time. Everything is very systemic. Anything that we see lot of people engaging with, there’s a system in place that you can build on. The biggest thing Warframe learned very early on was that hand tailoring levels is not a good idea. It has to be something that’s procedural, so that the content can be infinite if it needs to be.”
MAKE IT YOURS While it’s tempting to think of Wayfinder as just another online fantasy game about loot and missions, it has also been described as a character-based online action-RPG. Those Joe Madureira flavour characters (each with a unique backstory and end goal) will certainly be a draw to those familiar with his work, and Wayfinder’s players will also be able to customise them and make their own choices about their looks and loadouts, as is a staple of the best games of the genre. “You have three starter characters, and many more
will follow,” says Browne. “There will be very few characters that look the same in the game world, as you can customize them too. That’s a key part of games as a service. You want to make it yours. Each of the characters that you can pick has different abilities and attributes. You can have any weapon on any character, so you can adapt them to your play style as well. So it’s really about molding the game around how you want to play.” Wayfinder’s focus on PvE design and an online
multiplayer world might threaten to scare the single player gamers away from Evenor, but Browne tells us that players don’t have to worry about being forced to interact with others if they’d rather not. “You can play the entire game single player,” Browne
assures us. “When you go into the open world areas there will be other players running around that you can choose to play with or ignore. When you go into the dungeons and the runs, then you can either do it solo, or you can do it with other players. It’s very much best played with friends. You can group up and just play through the whole thing.” Wayfinder will be available on the PC, Xbox and
Playstation, and thanks to lessons learned from competing games like Fortnite and Final Fantasy XIV, as well as updates to Digital Extremes’ flagship title Warframe, you won’t have to convince that one friend that likes playing on another platform to buy any new hardware to get involved. This is welcome news, considering Warframe took a while to add cross-play and is still awaiting its cross-save update, much to the chagrin of players. “We are targeting cross-play and cross-save at launch.”
explains Browne. “That’s something that we learned from Warframe too. You can just take it with you, go wherever you want, and just play it.”
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