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Fear not, our telemetry is always available up through the previous day, and we check it regularly. :)

Don’t get me wrong, the defender is gradually gaining more of an edge in survivability (a bit at mid tiers, more so at high tiers) as more pilots figure out how to squeeze max performance out of it, and I’m not saying we’re going to ignore that. It’s just not priority one.

Top priority for us is faction-to-faction balance and any skill-agnostic balance issues. At the moment we’re seeing a New Republic edge in both modes (only a tiny one at high skill tiers, largely thanks to the defender, but a bit bigger at low tiers).

Once we’re confident things are back to ~50/50 across all skill levels then I’d like to look at tweaks to more skill-level-specific problems, like making the B-wing more viable at higher skill levels (currently telemetry shows it being quite good at low tiers, but losing value at mid and mostly gone by high) and/or making t...

Goose blasting will be buffed by 20%

No dice, sadly. The video incorporated a clip and music from another movie, so we couldn't get clearance to show it. (as anyone who's posted to YouTube can attest, copyright law is a pain in the butt)

Sorry!

Not sure if we can share it or not, will check. :)

This is a thing of beauty.

This reminds me of our first prototype of the multi-lock missile. The programmer set it up so that it was effectively unlimited for sheer awesomeness, then recorded a video of himself taking down a star destroyer with one multi-shot--it would send a missile toward every turret, system, and hull section of the ISD all at once.

We presented the video to the team, accompanied by the 1812 Overture. ;)

That was a fun game! I was the one flying support on the Empire and tried to keep an eye on you. You had some really great positioning, pretty much always where you needed to be, making our lives difficult. ;)

We actually had the front/rear radar in our early prototypes, just like the old games, but ended up changing it for 2 main reasons: 1) That’s a LOT of screen real estate to burn on radar. 2) It consistently tested poorly in every non-dev playtest. We tried a few different ways of presenting it and tutorializing it, but the majority of players were always mystified by it. After a lot of testing, we simply found that the singular radar (/w outer ring) tested better with the majority of users in terms of them being able to understand it and use it effectively.

Well done!

Between the initial model and any scalars on the in-game starship entity, the ships are indeed all LFL-approved lore-accurate scale. :)

The main thing that I think keeps throwing everybody off is the FoV on our (pancake) c*ckpit cameras. For the sake of gameplay they are tuned to give players better peripheral awareness, but the down side of that is that things outside your c*ckpit are somewhat compressed. This is particularly noticeable with the width of the flagships and the hangar bays.

Cameras aside, unless we made an export error somewhere that I’m unaware of, everything is exactly as big as it’s supposed to be. Just bear in mind that the movies cheat scale when needed to get the best shots possible, whereas in gameplay our scale is 100% static.

Whichever death happened first would trigger the end, which in the case of a MAD joust will generally be the one that was at lower hull health at the time of collision, though there are enough variables in the collision dmg calculation that that’s not guaranteed.

In the exceedingly unlikely event that both deaths were confirmed on the exact same frame then the game would actually wait for another kill before deciding the winning team, just like we do if the teams are tied when the timer runs out.

Nice.

PSA: You DO accrue leaver penalty points if you bail on a lobby. We don’t directly dock your SR like we do if you leave mid-game, but you’ll get leaver penalty points for dodging a lobby. If you do it repeatedly, you’ll end up in the low priority queue.

Unfortunately no, with a few specific exceptions there’s no way for the game to recognize the difference between a connectivity problem and someone who willfilly disconnected. The penalty system has some leeway in it precisely for this reason, but if you lose your connection over and over then you’ll burn through that leeway. Thus all we can do is do our best to seek out causes of disconnects and squash them (when it’s possible to do so from our side).

On that note: We made a change about 3 hours ago that should dramatically reduce lobby disconnects specifically. So far telemetry indicates that it’s working, but we’ll continue to monitor it.

There appears to be a bug involving server timeouts, which is under investigation, and the nature of that bug is such that it uses the wrong error code.

So if you get a message about "match administrator" and you aren't in a custom game, then what actually happened is a timeout with the server.

An update to MM went live a couple of hours ago that should help with this considerably. Please let us know if you continue to have trouble.

An update to MM went live a couple of hours ago that should help with this considerably. Please let us know if you continue to have trouble.

An update went live a couple of hours ago that should help with this considerably. Please let us know if you continue to have trouble.

Update went live an hour or two ago that will hopefully resolve these issues. Please let us know if you continue to have problems. :)

Next revision is now live, attempting to better balance the MM rules so that we’re still trying to balance the teams as best we can, but we don’t want top-tier players left out in the cold. Give it a whirl, feedback welcome.