Hey all,
Welcome to FAQ-ing Fridays number 9!
If you didn’t know, what we’re doing every Friday is combining all of the juicy dev replies we’ve done during the week into one central space so no-one will be out of the loop with anything we say. As always all feedback is welcome and if you can think of a way to improve this further let us know.
Here’s the Facebook Live version too!
So here we go:
Official Forums
JonBongNoJovi - With the change to how repair stacking is handled, will you need to initiate the repair again if someone else is repairing?
You won’t need to start the repair again. Your tool will still come out and will go to the side as if it didn’t you wouldn’t be able to stack at all (which is a mechanic needed at higher levels)
ImSploosh - (Said they played 23 matches, won 13, lost 10, but the system was not balanced)
This is actually a good example showing a balanced system. If everyone ended up with a 50/50 win/loss ratio then everyone would be placed accurately. The fact that you’ve won a few matches more means you should be placed against harder enemies, although this would depend on match performance history. Either way, this sample is too small to draw solid conclusions, but on the whole it looks like matches pretty balanced.
TepidJesus - Developer to player communication needs to be improved
You’re right and I 100% agree with you. The main issue at the moment is that we’re currently in a transition period which makes things a little trickier to communicate. At the start of the year we had a lot to do when we took the game back from Nexon. Now the dust has settled on that, we’ve been adding a ton of new devs to the team. This is awesome, but also means that our production schedules need some time to acclimatise while we get those new devs up to speed and our work flows improved.
There is a huge difference between keeping you guys in the loop on what’s being developed and teasing upcoming content which will be released in the next couple of updates, and we need to and want to get better at both of these.
TepidJesus - I was in a Ranked queue and cancelled the search to change the region. When I started searching again I had a 2 min ban. Why?
It could be that when you cancelled you actually got a match and didn’t accept it. However just to be sure I’ve passed this on to the QA guys to investigate
BreatheOfBacon - Could you add the ability to pick up Medpacks?
We can see this hitting the game one day. It would be a cool feature to have and would make things a little more interesting for the Medics.
Splash Damage Forums
DBAimee - I’m from the SG region (Singapore). When I play normal games my ping is 50-60, however when I play in Ranked my ping goes up to 200.
Thanks for the report. We have seen other players reporting similar issues. Will pass on this thread to the server guys to investigate further.
Sytry - Will there ever be a trade system for players to trade Loadout Cards? And will there be DB merchandise?
Trading has come up many times. We would like to see it n the game in one form or another, however we have no concrete plans. As for merchandise, again we’d love to see them, however no plans at the moment as we’re focusing on other areas.
Sairdontis - Could you remove K/D ratios from the end scoreboard to make players focus on objectives more?
We only show K/D at the end of the match to try and focus players more on earning XP which, as you know. is greatly done through healing and focusing objectives. Even with it not there, players would still get blood lust and try and get as many kills as possible. That being said, I don’t see us removing it from the end scoreboard any time soon.
Major_Slapnuts - Can you recycle Obsidian Loadout Cards?
Just like all other Special Edition cards, Obsidians cannot be recycled
YouTube
Thiago Jaqueta - Have you guys considered creating a DLC for players who already own all the Mercs?*
We have and it is now available to buy! We have three brand new Obsidian Operative cards available
TEAM911_The Real OG - Did you know that if you mute players in a Ranked lobby you can see their name?*
Yes. This was reported a lot to us and I’m happy to say this was fixed in the update that went live yesterday. So, get back to Ranked and stop dodging you scared-y cats
Hakeem Isaacs - Did you remove blue Cobalt weapons? I only seem to get the silver ones.
There’s two skins with Cobalt (Fragment and Shard). You must just be getting shard variants.
Thanks!
shoe.
