— Sure I do, but I don’t go around belittling others on the internet while I’m at it. Especially with frivolous reasoning such as yours.
World English Dictionary: consensus (k?n?s?ns?s) — ngeneral or widespread agreement (esp in the phrase consensus of opinion )
I think the “general consensus” here would be: BITCHSLAPPED TROLL.
I’m off, but please, go on with your one-man soapbox routine.
“World English Dictionary: consensus (k?n?s?ns?s) — ngeneral or widespread agreement (esp in the phrase consensus of opinion )”
The stress is on “you”, not general consensus, dimwit.
Example… “I think the general consensus cannot be accurately estimated based on the whims of a twat like you.” See?
And bitchslapped troll, eh? You’re so cute when being put in your place.
Lol’d. Keep telling yourself that. Whatever makes you sleep better at night.
Meanwhile, watch me being the bigger man as I walk away & invite you to go kiss my ass.
Ta-ta bigger man! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
ahahahha no thanks cliffy.
Seems like gears!! I like it ! Hopefully it comes to consoles. Love skill based games
“Fantastic” and “5V5” don’t match in my book. :/
I’m looking forward to it.