News: Double XP until next year

Vashyo · 2012-12-19, 10:33 PM

This is pretty nice, maybe there's going to actually be enough people to shoot at for change.

SKYeXile · 2012-12-19, 10:50 PM

Dis gonna be gud. level 78 now, don't have a great deal of time off on the holidays but level 100 might be possible, doubt ill get close by the 2nd though have to finish it in boring old 1x.

Timey · 2012-12-21, 03:05 AM

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

Dis gonna be gud. level 78 now, don't have a great deal of time off on the holidays but level 100 might be possible, doubt ill get close by the 2nd though have to finish it in boring old 1x.

You can do it!

I'd be glad if I'd get at least 10 br's (30->40) during the double xp thing. Dunno why but I just end up idling at the warpgate like 50% of my ingame time

edit: seems I need to gain roughly the same amount of xp I have now to get to 40. Shouldn't be hard if I just play a bit more intensively / time efficiently during this time.

Shenyen · 2012-12-21, 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by Helwyr

I play a Medic in zergy base fights ie biolabs, and I largely found myself reviving less and less because there's so many Medics scrambling to get the revive and often dieing in the process...

Yeah, the ones that revive you with with 10% life are only there to grab the exp, because they are too cheap to spend some Certs to gain at least the medical Tool to revive with 50 or 75% health.

But those with the final upgrade of the medical tool, those are the true medics.

The Messenger · 2012-12-21, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by Shenyen

Yeah, the ones that revive you with with 10% life are only there to grab the exp, because they are too cheap to spend some Certs to gain at least the medical Tool to revive with 50 or 75% health.

But those with the final upgrade of the medical tool, those are the true medics.

Bad thing is, if a medic uses his tool after another medic already tried the revive, the second gets credit. I've had low level medics overwrite my max revive. The guy promptly gets gunned backed down before I can heal him to max health. It's even more frustrating to see the same idiots start reviving after throwing the revive grenade; that thing needs a shorter fuse.

Saintlycow · 2012-12-19, 11:49 PM

Yay. Might reach lvl 30. Oh well, at least 1 cert per kill for us non members

EVILoHOMER · 2012-12-20, 02:57 AM

Double XP seems SOEs excuse for everything, how does that fix anything? Like the servers go down for longer than usual, Double XP time! We're sorry for this patch ruining the game, Double XP!

It doesn't help the game in the long run, it just makes people advance quicker and become bored sooner.

Helwyr · 2012-12-20, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by EVILoHOMER

Double XP seems SOEs excuse for everything, how does that fix anything? Like the servers go down for longer than usual, Double XP time! We're sorry for this patch ruining the game, Double XP!

It doesn't help the game in the long run, it just makes people advance quicker and become bored sooner.

I don't know if it's going to make players bored sooner, anyone like myself that is narrowly focused runs out of meaningful means of spending certs pretty damn fast. I'm only BR29 and if I recall correctly from last time I played I'm sitting on over a thousand unspent certs. Character progression for it's own sake is never really going to be what this game is about.

It may encourage players to log in more over the holidays, but your right it's not going to fix the real things that ail this game, but big fixes/changes weren't going to happen over Christmas regardless.

TLDR: Yeah I'm bored with PS2 in it's current state as well, but not because of fast progression.

Vashyo · 2012-12-20, 05:49 AM

As long as it gets server player count to high, I'm very happy.

Medium and lower = harder to find any good fights anywhere but crown.

Stanis · 2012-12-20, 07:21 AM

I was getting about 4 times my normal xp per hour during the last XP bonus weekend.
A combination of tech plants and lots of players.

I hope we'll see some great fights over the holidays, I expect a lot of us have family commitments that will need to be rescheduled now.
Kids, santa will be last minute shopping on the 2nd of Jan now. YOu can have presents on the 12th day of xmas :P

Bags · 2012-12-20, 05:00 AM

it works for league

jassinlive · 2012-12-20, 08:26 AM

Hory shit

belch · 2012-12-20, 08:35 AM

pffft...typical.

I am going to be out of town on EXACTLY those dates.

FML. lol

Emperor Newt · 2012-12-20, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by belch

pffft...typical.

I am going to be out of town on EXACTLY those dates.

FML. lol

Same here and many people in my outfit too.
Cool for those who can actually play.
Bummer for those who are out of town doing stuff like visiting family and the like as many people do over the holidays...

Ysanne · 2012-12-20, 10:20 AM

Well, either you have a RL or you are a high level gamer - you can't have both.

You can't kill someone who has no life.

Nerf RL!