Posted on: Sunday, March 7th, 2010
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Developer Interviews – Your Q&A! Ep1. Aliens Vs Predator
This is it Soldiers of the Glorious A.J.Army! The time for our Voices to be heard is NOW! Time to get answers to all of our burning questions! Let’s lead the way in breaking down the barriers between Developers who make Games and the Gamers who play them!
Submit your questions below! Ask Rebellion anything regarding their Aliens Vs Predator Franchise, and remember im looking for the best, most interesting and even sometimes funny questions! I’ll select maybe about 10, throw in a few of my own and send it over to Rebellion HQ for Answering!
This is obviously more of an “afterwards” feel – what you thought, what you hated, what’s next, what went into the process kinda thing, so form them appropriately.
So leave a Comment!
If you need help watch both my Preview Video and my Review Video for Aliens Vs Predator! Or even the Infamous Rant on their Terrible Demo and Game Informer Poorly Written Review!
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233 thoughts on “Developer Interviews – Your Q&A! Ep1. Aliens Vs Predator”
1) Are U planing to let us play as Predalien in the next game?
2) Why dont u create a exclusive for the game alien specie? (Like in the Alien Ressurection)
3) Are u going to create an Arnold skin for the next game? If so, is it going to be part of download content?
Rebbelion dont disapoint us….
PS:, Sorry for the mistakes :p
sorry about spelling mistakes but i was really angry when i was writing that, like joe
Maby this is too late, but for the next game or DLC you SHOULD require:
1) Skins like Arnold and Riply, and one of the achievements is named ”lets rock!” this is from the 2nd movie when that girl says that and shoots with a smart gun, why not include her.
2) Add girls to playable characters
3) make it available to customize heads (aliens, marines and predators)
4) jump in marine is useless, its a 30cm jump max. if you cant do a decent jump, dont have one!
5) more weapons
6) when i am the alien, let me choose in the settings menu which special kills i want to have, because some seem stupid, with this i woult have to be worried in MP that someone is near me and i cant see coz i have blood on my eyes.
7) allow to play the battle androids in MP
9) when i am playing alien allow me to do 3 things, tail attack, hand attach and heavy attack, dammit dont combine heavy with tail.
10) would be nice if the alien game ended with that ship that he is in crashes onto some weird planet, then a cargo ship is sent to go there, yes i mean the same thing that happens in the first alien movie, that would explane how the ‘ship’ full of eggs got there. would be nice innit.
anyone agree with me,
mail me at dacjan@learnhistory.org.uk
11) more maps please
12) WHY THE F-ING HELL IS THE PYRAMID MAP FROM AVP IN THERE, i mean common, its crap, confusing and totally unnecessary,
13) other than some confusing missions you should not have a hud, its like we are stupid and cant go down one corridor.
that it. one other thing, im playing today and go on multiplayer and no-one is playing mulitplayer on xbox, shame, if this continues the game would be a total failure. and i now they didnt just go to the other map-packs that you have to buy coz it has only had like 100 downloads.
1.) Why did you release this game unfinished and with a BETA-version of Dedicated servers and therefore screwed up the important first month after release?
2.) Why no crouch?
3.) Why did you approve a pay mappack? Maps are so essential for gameplay that everyone should be able to have them, like in Team Fortress 2 for instance.
4.) Why do i feel that only safe questions will be asked, which don’t highlight negative points of the game?
Here are my question / suggestions:
1. Have a bonus level or campaign that are modeled after scenes from the movies. Ideas: A campaign based off the first movie “Alien”. You are working for the Wayland corporation and you’re ordered to set down on LV-426. One of your crew members gets a facehugger on him while exploring the derelict spaceship (the Space Jockey). Later, of course, a alien pops out of your crew member and you and the rest of the crew have to find it using makeshift motion trackers and flame throwers. This could a multiplayer mode, be the first to kill the Alien wins. Another idea is a escape from LV-426 level where the aliens come down from the ceiling in the control center and you and your marines have to go through the air ducts and levels and get to the drop ship.
