K-TAM DLC 2 Interview with Trick This Wednessday 4pm PT Info/Question Thread

Howdy Folks. K-TAM is once again bringing to you live and on air Trick Dempsey Defiance Creative Lead. We will also have Dahanese providing some back up and then solo for an entire hour after Trick to talk community matters.

The format will be an open forum on K-TAM via our mumble. I will be moderating, I hope, as much as asking questions/follow ups. Our topic is DLC 2.

The idea with K-TAM has always been to bring the community closer to the people involved with the game. This means priority to questions will be given to those people who are live, in our mumble talking via their mic's. Then in Mumble Chat, and lastly questions selected by K-TAM Staff from these forums and other sources.

Feel free to post your questions and comments here. We can't promise or guarantee they will all be answered or even asked. We will get to what we can. Your best chance is to join our mumble in person and ask them yourself.

Our mumble does have limited space, it will be first come first serve.

Please keep your questions DLC 2 related.

Ask Away and thanks for tuning in to K-TAM and showing your support.

Oh DLC 2, well most of my questions were not related to DLC 2. Haha. I'll save them to have asked on the friday live streams.

Alright, these two questions are somewhat loosely related to DLC 2 (first one because DLC 2 introduces instanced open-world events, second one because shotguns bonuses are tweaked in the DLC). There's no chance I can be online at that time of the day, so I'm just asking them here.

Would you consider using instancing mechanisms for more open-world events (arkfalls and sieges) ? There's no real fun at arkfalls when there are so many players around that enemies die before even touching the ground, and big crowds cause performance problems to consoles. Arkbreaks are great in that regard.

Would you consider changing accuracy bonuses on shotguns, in the same way that magazine bonuses were changed on the test server? Right now these bonuses are flat, with values that don't really have any significant effect (a -0.10 bonus on a shotgun with a base accuracy of 15 is a 0.6% bonus...). They would be much better as relative bonuses, like the run 'n 'gun and rolling thunder synergies (x0.90 for white, x085 for green, and so on).

Oh yeah, and the obvious one: given all the negative feedback on the new grenade system, are you just going to go ahead and push the system the way it is on the test server?

We're looking forward to talking with you! See you all on Wednesday. :)

Can you PLEASE not do the grenade change

I looking forward to seeing how it goes as well.


Should start out all nice and bright and bubbly and then....

http://forums.defiance.com/attachmen...1&d=1386040574


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UPDATE:

We have confirmed Dahanese for 1 full hour from 5-6 PT live on K-TAM immediately after Trick's interview. That's 2 hours of Dev/CM's for you to join us on Mumble and ask your questions directly.

It wouldn't be possible with out the support of our fans and listeners to give us the ability to get these people on for you. So thank you to all our supporters. You help make this possible.

And thanks to Trick and Dahanese for making the time to spend with K-TAM and the Defiance Community.

Well, should be interesting.

From the DLC2 thread:

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Originally Posted by N7_Legion

I also see no mention of the new pursuits, and also the fact that you can replace individual mods on a weapon within the salvage matrix now.

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Originally Posted by crasher

That part puzzles me.
Been asking for it for months.
Trick commented on it in response to a question on the Live Stream a few weeks ago in a vague fashion while making no commitment to it's possibility.

And now you mention it.
In the WAY you mention it.
As if it's an issue brought to successful conclusion and just needs footnoting.

I don't *see* it referenced in the patch notes or recent discussion.

Are you mentioning it out of the blue, did I miss a mention of it, or has mention been scrubbed from the intertubes and this is the last place it exists.

It's one of the few things that IS wanted, SEEMS possible, and probably WON'T be granted.

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Originally Posted by alienstookmybeer

It's fully functional on the test server. Was surprised to stumble across that too and think it deserves more mention (maybe they don't want to draw attention to it because they were embarrassed at how stupid the original design was.. as they should be)

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The point of the above mess is:

* Does this not imply that we NEED to be able to see the syn of mods as they appear on weapons?

