The Blacklight development team is back with another video to follow their dev diary video series. Before, they just showed off their own excitement, and talked about the technology and art behind the game. This time, they talk about my personal favorite improvement to the game: customization.
It's something I talked about a little bit in my preview of the first phase of the closed beta. The customization is really all that and a bag of chips. They video details many of the big aspects, but yet, there was still a lot more not covered, such as voice packs, titles, and emblems. It makes the customization in other similar shooters like Call of Duty -- or even Battlefield -- look limited and antiquated by comparison.
The move to a free-to-play model certainly seems to have allowed the developers a great deal of freedom to experiment with the game's various mechanics. It is currently in closed beta, and interested persons can apply to check it out over at the Blacklight website.
Reminds me of Brink in all the right ways. Freeform classes could be a problem in teamwork, but experienced players should be able to guess what weapons/abilities their teammates/opponents have equipped. Let's hope the depth doesn't chase away people.
Loved the first game, but sadly got it after the population died down. Got into the beta for this and it feels really similiar, in a very good sort of way. Though the changes to things such as weapons, armor and such are really neat! SO MUCH CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS!!!
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I am not liking the "free to play" model of this game so far in the beta...I would like to permanently own the things I unlock, not rent them. Hoping for this to change because it's a pretty sick game other than that.
I'm really impressed with some of the free to play games lately. This, Tribes, and World of Tanks are all worth playing!
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9:30 PM on 12.09.2011 | 
I'm really impressed with some of the free to play games lately. This, Tribes, and World of Tanks are all worth playing!