Battlefield 4 producer says single-player should feel 'autonomous'
Battlefield 4 producer Patrick Bach says that DICE is designing the single-player campaign to make the player feel "autonomous" rather than "locking the player in situations where things go boom."
Battlefield 4 looks to continue leading the charge on Electronic Arts' FPS offerings, and producer Patrick Bach has opened up a bit about the single-player campaign. Most significantly, he talked about the desire to give players more agency instead of relying on scripted events--one of the common criticisms of the series' chief competitor, Call of Duty.
"We wanted to add more drama, more intensity," Bach told the web show FTW. "On top of that, we are not locking the player in situations where things go boom. We want to release the player and have the player be autonomous, being able to actually cope with situations themselves. You know, moving around, shooting, picking your gun, picking your tactics, much like you do in multiplayer."
DICE has previously commented that it wants to "grow up" with this game's single-player, and it's eschewed co-op to focus on the single- and multiplayer campaigns. Just yesterday we learned the game is coming on October 29, and has been confirmed for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Battlefield 4 producer Patrick Bach says that DICE is designing the single-player campaign to make the player feel "autonomous" rather than "locking the player in situations where things go boom."-
This is what made Far Cry 3 so awesome. Many of the missions were very open-ended.
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touche
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I'm already off the ship because any PC version will almost certainly require Origin. That's a foregone conclusion, since EA owns DICE.
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I just realized that all the new Star Wars games are going to be origin exclusives...
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i can do without
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What if TIE Fighter 2 is an Origin exclusive with pre-order Thrawn mission DLC?
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Which reminds me: somehow I played XWing and Xwing Alliance without ever playing TIE Fighter :-/
Anyway, never understood the boner for Thrawn (I did at least read those books).
Yeah I might miss out on some stuff. But it goes hand in hand with not sending EA my money (a stance I temporarily suspended with BFBC2 and Mirror's Edge). I already have a massive backlog, I can do without some games. I would sort of hate to miss out on another XWing though, that's very true
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That was a pointless post.
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In theory, a Steam-only version could be released (Bad Company 2 was Steamworks), but it's Not Invented Here syndrome, probably from the start of development.
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It was on Steam, but with SecuROM DRM, which got patched off later. But it was on Steam.
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Being on Steam does not equal Steamworks
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Steamworks integrated Steam into the game. The game can be one steam to run but it won't have access to things like cloud saves.
Steam is a DRM on its own.
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I really amazes me that dice thought that was a fucking good idea. There was a damn QTE every few minutes in BF3's singleplayer campaign. After a while I said fuck it and moved on to multiplayer and never looked back.
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Sorry bubba you ain't gonna proceed until you press that fuckin x button!
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I remember that...what a weird game. You killed bugs and wildlife with your fists/knife years before Daikatana came out.
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B-B-B-B-BLOODY SCREEN! SO REAL!
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