[MEGA] Road Ahead: October 2021

"Spence;c-2309254" wrote:
Overall my feelings on this road ahead are pretty mixed. Most of my negative thoughts boil down to a lack of transparency/explanation as to why certain things are/aren't happening. I like all the info stated in the phase 1 gear crunch update. I don't like that the phase seems to be rolling out in separate sub-phases for no apparent reason. Why are certain parts of the phase launching with the title update but not others? Do the other parts need more time for testing/bug fixing? If so, I'm totally fine with that, but I would like a stated reason. Otherwise it just looks like you're rolling out these massively needed gear changes as slowly as possible for monetary reasons. Also, I was really hoping we would get some initial info for what phase 2 would bring, since it's been almost a month since phase 1 was announced and it was stated in the state of the gear-laxy post that these phases would roll out "over the next few months" but i guess that comes later.

More login calenders sounds cool! don't love that some need to be bought but if some are free then that's fine by me. I don't like that there is no specifics of what we can find on the calenders. Gear? Shards? Mats? who knows! Again, I really dislike this "wait until it's live in game to see!" approach that CG has been taking. you don't have to every detail of every calender, but some specifics would be nice so that we can properly set our expecations.

Mode specific character abilities sounds neat. I fully support the idea of taking old, bad characters and carving out a niche use for them in this way instead of giving them full kit reworks that could have been used on newly released characters. hopefully the omicrons aren't terribly difficult to get but yeah, I like this feature.

Conquest 10 sounds interesting. I don't have many thoughts on this since I haven't been able to engage with conquest in any meaningful way because my account is still too weak. Hopefully easy mode fixes that issue for me and I'll be able to fully clear a sector! When the conquest pass was first datamined I assumed that the basic pass would be Free and the "plus" pass would be monetized. Slightly disappointed that they are both monetized but again, I havent played much conquest so it doesn't really affect me at all.

and finally, all the anniversary rewards look neat. We love free stuff! So yeah, actually going through it, for me personally, there is mostly good with a little bad. I just want to reiterate that I think CG should really do a better job of explaining their reasoning behind certain changes, give more specific details when possible, and give concrete dates on when features are launching. /end rant

As we can see with the current update, releasing too many things at once without proper testing can cause game breaking issues to be introduced.

They don't communicate clearly because they're not sure what might happen next.

Speed GAC looked like fun.