Information on The Conduit (videos and images included)

[MaxwellGT2000]

famousringo said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Just a couple of points with links coming up later but some things that were cleared up in a newer interview.

• Assuring everyone there is NO SPLITSCREEN the quote that everyone took to mean there was splitscreen was used out of context.
• With their engine and grpahics pushing the Wii like it is splitscreen is impossible as it's too taxing on the power of the Wii, which could hurt chances of splitscreen in The Conduit 2.
• The lead designer contradicted the original word about the Quantum 3 engine, which stated the engine would be licensed out as middleware and would help developers with graphics, the lead designer stated "we're no middleware company and have no plans to license out the engine at this time"  though they have said people have contacted them to license the engine.  Hopefully that may be a miscommunication with different parts of the studio or just his opinion cause that would be a great help to Wii development for third parties and a way to help kill shovelware.

 

It should be possible for them to make Conduit (or Conduit 2) have splitscreen. They just have to make their engine scaleable so that they can drop down the detail.

But because they have limited time and manpower, they're focusing their tech development on getting as much detail out of the hardware as they can, rather than developing scaleability for splitscreen. It's just a question of priorities.

So if Conduit sells well and people keep clamoring for splitscreen, I think we might see it in Conduit 2.

 

That's true, really hope they are able to scale it for splitscreen, but in the interview they basically said it 100% wouldn't happen in this game, but if they do like they did with this game with the Conduit 2 then they might just try to get more out of the Wii graphically again and not focus on scaling the engine again... it's just a thought but it doesn't seem to be a focus of theirs, and personally wireless lan > splitscreen anyway, the only thing I really could want splitscreen is for team deathmatch with wireless lan, say 2 vs 2 on a small map have 2 TVs and both teams get their own and can help each other more.