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00:06Hello my friends and welcome back to PlayStation Underground.
00:09We are playing Killstrain on PS4
00:11and I am joined by Tony and Pierre from San Diego Studio.
00:14Hello gentlemen.
00:15Good day.
00:15Thank you for joining me today.
00:17We are right in the middle of a match we just started.
00:19Tony is playing as a mutant.
00:21This is an asymmetrical multiplayer competitive game.
00:25Tony, tell me a little bit about what we are seeing right now.
00:28So basically KS, Killstrain, is kind of a top down,
00:33twin stick shooter-esque kind of game.
00:36It's got a twist on it.
00:37Three teams.
00:39Two humans, two human teams, one mutant team.
00:41And basically what you are seeing me doing right now is this guy
00:44really doesn't know what he is doing.
00:45He is coming into the strain.
00:46He is probably going to get killed.
00:48He is definitely going to die right now.
00:50So basically I am the solo mutant.
00:54So yeah, you are one team in and of itself right now.
00:57Yes, correct.
00:57So take a look at a quick scoreboard.
00:59We've got blue and we've got yellow and then you've got me.
01:02And essentially my job is to kind of roll around, troll people, kill humans,
01:06stop them from doing what they do.
01:09And then eventually as the match progresses I get stronger
01:12and then I can actually turn them from humans into mutants and bring them onto my team.
01:16Beautiful.
01:17Yeah.
01:18And there is some MOBA elements in Killstrain.
01:21I mean, there's definitely a taste of that outside of the asymmetrical setup.
01:26Yeah, absolutely.
01:27So we've removed a lot of the more, I don't know, I don't want to say complex aspects of the
01:32MOBA.
01:32Some of the nitty gritty.
01:33Yeah.
01:34It's been streamlined.
01:35Streamlined.
01:35Exactly.
01:36And so basically you've got your character has levels in game.
01:40As you go on you gain experience.
01:42You progress.
01:43You become stronger.
01:44I might die.
01:46And then as the match progresses itself it just becomes a little bit more of a snowball.
01:51So like combat times early in the match are slower.
01:53I'm trying to regen health and that's what I'm doing is dance.
01:55And then combat times in the end of the match are much quicker.
02:01And so it definitely escalates and accelerates as the match goes on.
02:05And it looks like you're trying to kind of gain territory as well with spreading the…
02:09Yeah.
02:10So one of the other cool things about Killstrain is this stuff that I'm standing in right now is strain.
02:14This is not.
02:15So when I'm in the strain I go invisible.
02:17I also regenerate health.
02:19If a human goes into the strain they move slower and they take damage.
02:24Okay.
02:24So it's not a good place for a human character to be one of the mercenaries.
02:28Okay.
02:30Oh, no.
02:31You're in trouble.
02:32Tony, no.
02:33Tony, no.
02:34I died.
02:35Respawn in five.
02:36Sorry.
02:37I can spectate my other teammates.
02:38Oh, wait a minute.
02:39It's just me.
02:42One is the loneliest number.
02:43One is the loneliest number.
02:45So, yeah.
02:46It's fun though, right?
02:47And it's definitely, you know, as a designer it's one of the more difficult things that
02:50we've had to balance is how do you make somebody powerful but then not completely overpowered
02:55once they get a turn.
02:57Nope.
02:58Now there's obviously a lot of different mercenaries to choose from in Killstrain.
03:01is there only one mutant?
03:03No.
03:03Oh, okay.
03:04Yeah, we have multiple mutants as well.
03:05Okay.
03:06It all kind of depends on what you like and what you're feeling.
03:08Okay.
03:10Come on.
03:11This guy.
03:12This guy's light on his toes.
03:14Let's just say that.
03:15He is.
03:16There we go.
03:17There we go.
03:18Now, does that mean all of a sudden you have another player in your party?
03:22No, not at all.
03:23It's just right now.
03:24So, there's a little orange bar around my health bar.
03:28Yes.
03:28And when that fills up then I can actually turn somebody.
03:30Okay.
