“The crucial difference between Squads Mode and normal Fall Guys,” explains lead game designer Joe Walsh, “is that elimination does not completely remove you from the game. You are only eliminated if your entire group performs poorly in a given round. We We’re all in the situation where our teammate is eliminated in the first round and they have to sit there and watch you compete. And there is this pressure to be like ‘Well, maybe we should all just go back and go to the main menu go and try again. “This allows you to basically all act as a team.”
Squads mode will set up a points system for most rounds of the game. In race rounds, players are scored, depending on which position they cross the finish line, with the teams with the lowest points eliminated overall after all players have finished. Survival rounds give players a point for every second they survive, which in turn eliminates the teams with the lowest points.
Fall Guys’ developers are very excited about how this could change the strategies for playing some rounds. Walsh gives us an example: “If one of your players in your group manages to tie Perfect Match and it’s the first person to fall off, you essentially know that if you do not eliminate other people, you will to be eliminated, because you’re tied up for the rest of the round, so it’s really interesting, because then your team has to go on the offensive and try to eliminate other people, if you can push two players from another group off the side, “Suddenly you’ll earn more points, so it’s going to be really interesting to see how it develops over time.”
Final round is perhaps the most interesting – it will still give the victory to the last player standing, or the first to cross a line, but the victory now goes to an entire team. It obviously encourages teams to work together to get one player at the end of the round: “So,” Walsh says with a grin, “if there are three of you against two other players, and you have strong presence in Hex- disappears, maybe it’s worth it for two of you to just sabotage there, basically throw yourself and grab other people to their doom. ‘
The team element also means that some normal Fall Guys rounds have been converted into tense final rounds. Fall Ball, for example, now pits two teams against each other in a big soccer match final. “Season 4 will actually have three times as many final rounds as any other mode,” says Walsh, “which is really going to be a lot of fun. “I think it’s going to be a very interesting thing to do. It’s something we’ve always wanted to do.”The mode changes the complexion of Fall Guys, but it should not change its economy too much. Speaking of which, Mediatonic has not made a final decision on how the mode would reward winners, but since it is theoretically easier to win the game, Walsh says the rewards should be ‘slightly less’ than the main game. Crown Shards system.
However, one thing that will definitely be easier is the most famous hardest achievement and trophy from Fall Guys. ‘Infallible’ asks you to win five full episodes of Fall Guys in a row. And yes, Squads wins will add up to that – ‘In theory, we made it four times as easy for people to win the trophy’, says Walsh. “I said in an interview six months ago, ‘We’ll make it easier for players to get that trophy over time. ‘And that’s the future I’m talking about. So we are finally there. ‘
Fall Guys Season 4 has a science fiction theme and begins on Monday, March 22nd. It will also bring among our costumes with mysterious, unique features.
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