Telltale’s Batman local multiplayer designed for up to 12 players, not 2000
"For now, leave the larger groups to us."
Telltale’s
narrative-led slant on Batman arrives
tomorrow, bringing with it Crowd Play—a new local multiplayer feature the
Californian developer hopes will turn its games “into an event that you host at
your home”. Starting tomorrow, it wasrevealed last week that the feature will appear in all of
Telltale’s forthcoming games, however won’t support 2,000 players as first
thought.
Instead,
between four and 12 players can huddle round the same screen and directly vote
on game choices using their own devices, in turn “tailoring the story" as they
play together. Phones are likely the best method of input, reckons Telltale,
however laptops and desktops are also viable options.
“By
default, the crowd decides: the choice with the most votes is selected,” reads
an updated blog post on the Telltale site. “[Crowd Play] is
designed for everyone to be watching the same screen, at the same time, in the
same room and works best with 4-12 people. Technically, it can support thousands
of players, but they still need to be watching the same screen at the same time.
This is mind blowing in a theatre full of fans, but we don’t expect you can fit
2000 of your closest friends in your living room so we've designed everything
for smaller groups.”
Telltale
suggests players should leave larger group sizes to it, hinting at “special
events” in the future aimed at bigger crowds. Interestingly, Crowd Play isn’t
designed for streaming at this point—something it, on the face of things, seems
cut out for.
The
post continues: “Crowd Play is not a feature intended for use over streaming
services. There is latency introduced by services such as Twitch. This means
that everyone isn't seeing that game at the exact same time, which means that
everyone doesn’t see the choices at the same time.
“We
are working closely with all the streaming services to address this problem, but
it certainly won’t be ideal for streaming out of the box. For now, everyone
needs to be in the same room, watching the same screen.”
Batman—The
Telltale Series launches its first episode tomorrow. Until then, check out Samuel’s early impressions. You might also be interested in this, the
first episode of Batman: Unmasked—an official series that plans to discuss
episodes as they happen:
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