Community Q&A - September 22

We certainly understand why people would want this; a task to do this is scheduled. Given the way the Patron Pass works though it’s not straightforward to implement. Without getting too technical, the Defiance game interacts with Trion platform (which is what all games use for authentication, purchases, etc). We don’t have a straightforward way to get Patron pass time remaining when in game (especially when you have stacked passes). Instead, we simply know if the account has Patron Pass or not. So the tasks would be to properly pass the time remaining to the game, and then display it in the UI.

Great suggestion! This should be a very easy feature to add – we will likely do this by displaying something like ‘You were revived by XXX’.

Decoy did have an exploding power back when Defiance was in Beta. Unfortunately this is not something we will be adding back into the game – it was cut for a variety of reasons and we would rather focus on putting new content into the game.

Yes! We mentioned in a previous Q&A about not adding a bank to the game, and in lieu of that, we plan on some improvements to the inventory system, and this is one of them. It won’t be in the next client patch, but we are aiming for the next one after that. We can get it to PTS as well for some feedback.

While not exactly what you are asking for, we are doing something similar - we are adding another boost category (i.e. for weekend events) – and that is an Arkforge boost. Look for it on PTS shortly, and we hope to have it in for the Aftermath patch.

Many of the entrances do not have game world corollaries. Most do, but some do not. We’d rather players get to them from the matchmaking screen, which is all we’d do with any interaction that you would find in the open world. We’re in the midst of a massive revamp of matchmaking to revitalize Co-op maps, and that revamp will not include adding in-game entrances. But it will drastically improve matchmaking!

Yes! We plan on reviewing the rewards for Arenas to bring them more in line with other event types.

Yes, the likely bug here is that the scaling is not working properly for vehicle damage. We’ve added a task for this.

Possibly. We’ve been exploring their more-advanced counterparts, the Grid, for a while now, and we do plan on tackling why the Scrappers are different with a future storyline, however, that story is a longer term goal.

We’ve received many requests to reduce the cap in Mt. Tam to make it friendlier to new players, whereas we have a higher cap in Silicon Valley for more experienced players. Based on this, we do not plan on increasing the cap at this point.

Yes, we can add this. It’s a client change so it won’t be a quick adjustment.

Yes, it does have a rare chance to drop a Charge Blade. The drop chance is the same as the T4 lock box.