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[Interview] Defiance: Committed to Improving the Game
SBFord
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Defiance is a game with a massive amount of potential, potential that Trion Worlds is committed to providing for players. We chatted with Creative Lead Trick Dempsey about how that will happen. It's a terrifically informative interview that you won't want to miss. Let us know what you think in the comments.
MMORPG.com: Good to talk with you again, Trick! Been a while since we previewed the Castithan DLC back at E3 and obviously a lot has happened since then. What's the response been to the first DLC and how has the game been progressing since season one of the show ended?
Trick Dempsey: With the Castithan Charge Pack we were able to deliver on a lot of features that the players, and the dev team, really wanted to see. It brought back sieges, introduced a massive boss fight with an enemy players wanted to fight, and a compelling new game mode. While working with Syfy on between-season crossover plans, we’ve begun to really focus our efforts on improving overall game quality.
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wish em the best.-
hopefully phase 2 players will get a good run!
How about phase 1 players who're just not active because of the current problems..? ;-)
I wanted to play and like this game because of its attempt to tie in gaming and television, I tried to download the trial to test it before I commit to the purchase and I had a million and one issues trying to get the game to run...I've since given up, for now.
I will probably attempt a trial again sometime, I think I would enjoy the game and glad to hear they will still work on making it better.
I have yet to watch the show.
"Defiance is a game with a massive amount of potential, potential that Trion Worlds is committed to providing for players."
They are going to provide us with potential?
What should have been written, was that they are going to BUILD upon that existing potential to provide us with an improved experience.
Might want to do a little editing.
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To be honest anything they do is going to be an improvement probably one of my biggest let downs in the last few years was a absolutely terrible game.
Enjoying the show though.
I say this as someone who thinks the game is decent - but interviews like this smack of the dreaded Vote of Confidence given to coaches and managers that are fired soon afterward. I'd be doubly worried because of the TV connection - SyFy is well known for cancelling shows on a whim, and that's the death knell for the game in it's current state.
In other words, Trion can bail out at any time, and there's no compelling reason why they won't, sadly.
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defiance is like the CEO constantly putting coins into the slot machine....getting nothing, stops trying so hard, and then some other CEO of another MMO comes along and puts a coin in the slot machine and wins a jackpot. I'd say cut your losses and pull the plug, it's a waste of money
A decent chat box for christ sake!! a normal chat box like in every other game please..Seriously how it is right puts me of playing.It's just so hard just even randomly say hello to someone!!
After that fix rest of the freaking UI!!.
I thought the game was beautiful. Also cutting edge. Then you got to the end and nothing. You grind like a korean MMO. No thanks. I cannot believe they have not fixed that horrific chat box. The game seriously feels like a single player game.
Same 'ol. They've been promising to fix things since Alpha, yet very little of what they've done has accomplished anything save to make things worse.
The chat "improvements" are a case in point, from bad to worse in one easy "improvement". I wouldn't have even thought it possible to make the chat system worse than it was at launch, but they accomplished it.
Honestly I don't think the game is salvageagble. To get anywhere It would first need to decide what it wants to be, right now it's just a mess of a mish-mash of half baked ideas. Next the UI would need a complete overhaul from the ground up, the current UI is beyond terrible. And then it would need about four to five times the amount of content it has, along with DLCs and episodic content that actually lives up to the promises that were made, rather than being a complete and utter joke. Lastly it needs to not have the entire game design revolve around the cash shop and RNG.
So basically it needs to be taken offline, ripped down to its core, and given the FFXIV ARR treatment. Just don't see that happening and anything short of that isn't likely to work.
This game is not worth your time nor money. You have been warned.
I too was a fool to have bought this steaming POS.
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- Weather effects that affect gameplay (including darker nights, different intensity of rain and wind, etc)
- During night time the gameplay experience should be different from Day time (different enemies? npc ambushes?, etc)
- Mailbox
- NPC reactions towards your actions (if you shoot them they attack you, if you shoot nearby they react accordingly)
- Armor customization so everyone can look as unique as possible.
- Housing and house interiors. The game has a lot of villages and buildings and you cannot even open a door to see whats inside. That is part of exploration, entering abandoned houses looking for clues, survival items, etc.
ALL THESE are quality of life features that will significantly improve the game. If they ever add them to Defiance i will come back. If not, then it sucks to be me since they took my money and gave me nothing so I'll move on and never come back. Meanwhile, good luck to them and i hope the game keeps improving.
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I do enjoy the game, but it definitely needs more work.
Unfortunately the parts I care most about (story and world) will probably be ignored for a while. I doubt we'll get new areas or major storylines any time soon.