Game Changers Videos [MERGE]

Back on point now, I watched the video and for those looking for a quick text summary:

Mod management is on the table. But with no time table. Reasons being that mods are being used in a way that wasn't planned for and now are such a big part of the game that any change to them requires a hefty discussion and large amount of work and I would assume a TON of testing. It is not as simple as saving sets of mods.

Important Quote: "We think should be able to be understood INSIDE the game"

The entire system needs to be revamped and probably tutorials created so that both new and existing players that don't regularly visit the forum understand how it impacts them.They mentioned how a lvl 15 upgraded mod is the same color as a level 1 mod with 4 secondary stats on it. To a new player, this is probably confusing. This among other things are being worked on including how to even display mod management on the screen.

It was also mentioned that a rework to mods may come with 6 dot mods.

The rest of the video touched on "perceived RNG changes vs actual RNG changes." They stated they have not made deliberate changes to RNG in any fashion and that if we believe otherwise, it is either perceived (it's all in your head!) or possibly a bug. I have personally raged about RNG before and "perceived" changes but they made a point, people typically only remember when RNG was extremely bad for you and not when it was good.

They also mentioned several times how they can't give time frames for new features/characters for fear of disappointing us by missing deadlines.

They mentioned how they don't love just rebels, Dark Side is getting lots of love, blah blah, etc, Traya will be wicked powerful then made obsolete by an over the top counter, etc etc. I'm paraphrasing here obviously. There were also some awkward laughs.

"Ferret2112;c-1518073" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1517596" wrote:

"CaptainRex;c-1517569" wrote:
Love the Game Changers, but I wish they would publish a post when they do these types of interviews. Time is precious, and I can read MUCH faster than watch a video.

I think being a woman downshort in the office is making this come out a little less organized than it has been with the Character info release, which usually included all the videos all together in one place.

Hoping this might be a misinterpretation but this response seems somewhat....misogynistic to say the least

Ahhhh! Your original post confused me as well. I was reading it as "A women down in the office" vs "A women down in the office".

I'm not sure that they couldn't have seen that people would be moving mods around as often as they are.

I think the reason mod management is such a large part of a QOL update request, is the fact that because the mods you get from "playing" the mod battles, are so RNG dependant on what is received. I know that more than 90% of my winnings from mod battles are sold back for credits.

That's why we want/need to have sets in the first place.

Huh?

Mod management is needed because we have so many toons required in so many parts of the game now.

Obvious workaround for the first point is to assign all your mods so they show up on third-party sites.

"Strubz;c-1518191" wrote:
What struck me the most from the video and got me thinking wasn't about mod management. It was when they (CG) said they wanted to change the "mod meta" away from speed.

I've been thinking about it for an hour and I don't know how that is possible without a complete overhaul of how mods and really how the entire game works.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? How could you possibly change the "mod meta" to not be speed?

As they said it would have to be done with " new mods" so either new type or higher dot count. The simplest solution would be to freeze speed primarily and secondaries where they are now and increase all other stats as they did when we saw 6 and 7 dot mods previously. That would start to pull the trend in a different direction.

The other possibility is new mod types or even "status effect" mods. Mods with add X ability at Y% to basic would be interesting, stun, daze, DOT...ext. with the Y being what is upgraded or RNG controlled. I'm not sure that would be as effective but it could be interesting.

"Strubz;c-1518191" wrote:
What struck me the most from the video and got me thinking wasn't about mod management. It was when they (CG) said they wanted to change the "mod meta" away from speed.

I've been thinking about it for an hour and I don't know how that is possible without a complete overhaul of how mods and really how the entire game works.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? How could you possibly change the "mod meta" to not be speed?

Dang. That would be REALLY interesting. Before mods, the meta shifted quite a lot (dodge, healers), though speed was always present and reoccurring.
I'm very interested (and a little afraid) of what they might come up with!

"Kyno;c-1518202" wrote:

"Strubz;c-1518191" wrote:
What struck me the most from the video and got me thinking wasn't about mod management. It was when they (CG) said they wanted to change the "mod meta" away from speed.

I've been thinking about it for an hour and I don't know how that is possible without a complete overhaul of how mods and really how the entire game works.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? How could you possibly change the "mod meta" to not be speed?

As they said it would have to be done with " new mods" so either new type or higher dot count. The simplest solution would be to freeze speed primarily and secondaries where they are now and increase all other stats as they did when we saw 6 and 7 dot mods previously. That would start to pull the trend in a different direction.

The other possibility is new mod types or even "status effect" mods. Mods with add X ability at Y% to basic would be interesting, stun, daze, DOT...ext. with the Y being what is upgraded or RNG controlled. I'm not sure that would be as effective but it could be interesting.

Status effect mods....really, really interesting idea. Mods that give abilities instead of stats. That would definitely shift the meta.

I think 6+ dot mods aren't going to change anything unless they don't have speed secondaries and in exchange give much larger primary stat boosts but we already saw what happens when mods first came out to bigger primary stat boosts.

I'm going with the status effect/ability mods. Give up speed but gain the ability to inflict daze upon taking damage from an attacker that can't be dispelled. Mod sets that ignore armor. Mod sets that ignore protection. Draw back is reduced speed and requires all 6 mod spots. Could be interesting.

I got an ingame popup about a twich livestream regarding changes to fleet arena. I clicked on it and it took me to a live chat with some guy who spent 10 minutes ranting about how cool he was that he is in a livestream without really saying anything. It was all I could take before turning it off.

Is there any real information out there that can be shared?