RoCoJared

Hello Rogue Reddit!

In a previous stream we often spoke about weapon mastery and its impact on balance. I've seen many a post, tweet and comments centered around its removal from the game but I would like to focus this post to be a discussion around Ranked, Weapon Mastery and where we should go from here.

In our eyes, we see Ranked to be an experience where the players work around a tight and consistent ruleset with known variables(i.e. they understand what they and their enemy have access to and the decisions/strategies around it). Weapon Mastery is a system that currently runs counter to that in that it allows Rogues to either push their strengths further or shore up their weaknesses.

To that end we are leaning towards disabling Weapon Mastery in the Ranked Ruleset. However, I'd like to create an open forum here to discuss that here with the players who play ranked and value that experience.

If you don't want to voice your opinion but still...

Apologies for the late reply, but yeah we noticed and are working to adjust that. Something about the last maintenance seemed to have affected our map pools for players.

Glad that I was able to instill some confidence in you. We'll keep grinding on making the game better and earn the trust of our players.

Yes, we're looking to expanding any and all of our progression systems in some way to give players more to earn

Evolutions take longer to develop, in the meantime we are also able to address other things in balance, rulesets and the like.

Well we did drop one in 3.2! And we do intend on rolling out new Rogues and bring back a new and improved canals this year so stay tuned in that regard! :)

Right now most if not all of our efforts, resources and budget are focused on developing and improving RoCo. We are in a dormant state publishing/advertising wise but that'll be something for us to look at when we're satisfied with where RoCo is at and in its next destination.

No. We intend on continuing to develop and support this game for as long as possible. We see value in it and our players see value in it. For sure things aren't entirely all perfect and fine, we've a ton of work to do to fix, improve and evolve RoCo, but we are committed!

I have no intentions on giving up :) I know our efforts won't necessarily make everyone happy(an impossible task for sure) but we work tirelessly to make RoCo the best it can be. Everyone here and on other community fronts are engaged because they love the game, we do as well!

I don't blame you for being skeptical, from the outside looking in it can be frustrating(and it's equally frustrating on our side, trust me on that).

We weren't entirely sure why such features broke down despite working untouched(frustration point here), but do understand that sometimes code can deprecate. Things not made robust tend to break down or a fault in the system makes itself known, hence we are rebuilding it and working to bring those things back. Our players deserve to have such engagement features and be rewarded for their time.

I apologize on the poor optics on this issue, not our best effort I admit. We'll correct that and will post progress as we make it.

For the last bit, not entirely sure, I do want to suggest that we have a "make good" effort for players once we fix it. Need clearance and to figure out what that "make good" will be.

We're rolling out a fix for the XP not being given out from dailies and weeklies. We're also kicking out a 2X XP event this week to help players catch up

Not the best take here. We are looking into this, first I've heard of this issue(I'm talking with QA) and I'll work to get this resolved.

Intentional? No. Being Fixed? Yes

We are currently investigating and fixing any issues that we can find with the servers that we are able to resolve. You guys helped me be loud enough to make these efforts happen sooner! Keep giving us data whenever you encounter server issues! Recordings and MatchIDs are the most helpful here :)

We'll let players know once we've fixed the system and re-enable our ranked queues.

Timeline is As Soon As Humanly Possible. For now we've disabled ranked until we can get it resolved.

Not intended, something went awry and we are investigating. Once we fix it, we'll likely need to reset again so that you guys can have a proper shot and placement from your qualifiers.

Could you send me screenshots of your friend's profile page? I need names and IDs(which is found the profile page) so that we can investigate as they might be in bad spots.

We had to remove the excess xp off of 550s to avoid major inventory issues on the backend. It's explained a bit in the patchnotes.

We are on the cusp of rolling out a fix for this before the weekend. We've stopped the resets from happening to any more players and are working to setting those affected back to their intended levels.

We found that having players shoot through levels due to the excessive XP at 550 causes some real issues with rewards. So we had to fall back on skimming off the excess XP but granting 550lvl players a title.

That being said, you WILL get the rewards you missed once you hit the next level up mile stone(getting all of those supply drops) so don't worry there.