03:30So, for now basically I'm just trying to get kills, deal damage, do XP.
03:36Nice.
03:37Well done.
03:37And then that will fill that bar quicker.
03:40I love that as the mutant you sort of have a very unique perspective on the map and that
03:46you have all these places to use stealth and health regen to your advantage.
03:51whereas where it's kind of like a boon for you it's the complete opposite for the mercenaries.
03:55Yeah.
03:56And then as it progresses they'll try to and actually I can see it up here.
03:58It looks like someone is doing something.
04:00So, you can see they've actually killed some of these big pods and now the strain over here
04:05is gone where it actually used to be.
04:07Okay.
04:07So, they can push into the strain and kind of chip away at your territory.
04:11Yeah.
04:11It's very much a virtual tug of war.
04:14Okay.
04:14That's what I like to call it actually.
04:15I like that.
04:15I like that.
04:18And then as I put down strain they're trying to remove the strain.
04:24Pierre has something to say.
04:26I saw you lift your hand.
04:27Nope.
04:27Target selection.
04:28Target selection.
04:29Tony had an easy target.
04:33And then what are the kind of, you know, we don't have to get into it here,
04:36but what are the win states for each side?
04:38Like how can each team come to victory?
04:40So, that's a hot topic.
04:41That is a hot topic.
04:43It's subject to change without notice.
04:45No, no, no.
04:46Let me answer.
04:47Oh, here we go.
04:48Pierre, do it.
04:49Rock on, man.
04:51The idea is, and Tony, can you just quickly shift to the scoreboard?
04:55The idea is the winner of this game, of this match, is the guy who is on top of the
04:59leaderboard.
05:00Okay.
05:02The way I call this game is incredibly morally challenged if you really pursue that,
05:06because you can convince the remainder of your team that you play a team game,
05:11but in all honesty you're trying to be on top of the leaderboard and trying to finish the game as
05:15quickly as possible.
05:15What we have is ending stages.
05:18So, as you can see on the map, you have a blue, a yellow, and a red circle on the
05:23map.
05:23Yes, yes.
05:23These are basically the individual bases.
05:26So, what you can do is you can destroy one of those bases and that ends the game.
05:31Okay.
05:31Ideally, you want to do this when you're on top of the leaderboard,
05:34because that means you get the biggest amount of soft currency or loot or reward at the end of the
05:38game.
05:39Okay.
05:39So, we refer to them at the moment as ending stages.
05:43So, you want to trigger the end stages when you feel you have the best possible chance to finish on
05:48top of the leaderboard.
05:49Okay.
05:49Excellent.
05:50So, even though you are in teams, it is very much also you trying to balance out wanting to be
05:54the best of the entire three teams.
05:57We call it teams out of convenience, not out of convenience.
06:01Simply because, honestly, if you have a chance to finish top, you will do anything to finish top and even
06:07sell out some of your teammates when it has to be.
06:10Interesting.
06:11Oh my, oh my.
06:12I feel like that's going to ruin some friendships at some point.
06:16100%.
06:16Or build new ones.
06:19Oh, careful, Tony.
06:20Nice escape.
06:23Yeah.
06:23This character, for instance, of Web360, is playing a character called Katrina.
06:28She has stealth abilities.
06:31Oh, no.
06:32Oh, that's not going to end well for you, Tony.
06:34Well played.
06:34Oh, my gosh.
06:35I can't believe you got out of there.
06:36Well played.
06:37When that hair of health is the only thing left.
06:39Yeah, and you saw a perfect example of when I talk about the different dynamics.
06:42Both characters attacked Tony, but they were on opposing teams.
06:46And then when Tony was out of range, they started to fight each other.
06:50Fight each other.
06:50Yeah.
06:50So you will see a lot of those dynamics.
06:52And then I think, honestly, for me, that's the spice of the game.
06:56Because you can change the situation in a heartbeat.
07:00So you need strain.
07:01So if you see the square over the character, that's the sign for Tony that he can drag him into
07:06the strain and turn him into a mutant.
