Twitchy Questioning 12: A Twitch of the Horsequestions

The blank spots in the grid are where Bioware proactively addressed something before we could ask a queued up question. I left them blank so we (well, "I" at least) know that it was a proactive statement rather than a response to a particular question. I will add a note to this effect.

Also regarding things like melee and certain powers (*cough* Shockwave *cough*) eventually we (well, "I") give up on asking about them and we have to accept that is how the game is. There are so many questions to ask I like to let the old ones die.

I've no idea how this could be asked without it sounding "loaded" or like we were accusing them of bad judgement, lazy cut-and-paste, or somesuch, but I think it should at least be noted (just in case any of them read these threads...).

Regarding daily challenges...

The combat mastery daily challenge has been offered and is now working, as is the biotic one - which is great.  The requirement is 35,000 points, identical to the daily challenges that require you to get that many points versus a specific enemy type.  Here's the thing: most of the points scored come from weapons and combos, and what appears to be counted here is only base damage from specific skills.

They had stated that their intent with the daily challenges was to create something that could be completed within 1-3 games; thus 14 waves for difficulty or map challenges, and 35,000 points scored against enemy types fits very neatly into that 1-3 games frame.  It's been my experience that the combat and biotic mastery challenges require a lot more than 3 games to complete.  I suspect they simply copied the 35,000 points from the enemy type challenges without recognizing that the base (non-combo) damage from these various skill types is much less per game.

For example: it takes a lot more games to score 35,000 points worth of combat skill damage than it does to score 35,000 points versus kett.

IME, something more along the lines of 10,000 - 15,000 points for combat, biotic, tech skills would be much more conducive to completion in 1-3 games than the current 35,000.

^^Thank you. I really appreciate all that you do for the community.

Yeah but aggro mechanics are so borked that enemies don't give a shit if you're shooting at them or not.

No surprise that they just slop out a load of shit when called on their bullshit.

Should be a new map tomorrow on an APEX mission only. Next week should be the same with a second new map, but both maps will be added to the normal list together on the third week.

No idea what you mean 

After being killed by an Observer, it kept charging and shooting me for a whole 15 seconds. Mr. Observer, I'm dead, there's no need to hit me while I'm down, especially not flying around my body in circles shooting at my "exit" hole, please move on to another associate of mine...

Or I already have 2 Hydras, 1 Super Fast Hydra, 3 Berserkers, 2 Saboteurs and 1 Sharpshooter following me all around the map ignoring everyone else attacking them. While this happens, a Saboteur spawns at the farthest possible point from me on the map and see thru buildings there's a party going on. So he travels all the way around every single of my allies and sneak up behind me... F U

Oh and btw PUGs, when this happens, please don't kill the motherfucker, IT'S MINE!!! 

I might catch flak for this... but after playing with the new Hack, I kind of agree with Billy on this one. The problem is mainly the hack takes too long, at least on platinum which is most of what I've been playing since the change. If you get unlucky with enemies camping the spot or idiot pugs there isn't much time to recover after kiting/killing.

It's kind of nice and adds to the challenge, makes matches more unpredictable. I can understand why it enrages people, but yea. git gud

No stream, no salad.



But I do have something planned for later today. Stay tuned!

Apex HQ app shows a mission called "Unknown Connections" that mentions "the search for the second batarian pirate".



It's not on the www.masseffect.com/apex-missions yet but could we get another characters today?!

Announcing the Twitchy Questioning 'dot vote' for question categories.

SurveyMonkey link --> www.surveymonkey.com/r/RLL2NBQ

In the past I have relied on gut feel and my own biases to select the question priority. For the next Twitch (at the end of the month) I want to try a consensus-building method known as 'dot voting' (or 'N/3' if you're old school like me).

In this 'dot vote' you have a TOTAL of 4 dots to spend on 11 CATEGORIES of questions as shown on the SurveyMonkey. (I consolidated from 50+ questions down to 11 categories to make the voting feasible.) In real life these would be colored dot stickers (hence the name) that you would put on the notecard with the category -- you'd only have 4 stickers so you couldn't over-vote. On SurveyMonkey I cannot enforce that restriction so please, don't over-vote, or I'll be forced to throw out your response.

I am also asking for BSN usernames so I can weed out spam and multiple responses. (I will just visually inspect the usernames and maybe spot-check any I don't recognize against the list here.)

This survey will remain open until 25 July 2017 to allow for as many votes as possible and thus as much consensus as possible.

Thank you to those who participate!

Thanks! Done the survey. The only thing I wish I saw on the list to give a dot for was to get ammo types in item store rotation.