Although I can’t say exactly where, I work for Konami in a contractual nature. You’re probably sceptical about this and that’s fine, I would be too. You don’t have to believe me.. I probably wouldn’t if I was reading this to be honest.
Anyway, due to the way Konami games are developed, there are a lot of things I can’t answer, purely because I don’t know. Their ability to stifle information is amazing and should be commended. Our department work in a specific capacity for Konami (and one other game company) so I do have some insights. (We are long term contracted - not “outsourced”)
There are also a couple of things I’d like to reveal but can’t, as it would make it easy to identify my team and possibly me... and I could lose my job. (That a f*cking love by the way).
The main reason I’m sharing this info is because I hate the way the reveal was handled and I’m worried (maybe selfishly) that people might be turned off eFootball before the next reveal (allegedly 25th August) and the games success could suffer.
Spoiler There’s nothing mind blowing here mind, sorry if you were hoping for more juicy stuff than I can provide. (Also I’m on my iPad so apologies for the formatting)
Ok, I’ll jump right in and cover the main concerns I’ve seen on social media:
WTF IS UP WITH THIS CROSS PLAY SH*T?
Well, the lords at Konami realise that match making is a real issue. They want to improve matchmaking for 2 reasons.
They want more matches to take place and keep more players in MyClub in order to generate more revenue from the mode
They want players to have a better experience and not wait 10 minutes for a match.
They’re very worried that this would be even longer on next-gen. Having cross play enabled means we (the players) will be matched with an opponent much quicker.
2. I HAVE A PS5, WILL I BE PLAYING A MOBILE GAME?
Yes and no.
So... if you play offline you will get the full next-gen experience on Xbox Series X & PS5. The visuals and animations are incredible, however they’re not as good as our next generation reveal last year (I bet you’re shocked right??).
Don’t get me wrong though, they’re far superior to the fox engine and also the Frostbite engine visual EA have demonstrated for Fifa 22. When cross play is released, you will also get the next gen experience if you do online cross play from PS5 to Xbox X and vice verse.
There will also be “regular” graphical patches for next-gen to further utilise the power of the unreal engine, however I don’t believe these will be free. We’ve not been given any further info on how this rollout will occur.
3. SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I PLAY A MOBILE USER?
Well, for online matches you will have an option to play “cross-gen” or not. If you select no, you will be warned that matchmaking could take longer than normal. If you select yes, you will be matched with someone using either next-gen, current-gen or mobile but you will also be warned that the game play will be “scaled to match your opponents device”.
Scaling is a huge word here. What it essentially means is that your game will be scaled to match the max potential of the user with the “worst” device. If you match a mobile user, you will essentially be playing a mobile game.
Restricted visuals & animation cycles. This is apparently quite noticeable however I’ve not had the opportunity to do this yet so I can comment personally.
4. WILL THERE BE A MASTER LEAGUE?
Yes, however it won’t be called master league. It’s getting re-branded and I’ll be honest, it’s not getting a lot of “resource” so don’t expect anything amazing if you’re a fan of the mode. Also, it’ll more than likely be January/February when it launches (no price clarification yet)
5. WILL THERE BE “BAL”?
I’m not sure, we’ve heard literally nothing in our department about it. It doesn’t mean it’s not there but as we’ve got a list of modes it’s worrying that it’s not on that list.
6. EDIT MODE????
Yea there is an edit mode, it’s virtually identical to the current one. No there is no stadium creator and as far as we’ve been told, there are no plans to implement one.
My final message is to just stick it out until our next reveal. From what I’ve been told, the backlash online has been noted and the next “drop” will clear a lot of things up.
EDIT
I’ll reply as much as I can, I’m crazy busy as the moment so it will be sporadic.
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