07:10And there's a lot, man, there's a lot going on in the screen right now.
07:13It looks like the mercenaries have the ability to call down sort of exoskeletons or mech suits, right?
07:18Yeah, they're all mech suits.
07:18Yeah.
07:18So they deposit what we call the arcs.
07:22So in the bottom of the screen, you see the two circles, a golden and a blue circle.
07:27Yes.
07:28These are the arc generating drill stations.
07:31Okay.
07:31And where the mercenaries take those arcs and deposit them in the center of the screen in a drop-off
07:36point,
07:37which has to be kept by one or the other team in order to drop them off.
07:40I see.
07:40Okay.
07:41These arcs then generate, ultimately, a number of arcs generate the mech suits.
07:44Okay.
07:45Gotcha.
07:46And also these are the best weapon systems which allow you to go into the strain and pursue the mutants
07:50deep into the strain without getting hurt.
07:52I see.
07:52Okay.
07:53And so there's yet another wrinkle in that both the blue and the gold.
07:57Is it gold or yellow?
07:58What do you guys like to say?
07:59Two mustard.
08:00Mustard.
08:00Team mustard.
08:02Mustard and ice chips.
08:04They are also kind of playing tug of war for that center area as well.
08:09Control area.
08:09Okay.
08:10In order to activate the most powerful weapon in the game.
08:13Absolutely.
08:14So Tony's trying to turn him and he will die.
08:16I'm trying so hard right now I'm going to die.
08:19You came close though.
08:21You were near steps away from the strain.
08:25I had a feeling that it wasn't going to actually go very well.
08:28But sometimes you just have to reach for it man.
08:31Sometimes you just got to reach.
08:33We have the same.
08:34Mistakes were made.
08:35Yeah.
08:35That was definitely a mistake.
08:37Yeah.
08:38So one of the biggest I guess speed bump for the solo mutant is that first turn.
08:43I don't want to say it gets monumentally easier after that but having a teammate is amazing.
08:48Yeah.
08:49Because you're not just out there doing it all by yourself.
08:50Absolutely.
08:51So really your role right now in combat is to try and isolate and exterminate like a lone mercenary so
08:57you can pull them into the strain.
08:59That's right.
08:59Okay.
09:00And is the...
09:01I can.
09:02I just spread turn.
09:03Is the way you turn someone to bring them into the strain after a certain point in the match?
09:07Yep.
09:08So basically once I have the ability to turn I get the little...
09:12That bar fills up and then when somebody is downed I can essentially drag them into the strain.
09:18I see.
09:19I see you.
09:20I see you.
09:21I see you.
09:22I'm not going to catch you but I see you.
09:24So there was an ability which that mercenary has for a short period of time he can get invisible.
09:29Okay.
09:31Nope.
09:31Here's a Katrina.
09:32Walk us through some of the other abilities that this mutant has.
09:35Does this mutant have a designation or a name?
09:37Yeah.
09:37This is Reaper.
09:39Reaper.
09:39Okay.
09:39His big thing is his execute which sometimes you'll see him.
09:43We've dubbed it the people's elbow in the studio and he just kind of goes up and drops the elbow.
09:48and basically what it does...
09:50This guy is going to get turned.
09:53Wait.
09:54That's all right.
09:54I'll wait for it.
09:55You got to be patient.
09:56And basically what he does is it does a certain amount of damage based off the health that the unit
10:01has missing.
10:02Okay.
10:03And so the lower they are on the health the more damage it does.
10:05I see.
10:06Excellent.
10:07So like this guy came in and he's trying to be like oh I'm going to attack the base but
10:10you come out of the mech suit with the same amount of health as when you went in.
10:14And he's in trouble.
10:15Yeah.
10:15And you will die.
10:15So now he's dead.
10:16And now he's turned.
10:18So that was a wicked mistake.
10:20That was it?
10:21Oh my goodness.
10:22Oh goodness.
10:23Oh no sir.
10:24I'm so sorry.
10:25It's okay.
10:26Holy smokes.
