Twitchy Questioning 3: Return of the Twitch

Yeah, I actually turned the stream off about 10ish minutes in to eat lunch and watch Colbert clips.  Just didn't seem to have any meat to it at all this week.  Back to running PR.

:poop: It may be a shithole - but it's full of likes! :poop:

Also: You did good.

One last hurrah:

Last week they teased the new patch, but no more teasing necessary since it's out now! Along with the patch, we see Enhanced Munitions in the store which buffs combat power damage, and a new APEX mission named Chasing the Archon's Obsession, which is bronze on Paradox against the Kett, with the Weakened Assault Team modifier active.

With that out of the way, on to the stream!

Kicked things off with a prerecorded video focusing on the new Turian Agent character

Billy and Bastiaan return from last week to show off the new character (Turian Agent), gun (X5 Ghost), things in the Item Store (Enchanced Munitions, as well as as XP enhancers) and Apex mission (Chasing the Archon's Obsession)

Playing today with Draec, Robatchi, and our very own /u/Salsadips

Continue to send in feedback you come up with, they're already working on the next patch

Billy's got his special controller with paddles this time out, so he should suck less now

Turian Agent has extra penetration, so he can shoot for thicker cover. He can also be built to absolutely melt armor

Told a story from ME3 development. One staff member threw a Claymore on one of the Infiltrators and blew Bastiaan's mind

Chat asked about getting ping numbers on the menu screen. "No plans for that at this time"

There's a desire on the Bioware side to have the common kits be a bit simpler, with Rare kits having more consequential decisions

/u/Salsadips got sync-killed! On Bronze!

Talked up the X5 Ghost again. It's not the hardest-hitting gun, but does get more accurate as it fires

Archon's Remnant Fortress (and its special map) will be re-ran on Monday

"There's another patch for sure coming"

Joked about Krogans "holding hands" in the menu due to their character models clipping into each other. MEA's menu has the characters standing offset from one another to avoid this

Bastiaan is an AR fan, always uses the AR Rail Amp when he can. He's been playing with the Thokin and Falcon at home, and dropped some coin to unlock the X5 Ghost

Pointed out that you can only shoot through cover with the Agent when the Visor power is active. And it does run out!

A smattering of hockey jokes / references throughout the stream. They are Canadian, after all!

Recap of the new content that came out this week... Agent, Ghost, XP Enhancers, Enchanced Munitions, APEX Mission, and all the assorted changes in the patch

Replayed the Turian Agent intro video from the start of the stream

/u/JRandall0308 once again compiled his questions and answers from Twitch chat

So, not the most important stream we've seen. But morale seemed better than it has been, both from the streamers and from chat. Let's see what happens next time.

So uhhhhh, this is either a BS answer or a policy change. Because there were so many things they could have pushed fixes for in 1.05 but didn't. Did it really take 6 weeks for them to reach "can" status on all changes that came in 1.06?

I'd love to hear that this is a policy change and that hotfixes will be frequent. I can understand balance changes undergoing extensive review before they're ready, but bug fixes should be pushed as soon as possible.