Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Patch Notes for Publish 8
Keep up, they moved this to publish 10 and announced that 2 weeks ago.
Garabaldi wrote:
Combat Balance: A major Combat Balance pass will be happening in Publish 8. The goal of the combat balance is to make combat challenging and equitable across the combat professions. The Combat Balance consists of several aspects.
The first aspect is the Weapon Balance. The Weapon Balance pass is intended to bring relative power of weapons between professions more in line with each other. This is not to say that they will all be the same. Different weapon types will still have various strengths and weakness providing different abilities in which they are ideally suited. Certain weapons classes will stay more or less powerful than the average but this is to reflect a balance paradigm of the profession that uses those weapons. Additionally weapon certifications will be rearranged to provide a better power progression and to better match up with when Weaponsmiths are granted the schematics to craft them. A major goal of the weapon balance pass is to provide players with a consistent and balanced power progression as they advance up their profession as well as providing interesting and varied weapon choices at all skill levels.
The second aspect of the Combat balance will be the HAM redesign. A very critical part of the overall combat rebalance is the change to the functionality of the HAM system. This change will allow a greater ease in balancing overall HAM costs for weapons and special moves. It will also allow Mind to be removed as a special damage type and place equal emphasis on Health, Action and Mind pools for both abilities and damage.
The third aspect is the Profession Balance. Once the underlying core systems for combat (weapons, damage & HAM) are balanced it will be possible to look at all combat professions and balance them in a way that emphasizes each of the professions roles in combat and to give purpose to each individual player as well as reasons for choosing various profession combinations in groups. This includes a skill mod balance, skill tree progression tweaks, combination stacking, special abilities (existing and some new) and overall difficulty.
So ummmm........what happened to this then? Yes they said the main balance will happen over a few months, but I think we were all expecting at least a few combat fixes....very, very dissapointing
Khragon wrote:
Keep up, they moved this to publish 10 and announced that 2 weeks ago.
Leonae wrote:
As far as the star port waiting times are concerned, I do hope they will keep it, and make passenger transport a rentable business with the SE.
d0qtrX wrote:Leaving in the 10 minuet wait for starpots is BS.The STARPORT wait is what we've been bitching about since day 1.PLEASE!
The scary part is that we actually have to tell them! Tells you quite a bit about the playing habits of the so-called designers.
Playdead wrote:
I'll have to second the "that's it?"post. Other than the DE modules, there's nothing that exciting just minor bug fixes..
Yep, this is very underwhelming. DE modules, some bug fixes that shouldn't have even made it live, and of course the cop-out on shuttle wait times....
<watches as more and more people cancel...>
I can't wait till the Sony brass realizes that these devs are literally throwing away millions of dolars a month (if not tens of millions) via their incompetence.....
nefarious wrote:
Anyone try the survey droid yet? that is going to be a time saver if it gives you the wps, if not most of us have no need for it as we use a certain website for our resources.
Ahhh... but for those of us who help keep certain websites this could help tremendously stats and waypoints or not. Who wants to pay to get to endor only to find out nothing has changed since the last person was there? Not saying more info is bad, just that I don't see less info being bad either.
"Vehicles will no longer auto-heal when left out and stored after a player has taken a transport to another location. "
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Does this mean that you have fixed the bug with vehicles sometimes losing all the health, after stored, that you have legitimately repaired? I think that needs to be fixed before the transport bug.
-Skry
Lets face it:
The devs promise us great stuff month after month just to take out the stuff we want right before the publish ansd give us a huge pile of crap no one ever asked for and 4 friday features to make us belive the BS they pushed on is would be something we really wanted.
Droid invasion? LOL there was done NOTHING to fix DEs. No shuttle time reduction, no combat fixes, no fixing CMs which utterly destroy any PvP, no quest fixes, no fixes of all those little bugs we complain about since beta.
JUST BS AND CRAP TO ANNOUNCE BIG ON THEY #!@%!^ HOMEPAGE TO LURE EVEN MORE PLAYER IS THIS HUGE PILE OF CRAP THEY PROMISED US TO BE SO GREAT SINCE 2000 AND BROKE EVERY SINGLE PROMISE THEY MADE.
Yes, i defended this **edit**ing game for 4 years and told everyone the devs will fix it and know what they do, but they are to stupid to even see that a mindpoisonof 800 damage per tick for a whole party makes any combat impossible.
And im sure their forum gestapo wont need more than 5 minutes to delete my post like they do with any negativefeedback which is too emotional to just ignore it.
The devs give a **edit** about what we want, otherwise we would get a working PvP system without having to wait for some publish in fall, would have languages which have a point to use and wouldn't have to waste up to HOURS each day standing at shuttleports waiting for shuttles. If the devs think that is fun you know they never really played their own **edit**ing game.