Twitchy Questioning 14: Questions in Flux

Bastiaan Lead MP Designer
Benoit - has his controller ready as soon as video came up, LOL

Matobar: Ok DiscoBabaloo first question: Can we get a "More Elite Units" Apex modifier? Where there are more simultaneous bosses and/or more elite units on screen at once? Similarly, how about an "Upgraded Bosses" Apex modifier where all Destroyers become Progenitors, all Hydras become Blaze Hydras and all Fiends become double Behemoths?

Moderator Moderator DiscoBabaloo: @matobar interesting... will see what that would take

How does matchmaking work? Are we ‘region locked’? (is it possible to be matched from Europe to U.S.A., or Asia/Pacific to U.S.A., for example)

DiscoBabaloo: JRandall0308 i think it depends on platform/servers incl xb/ps, but i dont think its locked - however, it has a very high weight on same region to help reduce latency

JusticarStef: DiscoBabaloo any hope of seeing the 1 second immunity after using a survival ops pack like in ME3?

DiscoBabaloo: justicarstef pretty sure was something we were investigating, i'll need to find out where that got to (still catching up now that i'm back)

On variant weapons, Bastiaan on reddit: “currently has a very small (less than 10%) chance to drop a variant IF you have rank 10 guns.” Unclear what this means. Can you clarify?

- referred to Bastiaan

There is a very small chance you get a weapon variation before - weapon variation are in backup pool. if you've done all your weapons. First criteria if you have to have 1 at rank 10. Second criteria there is a very small chance.
Did that because otherwise people would wait a very long time before they would see any variants.
(still dunno what this means)

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(not sure what this is an answer to)

DiscoBabaloo: @galebazz maybe something we can look for future titles, but comes with considerable costs & overhead on the team - I'm biased but mp is still a secondary mode for mea so the decision was made to keep it same as me3

Benoit edged out topscore with level 7 Krogan Gladiator

PLATINUM HAS NO SHIELDGATE per Benoit

Because there are now 2x as many UR char. cards to unlock, would you reduce the MF price for the Random UR Character? (currently 960 MF)

DiscoBabaloo: JRandall0308 we're discussing a few things, so 'maybe'

Matobar: DiscoBabaloo People want enemies we've tagged with damage to die on Extraction, similar to how it was in ME3. Have you looked into this at all?

(seriously?! lolololol)

DiscoBabaloo: @matobar ha, ya we did - a few things actually, from disappearing them, dropping dead etc - in the end the fade out was least 'bad looking' but also didn't hit performance the same way as insta killing all the remaining enemies (if you had a lot left)

biggy_dx: DiscoBabaloo Can the new weapon mods be added to their own packs (purchasable with credits)? If not, can the MF payout of Strike Team/APEX missions be increased? Maybe 5/10/15 for Bronze thru Gold missions, and 10/15/20 for APEX missions.

(haha exact opposite of what I just asked)

DiscoBabaloo: @biggy_dx we're looking into the pricing of a few things, but the benchmark we used was based on someone using app + in-game (basically all ways possible), and that you should be able to get more MF than needed (or accumulate over a week)

Uggh, no. It's not because the packs were dropping boosters instead of Rank VII bulwark weapons that people were/are leaving. It's because you release like one new kit and gun a month and that's not enough to hold anyone's interest, especially when that kit is all reused powers and generally isn't interesting or effective.