Bandai Namco unveiled Dragon Ball, an asymmetric multiplayer competitive game set in Dragon Ball, last November.
The game follows the dragon ball super universe 2 story background, when one player plays the powerful hostile character "Raider", there will be seven players playing ordinary ordinary citizens - "survivors", dodging the "attacker" to escape the battlefield.
How to achieve a counterattack by the "five scums of war" and how to balance the difference in the number of people between "one" and "seven"? With these questions in mind, we interviewed mr. Ryosuke Hara, the producer of this work, who answered his questions.
Hara Ryosuke
- Compared to the number of three or four people in some asymmetric action games, there are seven survivors in Dragon Ball And Fighters, how does the production team balance the differences that may be caused by obvious differences in numbers?
Hara Yoshisuke: If you mention the number that symbolizes the Dragon Ball series, it is only "7", which is why the survivor side is set to seven people. Around the seven-player setting, we have adjusted various gameplay parameters such as the size of the map, the speed of the attacker's action, skills, and the number of items.
—— How many invaders will be available in the first stage of Dragon Ball Breaker? There are currently three classic villains to be seen. What will be available in subsequent updates?
Ryosuke Hara: Thank you very much for looking forward to the follow-up information of our game, we hope that after the release, we will allow players to play this game for a long time and will operate in this direction.
- Is there a difference between the different survivor characters in Dragon Ball Breaker? Do players get reinforcements by constantly playing different battles and bringing enhancements to the new game?
Hara Yoshisuke: Basically, the survivor's player's ability stats cannot be improved, but the experience points gained by the player through the game can be used to strengthen skills and the like.
——In the content currently shown, the battle content of Dragon Ball And The Fighters of The Boundary Is that the survivors escape through the time machine, are there other different rules designed?
Hara Yoshisuke: There are two conditions for the victory of the survivor side, one is to escape successfully by taking the time machine; the other is to consume the attacker's health, in addition to a "fluke" way of victory, that is, after the time machine is destroyed by the attacker, the player escapes through the emergency escape time machine.
——In what form will Dragon Ball Breaker and Dragon Ball Super Universe 2 be linked in terms of content and world view?
Ryosuke Hara: We already have plans to link Dragon Ball Boundary Breaker with Dragon Ball Super Universe 2 game saves, please look forward to our release of details when the time comes.
Dragon Ball Breaker is expected to launch in 2022 and will land on the Switch/PC/PS4/Xbox One platform.
This interview was co-authored by Rmisser.