10:27There's a lot of really violent stuff going on there.
10:29Now is this character also a Reaper then?
10:33No.
10:34Okay.
10:34It's a different mutant type called Gridlock.
10:37Okay.
10:38But the interesting part is the game continues for that person who just got turned.
10:43Okay.
10:44So I think that's one of the unique aspects of our game.
10:47You start off as a mercenary and normally the game is over when something catastrophic like this happens.
10:53That guy can continue playing in a different style as a melee character with different abilities.
10:57Awesome.
10:58So that's one of the really interesting aspects of our game.
11:01I think you can actually have different gameplay experience in one session which is good.
11:07And then at the beginning of the match when we jumped in you guys were like oh okay cool we're
11:11playing mutant.
11:12Do you kind of select who you would like to be but then the game matches you up to one
11:17of the three teams?
11:18Absolutely right.
11:18I mean we make you select a mercenary and a mutant type.
11:22Okay.
11:23Gotcha.
11:24And that way it's kind of a roll of the dice and to see where you're playing.
11:28All right ladies and gentlemen through the power of editing we have jumped right into another match where now Tony
11:32is playing as a mercenary.
11:34So you get the other side of the battle.
11:36We are on the ice chips team.
11:39Informally the blue team up here.
11:41But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about Killstrain kind of as a MOBA but how that
11:46functions on PS4 with a DualShock for kind of opening up to more people.
11:51What do you think?
11:52I mean not to mention that MOBA as a genre is very new to the platform.
11:57But I think the DualShock gives you some of the textual context for your controls over the character which you
12:05normally would have to work with hours and hours of muscle control on a keyboard.
12:08Exactly.
12:08What was lived normally on a PC.
12:10And I think what the guys have done so far is a really good adaptation of what we're trying the
12:16user to experience and giving him all the controls at the same time.
12:20The key really to all of this is right thumb needs to be on right thumb stick.
12:26Please.
12:27So that's just one of the...
12:28Even now we have play tests with the heads of our studio and Rody.
12:35One of those pieces which we bring up every time.
12:37Please, right thumb.
12:38And after a while, especially Scott is one of those guys who loves to troll the living snot out of
12:44me, he takes the thumb off just to see what my reaction is.
12:48Also he does a lot of things like just shooting at the strain with having an arc on his back.
12:52All of this stuff.
12:53And now tell us a little bit about this mercenary that we're looking at now and kind of how they
12:57fit into the tapestry of the battle.
12:59Oh, right on.
13:00So this is Hacksaw.
13:02He is one of our juggernaut characters which are also known in other games as tanks.
13:06So he's got a little bit more health, a little bit less movement speed.
13:09But he actually borders kind of on the line of a juggernaut slash soldier because he still has pretty good
13:13damage output.
13:14Okay. Very nice.
13:16He is...
13:17Please tell me you can get on that thing and ride it.
13:18I wish.
13:20That would be amazing.
13:21I don't know.
13:22I just look like a hoverboard.
13:23So I thought that's what we were going for.
13:25It would be so good.
13:25Well, you can throw that in, you know.
13:27Yeah, we'll put that in.
13:27Just email the team.
13:28I'm sure they can throw that together in like an hour.
13:30We're going to need a hoverboard.
13:31Yeah.
13:31Just get that hoverboard in there.
13:32Get an engineer and an animator and make it happen.
13:36I'm sure...
13:36No.
13:36I'm sure you can do all of it yourself, right?
13:38Absolutely.
13:40A couple check boxes.
13:41Is this a hoverboard?
13:42Yes.
13:43It's a check box.
13:44It's a check box.
13:44A hoverboard check box.
13:46Got it.
13:46All right, guys.
13:47Wrap it up.
13:48We're good.
13:48Somewhere in Excel.
13:50So now that we are on the other side of the battle, you are not only fighting the opposing
13:55mercenary team, but you're also trying to, you know, survive the mutant attacks as well.
13:59Exactly.
13:59So what is your strategy in early game as a mercenary?