** Has this been fixed as of yet?

*** Seems pretty pointless to be granted the opportunity to swap the pig mods out of a weapon, but not be able to verify the syn on the pig mods that MAKES 'em pig mods.

Aside: (Incorrect syn is what breaks the combo and keeps the syn from fully activating. Some incorrect syn mods are on occasion applied in haste or by mistake making a complete combo package trash). On occasion plans and logistics can change, and being able to make a weapon useful by the reallocation of a single, or more, mods at a later date can make one's game-play tactics make a 180* when new avenues open up.

**** If it's not fixed - when? And/or what does TRION propose if it's in fact not fixable as some have opined that the server may have LOST the syn data rendering syn'd mods generic?

It's going to be epic....epic...like the hand of god reaching down in all it's glory to bestow the kernel of wisdom on us lowly masses......tune in....TUNE IN!!!! can ya put your hand on the screen and feel tha powa!!!!

get your questions in quick arkhunters.....tempis fugit.....or be left in the dark!!!

BATTLE RIFLES!

Will battle rifles ever be turned into their category of weapons? The HACs lack stopping power and the the semi-auto snipers lack ammo. We need a happy medium and it should be battle rifles :)

We are about 6 hours away, get those questions in.

Are you going to drop the amount of people needed to start a PvP match? Will Military Academy be fixed? When or are you going to balance Ego Powers in PvP mainly asking for decoy and cloak? Whats being done to improve PvP.

Since they can't be bothered to respond on the forums:

http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...ooked-at-again.

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Originally Posted by Shogo_Yahagi

Since they can't be bothered to respond on the forums:

http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...ooked-at-again.

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Trick's actually working on a grenade blog post - but I'm sure we'll talk a lot of grenades tonight. :)

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Originally Posted by dahanese

Trick's actually working on a grenade blog post - but I'm sure we'll talk a lot of grenades tonight. :)

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Which still doesn't address the elephant in the room that you guys are still ignoring. A blog post doesn't have any dialogue exchange. We've been making these posts all week. I've even sent one directly to Trick when I know he was responding to my threads in the alpha section and still nothing. How about actually engaging us on the subject instead of hiding again?

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Originally Posted by Arsenic_Touch

Which still doesn't address the elephant in the room that you guys are still ignoring. A blog post doesn't have any dialogue exchange. We've been making these posts all week. I've even sent one directly to Trick when I know he was responding to my threads in the alpha section and still nothing. How about actually engaging us on the subject instead of hiding again?

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Not trying to ignore - actually, you in particular have been fabulously helpful this entire week. Between the blog, the live stream, and tonight's interviews I think we're going to have a lot of talk about grenades. Right now Trick's spending most of his time finalizing everything for the launch next week, so he's been a little lean on posting time.

I know that forums are a preferred method for talk, so if the problem here is wanting replies in that format I can spend some time with him this afternoon knocking out some questions in addition to our other outlets.

Will the ammo pool ever be increased for sniper rifles, or at least have a separate ammo pool for quick repeaters?

Why do weapons that require you to aim down sights have less or equal DPS to weapons that are accurate from the hip. Like the Vot Pulser and VBI SMG. I think having to aim down sights is a huge handicap and you end up taking more damage, so it should have more damage if it requires you to aim down sights.

I'll add this two questions:

* With Arkbearker DLC we are getting new Votan sets of weapons, when will we get new weapon sets for VBI and FRC?

* After Lottery Lockboxes were removed from vendors, Lockboxes stopped droping legendary gear for me, were legendary drops reduced or is RNG loot table infested with a hellbug.

45 minutes away...

Should also note, Mumble does have limited space so get on in early and reserve your slot for the interviews. Already filling up.

So was there anything substantial with the interview? I was unable to attend. Did he address any of the concerns we've voiced in the alpha section in regards to the DLC or answering any of the other questions?

I didn't get to listen to most of it, but I got the impression more of the same... Dahanese is on right now Singing your Praises Arsenic...

