Rebellion has promised that we'll be seeing Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer before the year is out, but there's bad news for fans of class systems. Claiming that the "purity" of the game's three species is more important, head of art Tim Jones doesn't want to muddle things up with classes.
"Our multiplayer reveal will be happening later this year," he states. "Suffice to say that you will able to play as all three species and there are some great game modes that make the most of each of their special abilities.
"We’ve looked very carefully at what has worked well and proven popular in previous games -- and what has not -- and we are focusing on making each species work as best as it can without complicating things further with class-systems. There is a beautiful purity to the three-species combat we have."
I'd just asked Rebellion myself about classes, so I guess that's buggered one of my interview questions for me. It's a shame that classes won't be on the cards, but if the combat is good enough, it shouldn't matter too much. Once you start inventing your own Alien castes, you do tend to jump the shark, even if it does lead to awesome things like Kenner's ludicrous Killer Crab Alien.
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8:21 AM on 08.12.2009
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There is always the risk that the classes will be unbalanced or some will be flat out useless.
I'd rather that the multiplayer is balanced and competitive, rather than have tacked on class system.
Still fucking excited about this game. Day one purchase for sure.
And besides, I honestly don't see how AvP cleass systems would work anyway.
They did it in the second one rather well-
Aliens:
Drone
Runner
Predalien
Praetorian
The Predator classes were broken up by weaponry as well as the humans and the Humans got an exo-suit as their heaviest class which while amazing depended on it's teammates since it lacked a motion tracker.
As well this opened up a neat game mode known as Alien Lifecycle in which alien players started out as face huggers and depending on who they impregnated determined their class.
The first AvP's non-class system actually had horrifically poor balance due to the fact that there was little reason or balance to not play as the Predator.
AvP 2 did it fairly well, hopefully they'll have some options for weapons etc, but the lack of a playable runner alien saddens me.
Retardation, that's what this is. Beautiful purity my ass.
and same goes for the other races as well, humans moreso