Feedback Friday - 15th February 2008

We’re glad to hear all of the excitement from players about implementing PAUs into the game. As of now, we can provide the basic outline of the PAU system that our Lead Designer has shared and then our lips are sealed! Once PAU’s are closer to being implemented into the game, we will start disclosing both images and design features.

1. The issue that caused item rarity to not affect healing or tools repair is being fixed in an upcoming patch.
2. We are still investigating if any tweaks need to be made in this regard, but no changes have been made yet.

The Injector Gun was originally envisioned as a “fire and forget” weapon with a relatively weak initial hit but a powerful DoT. Bugs in its implementation and the overlap of its armour penetration skill-based effect and the natural armour penetration of Virulent damage have caused some balance problems with these weapons. Basically, there should be little difference between an initial strike and a DoT tick with this gun: they should do the same amount of damage with the same amount of armour penetration. Injector Guns have hard 20m range limits and they suffer no damage falloff within that range. We are currently working on fixing bugs and adjusting the damage output of Injector Guns.

No to pets, yes to clones. Clones of yourself and clones of you made by Reconstructor Bots are pretty much exact duplicates of your character, including attribute and skill point distribution. Also, when you Polymorph, the attributes of your Polymorph form are not influenced by your character attribute distribution.

No. Your character receives 1 clone credit per completed Target of Opportunity quest in addition to the 1 clone credit you receive at levels 5, 15, and 30. There are also other missions in the game that award clone credits, such as the hybrid missions.