{"id":62082,"date":"2018-04-03T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=62082"},"modified":"2018-04-03T07:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:02:58","slug":"an-overwatch-battle-royale-mode-would-be-tricky-to-make-jeff-kaplan-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/an-overwatch-battle-royale-mode-would-be-tricky-to-make-jeff-kaplan-says.html","title":{"rendered":"An Overwatch Battle Royale Mode Would Be Tricky To Make, Jeff Kaplan Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Overwatch Battle Royale Mode Would Be Tricky To Make, Jeff Kaplan Says<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Unless you haven\u2019t looked out the window or spoken to Drake recently, you\u2019re probably aware that battle royale mania is sweeping the nation. Jeff Kaplan, director of Overwatch, certainly is. He\u2019s seen the requests for a battle royale mode in his own game, and he\u2019d love to make it happen. It is, however, a taller order than you might expect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a year after PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds took over the world, games like Fortnite, Dying Light, and Crytek\u2019s Warface (which still exists) have added chicken dinner bloodbaths of their own. PUBG didn\u2019t invent the formula of dropping 100 people into an arena and granting victory to the last one standing, but it did make battle royales wildly popular throughout 2017. Fortnite\u2019s spin on the mode, according to Epic, took just two months to create. This has led people to look at Overwatch and ask, more or less, how hard could it be?<\/span><\/p>\n

Hard, as it turns out. During an interview today, Kaplan told me that he and the Overwatch team have actively considered adding a battle royale mode, but Overwatch is a very specific kind of game, and sloppily grafting battle royale onto it could result in a nasty rejection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times when I hear some of our fans pitch it, they\u2019re like \u2018Oh, just put a card in the Arcade one day that\u2019s a battle royale mode,\u2019 and I\u2019m like \u2018Fuck, that would be awesome,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of design and tech work to get us to that place and not just feel like a me-too game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaplan explained that he and his team\u2014all PUBG addicts\u2014have spent many early morning team boba tea runs talking through exactly how to implement a battle royale mode, and at this point, they\u2019ve identified the biggest stumbling blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost, Overwatch is a game about heroes, and part of what makes the core loop work in a battle royale game is the search, the looting, and the fairness that everybody\u2019s sort of equal,\u201d Kaplan said. \u201cOverwatch wasn\u2019t designed to be a 1v1. Every hero\u2019s not balanced against every other hero.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if everybody was forced to pick from a handful of heroes, though, there\u2019d still be the issue of space. Despite how some of them might feel, Overwatch\u2019s maps are actually very small, especially compared to PUBG and Fortnite\u2019s rolling vistas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are also some technical challenges of large, open game spaces,\u201d said Kaplan. \u201cOur primary engagement distance is usually around 15 to 40 meters. The Hanamura dojo point B is 45 meters across. I don\u2019t think people realize how tiny it is. Part of what makes Fortnite and PUBG so awesome is that you can have these really long engagement distances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So battle royale is something Kaplan wants to do, given that PUBG has consumed \u201chundreds of hours\u201d of his time, but probably don\u2019t expect Overwatch to follow in Fortnite\u2019s footsteps any time in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding those systems and getting that many players\u2014I think battle royale for Overwatch starts to get into new game territory,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/kotaku.com\/an-overwatch-battle-royale-mode-would-be-tricky-to-make-1824270533<\/span><\/p>\n

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