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Feedback Friday - 14th December 2007
14th December 2007 14:07 Posted by Avatea
There are big changes coming up with the next update to Tabula Rasa that will help players diversify their characters even more. I briefly mentioned the attribute changes coming online in this next update, but now I can go into more detail about them.
- Body points will now add a bonus to your armor rating.
- Mind points will now add a bonus to your ability damage.
- Spirit points will now add a bonus to your chance to deliver critical hits.
- Health has now been upped for all characters.
These changes will necessitate a Respec for your character, but we feel these are very good changes for a number of reasons. The health change means that healing will be more important and in line with what we had originally envisioned. It will give a better early warning system when your armor drops and give more of a reason to have higher health. It will also allow us to improve virulent damage a bit, without making it overpowered. The body changes give those who want to really last in a firefight a way to do so now, but at the cost of power. Mind points means the Logos abilities will now be able to peel away armor and kill quicker, but they themselves will become a much easier target to take down. Finally, the spirit changes will allow strings of critical hits and much faster adrenaline gains through overkills.
All the attribute changes will make abilities, armor and weapons that grant attribute bonuses, or perhaps debuff attributes much more important. As you can imagine, core changes like these are being tested heavily by the development team and our own QA team. I’d like to personally encourage people to play on our Test Server when version 1.4 comes out and give us feedback early.
Also, I would like to discuss the changes coming to the Engineer class. Specifically, we took away Temporary Wormhole and gave it to all players as a consumable item for purchase through vendors. We felt that the original goal of making travel non-tedious in TR wasn’t really being met in all circumstances, so we wanted to remove that barrier from all players. The new engineer ability will be Malfunction. Malfunction is the Engineer’s way to wreak havoc on their enemies in a very sneaky fashion. Essentially this will give the Engineer the ability to jam weapons and prevent ability usage, while the top level will shutdown movement for a short time on armored opponents. We will also be evaluating the Trap skill to make it more useful. New traps will be more like mines that blow up on being shot, taking on the damage type of the shot that triggers them, or magnetic mines that blow up in proximity or after being on the target a short time. These abilities may not make it in for Version 1.4, the next update, but should be in shortly after.
I hope everyone has a great Holiday and I will see you on the front lines.
Paul Sage
Lead Designer
Now a few questions from our feedback form:
- Getting booted out of a mission after a disconnection: Would it be possible at all to have a system similar to Guild Wars where you could log back in straight away and start the mission from the same point as when you got disconnected?
We are looking into creating a feature like this for Tabula Rasa, there is no ETA for when it will be available to players. - I gave out all my Referral Program trials, is there somewhere else I can point my friends who want to play the game?
Sure do! We now have a 3-day Trial available (no credit card needed to set up). - Will I get a reward for playing on the Public Test Server?
Currently there is no system to reward players playing on the Public Test Server. However, we may be able to run a contest that would allow players who have played on the Test Server the longest between specific dates, to win a few goodies.
This is however NOT the case yet! We will let you know in the news section of the official websites, when we do run that competition! - Why do I need to enter payment details to be able to get my 30 days of free gameplay?
The box states that there are 30 days of included Game time and that a valid credit card or a game time is required to play. The time is included, not free. Your account will not be debited until the included game time has expired. So if you decide that you do not want to subscribe to the game you can always cancel the recurring billing (except if you used Paysafecard or a GTC as they are prepaid).
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Click on the following links if you want to have a look at the previous Feedback Friday newsposts:
Feedback Friday – 7th December 2007
Feedback Friday – 30th November 2007
Feedback Friday – 23rd November 2007
Feedback Friday – 16th November 2007
Feedback Friday – 9th November 2007
Feedback Friday - 2nd November 2007
Feedback Friday - 26th October 2007
Feedback Friday - 19th October 2007
Comments
In order to be able to fully test things on the test server, I need to be able to modify my character level, skills etc - Also the ability to create a character of any class. why is this not available?
This will make it more desirable to use modefications for Body, Mind and spirit. However if this works just as well as the +armor modifications, it still wont matter, cause they dont work. I wonder if this also means that clones will get their attribute points refunded as well?
what about people tht joined late and didnt get the abilitys reset
Great!
Your making a great game even better!
i dont know but from the moment i updated the game with the latest patch i can’t play the game. It stucks when i try to load my char, or when i try to enter in servers generally
Any ideas?
i can’t belive i got this game on the 22 of december i missed DE day by a day