The changing nature of real-time strategy gamers means that when Command & Conquer launches this fall the game’s matches may not be the same hours-long battles that long-time fans of the franchise may remember.”We’ve been noticing since the original Generals, the preferred play session has gone done from an hour plus to 30 to 45 minutes,” said Jon Van Caneghem, general manager of Command & Conquer developer Victory Games. “So we’ve changed the pacing [of Command & Conquer] to deal with that.”But fans of those victory-by-attrition, lengthy matches shouldn’t be too worried, Van Caneghem said the development team plans on giving gamers into those longer matches options to lengthen play through map design and scenario choices.Command & Conquer launches this fall as a public beta, but Van Caneghem said it will likely never see an official “retail release.” Instead, developers will continue to iterate on the free-to-play game and release patches.The benefit to that system, he said, is that it means they can do things like release a full episodic campaign post launch, without having to worry about trying to get it on a disc.The first campaign, announced earlier this week during EA’s Gamescom press conference, will focus on the… Read full this story
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