General

Greetings Soldiers, and welcome to this week’s Feedback Friday.  The Development Team is ending its final week of adding content to the Deployment 12 build.  This next week, we will be focusing on bug fixing and polishing, and then we’ll eventually put it on PTS for your viewing (after QA puts it through the wringer, of course). 

In this week’s Feedback Friday..Monday we discuss Operation Immortality, Deployment 11, and the Looking For Squad system.

Operation Immortality is getting a lot of coverage around the world but here are a few hits from the UK:

• Sci-Fi Online
• Ready Up!
• TVG
• play.tm
• bit-tech.net

Last night we published Deployment 11 on the Public Test Server!

The Highlights

• New instance: Omega Labs (Lv. 50)
• New “Operation Immortality"-themed missions
• Revamped and revised tutorial!
• Revised low-level zones
• The Redshirts (NPC soldiers) are here
• New rocket launchers series II
• New software Anti-Aliasing system
• and much, much more!

A guide how to access the Public Test Server can be found here.

A CALL TO ARMS FOR ALL AFS TROOPS, PAST AND PRESENT!

General British, civilian name Richard Garriott, will board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station on 12 October 2008. The event is being publicised as routine, but the truth has been withheld for fear of causing widespread panic across the globe.

This week’s Feedback Friday has been put together by another active lead of the Tabula Rasa team. He has also taken the time to provide a few screenshots to illustrate this week’s topic: the Clan Owned Control Point system!

Highlights

• Reflective and Stealth armor optimization is complete.
• Two new Incendiary shotgun types have been added:
  
  • Double-barrel shotguns appear at Level 23.
  • Tri-barrel shotguns appear at Level 34.
• Reduced the amount of time rez trauma is active. It is now active for only 2 minutes, 4 minutes and 6 minutes respectively.
• Clan lockboxes are now available in the game.
• A logout timer has been implemented to prevent players from logging out to avoid death.
• Gray Market Vendors can now be found if you look for them!
• Looking for Squad - By typing /lfs or using the radial menu you can now bring up options for creating or searching ads.
• Changes to video settings within the predefined modes to optimize performance.
• The “bubble” system mentioned on the website is now online.

For the full patchnotes, have a look in this section.

This Friday 25th July, Richard Garriott will be facing up against two time featherweight boxing champ Jesus Chavez in the C.E.L.L.A.R. Arena. This will be held on the Tabula Rasa Test Server starting at midnight UK time. They will be in C.E.L.L.A.R. 3, which can be accessed via teleporter from the barracks in Alia Das.

Hello! I’m Mike Moore, one of TR’s senior game system designers, and I’m about to begin working in earnest on improvements to our Crafting system. For all of Deployment 11, I have been working on prototyping some small but important changes to Crafting. On evaluation of that prototype, many of us feel like we’re on to something good. So, at this point, we want to polish things up and get them out to the Public Test Server and let you guys have a look.

As we have already announced via the boards, Sunday will be our Community Day at the NCsoft booth (Hall 3, Stand B20), a whole day fully dedicated to you, our players!