[2023] This video will tilt you. AGS has no integrity like usual

This was the intent, but I understand the frustration and how it came across for those playing. Often when we join PTR, the request is to do things we wouldn’t do on live, like spawn giant mobs and teleport people. I also teleported players from the other team to create a small space duel, but that’s not what happened. While the intent was to lighten the mood and have fun in PTR, I admit that’s not how it came across to everyone and apologize.

I also understand the frustration with the War not launching, and I thoroughly apologize for those who took the time to prep for the war only for it to not launch. It was never our intent to bait anyone and we are taking measures to do our best to avoid this moving forward.

As for the broader reason people were upset - Muskets balancing, the PTR not having combat balance, and more - we are listening and learning from these experiences.

We’ve made adjustments to the rewards based on feedback/data. The PTR has not been updated to reflect the final state of the Leaderboards. We’re also aware of two issues we’re working to resolve, so we will be launching with the following noted:

• Temporarily disabled Open World Kills Leaderboard while we resolve an issue.
• Outpost Rush Heals do not currently match their Leaderboard. We are working on a fix.

Different teams are working on different features simultaneously, not impacting other teams’ work by pushing forward different systems. Leaderboards are also Weekly/Quarterly based, as to your point about combat changes impacting ranking.

Combat is always changing. Metas will shift, some weapons may feel (or genuinely be) unbalanced. There’s no need to hold off before any changes, otherwise you’re always holding off. Each week is a new chance to rank, each quarter a new chance to rank, so I’m unclear what the benefit to waiting is.

I misunderstood your point, apologies. My comment about different teams was geared toward the idea that combat changes are impacted (in terms of timeline) by the Leaderboard being released.

Neither of these issues will impact rewards gained, so it just makes sense to move forward with fixing them as soon as we can versus holding Leaderboards any longer.