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For example, allow us to simulate Amplifier A being Attacked from the West, or Storm Shield being attack from the north.

It is frustrating to have go through Endurance or chance it with your SSD and fight for 12 minutes just to test a new trap tunnel design (or play around with a weapon for a bit in a safe environment)

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Originally posted by Malouff

That's the real problem with Epic Games they have a severe lack of communication.

We have no idea what there longterm plans are other than giving us a short term seasonal map with new heroes and weapons faster than the required Re-Perk, Perk-Up, and Evolution materials to upgrade them all.

We all want to see things like the Hero Re-work comming and what happens to our current abilities.

We lost several abilities and our heroes now have less than before when it was a bundle but it's a custom loadout to some extent.

How does Epic plan on letting us know teammates squads and gadgets once skins arrive, will everyone else be a Jess in disguise?

We have no idea if u/Magyst or u/Davethebuck even read posts like these and if they relayed the information to the Development team or not.

Both Dave and Mygast don't average very many posts a day and they don't have anything showing where any ideas go. The Trello board is just for bugs and not all of those are ever added and updated.

As far as we know they get posted and have a shelf life of a few minutes to a few hours until they are buried by other posts to the next page. We don't know how deep of a dive Dave and Mygast read in Reddit each day. They may just look at the hot posts and ones with the most upvotes from the community?

They may be hoping since streamers interact with their community that they have a better understanding of what's happening and can gleam useful information faster from them.

We have no idea if u/Magyst or u/Davethebuck even read posts like these and if they relayed the information to the Development team or not.

I can assure you that Dave and I read Reddit, thoroughly, on a day to day basis. We constantly compile the feedback, both good and bad, and deliver it to dev team. We are also players and understand the need for specific features and content. There are some interesting things to note as well... there are several changes that have been made due to the community's feedback. While we will not let reddit design the game.. we do take all feedback into consideration when making changes and a lot of changes are made with the community in mind.

don't know how deep of a dive Dave and Mygast read in Reddit each day. They may just look at the hot posts and ones with the most upvotes from the community?

We parse through hot, new, and old post daily. Just because we don't respond to every post.. doesn't mean we aren't reading.

We have communication beats planned on specific topics.. like the locker blogs for example. However, it's extremely hard to release a content cadence when things are still being locked down and subject to change. If we say.. 'HEY, LOCKERS COMPLETE AT X DATE" but then we find bugs or we have a better design idea.. it can push the dates of the content back. It's even worse if we've already communicated the date publicly. We saw a good example of this just recently with the roadmap / dev video communication. It's far easier to release a roadmap for half a season (and even then it's tricky) vs an entire plan for a year out. Game development is tricky and things can change, get pulled, or re-designed at a moments notice.