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

biggy_dx: DiscoBabaloo Certain rank evolutions in abilities, like Fortify 6A and Backlash’s rank 6 evos, leave a lot to be desired. In addition, the community often finds itself never needing to take either of these abilities to max rank. Can these later ranks be made more viable?

DiscoBabaloo: @biggy_dx part of the balance items we continue to look at - not sure offhand what the plan is for those but it is something the team is looking at

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Sean, Conal, and Mae helping behind the scenes.

Many power descriptions are misleading at best, or incorrect at worst. Would it be possible to tie power descriptions to the game code, so we have accurate information on how powers actually work?

Billy: if descs get too long, gets cumbersome in the menus. Anything you write (string) you put a 20% buffer on it for other languages... (I guess this somehow justifies it?)

DiscoBabaloo: JRandall0308 looking into those

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Sarah didn't know ammo primes, Billy stated the UI doesn't communicate as well as it could.

Deliberately no mission this week b/c of USA holiday (Independence Day).

biggy_dx: DiscoBabaloo The Angara Avenger doesn’t seem to benefit from the Stealth Grid melee damage bonus. There is evidence to suggest that this may be due - in part - from the strike taking too long and the Stealth Grid damage bonus expiring. Can adjustments be made here to improve this skill combo?

DiscoBabaloo: @biggy_dx i'll put it on the list to review again

Matobar: DiscoBabaloo Needless to say, we all loved the Kett mission over the weekend and we want more! But why wasn't the Credit Reward higher? Will the reward amount be increased or looked at for future missions like this one?



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DiscoBabaloo: @blazinglordsoul wasn't too bad actually, slightly lower than avg Gold I think most players that went in brought their A game and were prepped for it

(about success rate on the 11 wave mission)

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Billy acknowledges feedback about 11 mission time/rewards ratio.

Sarah likes the childish banter of the Krogan Engineer. *rolleyes*

vtiiiii: DiscoBabaloo There's been quite a few complaints (including myself!) about the invisible, google and robot doges and their interrupts seem too constant and frustrating. Any possibility of them being toned down a bit, or if we have to mash them off, then it works as a melee that can kill them outright?DiscoBabaloo: @vtiiiii we're looking into that as part of the balancing

rtrnofdmax: DiscoBabaloo Can you comment on power descriptions in the Apex app that don't match the game? For example: Escape artist says it should grant cloak on melee kills, but doesn't.

DiscoBabaloo: rtrnofdmax yep, those should be addressed in next updt

ichimaru360: DiscoBabaloo would it be possible to add alternate versions of each difficulty? Like have a Gold S difficulty which goes up to 11 waves and still have the normal 7 wave gold.

Moderator DiscoBabaloo: @ichimaru360 not exactly, but given feedback we're looking to see what we can do along those lines

Galebazz: Fernando any chance that you will slightly increase UR appearance in packs? Rn you get 2,5 for 1 million credits

DiscoBabaloo: @galebazz we're looking into a few things, nothing specific yet though

Can the U.I. text size be made adjustable, primarily for console users? The current text size is too small to read on TVs from more than a few feet away.

DiscoBabaloo: JRandall0308 prob not adjustable on the fly, but we'll see if we can improve

Matobar: DiscoBabaloo Some issues the game has seem to stem from Frostbite (such as the sound-cutting-out glitch). Do you guys know if anyone has been tasked with adjusting the engine to make it easier to work with/more suited for games like yours?

er back to the central fb team (and other EA teams) - but not sure what the latest is with that, will have to follow up again



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first game bronze day
second game silver night (both on Aqua)

Could you apply more consistency in U.I. button use and related screen focus?
Examples: on PC, squad view changes from ‘V’ to ‘spacebar’. On XB1, after you exit squad view, focus moves to a character instead of saying on squad view.

DiscoBabaloo: JRandall0308 most of those we should have already (tracked) but we're still prioritizing fixes (and new content)


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billy says they pulled the broken daily challenges (combat, biotic, tech mastery) until they figure out how to fix them

Benoit and Josh (the level designers of Aqua) are the most competitive / best players on the BWE team.

Siran77: DiscoBabaloo Is it possible to show the modifiers of the APEX mission in the apex App itself? This way I could decide better if I want to send a team from the app or play it later myself

Moderator Moderator DiscoBabaloo: @siran77 i'll pass that on to the app team



Matobar: DiscoBabaloo ommon enemies (Raiders in particular) are really good at acquiring targets immediately once they're in view, or switching between targets with no pause in between, and then unloading with pin-point accuracy. Are they intentionally this fearsome regardless of distance?

Moderator DiscoBabaloo: @matobar all enemies are on gold, but i'll get the team to take a closer look and see if anything changed for raiders in particular