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Happy New year, here’s a Feedback Friday for you!
4th January 2008 14:25 Posted by Avatea
Living on Foreas or Arieki is a battle for survival at the best of times, but with the new year, the AFS High Commandment wishes all of you fighting out there a year of discovery and salvation, a year when we will be given the opportunity to harden our stance against the evil brought upon us by the Bane, a year when technological innovations will allow us to do more than just survive, a year when we will be able to find the time to stop fighting for a little while and enjoy the company of one another. But perhaps this goes beyond the scope of a mere wish, perhaps this is a premonition, that of a better future…
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We are kicking off 2008 with the new 1.4 patch which includes several new features. Here’s a sneak peak at a few of the 1.4 patch notes before it goes to the Public Test Server.
New Features:
Hybrids – Mix a dash of human with a sprinkle of alien, and see what comes out of the oven. (More details to come soon…)
Hide Helmet Option – Now you can show off that lovely helmet hair, and/or your new hybrid’s Alien face.
Attribute Changes – Your Body, Mind, and Spirit were overhauled over the Holiday break. With these changes comes an Ability and Attribute respec. See Paul’s post for details.
Important Bug Fixes:
Your mission log should no longer reset when you log out.
Mires Improvements (see below).
The staff animation was changed (see below).
Mires Performance Issues:
The Mires performance issues should be resolved with the next update (1.4). In the last few updates we included a number of large technology improvements for Mires; however, its performance is still not in line with our desired numbers. For example, the creature count on Mires is only slightly higher than desired, but due to the large scale, warzone-like design of the map, there were four times as many creatures in combat as any other map. Mires also contains many locations where both friendly and enemy drop ships were appearing literally within meters of each other. To guarantee that the performance of Mires is on par with other maps for the next update, we’ve made some changes to the design of Mires that greatly improves the performance without making the map significantly different.
Change of the staff animation:
The staff is going through a makeover. Unfortunately, due to an integration error, part of the update leaked onto live before it was ready (that was the x5 speed increase). We hot fixed this by reducing the damage down by 1/5 which brings its DPS back to where it was. The results are a staff that only got a partial pass, none of which makes it any more fun or useful. The team will deliver the final results in an upcoming patch which promises to be a great improvement over its previous and current implementation.
In short, the speed increase was one small part of a large change that got leaked early and messed things up… We’ve tried to patch things together until the complete update goes live. This has some anomalies associated with it, though ultimately the staff maintains the same DPS as it did before the patch.
Gold Selling/Advertising:
We are aware of current issues involving “credit/gold” sellers and advertising in the chat channel. We have already made several improvements to crack down on these players and are currently working on other options to prevent them from disrupting game play. Please be advised that buying or selling in game credits, as well as in-game advertising, is against the Tabula Rasa User Agreement and will lead to a banned account. When encountering these players, use the /ignore command.
Chat Channels:
On the subject of chatting, there has been some confusion on each chat channel’s main purpose. Here’s a quick overview:
General (English, French, and German) – Local and Area messages. Be polite as possible when speaking in these channels. As a guideline, its best to keep the following “hot” topics out of General Chat to avoid arguments: politics, religion, “nerf” discussions, and of course, Chuck Norris. If any other channel can apply to your topics, please state it in that particular channel.
New Player – Get help with the basics of Tabula Rasa. Great place to ask questions about lower level content such as Wilderness or Divide. If you are not sure where to ask your question, ask here!
LFG – Find a group for an instance or other types of missions on your map. Also great for clan recruiting.
Trade – Quick shout outs for selling or buying items.
PTS Contest:
We appreciate those that help us test out newly released content on PTS before it goes to live. As a thank you, we plan to have a contest soon where players can obtain black armor dye for their character, just by logging in to help test 1.4 once it’s released to PTS! More to come on this contest in the upcoming days…
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Click on the following links if you want to have a look at the previous Feedback Friday newsposts:
Feedback Friday – 21st December 2007
Feedback Friday – 14th December 2007
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
ETA?
<From Avatea> This month, hopefully next week but we don’t want to give any indication if for some reason we are unable to deliver.
You will never get them out when there are non-invite Testaccounts. And even then they will find Ways.
You ban URIs from Chat? They go around the Filter.
You ban their Text? They obstruct it.
It’s impossible to get rid of them, they are in Anarchy Online, in EVE Online, even Ragnarök Online suffers from them.
It’s as worse as Crotch Improvement Spam.
<From Avatea> We have to try though and we definitely will improve the situation!
I’d like to see the missions i have done in the log as darkened or something, I am most fed up with trying to work out what I have not done to get Opp Targets… tis well boring
When (if ever) Will we be able to reset levels, attributes and skills on the test server. This would make using the test server a whole lot more appealing and useful for players.