2. Being with a squad. I would like to spend more time with a squad then being on my own for the entire time. That’s what makes games like Call of Duty or Battlefield 2 is that you have back-up with you. I was frustrated while playing the game that my squad is getting killed and I can’t do anything. It’ll be great to have a squad with you as you explore an empty colony. Each squad member has a personality, like a Hudson character. It works in other shooters and I’m sure it’ll work in this. This will fully capture the feeling of “Aliens” one of my favorite movies of all time.
I love that idea about squad based gameplay, MAKE IT MP…!!! Make it so the Alien players already control the colony and we have to go in this HUGE map and try methods to annihilate or try and survive… DOOR WELDING COULD BE ADDED.
I was looking for Action Figure related tips, this was helpful – bookmarked your site!
1. If they make a new game follow the comics not the movies
2. Put other characters like hicks,Ripley,Arnold,Billy also for predators put dark blade,elder,city hunter, and jungle hunter,and chopper for the aliens just two runner and Predalien.
3. when you have a kill streak as an alien you should become the queen and for humans you get the exo suit.
4. Also the really need to stop making the disc so over powering its annoying as hell.
5. Needs to have more maps.
6. also they should try to customize your character ability s for the aliens longer jumps or heaver attacks can take more damage, for marines have a finishing move hold more ammo and take more dmg, last for predator higher jumping range and heavier attacks.
7. add new weapons predators: whip,double shoulder cannons,a spear that u don’t throw,and the spear gun for marines grenade launcher new shout gun that wont kill in one shout,Rocket launcher,and minigun
That is all my ideas if they were going to make avp2.
also i forgot about this but if you ever saw AVP the movie there is a scence were it shows three predators on top of a pyrimid fighting off a swarm of aliens now picture if they put that in the game as predator survivor mode insted of human survivor and u could start at the pyrimid entrance and they force you too fall back by going up the pyrimid and there swarming out of that entrance and crawling over eachother and leaping up too the top too kill your squad of predators. honestly i think that would be amazing and great gaming experiance plz put this in the new map pack as a survivor game mode, joe plz tell em this i think is a great idea and would love to see this be added on to AVP!! i love you tee hee lol jk
i also forgot to touch on tha fact that i would like too see a 1v1 game modes in small levels like that Single Player predator campain tutourial misson imagin it pred vs pred head to head no place to hide or just add that level with 8players u would have the alien spawn up top and the would hop down or preds would hop up and just kill each other idk if that made any sence but ok just letting it out there
i no that AVPR was hated on a lot but i think it would be really cool if you had some urban enviorment levels running around as a alien climbing buildings and stealth killing people then all the cars driving around and cops/national gaurd shooting you, just sounds really cool too me. also i think it would be cool if in MP you had killstreaks like if ur a predator and get 10kills in a row u call in a predator drop ship. of if ur a alien you call in the queen. or human u call in a chopper and its armed with like smartguns blasting everything for like 2min then goes away. also there are like know weapons they all get old very fast. i was looking forward too the combistick but it feels more like a sniper rifle than a close combat weapon. also as a predator you should use the wrist computer to blow your self up like the movies if went into a last stand mode and you could wait for a teammate to heal you or u bleed out or blow the shit out of everything like a predator is souppost to do. and if u could bring up a minimap with your wrist computor. and lastly i wish there was a grenade for the humans (yes i know there is a grenade launcher but its still not a “grendade”) also i would like some more DLC for more ranks with more skins or more weapons. also in campain the aliens spit so why cant i spit if i am playing as the alien hmmmm ya its a ton of shit. also with the trophy kills there should be on screen comands too counter or get the kill. idk i love the game its all i play but just beef it up man when you got a game with about a total of like 8 weapons shit gets gay man DLC more shit its getting old killing ppl the same shitty way its like Ramen noodles they got shitty untill they made NEW FLAVORS. so get on it man
why is the predators weapons so limited? (my brother also wants me to ask why is the combi stick *spear* not able to be used as a melee weapon?) in avp 1 and 2 for the pc there were tons more weapons,
did you decide to make the character turn out to be black just so we could say hey I was a black guy that live through something that had to do with horror.? (that is one of the unspoken rules of horror movies the black guy always dies just watch any horror movie with a black guy in it) that part not in question,
will we actually see unique aliens in the next game?
as I said with the predator why are there barely any variations with the weapons
how does it feel to be the first guest on *insert seqment title* ever?
