Wolfenstein: The New Order is single-player only
Wolfenstein: The New Order will be single-player only, and MachineGames has shared more on the story and setting of the game.
Wolfenstein: The New Order, announced yesterday from MachineGames, won't have a multiplayer mode. The developer revealed the single-player focus today, along with new revelations about the story and setting of the franchise's return.
GameSpot shared the details. We knew from yesterday's announcement that it takes place in an alternate 1960s, in which Nazis won World War 2. B.J. Blazkowicz has apparently been locked in an asylum since defeating robo-Hitler, so his discoveries about the world echo our own. Among them: some kind of large scientific leap led the Nazis to create an array of new technologies, and even win the race to the moon.
The technological achievements also lead the weaponry and enemies. MachineGames is trying for a retro sci-fi feel, introducing elements like a laser turret and various robotic enemies like drones and sharp-jawed robo-dogs. They want the game to be focused on movement, so you can duck behind cover but the game has no cover mechanic.
Finally, though Wolfenstein focuses primarily on action, you'll be exploring and solving puzzles in various international locales. Specifically mentioned are Polish mountains, and the Berlin catacombs.
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Wolfenstein: The New Order will be single-player only, and MachineGames has shared more on the story and setting of the game.-
sounds good to me.
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I miss the thought of multi, but the confidence to release a single-player only game has me intrigued by this.
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Doesn't bother me in the least. I don't play the multiplayer of half the fps games I play, the story and environment is better in single.
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And it's not like there is a shortage of great MP FPS games by any stretch if that is what you want anyway.
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And I thought it was fun and exciting. It appears we have reached an impasse called taste.
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not really:
" The multiplayer side eventually became the most popular part of the game"
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Just because it was popular doesn't mean his opinion is wrong.
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Indeed, I inferred the argument was "popular=good," to which I say pshaw.
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RtCW SP was Gray Matter. Raven made the sequel(?) Wolfenstein, which was very low on the Raven mediocrity scale.
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Well at least there is focus, I think they (or a different studio) should make a multiplayer only Wolfenstein game as well then.
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They could call it Wolfenstein Wars!
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Interesting.
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GrumpyCat says: GOOD.
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"Yes you do (want it) even if you dont know it" I wouldn't presume to *know* what anyone else wants other than myself, least of all "most" players (other than my very limited number of friends that even play games).
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Well, I know what I want in all of my FPSers is dead multiplayer servers 6 months after launch, yes sir. Cut my single player experience down to a heavily scripted 5-6 hours identical to all the previous games, oh yeah.
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
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came here to say this, there are excellent MP games out there, why bother even trying to compete.
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Fine with me. I'd rather have a good singleplayer game than any combination of shitty SP or MP.
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The fuck? No MP? Game just went from a day 1 purchase to a steam sale bargain bin.
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Well come now, you weren't really going to buy it anyway. Not with all the Call of Duty you need to play, no time for any other games......maybe Madden, but seriously, two game purchases a year. I am sure it gets taxing.
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1. almost no one is interested in shooter MP development these days, why try and chip away at the dominance of CoD/Battlefield/Halo(is Halo even still a thing?) in the market?
publishers have seen too many titles crash and burn to risk work in that direction right now, I think.
2. and this is fine - it is a very rare studio these days, that could possibly pull off a dual SP and MP shooter development with success. this means the SP has just got a ten times better chance of excellence, IMO. -
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no. QW was based on Enemy territory which was a modified version of RTCW mp, which itself was a variation of quake 3 fortress. the developer of QW started off as a developer of RTCW maps. most famously Market Garden
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QWTF = QuakeWorld Team Fortress
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I never played it in QWTF, but in TFC it was the map that had like 5 flags in each teams base, and you had to take the flag out of the base and put it on spots on the map.
If you had the flag on you, you moved slower so you were easier to kill. If your team capped all 5 spots the map ended.
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Old people.
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I remember RTCW having some fun multiplayer, it is a different environment now though for FPS multiplayer. Campaign was ok
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They come across like they have their shit together.
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Sounds good. Are these guys supposed to be good devs? I haven't played any of their previous games.
Was Syndicate good? I don't think it even got released in Australia.
I'm keen to see if/how they've tweaked idTech 5 for this. I thought Rage was pretty fun (come at me, bros) and the engine felt good, but mainly just needed a bump in texture res and some more dynamics. -
First screenshots - http://www.cvgworld.com/2013/05/07/wolfenstein-the-new-order-first-screenshots/ Looks awesome :D
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To be fair, Bethesda is not really well known for their multi-player games or multiplayer components. Off the top of my head I can't think of many both developed or published.