14:03So the first thing you need to do is you have to make sure that, one, you control both
14:07this top point that I'm at, which is the drop-off location, and your bottom point, which
14:11once you kind of capture it these days, it's pretty easy to just kind of hold on to.
14:16That's not great.
14:16But your main goal is to take these resources, which is on my back, and actually I'm probably
14:21going to take two and juggle them, and run those up to the top of the map, and then drop
14:26them off.
14:27Reason B.
14:28Oh.
14:29Hang on a second.
14:31So, Pierre, how do you feel like Tony is doing right now?
14:35He missed the fact that a mutant was coming down the lane and wanted to juggle the resource.
14:41And mistakes were made.
14:42Mistakes were made.
14:43Right thumb, stick, please.
14:44Exactly.
14:45Why did you do that, Tony?
14:46Because I wasn't paying attention.
14:47Max suit available.
14:48Max suit available.
14:49Look at that.
14:50It's nice, though, that you have the healing hoverboard to help you.
14:53I do have the healing hoverboard.
14:54It would only be better if I could ride it into glory.
14:59Tell me a little bit more about some of the other mercenaries that you guys have in your
15:03lineup right now.
15:04Yeah, totally.
15:05So, for the way the game is at right now, we have a pretty decent…
15:10Hang on.
15:12A pretty…
15:12I'm going to die.
15:13Focus.
15:14Max suit.
15:14Max suit.
15:15Now.
15:17Wow.
15:18Web 360.
15:19Mistakes were made.
15:20He had a max suit.
15:21What I was hoping is that he triggers the max suit and actually survives the
15:24onslaught from three different sites.
15:26Yeah.
15:26So, one of the things that you can do, like you get low on health, you hit score, you
15:29call in your max suit, kind of save the day card, but there was the two Team Mustard
15:34on me as well as the mutant and it just wasn't happening.
15:36Do you want to talk and should I play?
15:38No, it's good, man.
15:39It's good.
15:40I'm at the middle of the scoreboard right where I should be.
15:44Yeah.
15:44I should not come in here and just destroy our community because that's a bad vibe.
15:48Absolutely.
15:49Yeah, they always say middle of the road is the way to go.
15:52Pull back.
15:52That's our saying here on PlayStation Underground.
15:55Why be at the top when you can be nice in the middle?
15:58It's right there in the middle.
15:59I love the way you think.
16:00Yeah.
16:00I really try and spin these things as best I can.
16:04You aim low, you hit mid, and then you feel like you really hit high even though you didn't.
16:08So tell me a little bit more about as the match progresses.
16:12Kind of remind me again what the mercenaries should be doing.
16:15They're pushing into the strain.
16:17They're trying to dominate the playing field and control points below.
16:22Anything else that they should be doing?
16:24Kind of mid to late game.
16:25Yeah, so your mid to late game is, well we're actually already in mid game right now because
16:30we're past the five minute point.
16:31We have mechs.
16:32As a human is to, like I said, kind of run those resources.
16:36Bring it up here to the top of the map with the mech suits.
16:39Push back the strain the best you can.
16:41And then work your way either into the mutant base or head over to the human base.
16:47and then eventually destroy one of the bases to end the game.
16:51And so right now, again, I'm just trying to run those resources up and down,
16:54but I keep hitting a lot of opposition, whether it's the mutant or it's the yellow team.
16:58Beautiful.
16:58So one of the downsides as the juggernauts, like I said earlier, is he moves slower.
17:02Right, exactly.
17:03So for, you know, you saw web 360.
17:06He's playing our quote unquote sniper.
17:08So I'm a much easier target for him to hit than some of these other guys.
17:11I'm bigger, I'm slower, and they do really, really good damage.
17:15But you're also his absolute counter.
17:17I am his absolute counter.
17:18If I can get in close on web or Katrina, he's playing the character Katrina,
17:23and I can do a leap and land on him, it's over.
17:26Because by the time I get the damage off the leap, I'll do a 360 cleave,
17:30which puts a bleed on him, which will deal damage over time.
17:33And then at that point.
