Colony Courtship (2016) Holiday Event

Destromathe: Flaming crap

8 years ago (February 10, 2016, 10:13 pm)

Hey All,

Thank you for your feedback regarding the latest Colony Courtship event drop rates. All feedback, good and bad, is welcome, as long as it is constructive. I will take this opportunity to...

Celestrata: Colony Courtship: Hellbug Love is in the Air until February 22!

8 years ago (February 9, 2016, 1:11 am)

http://www.trionworlds.com/defiance/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/02/blog_colony-courtship.jpg

It’s Valentine’s Day once again! You know what that means, Ark Hunters! Love and freaky pheromones...

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8 years ago (February 3, 2016, 12:00 am)

Yep. They are a combination of rocket launcher/detonator bonuses and infector ones.

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8 years ago (February 3, 2016, 12:00 am)

That's part of why the bugs have a shortened lifespan and the fire rate on the weapons is controlled. They don't spawn that much quicker than from a quick infector.

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8 years ago (February 2, 2016, 12:36 am)

Not going to happen, unfortunately. The guns are in a good state now, but we're too close to the patch to make additional large changes to them at this point.

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8 years ago (January 30, 2016, 2:51 am)

It's a 5 round burst.

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8 years ago (January 30, 2016, 2:51 am)

I used the courier as the base for the gun. It has the same accuracy. If I were to make it more accurate, I'd have to reduce its effectiveness in some other way. Likely fire rate. I prefer the...

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8 years ago (January 30, 2016, 12:58 am)

It's variety. If you prefer a boomer, grab a boomer. Nothing wrong with that. The Blast Hatcher is more akin to a courier, though the hatchlings are 'heat seekers' and will damage your target as long...

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8 years ago (January 29, 2016, 11:08 pm)

I haven't seen the shield thing but will see if I can reproduce that.

The converter is expected, as is the base VFX not changing based on gun nano. All variants of the normal weapon will have the...

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8 years ago (January 29, 2016, 11:08 pm)

FYI, I've made a few updates after seeing things in action that should be in place when we update PTS:

- Fixed the reload animations on the Blast Hatcher. Also fixed the UI icons so they are...

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8 years ago (January 29, 2016, 11:08 pm)

The velocity is static, but its got loose accuracy. It's intended more as a saturation weapon than a precision one, which is why it starts with a 6 round mag and a decent firing rate for an explosive...

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8 years ago (January 29, 2016, 3:23 am)

That is awesome. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on there. Looks like its using the reload animation from a different type of shotgun.

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8 years ago (January 29, 2016, 1:21 am)

Intentional. They're Valentine's guns. The muzzle flash is a pink heart too.

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8 years ago (January 29, 2016, 1:21 am)

Hm, we're not seeing this. If anyone else has this happen or you see it again, please let me know and include details on when it starts happening and if it resolves once you login/log...

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8 years ago (January 29, 2016, 1:21 am)

Thanks Xellia. Did you see the same thing just in your inventory or only in the store interface?

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8 years ago (January 28, 2016, 11:10 pm)

The update is on PTS now, but we're having problems with the store there (as you can see). The weapons will be dropping from the events still, though, while we get that sorted out.

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8 years ago (January 28, 2016, 3:03 am)

It sounds like we may get a build up tonight.

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8 years ago (January 28, 2016, 1:06 am)

Wait until you can actually try it. Going off the numbers on the UI card isn't that valuable, particularly here where I made so many changes at once.

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8 years ago (January 27, 2016, 9:34 pm)

RL Mag: No. Already addressed elsewhere. It's a one-shot weapon.

For event arkfalls, I'll reiterate something that's been said before: the number of event arkfalls that pop is largely in the hands...

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8 years ago (January 26, 2016, 2:00 am)

Nah. It's just me trying to come up with names that would be appropriate for weapons that send bugs to attack you.

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8 years ago (January 26, 2016, 12:01 am)

FYI, I updated the screenshot of the jp weapons to include the changes I've made based on feedback.

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8 years ago (January 26, 2016, 12:01 am)

Soon (tm). We're working on some issues with the update right now. Once those are resolved, it'll be available.

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 8:40 pm)

I updated the initial post to clarify. Any weapon type that can normally have a nano will always have a nano. It's not adding nanos to weapon types that don't normally have them (like explosives and...

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 8:40 pm)

Couple other things:

I'm going to see about getting electric on the infector. That'll be interesting.

I may try to get a recoil roll on the BR. Not sure what I want to give up there for it yet....

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 8:40 pm)

Start date hasn't been announced yet.

The crit roll will be what's replaced, but white recoil doesn't do a whole lot. I think it'll need to be blue to have a strong impact. I just hate pushing...

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 8:40 pm)

Ooh, orange recoil! Now you're onto something. ;)

I'll likely make it green. Going to play with it a bit and see if that feels sufficient. You can always add -recoil mods on top of that if you...

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 2:15 am)

It's not a mass cannon. Just uses the same model. It's one of the new explosive hatchling weapons.

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 2:15 am)

As an immunizer, it's got massive range already and I'm not sure its going to benefit much from increasing that further. I avoided electric nano for these guns since the event NPCs don't have...

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 2:15 am)

The new guns use mods for the base weapon type, so it'll take any mod that fits a combat shotgun. In that case, its similar to a Courier.

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 2:15 am)

The type and number of guns are set. As noted in another comments, I avoided electric nano for these guns since the event NPCs don't have shields. I could be convinced to swap one of the guns to...

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8 years ago (January 22, 2016, 12:37 am)

In February, we'll be bringing back the Colony Courtship event to celebrate Valentine's Day and with it, we have new weapons, a new synergy, and new jackpots. We'll have these up on PTS soon, but I...