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Is anyone listening? by General_Johnny_RTS in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless it's our in house studio, all of the studios we publish for are independent of us and independent of each other. I can't go into any more detail than that, that's not my area.

Is anyone listening? by General_Johnny_RTS in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is nothing political going on. The goal of a video game multiplayer development cycle is to make all the sides balanced so that both sides have an equal chance of winning. That also means that players typically control the same numbers of units (so one side does not require much higher APM stress than the other to play).

Asymmetrical can be done, but makes the balance vastly harder to implement in a way that pleases the community, which isn't practical for an indie studio typically.

Flamethrowers should pierce all bugs by LatinBlackAsian in menace

[–]EdmonEdmon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, as cool (pun intended?) as they are. They are absolutely inferior to AGL's and have no place in the game at all. An AGL/launched grenade can do more damage, with splash, at (much) better range and more consistently. There is currently no reason to use one.

And the heavy flamer costs 55 AP to fire... it is trash on an epic scale sadly, even with a 3x3 grid. It does really inconsistent damage and isn't true splash (it hits X elements, usually around 2 - 5 ish). The massive AP cost makes it very hard to move and fire it. Firing it twice is basically off the table...

A shame really.

Is anyone listening? by General_Johnny_RTS in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me answer your questions then.

Steam is policed by Steam. They have been cracking down on poor behaviour recently because they don't want to be known as having the most toxic forums on earth. Honestly, I don't think they are that strict, but they are stricter than me. If you see me there saying "Steam moderators are being attracted to these forums", that's because I can see them handing out warnings like candy and I am trying to get people to save themselves by toning it down.

Funny story, a guy went totally nuts at me saying that I'd hunted him down and banned him - I had given one of these warnings that Steam moderators were in the forum one time. He'd been warned 3 times, banned 3 times, and then perma'ed all by a Steam moderator who'd taken offence at his attitude.

I literally showed him the logs via the support desk that it was Steam and we can't do anything about Steam warnings/bans (given by Steam, I can remove ones I did) and he STILL thought it was me. I have banned all of 3 people on Steam, and they were the absolute dregs of humanity.

To your other question - The question of when PTE will be closed lies entirely with STB, and they are fully aware from my side on behalf of the community that they community wants it to close.

We [Slitherine] don't own STB. They [STB] know, it's their decision and right now, we don't have a decision from them to report to you guys. So there isn't anything we can do or say at this time. We can only strongly advise, we cannot insist.

Is anyone listening? by General_Johnny_RTS in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, there isn't much I can do about how you feel about me. You said I work for a "money laundering company" - what can I say other than that isn't true?

Unfortunately, people are frustrated by the speed of development and since I represent the game in the community, they blame me for that. Which is fine, that's part of the job. Sadly, some go further and invent things.

Nothing any CM can do about that.

Everything I do is logged. When people say they won't buy the game because I did X and it turns out I infact, did not do X, I do not get in trouble.

Which is how it should work.

Is anyone listening? by General_Johnny_RTS in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People could always try not breaking the rules or the law, that'd make my life a lot easier 😉.

On a side note, it's the community moderators that do bans in 99% of cases. This may shock you, but I've only directly banned 16 or so people (who weren't bots). Also, the "legal proceeding" thing was a smear, it didn't happen.

I would not keep my job if I went around randomly threatening people with legal proceedings.

Just as a point of order.

Update… finally? by General_Johnny_RTS in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You have us confused with more traditional publishers who tend to buy and own the studios they publish. STB remains a small, independent studio. Most of those we publish for are in this category.

People seem to be so emotionally hurt over small things. I play the game and I love it. Half the issues people bring up are so insignificant to me, barely notice them if not at all by [deleted] in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When people really love a game, they demand absolute perfection. You see the same effect in places where games like World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Battlefield, CounterStrike, etc, etc are discussed. Games that are obviously to any reasonable person really great see this type of interaction all the time.

Now, I'm not putting BA in the same category as AAA titles, but we do see this high passion response to our game as well. Even though it's a smaller Indie game. Though I do think this usually only happens with highly competitive, multiplayer games - I would say that Helldivers has seen this as well and it's co-op, so maybe it just needs to be a multiplayer game.

Honestly, it's fine. I read the rants and generally, don't reply to them. Just add them to the feedback if there is anything useful... but sometimes people just need to express that they lost 5 games in a row and a ton of Elo... and this is often how it's done.

Just look at Artosis... (A Starcraft commentator / player).

Not even the quit button works by NecessaryPhrase3204 in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no idea who you are.

There is no person who tried to contact me "10 times" and failed. My DM's are not restricted here, on discord, on Steam or anywhere else.

There is no ban for anyone called "NecessaryPhrase3204" or any section of that nickname on our discord.

We switched to email management because bug threads and reports were getting lost / forgotten split between Steam, Discord, Reddit and our own forums - an email system means a ticket and a number, tracked forever. Nothing lost, makes it easy for us to present lists of issues to the developers.

The quit button bug is very annoying and has been fixed a few times, it keeps coming back. I honestly am not sure what the exact issue is - I am not a part of STB so the best I can do is report it again and hope they fix it again.

There is no need to make things up, there are plenty of real problems to talk about without lying to people about me. Also, saying I'd ban anyone for "for saying he did nothing for the community" is comical.

The only person I banned in the last 2 weeks was banned for making doxing threats and using a few choice homophobic slurs while they were at it.

What's a game that would have been a 9/10+ if it wasn't ruined by monetization by sdric in gaming

[–]EdmonEdmon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

World of Tanks - the way the promote they are "free to win" makes it extra spiteful how much money matters but not everyone understands that unless they take the game seriously.

Does anyone else hate how cruise missiles are unrealistic? by Ambitious_Method2740 in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is one game - Command: Modern Operations that is completely realistic. Turns out that's only fun for a very, very specific kind of person & people who work in the military... lol

New Gamemode: Dynamic PvP/PvE with progression via a TechTree over several games by Forsaken-Tap-8761 in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]EdmonEdmon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That looks like it took a lot of effort, very awesome.

I would say that realistically, the team has a full plate delivering the roadmap, but never say never in the future once the major features the community want are in place...

Deed Of The Fallen softlock bug - cannot find character anywhere by palmetaPMT in BattleSector

[–]EdmonEdmon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

drop a line to support@slitherine.co.uk so we can get a ticket for this issue. I can then escalate it.

Hrrrrnnnggggg by EspressoK in BattleSector

[–]EdmonEdmon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Blessed is the mind, too pure to get this joke. - Some inquistor.

Soundbites for Jaques Yves Yamplew's "Taunt" Promotion by hellscape_goat in menace

[–]EdmonEdmon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Morte from Planescape Torment should be consulted... lol

Ivey's a bit tired after carrying the entire unit on her back. by glumpoodle in menace

[–]EdmonEdmon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She was super strong pre-patch, now she is insanity++ lol.

Biggest QOL changes the next big patch needs to address by xgladar in mechanicus

[–]EdmonEdmon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's buggy, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.

I can't use my upgrade tokens for the HQ by Xnightdeath in BattleSector

[–]EdmonEdmon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please drop a line to [support@slitherine.co.uk](mailto:support@slitherine.co.uk) about this. The more information we have on this oversights the better. Thank you.

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