Open Beta: Vortex of Greed Event Feedback

Hello Space Pilots,

Please post your constructive feedback here for the Open Beta for the Vortex of Greed Event. Please be thoughtful in your comments here and feel free to create new posts in the appropriate areas for your questions or event discussions.

As usual, off topic posts will be removed from this thread.

Thank you,

 

When multiple people are shooting you with these new lasers, you will be like constantly slowed down. Currently, 5 vs 1 fights are difficult, with this it will be impossible to survive as you won't be able to escape at all. Something should be changed about that. What comes to my mind is that you can make the effect activate only if the target player is being shot by a single player. If the target is being shot by multiple players, the slowing effect never activates. This will give the advantage to the player who is alone and not like currently to give even more advantage to the group of players.

About the PvP dmg boost: it's not clear if the lasers give pvp dmg boost as a whole (including lasers on drones) or the bonus applies only to the LF5-AL lasers equipped on the ship. If it applies to everything, 25% dmg is A LOT, which will make odysseus lasers useless. If it applies to the new lasers only, it seems ok.

 

So others can take your box? So we will have bots and trains to bully other players out of the gate and not get any resources. You are actively encouraging bullying amongst players. This is truly pathetic, even coming from y'all, and we already expect the worst. Also, who in their right mind asked for such an event? nobody!!!!! Balance the game, make PvP fair, and then maybe introduce other stuff. The development team is so disconnected from the player base.

 

After some testing i have to say that is not extremely dificult to farm the coins for the event, if you are full lf4 and have x4 and seprom you can prob exit the gate with 300 coins each time you enter the gate, yes you might get killed a couple times but since it costs nothing to enter farming the coin cap is not unreasonable even for not ufe players, we'll have to see how full is the map once it releases, in the faq it says that there is a 20 player cap but i dont know if it was getting full or not in the test server, for the lasers i tested with the unupgraded lf4 and i was getting around 40-49k dmg, after turning them in lf5-AL i was doing 80-90k l didnt test the base lf5 but for pvp the lf5-al are definetly really good, one thing that worried me is that in the event shop exchange you could only get up to 5 cnc and you need 10 for crafting the lf5-AL, in the event faq it says that you can only get 5 per reset and it says that the coin cap is reset every monday, but in the shop it says it resets monthly, how many cnc are we going to be able to get? 5 per week? 5 per month? bc if its going to take 2 months to craft one f2p players are going to be stuck without them while p2p player will just buy the p2w upgrade and get 18 lf5-al the first week, i couldn't test the bounty target reward so idk if you'll get cnc there (i just read the faqs again and it says that you get cnc through the bounty rewards wich is good because it isnt limited but it might be quite contested so we will see i guess), my opinion overall: cool concept, might be good, we need more info and we need to see on the live servers

 

In addition to that, I don't like that the trend now is to introduce such items with random shots that are stronger and cannot be controlled by the player in any way. You just shoot and wait for your "lucky shot". In comparison, the overdrive shot of prometheus lasers is deterministic and this enables experienced players to have tactics - use RSB with when your overdrive shot is loaded or (on the receiving side) use insta shield when enemies overdrive shot is loaded. With odysseus and these new lasers, no such tactics can be used as the overdrive shots appear at random times! This lowers the advantage of experienced players compared to non-experienced ones, which is terrible and boring.

One more thing: please do not forget to include SAB-50 ammo in the special laser effects. Currently, for unknown reasons, overdrive shots of prometheus and odysseus lasers DO NOT WORK with SAB-50 (off-topic: I hope you fix that soon).