Thread by @Brammertron

Thread time: OK,it's been a while.. We've been pretty quiet for a myriad of reasons. Straight off the bat it's important that you acknowledge that I can basically only discuss 20% of what we're doing.. The rest is subject to other companies NDA's and on-going discussions.

Our team have been prototyping PROMOD (amongst other things) for the best part of 18 months. We're all a little fatigued at this point and want to get on with releasing something! Jumper & Killrun were huge for our team morale.

It's been exciting working on a game we're really passionate about. We're at the point where we're messing about with different levels AND... different game modes. Don't worry- it's all part of our process, as we've said before everything is on the table. We are prototyping..

Fixing legacy issues that have been around since Battalion takes time. This may look like something simple but remember CS only fixed it 2 years ago. This kinda stuff is slow and boring.. It's hardly got the sex appeal of a new weapon.. But if you know you know- this is cool!

We challenged ourselves to respectfully ignore the hardcore PROMOD community- (including ourselves).. Let's figure out how we could evolve PROMOD and improve COD4 Promod. We've probably gone further than we imaged, but it's lead us to some great conclusions. Let me share.

We forced ourselves to play BO:Cold War League Play. Obviously is has a large console audience. We actually ended up enjoying it a lot, it was faster and still gave some of those Promod vibes. But it's still very 'slot machine shooter'.. But we were interested in multiple modes

We quite liked that modes were determined by the map, similar to Overwatch. Designing maps specifically for ONE mode function. We noticed more people in the studio were enjoying the playtests (naturally) as we introduced respawn modes. This was interesting...

Reaching a wider audience has to be a goal for us. Take a look at this clip, I'll get in trubz for this... Yeh.. we're fucking about with trophy systems. Grenades make Promod good, but people also HATE dying to sky nukes.. So we made a slow build solution to it. We're prototyping

*EAR WARNING*..

For us competitive games are about hubris, it's great to have this attitude back in the playtest room. It's loud, its active, it's rough, and it's 'fucking sick' to quote @HowardPhilpott.. We're on to something, but it's still a prototype.

The message is we're still trying stuff. Don't be afraid. I'd completely understand what you might think when you see "HARDPOINT".. What you don't see is.. we might really hate it. We might think ideas are complete trash. It's a prototype, most ideas start as a bad idea and morph

Fireups (Ultimates).. We wanted to juice up PROMOD. Make everything feel awesome so we committed to a "no balancing" design rule. Every fireup we made, we made overpowered. Let me post a few below for you to panic at. We've had A LOT of fun with them, but would never release them

This is called 'blink'. It was made in about 30 minutes? We just threw it together.. it's still in, it's still fun, but it doesn't feel like PROMOD. But we're still trying to find the fun and challenge ourselves in this prototype. Credit to @AshDavDev

Obviously it's not a hero shooter, communicating what happens to you is a big challenge. One we haven't solved. But here's how our dash & blink look in third person.

Combing this with strafe, bounce jump, and slide.. Feels better than COD4 and Warzone.

Like I said, we're just trying things.. This is probably further than we wanted to go for PROMOD. But instead of assuming things we tested. We proved ourselves right and wrong and changed opinions. We argue, debate, discuss and have healthy conflict. PROMOD will be better for it

We want to make a great game. Our team morale has been better than ever, we're a tight knit group that wants to make an impact. Every Friday... we hit this hard drive containing these games with a sledgehammer.. Dev of the week.

Keep following our progress, we may start some private closed door testing soon. No idea what the format of that will be, just keep involved, join discord, and hit up @rekabnoraa with your Q's. Thanks for your support.

Disclaimer, this was a long one- a few videos might not have uploaded and I need to go do work, if there are gaps.. I apologize, you've got enough spice from me today.