Hey everyone! Andy and i will be streaming tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm PST. As promised, we will be playing on retail servers with you guys and focusing on answering your questions as we play. We are looking forward to seeing you there : in game or in chat!
Stream will be on twitch https://www.twitch.tv/crystaldynamics
See you there!
External link →Approved now? Good.
I'll be there as always dude!
We got there haha
This is awesome! Glad to see you guys doing stuff like this, I hope it becomes a regular thing.
Would like to actually, trying to make it a weekly thing if we can!
Can someone please ask about the ps4 trophy bugs for me when they do this please and thank you
its being worked on as we speak
I’ve had no desire to play in about a month. Is anything going to be done to change that? “Missions” are way too redundant
Trying to split our time between adding stuff quickly and adding bigger new things. If you want a challenge, come try out cloning labs when it comes out! Its a very high priority for us to add more content, its just not something that happens overnight.
Please give us the option to play ALONE with no A.i , I Love this game and want the fantasy of being a lone Avenger!
Looking into that option, its on our list
So is cloning labs coming out tomorrow? Because it sounds like it is unless I’m reading your statement wrong.
It is not, we will be able to confirm the date for it shortly but it is not tomorrow.
I really want to get back into this game, but I'm gonna need that roadmap from you guys so I know I'm not putting hours into a dead game. I actually like the game right now, just needs more content.
Trying to get that roadmap sorted out, i get that it doesn't really matter to some but Covid and working from home this long was not something we planned for. Things are more complicated to do outside the studio so we are adjusting as best we can.
Looking forward to this & love the game but can someone on the dev team please play with Black Widow tomorrow so you can see that she still gets targeted by Spin Synthoid’s & Adept Adaptoid’s while she’s using Veil Of Shadows .
I reported it to the combat team, don't know what the status is though.
I've been wanting to ask a question. Are you guys ever planning on putting MCU costumes or at least newer costumes?
There are many new costumes coming from all sorts of different influences. I can't answer specifics of what they are yet though, sorry.
Hello devs, been enjoying the game for a while but haven't played recently due to some work. Just wanted to know if the ping system and replay campaign feature is getting added in the next patch, because i really want to play the campaign again.
Trying to get bugs out of those features to get them out soon, its rare i can confirm if something is making the next patch because we have a new process to test content that is considerably thorough which is good. We don't want to release more bugs. Not saying it wont happen but we are working hard to improve the content we release.
I respect you for answering and I apologize if I seemed rude. I know you guys are under tremendous pressure. I think you guys have done a great job given the circumstances and I do think you've made a great game all things considered. I'm still looking forward to seeing what you have planned.
Tbh my concern is less about CD as a studio and more about whether Square will let you guys support this title the way I know you want to. Have a great evening man, sorry again.
Its ok, it's just not an easy situation but the team is working nonstop of things. We did prioritize bugs and QOL before new content so some things are taking longer. Its all compounded by our remote work, i'm sure you guys have been seeing several games being delayed. Its a completely new ecosystem for making games, not all devs have high speed internet in their area for example...just a whole slew of challenges for developpers nowadays. No one wants to make excuses but this is a challenge.
Very bold of you guys to play this game live
If we run into a bug, we run into a bug. No one is trying to pretend like they don't exist which doesn't mean we're going to hide somewhere and not play.
The state of the game blog said that support for the game is coming over the next “weeks, months, and year.” Year was not plural and was alarming to some. Are we going to get support for this game beyond 2021 or is this really going to be a short lived live service game?
No plans on doing anything else for the foreseeable future as far as i'm concerned!
Why not update the known bugs list?
There are many bugs that have been reported, but not commented on. So what is a bug and what isn't? Not answering posts where multiple reports are shown is "pretending they don't exist", whne there are posts right next to them that get "hey cool idea, and we are listening".
Update the known bug list?
That's fair, let me see how we can do that better.
But it was something that was promised when the game was being sold?
Like the other DLC, don't expect it overnight, but teh fact that it was promised for 5 weeks to be at a date, then moved. Seems like teh customers weren't the ones expecting it to be overnight.
We aren't happy with delaying things either but bugs just had to come first. We don't delay things because we think its awesome, it bugs us as much as it does you guys.
NGL G.O.T has raids dropping today at 3 and I’m not joining a stream to hear you answer questions like “Is Avengers available on consoles ?”
Well, what's your questions?
I love that there are influences and I get the need for originality, but it’s hard to see title cards with different costumes from covers and not actually have them in the game. Superior Iron Man is one of my favorite aesthetically and it kinda takes me out of the game that I see it in title cards but we don’t see that or get any 616/MCU choices. I’m not upset or anything, just really bums me out.
It’s hard to not compare to Insomniac where they have punched out many costumes that people wanted to see. How come we can’t get more true-to-form comic book costumes instead of comic book influences?
Feel free to post your ideas and suggestions, i can tell you for sure that we will consider it. That's not lip service, we legit consider everything you guys request.
I wonder if you guys plan to improve reward for completing a mission by difficulty. For example C3 or C4 is more challengeable than C2 difficulty, on which most of people play. I personally feel that C3 or C4 difficulty is more exciting to play as it gives a little more tension. Still, I don't play on C4 during tachyon because it doesn't seem to affect mission complete reward at all. I'm not supposed to waste time of my co-op players for the sake of my fun.
If playing on C3 or C4 significantly guarantees a better reward, I will be able to ask my co-op players to play on a higher difficulty, which will lead us to have more strategic combat and
communication.Any idea about it?
Loot needs a lot of love, not just on that front. There's an internal team working on that. We are splitting our efforts between fixing the current loot and coming up with better new things.
Are aim labs going to be similar to megahives gameplay and design wise ?
