Questions for our next Across the Badlands interview with Creative Lead, Bill Trost!

[Arsenic_Touch]

Forgot to add some questions.

1. Is there any chance of the developers expanding the NPC content throughout the world? you see people standing around at the fast travel locations but they don't say anything, they barely do anything. You should make it so these random people are the ones that hand out the contracts. When you rescue someone in an emergency, their dialogue is just bland as hell. They should be more randomized and in depth, they should sometimes give a special item or something, also make the emergencies possible to fail, like the person dies. Plus there are people just standing by the vehicles all over the place in the world not doing anything, they need something to do.

2. Is there any chance that the developers will actually add a player hub (a town) of some sorts where everyone can gather and and trade and chat. (this would also require you to fix the chat system that you still haven't fixed on the pc, global chat, chat bubbles, et cetera) This also means disabling the shard system so we can actually see everyone we're playing with. Should set up a district type system like they had in guild wars where you can choose your district when you're at the hub, that way you can gather with your friends and clanmates easier.

3. Is there any chance that the arkfalls are going to actually look like they do in the tv show? the trailer that you had at the end of the live stream kind of hinted at this, but it looked more like a bunch of cut scenes and not actual game play.

4. Any chance for adding destructive parts and non static elements to the environment. Like shooting part of a building and it falls on the enemy, or trees breaking when you crash into them.

4a. Where are the weather effects that have been shown in developer videos? and are there any plans to expand on the environment in this sense?

5. Will there be any cerberus type vehicles in the open world, like the trailers show? if so, are there any plans for vehicle type content outside of shadow war? being ambushed by raiders driving a dune buggy with a machine gun ontop would make the game better.

[ovarunity]

1) Currently all the pve content bosses can be defeated with any BMG gun and no perks at level 250 ego including the three phases of the hardest boss in the game was this intentional .?

2) Since there is nothing in the game that requires any perks or powerful weapons to complete what is the intended design as regard to players wanting to improve their character ,give a reason why players would hunt for better weapons .

3) Given that all group content can be done with no voice or text chat meaning no co-ordination what is the intended mmo portion suppose to be .

4) How do you intend to keep players in game going forward with no challenge that requires improvement to your character or weaponry ?

5) Are you happy that the game was released before your content was fully functional and server stability was causing constant crashes ?

6) Do you feel that the 8 pages of fixes to bring the game to a playable release standard should have been advertised as a major game update that coincided with the shows release. were there was no additional episode or story content added was a little misleading .

7) In the lead up to the last livestream we were teased that we would not want to miss the first episode of the badlands livestream as they were going to be revealing something they had never done before and Elizabeth was quite nervous about .I watched the show did the big reveal /surprise not make it into that episode.? if it did could you point it out .

8) With the big build up to the 15th april 8 page patch did you anticipate adding a couple of pursuits and the ability to light laterns would cause a little disappointment to players ?

Thank you hope this weeks episode shines some light on the mmo aspect of the game design .

[Nerdy Ryuu]

When is the Xbox version going get the servers unlocked ? There was no mention of the servers being locked on the box. I expected the game to have open servers like the rest of the games on Xbox. Anyway sleg said will be in a upcoming patch. when will this patch be coming ?

[CrazyKimie]

When will the region lock patch arrive? There's been no update since Sledgehammer said that the unlock would be coming in an upcoming patch, but when will that patch arrive? Would like an update please.

[Emo Panther]

I got one.
I was reading some of the lore, and read that because of the Terra-forming incident, many bizarre hybrids of Earth/Votan animals were introduced. And some were so horribly altered that they're original species was unknown, Hellbugs being the best Example.

My question is, Will we ever see any of these animal species in-game, either as random encounters, missions, pets or what have you. That furry spider/wolf/bear thing from the First Tv episode was pretty neat.

[Dirt Nap]

Why are there not more hellbugs?

[ten4]

I'd would like to know when this game will be out of beta?

Ok, more serious: when is actual content going to be added? Simplistic grind orientated episode missions do not count.

Anyways, look forward to you avoiding the real questions.

[KashraFall]

Are you going to add anything else to be done with salvage? Salvage is mixed pieces of deconstructed tech. Why are we not able to reassemble it into something different? Perhaps weapon mods if not weapons themselves?

[0_d4RK_FaLLen]

how much content is currently missing and or not working. know about freight yard but get feeling there is more that was supposed to be in end game

[Vylent]

What is your opinion on the lack of difficulty throughout the game? A few examples... Bosses seem way easy, pick up timer seems way to long, and the truckload of ammo everyone seems to carry around with them.

One more question. The world seems like it should be open pvp.... was this ever talked about? is there any chance we could get a large area of land( island/continent ) that is set to have pvp always on?