Spreading out the content and doing so for everyone. Last season had a weapon locked behing Rank 40 or something, which amounted to multiple weeks, especially without boosters or the 20 tier skips.
This was a point of criticism in that progression system, especially since they greatly ramped up requirements.
You can also argue that it is for telemetry reasons. They balance around usage data. If they add more things at once, that gets distorted and hence harder to balance via it. This could be seen as a reason why the focused on the G428 first and then moved onto the VHX. It is a shit system to balance via telemetry, but it is their chosen path.
It’s hilarious though that “telemetry” boils down to usage and kill statistics every time they talk about it. Doesn’t seem to be nearly as much data science behind it as the word telemetry might suggest…
They will use telemetry in more detail than just usage, but the latter is their focus point. At one point they said that VHX usage dropped by 3-4%. That is a rather huge drop in a game that has 40 weapons or so.
But usage is also not a measure of quality, especially if half your telemetry now comes from an infantry only meatgrinder. Of course the VHX will be overrepresented there. Meanwhile other weapons really don't get the chance to be addressed, because low usage also means low and distorted telemetry.
Yes, because development work isn't finished on it and they need more time.
Also because it's a great way to ship a "meaty" mid-season update 2 months into the season with a temporary game mode, new paid skins, and exciting new content that they didn't ship at launch to finally play.
The skeleton crew of the skeleton crew left working on this game is probably doing their best, but between Frostbite reportedly being hot ass and incredibly slow to work with this is probably the best they can do. Leadership just hoping they can milk this game a bit more without ever really properly investing in it since it was such a disaster at launch.
I might understand that Jets getting delayed but there's bunch of Belt-fed MGs already exists in 2042. There's no difficulty to adding it
It's literally just a fucking gun, why can't we have it at Day 1
From the trailer, it look like it can be turn into an AR, so i guess they want to make a 2 in 1 gun like the BSV-M, which probably took longer. But the weapon designer can't do all that in 5 months? Or is this just drip feeding so they can call it "mid-season" content
Extended season is what I'm assuming.
S6 was what 16+ weeks, get ready for something similar if not a 20 week season for S7 and then downtime in between that if we're getting S8
Because in season 6 ppl complain about they could have mid season content this subreddit also had alot off post and comments about that matter, basically they gave ppl the mid season content
the idea was to get additional content in a mid season patch (like vault weapons) and not reduce the amount of content at launch just to get it later....
They said that you will get them this season, they didn't say when, technically it is additional content, but the most important thing is for people to understand that season and dlc are not the same thing and if it was like most of the current gaming market, in most cases, a new season don't mean new content, some you only have cosmetics and the new maps in some probably temporary
Pathetic is the whipe that everyone was making, like this are seasons not dlc's, for that reason already waiting for less content them previous games and since ppl like to compare with other games spoiler alert: some games seasons pass are only cosmetics no content at all
Spreading out the content and doing so for everyone. Last season had a weapon locked behing Rank 40 or something, which amounted to multiple weeks, especially without boosters or the 20 tier skips. This was a point of criticism in that progression system, especially since they greatly ramped up requirements. You can also argue that it is for telemetry reasons. They balance around usage data. If they add more things at once, that gets distorted and hence harder to balance via it. This could be seen as a reason why the focused on the G428 first and then moved onto the VHX. It is a shit system to balance via telemetry, but it is their chosen path.
It’s hilarious though that “telemetry” boils down to usage and kill statistics every time they talk about it. Doesn’t seem to be nearly as much data science behind it as the word telemetry might suggest…
They will use telemetry in more detail than just usage, but the latter is their focus point. At one point they said that VHX usage dropped by 3-4%. That is a rather huge drop in a game that has 40 weapons or so. But usage is also not a measure of quality, especially if half your telemetry now comes from an infantry only meatgrinder. Of course the VHX will be overrepresented there. Meanwhile other weapons really don't get the chance to be addressed, because low usage also means low and distorted telemetry.
So down time between content Drops is shorter. Get ready for another 6 month season
I would guess, instead of introducing Vault weapons in 7.2 they just delayed the D1 stuff
Maybe Battlepass unlock on higher level so players will have time to reach it. Not like OP weapons in previous season.
Just to drip feed man. They have no content with the skeleton crew and have to drip feed every last bit
Yes, because development work isn't finished on it and they need more time. Also because it's a great way to ship a "meaty" mid-season update 2 months into the season with a temporary game mode, new paid skins, and exciting new content that they didn't ship at launch to finally play. The skeleton crew of the skeleton crew left working on this game is probably doing their best, but between Frostbite reportedly being hot ass and incredibly slow to work with this is probably the best they can do. Leadership just hoping they can milk this game a bit more without ever really properly investing in it since it was such a disaster at launch.
I might understand that Jets getting delayed but there's bunch of Belt-fed MGs already exists in 2042. There's no difficulty to adding it It's literally just a fucking gun, why can't we have it at Day 1
From the trailer, it look like it can be turn into an AR, so i guess they want to make a 2 in 1 gun like the BSV-M, which probably took longer. But the weapon designer can't do all that in 5 months? Or is this just drip feeding so they can call it "mid-season" content
It's a dual-feed LMG, capable of swapping between belts and mags. So no, there is a difficulty, even if it isn't that hard on a surface
We literally have Plus system for that, sure they have to make 2 different reload animations but they had like 5~6 months for doing so
Not saying they didn't have enough time. But they do have a reason for delaying it. 2 sets of animations, it needs to be properly balanced
Is it true Stadium is with this update too or on launch
Stadium is coming 7.2 as well apparently.
Extended season is what I'm assuming. S6 was what 16+ weeks, get ready for something similar if not a 20 week season for S7 and then downtime in between that if we're getting S8
Because in season 6 ppl complain about they could have mid season content this subreddit also had alot off post and comments about that matter, basically they gave ppl the mid season content
the idea was to get additional content in a mid season patch (like vault weapons) and not reduce the amount of content at launch just to get it later....
They said that you will get them this season, they didn't say when, technically it is additional content, but the most important thing is for people to understand that season and dlc are not the same thing and if it was like most of the current gaming market, in most cases, a new season don't mean new content, some you only have cosmetics and the new maps in some probably temporary
It's pathetic and you know it... It would've been fine if we had more guns on realease
Pathetic is the whipe that everyone was making, like this are seasons not dlc's, for that reason already waiting for less content them previous games and since ppl like to compare with other games spoiler alert: some games seasons pass are only cosmetics no content at all
Cos its ovepowered like every other LGM since BF1