Consequence adds tension, it adds drama, it adds to that mission narrative because there's things at stake in a way that we haven't done.”Īt a glance the US force closely resembles the one released in the recent Western Front Armies standalone multiplayer release, which marked a return for fan and dev favourites like Paratroopers and, as Duffy describes it, the “much-maligned” Sherman tank. For lead campaign designer, Mitch Lagran, permadeath fulfils one key purpose: “we want there to be consequence to decisions. It's a better fit for the US forces in the Ardennes, famously cut off from reinforcements during the siege of Bastogne. I'm reminded of 1998's Warhammer: Dark Omen, which carried a particularly gruelling implementation of a similar system. When you get one of those setbacks the hope is the player's going to reassess their situation.” “There's not a sort of hard line 'you just played a mission and completely screwed yourself', it's a lot of setbacks. If you're looking for that type of experience, similar to XCOM, you can have that,” he says. An obvious first question for game director and Relic veteran, Quinn Duffy, then: if you keep throwing men recklessly to their doom, can you completely screw yourself before the campaign is done? “You can screw yourself over and you can sort of lose, and we've built it with the hardcore audience in mind for that.
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