Eurogamer's Tribes And Tribulations

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In a two part interview, Eurogamer.net talks with Thrax about how the game came together and how it will continue. The first half of the interview covers how the game was developed, what issues they covered, and such; the second part goes over the community side of the game, the beta, system specs, etc.

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Eurogamer: How is the beta testing going?

Chris Mahnken: It's going really quite well. You know that things are going well when they pick out a really tiny thing and they really focus and they get super angry that you're not willing to change this one little thing. The game is obviously fun and they can't find anything major that they're really having issues with, so right now, er... Well this is kind of a bad example, but in the heads-up display we have a friend-or-foe indicator, called IFF, and it's just a coloured triangle about somebody's head. On previous games it was green for friendlies and red for enemies. In this game, you can see up here now [gestures to a game running on a projector nearby], you can see there's yellow for the yellow team and red for the red team, and if you're on the blue team it's blue, and so they're very upset that the red team has red IFF indicators over their heads all the time. So that's their major issue right now. [Smiles]

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