Hybrid Press: All the news fit to blog

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A compilation of any relevant / non-redundant development and preview info and hands-on beta previews and videos; intended as a one-stop info shop as far as official and video game press is concerned.

I'll try and keep this updated up to the street date to promote informed general discussion of the beta.

DEVELOPMENT & PREVIEW ARTICLES

Ars Technica
2011 GDC "The enemy gate is down: 5th Cell debuts innovative shooter Hybrid"
An early look at Hybrid: Ground based movement and other content destined for revision. The Battle Room comparison turned out to be more apt than they realized!

Game Trailers:
4/12 Side Mission "Hybrid's Drones Bring Depth, Domination to the Battlefield"
Drone concepts in-depth

Kotaku:
Jeremiah's new column "Ask a Video Game Developer Anything":
3/21 First installment (general Q&A)
4/12 Second installment call for questions (not too late?)
4/26 Article "In Hybrid, Players Wage A New World War Every Couple Weeks"
Observations and speculations on the faction battle macro game, favorable comparisons to other disc feature and XBLA titles.

Game Informer
4/25 Interview "5th Cell's Jeremiah Slaczka On Hybrid"
Information about the persistent faction war system, and drone limits: ..."with the addition of up to 18 Drones on the field, it can actually make for a much bigger game than you would anti****te."

Destructoid
4/26 Article "Preview: A fresh take on cover-based warfare with Hybrid"
Team victory perks in the persistent faction battle are mentioned.

Joystiq
4/26 Article "Skyrockets in flight, Hybrid is a delight"
Nothing new to mention, but this article wins Internet for most lame headline reference in a Hybrid preview.

XBLA Fans
4/26 "Details about the Upcoming Hybrid Beta"
Emessai's beta infosheet. IMPORTANT: The post details say the beta is for US only but according to our resident 5th Cell developer and forum ninja there's a way to get in get in:

So, there are certain restrictions Microsoft puts on their betas. In order to make this beta available to people outside of the US, we need to specify that you use NA settings. Thankfully you can change this

Here is a tutorial: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906497

The beta will be lasting about 2.5 weeks.

VIDEOS: PREVIEWS

11/1/10 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_whOLi6fi0"]Hybrid Teaser Trailer"
Official teaser, retrieved from Machinima's Youtube channel

3/4/11 "Hybrid Multiplayer Redefined"
Official announcement trailer, retrieved from XBLAFans

1/31/12 "Hybrid - 2012 Trailer"
Official release announcement trailer on 5th Cell's Vimeo / official Hybrid site

3/17/12 "Hybrid - Beta Trailer"
Official beta trailer on 5th Cell's Vimeo / official Hybrid site

VIDEOS: DEV GAMEPLAY PREVIEW AND COMMENTARY

4/13/12 "Hybrid GT Exclusive Walkthrough HD"
Beta developer walkthrough video on [I]Gametrailers.com[I] with CEO / Creative Director Jeremiah Slaczka

4/26/12 "Hybrid - Well Worth the Wait"
Beta developer walkthrough / interview (interthrough? walkerview?) video on Gamespot with Hybrid producer Caleb Ars enaux

4/26/12 "Hybrid Developer Demo"
Beta developer demo on Games Radar with Caleb.

Credits: Lever for posting the 4/25 GameInformer interview; Yurmit for the 4/26 Joystiq, Destructoid and Kotaku articles; Emessai & XBLA Fans for the beta info sheet and link; GodlyPerfection for the 15-minute Gamespot video link.

Big Ups to Lever again for keeping track of all the rest of the videos since at least a month ago.

[XxSteelPhoenixX]

Sweet. Glad to see that you actually did it. Not like some people

[Lever]

Sweet. Glad to see that you actually did it. Not like some people

I've been updating the video thread as they've been coming to my attention, but I can't catch everything. Honestly I hadn't thought to collect the other aspects of coverage. Great idea External!

[GodlyPerfection]

You can always count on Exem to be a strong asset to the community. Great work bro.

[Lever]

Just noticed this.

GameIformer, on the website. I'm pretty sure it's the same article from their magazine.

5th Cell's Jeremiah Slaczka On Hybrid

Wait a sec, the article says " And with the addition of up to 18 Drones on the field, it can actually make for a much bigger game than you would anti****te."

I thought that there could only be 12 drones. In fact, this pretty much confirmed 6 players + up to 12 drones.

The game is 3v3 only. The smaller maps and gameplay are all purposefully built around this concept. We want tight, frantic matches that focus on instant action, instead of travel time. Drones (AI) add a lot to round out the experience as well. Theoretically you could have 18 players/drones running around the map at any one time.

Am I mis-reading something?

Nevermind, Yurmit beat me to the Joystiq article. Lol

[Yurmit]

A nice write up appeared on Kotaku, today:

http://kotaku.com/5905420/in-hybrid-...y-couple-weeks

It has a bit of information on the persistent war meta-game. Thought this was interesting, too:

"Hybrid will be releasing a Beta this Friday, at which point players will have a chance to play three of the game's modes (there will eventually be 7), and 3 of the 10 maps that will be in the final game."

Cool.

Oooo...and another one on destructoid:

http://www.destructoid.com/preview-a...d-226503.phtml

Arrrrghhhhh...trying. not. to. be. excited.

Kablam, and now Joystiq:

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/26/sk...-is-a-delight/

[Neuvost]

Great! Thanks!

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Updates, from here and about. Be nice if I could change the thread title, oh well.

[external memory]

Just a quick update for anyone just now getting keys and looking for info: the beta will be up until Wednesday, May 9th (PDT)

Most of you already know, but since people might drop by here looking for more information about the beta before downloading / as they wait for it, thought I'd just leave that info here...