00:00Peggy 18
00:20Ok, so if you missed part 1 of this video
00:23You missed level design director Jeff Eleanor
00:26And myself, Zach Cooper
00:27The Splinter Cell community developer
00:29Playing as the Spies
00:30In Spies vs Merch Blacklist
00:32This is Particle Accelerator
00:35And we were able to capture 2 terminals
00:38In our playthrough as the Spies
00:40This is obviously now our chance
00:42We have to defend
00:43And we can already see that Terminal C is being hacked
00:47We've already covered some basic strategies
00:49Jeff, and some of the core philosophies
00:53Behind playing this game
00:54How it differs from your typical
00:57Multiplayer experience
00:58But how do things change from the first person perspective
01:01Being behind the gun as the Mercs?
01:03Right, and really as the Merc you want to leverage what you're good at
01:07Which is delivering damage downrange at a distance
01:10Spies are extremely dangerous up close
01:12And especially if you're underneath them
01:15So I'm going to use my tools here to keep them at a distance
01:20And make his life miserable
01:25I just used my flying drone there and got two spies actually
01:28They were both cuddled up there in the high spot
01:32So that brings up a pretty good point in terms of sticking together
01:35Communicating as a team
01:36You want to stay close but you don't want to get too close
01:39Talk to us about how that works
01:41Right, exactly
01:42Because as a spy you're strong when they don't know where you are
01:47So you're kind of putting all your eggs in one basket
01:48If you all get discovered together you can die as a team
01:53As the Mercenary though staying together is a completely different proposal
01:57I kind of want to be able to be around other Mercs
01:59So that I can see them and they can see me
02:02Because this
02:04There we go, we're going to A
02:07Because basically if I run through a doorway
02:10I'm putting myself at risk
02:13Doorways and choke points are dangerous
02:14So I want another Mercenary to cover my back
02:17In case there's a spy waiting to DFA me
02:20And that's another good point
02:21You want to make sure that you're not only checking your corners
02:24But you're looking up, you're looking down
02:27Exactly
02:28It's a dangerous game
02:30And there are many ways to go about it
02:32Many ways to die
02:34And I think one of the things that we want to showcase in this two-part video series
02:39Is also how to stay alive
02:41Now as the Mercs right now we know that this terminal is being hunted
02:45Our job is finding the Merc
02:47I've just been stunned on my screen
02:51Which leaves me very vulnerable to a melee kill
02:55What do you see on your screen?
02:57Where are you looking?
02:58We're clearly having some issues trying to find this spy
03:01And we're spread out pretty well
03:02In fact, yeah, we took the spy out
03:03I saw him up top
03:05Dropped the drone on him
03:06We're good to go
03:07I think he's back at the console
03:08But watch out
03:09All right
03:10So that was able to reset
03:11Which is good
03:12It puts us back at zero
03:15See the advantage of covering each other there
03:18Now that red silhouette you're seeing on the spy
03:21Is because I placed the tagging device earlier
03:23That intel device
03:24And as it pans around
03:26It's highlighting the spies
03:27You can see that here it is there
03:29They haven't discovered it and destroyed it yet
03:33Now I'm also, you know, playing a bit of a supporting role here
03:36I was using the special ability
03:39Oh
03:39Look out behind you
03:40Get your ass
03:41Termina
03:44Nice shoot
03:46Thank you for the warning
03:48It's a dead hack and a clear terminal
03:50So we're going to see
03:52And we're trying to make some magic happen here
03:54Yeah, reset
03:55Is there like one specific gadget that you deem to be a must-have
04:00When you're kind of customizing your Merc or playing as a Merc?
