MMOCrunch.com posted their first part of their impressions on All Points Bulletin, an third-person shooter MMO scheduled to release June 29, 2010. Part 1 addresses the basics of movement and the mission and combat system. There are also 2 exclusive screenshots in the article.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
this game looks awesome, can't wait for it
It's actually a lot of fun. But other than being able to run people over with cars, it really has little similarity to GTA, so we'll see what people say about that when they start playing it. I had a blast during the demo though and I can't wait to get into the beta.
Still not sure how I feel about this one. I got into the beta, but my computer was just a tiny bit too slow to run it, so I haven't had a chance to play it yet.
Yeah. It's a beast for sure. Even though the required specs say only 2 MB ram, I'd say you really need at least 4 MB and a very high end graphics card.
But if you have that, this game is amazing.
I'm in the beta and I've been a little underwhelmed by it, partly because of the technical specs you just mentioned - the game does not scale particularly well in my experience. That said, it is a beta and betas are not optimised so I'm not passing judgement on the stability of the game just yet. The combination of server lag (which has sometimes been significant in the beta) and straight high requirements and an as-yet-unoptimised framerate with the very action-oriented gameplay has definitely been an issue, though. It's hard to drive and shoot effectively with a combination of lag and slowdown.