Dr Disrespect: “My game will be better than Modern Warfare 2”
Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV aka Dr Disrespect gained notoriety in the wide streaming landscape through broadcasts on Twitch, in which he fought games in shooters and battle royale games such as PUBG or Call of Duty, among others. After his ban in June 2020, he returned two months later as a YouTube streamer. But he was also busy on other fronts and founded a development studio called Midnight Society in 2021. Some positions there are held by industry veterans, including ex-employees from Bethesda, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, and more.
In addition to Dr Disrespect, co-founders were Robert Bowling, former creative strategist and community manager at Infinity Ward, and Quinn Delhoyo, who worked as a designer on Gears of War 3 and Halo: Infinite, among others. In fact, Dr Disrespect isn’t just a consumer himself, he has experience in game development – he was a level designer at Sledgehammer Games in Modern Warfare 3 and Advanced Warfare. Midnight Society’s first project has the working title Project Moon and is way better than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – or so says Dr Disrespect.
As part of the Summer Game Fest 2022, Activision Blizzard showed gameplay from COD: Modern Warfare 2. Dr Disrespect didn’t have a good hair on this one. His verdict:
“(…) We’re looking at an engine that’s at the last minute. The engine looks dated, doesn’t it? That’s not impressive. The gameplay has to be a stunner to make up for it. […]”
In the same breath, Dr Disrespect takes the opportunity to praise his own shooter project. He means:
“I could take a screenshot of our game right now, in-game, in-engine, and nothing I’ve just seen can compare to it.”
Will Project Moon be better than Modern Warfare 2?
Unfortunately, Dr Disrespect did not follow through with action – what the FPS project with the working title Project Moon looks like is completely unknown. If you consider that Midnight Society according to their own website is currently looking for employees for very essential tasks such as lead character design and animation, level design, UI design, gameplay engineering, gameplay design and more, on the one hand it can be doubted that there is already much to screenshot at all. On the other hand, already a first playable version of Project Moon will be available for supporters in July. As a supplement, below this line is the MW 2 gameplay that Dr Disrespect is talking about.
NFTs and Founder’s Pass
The question is whether much of this will initially be made public, because you only become a supporter or founder if you buy a Founder’s Pass – i.e. an NFT for 50 US dollars. In addition, the Founder Passes are limited; 10,000 have been sold, at the moment you can only be notified by email when you can buy again. These 10,000 founders were also selected; not everyone who wanted to buy a pass got one. Those who have been successful will receive a randomized, individual call sign and helmet design in various rarity levels, early access to new weapons, and the right to co-determine game features with the pass and more.
What is Project Moon?
Dr Disrespect himself has at least leaked a few details about the gameplay of his AAA title. It is a competitive PvP-based battle royale first-person shooter with vertical gameplay. Players are in a skyscraper with a fire raging in the basement and must climb floor by floor to reach the top. The Unreal Engine 5 is to be used as the framework. Against criticism of the inclusion of NFTs, Dr Disrespect defended himself by pointing out that nobody has to buy them and they shouldn’t make any gameplay difference. Project Moon will be free to play as a Free2Play title. A date has not yet been set, but Dr Disrespect emphasized that it will by no means take years until the release.
Source: Dexerto,Midnight Society
Reference-www.pcgames.de