Not to get your hopes up, but...
Dec 17, 2019 18:17:35 GMT -5
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Post by someoldman on Dec 17, 2019 18:17:35 GMT -5
Not to get your hopes up, but...
I do feel it incumbent upon me to mention this. BoT (Battle of Titans) received a much needed adrenaline injection.
The following is from https://www.reddit.com/r/battletitans/comments/e4pz6m/game_status_update_dec_2019_from_lead_developer/
Game Status Update (Dec. 2019) From Lead Developer.
u/myfaultagain15d
STATUS REPORT.
• What is going on? I am working on the update.
• When? It was scheduled in November ... now it is already evident in December. First there will be a Polygon.
• Why deadlines are broken, why so long? Different reasons. Basically, of course, not planned features, such as a new UI or internal refactoring. Which required an appropriate technological base, refinement of the engine, shaders, creation of a tools set, etc. The concept from initial to final has changed dramatically, as the development of technical capabilities and the emergence of tools set. This is of course more investment in the future than the result necessary for this update. If I had a boss, I certainly would never be allowed to do that. In addition, work with outsourced artists, tech. control, as well as acquaintance and selection of artists (in the near future, the game will require a lot of content) sometimes simply took away all the time. Well, summer with the family at sea, where the family simply did not allow me to hard work on the game for 20 hours a day. One way or another, many processes are now established, I think the balance between the desire to give you cool game mechanics, physics, destructibility, atmospheric terrestrial and unearthly locations, unique military equipment and so that the realization of these desires does not ruin the community and the game is found, and I hope more will go more vigorously.
Why do we need a new UI? Old is a temporary placeholder, and does not look very good. And to continue to make new features on it (and there are a lot of UI features on the short list, the same leaderboards, custom games, chat, daily tasks for players, clans in the end) it will be a double job with transfer to a regular UI.
• What is so grandiose in the update? The list is something like this: - New UI - Leaderboards - Skin MAO - Engineering premium now gives -50% discount for the upgrading to the new tier. - The range of missiles will not depend on the trajectory - Balance changes and innovations designed to solve actual problems - Fixes and improvements to the camera and control, solving issues on which numerous complaints were received - Bugs fixes
The list does not look like a grandiose, given the time spent. Nevertheless, the pendulum swung and flew back. After this update, I plan to “return” to a more business-oriented approach and regular updates. The two-week update cycle, until the team grows, will not be easy to withstand, especially considering that the game is in active development and there are really big tasks. But “this time” I will try to cope, before heavy updates two light updates (1 week, 1 week, 4 weeks) release evenly with 2 weeks interval. The internal plan of tasks and the roadmap have already been adjusted and prepared, and will soon be published in the public roadmap.
• When will the team be finally recruited and RB will become an AAA studio? Financial planning was also carried out depending on the scenario (with successful partnerships and investments (which is most likely) or without them) in the 20th year a team would be formed with which it would be possible to successfully not only comply a road map, but also confidently implement those serious plans that exist and compete with serious studios like NetEase, TiMi Studios, etc., under the wing of serious publishers. And because of this “return” to a business-oriented approach, adhere to the update plan, improving and keep within the calculated range game metrics, such as Retention, DAU, ARPDAU, etc. to comply with the financial plan and strategy - this is an urgent and inevitable necessity.
• When will it be stable online? When will the advertisement be? In the next updates, with regular addition of content (new guns, titans, skins) priority is given to features that solve the tasks of retaining players (leaderboards, in-game events, daily / periodic tasks, social features, chat, clans and even the black market). Together with the next update, pages in the app/google stores will be tidied and optimized. In addition, it is obviously necessary to radically review the functioning of official resources and work with the community. That is, in the near future to tidy the official website, cross-references to all the game’s resources in social networks, discord, facebook, VK, etc., revitalize social pages, somehow regularly generate and publish news, content, discuss the lore and the universe of the game, etc. As for advertising and paid acquisition of new players, the timing and aggressiveness of marketing activities will largely depend on investments.
What about pressing balance issues? What about tormcorm? Due to the features of Cormorant, his intelligence and ranged capabilities are unprecedented. Is it worth it to limit flights to Cormorant? I think no. Flight is its nature of Cormorant, and reconnaissance capabilities are one of the key features - it is not planned to limit it. Another thing is that hovering in the sky Cormorant should be a much more convenient and easily detectable target, so in flight mode it will be more noticeable to enemy radars. The transition to flight mode at high altitude right during respawn should also be limited. I am also inclined to agree that the ability to effectively conduct continuous fire by tormentors from a greater distance and medium guns in the fall with subsequent climb is negatively affect the gameplay. A possible solution may be the assumption that in flight mode stabilization of weapons is more difficult, which negatively affects accuracy, thus the accuracy of tormentors in flight mode will be significantly lower (the dispersion will be increased), as well as the accuracy of medium guns during a fall. Plus, engine restart (cooldown before transforming to the flight mode) will be slightly increased (somewhere by a second) As for the Tormentors themselves, unfortunately they never found a worthy place and niche. There is an idea to transform them into a more sniper weapon, namely in the base of 3 rounds with a rate of fire say 1 shot in 1-3 seconds with a relatively long reload of the magazine. And of course, the damage will increase significantly and the damage curve will not fall so catastrophically with distance.
