» Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:18 am
First of all, there are 2 studios making the game, Crytek Germany is making Crysis 2 Singleplayer, and they did the Cryengine 3 engine, Crytek UK is making the Singleplayer, note that Crytek UK has a lot of Console Multiplayer Experience, but a little at PC, hence why the game looks consolized
About the amount of players, 6 vs 6 will make you cooperate with your team to defeat the enemy, making it higher will make everyone just go around killing people, Look at TF2, it's a team based game, yet on maps like 2fort with 32 players, everyone goes sniper, pyro, or scout, barely anyone heals or defends the flag, and people are more focused on killing than capturing the flag.
on 16vs16 or 32vs32, a death is nothing, it's only like 3.5% of the team, so people just run recklessly shooting and die
but on 6vs6 a death means 13% of the team, this makes the player take a more tactical approach and choose their suit modules better instead of just choosing the ones that do most damage
This 6vs6 is good, but i bet you think "ok... add 6vs6 maps but also add big maps with 16vs16 deathmatch", personally, i don't know why they didn't add a secondary gamemode with more people, The only thing i believe was the cause is that Crytek Might want to release a Crysis 2 Wars DLC/expansion or add it to a sequel of crysis 2, or even perhaps it wasn't finished and it will be released on the future.
But it can assure you, at least if they allow Mods on servers and custom maps, that some community modders will mod the servers to allow 16vs16 people on PC multiplayer, just like they did for 20vs20 on crysis 1
I prefer games where you actually work as a team, not a bunch of lone wolf mercs, but only once did i get that experience in the beta. Because of this, even though i wish it did, i dont think 6v6 encouraged teamwork enough. Maybe i was just unlucky and got a LOT of run n gun jerks to play with.
The multiplayer wasn't the only thing i was talking about though, it just seems to me that they aren't putting in the same quality as they did in C1.