Matrix MMORPG

An anonymous reader writes "As linked to in this post, Matrix: Online has been announced. The official site for the game describes it as a MMORPG of epic proportions as people will get to feel what it's like to be a part of the matrix realm. Although the details list lots of interesting information, the most important piece I found was in the FAQ section... where they state that the game takes place after Matrix Revolutions... Are they trying to hint at something?"

Comments

Bullet lag?

[Komarosu]

Brings up alot of implementation questions...say bullet time? (thats if there gonna include it). with MMORPG u usually need to keep sync with whats going on around u, bullet time will slow u down and obviously summat ur fighting.

Solutions are: 1. Slow the entire server down too, or 2. try to squeeze all the action into the small timeframe but render it slow on the client, this could possibly create artifical lag for everyone else or a huge catchup situation (aka. lag) for the player.

Of course this is IF they implement it :)

In a fewer words: it will be interesting how they can bring the matrix universe alive while still keeping some of its ethos :)

Interesting point

[samael]

It's set after Matrix Revolutions. Which indicates that there will still be a Matrix then....

Re:Interesting point

[bob_jordan]

I have been saying this for a while. You can't just overthrow the machines and have millions of people suddenly wake up. How do you clothe, house and feed them.

I am sure that at the end of the trilogy, there will still be a matrix in place, they may just be either starting to wake people up a few at a time or starting to put people back in.

If they are taking them out, then it will take a long time. This could be where the game is set.

Bob.

Lets say 0.0001% of ppl are freed from the matrix:

[bmnc]

Then out of the ~10000 ppl who buy subscriptions, only ONE will get cool kungfu powers and everyone else gets to play a game which is every bit as mundane as real life in the '90s! I bags being Mr. Anderson before Trinity finds him! Incidentally, there won't be bullet time clashes either. =P

Re:This game raises a few questions

[cgenman]

Four, how will a squad-based 5-good-guys-against-the-world movie translate into an individualistic 20 million good guys against the 3 agents game? A large part of the ambiance of the Matrix came from the sense of isolation. What happens when there are so many people that you want to move to a different server? Hopefully they will take a cue from PSO and make it a squad-based MMPORPG that isn't really MMP.

Five, what will the player do to level up? How many innocents must you kill to get superman flight? Experience is obviously earned by fighting, but I would question the "richness" of the Matrix world as it currently stands to support a sufficiently large variety of expendable mook cows. Another run down the casino to kill guards? Or at the bank to kill... guards?

Six, is there sufficient variety in a dirty city to keep the game visually interesting? Two hours staring at subways and dirty apartments isn't that taxing, but two months? I already live in a dirty apartment. Does The Matrix provide enough potential set pieces to keep people visually stimulated? Or will that subtle shade of green drive everyone nuts.

On Bullet Time

[Hellbuny]

Has anyone here ever played Giants: Citizens Kabuto? Remember the reaper Spell which slowed down time in a limited area, akin to a bubble that appeared, I imagine something similar to this for bullet time.

People outside of it would move normal time, while the person on the inside gets to move around and avoid all those nasty bullets once they enter into the sphere of bullet time.. You just create an area where incoming projectiles are slowed for anyone who is using the power.. There would be more to think about like outgoing projectiles, but I imagine firing off 10 shots in slow mode and them suddenly coming out in rapid sucession would work..

Hand to hand fighting.. I imagine a similar situation, where unless you are activating your Focus (ala enter the matrix) you are slowed down and if you are, you remain same speed..

Bullettime

[Necromancyr]

One way to do this, albeit 'cheesily' is that you use 'bullet-time' to do certain attack moves, etc. Basically you hit the bullet time button and kick and jump and you do a crane kick, if you know how to. It's all done in real time so you actually have to be rather fast to do it. Bullet dodging would just be another button to hit to dodge once someone started firing.

I guess my point is they don't HAVE to have everything slow down to do 'bullet time' type effects. Though many, MANY people will be pissed if they don't.