Work In Progress Mid-Year Development Update: Announcing Large Content Releases, Open Episodes, and Summer Plans

heck no that CR System was the most dumbest idea ever, sorry but it was just very bad....

Glad the game is attempting to adapt to modern MMO standards, especially as that driving force on consoles is being lead by other competitors. Being able to pass gear to alts is a great feature, one that many mock MMOs (The Division, Destiny, etc) have used as well. Sucks that it won't happen this year, but glad that the need for it to happen has been brought up by somebody still on the team.

Similarly, open episode content is great, but the model conflicts quite a bit with it. The draw would be short lived if the lockouts were still keeping players away daily. Perhaps offer up an alternative reward on the days that progression based loot is locked. Help keep the queues bolstered. The other thing that needs to happen is adjusting the OP players one-shotting everything. If players are locked out of progression but still see this happening, what's going to get them to stay to enjoy it? To purchase it and feel it was completely worth it? This is still a huge problem for the game and there's no easy way around it without requiring a ton of work. I don't expect the 'stats matter' initiative to remedy this too well unless you've found a way for enemies to scale point blank to the player enganging them.

This does look like a very dangerous limbo phase for the game, either way. I think something that could help in this situation, especially with all episodes being open for a time, is to allow players a new reward category that credit is earned for queueing into old content with a cap enabled. The reward for returning to (tons) of old content could be a currency that could be spent on things like cosmetic items, old styles that haven't been collected, missing collections, briefings, investigations, character intel/profiles (tell you more about the DCUO lore), base items and more. Would help keep the health of the game active, queue-wise while also returning players to original difficulties presented in those missions, which is what people want from an actual MMORPG. You certainly want to promote people playing roles as well, especially tanks.

If things weren't bad enough, Neverwinter releases this month on the PS4. One more MMORPG to compete against.

Oh no, don't put this on the forum goers. This is one thing that will not be in the "careful for what you wish for" category. This decision is theirs. They chose to allow for the gap to get to the new content instead of staggering it over the current content. Probably due to staffing issues or maybe the new CEO is like change it now.

EVERYONE who's played this game for a while knows that content takes to make and that they stagger it with content released to have overlap to keep on schedule. This is a STOP > catch up > release change. Since the next content was going to be AF3 releases, they are just putting everything that was in the monthly content into one big one. It would be like WotL3 content (BD, BN, etc) all put together.

With a 6 month break it's probably 100% certain that my league is done nobody is going to log on with nothing to run especially with pvp still broken.
My membership is up on the 31 so I probably will drop my sub inless they have a plan to at least keep people interested in the game till the new stuff kicks in.

NO, if we are going to have a LARGE gap between EP26 and EP 27 we now all have to time to bulid up the scrapes needed for 4 rings and 2 masks, before EP 27 comes out.

What about chasing skill points and making new alts.

The Cr system was bad.
The only people that liked the CR system was People that wanted to be Carried through the content and be rushed to the End-game.


And just for you here's a list of what happened with the CR system:
-older Content for New players entering, You can get killed in the Faust t1 duo if your a fresh level 30.
-Newer Content Breaking. Episodes have been bugged, Kailbak is now one hitting a cr 168 in the duo.
-People got carried.
-People don't know what to do at End-Game.
-People have low SPS due to this.
-PC Population Died, thus the need for crossplay.

So on and so forth.

I'd was thinking, if you're accepting ideas on this thread, I think Leagues could use bigger League halls, or different styled league halls, instead of the same layout. If you could customize your own hall, like the format and structure of it, as well as the placement of the Banks and stuff, that'd be really cool. Just an idea, though.

Oh, and before I forget, League Symbols/Emblems would be amazing as well, and seeing Superhero NPCs flying around would be cool. Could you imagine you and your league just chilling, and then BAM, you just see Superman fly by as if nothing? I know my league, at least, likes these ideas.

