E3 2017: Cliff Bleszinski Dubs LawBreakers 'the Dark Souls of Competitive First-Person Shooters'
Boss Key’s Cliff Bleszinski wants to change the way we view competitive shooters.
In an exclusive interview at Shacknews’ E3 booth in West Hall, Boss Key Productions co-founder Cliff Bleszinski shared his vision on FPS games and how he believes LawBreakers will push even the most experienced pro players to continue improving with each match.
“I think we’ve kind of made the Dark Souls of competitive first-person shooters,” he said. “Our matchmaking required a lot of tuning because the first alpha [test] was all over the board. But in the first beta, your average person’s win rate was only 20 percent. If the matchmaking’s doing its job, you want it to be closer to 50/50, which our programming team has tuned to the point where now it’s literally the definition of ‘win some, lose some.’”
After achieving worldwide acclaim following games such as Unreal Tournament and Epic Games’ Gears of War franchise, Bleszinski took a hiatus from the games industry. His body may have been at rest from the long hours and frequent meetings, but his mind never sat still. Before long, he bubbled over with ideas and co-founded Boss Key as, among other reasons, a vehicle through which to facilitate innovative concepts as well as refinement to known quantities such as arena shooters.
You can check out our full interview with Cliff Bleszinski below. For more E3 interviews and content, check out the Shacknews YouTube channel as well as our website, where we’ll be streaming live interviews throughout the remainder of E3 2017.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, E3 2017: Cliff Bleszinski Dubs LawBreakers 'the Dark Souls of Competitive First-Person Shooters'
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Hmm, I watched a gameplay video, it showed a guy using a grapple in a large map. It felt like it would be super hard to have any kind of engagement given that players can spider web their way around the map using both speed and vertical distance as an advantage. I had a hard enough time with the grapple in Q1 back in the day, and that was in smaller enclosed maps. I would never be good at law breakers.
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I dont want the Dark Souls of competitive fps's because I generally dont do MP much anymore since my tolerance of online asshatery is pretty low these days.
HOWEVER I would definitely be interested in a Dark Souls-esque single player FPS...-
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I agree that DOOM was probably the closest thing so far, but the gap is still massive as to what a DarkSouls-esque shooter could be. Imo.
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I'm the Dark Souls of "creepy Shack lurkers".
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It's almost like people have heard of Dark Souls and how popular it is, but have not played it. I've seen LawBreakers and detected literally NOTHING that put me in mind of a Souls game. Much like 75% of the other games claiming to be Souls-like.
Now TF2 / Overwatch? Sure, lot of that in there. Brink? Yep. COD? Detected.-
Right. This just comes off as desperate to get attention.
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Looks like Titan Fall too.
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I tried the new Little Debbie's moon pie today. It's like the Dark Souls of snack cakes.
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