Arktech Revolution: The March of Progress

[Overtkill21]

So, as I enjoy poking holes in the hull of this cardboard boat Trion has built, here's another little bit I doubt they've thought about.

What about Damage Rolls?

If Damage rolls work as they do now, then they will only affect the base DMG value.

That is fine, for say a low EGO weapon where 362 DMG x1.10 DMG = 398.2 DMG (increase of 36.2 DMG points).

But how about a high EGO weapon where it does 2363 DMG but that is an EGO based increase so its base damage remains 363 - so if it then rolls a x1.10 DMG it only goes to 2399 (the same increase of 36.2 DMG points, an effective, piddly 1.5% DMG buff to the higher EGO weapon, which will now mean absolutely diddly and squat against your scaled enemies.)

So in other words our weapons will scale, the enemies will scale, even we players will scale when playing with higher EGO players…but I can guarantee Trion hasn’t thought about the need to scale the rolls.

X1.05 DMG, x1.10 DMG, DMG on last shot, DMG after Kill etc. are all about to become severely USELESS rolls on any weapon with a high or high-ish EGO, as are Power Bores, Power Chokes, and any mod that increases base DMG…mark my words.

[VIC757]

Soooo... while the enemies have been scaling up, have the servers been scaling up too? It seems like their mortal enemy, math, will be hitting them from every angle, all the time. When math critical hits them, will they get critically killed and then hit me with a critical error?

The example pic of the saw: did you really think that we would react like noobs and think "big numbers, yay!" and that's it?

With these big # guns, how will this affect teamwork points in the scoring system? Obviously, the bigger guns kills faster, so should my friends and I keep our low guns low so we can get more teamwork points to get higher points and newer, better guns? If that's what you have intended, then perhaps I'll keep some low guns specifically to farm for big # guns, shields, etc.

[Lucent]

Vic, I was thinking about that too. Lower guns for arenas?

[Fuzzle]

With these big # guns, how will this affect teamwork points in the scoring system? Obviously, the bigger guns kills faster, so should my friends and I keep our low guns low so we can get more teamwork points to get higher points and newer, better guns? If that's what you have intended, then perhaps I'll keep some low guns specifically to farm for big # guns, shields, etc.

That's a misconception with how teamwork points work. Teamwork points are awarded to everyone who has damaged the mob in a given time period every time 500 damage has been done to the enemy (3s was what was stated). You shouldn't lose out on teamwork points unless they have changed the point scaling. You would actually likely get more teamwork points due to creatures scaling up and having more health.

Opportunist points are more like a personal version of this when a creature has a nano effect dot on them, which is what you could potentially miss out on with more players there.

[ironcladtrash]

Is arkforge awarded randomly? It doesn't sound like we can actually work towards earning any of it legitimately and again are at the mercy of the effing horrible RNG.

"Arkforge, a new currency available from lock boxes and events"

Please tell me I am wrong.

[Overtkill21]

The more that I think about this - the more that I get very uneasy...

Now one could say to remain optimistic and to believe that the Trion team has thought of all of the collateral damage (shields, grenades, pvp, damage rolls, etc.) to a change such as this and has compensated for it.

However, using history as a guide - you couldn't say it with a straight face.

[Shogo_Yahagi]

Oh and btw, this Volge with a crown on his head is ridiculous, you souldn't have fired the designer guy that makes the game originaly.

That's a crown? I thought he was showing up late for Kwanzaa.

[Nefarious]

Look at all these questions and assumptions on how this will all work. Everyone one of them being different.

No one knows. And we are going to have to wait till next weeks live stream to get official answers?

[REAVER781]

Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing even remotely scary to any of these three re-skins. If anything, I think they look cute and cuddly... makes me want to run up and hug them.

But then again, I was quite the horror movie fiend in high school so it takes a lot to scare me...

I think they look like Digimon :P

[hardy83]

A LOT of questions though, but it sounds good.

You’ll get 1,000 Arkforge as part of the Chimera Arktech Kit that comes with the purchase of Arktech Revolution, along with a special outfit, title, new Chimera contracts and vendor, pursuits, perks, and more.

This also sounds like one of the better DLC rewards out of the 5 DLCs (DLC2 with daily/weeklies is pretty close though).
However, I hope the perks aren't unbalanced. While I am a DLC owners, it shouldn't gimp non-DLC owners.