Daxxis KANNAH wrote:IWS, is a next big patch with content similar to Uprising coming out this year?
Is that the plan or not or will content just trickle in the monthly updates?
From the looks of it there is no new 'expansion' in the works we're going to be stuck with monthly version updates of uprising for a while. This may however not always be the case. Content wise there seems to be a fairly big chunk of it on the way before end of the roadmap which may require extension on some fronts. CPM is going to start meeting more with design teams over the major features planned on the roadmap which was published here.
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=988205#post988205This is pretty much sums everything the CPM is seeing done to the game, while the roadmap that CPM did see was a bettered detailed version the goals desired in a 2-3 pages developer/player story format. The bullet point pretty much summarizes what CCP plans to do. Road map or not these items are picked up, mulled over, thought over, executed, put down on the table again then rechecked to see if it worked and may pick it back up again. Other pointers are going to be a constantly ongoing fight of improvement. Somethings on this roadmap is not exclusive to one silver bullet feature but rather a large combination of features not yet realized or drafted yet other than they know what the goal of any feature they come up with. This of course gives the developers greater freedoms to pursue the goals instead of being shoehorned into poorly made features or ill thought out ones similar to what another game is doing.
New Guns and Suits falls under balance for example even though that it in itself is not a bullet point.
Along with this roadmap while I have no confirmation of any feature yet, its far entirely too possible earlier things have indeed wound up on the floor and not on the shelf or oven. Remember black ops HAVs? that would be one example.
Making fights interesting, controls, context are all part of the important process of fixing SP/WP as earlier complained. One of the largest elephants in the room over this would probably be the warbarge strike.