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[Nirolak]

Update:

Smilegate & Remedy Entertainment announce partnership

Remedy Entertainment is proud to announce a partnership with the leading Korean game company Smilegate known for its highly successful CROSSFIRE franchise.

At the CROSSFIRE Vision Summit held in Shanghai during the China Joy 2016 conference, Smilegate revealed that Remedy is responsible for developing the story mode for the upcoming CROSSFIRE 2.

The whole team here at Remedy is incredibly excited to be an key partner in developing the future of the CROSSFIRE franchise. Smilegate specifically chose Remedy to bring our unique blend of storytelling, memorable characters and inventive gameplay to CROSSFIRE’s global audience.

We have been developing this project for a while and couldn’t be more excited to show you what we’re working on, so stay tuned for more details later down the line.

http://www.remedygames.com/smilegate-remedy-entertainment-announce-partnership/

I know this is a bit leftfield, but hey, Remedy started out by making an top down racing game

If you are a fan of us here at Remedy, you should take this as great news. Smilegate has massive plans for Crossfire 2 and handpicked Remedy as the partner to create a great cinematic, storymode. We will bring everything you expect from Remedy: great story and characters.

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For those who missed out, CrossFire is an f2p shooter that's very popular in China and makes around $1 billion each year. The series is made by Smilegate, a Korean development first, though they're now working with Remedy on the sequel.

The9 recently paid $500 million for publishing rights for the sequel: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1146002

CrossFire 2 is rumored to be developed on Unreal Engine 3 with a 50/50 split between PvP and PvE content (I think that's things like horde mode as opposed to a campaign but am not certain).

CrossFire is one of the highly regarded multiplayer shooter of the last generation consoles. Fans have been waiting for the sequel to be announced for quite some time. Well the wait is over as Smilegate has announced CrossFire 2 along with the help of Remedy Entertainment.

South Korean MMO developer Smilegate announced CrossFire 2 at ChinaJoy 2016. The company confirmed that CrossFire 2 is in development in collaboration with Max Payne and Alan Wake developer, Remedy Entertainment.

Source: http://segmentnext.com/2016/07/27/smilegate-announce-crossfire-2-remedy/

Here's a picture of the first game to give you an idea of what it's like:

 

[Lima]

CS 1.6 looks better than this. What the hell? China don't care.

 

[Zedox]

Looking forward to see how this develops.

 

[kami_sama]

That's a strange fit for the company.

 

[TheMoon]

You accidentally posted a pic of Counter-Strike beta 4.5

 

[KORNdoggy]

"CrossFire is one of the highly regarded multiplayer shooter of the last generation consoles."

it was on consoles? i don't remember that?

it looks like what it is though, a counterstrike rip off. seems like such a huge departure for remedy too. i guess they were paid a lot.

 

[slash000]

Are we sure this is a screenshot from a last gen console?
Cus I'm not too sure there were F2P online shooters on the Wii.

 

[antennaehead]

It's like Obsidian co-developing Armored Warfare. Good for them, good money I guess.

 

[_machine]

I'm pretty certain that's a screenshot from the PC version, which keep in mind was first released in 2007 and was always aimed to support the lowest common denominator machines in Asia (China especially still has a decent Windows XP market share when it comes to F2P PC games). Sounds like a good deal for Remedy as if it goes well it's sure to have a +5 live operations shelf life (CrossFire the original game has been popular for almost ten years now) and that kind of security can be very hard to come by for a developer like Remedy.

 

[Lima]

Remedy gotta eat now that Microsoft dropped them. Damn you Phil.

 

[TheKeyPit]

"CrossFire is one of the highly regarded multiplayer shooter of the last generation consoles."

it was on consoles? i don't remember that?

it looks like what it is though, a counterstrike rip off. seems like such a huge departure for remedy too. i guess they were paid a lot.

If someone paid 500 million for publishing rights, they surely can pump out a lof of cash for development.

 

[derFeef]

:-/
That's all I'm gonna say about this as a Remedy fan.

 

[DieH@rd]

That's a strange fit for the company.

Majority of the Obsidian is working on a randomass Tank F2P game. Independent studios sometime need to work on these jobs so that they can keep the workforce they have.

 

[Lichter]

Is this the new project with the new partner?

 

[im_dany]

Is this the game plagued by cheaters? I've never played it (I remember playing AVA when I was broke lol) but I'm pretty sure this was the game played by some friends but they were always complaining about aimbots/wallhacks.

 

[JaggedSac]

Gotta keep the doors open.

 

[Keasar]

I get the feeling Chinese companies are just shotgun blasting the west with money and sees what sticks. Wasn't there news of a Chinese chicken farm company buying some western game developer recently?

Obsidian is making a F2P World of Tanks-esque game.
Remedy is now making a F2P Counter Strike-esque game.
Looking forward when Double Fine gets ordered to make a F2P Gears of War-esque game.

It is no surprise though why a game like Crossfire is huge though, it seems to be able to run on any device with anything remotely close to a GPU, it was not that long ago China lifted its ban on consoles from the west and I can't imagine that a large portion of the Chinese population have access or can afford higher end PCs.

Still, if it keeps Remedy afloat I am fine with it, so long as they get to make a Mona Sax spin-off game later.

 

[Bluth54]

Hopefully they use the money they earn from it to develop Alan Wake 2.

 

[Goose_Se7en]

I want Alan Wake 2 and a sequel to Quantum Break.


That is all.

 

[SlipperyMoose]

Well it's good money for them at least. They are working on another game which I'm sure is their more traditional type of game so I wouldn't worry too much. Nothing wrong with diversity.

