Why just 4 Player?

[Karoe]

i have the felling that this game will just be something like Left 4 dead. i cant i can't imagine a Dead Frontier with just 4 Player o.o

[AssCrack]

It might get up to 8 players , but it's made like this so the sync is pristine.

[[Censored]]

youll have hubs, and youll be able to interact with the public at large in things like trading, you realy dont need to see 10,000 ppl running through the same streets, that would be unrealistic, it helps to imagin a city like new york in a zombie apocalypse with a population of 8.538 million ppl in 2016... vast majority of them become the living dead and you have 10k survivors but they are dispersed amoung that zombie population all across the city - you finding 4 to 8 surviors near you would be an optomistic thought mathemateticlaly - sure its possible but so incredibly unlikely... you might find them gathered in key locations or hubs but not wandering about

[APwn]

4 players is a conservative limit set so that we don't run out of bandwidth during our launch spike.If we can I'll increase the limit.

Also even with 4 players it really won't be anything like L4D.

[Karoe]

i dont need 1000 or even 100.
i would be happy with 8^^ and i think a max of 12 would be great.
in DF3D you normally have more than 4 ppl in a boss fight

[[Censored]]

Originally posted by Karoe(Grafiti):

i dont need 1000 or even 100.
i would be happy with 8^^ and i think a max of 12 would be great.
in DF3D you normally have more than 4 ppl in a boss fight

as long as player interaction is possible im good - power to the individual is what im after - im sick of games that force human to human interaction especialy games in the apocalypse setting... this is one of the way alot of games fail... like rust for example... the more ppl you throw in the pot the more toxic and off the mark the game becomes... you should be looking for the sweet spot of player interaction instead of trying to drown in it.... i think dead frontier had that right and think hes got it right again - (rust in the begining lured ppl with promise a rediculously large map in legacy and the promise of survival zombies and possible player interaction... then they scraped all that, threw away all the npc elements, made their map into a shoe box and dumped 500 mentaly challenged ppl into it, the end result was hacking and zerging grand scale.... what was supposed to be a game like this ended up being another ♥♥♥♥ shooter clone)

The point being that there is an extreem lack of games like the ones admin pwn creates and theres a whole lot of us that will fill the market for games like this

[Agent]

To be honest, I don't think the game should allow more than 4 players. I understand it would be hella fun but it might mess with the balance of the game, i mean imagine 8 players roaming around, sticking together. You'll mow down everything in your path, including bosses with little effort.

Unless the game gets a diablo style buff where enemies become much tougher or bigger/more frequent hordes where there's a higher player count in the server you're in, I really feel like it'll mess with the economy of the game. I mean, imagine like 8 people all looting a single object (assuming looting works the same way as DF1), all protecting each other so they can all loot the same object. Or easily defeating a boss and all of them looting the boss. That's 8 seperate drops vs 4 drops.

It's just a bit too much in my opinion depending on the information we currently know. All of what I say may be disproven by the devs and/or on release so take it with a grain of salt.

[Karoe]

my problem is that i cant imagine a Dead Froniter game with just 4 player. if DF3D had a max of 4 player i would be done this this game after 4 or 5 days.


i wish my english would be batter to explain my fears better ^^

[Weeb Lord]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guys,dont u guys read what admin says?

For launch,its only 4 player,later will add on to 6-8 because of bandwidth reason whatever.

Chill.


Do u want 8-12 player but incomplete game n unbalance game or
complete basic game but 4 player that make it balance and later will add on more


rip english but u get my point.

[Karoe]

I read it here: blog.creakycorpse.com

"quote"
"A brand new 4-player multiplayer system that focuses on player experience above all else. No more glitched zombies!"

sorry if im not up to date ^^

[Johnny Five-O]

Originally posted by Karoe(Grafiti):

my problem is that i cant imagine a Dead Froniter game with just 4 player. if DF3D had a max of 4 player i would be done this this game after 4 or 5 days.


i wish my english would be batter to explain my fears better ^^

DF3D multiplayer sure is great with the sync being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrible and the zombies getting lag armor making it twice or three times the amount of bullets to kill compared to single player mode lol. Multiplayer is only good for boss fights and certain missions, for grinding and looting it's a detrement.

[Silent]

4 on launch seems reasonable. I used to play with about 12 players, so I hope it gets to at least that much eventually, but I'll still play regardless.

[PatchesIX]

having 8 players doesnt always mean all of them will be co-operating with eachother, more often than not you will have about 5 or 6 players doing their own thing and maybe 2 or 3 actually working together which is nice.

[Karoe]

i dont think that 8 people woult start a game in a lobby together, where 5 or 6 player dindt want to play with them...
and you i think wou will get to oportunity to invite over player maby freinds ^^

and i think in the case you mention it would be even worse if there is 4 player max and 3 player just do what they want ^^

[Johnny Five-O]

missing the big picture guys, it will actually be really hard to make a multiplayer system worse than what DF3D has. I cant count the number of times I've taken damage from an exploding zombie phasing into reality right next to me and blowing up instantly. Yeah you can have 10-20 or whatever amount of people in an instance at once but at that point it's a ♥♥♥♥ show.

[whit]

Probably should remove that MMO tag no?