General Discussion

The folks at NCsoft released a greatly informative Feedback Friday on the 27th, including information on some new equipment and other things making their way into the game.

Two new incendiary shotguns will be making their way to you in Deployment 10. These aren’t your grandpa’s shotguns - they are equipped with not one, but two and three barrels for the ultimate Bane killing experience.

• Double-barrel shotguns: Will appear at Level 23. These shotguns do more damage that standard shot guns, but don’t get too trigger happy just yet. These shotguns fire slower, consume twice the ammo, and gain heat faster.
• Tri-barrel shotguns: Will appear at Level 34. These shotguns do more damage as well, and have a wider arc. And just like the double-barrel shotguns, you must be wise with your shots, because in addition to their awesome fire power, these shotguns fire slower, consume triple the ammo, and gain heat faster than standard shotguns.

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Awesome stuff. The game is begining an upward cycle. It's not at the level it has the potential to be, but it's moving up.

Too little, too late.

Only a major redesign can save this game.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Too little, too late.

Only a major redesign can save this game.

Please get some orginality to your posts and stop being so damn negative.

These are great new additions.

Yet again nothing interesting. The dev team arnt doing anything while the game is going downfall.

While the changes are not necessarily negative in any way, they are definitely not requested. The developers have shun their community by releasing additions that players have never requested while ignoring what they really want. For instance, the sniper class was nerfed even after it already sucked. Then a developer responded by basically saying "I have no problems when I play".

In a game where ammo is increasingly expensive, the last thing players need is an addition to a weapon class that eats up 3 rounds per shot which no one even uses in later levels. When can we expect Exobiologist to become more diversified then "spawn clone, spam lightning"?

When NCsoft overhauls this game and gets its head straight, then I will pay attention and resubscribe. For now, it seems to be going the way of Auto Assault. You already have a minimal player base, Tabula Rasa developers. The idea is to keep them by giving them what they want, not by ignoring them and giving them the opposite.

Many updates are good updates, unless of course you're SOE

Originally posted by Saorlan

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Too little, too late.

Only a major redesign can save this game.

 

Please get some orginality to your posts and stop being so damn negative.

These are great new additions.

Gee, sorry to rain on your parade, but after all Sir Richard's hype about how innovative this game would be among other things, this game deserves a little rain on it.

The basic fact is, they delivered on none of all those glorious promises.  It is just a very average game with little reason for a player to continue playing once they have played it for a month or two.

Most of us had expected far more from Sir Richard.  Notice, now that it is out and not doing very well he has shut up.

So I stand behind my statement, only a major redesign can really save this game, it is that mediocre.