Nightdive Studios’ The Factor: Remastered will obtain new particulars on the PC Gaming Present: Most Wished subsequent week. Nevertheless, in an interview with Syfy Wire, Mark Atkinson, the unique recreation’s director, revealed a large high quality of life change: No extra scripted infections for NPCs.
In The Factor, NPCs could possibly be contaminated, resulting in them “bursting out” and turning into monstrous creatures. Nevertheless, even when you protected them throughout battles, they might nonetheless burst out in an infection as a part of scripted sequences.
“Scripted burst-outs of beforehand uninfected NPCs had been one of many largest complaints within the authentic video games. In The Factor: Remastered, we eliminated them totally and as a substitute make some NPCs extra liable to an infection, and in the event that they nonetheless survive, they’re so traumatized they cower and ‘crack up’.” “Crack up” on this context refers back to the victims getting into an unstable state, which may result in suicide, coronary heart assaults, or attacking different NPCs.
Nightdive’s software program engineer Josh Dowell added, “The an infection system was applied and out there within the authentic recreation, however there have been a couple of locations the place squadmates would develop into contaminated and burst out for no motive, which gamers actually disliked. We eliminated these, so squad mates might solely develop into contaminated by direct contact with a Factor beast.”
That is excellent news for the remaster and will considerably alter the course of the story. There’s nonetheless no launch date outdoors of “this yr”, however we may get a shadow drop on December fifth. Keep tuned till then.
The Factor: Remastered is coming to Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Change. Take a look at the primary gameplay trailer right here.