I do feel it incumbent upon me to mention this. BoT (Battle of Titans) received a much needed adrenaline injection.
The following is from https://www.reddit.com/r/battletitans/comments/e4pz6m/game_status_update_dec_2019_from_lead_developer/
Game Status Update (Dec. 2019) From Lead Developer.
u/myfaultagain15d
STATUS REPORT.
• What is going on? I am working on the update.
• When? It was scheduled in November ... now it is already evident in December. First there will be a Polygon.
• Why deadlines are broken, why so long? Different reasons. Basically, of course, not planned features, such as a new UI or internal refactoring. Which required an appropriate technological base, refinement of the engine, shaders, creation of a tools set, etc. The concept from initial to final has changed dramatically, as the development of technical capabilities and the emergence of tools set. This is of course more investment in the future than the result necessary for this update. If I had a boss, I certainly would never be allowed to do that. In addition, work with outsourced artists, tech. control, as well as acquaintance and selection of artists (in the near future, the game will require a lot of content) sometimes simply took away all the time. Well, summer with the family at sea, where the family simply did not allow me to hard work on the game for 20 hours a day. One way or another, many processes are now established, I think the balance between the desire to give you cool game mechanics, physics, destructibility, atmospheric terrestrial and unearthly locations, unique military equipment and so that the realization of these desires does not ruin the community and the game is found, and I hope more will go more vigorously.
Why do we need a new UI? Old is a temporary placeholder, and does not look very good. And to continue to make new features on it (and there are a lot of UI features on the short list, the same leaderboards, custom games, chat, daily tasks for players, clans in the end) it will be a double job with transfer to a regular UI.
• What is so grandiose in the update? The list is something like this: - New UI - Leaderboards - Skin MAO - Engineering premium now gives -50% discount for the upgrading to the new tier. - The range of missiles will not depend on the trajectory - Balance changes and innovations designed to solve actual problems - Fixes and improvements to the camera and control, solving issues on which numerous complaints were received - Bugs fixes
The list does not look like a grandiose, given the time spent. Nevertheless, the pendulum swung and flew back. After this update, I plan to “return” to a more business-oriented approach and regular updates. The two-week update cycle, until the team grows, will not be easy to withstand, especially considering that the game is in active development and there are really big tasks. But “this time” I will try to cope, before heavy updates two light updates (1 week, 1 week, 4 weeks) release evenly with 2 weeks interval. The internal plan of tasks and the roadmap have already been adjusted and prepared, and will soon be published in the public roadmap.
• When will the team be finally recruited and RB will become an AAA studio? Financial planning was also carried out depending on the scenario (with successful partnerships and investments (which is most likely) or without them) in the 20th year a team would be formed with which it would be possible to successfully not only comply a road map, but also confidently implement those serious plans that exist and compete with serious studios like NetEase, TiMi Studios, etc., under the wing of serious publishers. And because of this “return” to a business-oriented approach, adhere to the update plan, improving and keep within the calculated range game metrics, such as Retention, DAU, ARPDAU, etc. to comply with the financial plan and strategy - this is an urgent and inevitable necessity.
• When will it be stable online? When will the advertisement be? In the next updates, with regular addition of content (new guns, titans, skins) priority is given to features that solve the tasks of retaining players (leaderboards, in-game events, daily / periodic tasks, social features, chat, clans and even the black market). Together with the next update, pages in the app/google stores will be tidied and optimized. In addition, it is obviously necessary to radically review the functioning of official resources and work with the community. That is, in the near future to tidy the official website, cross-references to all the game’s resources in social networks, discord, facebook, VK, etc., revitalize social pages, somehow regularly generate and publish news, content, discuss the lore and the universe of the game, etc. As for advertising and paid acquisition of new players, the timing and aggressiveness of marketing activities will largely depend on investments.
What about pressing balance issues? What about tormcorm? Due to the features of Cormorant, his intelligence and ranged capabilities are unprecedented. Is it worth it to limit flights to Cormorant? I think no. Flight is its nature of Cormorant, and reconnaissance capabilities are one of the key features - it is not planned to limit it. Another thing is that hovering in the sky Cormorant should be a much more convenient and easily detectable target, so in flight mode it will be more noticeable to enemy radars. The transition to flight mode at high altitude right during respawn should also be limited. I am also inclined to agree that the ability to effectively conduct continuous fire by tormentors from a greater distance and medium guns in the fall with subsequent climb is negatively affect the gameplay. A possible solution may be the assumption that in flight mode stabilization of weapons is more difficult, which negatively affects accuracy, thus the accuracy of tormentors in flight mode will be significantly lower (the dispersion will be increased), as well as the accuracy of medium guns during a fall. Plus, engine restart (cooldown before transforming to the flight mode) will be slightly increased (somewhere by a second) As for the Tormentors themselves, unfortunately they never found a worthy place and niche. There is an idea to transform them into a more sniper weapon, namely in the base of 3 rounds with a rate of fire say 1 shot in 1-3 seconds with a relatively long reload of the magazine. And of course, the damage will increase significantly and the damage curve will not fall so catastrophically with distance.
