Warface Interview - a conversation about next gene, the future of the game and more

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Warface franchise boss Ivan Pabiarzhyn talks to Riegsgesicht about the future of Warface and the entire industry.

Since its introduction in 2013 Riegsgensicht something of an institution has become and has become for itself. It is a combination of large-scale multiplayer ego shooter struggles and a free-to-play model that has attracted millions of players. Thanks to constant updates, which the game has constantly developed and changed, it has been somehow managed to preserve its widespread popularity. And with the emergence of new technologies in the market, the future looks very interesting for all those involved - Riegsgesicht included.

In order to raise the fog in this future, we have lately been a few questions to the responsible persons of the online shooter, in which we have asked everything about the future of Riegsgesicht itself to the potential of cloud streaming, Next- Gene consoles and what they can potentially deliver, and much more. You can read our conversation with Reading Riegsgesicht Franchise boss Ivan Pabiarzhyn from Verlag My.com.

We have room to continue to enlarge, enlarge our audience and add additional resources into the development of the project.

With a game like Wariegesgeicht How do you decide when you pull a limit and maybe should work instead at a continuation? Or do you see that as something that you can continue unlimited?

Riegsgesicht is a global FPS F2P game with more than 80 million players around the world. Although I can not deny that we think about an extension Riegsgesicht universe, it's too early to talk about a continuation. Currently we are available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One - so we have room to continue to increase our audience and add additional resources into the development of the project.

What are your driving philosophies for monetization and progress in the game as a free game?

We have a diversified economic system and a very profound performance system in the game, so that players can choose and control their progress.

We have 3 currencies in the game: Warface dollars, crowns and loans. Warface Dollars is the main currency, which is earned by participating in missions for co-op, versus and special operations, depending on how successful one played in it. Crowns, a reward for good services in co-op missions, specialty inserts or battles. Rewards depend on two factors: graduation time and score. And finally loans that could either be bought with real money or earned by winning regular competitions and competitions in the game.

In addition, there are more than 1,000 different success for all types of content. Every time players join the game, they can rely on their own long-term or short-term goals and continue to track them.

Do you have plans to start the switch?

Nintendo Switch is a fascinating device. In the small chipset is so much potential, and the tricks that use the developers to transfer current full-level games to switch are quite awesome. Currently we can not announce anything for Switch, but we pursue exactly what happens on this platform.

Google spoke about how cloud-streaming can expand the multiplayer gaming potentially massively, with matches where thousands of players can play at the same time, which is a multiplayer game such as Riegesgensicht?

The idea behind Google Stadia sounds really exciting and can not only be very interesting for the players, but also for play studios and developers, as Google with Stadia may be able to increase the total number of gamers in the world by being for The attracts games those who have no consoles or high-performance PC for games for different reasons. However, there are so many details that are not clear yet, and so many factors that can affect the performance of the service that it is too early for a real discussion about it. We will see.

The transition to SSD is probably the most important improvement in the new generation consoles.

How far is such a scenario in your opinion still removed from reality?

In stadiums is a great potential. Depending on how effectively the technical solutions are implemented and how efficient Google interacts with the game companies, it can lead to rapid or progressive popularity. However, there is no doubt that this innovative service will find its place in the sun.

_ War face_ started on a 7th generation console (so after the start of the PC) and then switched to PS4 and Xbox One. Are you planning to take it even further to the next generation?

We have already begun to communicate with new hardware with the platforms. For obvious reasons, we can not yet announce any festival at this point. The engine that drives riegsgesicht, Cryengine was greatly modified by our team to ensure smooth operation on a variety of systems. If you download it and start the game, for example, on a relatively weak PC, you will be surprised how well it is.

Against this background, we definitely check what the next-generation consoles can offer us, especially with regard to improved performance and graphical playlust.

How important is it for a multiplayer game like Riegsgesicht, CrossSplay becomes the industry standard for the next generation?

We are not only looking forward to the cross-play trend and find it incredible that the industry itself helps the developers to make the gaming experience for the players even more fascinating. It is a year ago Riegsgesicht was available for PS4 and Xbox One and we have already exceeded the milestone of 13 million players worldwide, with 40% of them from the USA. We see a huge potential in the CrossSplay between PS4 and Xbox One players that will be available in Wariegesgeicht in the second quarter of next year. Our main goal is to make Riegsgesicht accessible to as many players as possible, especially considering the dynamic and rapid environment of the game.

In my opinion, it is quite logical that CrossSplay could be available in the next-generation consoles.

There was a lot about SSDs talked, which is confirmed that they work both on the PS5 and on the Xbox Series X. In your opinion, what is the biggest impact on development? __

The transition to SSD is probably the most important improvement in the consoles of the new generation. The performance of the hard disk subsystem is the closest bottleneck of the current generation. And this problem becomes more urgent with the growing trend towards open worlds in the size of ten and sometimes hundreds of square kilometers in modern game projects from year to year. In the open play worlds it is not possible to leave the entire playing card in the RAM. Developers must therefore add new objects to location for location while the player progresses. For this purpose, the developer tricks must apply in the schedule (deterioration of the details and range of drawing objects, use less unique objects on the map) and in the gameplay (restrict the maximum movement speed of a player, creation of buffer zones) on the card with a reduced number Unique objects to load the next zone with more details). Of course, developers do not like to make such compromises because they affect their games.

But SSD solves this problem. You can imagine SSD as RAM extension. Layers should be charged faster, drawing distances can be increased. It should also enable developers to get rid of such a rudiment like a charging screen and to make the game as seamlessly as possible. Fast streaming allows the creation of larger game worlds with richer locations.

Based on the information we have about this new haptic PS5 controller, we see a good potential to enrich the gaming experience to add new interaction opportunities to players to expand the horizon for the developers and thus develop the development of progressive video games. But ... I think much will depend on Sony and how it makes PS5.

Speaking of Next-Gen hardware: PS5 and Xbox Series X will both have a Zen 2-CPU. How big is the jump over the current hardware and how will he help? Development?

With the new generation of AMD processors in the PS5 / Xbox series X, the processor frequency can be increased by about 50%. For games, this means improving the quantitative parameters: detail / size of the worlds, more processing of KI characters. More important, however, is that previously unavailable effects can be created. For example, the misjudgment of a physically reliable reflection of sounds of walls that can change the genre of protect against the competition, which attracts more of the reaction rate and shot accuracy of the player at the moment, compromises in assessing the accuracy of enemy positioning by means of noise.

The Xbox series X also offers GDDR6 memory. What effects does this affect games in conjunction with the other innovations that we will see in the next generation consoles? __

The memory performance is one of the largest bottlenecks in the development of a console. GDDR6 offers a great leap in the data transfer rates between processor and RAM. This means that the CPU is less time waiting for access to data in RAM, which is likely to have a positive impact on the frame rate. With GDDR6, developers can bring more content to the screen without having to do without stable frame rates, which is great.

How do you see the HAPTIC CONTROLLER OF THE PS5? Think that it is something that can contribute much to experience, or will it only be a novelty?

Based on the information about this new haptic PS5 controller, we see a good potential to enrich the gaming experience to add new interaction opportunities to players to expand the horizon for the developers and thus promote the development of videos. But ... I think much will depend on Sony and how it makes PS5. All in all, we will definitely see interesting and unexpected solutions. We wait - it will not take a long time.