Online shooter Warface is available for download for Nintendo Switch
Warface, originally developed by Crytek, will be available for Nintendo Switch from Tuesday. The free-to-play shooter has been available for some time on other platforms and can now also be downloaded for Switch via Nintendo eShop.
Nintendo’s Warface page reveals that in addition to supporting handheld mode, the game also supports television play, by placing the Switch on the table and disconnecting the Joy-Cons. According to the creators, the game has been modified with great care to provide the best possible experience on the Switch and Switch Lite. There is support for the HD Rumble function and motion control via the gyroscopes in the Joy-Cons. The game is free to download with no Switch Online subscription required and requires 7620MB of storage.
The game will run in 720p at 30fps when the TV is in use or else in 540p resolution, Alexey Izotov, the director of Russian publisher My.Games, tells Gamesindustry.biz. Warface is the first game with the CryEngine to be played on the Nintendo Switch. For the Switch version, My.Games’ in-house Allods Team used a heavily modified version of the engine, with performance taking precedence over everything else. According to Izotov, a stable frame rate, a good netcode and a fixed resolution are important for a competitive shooter like Warface. “The way the game looks and feels shouldn’t change with the amount of on-screen action. We think we’ve succeeded in doing this,” Izotov says.
The online shooter supports up to 32 players on the Switch and has five different pvp modes: Free For All, Team Death Match, Plant the Bomb, Storm and Blitz. In addition, Warface includes all story missions in which players can compete with a friend against hordes of AI-controlled enemies in co-op mode. In addition, three special operations are available and content from the latest Titan update is available; it also comes out for Warface on the other platforms.
Izotov says that crossplay is being worked on, but that this is not yet an option. He indicates that work is still underway to release the next content update simultaneously for all platforms and that the crossplay functionality will then be looked at.
Warface is developer by CryTek, but was sold to Russian My.ru in early 2017; My.Games is the company’s gaming brand. The shooter was released for PC in late 2013 and for PS4 and Xbox One in 2018. Recently, there is also a separate mobile game called Warface: Global Operations.