Twitchy Questioning 10: The Question from U.N.B.S.N.

I've exhausted most of the movie series that I care to use(*) so threads 11-20 will be based on book titles. Also I already used a Star Wars title and I'm trying not to repeat.

(*) Fun fact: there are LOT of soft-core porn movie series in any list of 'movie series with more than 10 entries'.

No TV series?

House of Questions
Breaking Questions
Questions of anarchy
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First of all - THANK YOU for an exemplary job, kudos to you!

Would you please ask

• Whether they plan to include number of waves as selectable element for games in addition to map/enemy/difficulty allowing to choose between 7 and 11 waves?
• Whether they plan to reward random games with higher credit/xp?
• What happend to the Remnant Vault map as we haven't seen it for weeks, abandoned or paused?
• Whether they plan for additional tasks or task combinations in waves 3/6/(10)?
  (The latter for instance hack + targets in parallel.)
• How long they anticipate to suppport the game with new content/patches/missions etc.?

This, now imagine the ponytail with the Ass Adept armor!!

I have a general question about semi-autos but I will use the Halberd promise as additional ammunition for that question.

Heh. Ammunition.

This goes along with other people asking for alternative ways to get more of certain types of boosters. Especially ammo. I would like to know if they would consider adding something like a voucher for each level of booster and then have part of the store (perhaps the Item tab) allow you to exchange the voucher for the type of booster you want. It could be something like the rewards from Armax Arena in the Citadel DLC. Vouchers could just be added to random boosters we are already getting.

Much Ado About Nothing is the only fitting movie title for these livestreams.

In fairness, it's not really a database; it is a spreadsheet.

In a perfect world I would sit down and do some information architecture work around how to organize the questions and answers, I would apply metadata to them, and I would build a query-able database with fuzzy matching around key terms.

In the real world I threw some stuff into a Google spreadsheet and tacked on a few keywords. But still, you can Ctrl-F for certain terms or apply the Filter function to the Keyword columns, and that should help.

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Also I should point out that not everything is in the 'database'.

There are two parts of the Twitch stream.

There is the stream itself, in which (typically) Billy plays the game while he and Bastiaan talk about the game. Sometimes they talk in a general sense about what they've been working on, or the latest patch, and sometimes they answer specific questions fed to them from...

The Twitch chat. This is a chat window to the side of the stream. The conversation there is INUNDADTED with random IRC-style chit-chat, repetitive questions about stuff we know they can't talk about (Quarians, DLC, blah blah blah), random Single Player partisans shit-posting on the MP stream, etc.

But every once in a while someone asks something useful. Typically, @ Bioware or @ DiscoBabaloo (Fernando Melo) will answer that person's question with a 1-2 sentence response.

Because of the nature of the Twitch stream and chat, long philosophical questions can't effectively be addressed.

Exception: there was one Twitch stream in which Billy and Bastiaan just sat and talked about the game (I think this was in conjunction with The Great Patch, 1.06). And I have passed along feedback to Fernando that another stuch conversation might be useful in the future so they can talk in a more broad sense about game philosophy.

But, in a typical week, we get to ask short, targeted questions.

Another thing: they typically only answer a half-dozen questions from any particular person, depending upon the volume of other conversation in the chat. This week I have 32 questions already on my list. I try to have a general sense for what is important to people, or what Bioware is likely to answer (based on what's happening in the Twitch game or what just got asked/answered in the Twitch chat before me).

So if you don't see 'your' question get asked or answered, it is mostly because of volume and me being selective.

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So all of this is a great topic but not something they can effectively address in a normal Twitch stream.

I will add it to the list in case they ever do a more discursive 'talking heads' episode again.

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Good question, and one they can answer in a short response.

Simple question, I'm pretty shure people already asked this one, but in the challenges, theres some for weapons, powers, but not for melee attacks ? is there a reason why Bioware didn't implemented melee challenges ?

Thank you very much!