Heinrich Jagerblitzen
D3LTA FORC3
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2013.06.15 02:40:00 -
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Klivve Cussler wrote:What do you, as individuals, think of what's coming, without any spoilers whatsoever?
What I'd like is an emotional, qualitative reaction to the changes in the new build.
To be honest I have no idea. My biggest feedback to CCP on the patch notes so far during our internal review has been "You've GOT to include more detail than this" Numbers numbers numbers, stats stats stats, every single change documented thoroughly and transparently. Link to dev blogs if they must, or even better links to a stickied forum thread posted by the dev working on the change with more information where they can monitor feedback in one place. But one way or another, patch notes need to be more specific than they have been in the past.
Many items like "Increased performance of ________" are also vague and impossible to evaluate without hands-on testing. Uprising felt like a game-changer when we played it at Fanfest, but not once we installed it on our PS3's at home. Reading patch notes is much the same. There are a several items in there that have the potential to turn the combat meta on its ear (including one piece of gear) and change the way we play, but these could always break things as much as it might improve them.
We also have no idea whether the patch notes we were shown are missing anything else or whether there are items that the devs are TRYING to get finished but might not make it (or might not pass QA).
It looks on paper to be a fairly typical build update. Not as many "major facelift" elements as Uprising (this is Uprising 1.2 that's coming, not a new expansion completely) but some new gear, a good number of bug fixes, performance tweaks, etc. Nothing I would say "No" to, of course - These are all needed adjustments, but obviously its still skimming off a bottomless pool of things to fix.
Sorry for the indifference / lack of enthusiam, I'd love to be able to stand up and scream "THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME" with a megaphone but that's not what the CPM is here for and I've learned my lesson already about giving a build praise only to be disappointed with its manifestation once I've played it at home.
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