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Recently, the topic of free roam police is very hot on game forum.I'm also wondering why game designers make such a decision.Is the program performance optimization causing this feature to be canceled?After all, the police have always been a key feature in Need for Speed, and people will naturally feel surprised.
The choice is actually reasonable in some aspects.
For example, in Need for Speed Rivals, if I choose to play as racer, then when roaming around the world, will inevitably be interrupted by police pursuit.When heat level is high, the basic option is to get back to the garage.Because Need for Speed Rivals has a risk and reward mechanism, so it is necessary to raise the difficulty of police.
In Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012 and Need for Speed 2015,the difficulty of police is relatively simple.As long as players do not deliberate challenge the police, it is very easy to escape the pursuit.But it also makes people complain that the police are too weak.
Some people will also mention earlier works like Most Wanted 2005 and Carbon.Because in these works, the player will not be wrecked, and the police will be more skillful.
Because times have changed, games in the past focus more on single player and offline experiences.The map is not big, and there are not too many explorations elements.And now games put more emphasis on the online multiplayer experience.And the game map is much larger than before. More and more players want to explore in the open world, race with friends,take pictures, enjoy the scenery, rather than being suddenly joined a police chase.Even if players wants to play the police chase, the moment of starting pursuit is decided by the player himself.
For this group of the players, the presence of free roam police will affect the game experience.
Then developers face a dilemma. Bait Crate is a solution offered by Ghost Games.
For those who do not like police pursuit, just ignore Bait Crate.
For those who like police pursuit, through Bait Crate can also experience the pleasure of chasing.
But some people think this is not natural, and feel the police appear too deliberately.Bait Crate is similar to Hot Pursuit, which is a pre-set script that may become tedious.
Because Bait Crate has only one gameplay video, I am not sure if it's well designed.But its patterns are similar to Hot Pursuit, Ghost games should have a lot of experience in this area.So I'm still looking forward to police chase experience in Payback.
No game meets all the needs of everyone.The process of making a game is the process of making a choice.At this point, I support Ghost Games.Even assuming that Bait Crate is not very successful in the future, people can also provide feedback rather than simple criticism. It's only about one months away from the game release, and it's impossible to make any big changes.Even if the future update will add the elements of free roam police, that is another story.
During E3 show, many people feedback the wreck animation will affect the game experience.The game developers listened to people's advice and provided the option.
Because the people's needs are often wavering.Developers need to find the real needs from the actual game feedback.For example,people used to think that through the gas station can repair the car is unnatural.In early version of Need for Speed 2015, gas station removed this feature.But people began to complain that car can not be repaired. Driving a broken car in the street is ugly.Ghost games listened to player's feedback. In the follow-up update, the feature of repairing cars has come back.
Ghost games are not lacking clever minds, and I believe they can balance this feature well.
@CM_dnegative I can see where you are coming from. You are also right, Ghost listens to players, which is the awesome thing about Ghost Games. I just hope they will include free roam cops in a future update/expansion.
- 8 years agoMe myself i like cop chases but i also understand that newbies maybe not why not make a on and off option just like you did with crashcam but then for freeroam pursuit
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