Community Q&A - August 27

We’ve got a few things on the horizon for Defiance. We’ve got Free to Play reaching the Xbox 360, we’re finalizing another update targeting late September, and we’re working on our first big update for after Season 2.

First, we’re focusing on stability and security. We’ve been under siege by hackers for a while now, and we’re rolling out several measure to reduce the impact of their nefarious meddling. Our second priority is our economy: we have a strike team dedicated to keeping Defiance a consistent, rewarding experience. Our third focus is to roll out new content; we have a slew of story missions and instances to roll out as well as a bunch of new gear.

The Inquisitor? Oh, he’s coming. We’re making sure he’s the right bastard that he should be. Also, we made him a little taller.

There have been a mix of stability fixes happening over the past few weeks. On August 25th, we made a backend network change that was causing sporadic packet loss and are interested to hear if you noticed improvements.

We are currently developing a new line of weapons, but they are not Grid-themed in particular.

We would love to add both cosmetic and functional pets to Defiance, but we’ll need to focus on stability more before we consider doubling the number of characters that appear whenever an ark hunter is around.

Dye is certainly possible, however the tricky part for it is that it would require a material update to all outfits, weapons, etc that we want to be tinted (and will require some textures to be updates as well). This means we need to alter a lot of client assets, which will cause a (relatively) large patch.

Vehicles can already be flagged as favorite. We have added a task for the others but it is likely lower priority.

We should add this feature. Also, fix the issue where claims view does not update when an item is broken down.

We can create a discrete filter for this; it was intended to use the same filter as mass breakdown.

Yes, we know many people have asked for this. We will put it on the UI list.

Indeed it does still work. FOV Shift and UI Shake are two settings which heavily impact motion sickness. The FOV Shift kicks in during a few camera movements in the game. Most notably it affects sprinting.

Probably not. Rather we’ll make areas, like Silicon Valley, where the entire threat system is shifted higher. (Most events in Silicon Valley treat EGO rating 1000 as the base and EGO rating 6000 as the max.)