FPS go straight to the gameplay. The difference between 30 and 60 is absolutely insane. Again, I would suggest Total Biscuit's video on the topic. I don't think I can post a link because I believe he uses naughty language.
Obviously the co-op is a huge part of Unity. How do you guys create missions that can accommodate four players while also being satisfying to one?
First, one thing we decided very early on that we didn't want to do was fake co-op gating. So there's a door, there's two levers and two players can pull the levers to open the door, right? So if you eliminate that sort of co-op, you're left with a co-op where players need to co-operate to face a challenge that's maybe too challenging to face alone. And the other way of encouraging co-op is the opposite. You can either throw something hard at the player and force them to join up, or you can give them bonuses if they get closer together. So we're using that to encourage co-op.
Now, how do we make missions that can be satisfying for one or done by four? It really depends again on the way you observe the missions. If you're two players and you notice there's a guard defending the gate and there's a lockpick behind that gate, one player might decide to distract the guard and pull him away from his guardpost, while the other one unlocks the door—boom, you've breached. If you play by yourself, you look at that situation, you look at your tools depending on what you have you might use a different strategy. For example, a smoke bomb. So it's always possible to do a mission by yourself and with players. It just depends on imagination, the tools you have and your level of skills.
Another thing we've added that helps us with that is the fact that now our characters progress...in Assassin's Creed there was very little progression in IV, right? The character you had at the beginning and end was very similar. This is not true today. We have skill points, you start with a character that has the very bare minimum. As you collect skill points you can invest in different skills. You saw the lockpick skill—if you don't have a lockpick skill, you can't lockpick. But if you have lockpick skill one, and you try to unlock a level three chest, that's more challenging and you're gonna break more lockpicks, that's a minigame. So if you try to perform a mission and you're very strong, and it's a moderately challenging mission, you might be able to pull it off alone. If not, you might need to join up with friends.
That's another thing, our missions now have different areas of difficulty, [one to four stars]. Everything is unlocked. You can try a four-star mission at the beginning of the game, but you might find it very difficult. However, maybe if you play with friends, maybe it makes it a little easier. And again, because our missions, all the co-op missions are black boxes, they're all 360, they all have different ways you can approach them, which means that even if you're able to play alone and you complete the mission by yourself, there might be some really cool things you can't do alone, but if you play it with friends you can do it another way. So it's not just completing a mission, it's how you complete it and the fun you have while you're doing it.
No problem, and I do agree that FPS is most important when it comes to first person shooters. But once I started playing games on a pretty good PC, the difference in all games became quite noticeable. You start to realize how much you are missing on a gameplay front.
FPS does not work like that. The size of the screen does not matter. Basically, FPS is the refresh rate. How quickly new information (the image) is sent. The hertz on your monitor/tv do matter. If you have 60 hertz, you can have 60fps, 120 hertz, you can theoretically have 120fps.
Better without Kinect.
I remember mentioning that to parker before Bens started saying the same with talk about removing kinect ad took over from there. but this is interesting to hear that Naughty Dog that's been exclusive since their start to sony is saying that of all people.
