Announcement of patch 0.9.0!

Mercenary Center Developer Blog
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I need a specific patch notes and figures. 

 

We are all speculating on stuff that HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. 

 

Please ask specific questions and THOSE will get answered.

Ok.

 

WHY are the weapon modifiers being removed?

 

WHY are the missiles being used in “magazines”? (It’s not clips! l2weapons. clips are what HOLDS the munition in place inside the magazine)

 

WHY are you bringing T5 out now when no one can reach it in any given humanly time span?

 

WHY are you keeping this test server such a secret from everyone?

 

And for the love of everything holy, WHAT were you thinking with a patch that fixes none of the current broken mechanics?

 

 

Not to the test team. This would be strange, right?

At this point!? Strange? NO, wouldn’t think of it!

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I need a specific patch notes and figures. 

 

We are all speculating on stuff that HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. 

 

Please ask specific questions and THOSE will get answered.

 

They will soon be availible. And they will be… huge. Big read… that will of course be overlooked.  

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I seriously doubt we’ll see any T5 games unless we see xp and cash income doubled for F2P players, and then Licence can boost on top of that.

T3 and T4 need to be considerably more accessible, otherwise T5 feedback will be an endless repeat of "too many bots, not enough players"m

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oryngton, please calm down.

I understand your position, and am in the same position. But please, calm down. Raging won’'t help right now.

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Question:  When is the planned date for this patch?  This Thursday as usual?

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I know, that is funny to read from someone who basicly does the same on a weekly basis…

But the heat is calming my senses and makes my unwanting to rage since im slowly dieingg of heat here … and thus… im calm…

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There is no need to explode before the patch even hits guys.  Implementation and execution is key to whether these updates are actually good or bad.

 

To Antibus, I have a couple questions I would like to see addressed:

 

1.  Are all the weapons available on all types of ships?  Or are the only weapons each class (inty, fighter, frigates) can use are the ones shown in the video?  This was not clear to me.  If so it’s the former, great.  If it’s the later, we have lost quite a few “different” weapon choices for each ship.

 

  1. Will the missile cool down reset on death like modules do?  If so, what are the plans to address the inevitable suicidal mine/nuke tactic?

 

3.  What are the plans to actually progress the player base towards tier 5?   Will tier 4 suddenly become more accessible with less grind and repair costs?  Or will there remain a giant gap between T3 and T4?

 

4.  Finally, as this was not mentioned in the patch notes, what is the status on the color customization and cosmetics brought in the last patch?

 

EDIT: The rage all over the thread is actually kind of surprising to me.  I’ve worked with many games in development in the past and honestly a change like this really isn’t even all that big.   Chill out a little bit :blink2:

 

Also, another thing, I am assuming the amount of missiles per clip is very dependant on WHAT KIND of missile you are firing.  So a nuke probably has 1 per clip, following a long reload.  Bigger missiles may have less per clip than smaller ones.  The number of missiles per clip will be the deciding factor on whether the missile changes will be rediculous or not.

  1. It seems that ship tree is going to be reworked and roles will be separated within factions, will the premium ship be incorporated into the tree as a tier milestones that can help players with lack of time but some extra bucks to skip grind within lower tiers. As an example Deimon (t3 prem Empire Recon) would be an alternative to Elf and unlock an access to the next rank recon ship. That would increase a value of prem ships on a level of being extremely useful for those that want to pay-to-not-grind.
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Deimos is the Rank 4 Gunship. I think the R9P inty is the “Deinon” or somesuch.

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Deimos is the Rank 4 Gunship. I think the R9P inty is the “Deinon” or somesuch.

empire = LEONINA

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That’s a fine idea.  But skipping the credit grind will do me no good if the loyalty and reputation grind is so massive.  The real limiting factor for me right now is loyalty.

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Ok.

 

WHY are the weapon modifiers being removed?

 

WHY are the missiles being used in “magazines”? (It’s not clips! l2weapons. clips are what HOLDS the munition in place inside the magazine)

 

WHY are you bringing T5 out now when no one can reach it in any given humanly time span?

 

WHY are you keeping this test server such a secret from everyone?

 

And for the love of everything holy, WHAT were you thinking with a patch that fixes none of the current broken mechanics?

 

 

At this point!? Strange? NO, wouldn’t think of it!

 

Once again, I urge you to calm down. Politely. 

 

Answers are as follows:

Because whole system needed re-vamp. Modifiers being part of the system were to be changed too. 

 

This was done to use rockets in the matches more.

Magazines and clips… specifics. At this moment I just used the term ‘clips’ in order to convey the message.  

 

Because we promised. We promised You. And things will be done in order to reach T5. I do not have full info on what exactly, so as soon as I will have it I will be back to this question.