17:35There's a lot of terminology.
17:36Actually, I followed it though.
17:38I think I followed it.
17:39Damage over time, bleed, cleave, leap.
17:42I think I did that in reverse order.
17:44Before we wrap up our episode today, I just wanted to touch on a little bit
17:48of the kind of the strategy outside the arena.
17:52Like you guys, you know, we don't want to show it now
17:54because I wanted to show you guys some of the mercenary side,
17:56but tell us a little bit about like the choices and decisions you make
17:59when you're in the menu and kind of picking your strategy there.
18:03So Killstrain has a few different ways of progression, to call it what it is.
18:08We have masteries and we have augments.
18:10Okay.
18:10Masteries are character specific.
18:12So for an example for Hacksaw, as soon as I get out of this, I set it up so his
18:17leap ability,
18:19the cooldown is reduced so I can do it more often.
18:22Okay.
18:22Sweet.
18:23Oh, gosh.
18:24Hello, mutant.
18:25And then I set his cleave ability, which is that 360, to do more damage.
18:31Okay.
18:31And the reason I do that is because I like to leap in on somebody
18:34and then do the cleave.
18:35Yeah.
18:36Damage over time.
18:37Boom.
18:37Oh, there you go.
18:38You got it.
18:38Got it all.
18:39Exactly.
18:40It's like I was listening or something.
18:41I was listening.
18:41It's paying attention.
18:42What a ridiculous call.
18:43And those were the augments, sorry, or the masteries?
18:46You weren't listening.
18:46No, I'm just kidding.
18:47Those were the masteries because they're very character specific.
18:51Okay.
18:51And then we have augments, which are a little bit more agnostic
18:55and you can kind of put them on whatever.
18:58Terence 360 is around.
18:59Oh, he is around.
19:00God, that guy.
19:01I saw him just getting off the drop station.
19:05And then the augments are a little bit more of a blanket.
19:07But what I'll do for Hacksaw, it's like we have one augment,
19:11it's called Curbstomp.
19:12And it's basically after you use crowd control on somebody,
19:16you deal more damage.
19:18Well, Hacksaw's cleave actually slows down the opponent,
19:21so it's considered crowd control.
19:23So not only do I get the additional damage from the cleave mastery,
19:26I also get the additional damage from that augment.
19:30And then there's another one that's called, I think it's Plan B,
19:33which is whenever you use a movement ability, which is the leap,
19:36you also do more damage.
19:38So you can kind of layer all these things together to make different builds
19:42depending on what you want to do.
19:44Some characters like Sylvan, this is this guy right here in front of me
19:47that just jumped.
19:49He is the fastest character in the game.
19:51And some players enjoy doing what he's doing
19:54and running resources back and forth.
19:56His one is a really good source of score.
19:58I'm not sure where he's at.
19:59He's actually right below me, but he has zero kills
20:01and he's still right below me.
20:03And then what they'll do is use masteries that will enhance his movement speed,
20:10as well as...
20:14I shouldn't be doing this, but I'm going too.
20:16Oh, gosh.
20:18You went right.
20:18Oh, gosh.
20:19Oh, well.
20:20But they'll use masteries that will enhance their movement speed,
20:22or if they do things like when they deliver a canister,
20:25they'll get a movement speed bump,
20:26which essentially will allow them to run more canisters
20:30and deliver more resources.
20:32Beautiful.
20:33Well, the enemy base integrity is at 75%.
20:35It is.
20:36I say that's the perfect time for us to end our episode
20:38of PlayStation Underground with completely just my decision.
20:42Outstanding.
20:42Tony, Pierre, thank you guys so much for being here.
20:44Thank you for having us.
20:45to us about Killstrain.
20:47Killstrain is coming to PS4.
20:49If you want to learn more, if you want a chance to get into the beta,
20:52go to killstrain.com for information.
20:55And I think that's about it, right, gentlemen?
20:57Yeah, sounds good.
20:58Thank you guys so much.
20:59This has been PlayStation Underground.
21:00We will see you next time.
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