Raptr Q&A - Here's some questions and answers from the Defiance team.

[Taaltos]

Dang plenty of dissapointment - like " updates for all platforms not specific" (pc is not a console tbh - you cant have it all same).
way too many politician answers that promise nothing yet promise alot at the same time.
Many of the questions were quite one sided (like open pvp - tbh thats where they get wrong ideas - few people asking for it, ignorign what majority wants).

Well, there have been a few confirmations of Clan Rivalry PvP. Not sure what that means tho.

[Taaltos]

Frackin' hackers!

Piccolo0
Good evening, I would like to know when it is comming more maps, for example Defiance City, etc...
Also, I can understad you have a massive amount of support tickets, and Im not hurry about my ones, but I really care about hacking on the game. There are many videos explanining how to hack Defiance. Will be a "hackwall" soon? Will you change about to "ask" to the PC of the user about how many damage he does and change it to your own servers?

Thanks a lot for this impressive game, I think it has a very nice future if you can handle it, and I wait so you can!

Cheers from Spain.

Myll_Erik
We're actively hunting down people are hacking and removing them. We take it very seriously and are making sure to handle it as swift as we can.

[JerZey CJ]

Melee Weapons

Aha! Eat it melee nay sayers!(In case you can't tell, totally messing around there) Either way, that sounds like at least melee weapons are a possibility(more so than before, with people saying that they pretty much said "No. No melee weapons EVAR!!!".

[Taaltos]

Battle of Defiance?

mrrpm
Will we be able to have a Battle of Defiance flashback mission

Oveur
That's currently not planned but has been considered

[Blackwolfe]

Dang plenty of dissapointment - like " updates for all platforms not specific" (pc is not a console tbh - you cant have it all same).
way too many politician answers that promise nothing yet promise alot at the same time.
Many of the questions were quite one sided (like open pvp - tbh thats where they get wrong ideas - few people asking for it, ignorign what majority wants).

Because it's way too early for them to give out details on things that are coming in the future. Because Open world pvp is an interesting concept if implemented correctly. Because PC is NOT a console, but the content will most likely be the same. What do you expect, a detailed roadmap of everything that is to come, only to be dissapointed when things migth change along the road? (because nothing is set in stone).

[Taaltos]

The consideration of leaving Episodic content in game do to mass requests.

moosecena
I travel a lot as part of my job, and I can go 6-8 weeks or more without having much opportunity to play games. Will there be some way for me to re-visit the old episode content that I've missed while I was away from home? Thanks.

Oveur
Some of it yes but as there have been so many requests to not disable the content, we might simply leave it in. In many cases, it isn't disruptive to leave it in so we might do that.

[squidgod2000]

Myll_Erik
We actually had an actual dodge at the studio so we could capture the real sound.

Not sure we want to deafen our players though....

So the actual car sounds like a rusty meat grinder? How unfortunate for Dodge.

[Taaltos]

Carebears and Bronies?

Malyki
A question from a Carebear. My Clan, the Steel Cats, are a collection of role players I've picked up from all kinds of various games. We've pretty much played all the MMOs out there. Including some of the foreign ones. As Role Players we prize games based on emotes and Role Playing ability. Will Defiance be adding more Emotes? Even the ability to write custom emotes?

And Anyone is invited to Role play with the Steel Cats. Even stars of the show! Chat willing of course.

Oveur
Not custom emotes, no but we will be adding more emotes

Malyki
Carebear stare?

Myll_Erik- What about Bronies?

AloneChief - Ohh damn

Malyki - @Myll_Erik Bronies Are absolutely Welcome. They fight crime just as good!

[Taaltos]

Stupid console wars.

Amesiel
For a came like this, how come Cross Plataform wasn't available? i think it would have been great to be able to play with players from PS3, Xbox And PC all together.

Oveur
That isn't possible due to a number of policies and restrictions.

Technically it's no problem. You can connect with any client to the same Defiance server. It's how all our internal servers are set up for testing.

[Taaltos]

Charge Blades

Snashkille
I love the game so far, and am extremely happy to finally see a working MMO on consoles. I have always loved swords over guns though, so my question is this;

QUESTION: Will we ever be able to wield one of those awesome Charge Blades, maybe in sword form?

Oveur
.... maybe.