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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Looks To Right The Wrongs Of Its Predecessor

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Looks To Right The Wrongs Of Its Predecessor https://ift.tt/VFGJQnU Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is arriving nearly a decade after the release of the third game in the real-time strategy series, and after spending some time with an extensive preview build that covered the opening missions of two its campaigns, I’m happy to report that it seems to be a return to form after the ill-received changes in Dawn of War III. The Dawn of War series has always reinvented itself with each entry. Dawn of War II eschewed the first game’s focus on amassing large armies in favor of micro-managing smaller groups, or sometimes individual units. It removed the original's base-building mechanics, and its maps were less of an open-ended sandbox, hewing closer to being an isometric action-RPG. While these changes didn’t sit well with some players of the original Dawn of War, others found the alterations to be bold, and the game was received positively , with man...
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Building Tears Of The Kingdom From The Bones Of BotW Was Harder Than You Would Think

Building Tears Of The Kingdom From The Bones Of BotW Was Harder Than You Would Think https://ift.tt/msQrjzL

Even though The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom built off the extensive world map created for its predecessor Breath of the Wild, it wasn't as much of a development shortcut as you might think. In a GDC talk on ToTK's physics and sound systems, Zelda devs have revealed just how much had to be changed for ToTK thanks to the introduction of the game-changing Ultrahand.

As covered by Eurogamer, the talk explained that the Zelda developers went into ToTK wanting to expand on BoTW's two core concepts: the "vast and seamless Hyrule," and "multiplicative gameplay"--where physics systems create novel solutions in-game even where those solutions weren't explicitly designed for.

The expansion on multiplicative gameplay came from the introduction of the Ultrahand, which fundamentally changed the game by allowing players to combine objects with almost endless possibilities. Early in the development chain, this unsurprisingly resulted in a lot of chaos, with lead physics engineer Takahiro Takayama relating that he would often hear his team exclaiming "it broke!" or "it went flying!" to which he would say "I know--we'll deal with it later. Just focus on getting the gameplay together and trying it out."

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