 

[Lima]

I want Alan Wake 2 and a sequel to Quantum Break.


That is all.

And you will get neither.

How does that make you feel? It hurts me.

 

[Clint Beastwood]

Patiently waiting for Rockstar to co-develop Clash of Clans 2

 

[Maxey]

I did a little googling of the original game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossFire_(video_game)

It uses an old version of the Lithtech engine but it looks like CS1.6 a lot. It's like they really wanted to get that specific look going.

 

[OBias]

Obsidian is making a F2P World of Tanks-esque game.

This one is not Chinese but Russian, actually.

 

[Badoink]

I guess the Quantum Break didn't sell too well.

 

[Noobcraft]

I guess the Quantum Break didn't sell too well.

It wasn't critically well received so it makes sense.

 

[Ricky_R]

Remedy got Ready at Dawned.

Would love for them to make a game for PS4 (multi or not), btw.

 

[Dovahking]

Is this the new project with the new partner?

Seconded.

 

[dr_rus]

I want Alan Wake 2 and a sequel to Quantum Break.


That is all.

You're covered. There will be a TV show in Crossfire2 which will be called Alan Break 1.5.

This one is not Chinese but Russian, actually.

Slight correction: it's originally Belorusian in fact as it was founded in Minsk =)

 

[ShockingAlberto]

You'll get caught up in the

CrossFire

 

[Nirolak]

I get the feeling Chinese companies are just shotgun blasting the west with money and sees what sticks. Wasn't there news of a Chinese chicken farm company buying some western game developer recently?

Obsidian is making a F2P World of Tanks-esque game.
Remedy is now making a F2P Counter Strike-esque game.
Looking forward when Double Fine gets ordered to make a F2P Gears of War-esque game.

It is no surprise though why a game like Crossfire is huge though, it seems to be able to run on any device with anything remotely close to a GPU, it was not that long ago China lifted its ban on consoles from the west and I can't imagine that a large portion of the Chinese population have access or can afford higher end PCs.

Still, if it keeps Remedy afloat I am fine with it, so long as they get to make a Mona Sax spin-off game later.

Smilebit is Korean. It's just being published by a Chinese company.

 

[Maxey]

Makes me a bit sad they have to do that in order to keep afloat but at least I hope they give them enough space to make an awesome shooter. I wonder if it even gets released in the west.

 

[Bedameister]

If it gets them money to make actually great games then I'm ok with this.

 

[Hot Coldman]

get that paper

 

[dragonflys545]

Wow that sucks, but outside of the Max Payne series and maybe Alan Wake. Their output has been average at best.

 

[OBias]

You're covered. There will be a TV show in Crossfire2 which will be called Alan Break 1.5.



Slight correction: it's originally Belorusian in fact as it was founded in Minsk =)

I'm talking about Armored Warfare, which is owned by Mail.Ru Group and developed by Obsidian. As far as I know, Mail.Ru Group is a Russian company. World of Tanks itself is Belorusian, yes.

 

[Nirolak]

Makes me a bit sad they have to do that in order to keep afloat but at least I hope they give them enough space to make an awesome shooter. I wonder if it even gets released in the west.

Starbreeze is making a version targeted at the West: http://www.starbreeze.com/2016/01/starbreeze-and-smilegate-in-long-term-strategic-partnership/

Maybe they'll release the main game overseas as well.

 

[chadskin]

Oof, that's rough but as long as it pays for Alan Wake 2...

 

[SenseiAsad]

Remedy nooooooooo

 

[Iceman829]

I saw Crossfire in the title and immediately thought this game was coming back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HSayVAC6U

 

[Easy_D]

:-/
That's all I'm gonna say about this as a Remedy fan.

Eh, it's contracting work, it brings in the cash.

 

[Falchion]

Well hopefully too much of their studio won't be devoted to this so they can make their next adventure game.

 

[derFeef]

Eh, it's contracting work, it brings in the cash.

While true, it's still not what I expect and, as entitled as it sounds, want from Remedy.

 

[Keasar]

This one is not Chinese but Russian, actually.

It is? Huh, the more you know.

Smilebit is Korean. It's just being published by a Chinese company.

Ah, I thought was the Chinese publisher who hired Remedy to work with Smilegate on it.

 

[Bedameister]

Wow that sucks, but outside of the Max Payne series and maybe Alan Wake. Their output has been average at best.

So you didn't like Quantum Break is my understanding?

 

[soultron]

Oh jeez, I remember trying this game. It looks like CS but I can't remember it playing anything like it. There was no recoil penalties and people did these hilarious grenade spam tricks, IIRC.

It was bonkers. I wonder if CF2 will appeal to Western+Euro audiences?

Interesting to see Remedy make this kind of move because it sounds smart, financially. The studio probably needs an alternate revenue stream to pad development of AAA games like QB -- but that's assuming they want to stay that course in the first place.

I'm sure they will aim it at the CSGO crowd and put MT hooks that same audience already knows: crates, keys, ultra rare cosmetics.

 

[Shredderi]

Man's gotta eat. Especially now that QB didn't set the world on fire neither critically or (unless I heard wrong) commercially. I'd imagine that Microsoft is done funding another expensive game from them for now. They really haven't made a big hit since MP2. They really need to bring something new and fantastic to the moment-to-moment gameplay again.

 

[dragonflys545]

So you didn't like Quantum Break is my understanding?

Gameplay was fun, but it was forgettable. Nothing sticks with me.

The hardest difficulty was way to easy as well.

 

[shintoki]

CrossfireGO

 

[Easy_D]

While true, it's still not what I expect and, as entitled as it sounds, want from Remedy.

Think about it this way, it'll give them enough money to do more Remedy style things