A new Q&A about the upcoming expansion pack for World in Conflict, Soviet Assault, has been released by Massive. It addresses numerous questions that have been on all our minds. Here is an excerpt:
Be sure to read the whole segment here.
Will the 360 version have a map maker tool? (You don't want Halo Wars to be the first console RTS with a map maker, right?)
This is one of those things that would’ve been cool to include, but it would’ve required us to develop completely new tools. As always with game development, we’ve had to prioritise all the things we wanted to do, and the console map tools were unfortunately pushed down by other things.
Is Virginia going to be featured in the next WIC?
No, it’s reserved as a free PC multiplayer-only download.
Voice recognition is and will be one of the coolest things to play with and develop in near future... However, accents can be hard... Will SA recognize Bosnian accent? Can you please shout few SA orders in your reply? Will one of the orders include word NAAB?
We’re putting a lot of effort into making the voice recognition as accessible as possible, and that includes the recognition of different accents. “Naab”, “pwned” and “omg”, on the other hand, will trigger an instant self-destruction mechanism that eliminates all of your units and TA points. Also, TACTICAL NUKE and CARPET BOMB!
Will PC and console players be able to play together?
We looked at including a feature like this, at least so Xbox Live players could play against Windows Live PC players, but we realised that the different control schemes didn’t fit very well cross-platform. So, nope, there’s no cross-platform playing.
This is one of those things that would’ve been cool to include, but it would’ve required us to develop completely new tools. As always with game development, we’ve had to prioritise all the things we wanted to do, and the console map tools were unfortunately pushed down by other things.
Is Virginia going to be featured in the next WIC?
No, it’s reserved as a free PC multiplayer-only download.
Voice recognition is and will be one of the coolest things to play with and develop in near future... However, accents can be hard... Will SA recognize Bosnian accent? Can you please shout few SA orders in your reply? Will one of the orders include word NAAB?
We’re putting a lot of effort into making the voice recognition as accessible as possible, and that includes the recognition of different accents. “Naab”, “pwned” and “omg”, on the other hand, will trigger an instant self-destruction mechanism that eliminates all of your units and TA points. Also, TACTICAL NUKE and CARPET BOMB!
Will PC and console players be able to play together?
We looked at including a feature like this, at least so Xbox Live players could play against Windows Live PC players, but we realised that the different control schemes didn’t fit very well cross-platform. So, nope, there’s no cross-platform playing.
Be sure to read the whole segment here.