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Injustice: Gods Among Us - Play against DLC characters without buying, auto-tweaks and no on-disc DLC
- game will connect to the internet whenever it's played
- will download the information required so you can play against those who use DLC characters, even if you haven't bought them
"In Mortal Kombat we had downloadable characters. We want to come up with a way to push all that information onto people's machines so if I buy some character that was available for download, you would have it on your machine and I would be able to fight against you online. We're coming up with a great automated system to make sure I can use my character against anybody and everything's compatible." - Ed Boon
Boon also confirmed that any DLC made available for the game will actually be DLC, instead of on-disc content that gets unlocked.
"All of the DLC stuff will be downloadable. We're not going to have it on the disc already and you unlock it. We want to make sure we get it onto people's machines."
Finally, Boon discussed the system at work that allows your game to be updated and tweaked without you actually having to manually download anything.
"It'll be all in the background. We can tune nobs and get it on everybody's machine. Let's say there's a punch, and you animate it at a certain speed. If you decide the punch is too fast, we have the ability to go into that code and find the speed, let's say it's playing at 2x speed, we can change that to 1.8, or 1.7, and slow it down slightly for everybody's machine. Everybody's machine, when it goes online, it looks for any changes and then grabs them and puts them on the machine. That's the idea of keeping everybody the same. Inevitably with fighting games you can balance it as much as you can, but once millions of people get their hands on it, somebody will inevitably find advantages. So we can dial that down."
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- will download the information required so you can play against those who use DLC characters, even if you haven't bought them
"In Mortal Kombat we had downloadable characters. We want to come up with a way to push all that information onto people's machines so if I buy some character that was available for download, you would have it on your machine and I would be able to fight against you online. We're coming up with a great automated system to make sure I can use my character against anybody and everything's compatible." - Ed Boon
Boon also confirmed that any DLC made available for the game will actually be DLC, instead of on-disc content that gets unlocked.
"All of the DLC stuff will be downloadable. We're not going to have it on the disc already and you unlock it. We want to make sure we get it onto people's machines."
Finally, Boon discussed the system at work that allows your game to be updated and tweaked without you actually having to manually download anything.
"It'll be all in the background. We can tune nobs and get it on everybody's machine. Let's say there's a punch, and you animate it at a certain speed. If you decide the punch is too fast, we have the ability to go into that code and find the speed, let's say it's playing at 2x speed, we can change that to 1.8, or 1.7, and slow it down slightly for everybody's machine. Everybody's machine, when it goes online, it looks for any changes and then grabs them and puts them on the machine. That's the idea of keeping everybody the same. Inevitably with fighting games you can balance it as much as you can, but once millions of people get their hands on it, somebody will inevitably find advantages. So we can dial that down."
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