Looking forward to this. It'll be a nice change to see a small studio use the EA model and come into it with a substantial offering to begin with, rather than an early proof of concept and all the features are on the horizon with the catch-all of being able to abandon anything and everything without consequence, simply because they've decided its 'done'.
The fact that they have the intention of going multi-platform with it once its considered complete, is a bit of a mixed bag. It rarely lends itself well to the PC platform, either with scaling down or prioritising console needs (pad focused menus, simplified game mechanics etc). However I think it also comes with the benefit of being a big goal that they'll need to hit, because theres a big payday when it launches on 2 additional platforms, so theres an incentive to work and complete it - it doesnt stop it being rushed, and it doesnt ensure its a brilliant game, but so many EA games take the cash and plod along and progress and improvements are slow.
Im not much of a dino nut, im not overly fussed about it tbh, but they make for a much better adversary to play against than zombies. Zombies tend to be in too few numbers, due to processing demands, whereas at least 1 giant T-Rex is 1 AI, and its going to take some effort to overcome. Not a swift axe to the head, and then deal with its 5 friends plodding along.
I also really like the fact that they've said they'll do PvE official servers, im not really into the PvP which gets forced upon you in most of these survival type games. I want to survive the situation, not have the threat be 90% people, 10% plodding along zombies. That alone stops me from enjoying a lot of these games, and having a private server with only friends, gets a little uneventful and runs out of purpose too easily.
Not sure how many people here feel the same way, but having a server side option to set it, rather than it being an unenforceable hard rule, where punishment can only be added after breaking the rule, is nice.
Everything ive picked up this week seems to be positive, the few things i was unsure about (server hopping ala DayZ) have all been clarified and im satisfied with their decisions. Its looking set to be a nice little surprise. I think i'll give it a day or 2 if theres no new footage and the pre-EA testing NDA holds up, just to gather feedback, but im unusually optimistic on this one.
