Personal thoughts on the Map editor and the direction it could it going.
Personal Thoughts on the map editor and the direction it could BE going.
I think it is great to be able to make single player maps on the editor. Also to include vehicles, animals and AI. Ubisoft always seems to get so close to getting it right. But to leave out the Multiplayer mode was very disappointing.
I am sure a lot of the map editors from the older series of FC are disappointed in the direction the map editor has gone. No MP maps
Ubisoft wants to make the most amount of money and what company doesn't. Games costs a lot of money to produce. Two or three bad games can bankrupt a company. So they put a lot of effort in the campaign and in putting AI, vehicles , and other things in the editor.
This just my personal thoughts on it. I don't think the older generation xbox360 or PS3 could handle a multiplayer map with all the other things going on in the map. One of reasons why I quit making maps on FC3 was how the lobby system would crash or it was almost impossible to join friends maps on the xbox360.
The map editors use to be a large group(FCIP,FC2) who are now disappearing from FC. But FC single player campaign has become very successful. Great for Ubisoft not so good for the past editors.
I wish Ubisoft would make a stand alone editor with all the great things from all the far cry editions, single, multiplayer, race, maze and even predator maps with a better lobby system on the newer gaming systems. If Ubisoft promoted it right I think it would be very successful. Look at minecraft. On FC3 and FC4 they hardly promoted it. In fact they hid the info on FC4.
I would like to know what other editors think from the past and people who are just getting into it. Thanks for reading my thoughts on this.