Will there be new takedown animations coming to the game before the end of the year or early next year? If so could it be possible to equip and choose which takedown you want to use ? For example I’d love to equip the fastest takedowns on widow to boost my damage output while invisible
Will screenshots from photo mode have the possibility of being added as loading screens ?
Can we look forward to the dev team possibly working on adding custom outfits to the character loading screens ?
Is there any discussion for having saved loadouts ?
Will challenge IV see any type of reward boost in the future ? Like a higher chance to drop a Exotic from all missions and not just from weekly timed content ? Cause as it stands everything can grinded on the easiest difficulty and has the same payout as challenge IV
Will there ever be a new difficulty added to the game ?
Can warzones be made to always have enemies constantly respawning in certain areas ? With a area boss being added on the map as well as a chance for a “secret” boss that has an increased chance of dropping better loot or a exclusive gear set.
On that note can you guys work on adding specific sets to certain maps to increase the need to grind and make it so players can get a sense of what they want to build for ? Like Certain missions in Arizona can drop environment themed desert gear ? Or the Tundra can drop Cryo gear and has exclusive sets that deal with Cryo in some way ?
Will harm rooms ever get the ability to have a training mode ? Where you can set the number of enemies and enemy types to your liking ? There were advertised to be places to hone your training but as it stands that really isn’t the case
Will there ever be a addition of a endless mode ? Where you can add a leaderboard and see who can survive the gauntlet the longest by making the difficulty and number of enemies increase with every wave.
Preferably not the elevator route and instead just spawn them in and raise the enemy levels and their resilience to damage, and add over shields as modifiers to make the difficulty more challenging. I know enemy count is real problem when you have a lot of things on the screen so having a set number but making them harder could work out fine
Just a few quick ones on my brain, probably aren’t good or realistic tho
Answering in order...
Cloning labs is a very different design, it focuses on collaboration and it gear checks players at the high end of the spectrum. It features harder versions of things you have seen before and it does have some new art but also uses some existing things.
No idea about new takedowns but i will ask
Saw the suggestion about photo mode, we are talking about it
Possibly its something we are discusing
Saving loadouts is on our list, not sure when
Loot as a whole is going to need some changes, thats one of the vectors.
No plans for a new difficulty at this time but we are introducing Omega Threat level missions with cloning lab, effectively its a bit like a new difficulty but no plans for something like more challenge levels atm.
Warzones currently only support very limited respawning but that's something i am extremely interested in. What you are describing is something i want to do in the near future.
That's part of what we are looking at for loot.
Not sure about new harm room features but someone is looking into improvements, ill ask.
No plans for an endless mode yet but i really like the idea.
Hope that helps answer some of your questions, you should try asking them on stream sometime so others can hear the answers!
No new difficulties, but are there plans to make the existing difficulties more meaningful in terms of rewards?
Also, any plans to address the issue where it auto swaps your challenge level when using matchmaking?
Yes to more meaningful and i honestly don't know for the challenge swap.
For those who want a summary of everything answered:
- MCU Skins, maybe.
- Working on short-term and long term solutions towards the loot system (in response to a question addressing rerolling perks and stats).
- No idea when they will be back in the studio. They have had to deal with developers having to evacuate their homes, several times, due to fires in California, power failures, and failed internet connections as well as differing internet connections among developers while trying to develop. Everything takes longer due to Covid-19. For example, mocap for creating moves used to take one afternoon, but there is a two week lead-in for quarantine just to record moves.
- They are working on A.I.M. Cloning Lab. They want to make sure everything is bug free and balanced.
- More villains and more lairs are coming.
- Splitting time among three areas: 1) Bug Fixes and Quality of Life, 2) New Content, and 3) Redesigning existing content. Modified content (i.e. Tachyon Rifts) are bridges to new content.
- There are actors doing mocap right now for heroes.
- Phil T. would actually love to do away with elevators in Mega Hives in the future.
- They are not looking into PvP right now.
- They are looking into more complexity for future bosses. Do not expect it with the Cloning Lab though.
- More Inhuman "stuff" is coming and it has to do with an Inhuman everyone's been talking about, potential spoiler (Phil's words).
- They are trying to figure out the More Than an Inhuman mission and why it is not showing for everyone.
- They check Discord for issues.
- They are aware that Thor has a higher heroic rating than other characters. They are not nerfing him.
- Back up saves as there is no way to recover the progress reset glitch.
- Phil is interested in expanding to six players for raids.
- They would like to do seasonal events, but bugs and QOL took priority.
- They are working on new skins right now for the heroes.
- Chronological order: Cloning Labs, Kate, Hawkeye (Clint).
- They are interested in doing a Detailed Action Report for missions.
- Phil believes that the upcoming patch addresses the trophy bugs.
Love your recap! thank you for doing that but just a point of clarity concerning Mega Hives, i was talking about the elevators not the whole thing :)
So is the save/game wiping bug just something that is always going to be in the game?
Not at all but it has taken far longer than we wanted to find all the root causes of save game corruption. We have fixed a few instances of it, clearly some are left. We have programmers working on this constantly.
(What's the likelihood we eventually get to toggle helmets/hair styles/facial hair?)
Its been talked about but i don't know if and when it would be acted on.
Please can we get longer hair options for Black Widow? Also the option to change her hair colour on certain skins would be amazing (e.g the option to change her hair to red in the 'Fear Itself' skin to make it more comic accurate.)
Passed that suggestion along
Phil - for the love of god can you give us some dates? Dates for new wartable. Date for when we can finally have a roadmap. How is Bungie able to plot out content drops several months in advance and you guys can't even give us a heads up when a patch is set to drop? We should have had a tentative roadmap in October.
If i had dates to give i gladly would. I don't have any control over when things get announced. Things like official dates get announced through the official channels.
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