Vi fick nyligen chansen att sätta oss ned för en pratstund med Nick Cooper, producent för kommande Transformers Universe, och fick veta vilka planer Jagex har för Hasbros alltid lika populära robotar. Vi pratade även om hur de tänker kring free to play och hur de ska sköta balansen mellan hardcare-spelare och sådana som är helt nya.
Cooper berättade bland annat hur man gått till väga när man designat robotarna, detta med tanke på att några av designats exklusivt för spelet ifråga:
"Actually being able to create these guys, they're not just automatons, they're not just something that you pick that hasn't got any personality. These guys have all got their own separate [voice-overs], backstories, and really have got some serious personality. And we've been working really hard with Hasbro on that. Working on these guys and actually adding to Transformers lore is a big, big deal for us. For everybody on the team it's very cool."
De som bara är Transformer-fans och inte huvudsakligen gamers kommer också att kunna ha kul med spelet. Cooper utvecklar och förklarar hur man tänkt:
"For players that are new, and new to gaming, that just want Transformers, they'll get that. They'll come in and then obviously the skill separation system just means that you're not going to be fighting the people that have been playing it for a year. If you've just started playing you're coming in and you're hitting people that are at the same level of skill that you are. So if you're just bumbling around, shooting at walls and things, you're going to be playing people at the same level and the same type of enjoyment level that you want to be playing at. Hopefully that will give everybody what they're looking for."
Allt detta och mycket mer i intervjun nedan.
