Arkane Studios Working On The Crossing

Randomly hooked up coop is my guess

Remember when almost every game was coop? Yeah, it was called
"two player."

I'm always happy to see this feature supported. Thank you, Epic. Thank you, Ubisoft. Thank you, Croteam. Thank you, Irrational - PLEASE include coop in Bioshock... I'm certain that support for this feature is too late if it isn't included now, but you'd be doing a MASSIVE service to all of your SS2 fans.

Ok...from what I was able to decipher(on my own) for "crossplayer" is simply a game that is designed from the ground up with coop mode in mind. All "normal" single player features, storyline, etc. will be capable of being played with more than one person. Think System Shock 2, Serious Sam series, Splinter Cell(the new one...didn't play it, but I know it has somewhat integrated coop) only with much more integrated coop, and where you are actually recognized as a separate person, and not a clone of the first(talking to only one person, even though 2 are present, as if both were the exact same person, and didnt have separate identities).

that make sense to anyone besides myself?

I guess it would be somewhat proper to say "gears of wars for the PC" type game. Coop has been lacking in so many games for the PC. All you see is deathmatch, CTF, Invasion, etc. but rarely coop through the single player campaign with more than one person.

Well if it'll be anything like Dark Messiah's multiplayer, it'll suck. :(

so it's basically a multiplayer game.

I wonder if they'll manage to release the dark messiah sdk before this new game launches.

If you listen to the latest GFW podcast, Sean Eliott covers what the game is about in pretty decent detail.

Jesus wouldn't approve of this game.

My guess is that it's a single player/co-op game with enemy AI defined by how players in other games play. That is, each time anyone plays the game, the computer watches your actions, weapon choices, skill, pathing etc, and AI logic is created based on that and uploaded to a server which is then downloaded to everyone the next time they play. So the game would always change because players would adapt to the AI generated from how gamers played the previous day, and that would effect the next round of AI patterns, etc.

My second guess is a bit more mundane. You have your basic player vs. player split of teams, only one team plays 'the bad guys'. That is, heavily nerfed opponents that take the place of AI entirely, but for the other team, the game plays like a co-op game vs. bots. Only now it's really smart (or depending on the player) really dumb bots. The 'bad guys' have the advantage of a finite but large number of respawns, the good guys have the single player advantage of 10x the enemy health.

I hope it'll be a quest system like WoW with gameplay like CS. So a guy tells you to infiltrate a building and steal some plans. Another team or NPCs have a task of keeping you from doing that. But unlike CS where it's one level and you are done this game would be in a world like GTA where tons of people could be questing at the same time. Then again it'll probably be nothing like this. Just me hoping.

What happened to them working on Arx Fatalis 2? They started working on projects that will actually make money?

it's taking the idea of co op to the next stage with out turning it into an MMO

Odd, I was just on their forum yesterday giving them back-patting for DM

... and wishing for Arx 2 :P

Wonder what this is