Hopefully you caught the news yesterday that Resistance 3 has gone gold! We also debuted our new story-centric campaign trailer. You may also know that the Resistance 3 Multiplayer Beta early access has begun for owners of specially marked copies of SOCOM 4. We’re still very much in beta mode, with regards to fixes (especially for matchmaking to address the freezes and disconnects), so please keep reporting what you see. We hope to have a patch soon that will address many of these issues, but in the meantime, thanks for bearing with us.
In the spirit of the multiplayer beta, our new behind-the-scenes development diary discusses our inspirations in developing Resistance 3’s multiplayer philosophy, from play modes and weapons to special abilities. Hopefully you’ve caught our previous entries in the dev diary series, but if not, you can catch up here, here and here.
We hope you enjoyed this week’s developer diary. It’s been a fantastic collaboration between us and the PlayStation.Blog team, and we’re really excited to show you the last couple as we get closer to launch on 09.06.11. We hope you’ve got your pre-order ready! Until then, we’ll see you on the beta!
I buy all my games new, but I’m not buying this one at all. I want to play with ANYONE who owns this game, not just those who bought it new, or paid $10 for a pass.
@1 It’s to help the developers to make sure they get the sales they deserve. If you want to properly support a developer, then you’d buy a game new. Buying a game used just hurts them.
On-topic: I’m loving the game A LOT so far, I love the way you guys went back to the roots of Fall of Man which was an amazing MP experience.
Now, besides a few game-breaking bugs during the BETA (random timeouts and matchmaking issues), the game is a fantastic experience and I look forward to fragging some people on release day. :)
Looks great. I think it’d be better if I got to get a beta code :(
Anyway, I loved R2’s MP (put 100’s of hours into it with my Heaven’ySnipesx account) and I look forward to R3. Are there going to be a variety of skins for MP? Any maps returning from R2 or R:FOM?
Epic. 1 more month.
CAN’T WAIT
James the beta is great (thanks so much, got the code from twitter), and obviously you guys know about all the freezes and lag and glitches and stuff. The only big gameplay thing I would recommend tweaking is the shotgun. There’s just soooo many people using it, and if there is a team of 3 or 4 high levels with shotguns I’m screwed. Please make the damage way less and/or reduce the range A LOT. One guy killed me with one shot when I was barely weakened even though we were across the whole hangar in the Trainyard.
I don’t care about the pass and stuff. As long as the game is awesome, I’ll buy it. Plus you have to support these developers guys. If you buy used you’re just saying screw you to the development team. Buy the game new for the developers, the people making and designing the game. It’s not about Sony it’s about supporting these guys. Plus it’s only like $5-15ish dollars cheaper most of the time.
Wow. I just went from not caring to extremely interested. May have to pick this up over MW3 and BF3.
I really love the whole concept of negative attributes. That should make for some interesting loadouts.
If would be really nice if I can actually get into a game in the BETA. I just sit there in the lobby waiting for people to come in, and NOTHING!!!
In conclusion the BETA is BROKEN, please fix it SOON!
The matchmaking is broken right now, and it’s unacceptable. We are working hard to fix it, and you ask us to bear with us, as this is indeed why we have betas. We’re doing our best to bring the experience to folks expectations