If you want to play with only your own friends you can get your own Assault Team and join only those battles you start yourself. Each route has different challenges and the attackers can choose to attack from multiple access-points (if they succeed in conquering the adjacent battlefields in their advance). The battlefields hold up to five access-points, all leading into the objectives. The Generals choose which types of Assault Teams are attacking where and when, and as one of the Heroes players you will have a lot of variety, so two battles will never be the same. We believe that allowing the Generals to create their own strategies will create 'living games' and the most dynamic experience. Our ambition is that players will have a fun experience regardless of what and how they choose to play. How do you balance the interaction between strategy and on-the-ground action? The type and size of the Assault Teams sets the framing for the battle - sometimes you might be a foot soldier fighting against mechanized infantry and tanks and the next time it might be you sitting in that tank. As soon as two or more opposing Assault Teams meet on the campaign map, a first-person mission is created. The Campaign layer is where the Generals manoeuvre their Assault Teams around the campaign map in order to capture battlefields. So we knew we wanted to promote interaction between the campaign map and the individual battles - and so we created the Campaign layer. We all wanted something more than just a character shooting up another character in an endless map cycle, we wanted each player to feel ownership for the battles they were fighting in – and for every battle to be unique and have a unique position on the campaign map. Where the battles you fought were crucial for the overall outcome. Our very first idea was to create an action shooter where you were part of something bigger.
How do you intend to compete with best-in-genre games on two fronts? You're attempting to blend strategy and action.
It's actually pretty clever, which is why we caught up with Peter Fleckenstein, co-founder and Managing Director of developer Reto-Moto to talk stamping out cheats, balancing strategy, and Nazis on bicycles. As a General, you're creating the battle parameters for troops on the ground, including stuff like reinforcements and how many tanks either side has. The two play styles interlink, a little like EVE Online's relationship with Dust 514.
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