Sunday, April 14, 2013

Infantry only.

I had someone ask me today why there won't be any vehicles in NovaWolf. The answer is simple: they make games suck if you don't do them right.  The reason is that they're usually vastly overpowered compared to the guys on the ground, especially in WW2.  Ever seen someone take on a tank with just one guy? Sure, it happened with those sock bombs from Saving Private Ryan, but the reality was far different.  The game reality is far different too.  Sure, you have things like UT3 Vehicle CTF and Quake Wars, but that's the future, when you have an array of overpowered fusion based weapons capable of reducing everything to slag. The average Fritz in the Wehrmacht in 1944 only had his Panzerfaust and a clandestine bottle of Schnapps for courage (if he wasn't in some elite anti-tank battalion). Unless I made the Panzerfaust hugely overpowered for vehicles it just wouldn't go. Also, there's what I like to call the "cyclops syndrome" from Quake Wars, where you get that one guy in the ultra heavy armor sitting in the spot that nobody can reach with artillery blasting every single spawn.  I don't want that, and neither do most people. So, say it with me, with pride: "infantry only."

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