News: Implants Delayed due to Feedback

Hamma · 2013-07-17, 08:21 PM

OCNSethy · 2013-07-17, 08:23 PM

Thank goodness for that... Interesting that is from Smed and not Higgles

WSNeo · 2013-07-17, 08:25 PM

FUCKING THANK YOU!!

Holy shit that was close!!

Seriously just make them similar to the PS1 modeljust make them similar to the PS1 model. Every implant in PS1 was viable and worked fine. If you want to monetize it we understand, but TALK TO THE COMMUNITY about pricing models. We know what we would pay for, please just ask us rather than (almost) forcing it on us.

We love this game and want to see it succeed as much, if not more than you guys do.

DirtyBird · 2013-07-17, 08:27 PM

They'll be back.

OCNSethy · 2013-07-17, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by DirtyBird

They'll be back.

No doubt about that Bird but hopefully they will have a workable model next time

Mordelicius · 2013-07-17, 08:34 PM

Suggestion:

Just make the resistance-type implants a % chance to succeed, instead of 100% success every time.

Example: Gets thrown a concussive grenade (or flash grenade etc.)

game message: Successfully resisted concussion grenade or failed to resist concussion grenade

Give them like 50-75% chance to succeed. I believe alot of players don't like elements of the gameplay removed 100% of the time with implants.

Purestorm · 2013-07-17, 08:34 PM

That's very good news.

I'm hoping that the next versions of the implants will be like the implants that were in pre-beta; very minor benefits that couldn't turn the tides of a battle on their own.

OctavianAXFive · 2013-07-17, 08:37 PM

I knew they would. It was only a matter of time. Though I figured it would be Higby to spill the beans.

Calista · 2013-07-17, 08:38 PM

At the very least they should have had enough common sense to hold off something like this until after SOE Live. Either way, hurray!

Lonehunter · 2013-07-17, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by WSNeo

FUCKING THANK YOU!!

What he said

I'm still shocked they planned on adding all these new cool game mechanics that add many counters to the game, and they wanted to fucking charge for them? lol Either with money via SC or time via certs, either way is too high of a cost.

I thought they'd be bought with resources

To me, temporary benefits should be purchased with temporary or renewable resources.

I'd love to see implants kinda like a universal cert pool. You cert it, get improvements for it, but pay resources to actually use it.

ChipMHazard · 2013-07-17, 08:48 PM

Let this be a lesson to those who claimed that the devs don't listen to feedback.

Hardy Har Har, Mr. Smart Guys!
Yes I am a small and petty, petty man.

AThreatToYou · 2013-07-17, 08:50 PM

PRAISE BE TO THEE WHO DELIVERS THY BONUS CHECK

that makes no sense but ima roll with it

what I liked were the implants themselves. The implementation though was going to be shoddy. glad they went back on it.

Dragonskin · 2013-07-17, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by ChipMHazard

Let this be a lesson to those who claimed that the devs don't listen to feedback.

Hardy Har Har, Mr. Smart Guys!
Yes I am a small and petty, petty man.

True. Glad that they do and if they read this, then THANK YOU!

camycamera · 2013-07-17, 08:57 PM

i would be disappointed, but after realising the effects it could have on the game, it was a good move. good to know they are still actively listening and staying away from unbalanced-ness and P2W.

DirtyBird · 2013-07-17, 09:06 PM

How long have they been on the Roadmap being discussed?

Edit: Looks like they have been a work inprogress since January.
Perhaps if they had participated in the thread it could have been sorted earlier.
The good old Roadmap is nice in theory but until shit actually hits the PTS its no point worrying about it.