GU06 Info and Feature Preview

Looks solid, but 3.000 for capturing a continent seems very little. Make it 20.000 and you will have a massive battle on your hands.

As for the Ribbons... As long as they don't force specific playstyles upon players. I also hope they don't replace the existing medals, as reaching auraxium with a weapon is always a nice feat.

so... what happens when a subscribing member uses the three new slots... and then stops subscribing months later... do they keep the extra characters....?

This alerts thing sounds cool, I'd quite like to see it active even with high server populations, rather than switching off once it reaches a set threshold. Anything to promote more in-game objectives is a plus in my eyes, don't switch it off just when things are getting interesting!

It's April 1st, I can't trust this.

unscheduled t'll probably may, to get through this update, the new battle system, communications, class revamps. etc etc (its a huge list now O.O')

I actually use the MCG and, imo, it's not bad as it is.
Depending on the implementation and how it effects recoil, spool momentum could really upset the balance of the gun: if its COF resets whenever you stop firing, then you will be able to rinse through entire squads at range, if it doesn't, and you need to wait for the spinning to stop before COF resets, then it would really reduce its DPS at range.

I've never used the Jackhammer or Lasher, so no idea how they perform, definitely needs a buff tho. Maybe increase the projectile speed and direct hit damage of the Lasher, and increased range, ROF and clipsize for the Jackhammer.

dont underestimate the most mercenary of players.

Can't wait!

Are any exp gains going to be tuned down slightly to adjust for the increase? It seems that a lot of solutions to problems have been to introduce increased exp, without decreasing exp elsewhere or icing the amount of exp per cert. Don't want people finishing then quitting too fast.

3000 divided by 250 = 12 cert points , now include bonus boost and double xp weekends..... well then.

Sounds like it'll be fun, but they should do the alerts at peek hours too on say Amerish where no one really plays that way everyone would get there and it'll be a blast

that list will choke this post probably.

It is not. The mission system is still its own thing.

Awesome to hear, keep up the good work.

i want to know this also

more character slots is awesome - its one of the things i have wanted for a while now
i just hope i can keep them when my membership runs out

Derp, that's my bad. I removed the confusing bit since it was old news at this point anyway. Sorry for setting you up the bomb.

I have been playing Online Games now since 2001. The biggest mistake that I have seen gaming companies make over and over again is introducing new content without making sure that at least the majority of the old content works first. I really wish that SOE would learn from the past and not let money be the only driving force here... at least from the players' perspective. So can we please just make this damn game work rather than constantly introducing new stuff that continually breaks more stuff?... please? At this rate, I have no idea where this game will end up, and thus have trouble supporting PS2 until most stuff is right and a clear direction is visible. Right now all I see is new stuff just rolling out and the old stuff still broke. This type of action by a gaming company brings back way too many bad memories.

Assuming this news item is valid...

What about those of us subscribers that have gone around the three slot limit by running multiple accounts? I worked hard for all my BRs and I don't want to start again.

Aside bugs in the UI itself (which can only be fixed, that's right by the GUI team themselves) i didn't get to see any notes on bug fixes on the list. Now there may be several bug fixes coming with the patch but when they don't mention anything at all well that has me worried.
As for learning game development i've worked with game development teams in the past so no need to go there.

APRIL FOOLS! We're actually shutting the servers down. See you in EQ NEXT!