 

Because it contains sensitive information. And things that may or may not get to live servers. We do not want to promise something and then NOT implement it because it is not ready yet or just the concept is not all right with us. It is quite obvious actually.

 

Why do you think it doesnt? Do you have full patch notes? When you will have it - we will discuss this again. 

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Double everything then. Problem solved… Except I still suspect T5 will be stupidly expensive so most people will get sick of being farmed by Pro Russia and stay in T3 and below.

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Antibus, some questions that I need answered to calm my expectaitons before i rage because you guys didnt fix this.

 

Warpgate CD back to normal? 180 is insane

ship tree fixed? no more unneccesary buys for useless ships?

mk1 removed from ship buying? it has to be removed, it has no use right now! trust me and the rest of the eng. forum, there is no need! And it only icnreases credit grind by 70%!

 

What will the new implants do?

What will the new ship prices be?

Loyalty fix? right now it’s a joke that will take me over a year to get all to 15. that is a joke if you think anyone will play that long. most are heading off before T4 as is. if not T3.

reputation fix? it’s not bad right now, but needs a boost if we want to get R15…

credit fix? beside some people, most have credit problems…

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Antibus, some questions that I need answered to calm my expectaitons before i rage because you guys didnt fix this.

 

Warpgate CD back to normal? 180 is insane

ship tree fixed? no more unneccesary buys for useless ships?

mk1 removed from ship buying? it has to be removed, it has no use right now! trust me and the rest of the eng. forum, there is no need! And it only icnreases credit grind by 70%!

 

What will the new implants do?

What will the new ship prices be?

Loyalty fix? right now it’s a joke that will take me over a year to get all to 15. that is a joke if you think anyone will play that long. most are heading off before T4 as is. if not T3.

reputation fix? it’s not bad right now, but needs a boost if we want to get R15…

credit fix? beside some people, most have credit problems…

 

 

I want to give you a specific answer, and I have the info which I think is right, but in some of the points I am not sure. I will get back to it tomorrow. 

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Deimos is the Rank 4 Gunship. I think the R9P inty is the “Deinon” or somesuch.

yes you are correct, mah bad

it is Deimon gonna update original post

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Imo:

 

  • Nukes and Minefields shouldn’t be able to be infinite, I mean, that clips/magazine things should not work on them, or have a very very long cooldown, and ofc, the cd should be paused if you are dead.

  • Repair costs should be lowered, I saw a guy posting that he had to pay more for his T4 ship than what he won in the match, so I don’t even want to imagine how much will you pay for repairing T5 ships.

  • You shouldn’t be forced to synergize your ship to max in order to buy the next one. I’m in the top of T3 and I’m afraid of going foward to T4.

  • I may buy a T5 premium ship in order to skip T4 and go to the max tier (if it even has players) but I’m afraid of the ridiculous prize that ships will have. Actually 8k GS for a T4 ship, 12k for T5? I better not.

  • Love the new weapons, specially the one designed for LR frigates, but I still want to see a buff to LR hulls and shields tbh…

  • Finally I saw the Dragon, the boss ship of the first PvE mission, a damn T5 Empire LR

  • I don’t like the removal of the weapon modifiers, at least you should give GS to the players with Green/Blue/Purple modifiers, Gree and Purple because it’s hard to get them and you can’t buy them, and Blue because their cost is high, 500k per T3 modifier.

 

Anyway I’m looking foward to that patch and I hope things like unlimited Nukes and Minefields are implemented.

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I want to give you a specific answer, and I have the info which I think is right, but in some of the points I am not sure. I will get back to it tomorrow. 

…you are not making it easy for me to keep my rage inside D:

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Calm down people be happy the Tier 5’s are coming. Get use to it, as for people playing T4 i think it’s going to get more people up there cause the T5 grind gonna suck if you try staying in T2 (the so called balanced tier) to do the grind.

 

All I’ve seen on here is BITCHING by the same cast of characters THAT always xxxxx. I plan to WAIT for the changes then I will comment on them.  

 

Not happy with Ships names??? really??? Come on people!

 

Weapon changes I will wait and see. Then I will adapt to the change plain and simple. 

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Though I don’t mind the addition of t5, a few serious questions comes to mind… Why release it now? Why is it more important then several other necessary changes, such as the drastic need for a Matchmaking Revamp? I would see the point if there were a large demand for it, but at this time  it is a Teir that only a small hand full of players would be able to touch. 

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Okay, well. Let’s try this:

  1. Let’s all calm down and bring our body temperatures back to 37, please.

  2. We all give this patch a test run when it comes out.

  3. (I’m depending on the admins for this. Can I trust you? Yes or no?) If it’s clear that this new system is just a big ‘no’, then please tell the devs to have 0.8.5 ready to roll back to, then they can have another shot at it. If this is a big mistake, then we’ve learnt a lesson.