Designer Journal 3, Part 2 - Feedback Thread

Message Edited by Walrus on 01-05-2006 05:13 PM

Now about to read, sure its kick *CENSORED* tho!

Read, great piece of work! it really shows how passionate and excited you guys are about this (heck, i know i am!) lots of clear cut, down to earth info (cept the detailed stuff but like it says, we shouldnt have to worry bout that) and yeah, all round simply brilliant  :smileyhappy:

EDIT: w00t, first post  :smileytongue:

Message Edited by cloudwol on 01-06-2006 01:30 AM

INFLUENCE BONUSES!!! OMGWTFBBQ

Walrus... I love you man. Now when can we play on the Qa?

Very intriguing. The CR2.0 just gets better and better.

I just realized influence is not MxO money... though uh.. giving our money for all our levelable abilities is pretty awesome.

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Ability Codes Post CR2.0

Surprisingly, I haven’t seen anyone asking about Abilities and Ability Codes. The decisions regarding Abilities were more difficult than those about items. Simply put, we are refunding the Information values of all the Abilities on your characters and the cost of leveling them (if they are levelable).

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/drool



When can we expect the QA floodgates to open? My vacation is almost over!!

Holy crap. :smileysurprised:

I'm going to be swimming in $info!

um whoa...

i don't think i understood any of that lmao!  sounds cool... gimme gimme

QA...Open...Now.

I just got really, really confused.

I'm a visual learner, so I'll probably understand it once I play on the QA

AWESOME



First, all current rare clothing I was very nervous what they were
gonna do, either introduce the new clothing and ditch the old clothing,
but automatically changing the stats so we can keep the clothing is
very cool.



Refunding Info for all levelable abilities also rocks. I have all
abilities leveled, I'm going to have like a billion Info on CR2.0.



I also like the fact that different styles now switch automatically.

Still no word about how non-interlock spys are going to work....



*sigh*



Though what did see, I did of course like.

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Bullet Time is not changed but the frequency is higher. You’ll also see the blurring dodge effect occur more often while you’re in Interlock combat.

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I like that.

We are ready as soon as QA is
Thanks for the information, I was so hungry for news. 
*Crossfingers for next sentinal

Sorry Paige, I can't concentrate on your posts with those sigs.. :robotvery-happy:

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Walrus wrote:

This thread is to discuss the second part of Designer Journal 3 posted to Data Node One on Thursday, January 5, 2006.

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It seems really great.

I can't wait for the QA server.

Interlock,

 

"One opponent versus another opponent only."



Wont this kind of nerf the Assassins more so then they already are?

Oh god.. this sounds absolutely, positely the most amazing thing that's going to happen to MXO so far. I can't wait for QA and the eventual, final release.

that would be nice but im not sure that will happen well i guess only time will tell.

Hey Walrus, I'm hoping your planning to give back frags and codebits
too, because on one server with a combined population from 3
servers......Codebits and Frags will be worth more than info.  I'd
also like my money and frags back from my Zen master abilites while
your at it



All and all, I thought the article was well written and very very interesting! I can't wait to see it!

Everything looks fine and dandy I guess.  And if influenence is the same or will act  the same as attribute point additions then why change the name.  It reminds me of an old saying I can't remember off hand 

I'm happy about the fact that the fighting style will change as you use an ablity that applies to that style.

I'm also liking the sound of the 3 ring idea.  It will keep each class where it belongs.  If A knife thrower wants to do the most damage he has to be on the outer circle to do so it seems.  It will get those pesky interlock hackers off my back.

I'm still a little confused about the ability/info situation.  Are they just giving us our info back or what?  It seems that they had to tweak most of the ablities so when we log on we won't have any ablities loaded and we will have to buy all new ones.  Can we get a clarification on this situation? While I'll  be a little upset at the latter, if it makes for a better game and increases subscriptions then im all for it. It's just gonna be hectic. I mean maybe they can set up frag vendors so the masses arent all trying to camp for the same frags.  I can tell ya now there will be people leaving no matter what if they gotta remake all of their ablities. And If I gotta wait in line behind 30 people to camp for frags for ablities then I'm gone to.

Sweet... just good sweetness:smileyhappy:

sooooo when is QA??

I almost forgot, Welcome Back Archon!
Great to have you back.  I'm sure Walrus did great while you were gone, but still good to know "The Man" is back.

update looks great lol, if i wasnt soo sleepy id read it, but looks great, and i think it will help the combat

You'll never beat an agent one on one.  If you could then you would have broke free from the matrix long ago. Until you become The One ill forget the question was answered.

sounds like 2 things are going to happen, everyone will be exactly the same, (loadout, influcence points, etc.)and the assassin tree is dead. So there are no real "choices" as usual within mxo.

I am a bit confused, will we still be able to switch class/loadout at any time? Or our we fixed as one job?



The refund got me to think this was the case, but the talk of the
fighting styles changed that, and sort of confused me. Anyone know, or
can help me out?



Thanks..

Cirakyn, were all waiting for the same answers as you on that question.  Maybe sometime this week they'll answer it! lol j/k

I'm eager to test this, will the cost of leveling abilities change?

Maybe by the grace of the MxO gods they release QA tomorrow?

This is true and makes me a bit uneasy since I have nearly every single tree.

Same here...

Once again, as with the screens and vid, no matter what this sounds liek or looks like, in all depends on what it's like when we use it. And everyones imagination is dif. I'm goin to reserve my opinion for now

Hmm.... I'm assuming that the refund only covers the abilities we currently own? I had a partially leveled spy tree I sold off on the market awhile back...

I know, I'm greedy. Ask King Caw. Lol.

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Villemar wrote:

One thing I'd like to see is a toggle to shut off the more cartoony effects of combat and the red damage numbers that always pop up.  Kinda like the toggle that lets you remove the nametags when you're frapping or something.  That would give you a hella immersion effect!!!   Wow.

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In the options, you can already turn-off the damage numbers (called Combat Text, I believe).  There's also a separate option for turning-off Visual Effects (i.e., the cartoony effects which I personally can't stand).  However, there's currently a bug which ties that setting to combat sound effects, so when you turn off the visual effects you also can't hear gun shots or melee hits/swooshes; and that's not a very good trade-off since I want the sound effects.

But that's for another thread.

Still, I agree: much more immersion if we could remove them.

Surprisingly, I haven’t seen anyone asking about Abilities
and Ability Codes. The decisions regarding Abilities were more difficult than
those about items. Simply put, we are refunding the Information values of all
the Abilities on your characters and the cost of leveling them (if they are
levelable).

I understand this is not an ideal choice for everyone, but
it is the most logical and feasible. All Abilities with any combat value have
been touched, so the odds are that a few players may no longer want a
particular Ability for one reason or another. Refunding Information gives
everyone a clean slate to make new choices.

Obviously, the big question on everyone's mind is does this mean they are exchanging our abilities for info?  The "this is not an ideal choice for everyone" statement makes me think that is the case.  If so, this needs to be optional.  While information is hard to come by, farming red frags is definitely the hardest part of obtaining abilities.  It took me a very long time to create all of my abilities, and asking all of us to do that again is  not reasonable.  We need a clarification on this, please.

Ive been farming red frags in anticipation of this.  They didnt mention how coding was changing at all so they may end up being useless although i doubt they would do that.  If your worried about red frags, start getting them now.

Message Edited by Renesis13B on 01-05-2006 11:46 PM