-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Spirit Trials
- Thread starter Dyashen
- Start date
That's the plan ;) In actuality, the Spirit Trials feels a lot more like 'Trials' though - you'll constantly race to shave off a few milliseconds again and again in order to beat your buddies best time and you directly race against their ghosts, which is awesome. Trials is kind of a simple game and the controls we have in Ori allow for quite a bit more mastery than what you see in that game. We're already quite addicted to it internally and constantly race each other for better times, etc. If your devs are up til 4am just playing the game again and again just cause they're hooked, you know you're onto something :D
How does one add ghosts? Just search their username? Adding via friend list could get tricky, esp cross platform.
All of your races are being recorded all the time. There's a matchmaking layer that always adjusts, so if you're playing on the global leaderboard, you're always racing against ghosts that are approximately on your skill level. Or you play in your friends leaderboard and you're asynchronously racing against your friends :)
Does this mean you aren't penalised for being quick in the sequel then? Loved the first but the frustrating thing I found about the escape sequences was that it was set-up for you to move at an almost predetermined pace. Too slow and you failed but too quick and ahead of triggers you also ended up failing.
So pc and Xbox players on Era might not be able to play with each other cos you can't add cross platform friends?
I did a ridiculous amount of this type of thing TWICE for the 360 and One versions of Rayman Legends (that grind was no joke, and you had to be pretty decent and routinely getting gold medals to make progress. Seriously).
Guess I'll probably find myself trying this out too.
Guess I'll probably find myself trying this out too.
So now you are asking for features for unconfirmed versions? :P Sure.
Well, the first game was on Steam, so more than likely this will be too.
What I was trying to highlight was that if Steam users won't be able to race against Xbox users coz the matchmaking is only based on Friend-list or Worldwide, then perhaps another way to add ghosts could be considered that might work on both these platforms? Maybe via searching usernames or by exporting ghosts to standardized files that can be read on both platforms, etc? This would let us create custom groups (OriEra) regardless of platform.
It might not be possible to do, but since the game is still in development, it would be great if the devs can look in to it.
Regardless, I'll be getting this day 1 on Steam.
Last edited:
I can get behind this. I don't think I'd want true online races in a game like Ori but if this is more like a Geometry Wars-esque 'ha-ha, I beat your score' then yeah I'm down.
Yeah, I felt the same when we first talked about implementing Trials into Ori - 'Racing in a platformer? I don't know about that...', but then we tried it and everyone at Moon got hopelessly addicted to beating each other's times - you really gotta try it to 'get it', it's exhilarating :)
As someone who really got into the time trials in Mirror's Edge, after initially writing them off, I'd believe it. It's such a great way to surface the depth of traversal mechanics in a title by having players show them off in-game.
They seem to be completely optional - I don't think we'll be seeing ghosts of other players while we're playing the story mode.