Developers Discuss Changes to AC: Revelations' Multiplayer

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I really enjoyed Brotherhoods multiplayer when it was working correctly. Hopefully they've solved all the connection issues.

I always found AC multiplayer fun to watch other people play but it was too frustrating to actually play

Wait, wouldn't the customisation make it easier for other players to spot their target? Or do the NPCs' appearance reflect those of the player's characters? Also, that Animus 2.0 chair looks freaking awesome I want one.

14,000,000+ deaths holy chet! And to think my numbers are in there somewhere.

Woaw, I really laughed at that 'beta/beta/beta'' discussion out of the blue, damn.

@probablytuna: I was thinking the exact same thing. They have to have randomized NPCs with the different customization options or else it will be too easy.

Also I would like to see how many deaths have happened on a game like Call of Duty.

Oh those French Canadians and their pronunciations.

@probablytuna said:

Wait, wouldn't the customisation make it easier for other players to spot their target? Or do the NPCs' appearance reflect those of the player's characters? Also, that Animus 2.0 chair looks freaking awesome I want one.

At least in AC:B, the crowd was made up of clones of all the player's characters. You could unlock different color schemes, etc... and if you were using one, so were all the NPCs for that model during the round.

Is that the new Jade Raymond?

@Lebensbaum said:

Is that the new Jade Raymond?

Looks like it!

I did love the AC:B multiplayer, but sadly it became impossible to get into games after a while.

I still have to beat 2. Picked it up on PS3 for $10 and only played an hour. Wondering if I should skip Brotherhood and just jump right into Revelations.

I found it hard to get friends into the AC:B multiplayer because it's so unfriendly to newbies.

Veteran players got all sorts of great abilities (Mute and smokebomb!), and improved versions of abilities (fast reloading, for example) that if you're a latecomer it was really hard to get into a 'fair' fight. It was kinda of a slog to get people up to the level where they could compete alongside you.

@msavo: Brotherhood is way better than 2 in terms of gameplay... and probably story as well. I recommend it.

In French, "beta" is pronounced "b-eh-tah", which is different from the English prononciation, hence why the confusion on her part.

"Bee-tah"

QED.

i have a feeling im gona be pretty broke on the 15th of November.

"Bee-tah"

QED.

I don't understand what the big debate is... these days, everyone pronounces it DE - MO

I loved Brotherhood's multiplayer to death, but never felt like I played it enough because of Bad Company 2. Now this one's coming out behind Battlefield 3, Gears 3, and Uncharted 3. Bad timing for my social life I guess

Does the matchmaking actually work this time?

BeeTAH!

I say betah! Damn american words

@bcjohnnie: +++

@SSully: Found an article that had an images of stats for Black Ops deaths posted in feb 2011, and it showed 60 billion kills total. So add that up till now, and you have a crazy bananas number.

Wife Beatuh

@snetErz said:

@SSully: Found an article that had an images of stats for Black Ops deaths posted in feb 2011, and it showed 60 billion kills total. So add that up till now, and you have a crazy bananas number.

By now every person who has ever lived and will ever live have been murdered in Black Ops. Pets too.

Beta rhymes with data. Just listen to Still Alive.

Lets hope netcode is better this time around.

I dug the Brotherhood multiplayer a whole lot.

i liked brotherhood multiplayer a lot, very unique, but it needed some more depth. this seems to have added that. im hype

I found it hard to get friends into the AC:B multiplayer because it's so unfriendly to newbies.

Veteran players got all sorts of great abilities (Mute and smokebomb!), and improved versions of abilities (fast reloading, for example) that if you're a latecomer it was really hard to get into a 'fair' fight. It was kinda of a slog to get people up to the level where they could compete alongside you.

I'm all for more customization options. Can't wait! -Bart Scott 3:16

Ooh visual customization this time around, nifty. If theirs also more modes this time might actually play it for more than a couple weeks.

@spookybarn said:

@probablytuna said:

Wait, wouldn't the customisation make it easier for other players to spot their target? Or do the NPCs' appearance reflect those of the player's characters? Also, that Animus 2.0 chair looks freaking awesome I want one.

At least in AC:B, the crowd was made up of clones of all the player's characters. You could unlock different color schemes, etc... and if you were using one, so were all the NPCs for that model during the round.

Well that makes sense then.

Looks like they are adding some neat new features.

@Lazyaza said:

Ooh visual customization this time around, nifty. If theirs also more modes this time might actually play it for more than a couple weeks.

There were quite a lot of modes in Brotherhood, I'd say. I know they were not all there on launch day but that's nothing negative in my book. It was an incentive to pick it back up when those (free!) patches came out (excluding Assassinate and Escort, which were part of the Da Vinci DLC).

Wanted (+Advanced Wanted),Assassinate,Alliance (+Advanced Alliance),Manhunt,Chest Capture, Escort

In my opinion, 6 modes (plus 2 variations) are not too shabby. Depending on if all those modes return, there are already more since this time they added some sort of capture-the-flag variant (which was a lot of fun during the Beta). Wikipedia just told me, there is also a straight up Deathmatch mode and story-oriented missions in the Revelations multiplayer.

@bcjohnnie said:

I don't understand what the big debate is... these days, everyone pronounces it DE - MO

A thousand times this.

oh ubisoft and your cute girl spokeswomen. that company reminds me of cameron frye's house.

Non Jade Raymond... meh.

I'm British so naturally I'm anti-French.

Never really got into Brotherhood multiplayer maybe I will give it another try.