This is exactly what I was searching for on bing, I guess I got my answer! lol
Can someone tell me what the song is at the end of this video. it souns something like gooooooo this is the end of the line
I cant make out the lyrics but I am trying to find this song. Any help would be great
Here are a few good ones:
Why isn’t the Alien 3rd person? It’d be much easier to control that way and much easier to tell where you are. Also a Call of Duty style stance indicator telling you if you’re on the ground, wall or ceiling would be nice in either 1st person or 3rd person.
Why, in a game titled Aliens vs. Predator, are the Predators so marginalize story-wise and the aliens’ campsign so short?
Why isn’t the horror element of the first half-hour of the marine campaign explored more?
Why are the characters so bland? Why is your main character silent? Is he Harpo Marx on steroids or something?
Why are the stories all linked together so much when there could be alternate enings and something to look forward to after finishing each campaign?
1) You say this was a game meant for PC, so where was the server browser upon release? and why is it still in beta??
Make sure all of Rebellion are listening to the community issues and they act on them (you can ignore the morons who want this nerfed and that nerfed and that is so OP etc etc, l2p)
2) Why am I still having issues connecting or staying in a game?
3) Can we please have dedicated servers now? Pretty please….
4) a) I will not be paying for any kind of DLC unless you sort out all connectivity issues, b) do i already own this DLC as part of the installation and you are going to make me pay twice for it?
5) Playing as the marine makes me cr@p myself, well done Rebellion. But the Alien campaign felt unfinished….?
6) There is nothing wrong with copying a kinda COD ranking system with unlocks, gives you something to aim for. New skins? Seriously? I couldn’t give a damn… Can we have better unlocks please?
7) Crouch for the marine would be nice…
Cheers
You should totally call the show “Angry Joe Flays the industry (with your questions)”
I wanted to know why there were not different variations of the races in the multi player? As in the second one where you had different variations of predators and Aliens, I really missed that.
Could your next game please include an extension on the multiplayer
My friends and I bought this game hoping that we could have alot of fun together after we finished it, but there is 0 local multiplayer and there’s NO SPLITSCREEN for playing online. This is huge disadvantage to us because if we can only have one gamertag playing on the system at a time, we would be required to own 4 COPIES OF THE SAME GAME just to play with the people in the same room (not to mention requiring the additional consoles and a game of moving day trying to put four tvs together).
If I could make a suggestion I’d ask to allow us to sign more people in, or at the very least give us the feature to play with “guests”, so it doesn’t seem as limited. Right now there are about a dozen of game variants and from what I hear a fantastic experience that as it stands WE CAN’T PLAY (and We’re tired of having to bring Halo 3 to the party). Don’t cripple your selling points, y’know!
This has been a problem for a long time. Why are game developers so afraid of creating a splitscreen mode? All it’d do is improve the lifetime of their game and add a point of interest for buyers who are looking for a good game to play with their siblings/room mates. People with siblings/room mates are a huge part of the gaming community, and catering to them would be a good move.
I was wondering if you could customize your characters they should also add a co-op sort of mode like whats the modern warfare thing called ehhh Spec ops? or something you should do that also take joes advice by not combining the species into a story maybe even have aliens get to earth (I haven’t played the game so if the ending suggests this ignore it maybe you should add a free roaming experience as in you are stuck in one room you must make decisions like in aliens defend yourself but also explore your base with allies so you know take your pick!
I think some good names for the series would be:
Joe’s Judgement
Showdown Joe
Dev or Die
There are just a few, hope you like them.
