Community Day Dev Roundtable Discussion - 26 January

ok heres something strange yet interesting. There was a recent update as we all know that was added at the same time they decorated shing jea, lions arch and kamadan. this update included letting your mini pets go in towns and things like that. well another thing in this update changed alot of peoples protecter titles so they said "you will recieve the title guardian of [contenent] when you have completed all [X] missions in hard mode" or something along those lines. i was very excited and started asking around about this hard mode but eventually i found out that it had not been added yet and that it was coming soon in a later update. i even came accross gaile gray in kamadan who said "this hard mode feature will be added in the next few months" so the only thing i could do was wait for this update. i pressed H to have another look at this hard mode thing and realized something very odd! lol it said on elona and cantha complete all 20 and 13 missions in hard mode to receive this title. which of course is normal but then i looked at tyria and for some odd reason it said to complete all 50 in hard mode to get guardian title. and as we all know theres only 25 missions in tyria! so when i was reading your article billiard i came across the part that said:

Updates to Older Chapters

Someone also asked about possible updates to older chapters, perhaps ones that were paid for. From the responses, it sounded to me as though updates were something that were actively being considered if not actually worked on, but the idea of charging for them was not something they were really thinking about.

could this mean a free update to proophacies is coming? maybe it means there going to add more missions as a free update. i really dont know myself but just thought it was really interesting.

I hadn't paid that close attention to the new titles, but here's my opinion on the "50 Tyrian" missions.

The 50 is reference to the missions and bonuses being separate factors (25 missions, 25 bonuses). The way the missions were structured in the next two chapters was a bit different. Tyria was simple - either the bonus was completed or it wasn't. In Cantha and Elona, you could do the mission (Standard reward), the mission and part of the bonus (Expert reward), or the mission and the complete bonus (Masters reward).

Probably not the best explanation, but that's the way I see it. I bet they change the wording to 25/25 though (for the Tyrian missions). I really don't see them adding another 25 missions to Tyria though.

Mack

I think any additions to the older chapters will be more along the lines of Sorrows Furnace rather than a whole slew of new missions.

yeah although 50 missions did kind of get me thinking it would mean that players would be able to go on more land and that would mean that the explorer title could go up to something like 150% which definatly isnt gonna happen lol

Speaking of PvP term, I just suggesting this, wouldn't it be more fun if they increase the number of players on it instead of holding it down to 6 vs 6? I mean look at other titles where you get massive group of peoples fighting each others. Taking a page out of FPS term, lets look at Resistance: FoM. I know it's a different genre (FPS not similar to MMORPG) but doesn't size matter? It has 40 person death match online, not to mention ton of weapons to choose from. Adding more players into pvp (imagine a 10 vs 10 in the future) would mean that team needs to improvise new tactics and skills to counter them. I know that this means more retooling and changing some of the skills to keep things from getting out of hands. But with more players, wouldn't that increase the fun factor and satisfaction of winning in PvP.

Billiard, nice job on the report.