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A few things I'd love to know
First, will there be more Pangaea stock, such as new things specifically made for that purpose, or older, retired Store items? It's lovely to have so many additions to the Store, but it is also the only way to get something new, meaning it is a bit expensive to have all the latest fashion.
Second, will we ever have motorcycles and such that we could use throughout the world? (As in Fallen Earth, for example)
(Erased two as they were already answered above while I wrote this
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Hi Joel!
I was wondering if you plan to do anything about the growing disparity between Leech type healers and more traditional healers such as Blood and Fists? I was very hopeful Augments would address this situation but after looking at the augments list it appears Leech Healing has the potential to become quite a bit stronger then it already is, meanwhile traditional healing types seem to gain very little to boost their respective style of play. Thanks!
any plans to fix and improve the chat system? more font sizes, chat channel coloring, social server issues?
Are there any plans to release additional music from the game.
I already have the OST, but a lot of really cool music has either been released afterwards, or was not included in the first place.
I would love to get acopy of stuff like the Siren's Song, or a certain lullaby that I don't have to rip off Youtube.
Webmaster of TSW's Sanctuary Network
Are there any solid plans for housing and vehicles? What are some non combat activities you have planned for this game?
Greetings from the Russian community TSW.
London is big location. Will the extended New York and Seoul? (Just looking at the map of the city shows a lot of space)
Also looking at the theater and machines for Valentine's Day , it begs the question - is there any plans for a computer club in Seoul ?
And are there any plans for Veteran Points? such as I have them now around 150 , but the store does not have interesting things =
Question from Nzoth
1: Is there any particular reason Funcom isn't yet selling cosmetic weapon skins in the item store? Seems like a good source of revenue, and there isn't a lot of variety in weapon skins at the moment.
2: Any hints on what the lore behind revenants might be? They don't seem to be connected to the Filth, but they're definitely very evil and terrifying.
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I've outlined some plans for PvP here. http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=73571
The answer is covered there but the short version is no, we are going to focus on PvP bugs first and foremost.
The dev team are settled in and enjoying NC. Production speed...I'm not sure I will ever be happy with it. As it is we have a lot to chew on. Whispering Tide, Tokyo, issue #8, Halloween, Conan updates, AO e.t.c
I wish I had 15 times the people. But development is speeding up again. I think once we get the current events off our plate and all of the new systems for Scenarios, Augments and the yet to be revealed Tokyo progression, we'll speed up even more.
1 - Right now there are two writers.
2 - We'll have more locations in the future, but probably very different thematically to Kingsmouth. And yes, South America is on the list, but where exactly I won't say
3 - Depends on how well you handle the filth. There are new monsters in Tokyo itself, of course.
4 - See the above linked PvP post.
5 - Maybe. Perhaps you guys need to uncover more 3rd age stuff first eh?
1 - Firstly, you misunderstand what the choice was and who you were speaking to. Secondly, there is no good or evil path in TSW.
2 - Augments are for players who are at the endgame and are looking to tweak their builds more. You can slot augments earlier, but the other progression systems are there to keep you busy before the endgame.
3 - Ah the bestiary. Still on hold until we have time to look into it. It sounds good on paper but it is a lot more work than we have time for right now.
4 - I can check. Can't be that hard!
5 - It's for the puzzle raids which will one day come!
I think in general a large urban landscape with a huge amount of unique assets creates a lot of additional work for the art team. Tokyo is by far the most expensive playfield Funcom has created in any of their games ever, just in terms of sheer assets.
The next location after Tokyo won't be a city, that is for sure!
Probably not, we wrote that text for side missions so we didn't have to go back a redo everything later. The writers have limited time and there is a lot of work to do each patch.
1 - Things are always under constant review by the systems team.
2 - That is personal preference. As we tweak and balance abilites, things will become more or less useful. However, you don't build/balance an entire game around the % of people who play nightmare dungeons.
3 - Good luck with that!
1- One Scenario will be free. Augments are free, but if you only run one scenario with cooldown you will be at a disadvantage for drop rates. Issue #8 is a bundle of scenarios and the story mission.
2 - 1 Augment per ability. Done in the augment bar which sits above the active bar. You can change between combat, like with normal abilities.
Nothing concrete. We're always interested though if anyone reaches out to us.
No, we don't plan to allow this for now.
