So far from what I see going on here, we aren’t going to get all those resources we would have gotten from reaching our respective ranks :003j:
Otherwise, the addition of the Player Vs AI is almost a throwback to the days of the practice mode, although you still need to sit in the MM in order to find a team this time (which is more than understandable).
WARNING: RANT BELOW
New destroyers sound like even more of a nightmare to produce thanks to yet another resource. People were yelling and screaming about how hard neodium was to obtain before… how much longer will it take to find this new resource without a spatial scanner!? But seriously though, neodium is almost unbearable to get in OS due to PKs, predators and random AI attacking you all the time since you can’t salvage it in any way shape or form and now there is ANOTHER resource in the loot pool… why?
I’m going to stop on that now. Want to avoid another rant in the update discussion. Other elements added such as the new “broker” missions seems promising, despite only being valid for those who already own a rank 8 destroyer (which would be fairly annoying for other players who were thinking of saving resources to get a rank 11 right after deployment) and so far seems far less annoying to complete the tasks compared to Miss Frost (Tournaments were responsible for a fair amount of days being missed). Other things like the change for destroyer movement (which I was going to make a thread just to suggest the change anyway before) is more than appreciated, since it makes movement much easier when using a less agile destroyer. The new skin is… well… yet to be seen? I’m not sure on the exact date of SC’s birthday, so I guess it would be advised to keep an eye out for a post or in game mail (as doomb0t said).
One other thing: can we have a sort of “Customization weekend” of sorts? Something like have the presets only for credits whilst standard paint remains GS limited? I would put this into suggestions, but I felt like it’s too small of a topic for a whole thread.
Overall thoughts on the update: Generally positive, with the broker present it allows players to have a chance to get a R11 destroyer early (kinda) and the new achievements (although they pulled a lot more destroyers into pvp) are rewarding since some of the tasks are most definitely achievement worthy (owning 2 destroyers is definitely achievement worthy).