Twitchy Questioning 5: Attack of the Questions

Multiplayer Livestream Summary - 25 May 2017 (self.MECoOp)
submitted 21 minutes ago by The_hezyPC/hezekiah957/MDT - announcement
Last Friday's stream had some technical issues, and closed with the promise of interesting things coming this time. What will they be?
Stream opened with a prerecorded video advertising the new Apex mission Deeper Into the Ruins, with Kandros and friends getting further into to the Ruins
Billy and Bastiaan here once again to take us through the new hotness
Playing with Drake2304, RadderssGaming and mynameisByf this week
Mentioned that there were some brief drop-rate issues late last week, and are working on providing make-up packs to affected players
They're aware of the Fiend issues, but don't have anything to announce on that yet
Showed and purchased the new Shield Enhancer gear (+15% shield strength)
Early part of the first playthrough of the new Apex mission talked vaguely about a lot of small differences. Moved ammo, new stuff on the map, different enemy spawn points... and Billy had to switch back to his preferred control scheme
Continuing the slow progression up the difficulty ladder, with the new mission being Silver with the Weakened Assault Team mod
Mild hockey banter, as expected
Feigned surprise at the map change for the wave 3 hack; big door opens, and the point is a ways down a new hallway
Acknowledged issues with broken challenges, they're "looking at it"
Map changes continue on wave 4
"We don't talk about things that might or might not be coming". So quit pestering them about when new maps and characters are coming!
The new Apex mission "poses a different kind of challenge". Extraction sends you all the way back to the original room
Billy managed to top the scoreboard? What is this sorcery?!
Nobody got sync-killed this time, hooray!
Recapped the previous news from the beginning of the stream. Changes in last week's update, and that some people were affected by a pack-odds bug and are being addressed by Bioware
Second game of the stream wasn't set back to the Apex mission, so they ended up Randoming to Icebreaker. Oops.
Reminded again to report all bugs. They're constantly looking into stability improvements, both on- and off-host
Shouted out /u/jrandall0308 for relaying a lot of the questions the community comes up with. Look for his compilation in the comments below!
On Farming (Outlaw / Zero): they don't want to "stimulate" that. Their primary focus is to allow enough game variety for people that want it. Apex missions are intended to provide and encourage some of that variety.
"We had a reward on random/random, but only if the server chose it"
They're able to modify the rewards on a per-map basis. If they want people to not farm Outlaw/Zero, they could for instance make it only worth 30k
They're aware of the audio issues. It's deeper than they're able to fix themselves, so they've reached out to the team behind the Frostbite engine for help.
"We will not be adding a gun that says sorry every time you fire a bullet"
Jrandall asked about data-miners. B&B don't want to address info they come up with. "No comment"
Talked briefly about their favorite ME3MP kits. Destroyer, Turian Sentinel...
For their third and final game of the stream, back to the Apex mission as originally intended. This time, using an atrociously-colored Salarian
One of their PCs needed some updates. This got B&B and chat going on a bunch of Collector General references... "Assuming direct update"... "This hurts you"...
Bastiaan: "I am quite happy with having a job"
Sounded dubious about the prospects of the updated Remnant map showing up in the general rotation, due to its unique properties (progression, mostly). But sounds like it might show up more often in Apex challenges, at least.
Another reminder that the Shield Enhancer gear is now available in the item store
They seem to be getting annoyed with all the questions asking about potential upcoming features. I am too.
Based on their two playthoughs of it, seems like people need to be more aware of extraction timing on this new Apex mission
On Stealth Grid: 1.05 fixed some issues with it. Sometimes the visuals don't work, but the effect is still being applied
And we close as we opened, with the new video about the updated Remnant Ruins map
Twitch VOD of today's stream