04:05Absolutely and ironically I don't have it right now
04:07My favorite must-have is actually the Proxymine
04:10It is such an evil device
04:12Because you can plant it really anywhere
04:14So it's about putting it in unexpected places
04:16And the next time I respawn I'm definitely going to use it
04:19So I just used one myself
04:21And I've put it right by the terminal
04:26So hopefully there's an unsuspecting person who walks by
04:29Now they're obviously going for a different one
04:30They're going for A now
04:31Basically they've lured us away to C
04:32Because we all went there
04:34And they're hacking back in the server room today
04:36So what I'm going to do quickly here
04:39Is that they still haven't discovered my Intel device
04:42I can see it still tagging them out there
04:46And from my perspective as a supporting cast
04:49When you tag it that means that I have access to all that info
04:54And I can see that there's a spy that's right here at the corner
04:57Trying to wait for me
04:58And I was able to pick them up
04:59And they did use smoke which disrupts my personal vision
05:02Which you can't see because we're watching
05:03And they restarted the hack successfully there
05:05All right
05:06So
05:07So what happened was
05:08We killed the hacker in the blind room
05:11But another hacker in the area restarted the hack
05:19I've also used my disruptor suit to hopefully render the
05:24Oh boy
05:25Now you didn't see it from my screen
05:27Or maybe you saw part of that
05:28But there was a spy who was trying to engage in a firefight with me
05:31Obviously in Spies vs. Mercs Blacklist
05:34The spies now have guns
05:35Absolutely
05:36Talk to us about the theory behind that
05:37But also really what it means for the gameplay
05:40It does change the game a bit compared to classic
05:43Because spies can be effective shooters
05:45But as you can see
05:48It's not a great face-to-face confrontation tool still for the spy
05:52It's the same gameplay
05:53It's just the gun becomes one of the tools they can use
05:59Oh there's another spy hanging out on the ledge here
06:02I'm down, I'm down
06:06Okay, so I just got killed there
06:08What I'm using right now is the respawn camera
06:11The security cameras inside the area
06:13You can tell that one of them has been damaged
06:15And I got static
06:16But I'm basically trying to find spies
06:19So that I can tell my teammates about them
06:23And I just bit the dust
06:25I'm going to go back in
06:27All right, so we've got about a minute and a half
06:29A little bit more than that
06:30What's your ideal play style
06:33And how much does it change at all mid-match?
06:35Are you changing loadouts based on how the opposition is?
06:37It changes a lot based on what my enemies are doing
06:39Especially in blacklist
06:43I just got stunned with the stun crossbow there
06:46I'm going to stay back and be ready
06:49But absolutely
06:53The way that I play the game
06:55Is extremely dependent on what my enemies are doing
07:00So now they're still searching for their first
07:03Oh, I just saw someone
07:08We're able to kill a defender
07:09We got a
07:10Oh, and I just got DFA'd
07:13Right behind you
07:15A little late
07:16Oh, oh
07:17Teammate got the kill
07:18Nice move, guys
07:19All right
07:20So now we're looking at the cameras
07:21And we can see that there was a guy
07:23Who's running on the top level
07:25I've actually got a spy right by the console
07:27So I'm going to tip them down
07:29Beautiful
07:34All right, so we're going to be able to take a look at how the customization works in the near
07:37future
07:39But if you could just give us a brief overview as to, you know, the presets
07:45And how they differ
07:46Because you're starting with three on each side
07:48The game right now is the hunter preset with the flying drone
07:53And basically what we do is we give the player three presets as the spy and three presets as the
07:57merc
07:58And it's part of our balancing strategy and also how we introduce people to the game
08:03So I've got right now on the merc team I've got the flying drone preset
08:07I've got the disruptor ability, which is what you're playing with
08:10That disables gadgets and electronics
08:13It's not over yet, there's still a hack in progress
08:15And finally there's the juicemaker, which has sort of a regenerative simulation patch
08:24That is a good tool against if spies are, a lot of spies are ganging up on you with guns
08:29Right
08:31So time is extended as they're trying to get their
08:33This happens once a hack is in progress, the time is extended
08:38So we have to stop the last hacker to stop the clock
08:48This triangle is coming up on my vision mode here
08:50It's because of the vision mode that I've equipped as the merc with this preset
08:56When people start using guns, they pop up as a little triangle on my screen
09:04Oh, I just got sliced
09:06Oh, somebody's a saboteur
09:08You see the saboteur spy shut down my flying drone there
09:12And how did they do that?
09:14And you just got
09:14It's like a torso ability, you press the right bumper
09:17It sends the disruptive EMP blast
09:20I think they might get this hack
09:21And then that's any electronic device
09:23Exactly, that would destroy my tagging device or proxy mines as well
09:3378%
09:34So we got three mercs coming in right now
09:36I've been detected
09:39All right, so we've got a good wad of mercs coming in
09:41We can cover each other
09:45We're about to lose our station
09:46Do something
09:49Where are we as far as the visual?
09:51Hacker up high
09:52Up high, that's
09:54There we go
09:55All right, so they got it
09:56They got it though
09:56But we still got the match
09:57They got one hack for dignity
09:59All right, that was a lot of fun
10:00Thanks for doing this, Jeff
10:01My pleasure
10:02All right, I'm Zach Cooper
10:03Your Splinter Cell community developer
10:04And this has been our first look
10:06In-depth
10:07At Spies vs. Mercs Blacklist
10:10Here at San Diego Comic-Con
10:11Sure, let's go
10:12Yeah
10:12That's okay
10:17All right
10:18Look at your
10:21That's fantastic
10:21Or We
10:22have
10:22questions Or
10:22Yes
10:22What's
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