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Originally Posted by Holy Bahamut3

I didn't get to listen to most of it, but I got the impression more of the same... Dahanese is on right now Singing your Praises Arsenic...

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Singing my what?

She was giving you credit for all of the good work you have been doing. She even said she should get you a direct line. lol

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Originally Posted by Holy Bahamut3

She was giving you credit for all of the good work you have been doing. She even said she should get you a direct line. lol

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Ah. Had me confused for a second.

Somebody just asked Dahanese if she really thinks the player base is getting their moneys worth....

Her reply was if we didn't in the beginning, I feel like we are now...

Sucks being Aussie miss all the good stuff, ah well...

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Originally Posted by Arsenic_Touch

Singing my what?

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Oh no, someone told you. :P

Thanks to everyone who participated. I am working on getting the interviews up on our On Demand links right Away so you can listen to the interviews in two parts. They will be available on www.ktamradio.com.

Interviews uploaded. Please Enjoy. Feed back appreciated.

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Originally Posted by dahanese

Oh no, someone told you. :P

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You can thank me by naming a gun after me. :p

I'll take that bat phone.

Trion - I would be very happy if with DLC we were given new EGO Powers...High Jump, increase armor and health regen, bio man boosts, other ideas?
Please make it so blades work off of melee damage, esp since you are limited which ego powers you can use while wielding a blade.
am I the only one who finds rockets worthless? low ammo, not much damage, slow reload, cannot kill any enemy with a single shot or most even with full clip even with direct critical hits.
finally please look into adding some new nano effects...ice / freeze, acid melt, explosive tip

Thanks.

Thank you KTAM people for the interview, and Etaew for the transcript. Most of the answers sound fairly good to me, except for the part about grenades. Yes, people on the forums are getting it, in that they understand how it's going to work. But that doesn't mean they're going to be happy about it. But hey, alpha testers did their best to tell Trion what is wrong with the system, now I hope they're ready to deal with some very unhappy players after it hits live.

Oh and yeah. So apparently now legendary grenades are not going to have a 0.0 fuse time, because some people mentioned that they like being able to bounce grenades. Well, I don't, and I've always looked for 0.0 grenades. So now grenades were essentially nerfed for me. This is the problem with removing itemization on grenades. The system used to offer a wide variety of grenades, from which people could pick and use what they liked best. Now we are all going to have to use the same things, which is so unlike the rest of the loot system that I still do not understand how this was deemed a good solution.

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Originally Posted by Tekrunner

Thank you KTAM people for the interview, and Etaew for the transcript. Most of the answers sound fairly good to me, except for the part about grenades. Yes, people on the forums are getting it, in that they understand how it's going to work. But that doesn't mean they're going to be happy about it. But hey, alpha testers did their best to tell Trion what is wrong with the system, now I hope they're ready to deal with some very unhappy players after it hits live.

Oh and yeah. So apparently now legendary grenades are not going to have a 0.0 fuse time, because some people mentioned that they like being able to bounce grenades. Well, I don't, and I've always looked for 0.0 grenades. So now grenades were essentially nerfed for me. This is the problem with removing itemization on grenades. The system used to offer a wide variety of grenades, from which people could pick and use what they liked best. Now we are all going to have to use the same things, which is so unlike the rest of the loot system that I still do not understand how this was deemed a good solution.

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I only use my 0 det frag grenade and it took me forever to get a legendary one. It's the only one I like and also the only one any one was looking for. Now because some people have a bug that a 0 det grenade blows up when they throw it he decided to further ruin grenades for everyone and make sure no one had a 0 det grenade. I should stop being so upset on all the inane decisions and just take bets on what the stupidest idea is they will implement next.

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Originally Posted by dahanese

Trick's actually working on a grenade blog post - but I'm sure we'll talk a lot of grenades tonight. :)

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Was the Hunter's Arse post that went up today the grenade blog post you mentioned, or should we be expecting something more substantive?