Dev Blog: Into the Maelstrom

[Ralendil]

@zaygr

You also have the same chance to get a T2 blessing.

With a 375+, you have chances to get a T3, good chances to get a T4 and a marginal chance to get a T2 (never seen such situation).
In fact the quality has a big impact on what you can obtain as blessing or even perks. This is clearly established by the tests I made.
Let’s say it, I don’t keep anything below 370 to craft it.

@Flawless

Now that you almost have all of your favorite blessings for your few favorite weapons, feel free to let us know how many hours of playtime you have by now.

1300 hours.
That’s why I say that the main problem is the time you need to get what you want.
But, you did not point what you think is the main problem…

@Flawless

You keep saying that there is no solution.
I keep saying that there is a solution.

Ok… please read…

@Ralendil

Tbh, I don’t think that the new system will really change anything for weapons. But for curios, the change is really welcome.
As I said, we can get what we want… by spending lot of time in the game.

I fear that these changes miss the most important problems:

• time needed to craft something (this is something that impact any normal player or casual)
• the possibility to get a 370+ weapon

I proposed a long time ago that, about this, this could be corrected like that:

• about weapons in shops
  • a minimum for weapons global modifiers of 340 for all shops when you’re level 30 (normal shop, Brunt’s armoury, Melk’ shop)
  • there should have a system that grant you a 360+ weapon after 5 purchases and a 370+ guaranteed after 10
• about the resources, the possibility to:
  • buy and sell plasteel diamantine with ordos
  • exchange plasteel and diamantine
  • dismantle weapons to get plasteel diamantine
  • upgrade a locked blessing (but not changing it)

I really don’t care of the method applied (= there are surely other ways to fix the problems I mentioned above)… but FS, fix this damned problem in your game. You have lost lot of customers, at least correct this to allow the player base to increase again.

I proposed several solutions, one that needs to redo entirely the system, and the other one that is just a tweak of the current system (what I quoted). I perfectly know that the system I would love has no chance to be implemented… that’s why I push for the little changes. Cause it is obvious they don’t want to remove the locks, and I think that there is good reasons for this (that I already pointed)

@Flawless

Despite that, i have made multiple threads with comprehensive explanations of 100% complete systems that would solve all crafting problems. So i actually did try to do their job for them.
It would just not be very reasonable to post that complete system every time someone claims that locks must stay.

You made threads about changing entirely the system… something they won’t do. On the same topic, I guess that they won’t redo entirely the system… also, I guess that they want a sort of weapon progression, in other words, a system where you could always ameliorate your weapon. So, the system is, on purpose, not done to get the perfect weapon.

@fbolduc

There is ample evidence that players hate locks since their introduction. Yet the game designers refused to remove them. Players can’t do anything about it. Only game designers can; but they won’t. And now they just doubled-down on them with this announcement.

There’s a big confusion between the problem and a solution.
Lot of “players” point a solution (remove locks) as if it was the problem (the “locks” themselves).
Once you point the real problem, you can propose solutions… here I can only see people begging for one solution without even defining what is their problem.
As I said, there’s two problems in my opinions, and plenty of solutions…