The Factor: Remastered Removes Scripted Infections for NPCs

Nightdive Studios’ The Factor: Remastered will obtain new particulars on the PC Gaming Present: Most Wished subsequent week. Nonetheless, in an interview with Syfy Wire, Mark Atkinson, the unique sport’s director, revealed a large high quality of life change: No extra scripted infections for NPCs.

In The Factor, NPCs may very well be contaminated, resulting in them “bursting out” and turning into monstrous creatures. Nonetheless, even if you happen to protected them throughout battles, they’d nonetheless burst out in an infection as a part of scripted sequences.

“Scripted burst-outs of beforehand uninfected NPCs had been one of many largest complaints within the unique video games. In The Factor: Remastered, we eliminated them completely and as an alternative make some NPCs extra vulnerable to an infection, and in the event that they nonetheless survive, they’re so traumatized they cower and ‘crack up’.” “Crack up” on this context refers back to the victims getting into an unstable state, which might result in suicide, coronary heart assaults, or attacking different NPCs.

Nightdive’s software program engineer Josh Dowell added, “The an infection system was applied and obtainable within the unique sport, however there have been just a few locations the place squadmates would turn into contaminated and burst out for no cause, which gamers actually disliked. We eliminated these, so squad mates could solely turn into contaminated by direct contact with a Factor beast.”

That is excellent news for the remaster and will considerably alter the course of the story. There’s nonetheless no launch date exterior of “this yr”, however we might get a shadow drop on December fifth. Keep tuned till then.

The Factor: Remastered is coming to Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Swap. Take a look at the primary gameplay trailer right here.