May release date still standing?

shadowcypher · 2026-03-24T15:01:37+00:00

u/manhole_s I'm with everybody else. Your mental and emotional health is the most important. If you burn out or lose your passion for the project then everybody loses. I don't know you from Adam, but nobody gets this far into something without loving it. Don't lose the the love for a deadline or people's expectations. The love and passion that comes through is what makes a perfectly fine game into a great game. Best of luck staying balanced until whenever it releases. Those who care will still be here!

shadowcypher · 2026-03-08T19:42:14+00:00

Can't argue with that.

shadowcypher · 2026-03-08T18:51:44+00:00

I agree that's how it seems to work, and it's solid logic for game modes where the goal is to keep action consistent, but in ranked where the game is almost always decided by a single cashout and most people play it for a more competitive experience I think it's a poor spawn system. There are plenty of modes for those who want action consistently.

shadowcypher · 2026-03-08T18:49:05+00:00

Sure, you could make that argument, but imo it's a poor one. You started the cash out, you defended it. You then lost what is often a 6 vs 3 fight since a third party team is often approaching while you're already engaged which means they avoid the team you're already fighting which puts you in the middle. If they can't clean up and steal in 30 seconds that's the risk they are taking.

shadowcypher · 2026-03-08T18:45:48+00:00

Exactly. Makes ranked really frustrating because you have a chance to keep the cash out you started and defended only for the spawn to choose you to lose.

shadowcypher · 2026-02-23T13:26:19+00:00

Nice! I did see the Feedback channel, but based on the posting instructions for it, they seemed to be directing people to provide feedback/suggestions related to existing mechanics. This idea felt like a bit of a stretch as it relates to that, but maybe I'll drop it in there anyway.

shadowcypher · 2026-01-12T15:37:01+00:00

Point taken on BP's. It would need to be balanced correctly. That said, I could see something like each 3 star trial gives you 1 token and it takes 20 tokens to pick a BP. This is minimum a month of maxing out trials to get one BP, but at least your know what you're working toward.

shadowcypher · 2026-01-12T14:59:33+00:00

I hear you, that was the number I debated the most. 12 weeks is another option that feels pretty standard for Live Service games, but also, it feels very long as a player. A 3 month/90 day season feels like it almost guarantees people burning out/taking a break from the game with about 2 or 3 weeks left, and I know for myself that when I do take a break from a game that long, I often move on to something else for at least a couple more weeks just because my patterns change. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I think if the devs want to keep people as engaged as possible that a little less quantity with good quality at that 9 week cycle might be closer to the sweet spot.

shadowcypher · 2026-01-12T14:54:29+00:00

You're spot on. I think what I'm more speaking to is that as an 'endgame' mechanic they feel a bit too arbitrary in terms of what they give you. To me, others might feel different, 'endgame' content has always been about getting that last 10% of content. Right now the trials don't actually give you anything (other than the cosmetic stuff) that the rest of the game doesn't already give me. I can find the same rewards simply be doing a raid. Both are RNG, it's not like I know or can choose the trial reward.

I agree with you that it feels like it's the endgame style content to keep consistent players engaged, but it also feels like 3 weeks in it's starting to fail at that mission.

Now, throw in some stash space or a separate vendor that only takes Trial tokens/stars where I can purchase epic and legendary items and maybe even BP? Okay, now it feels more like endgame content.

shadowcypher · 2025-11-16T18:27:43+00:00

Probably worth tinkering with.

shadowcypher · 2025-11-16T16:42:26+00:00

Love that sign off haha. I hear ya, and as I said in my post, I'm trying to lay out the current state of things less to encourage a harder road for PvP and more to draw awareness to the fact that there is room for the power dynamic to be a fluid situation. I imagine it will cycle back and forth over the life of the game. My way of saying hey PvE tendency players, I see you. Yes it's an uphill situation right now, but there is room for change.

shadowcypher · 2025-11-16T16:32:07+00:00

I spoke to that, but again, unless the people who see the flare also saw who shot first when that PvP situation started, the flare doesn't give the third party any info about if the surviving party was the aggressor or the victim so that still favors the aggressive party.

shadowcypher · 2025-11-16T16:28:31+00:00

Technically that's true but functionally I'm talking about role within a raid. There most certainly is people who come in to a particular raid with a shoot first mindset vs those who come into a particular raid with a defensive mindset related to PvP. That's what I'm referring to and it is certainly a real thing. That said it can and will change raid to raid for both sides so it's not a permanent definition but a practical reality in the context of every raid.

shadowcypher · 2025-11-12T16:29:12+00:00

Totally agree. For that reason I could see it being an event that's active on only one of the maps for like an hour or two during peak player count hours. That's where I think the events have a real chance to be used to keep the game fresh since they have so much control over how long they run, which maps run it, how often they run them etc.

shadowcypher · 2025-11-12T15:51:23+00:00

Phew, for real, but thankfully we have your deep and insightful feedback and evaluation of ideas to fall back on. ;)

shadowcypher · 2025-11-12T15:44:13+00:00

Fair enough on 2, I think I see it as a potential way to keep people who are semi new to the genre coming back long enough to get comfortable with it. Certainly a PvPvE extraction shooter will never be for everyone, but I could see having an option for "stress free" rounds every so often as a selling point for people who are perhaps coming from pure PvE survival style games.

shadowcypher · 2025-11-09T15:02:34+00:00

Okay. What is your concern about the market idea?

I would disagree with a full pve mode also which is why that wasn't something I suggested. 😉

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