Dear Rebellion,
Instead of making one single game with three less-than-perfect campaigns and fun multiplayer, why couldn’t you have made three separate games with unique campaigns that all run on the same multiplayer service?
The Fans Want To Know. If they are making a second AVP game, what are they going to do to the gameplay that is unique?
well Angry joe i got a name for the show
Angry joes gamer Judgment
Angry joes Judgment Day
Angry joes Judgment show
Angry joes army of Judgment show
Angry joes army of Judgment
The army of Angry joes Judgment
Anger of Joe
Anger of Joe show
Anger of Joe Army
Anger of Joe Army developer well be punish
Angry joes seat of Inferno
i hope that you well pick one of them titles for the show
and for my questions on AVP is the rankmatches online yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy in hell dose it take so long to get one rankmatches online this is one of the bad think in game.
your Angry pete
You can’t steal the guys kill, or alternatively save a teammates life. Sure you’ll kill him but the other guy is dead no matter what.
Question
1) Can you (the developer) make more maps that are equipped to deal with over 12 players, because when I have over 12 players in a lobby we can only play on two freaking maps, I find that harsh and uncalled for.
2) I know this has been repeated in the comment box but, trim down on the predator. I know he’s a high tech super awesome alien and can own pretty much anything, but please since this a game trim down alittle on him, I feel he’s indestructable when I fight him and play him.
3) AVP2, maybe unlocks like weapon attachments, I know that’s copying from modern warfare 2, but Bioshcok 2 multiplayer copied that as well.
Hope you consider this questions. Oh and congrats Joe on the new segement.
To Rebellion: One of my questions is this In the predator story arch and even the online mode i noticed that with the battle spear you can stay cloked while you use it and while doing so you can hit people from a long range and kill them with one hit to me this is a bit unfair to the marine class even though it is supposed to be a balanced system and the spear is mostly a hand to hand weapon not ranged what do you have to say about that?
To Rebellion: Do you plan to continue with the cliff hanger at the end of the game of the marine story arch where wayland discovers the alien homeworld? And if you dont that will make all gamers pissed off and dont give us this maybe crap if you arnt that will just piss us off more just say yes or no.
To Rebellion: I do not see any real inovations that you made on the old games besides the graphics also the old game had more weapons on all sides and the ability to play as a face hugger at the beging of the alien story arch what do you have to say about this?
Mr. angry joe please ask the developers any of these questions as you see fit please email me at my email adress if you are going to ask them any of my questions so that i tune in.
i was wondering why there wasnt any new aliens in the new game even though you said on the show xplay that there would be so by the new aliens did you mean the spitter aliens or were you just saying that there would be to get more people interested?
Was it really needed to dive into this monopoly all the way, seriously … was it needed to drag a classic series into this mess?
You rebellion devs could’ve made triple the amount of money on short and long term … This game failed and is just as much worth as MW2 was. Good day …
Why do grab kills make you invulnerable?
They don’t
What are you talking about? If aything grab kills make you increadable easy to kill. Infact I’d have to say their pretty worthless unless your get extreamly lucky and no one is around.
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The Gamer’s Voice
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For the name of your show, how about The Gamer’s Voice?
@AngryJoe
What I’d like to know is, before we talk any more about AVP, Are you going to do ANY coverage on God of war 3? You have nothing about the best game ever made on the site and it would be a shame if you did not experience it!
How about fixing the controls so that Auto-Transition Off actually works?
Fact #1: It forces autotransitions down ledges and on several surfaces even with the Auto-Transition option turned off in the options menu, sometimes resulting in players being stuck and unable to auto-transition back off.
Note: The skill of the player is irrelevant to the issue.
Why didnt they put in an alien jump from celing quick kill so we dont have to go to our obviously overpowering on the ground counter parts area?
how about “FRONT AND CENTER” sounds intense
Are they going to make dedicated servers for ranked matches on pc and why did they not beta test dedi’s with pre orders instead of making the struggling mp community do it after release which most if not all of us feel has completely crushed the ranked matches .
