One of the other challenges is making sure that PC players with a mouse and keyboard are fairly balanced against players with controllers. If you’re going to ban a player, are you going to ban them on all platforms or just one of them? All of these nuances across the platforms take time to learn, Sivak said. Another platform might have terms of service restrictions on in-game purchases. Sony has a hard time with the word “Xbox” appearing in its store in some way.
But it knows for sure that it won’t be there on day one.Įach platform owner has different rules. If Proletariat did pull back on one area, it’s on mobile, as the company hasn’t yet decided whether to work on iOS or Android. On top of that, you need to manage all the different platforms as far as what’s showing and what’s not showing and then basically build a friend system that allows for people to connect their accounts and have a large-scale shared friends list.” That paved the way for Proletariat and other companies like Phoenix Labs (with Dauntless) to follow suit.Īs for the challenges of cross-progression, Sivak said, “One piece is just that you have to build your own account system basically, although there are some that are starting to become available like one that Epic has now through Epic Online Services. When the team chose to do cross-platform play, Epic Games hadn’t yet made history by shipping a version of Fortnite with crossplay on multiple platforms. But Proletariat has been around as an indie studio since 2012, and it has made games such as World Zomination, Streamline, and StreamLegends. It would be hard for a startup to tackle these tasks. It’s in a closed beta, and it should hit the Epic Games Store later this year. Right now, it supports 42 players fighting at once, and they can level up their characters in the middle of a match. The art style is like a painterly cel-shaded cartoon with a third-person view, Sivak said. Lots of battlemages will enter a match in the Hollow Lands, but only one squad or one player will emerge as the victor. In Spellbreak, players fight each other with magical combat and spellcasting. Players will also be able to use their account to easily find friends and create cross-platform squads. Sivak recently announced that players will be able to create a Spellbreak account and access it on any supported platform to maintain their game progression, customizations, and stats.
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