And whats about the bugged quests?
yay, for helm hiding. Happy new year Avatea, good to see u guys back.
Btw. so basicly I shouldn’t be afraid of lvling my commando for beeing guardian? I love the idea, but dont want to be Darth Maul with shotgun, U know what I mean..
Aaaaw, no more Chuck Norris. *pouts*
As for the PTS, is there a list (or similar) feature of what to test. There is of course the general stability and game mechanics, which are “easy” to test. But the more specific issues can be harder to spot, like some missions and new/changed content.
And while on the subject, how about a feature on the test server to mark missions as not done to test missions again (for instance Intercept and Exterminate in Incline, which have had various bugs on mission objectives).
Anyway, happy new year people :D
Wouldnt it just be easier to create a Trial only chat channel that they are added into.
And this channel can be removed from general tab by Full accounts?
Hybrids? Omg :-O
I can’t wait to see mor einfo on this.
I’m glad to see that patch 1.4 will start adressing the horrible Mires. Usually, it’s the first higher level map that players will start feeling the dropping quality in high level content and playability.
Also, I’m glad there’s a commitment to work against the goldseller spam that’s been poisoning the chat channels these last few weeks.
Sadly, there’s no message about balancing and reconsidering skills yet, but with the attribute respec I can understand that. And another thing I’m hoping will come soon is a /sit or /sleep option that was mentioned in a forum post elsewhere.
Glad that goldsellers are getting some resistance now.
I hope several broken missions, that also obstruct some ToO objectives, are being looked into by this patch. And maybe lower the nitroglazer count for Plains ( or spawn some more ^_^ ) Since some CP’s don’t get any attention from the Bane ( as in: not being assaulted at all anymore it seems) things can get pretty hostile between some players when nitrohunting on the 3 - 6 that do spawn.
keep up the good work !
I cant wait for the black paint, i just have to win that contest :D
I dont really care about the rest as much, hehe
Will we have to create new characters to try out hybridisation, or will our existing characters be able to “become” hybrid somehow?
What?! No Chuck Norris!? My secret cult of Chuck Norris worshippers will hear about this!
Just prevent free trial account from using global chat UNLESS they register with proper CC. That’ll get rid of most spam since the game doesn’t seem to have /who command capable of showing lists of players.
Well good job guys, but you could improve something more.
First of all, we (players,gamers) need an official forum where we could talk’n’chat and stuff like that,write feedbacks,impressions,suggestions.
Btw - about gold sellers - you could create a script, which prevents saying the same thing twice or three times in a few seconds.
Umm, yeah, i keep seeing options about lower and upper mask (in character window) , but seems like, you can’t buy those items anywhere and you can get them is when you create a new character.
Also, you didn’t increase boss respawning time, many players have problems hunting Divide boss (slimy one, ameboid if im right)
PLEASE CREATE FORUM !
I would prefer the pvp, and the endgame instead of the hybrid class/race… however, hope that soon you will implement that
The hand to hand skill increases the staff damage for melee (the intended use i would guess) but the knockback portion of the skill makes it very hard to use the staff in melee, will there be a fix for this?
How can i connect to the public test server?
With regards to the hybrids, will this need to be a new character or something we can do with our existing characters.
PS.. The text image you have to enter before posting a comment, doesn’t appear when using the Firefox browser.
I really hope that you’re fixing the issue with the transfers to/from the footlocker. It’s really frustrating when you need to transfer some items between characters and the footlocker suddenly locks up and you need to relog each time.
I recently started playing an Exobiologist and am not too excited about the way pets work; is it being considered that we have a way to “direct” our pet’s attention to particular targets? .. i.e. “go kill THAT” commands.
The only way to stop bad users is to directly ban their account and make reference to their VALID credit card details.
You should only allow players to play the game if they have a valid bank account tied to the NCsoft account. And if that account has been banned because of spam, they would have difficulty making another account because their credit card details have been recorded.
If they manage to get around that, then you can involve authorities because to get around that you need to commit fraud which is illegal. (That would be easy to spot since no one really should have more than 2-3 credit/debit card in their name.)
I have no idea how lawful it is to use valid credit card details like that but it’s worth thinking about.
Hi,
I would like to have separated clan, and sqad chat (like it is in lineage 2), because on general channel there are a lot of spamers. Until now i have abou 50 peoples in ignore but new always appeared. It just a litle boring when we have our clan discussion and i must roll the chat over and over to see what my friends said.
Yours loyal gamer Mistwolf
Why not disable chat for all trial users?