Homefront

Looks all pretty positive to me, Digital Extremes are responsible for Unreal Tournament 4 as well as ported versions of Bioshock, which I thought was a very well ported game. Not to mention the fact that Digital Extremes is a Canadian company and Canada is the host to arguably some of the best developers around at the moment.

Let's hope she's a keeper.
 
Homefront will support 32 player servers on PC when the game ships. Our large maps actually play best with that number. We found that the critical factor in delivering ‘Large Scale Warfare’ is less to do with having hundreds of players, and more to do with the density of players in each game.
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Any BC2 player can tell you that large maps only work when they are infact, large and not infact, bottlenecked. The statement of large maps and player density go completely against each other. Its like the difference between most the Vietnam maps and most the vanilla maps. If they bottleneck maps the game will suck without fail.
 
This has the potential to be a totally unexpected sleeper hit. It reminds me of Half Life 2 so much, and that is never a bad thing.
 
Wow really like the synopsis, hopefully they don't make it too COD like. As mentioned above if it's anything like the half life series it's a winner!!
 
A big fan of Fuel of War, felt very different to other shooters at the time and I thoroughly enjoyed the level design which seemed well structured.

It was far from COD like in my opinion.

Am very much looking forward to this, hopefully the team can learn from their initial mistakes with FOW (for which there were a few) but I will forgive them as it was their first retail release.
 
I must confess, i was adamant this game would be average a few months ago. After watching some of the gameplay videos i'm feeling much more positive about it as a title now. Here's hoping!
 
^Garf*uk* said:
looks to much like frontlines fuel of war that they made :(
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I liked Frontlines a lot, hopefully they can make the controls abit better as Frontlines' gameplay seemed fairly solid so if they go similar, they could make a hit.

Gimpymoo said:
Am very much looking forward to this, hopefully the team can learn from their initial mistakes with FOW (for which there were a few) but I will forgive them as it was their first retail release.
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Yeah there were some mistakes, but they didn't seem to be as obvious as mistakes in games like COD, they were small mistakes that I couldn't really put my finger on but didn't make the gameplay as enjoyable as possible. Hopefully they learn and improve and this should be a great game.
 
I don't understand why they keep focusing on the use of a 'drone' that basically plays the game for you in these gameplay videos...

Not to mention they seem to have forgotton to include recoil and the autoaim basically snapped to every enemies head.
 
Evilsod said:
I don't understand why they keep focusing on the use of a 'drone'
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You have not lived untill you have quietly placed your drone behind the sniper who has been ******* everyone off for the last 4 rounds and detonated the said drone, thus blowing his head off.

The drone is fun and rather tactical.

I am guessing you have not played Fuel Of War? The drone is great. It is also EXTREMELY vulnerable as everyone can see it and it can easily be taken out so no, it does not "play the game for you", far from it.
 
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I will probably only buy one multiplayer FPS released in march (still happily playing BC2 and MOH atm).

Homefront or Crysis 2? Deep down I think both have the potential to heavily disappoint and so just wondering what everyone else is thinking?
 
deadkomodo said:
Homefront or Crysis 2? Deep down I think both have the potential to heavily disappoint and so just wondering what everyone else is thinking?
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I totally agree with you. I'm not going to buy both, but I want both. I think I'm going to go with Homefront. It might sound geeky, but if it's going to be something special, I really want to be there right at the beginning. I get very nostalgic over gaming revolutions.

Crysis 2 however, I am certain will be a run-on-the-mill 8.5 kind of game because of EA's excellent marketing machine.
 
dnc316 said:
I totally agree with you. I'm not going to buy both, but I want both. I think I'm going to go with Homefront. It might sound geeky, but if it's going to be something special, I really want to be there right at the beginning. I get very nostalgic over gaming revolutions.

Crysis 2 however, I am certain will be a run-on-the-mill 8.5 kind of game because of EA's excellent marketing machine.
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Will that 8.5 be based more on single player though? My worry is that the mul tiplayer will be more like a 7.0 :(

In regards to Homefront, I just wish there was a multiplayer beta/demo! I have them both on preorder but don't want to buy ANOTHER FPS I will barely even play.

Might cancel them both and wait for the dust to settle? That way I miss the initial massive bugs and can make an informed decision. I mean if Homefront turns out to just be 'okay' then I won't be able to convince any of my friends to buy it anyway.

The lack of chatter about this game on OcUK is making me think it will be a huge flop :eek:

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Was there a homefront closed beta? If so was anybody from OcUK in it?
 
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