The Sanctum 28: Escalation - Gamebreaker.tv

they should make a new Wf map instead of this, but oh well, sigh. at least i can dream

I understand it can be frustrating, but if you are above level 48 or so, it really take no time to get rep with the Dragonslayer Covenant… a few quests in shimmersand or 2 or 3 runs in charmers caldera and if you raid, I dont see how you didnt already have it

Whitefall Steppes – As pretty much everyone in the show said the Escalation version is so much better than normal. To bring the point home, my roomie was watching me play a normal WS from the beginning of the match. And the first question he asked was, “Why is the other team is running down one side of the map, and you guys are running down the other side? Everyone is ignoring each other. That’s stupid.” I really can’t put it better.

Escalation drives the level of strategy and tactics in the match to a much higher point with stealing shards, distraction tactics to pull key fighters from mid, controlling mid, etc… While their original design was for this to be a rotational weekend only deal, I hope the community is vocal enough that Trion will consider letting this replace WS normal. As Lore said, WS Escalation is when WF becomes fun.

About 20.35 min in – Lore’s face at Jasmine with the upwards right look to where she’d be on the screen = priceless, lol.

Soul Quests – new players didn’t have an organic way to understand how to do them and what to do. More often than not they’d have to ask for help just to get a clue as to what was going on. Also existing players rerolling alts complained that it felt like a tedious grind getting their Souls.

Most likely Trion saw the quests as a needless mechanic that caused more problems than good. Facing the choice of spending development time in making these “dynamic” quests (or at the very least “immersive”) and easier to understand or moving on to other projects that would appeal to the larger customer base, it’s pretty obvious where they decided to lay down their chips.

Bugs – I’ve spent some time listening to people from PC software engineering realm speak a few times, most recently the Keynote at Quake Con. Tangent: Which is a very good listen if you are into understanding the games industry from a Dev Team perspective. You just have to get past the techno babel which will go over your head. /endtangent Back to point, the bug process is very interconnected.

Most “software guys” have their own form of coding and workarounds to make stuff work. Which translates into a lot of inclusive coding that hangs of very specific criteria. Then when you see new patches release that expand that criteria, no one goes back to update the prior parameters for something “apparently unrelated”. But in actuality it is interconnected.

Long story short, most computer code guys in game software don’t do code “by the numbers”. They have their own style. In the long run this leads to a great deal of patch errors down the road because you have to constantly go back and readdress old software that wasn’t coded to keep new content/code in mind. They don’t write their software to be truly modular like they should from the start.

Enjoyed the show guys.

Awesome show. Ed is awesome.

Guys, why not just make it optional to queue into a dungeon with people from YOUR server? Problem solved, no?

New guy Ed gives a great pvp view which the show is missing

I’m really glad everyone is liking Ed so much! I’m responding to this “Ed is awesome” comment out of all of them because your name is also Ed which makes it kind of funny. xD

But I agree – Ed is badass.

I definitely get the tie in to the story but I’m still kind of disappointed that there’s this step in the quest chain that may or may not be a lot of work depending on what you’ve already done. I feel like there could have been a new faction, or a sub faction, to grind out so *everyone* would have the same quest chain to do instead of some people getting to essentially skip one part entirely depending on how much faction they already have. (Technically they already *did* this section but you get what I mean. xD)

Reiterating what Jasmine said because some people may not have gotten this perspective from what she was saying.

If you are going to release brand new content, such as a massive quest chain with awesome cool new stuff, then it should come out putting everyone who will attempt it on even footing. The issue isn’t that it requires faction grinding, or that you could have done it before or after. It’s that it “feels wrong” letting some people blast through it because of previous work they did before the content was even released while others can’t.

At the end of the day it’s fair the way they did it because you could have done the work at any time. It just gives players a crappy feeling when they see other people finishing it already and they can’t, because they never chose to rep grind that particular faction. Especially when you didn’t give the players even a heads up they may want to start that rep grind early.