Community Q&A: July 10th

Welcome, ark hunters! You’ve asked, we’re answering. We’re back with another action packed Defiance Developer Q&A!

Source: http://forums.defiance.com/showthread.php?219481-Defiance-Developer-Q-amp-A-July-10&p=1789908&viewfull=1#post1789908

1. Will the Corporate Espionage outfits ever make their way to the bit store?
   

   With a few of the boxes being pulled off of the store, we are looking in to how the outfits contained in them will make it out to the store.

2. Is there a specific roadmap for the life cycle of Defiance, and somewhat related, with the new expedition content will we start to see the game migrate away from arkfall instances and over to Expeditions? Finally, for expedition content will there be any more story or lore driven content?
   

   Right now, we are working on some non-expedition content for upcoming updates. We can’t say much, but we do plan on releasing more info at Gamescom and PAX Prime. You get a hint about what is happening with Dark Matter in the latest Arkbreak Expedition.

3. Are changes coming for BMGs? They’re abused for gaining the highest scores in events.
   

   Adjusting how score is calculated, including the way BMGs fit into the mix, is on our to-do list. As an intermediate fix we will look into adjusting the score for healing.

4. Older vet players feel left out for a lot of bonuses. Can’t us old folks that are XP capped get a 2x Arkforge or 2x key weekend?
   

   We are looking into other types of activities for Bonus Weekends aside from boosts. Keep an eye out for those in the future.

5. What is the protocol for users concerning the Sol’s Prominence Infector mods?
   

   As you may have noticed, we have fixed the infector mods from dropping with the new Sol’s Prominence Synergy. For the players that have acquired an infector mod, we have granted a new Sol’s Prominence Synergy Lock Box that should be in your claims.

6. Where do we stand on broken chips/keystones?
   

   They’re updated on the Public Test Server and the changes should go live in the near future.

7. What plans are in the works for including additional outfits “inspired” by the TV show for use in the game?
   

   We currently have multiple new outfits in the pipeline that will make it to the game later on down the line. As for a show specific outfit, we are looking into bringing that later than expected. We hit a few technical snags with how the show outfits are designed in real life compared to how they would work in the game.

8. Seeing the public backlash over the ladder, are there any plans to add it back into the game?
   

   We’ve seen a few threads mention the ladder removal from the map of the mines for expeditions. We’re going to take this Q&A to explain what happened. The ladder inside the mine was actually removed in mid-March when we discovered internally and confirmed on PTS that you could reach a platform where some enemies (mainly hellbugs) would not be able to fight back. We decided to remove the ladder leading to the platform. Because it was an art adjustment the change didn’t make it prior to console submission process around that March timeframe. It just finally made it to the LIVE environment with the last update. However, we did fail to release a proper release note and we will try and correct that process for future player communication.

9. Can we get more loadout slots please?
   

   Because we are planning to add more varied content in the future, we do agree that this will be more of an issue. We were planning to evaluate if this would be needed after we round out what we would like to do for our PvP updates.