More updated info on the Uprising expansion pack. Straight from a developer

Just wanted to share some more info I found taken from a EA developer who is working on this. Thought Id share it with this community.

POST1
"As APOC mentioned, Uprising will not have a multiplayer component and thus will not split the MP community.

However, we will be releasing maps from the expansion into MP circulation via RA3 base game patches.

Like Angelic said, it's essentially making a SP expansion pack and then giving free stuff away to our MP fanbase!

Also, for those of you who know us, the Challenge mode is being spearheaded by the illustrious Gavin Simon, so there will be some significantly challenging missions in there that will require stellar micro with the new units! Even if you're a hardcore, MP-only kind of person, you might find a decent challenge in there, and some really awesome gameplay nuances! "

POST2
"The great majority (60%+) of the new maps have been designed to be ranked 1v1 or 2v2 maps and were designed based off of the feedback we've gotten on our current map rotations. The intent is to add to the automatch rotation and focus on the map-specific gameplay elements that we've seen working well on the current maps. Currently the expansion features 12 new 1v1 and 13 new 2v2 maps, though the numbers have not yet been finalized.

Additionally, many of the 2v2 maps focus on specific team strategies, rather than FFA rules. There are even a few asymmetrical competetive maps and the return of some old favorites"

POST3
"This is not a Multiplayer expansion Nukestrike, it's too soon for that =)

I think everyone at GameReplays will want to focus on the Commanders Challenge and new units in skirmish.

Also, if anyone thinks someone will make an RA3 Uprising Mod for the base game with our new units, then they deserve a cookie and a banana. I am fairly certain that is bound to happen. Hence another reason why I love our community."

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hapkido112 wrote:Also, if anyone thinks someone will make an RA3 Uprising Mod for the base game with our new units, then they deserve a cookie and a banana. I am fairly certain that is bound to happen. Hence another reason why I love our community."

Then what's the whole point of people buying the expansion in the first place?

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dky.tehkingd.u wrote:

hapkido112 wrote:Also, if anyone thinks someone will make an RA3 Uprising Mod for the base game with our new units, then they deserve a cookie and a banana. I am fairly certain that is bound to happen. Hence another reason why I love our community."

Then what's the whole point of people buying the expansion in the first place?

maybe EA want modders to make it for RA3 instead of EA getting their lazy asses to put it on MP and balance it

Like Angelic said, it's essentially making a SP expansion pack and then giving free stuff away to our MP fanbase!

So a future patch or something will include these units to vRA3?

Zhen wrote:

Like Angelic said, it's essentially making a SP expansion pack and then giving free stuff away to our MP fanbase!

So a future patch or something will include these units to vRA3?

i think me mean that mods can grab the units and add to vRA3

Hopefully by the time Uprising is released, the new maps are more colorful and asymmetrical. Plus have more player slots.

Don't really care if Uprising has its new units and whole campaign "mod-ported" over to vanilla base. It'll quiet down the vanilla guys.

Developers have the time and experience to craft out single player missions. Modders usually work at their own free time. That's why most mods are usually inferior to the original product. The good ones take years and many people to make.

What im gonna hate is that they are gonna end up making the Multiplayer expansion pack later that will just be uprising with multiplayer in it.
They should just make it in the game already. How hard is it to enable it in multiplayer?

hapkido112 wrote:What im gonna hate is that they are gonna end up making the Multiplayer expansion pack later that will just be uprising with multiplayer in it.
They should just make it in the game already. How hard is it to enable it in multiplayer?

That's a possibility but something they will not work on in the near future i.e. only until after uprising has been released.

As mentioned above the reason why they will not include multilayer in uprising is so they do not split the community where there is a separate multilayer RA3 and uprising base.

It does make sense why they will not include multilayer in uprising for these reasons:
1) If they DID then the people who bought RA3, like us, will feel jibbed that people who buy the expansion can get the benefits of both multilayer (that covers the RA3 base game entirely) and SP at HALF the PRICE of the original RA3. (I know that they won't get the original RA3 SP but still that is way too good a value).

2) It gives people who have not bought RA3 yet the chance to have a taste of SP in the expansion so that it can help them make an informed decision as to whether they want to "upgrade" so to speak and buy the original RA3 in order to play multilayer and continue the fun they had in the SP expansion with the new units of course.

Secondary

3) It gives the devs time to balance the new uprising units for multiplayer

all those devs update info is from gr . org ? why they didnt say all this here too thats kinda weird and disapointing . hapkido112 maybe your one of developers?

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hapkido112 wrote:What im gonna hate is that they are gonna end up making the Multiplayer expansion pack later that will just be uprising with multiplayer in it.

For all we know they won't be using the same new units for the MP BP. A few of them will no doubt be so unbalanced that they will never even think about adding those to the MP BP.

hapkido112 wrote:They should just make it in the game already. How hard is it to enable it in multiplayer?

Why should they? It would come out later, split up the community and will most likely make the balance worse.

all those devs update info is from gr . org ? why they didnt say all this here too thats kinda weird and disapointing . hapkido112 maybe your one of developers?

They pretty much never post here

And hap is not a dev. He's quoting Jeremy Feasel.

thats sad
i just wonder why its is like that . hey maybe evilcocumber or w.e dude name have is dev ? that would explain a lot .

Jeremy Feasel makes some of the strangest comments on GR. Like explaining the difference between why waveforce can shatter ice, and why spectrum can't.

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hapkido112 wrote:

Also, if anyone thinks someone will make an RA3 Uprising Mod for the base game with our new units, then they deserve a cookie and a banana. I am fairly certain that is bound to happen. Hence another reason why I love our community."

In other words: You douchebags finish the game for us we are too lazy and wanna make easy monniez lolktnxbai.

Lol the people who will make those mods don't deserve a cookie and a banana, but Apoc's yearly paycheck times 10.

hapkido112 wrote:
"The great majority (60%+) of the new maps have been designed to be ranked 1v1 or 2v2 maps

There are even a few asymmetrical competetive maps

WTF This is a singleplayer expansion, the last thing I want to see is symmetrical maps!

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