Okay I see your point - we mainly use plasma. But don't tell me playing plasma is not skill based. Turok 2 is game of movement, it's not just random shooting. You can learn how to play against plasma players. As you can see in viedo below I'm not randomly spaming with plasma. It's not that easy to hit someone with plasma - you need good movement, not just aim. I could use other weapons - I just love plasma gameplay. And come on... Other weapons are way more "spam and pray" than plasma. Plasma is not a problem - just other weapons needs upgrade. Other weapons are also useful. I know players that are good with other weapons, and it's hard to use plasma against them. I agree that weapons should be more optimized but not at the cost of plasma. That's why we asked every aspect of multiplayer to be settable and that's why they should give beta pass to some regular T2 multi players so we could help them optimize all weapons without hurting plasma! Btw. It depends on servers settings, there are many possibilities to make other weapons more usefull: lower starting HP eg. 60, so plasma still can be one-shot killer, and it's easier to kill with other weapons, increased damage multiplier, lower pain limit, lower speed, etc.
 

Hopefully I'm not too late to this party. Here are my questions:

1 ) What's wrong with the network experience? It's much worse than if I play the 1999 PC version on servers in Germany (I am in NY, USA)
2 ) Where did taunts go?
3 ) Why can't I type any special characters in chat?
4 ) Why can't I disable auto-switch to new weapon in multiplayer? The setting is there, but it doesn't work
5 ) Why can't I disable camera bobbing while strafing? My character always leans to the left or right on strafe
6 ) What is up with the menu? No default settings? Esc takes you back through every part of the menu you touched before exiting??
7 ) Why can't the multiplayer rules be customized?
8 ) Why are there no dedicated servers?
9 ) WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE NETWORK EXPERIENCE!?!?

Thanks.

Yeah hope its not to late. I want to ask Kaiser where Turok 2 would go on his list of difficulty developing? He has made a few games I want to say Turok 2 had to be really tough even with the Turok 1 engine already made. So. Where would Turok 2 fall in the list of games you worked on measured by difficulty? Maybe you can come up with a better way of asking it.

Hi everyone first of all thank you for all the replies to this thread, it was very helpful for me.
I am sad to say I received an email from Stephen Kick (CEO of Night Dive) shortly after sending the questions.

"due to the complexity of our licensing agreement we may not be able to answer your questions. If we do, we have to submit them for approval with the licensor which can be an arduous and time consuming task."

It's such a shame becasue he agreed to the answer the questions but changed his mind.
I guess if enough people request answers he might do something about it.
This is his twitter account https://twitter.com/pripyatbeast

It's such a shame becasue he agreed to the answer the questions but changed his mind.
I guess if enough people request answers he might do something about it.
This is his twitter account https://twitter.com/pripyatbeast

It might not be that he just decided not to, but that he realized that the submitted questions wouldn't pass approval. It's been seeming like NBC/Comcast (assuming they're who he's dealing with; they currently own the Turok IP) has been rather strict with the information that they want public. And if Night Dive answers non-approved questions, it could be seen as breach of contract and they could lose the license.