6 - We won't ever make the story missions group enabled, but we are avoiding solo instances as much as we can in the future.
7- Probably never in the way that they exist in other games, but we have a lot of cool ideas for where to take those systems we introduced in Issue #7. Tokyo will utilize them to some extent.
I'm sorry but I am not talking about time frames.
Issue #8 does not have an aux weapon.They don't fix everything and they def have weaknesses of their own (special smoke for example, as revealed in issue #6).
You are healed when you are bee touched in the beginning, so many preexisting conditions would be cured.
It's really hard to say what would happen if your legs had been removed from your body and burned...they likely would not have just grown back.
Bees can die and you'll find out.
Possibly, depending on how hard he is to model.
Q7: search Tyler freeborn -has been the most impressionable story ever written in an mmo genre (for me).
will we see more characters through out the game come forward in the next issues in TSW?
Q8: will we see weapon skins avail in the item shop in the future?
Q9: why has the game shied away from UFO' encounters? ex. area 51
Will we see more of the CG trailers characters: Rose, Alex and others?
Thanks!
No current plans to progress gear past 10.5. Instead we have two more paths of advancement we are pursuing, Augments and another to be revealed for Tokyo.
Somewhat. We want to increase the ability to get gear for the more casual players and we will provide more avenues for the hardcore players to get gear as well. However, don't expect every mission in Tokyo to hand out 10.1 purples.
Aux weapons we have 9 planned to fill out the wheel. Next one will show up in Tokyo.
We don't currently have any plans for a new ARG, but that doesn't mean we might not change our minds at some point.
People used them to break through collision and exploit. If we can fix the code, we'll bring them back.
1 - Yes, I think there is an update planned soon (tm)
2 - See my reply above. Not in the same sense, no.
The systems team will need to look into it. I can't speak for what will be done until they have.
Nothing on the table for the chat system right now.
We can look into this.
Sleepless Lullaby was something we were given permission to use, but it belongs to the band Bright September. Suggest buying it and supporting them if you like it!
Siren's Song was given to someone in the community by the Audio Director, should be able to download it somewhere.
Tokyo will have all new music - we'll try to make it available.
No solid plans for housing. Vehicles is covered above.
New club, radio streaming, video streaming on textures, puzzle raids e.t.c
We will add more locations, but we won't expand the maps (don't believe the maps, they are misleading)
We would need something to put on the computers, IMO.
We will keep adding to the vet store over time. Coming soon, portable banks.
1 - They are made...they'll show up shortly.
2 - Some things are just old, evil. Many of the monsters in the game are not related to filth at all. The legends all came from somewhere. In the case of Revenants, Europe!
Not soon.
Thanks for answering!
Any chance you can tease us with something more about the Dragon in Tokyo to send the fans into a foaming-frenzy?
7 - I'm not exactly certain what you meant, but Tokyo will introduce a load of new characters.
8 - Yes. Near future. Soon (tm) territory even.
Absolutely. In fact the Issue #8 scenarios are a test run so I can get my really awesome Scenario designs into the game. Occult Disturbance Scenario - what's not to like?
Likely not, as that is a very different system. Unless you mean weapon looks in which case, I need to ask a store coder.
Yes. These guys are going to show up a lot in the future.Why is adding at least small mounts such a problem? Also the housing? Few other MMOS such as Fallen Earth (mounts) and Lord of the Rings Online (Housing) have it working perfectly, and it could create huge amount of racenue if sold through the store. Perhaps let something very basic be obtained by Pax, but decorations, customizations and such could be in the Store.
(Motorcycles, bicycles, perhaps ridable horses, cars might be too excessive, but if they were made in a way that made them despawn soon after leaving, they wouldn't be much of an issue, I believe)
Hi and thanks for taking time to answer all these questions!
As someone already asked previously in this thread, however not answered, will there be any performance tweaks? There are several players who experience FPS stutter, which started to happen for several issues ago. The FPS stutter/lag occour when one is to enter PvP or dungeon instances, often when DX11 is on, and also often with windows 8.
Is this to be adressed? I myself have not been able to play since this happened as it is a loss having to play with DX9.
As much as I love doing it...nah.
There are three "mini factions" in Tokyo. Players will need to work with all three.
We'll see. We would like to do more of this in Tokyo, but it will be as time allows.
You need to use it with a lot of other things. So...you might get more stuff, but use it? Nah not yet.