I am one of the people that like to play ranked and climb the leader boards so that bothered me because i was ranked 13 before beta dedi started and haven’t been able to finish a single ranked match since and am now ranked high 30s or 40′s by now , but i still love the game for what it is .
I forgot. In one of the Interviews some Rebellion guys said that AvP was and will always be a PC Game. But how come the new AvP feels like a messed up console port? We cant even crouch or jump. (Jump works but its pointless)
My Question to Rebellion:
Why is it that the AI in certain Missions is pretty much none existent? For example: The Predator Mission in the old battlegrounds against the Super Alien. The superalien cannot climb. It just walks backwards if you are on a high position. How can something like this pass the QA?
What wont you be doing in the future? Best end question
Hey Joe,
Question to rebellion: Earlier i recall hearing about the DLC being available for those that didn’t buy the survivor or hunter edition of the game. Therefore assuming it would be free of charge later on. Now the coming DLC is said to cost. 4 maps. I’d like to know why does it cost and couldn’t they have mentioned this earlier?
I’m satisfied with the game as long as it gets some small fixes soon. Pred OP in melee and knockdown immunity, disc and stealthkill loading time to avoid abuse of those weapons.
I’d call the hot seat show “Game purgatory” or “Throne of confession”.
Question:
Why were some of the most basic GAME details so badly(or not at all) done? No iron sights, no crouch, AI SAYING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER! (within seconds of each other), distract system making horrible sounds of death only to be answered by a casual “I’ll be right there”, No vents for aliens in Multiplayer, no Pred Taunt, no use of all available skins in multiplayer (females!), Cramped Maps, and finally a matchmaking system made so poorly even though there exists plenty of WORKING examples out today….. Oh and skins (aliens) that are just different heads.
And for Joe, you really deserved this oppertunity. I really feel you are making a diffrence in the gaming community and i think you are about to make many more.
Keep it up!
Question:
1) If you (the developer) could improve upon 3 things with AvP, what would it be?
2) Did you ever consider remaking the first game? If yes, why not?
3) The multiplayer was ok if not good, however the singleplayer felt a little lacking. Especially the Alien part. How do you feel the singleplayer turned out? And did you put it partly aside so you could focus the multiplayer? Which play-mode do you feel is the most important…?
Now,for starters,im pissed off cuz the STORY of the game.The whole idea is-Humans activate pyramid,Aliens escape,Predator comes to kill everything he sees,and blow up the pyramid.The main charecters dont cross one-other like АVP2 and Primal Hunt.I thought they were going to take story from the comic books.Here’s a thing,that pissed me off-humans are violeting predator artefacts and aliens are starting to infest the planet.Why the hell do predators send 3 young-blood,when this is not “a hunt”.Why not a 10-12 squad of predators,armed with lazer rifles like “Alien vs Predator:War”Next:why dont the missions have any connection one to other.I know thats not COD:MW2 but i get little confused how you land into the jungle,then you appear in the desert in human refinary,then into a temple,right under the refinary.Last thing i like to complain why the level disin is so ASSSS!!!For a 2010 game this levels look like Doom 1 on Nintendo,its worse that Half-Life 1.Thats the problem-story,level dising.And why the DLC have…MULTUPLAYER MAPS!!!WTF!The story with 1 speecies is like 3-4 hours even less.Why not a DLC with 1 extra mission?I know thats not Dragon Age or Assassin’s Creed II.Why does this game looks like an expansion to the first one from 1999,with grafik emprovement?
1) Why you did you stick so close to basic FPS mechanics?
2) Why are skins the only unlockables/customization options when many current FPS’s strength is customization?
3) Do you plan to address balance issues online with patches?
-Disk, predator heavy attack lunge is stupid long, maybe the plasmacaster
4) Did the fact that your resources were limited limit your options and limit the possibilities of what you could’ve included?
5) CoD’s matchmaking system is the best in the business, drop in, drop out, snappy and smooth. Why was a blind matchmaking system used? I would also like to see how many players are in each playlist.
6) What the fuck were you guys thinking with the Pyramid stage?
