Chapter 11.3 update

Eh...I logged on today to find that SOE stole my critical missions. I don't know about you, but I don't feel like doing hundreds of impossible quests to get any "collectibles" and I surely don't want "more challenging" missions.

Missions were hard enough before, but now they stole my crits. Anyone else unhappy about this? I surely am.

Again, I ask: Why change something that's worked for YEARS? SOE has officially taken away the point to doing missions now. No more crits, no more point in bothering with missions.

Well maybe, but why not leave normal crits in the mission panel? I liked not having to travel to DT to do missions, and just hit N and call Flood.

And we have to PAY for tickets? I hope they're not expensive like the archive tickets (i.e. Datamine). And the tickets are reuseable?

I dunno, I still think it's a bummer.

Collectibles are nice, BUT why force people (like me) to explore the city? I've been playing three years, I know this city inside and out.

Plus I don't feel like going to Bald Heights and getting owned by Neighborhood gang freaks.

Pretty much, yes.  The next tier of ticket (11.3.2 then 11.3.3) requires both the completion token from the previous mission as well as a few collected items that may actually require you to abort/repeat the previous mission several times to collect enough.  Once you have the ticket, though, you can play it as many times as you want as long as you don't finish it.  Once finished, the activation ticket is replaced by the completion token, just like with the archives.

Keep in mind that, due to the trade-up style system, if you complete 11.3.3 and want/need to re-do it, it will require completing 11.3.1 and 11.3.2 again.

Yikes. Sounds like too much work. 1 info isn't bad...that's as cheap as things get.

Who wants to do all these quests just to advance the storyline? Eh! And you need completion tokens from one to do the next...too much work.

I don't know what was wrong with criticals and then archiving the missions, and people can do THOSE to get collectibles.

I just don't think collectibles are a big enough incentive for me. Seems they just took away my final motivation to A) Keep playing and advancing the storyline; and B) to get my Merv reputation to 50, no point to doing that anymore.

So what's left? PVP/RP? Eh!

Well, I don't really WANT to leave, but it seems that the more things change, the worse things get, and the more reason for me to walk out that door.

And we all know I probably wouldn't be gone permanently anyways. The last time I left was in April during the intruder storyline. I needed the money and I got bored of the storyline.

Well...if you're online when I am, feel free to /tell me and show me how/where to get these tickets. It might not be as bad as I'm thinking it is.

But still...I want my crits back!! Waaa...

Lol

Yeah, I know. I saw that. I bought a ticket. But I didn't get a wireframe pen. They pretty much force you to fight the drop-in mobs though.

eval wrote:

Wait...thinking about leaving because you couldn't find the collectors that give out the new missions?

And no, that's not the reason. Thinking about leaving because SOE messed up one of the biggest features of my gameplay experience.

/sigh

Honestly, the collectibles aren't that great, but the merv boots might be worth something. But who knows.

FYI: I tried the first 11.3 crit last night, and I made it all the way though, was going to do the next part, until I realized that I needed some idiotic wire-frame pen.

So...it wasn't so bad until I realized that SOE is forcing you to fight the drop-in ambush teams that show up between phases.

F.T.L.

Eh, even after all this time, I STILL Want my criticals back. I haven't touched the storyline since the "update".