Twitchy Questioning 4: uBSN and the Goblet of Twitch

VAT is paid by you, taxes are paid by EA here based on how much money they make. It might be more complex than that, I don't want to oversimplify things. But it is working more or less like that.

There is no research needed here. As far as I understand, you are buying packs for money. Packs have a chance of having something that you want, so they are not hiding anything, there is no lid from the legal point of view. You can perceive it as unfair and refuse to do it. But they are clear about it as you can get your pack with some chance of having something. I'm not sure this even fits with actual gambling, it is a matter of debate. They can sell you specific items from the packs for the right price, it does not matter. But the latter way is apparently less profitable. I would say it is more ethic. However, I have a retirement account and I know some of my shares are going to stock market to buy EA assets. Does this make my personal POV biased? It sure does, I cannot condemn the whole thing. But I also hope I can max my manifest one day. Which might not be any longer possible at all for me.

If they don't play nice with their customers, they lose some of them and their profit goes down. If they are too nice, they don't make enough money, it is a delicate balance. Knowing how Bioware likes to fuck things up, it is possible that they will reverse this decision of theirs with the packs. Hell, maybe EA even does not know and once they will, some things might change, or maybe they won't change and it is EA's decision. We'll see how it goes. For now, they themselves took responsibility and pretend they are fixing some bug. This is quite a laughable excuse, it just cannot be, they are obviously lying. It is not a crime but deceiving and trying to cheat won't get you to a nice place in a long run.

But keeping the mouth shut about these things does not get nobody nowhere. The more uncomfortable questions are asked, the higher is the chance that things might change for the better. So, we should post and complain and hope it works. This twitch better be full of shite tomorrow. And google knows everything, they can't just ignore one forum or the other. They have investors and if lots of people are bitching about something, they have to fix it.

As amusing as this no doubt is, let's get back to twitchy questioning.

My main question would be about patchnote completeness and version control.
Original announcement (in a sticky in bug forums, not even official) had fixes for things that weren't in the patch, then got redacted entirely.
Now it links a tweet that says 3 'notable' changes, which isn't all that changed that day.

Challenge for Avenger and Predator got fixed (though the other common weapon challenged remain bugged).  Why was this not announced too?

Also something along the lines of: Wouldn't player outrage be less if the UR rate 'fix' was announced at deployment, instead of being stealth-changed and letting players spent money based on false assumptions?


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Any progress on long-standing 'known issues' such as the complete sound loss in multiplayer? Are gathered gameplay recordings useful, or is the cause known already?


As much as I don't want it nerfed, you could compare penalty detonators to AoE spec charge (4b) - multi-detonator, ~5 second cooldown, no penalty.
Throw only single detonates by default (or double if speced double at 6a) - presumably has the penalty due to the low cooldown instead of the always AoE det of shockwave R1.

Alternative for the more health/shields is just immunity until control restored, similar to loading in first time on match in progress without really affecting balance.

Ah, I see. I'm kind of gun-shy on the entire drop rate issue which I predict is going to overshadow everything else, but we'll see.

As for the spawn in... honestly I doubt I will get deep enough into my list to ask the 'falling off the map' question. But now that you mention it, I will keep track of whether I seem to have spawn immunity going forward.

I'm not asking questions based on some website's interpretation of a law passed in a country whose legal system none of us understand. Sorry.

No need to ask - it might help those who are trying to find out the drop rates. Chinese players might know something - I know there's at least one who plays from Taiwan and Mainland.

Just thought, probably worth mentioning or at least prepping for serverside vs clientside patch notes incase they use that as an explanation.

It's possible that some of the undisclosed changes in each patch are from a serverside update (like the one to fix the ur drops) that they launch concurrently with pushing the client update.
Might be that they have them noted separately internally incase one happens without the other or even on different days for example - And as players we have no direct indication of a serverside change unlike the client version number on the main menu.
Either way, no reason that good changes like the partial challenge progress fix shouldn't be disclosed as or even before they happen.


While good to know, it may not directly help - The article I read about the law said the drop-rates were different for that region, so we've no guarantee the undisclosed would be the same as the Chinese ones.


I'm sure they hinted in one of the previous streams that different packs were planned or being investigated, but they were unlikely to be super specialized I think (I recall the underlying meaning being that packs with only class specific boosters like biotic for example basically weren't going to happen, but that we might get jumbo equipment or hopefully arsenal/character packs).

I believe in you and thank you for your continued effort.

Well the music for MEA actually gets somewhat decent if you listen to it long enough.