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Feb 15 Friday Wrap-up (What a Joke)
Drolkin
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So below is todays wrap-up, me and many others are left wondering who the genius is asking these questions. Not to mention Injection Gun is 50m not 20m, I hope thats a typo. -.-
What are you guys working on at the moment?
As of now we’re working hard to get 1.5 out the door and on to the Public Test Server and ready for public consumption. Along with fixing any issues found by our QA Team in 1.5, the Developers are on their second week of working on the 1.6 build. Go devs go!
When will real info be released about PAUs? While drawings or computer models would be nice, I have more practical questions, such as if skill points will be necessary.
We’re glad to hear all of the excitement from players about implementing PAUs into the game. As of now, we can provide the basic outline of the PAU system that our Lead Designer has shared and then our lips are sealed! Once PAU’s are closer to being implemented into the game, we will start disclosing both images and design features.
I noticed Item rarity does not affect tools repair or healing amount, is this the intended workings of tools or will this be changed to affect item rarity? Secondly with the changes and thus over all increase to the players health and armor levels will both repair and healing tools have the amount of healing changed to reflect this?
1. The issue that caused item rarity to not affect healing or tools repair is being fix in an upcoming patch.
2. We are still investigating if any tweaks need to be made in this regard, but no changes have been made yet.
Injection Guns - what is the expected behavior of initial shot and dot damage as it applies to damage increases from pumps and armor penetration. For example should the % increases apply to both the initial shot and the dot or both? Same with armor penetration should the initial shot armor penetrate then the dot armor penetrates, or does the dot always fully penetrate, what is the expected behavior?
The Injector Gun was originally envisioned as a “fire and forget” weapon with a relatively weak initial hit but a powerful DoT. Bugs in its implementation and the overlap of its armor penetration skill-based effect and the natural armor penetration of Virulent damage have caused some balance problems with these weapons. Basically, there should be little difference between an initial strike and a DoT tick with this gun: they should do the same amount of damage with the same amount of armor penetration. Injector Guns have hard 20m range limits and they suffer no damage falloff within that range. We are currently working on fixing bugs and adjusting the damage output of Injector Guns.
Do the attributes that you choose for your character transfer to your pets? What about clones?
No to pets, yes to clones. Clones of yourself and clones of you made by Reconstructor Bots are pretty much exact duplicates of your character, including attribute and skill point distribution. Also, when you Polymorph, the attributes of your Polymorph form are not influenced by your character attribute distribution.
Do I have unlimited clones?
No. Your character receives 1 clone credit per completed Target of Opportunity quest in addition to the 1 clone credit you receive at levels 5, 15, and 30. There are also other missions in the game that award clone credits, such as the hybrid missions.
Comments
well for 1 i think the devs really dont care about this game there are no formal forums to give or recieve feedback and they either arent listening or getting info posted on sites like this one ever since the 1.4 patch the game started going rapidly down hill and as for injector guns expect a huge nerf to them i bet range is gonna et cut to 20 m and the damage will be cut in half they have been nerfing medic since the end of beta and after this one the profession will be totaly useless
I might even break the disc I got soon thats how far I want to go to have no way back or association with this game.
Wicoa whats your honest Beef with TR?
Give me details please, more than one sentance long, and without the words "Theres no endgame". All the people I hear on these forums saying there is no endgame are at their own fault with that one. Too many people rush to level 50 in this game and its not a good idea. Also im currently at level 35 and have ALOT and I mean ALOT of missions to do, as well as instances. So there is no lack of content either.
-Jive
Wicoa whats your honest Beef with TR?
Give me details please, more than one sentance long, and without the words "Theres no endgame". All the people I hear on these forums saying there is no endgame are at their own fault with that one. Too many people rush to level 50 in this game and its not a good idea. Also im currently at level 35 and have ALOT and I mean ALOT of missions to do, as well as instances. So there is no lack of content either.
-Jive
Agreed. I'm only 31 myself, so maybe I "don't know". I've heard theres a content shortage in the higher levels. Then again, when I was in palisades one time I sent a general chat message after some guy helped me do something which completed my Palisades TOO. Following that I saw a bunch of messages saying stuff like "I hope you enjoyed palisades, cause there's nothing to do after that").
I have to wonder if they were too stupid to make it to Plains or if they were just too stupid period because I've had PLENTY to do throughout plains, incline, and mires. If there is a content shortage further on, I'm confident that they're working on it. So I'll keep playing.
There is too much content (missions) in Mires.
Everytime I hand in a quest theres another 1,2 or 3 available.
The devs would never waste their time on these boards. Despite this website having the occasional good article or something the forums are complete trash. Even Counter Strike boards are better than this site's. I can sum up this entire forum community with this single quote:
"Whaaaaa, we hate everything and that game sucks!"
If I were dev this site's forums would be a laughing stock of input.
In fact, this website would be better if all of the boards were deleted. It has a terrible posting base and it pretty much always has.
I don't have to justify myself to anyone. However I will try.
1)its broken promises, lack of official forums, a generally lack lustre game
2) continuing nurfs across the board with excuses such as this was never intended to be this way kkthxbai
3) The community in general.
4)The terrible crafting dynamic.
I expected a heck of alot more from a game that has Richard Garriotts name tattoed all over it. While I played I was never nurfed but my friends were but now tthey are looking at my original toons way.
They will either have to pull their fingers out and in a years time have this game as one of the top or it will close like auto assault. Atm that situation is 50/50 either way.
If you wish to flame me go right ahead Im entitled to my opinions and I feel justified in my stance. Some of you above like saying oh your too stupid to go through the content and so on and you blame us mmorpg.com forumites for flaming and baiting? I actually personally completed every zone including every story line and every new symbol I could get access to before I moved on.
The devs do come here quite a few visit from ncsoft actually. This site is one of the top for the general mmo community whether you like what some people have to say is a different matter.
Reasons? Go read my posts, there are plenty of reasons and a newsflash as well with TR downsizing it's staff due to them running out of money.
Wicoa whats your honest Beef with TR?
Give me details please, more than one sentance long, and without the words "Theres no endgame". All the people I hear on these forums saying there is no endgame are at their own fault with that one. Too many people rush to level 50 in this game and its not a good idea. Also im currently at level 35 and have ALOT and I mean ALOT of missions to do, as well as instances. So there is no lack of content either.
-Jive
Who's to determine how people play their games? It is not written anywhere in the manual or on the web site that it's a bad idea to rush through the game. In fact, a recent patch even made grinding take longer... the devs know the game is shallow.
Tabula Rasa has extraordinarily thin content depth for an MMORPG, so most players do skim right over it in a few weeks (if even that long). The trouble is, there is absolutely nothing to do at the end.
Is this a zen game? Enjoy a dreadful grind and then do nothing?
What other goal is there to strive for besides level 50? Anything?
No. Tabula Rasa is a piece of shit worthy of only the worst criticism possible. It's an insult to interactive entertainment and should not be defended.
Thats your opinion.
I beg to differ - as a casual gamer I have been playing since pre-start so 3+ months and have just gone lvl 36 and into Pools. Still having fun.
Seriously - if you buy a game thats targetted at casual players, and then rush to lvl 50 as fast as possible - what do you expect?