Disappointing announcement not just from a player perspective, but from a business perspective as well. I'm not convinced DCU will survive a 5 month hiatus. It's so much cheaper to keep customers than to find new ones. With nothing to do for several months, players will certainly leave at an accelerated pace compared to the status quo. Fewer players = less value for other players in an MMO... see "network effect" in any introduction to economics text.

That doesnt answer the question

I have 250 sp on my troller and it's the only role I like to play so I have zero interest in making new characters especially now that unlocking styles has been pushed off till next year.

Hi Mepps,
Please don't forget about fixing things that are broken-- perhaps this revamp is an opportunity to make commitments to doing so--
R&D archive
Exceptional recovery kit drops
Link Dead
etc.

TL : DR @ whole tread

Hi

VERY happy to hear this news!! thanks guys!

PUH-lease please please please, can we fix the plinths.. I currently CANNOT get up on the senior staff plinth in my OWN LEAGUE its embarrassing!!! In 'none' I need to be able to choose the members. When I kick a former member for bad behavior, it seems to just replace them with whoever was the newest member.. in honesty idk how it works.. but I don't like it. I need to be able to choose the staff for plinths so they feel pride when helping members do.. LH content, like fighting mantis etc. coz we have guests in our league hall (called 'Temple') we have guests in Temple.. and the duo/alert/raid shows them who is the staff.

A Teleport to base/lair would be nice, a teleport using your own mods would be even better!

OH! this is fantastic news.. no more will I feel like I'm abusing my league staff asking them to help me level an alt!
And new PVP maps and gear also fantastic!


hopefully well priced @ 500/450 SC.

Totally agree. So happy ,this might bring back many old league mates now that thing are going back to the old system and stats will matter more. Many of us vets have been waiting for this news , and while the wait may suck , it is a worthwhile sacrifice for the change. Looking forward to the future

I thought PvP was worthless anymore? It never got attention like PvE did. To expect players run PvP for 4 months with ONE new map? you have got to be kidding!

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/dcuo/index.php?threads/pvp-and-why-it-keeps-failing.276430/

PvP is not fixed or balanced or equal. You may or may not know Clutch, but he loves pvp...a lot. It's still heavily flawed and to think players would be happy about this being the only new/current grind progression you have another thing coming.

One thing I think needs to be addressed is how the game play limits powers. We have 15 precious power points to spend on powers we don't use in the current AM or with any support role. If we are allowed to choose whichever power we want for a given powerset or make the PIs viable again would be welcomed.

Tell me something this goes for everyone once that time frame has gone by the new content is out, then what you will come back and be ready for the new stuff.

If you feel that is a break then take one it's already been announce, what's going to happen there is no changing it, players that want to stay around play new alts get them up do it, the decision is up to you.

Don't look at this as a downfall but a step back just for a little while, then once it's done everything else should be around the corner, by the time it's done mid_range should be done, Stats matter will be out, and we will be ready for Amazon fury part 3, and water powers, and everything else, including a whole year of pvp fixes should be done, so expect that and new map and new Gear.

Or for players who want to get up alts/Sp take advantage of this time, while the monthly is gone get up what you want to, because now there is nothing stopping you except you, there are league's out there you can find one or use lfg to make the group or ask around, never hurts to ask.

The Devs have promise a lot and so far we have got a lot Crossplay Xbox Mid_range almost complete that right their by itself is a lot.

You may dislike the past problems but that's in the past it's time we left it there, 2016 the Devs to me have step up their game, i feel that they will be able to do this as they have been able to do everything else, so instead of complaining look forward to it, 2017.

this is just the beginning.

Love the game, been Legendary since day 1 ... but - I really wouldn't mind seeing an end for DCUO mapped out and - see the team take everything they've learned and prepare for DCUO II where they could implement all the things they can't do now due to the original infrastructure.

So what exactly do ours subs mean? I get the long down time transitioning away from monthly content but to give non paying players access to the content subscribers pay for on top of the lengthy gap is crap. You just spit on the people that help pay the bills.