Twitchy Questioning 15: The Masterquestioner of Pern

I find it really upsetting how long they're taking to address the semi auto battle rifle situation.  They've been saying they were aware of the issue for months now.  I bypassed "official unofficial" channels during last week's stream to bring it up and managed to get an answer... from one JRandall 

It's not hard.  Turn the Halberd into the Mattock S and the Sandstorm into the Saber 2.0

Halberd was 189 Damage 300 ROF.  Is now 140 Damage 405 ROF.  This gives the same DPS but in a much more responsive feeling gun.
Sandstorm was 199 Damage 210 ROF. Is now 500 Damage 100 ROF.  This is a DPS buff but the Sandstorm badly needs one anyway and it gets the gun in line with other Gold tier ARs.

Like you, I prefer to have the daily challenges done in two matches. Unfortunately, I'm not elite enough to get the Tech/Biotic/Combat challenges done in fewer than three matches at this point.

I could solo for it, but I've never found soloing fun. Duos are much better! 

Then again, these challenges are far down the list of irritants in MEAMP. I wouldn't even call to change them. For example, the sound bug is far, far more troubling.

For me it is higher, because I can still chose to finish a match w/o a sound or drop it. But the challenge parameters are really impacting the time and push me to play past the point when I want to stop. Hence, i really support the second look at those 35Ks. Andromeda is already a wee bit limited for variety of maps and chars, adding a burn-out from being stuck on the same map/char on top of it bothers me. Yeah, I know, it's maybe only 2x the other challenges, and OCD is all mine, the MF is not real, etc,  but I'd rather the challenges were equalized if possible. 

*insert the usual crashsuit questions about consumables*

Twitch confirmed for tomorrow at the usual time. Unfortunately I will be late to arrive due to an unavoidable meeting, but I will ask as many questions as I can in the time I have available.

They answer a lot and are surprisingly forthcoming about a lot -- see [the archive]. The "looking into it" just stands out in our minds more because we like to ask Hard Hitting Questions^TM!

That's not a new time 'skin' of Paradox is it?

The charge-up weapon question is on the list somewhere.

The questions about responsiveness has kinda-sorta been asked in the past. For example...

1 June 2017
Some actions have unintuitive priorities. Landing interrupts a reload. Rockets, cover vaulting, and revive interactions cannot interrupt a reload. Almost anything interrupts and puts away an equipped rocket. Is this something you will look at, to improve game flow?
DiscoBabaloo
will check, but i think in this case some things are not easy to tweak (not without touching a lot of other systems) :/

22 June 2017
Weapon reload speeds in MEA feel sluggish (esp. compared to ME3 reload speeds which were faster across the board). Could you please explain the design intent for MEA reload speeds?
Billy
mostly just timed against "use vs recharge". We've seen feedback about the various timings, and the animations not having cancels like ME3. I can't go into details today, but we're aware.

29 June 2017
WolfBuster: DiscoBabaloo @bioware any plans on adjusting the Venom to allow us to be able to hold charge while jumping , Dashing , or using a skill that involves movement
DiscoBabaloo
@wolfbuster on the list to review

3 August 2017
biggy_dx: Backlash has an issue where it drops immediately upon casting it. Does the team know about this?
DiscoBabaloo
@biggy_dx will check

Wasn't John Carmack the man behind that "brilliant" game engine powering that Rage-game?

Reminder that I will be late to the stream this week, but I'll ask what questions I can when I get there.

Berserker Package equipment in the store, 120 MF, +15% shotgun damage, +15 melee damage

Benoit likes the match modifiers, like how angry people get whenever one of his shows up. Tough love.

Matobar: DiscoBabaloo 4. Are there any plans to look into weapon reloading and/or weapon swaping? Both feel very cumbersome right now, and especially reloading gets a lot of complaints about being the worst part of using some weapons (ARs suffer a lot from this.)

DiscoBabaloo: @matobar we can look at this again, it can have some significant balance impact on dps though so its not an easy change (or rather, easy to change but would take longer to balance etc)