7) Not wanting to copy CoD perhaps, but this IP could easily be made to fit around classes (AvP2?) and possibly even killstreak rewards. 10 kills- Man the Exosuit?
O funnier questions?
How many comics/figures do you have?
If you could be an alien or predator?
Why did Tim lie in the interview? haha
yeah heres a question for you. Do you like waking up in the morning to a species dm and getting blown up by a friggin predator that I cant even see cause theres like 20 mines when I respawn. do you guys, think thats funny? cause i think its hilarious, especially at the part where i STICK THAT CHEAP DISC THROWING THING UP UR ASS! i’ll be walking and, bam, death by a copy of the beejes cd thrown by some predator player. yeah real nice guys, how about we play? one on one, I’d stick those mines so far up ur ass that…..well i dont know what, BUT I’D DO IT!
question: Yeah, uh have you guys back at the office realized how friggin cheap the predator is? I mean seriously, lock on shoulder cannons, boom dead. like 20 mines, boom x20 dead. That music cd looking piece of crap that KILLS people in one hit and comes bACK TO YOU!? yeah guys, leave the aliens to do all the clean up…..
Question: Will Ripley and/or arnold schwarzenegger be in future DLC for AVP as unlockable characters (Seriously, there’s a achivement called “Get To Da Choppa!” so Arnold SHOULD be in AVP)?
Hi Joe
I got a few questions in the first levels of the marines. Why do I have to find a new power cell? Where is the old depleted one? Did somebody take it out for cleaning? And why is there a power cell lying in a corner not 10 feet away? Why not in a storage room? Think I couldn’t find it otherwise? Why does the power cell power the electric fence but not the lights? Why is a squad of marines slaughtered without a single dead alien and why can I, as a rookie, kill 5 aliens at the same time? And every time I receive a mission objective to go somewhere, marines get killed at the spot I just was 30 seconds ago and I miss all the action.
And why is there a marker that tells me where to go like a freaking tomtom? Do they think I’m a retard and can’t find my way? The strength of fear in the old games that you got scared when a simple light broke and no aliens where around. I don’t know how you can ask this nicely to a developer but I can’t help but ask them to come up with better missions. I often think about halflife where the first 15 mins Freeman just goes to work and I have to find my way by reading signs. Hope this gives you ideas Joe, cos’ I a bit angry myself. Oh and I miss dedicated servers for my lan-parties!
Cheers and keep up the good work!
question:Why did you decide to use the old aim from the hip system, instead of the more modern aiming down your sights system For the marine weapons.
I would name the show “What would Joe do”
AKA WWJD.
Seriously speaking, why does the game suck. With all sincerity, I’ve been watching this game since it was first talked about, I am a die hard AVP Fan This game wasted that anticipation for me and my money. I spent $50 on a pre-order and played about 2 hours of the game and havnt touched it since.. YES it sucks THAT bad.
THE QUESTIONS:
1. Why Is there no crouch. (I MEAN SERIOUSLY WHY IS THERE NO CROUCH..!?)
2. Why are there no helmets for the Marines in MP,
3. Why is it that when you choose a black marine, in game his arms still show up as white? Kinda makes it pointless to be a black guy huh being thats the only part of u YOU see when ya play.
4. Where are the Good maps, cus we havn’t seen them yet… or are you going to CHARGE extra for ALIEN Themed maps…
5. Why is the smartgun sound changed, its been the same for the last 20sumthin years.. WHY was it necessary to change that, its like making the aliens bleed water…
6. Why is there no consideration for the fans, are their pockets…
7. HOW you let us own this game for over a month and STILL not allow dedicated servers.
IM SURE ALOT OF THESE HAVE BEEN ASKED BUT, I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHY, ALL THESE ARE…, WHY THEY CAN SIT AROUND FOR YEARS GETTING PAID!!! TO DEVELOP THE NEXT BIG AVP GAME AND MESS IT UP THIS BAD… THE FRANCHISE HAS SO MUCH TO OFFER AND THEY CHOOSE TO INCORPORATE SO LITTLE… thx