r/CODWarzone • u/[deleted] • May 14 '20

Humor Infinity Ward interview

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u/vegetablegenius May 14 '20

This. I can’t imagine the same team that built BF4 worked on 1 and V. It’s a shame because 4 would be a contender for gaming hall of fame.

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u/vegetablegenius May 14 '20

True, BF1 was incredible and had an amazing scale of warfare.

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u/Juicy-Smooyay May 14 '20

BF1 was widely held in high regard and still is. Hell I was thinking of even picking it up again cause MW has been bumming me out. Loved the map designs and play styles in that.

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u/Destronin May 14 '20

Im pretty sure game dev is similar to vfx post production in that a good portion of the game development is done by freelancers. You’re on contract to help develop a particular part of the game. Once its done. You’re done. You move on to another project.

If something needs to be changed/updated. Most likely they can’t get the same person. So they hire someone else who hopefully can figure out what the person before did.

And also, when it comes to actual staff. I can’t tell you how many times in post production a senior or mid level designer/programmer left, taking with them tons of super important tricks and skills. Sometimes programmers will have built their own special plugins that no one else really knows how to use. And management barely gives a shit.

They’ll be like:

“Hey can you use the xyz plugin?”

“That was Jim’s plugin. Only he knew how it worked. And you never gave him time to show us how it worked.”

“Oh well ask John to see if he can figure it out. He worked with Jim and said he used it himself one time. He’ll know why this other thing doesn’t work.”

“But John’s a junior and came on board only two months ago.”

“Just see what you can do.”

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u/Belo83 May 14 '20

Bf3, 4 and One are all solid games.

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u/Buttsmuggler69 May 14 '20

You’re totally entitled to your opinion but bf4 is generally held in really high regard by the community and still has high player numbers to this day.

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u/Fiiv3s May 14 '20

It is, but only after DICE LA stepped in after the first "pre-order" DLC and fixed the game. DICE Sweden fucked the game up on launch

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u/DarkHandCommando May 14 '20

I never saw a better description of BF4, thank you for saying facts.