Topic: New Patch
I have to say todays patch looks awesome.
We finally get rid of the account reset system.
The attributes are also a thing of the past now, this has been discussed in great lengths elsewhere and the blog post about it pretty much explained why this was a very good decision.
The most significant to me is that a new player no longer have to make the single most important decision in the game before they deployed to terrain for the first time.
The fact that you (the Devs) managed to remove the attributes with little to no impact on the current players is amazing (more on this a little bit later).
The new extension downgrade feature, is an okay replacement for the reset system, well almost any replacement for the reset system would have been good so this does not really say much.
It still leaves a lot of problems, on the top of my head is:
How many of the mistakes you make when learning the complexity of the game are you really going to realize within the first 30 days.
When new features are implemented veterans have to test and see if they like them and want to use/have/do them without being able to get the spent EP back if they realize they do not like the feature. Or they can make a trial account and test the feature on that before using any EP on the subbed account.
The new walk animation, wow what a great surprise, and my favorite kind of surprises too.
It is my favorite kind of surprise be course I can enjoy it right away just by deploying. Awesome job on this one, cant wait until the mech/heavy mech gets some new and improved walking animations.
Next up is the Spark system, more customization for the role you want your character to do, and you can change it, what is not to like about this. Only problem I have with this right of is the ones where you have to get 6.0 relation to get it, the problem is not the height of the relation but the fact that the high level assignments has not been redone yet, and they are only on the old beta islands.
Oh and this patch just seem to keep giving.
The T2+ and T4+ items are now on the market, it was a mistake not to put them on 1 week ago, but lets not dwell on the past. (The T4+ EM-gun still have the name medium HCL laser)
And what patch would be complete without true Hungarian math.
Quote from the Blogpost
A side effect of this is that everyone will end up with a varying amount of extra EP (woohoo!)
And from todays patch notes
The base cost of extensions has been reduced from the 100 EP to 60 EP. Consequently, every account has had its available EP recalculated, resulting in varying amounts of extra EP for everyone.
So here I am spinning my robot 1 hour before the patch with a total of 14 EP on the account.
http://i42.tinypic.com/c8hl4.png
And here I am spinning my robot right after the patch with a total of -8 646 EP
http://i42.tinypic.com/156z2og.png
So from here on, when the Devs use the term “everyone” I will consider myself not to be Included
(yes I know highly specialized account is the reason, but where is the fun in using logic)