Twitchy Questioning 2: Twitchier and Questionier

Two advanced packs.

 Advanced Jetpacks?

Maybe not an interesting question but here I go:

- would you consider making XP boost consumable buyable with MF?

Grinding for exp is really... lenghty in this version...

Enjoy your giggle.

Update. I've gathered up the questions I intend to ask in a Google Doc: drive.google.com/open?id=1namrc-HI-vUeAZVut5vuwiABrPp4dT5F_10EmZtO23c

I know not everyone can access Google so I will update the first post as well, but the Google Doc is what I am actually going to use when I do this.

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The first question will be about crashes:

There are still major crashes on all platforms, as reported on EA Answers HQ (links available). PS4 is particularly suffering with the CE-34878-0 error. Have you identified what is causing this and can we expect a fix in the patch when it arrives?

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Next:

Several dedicated players have been data-mining how weapons and powers actually work. When we identify unusual behavior we don't know if it is intentional, or a bug. What is the best way to convey this detailed information to the development team?

I anticipate the answer will be 'post on EA Answers HQ' in which case I am going to press for a better place to ask (because Answers HQ is like a needlestack full of hay made of needles all of whose molecules are also made of needles) -- perhaps a thread on reddit because they seem more amenable to posting over there than here.

Anyway, assuming I can get some commitment (heh) that they will read what we post, this wipes out the need to ask alllllll the detailed questions about whether combos are supposed to scale, how shotguns are going to work, etc. Those questions will still be listed on the off chance that they tell me to ask them in the Twitch chat.

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I plan to press them on something they said last week, namely that they would reveal actual stats for weapons and powers. (This is related to the above, but I want to force them to follow up.)

Last week a couple people asked if you would reveal the actual numbers behind weapons and powers and you said you will. When can we expect to see that information?

I anticipate the answer will be 'you'll see this in the patch notes and we can't tell you when that will be' but whatever, at least I'll ask.

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Regarding balance, I have a section for this although hopefully they'll initiate this conversation on their own accord. If not to the questions I go.

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My remaining questions will be things I find personally interesting or that I think they might actually answer.

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I am not going to ask salty questions like 'why does your netcode suxxor LOLZ Frostbite' or 'when will you pay us back for crashes' because get real, they're never going to react well to that type of question.

Come on Kazu, get real. I'm not going to ask that.

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Also: if someone could point me to some representative cheating reports I'd like to have those in my back pocket.

To clarify: I meant cheating that has been reported on EA Answers HQ or somewhere. Yes I could search for this myself but I have to at least pretend to work this morning until my extra-long Twitch stream-watching "lunch".

OK, cool. I will at least be able to point them to something concrete.

Billy Buskell / @ ehlien pre-empted our question about Mission Funds:

• No near gear or characters this week.
• You can only ever purchase each Equipment item once. They do not rank up.
• 'Nothing to announce' regarding whether MF will ever be usable for anything else.

Playing the actual missions? Some of them are kind of fun, like fighting the Kett/Krogan Behemoth, or the first time you see Sandstorm Dusk or the Remnant Vault.

Not every player bought the game on day 1 and obsessively plays it 15 hours a day like me 10 million missing votes .

Sure, but since you have increased mobility, your weapons and combos do half the damage now.

Just logged into Twich. Nothing streaming yet, random people blathering in the chat, no Bioware presence yet.