Battlefield Heroes Online Update
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Someone had spoken to me recently about a game they heard of the could do upto 64 players online in battle and Battlefield Heroes is that game. The problem is that to have that many players in a free-to-play online shooter would require a PC with high specs and that’s not what DICE or EA wants for the game.
Ben Cousins, DICE’s executive producer of the Battlefield series explains:
“We have really good 16-player matches [but] the engine supports up to 64 players and we reduced that because we want to have a sensible minimum spectrum of player and also for the servers - the servers are slightly less costly to run than previous Battlefield games.”
“Really we’d like to have huge 64-player crazy Battlefield Heroes matches but that’s not possible at the moment - that’s something that we’d look at maybe in the future, maybe we would have special access to 64-player games potentially.”
We’ll just see how things turn out after the closed Beta testing, but I suspect that this is going to be a very cool and widely played game.
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wqry says:
October 14th, 2008 at 9:38 am
a decade later and still devs are pushing games with a max of 64 players- /yawn
maybe by 2020 will see 72 players… or 68