Announcement of patch 0.9.0!

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But we have the SMART people asking questions. I thank you for pointing it out.

Oh yeah, one more thing; how about we celebrate the release of T5 by locking tiers? I doubt anyone who rushes to T4 chasing T5 wants to be ganked by T5 ships and chased away.

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.

Rollback? hell no, I am already in love with this patch!

Rollback? hell no, I am already in love with this patch!

Not everyone is as enthusiastic, but we’ll see. I, for one, am not very happy (as an understatement) with the weapon system changes. I like them as they are now, but I’ll trial this new version if it will help.

I remind all NASA members to read the SOP on the recruiting thread.

 

ADAPT to the changes!!!

Well, if we do end up rolling back to 0.8.5, then I very kindly ask the devs to consider this:

 

  1. If you have additional features planned out, that’s great. I’m happy you’re thinking ahead on that. BUT, can you just hold off for a while until we have some things sorted.

  2. After that, prioritise the balancing issues. Don’t try fixing them from the top down: for each patch look at one Tier in particular, then after the statistics have been gathered, make the changes that will help to bring it to a fair fight on all sides. I’d say the optimal amount of engineers on the field is 2, with a maximum of maybe 4, but no more than that.

  3. Some people have been complaining about pricing, me being of them. Take another look at what we’ve said and think a little harder on it. Don’t just look at the short term gains, look at what could happen in the long term. The balancing fixes should persuade more people to start saying:

‘Hey guys! Check out this awesome new game I found…’

And this obviously means more people you can persuade (note the term ‘persuade’: not everyone will buy, but that’s okay) to grab some DLCs and Gold Standards. The customisation options were a brilliant idea and I have to wonder if they were inspired by us, but the fact still stands that if you were to make those permanent a lot of people would take quite a liking to them. There’s a reason to buy GS already! But wait: The DLCs contain more GS than I could wish for… Why not buy one of them? It’s got a ton of bonuses too… And it’s only (for example) £15?! Heck yes!

  1. Once the above have been fixed up, return to your additions. Throw them on as often as you want, but there’s one thing we all would like: put out your proposals on all of your forums first so we can pick them apart and say: ‘oh, that doesn’t look good’ or ‘Awesome! Add it!’ and you don’t waste time coding an entire patch for your players to just say ‘what the heck were you thinking?!’ and you end up having to undo all that hard work.

 

Work with us and we’ll repay you handsomely.

Try to solo it and we will make your lives hell.

I’m just going to reiterate:

If. Nukes. Become. Unlimited. I. Will. Quit.

 

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Devs, don’t worry about the expressively vocal minority that complain so much. Me and my friends mostly like the changes and are looking forward for a refreshment that this will bring. A major overhaul like this takes some effort and guts to pull off. 

 

I am looking forward to the update and hope the changes will be in favor for the better, keep up the good work.

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Devs, don’t worry about the expressively vocal minority that complain so much. Me and my friends mostly like the changes and are looking forward for a refreshment that this will bring. A major overhaul like this takes some effort and guts to pull off. 

 

I am looking forward to the update and hope the changes will be in favor for the better, keep up the good work.

I’m seriously worrying about nuke spam, though. If it happens it will really, really ruin the game.

Adapting is one thing, but we should never be asked to simply accept bad or lazy design. If this is implemented sloppily the impact on the game would be disasterous.

The problem with major changes is that it is hard to roll back and make amends. Gaijin are taking experimental weapon mods off me in this patch - if they decide the new system doesn’t work and they revert I will NOT get those back. I am hardly the only person in that position.

The very idea of having experimental loot taken away irks me greatly. For that matter, what’s going to happen to my experimental Rapid Rails or Stab Rails? Are they going to be swapped for experimentals of the nearest equivalent weapon, or are we all just being told “tough” and being forced to give up loot that players have potentially paid gold standards to obtain?

This issue, now I think on it, should really be explained quickly and clearly by Gaijin.

The very idea of having experimental loot taken away irks me greatly. For that matter, what’s going to happen to my experimental Rapid Rails or Stab Rails? Are they going to be swapped for experimentals of the nearest equivalent weapon, or are we all just being told “tough” and being forced to give up loot that players have potentially paid gold standards to obtain?

 

I was asking myself the same, if I have an experimental weapon that will be changed, what I will get? credtis? that would be a joke to be honest. At least a decent amount of GS or the most similar new weapon, also experimental of course.

StarGem also has a hand in this as well.

I’m seriously worrying about nuke spam, though. If it happens it will really, really ruin the game.

we survived a nuclear winter once, we will survive the second one, even though second one can not be even remotely as bad as 1st one

we survived a nuclear winter once, we will survive the second one, even though second one can not be even remotely as bad as 1st one

And we will support you with more missile shields :slight_smile:

That’s a joke, right?

All it would take is a team of Cov Ops doing a nuke/suicide/repeat and you could win every match.

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Gold weapons will be bought out and GS will be returned. Army or experimental will stay. You will be able to use them. They will turn into new weapons of course and become class-specific. 

Gold weapons will be bought out and GS will be returned. Army or experimental will stay. You will be able to use them. 

 

By Army you mean Military?

 

-Skadoodle

Erm… yes. Greens and Purples. 

Erm… yes. Greens and Purples. 

 

Okay, thanks for clarifying.

 

-Skadoodle

Anti, it is wise to make sure they have a rollback just in case…