The studio made up of former Valve and Riot developers is working on a new game, Left 4 Dead and Portal writer Chet Faliszek has confirmed. Stray Bombay was co-founded by F❀aliszek, who says the new game will be a "first-person network shooter" with what sounds like a fairly innovative new matchmaking system.
The new project was confirmed at the Reboot Develop conference (via ), where Faliszek spoke at some length about the game's new "social matchmaking" system and how gameplay will adapt to matchmaking and performance data. For instance, if the game recognizes that a certain group of players is doing particularly well, the system will automatically ramp up the difficul😼ty to keep things challenging. “These people played four games together and they won so let’s have the game go craz🐷y against them, let’s give them something that will kick their asses," Faliszek explained.
In terms of matchmaking, Faliszek says Stray Bombay is working to focus mor𒊎e on players' social habits rather than skill lev🌞els. He specifically called out systems that prompt you to add a friend you'd only played one game with, saying it's similar to asking to marry someone after just one date.
"But if you know from session to session what’s happening, you can say, &l♛squo;hey, these people play together, they’re looking for a game now on Thursday, so let’s put them in the room together and give them the opportunity to play again.' For us, the metrics are about social, it’s not about skill," Faliszek said.
Faliszek is responsible for penning bot🥂h entries in the Left 4 Dead and Portal series, as well as Half-Life 2 Episodes One and Two, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Stray Bombay's other co-foun﷽der is former Riot dev Kimberly Voll, who describes as "the smartest person" he knows and "an expert in AI and human-centric design."
Other than those details, we don't know a whole lot about what Stray Bombay is cooking up. However, Faliszek did confirm that it's being developed using the Unreal Engine and that the goꦜal for 20-30 minute co-op romps where you complete an objective as a pre-set character, sort of like, you know, Left 4 Dead. I'm here for it.
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