Developer Blog entry from April 16th. New mode, TDM and updated Fan-kit!

Mercenary Center Developer Blog
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Pilots!

We would like to start today’s blog entry with a short story about one of the aspects of the upcoming special mode. You waited for it — so here’s some new info on the mode!

In this entry we want to answer one of the most frequently asked questions: ‘Is there going to be PvP in your new mode?’ Well of course there is!
 

As you can see, all of our pilots can fight other players… but will it be possible everywhere? Not quite: all docking stations of this special mode are under control of the three sides of conflict and all kinds of agression are prohibited there. Criminals will bebrutally punished. Nontheless, further advance into the systems allows players to fight everyone!

Starting this week, we begin posting various updates, screenshots and videos regarding the apsects of this new mode! You will be able to read those on our social network pages as well as our forums. Next week, we are planning to talk more about travelling in this special mode!

Now, on to the next part of our blog. We are happy to inform you that we started working on a planned website content update! One of the first updated parts of the site is our ‘Fan Kit’ section — there you will find additional screenshots, battle sentences, music and fun forum avatars! You can take a look at the contents of this renewed fan-kit by following this link, or simply opening the website.

The third part of today’s blog is about our new PvP-mode Team Death Match — we have adjusted our new map ‘Iridium Strand’ to fit this mode. Moreover, this mode now has its own, unique soundtrack, which you can find in our updated fan-kit as well. You can listen to this new track here!

Original Soundtrack for Team Death Match mode.

In conclusion of this entry we would like all of our players to take part in a little poll (listed above): Which of the PvP-maps do you like the most for T2/T3 battles and why?

As usual, we are waiting for your comments to this entry!

Sincerely,
Star Conflict Team

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You can listen to this new track here!

Original Soundtrack for Team Death Match mode.

 

love the ending

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I’ve played nearly 1500 games and I have no idea what the maps are called :<

 

I may need to wait til I can get ingame to answer the poll!

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For the people that have some difficulties to name the maps :

 

http://star-conflict.com/en/game/sectors/1

 

http://star-conflict.com/en/game/sectors/2

 

That can help :slight_smile:

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I’ve played nearly 1500 games and I have no idea what the maps are called :<

 

I may need to wait til I can get ingame to answer the poll!

 

This is a very serious mistake i already made a suggestion about that was ignored. I want to see the name of the map in game, on the minimap. That way everyone would learn the names pretty fast.

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I don’t know the names of any maps because the game makes no effort to tell me, so my answer is “the one with the castle”.

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This is a very serious mistake i already made a suggestion about that was ignored. I want to see the name of the map in game, on the minimap. That way everyone would learn the names pretty fast.

I don’t know the names of any maps because the game makes no effort to tell me,

Pretty much.

 

so my answer is “the one with the castle”.

There’s a castle on one?

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no idea what it is called but the one that was most recently re-vamped

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Have no idea, but Rakza helped me though, hehe. Love the soundtrack .

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Pretty much.

There’s a castle on one?

The map with the spine of rocks down the middle, which becomes a ring on one end. That ring was always called “the castle” by NASA pilots back in the day.

The main issue here imo is maps aren’t only not being named in-game, they aren’t memorable. Ice Reef is the only one I can name because it’s the only frozen one. The one with the warp gates and space stations is cool too, but I can’t name it because it’s name isn’t given, and is probably too generic to remember.

By contrast, I know exactly what “Blood Gultch” is, despite never owning Halo. Maps need to be instantly recognisable and have a well-publicised, distinct name.

This applies to game modes to. Beacon Capture, Beacon Hunt and Capture the Beacons are all the same mode as far as quite a few players know. Yet everyone knows what Combat Recon is.

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The new soundtrack is pretty epic, though the deathmatch is lame as a gamemode… Without objectives, the gameplay is static and boring. And forcing me to use my engineer when I want to fly inty annoy me.

I’m glad that open space seems to come soon :slight_smile: Very interested in what you’ll make of this.

 

 

This applies to game modes to. Beacon Capture, Beacon Hunt and Capture the Beacons are all the same mode as far as quite a few players know. Yet everyone knows what Combat Recon is.

 

The game is set to French for me, but I have the exact same problem with the “beacons” based map… The names are way to similar to have a strong identity. I recognize the game mode mostly by the beacon distribution on the first launching screen.

I know the name of only one map cause I like the design : Lava spire. I also like the Destroyed station (but I have to look for the map name, didn’t know it). Those 2 maps share 1 thing : they are designed for a 3D fighting, while every other map feels really flat. There are others that I like, but looking for the map name on the 1 sec loading screen is pretty hard…

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Thanks for the new fan kit  :)wt

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Okay who wants to hire the JP as an escort? 100,000 credits per jump. 

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Okay who wants to hire the JP as an escort? 100,000 credits per jump. 

I’d pay 100k creds to JP just to not escort me! :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’d pay 100k creds to JP just to not escort me! :stuck_out_tongue:

 

Technically that would work as everyone knows me in game thus I would technically attract more unwanted attention. 

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This applies to game modes to. Beacon Capture, Beacon Hunt and Capture the Beacons are all the same mode as far as quite a few players know. Yet everyone knows what Combat Recon is.

 

while i agree and i got used to the fact, that somebody in my squad is always confused, especially realizing it is realistic mode after the first death, because “Capture the beacons”/“Beacon Capture” often gets confused with “Domination”…

 

I didn’t know there was a Beacon Capture and Capture the Beacons - did you just also confuse it with Domination? :smiley:

 

Or was it renamed?

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while i agree and i got used to the fact, that somebody in my squad is always confused, especially realizing it is realistic mode after the first death, because “Capture the beacons”/“Beacon Capture” often gets confused with “Domination”…

 

I didn’t know there was a Beacon Capture and Capture the Beacons - did you just also confuse it with Domination? :smiley:

 

Or was it renamed?

 

It used to be called “Realistic Mode” before “Capture the beacons” 

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“Domination” is called “Control…” on your friendlist.

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I vote for a total rename!

Combat Recon becomes Captain’s Duel.

Beacon Capture stays as is.

Beacon Hunt becomes King of the Hill.

Capture the Beacons becomes Hardcore Battle, or possibly Sector Battle.

Domination becomes Bombing Run.

And the team deathmatch becomes Team Deathmatch.

No more confusion!

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I vote for a total rename!

Combat Recon becomes Captain’s Duel.

Beacon Capture stays as is.

Beacon Hunt becomes King of the Hill.

Capture the Beacons becomes Hardcore Battle, or possibly Sector Battle.

Domination becomes Bombing Run.

And the team deathmatch becomes Team Deathmatch.

No more confusion!

 

Domination is the beacony stuff, and Plant the Bombs is the bombing stuff. What language do you guys use??