Friday Dev Livestream (February 14)

February 15, 2014 | Etaew | Viewed 2,734 times | Question and Answer,

This was dahanese's and OverloadUT's last livestream, next week we will have a new guy.

Source: http://www.twitch.tv/trionworlds/b/503357407

Any plans for clan specific areas that are instanced or phased fast travel?

We arent putting in phased fast travel but we are looking at clan instances, it would require a reworking of the matchmaking system.

Any progress made on the dismounting from vehicle bug?

We are having a heck of a time hunting down the precise cause, we haven't made much progress on the issue, we have had mountains of evidence from players but not 100% reproducable

Are the syphon biological and shock converter mods still in the works?

We arent presently adding any new mods to the game at the moment, the vendors are already quite bloated and inconvienient to navigate.

Are there plans to increase the health and difficulty of enemies?

There sure are, but not just increasing the hit points.

Can open world mobs be given a boost?

Our mobs will be getting a significant survivability overhaul but not with gunslinger trials, it will make their durability more ... interesting

Can perks have their description as a tooltip on the loadout screen?

It would be a useful piece of UI to add, it would just have to be added to our schedule.

Can Spikes and Stims have a different inventory item like grenades?

I'm looking to get that added too, it bothers me.

Can we have an option to turn off the UI?

You can't at the moment, the current method would have unintended side effects.

Can we have some npcs with 7th Legion outfits next to the vendor for ambience?

The Overpass is pretty tight on memory already, so having new npcs would cause too many problems, and performance over ambience is someting you guys would prefer.

Can we have the ability to fast travel to clan members without being on friends list?

That would make a lot of sense, ill see if i can get that on our schedule but we are very tight on time.

Can we have the option so that we can turn the camera to see the front of our character?

That would be great, currently we can do that on dev clients and porting the functionality would not be too difficult, we just need to add in a safety check for terminating that state as it is a debug command and would allow putting the camera through geometry.

Can we have the option to turn off overhead arrows?

You can, we can put it on the agenda, but it will not be soon as our UI resources are already dedicated to make other UI improvements.

Can we have visual representation of challenge medals?

I'd like to create a personal leaderboard for all events and that's on the agenda

Can we pick up grenades that we have a full stack of and have them go into claims?

Nope, we are looking to have them automatically broken down into salvage.

Claims menu new items highlight items at random when porting in and out of instances

We can look into that, although its a minor issue, we are revising some claim items issues shortly.

Could we have a quick menu option for manual phase switching?

We dont want to enable that, we are happy to have players joining their friends but we dont want players to phase hop.

Could we see a melee skill line?

No word, we're doing a big update on our weapons and we're not complicating it by adding a new skill

How will groups be able to enter the co-op Arenas in Gunslinger Trials?

A group member will interact with the arena teleporter and it will ask members if they want to join matchmaking, arena only starts if everyone accepts.

In arkfalls can vehicles be destroyed if they run over npcs?

The arkfall cover pieces do an enormous amounts of damage on collision, if we updated the enemies to deal the same damage you wouldn't be able to run over them in the open world.

Is there any chance of a dedicated ego menu for activity suggestions?

It's the map, adding an intelligent system would be a large undertaking and we wont be likely to do it

Paradox faction vendor boxes

Paradise doesnt have a full set of unique weapons, not satisfied with how we use the vendor so going to do an overhaul as part of a different release

Pre-order and special weapons not receiving extra loot rolls

When we updated vendor and mission rewards we didnt catch all the preorder items, theres a chance we can do a pass on those but not scheduled

Targeting issue issue with the warmaster if you are electrocuted while chatting

I'll make sure that gets bumped to a higher priority issue

Weapon balance, pistols, vot blaster rifles etc

not fond of the performance of the vot blaster rifle, but a great many people and our data shows average effectiveness from the pistols, vot blaster excluded as they have a low damage output over time due to people running out of ammo

What are the reward tiers for the new Mutant Siege?

It's identical to the Vaccine Synthesiser siege.

What can be done to help with too many people at Incursion Sieges?

We wont be spinning up new phases as players arrive, but we are enabling multiple incursions at once. in a later update we even plan to spin up incursions like sieges do, so that multiples show simultaneously

Will new weapons in Gunslinger Trials have new models and textures?

We will have a unique weapon model in Gunslinger Trials, as well as use existing ones with new stats like cloaking on critical hit.

Will the new Arenas in Gunslinger Trials be accessible from Diablo Lighthouse?

They will be accessible from somewhere new, a unique location for each of the 3 executives.

Will the new arenas in Gunslinger Trials use a new layout?

They will not be using Thorn Liro arenas.

Will the new co-op scoring system coming in Gunslinger Trials be applied anywhere else?

Indeed, they will be applied to sieges as well as to other pieces of content.

Will the new story missions in Gunslinger Trials require completion of the main campaign?

The Gunslinger Trials dont require compoletion of any season 1 story missions they exist independantly.

Will there be an EGO Rating cap increase or new Perks in Gunslinger Trials?

Not this time around.

Will there be any new data recorders in Gunslinger Trials?

There will be new recorders but they will be tied to mission rewards, wont add more data recorders until we add more space, *significant pause*

Will there be more 7th Legion influence in the game?

Hiro is still alive and an active character in the fiction, he and his daughter VBI's acting CEO will be in season 2, after season 2 we are still deciding what story threads to follow up on.

Will we see any in-game information about 7th Legion?

We wont be seeing that, the dlc is focused on new mechanics, reputation faction and outfits. We will be continuing the story of the family.

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