Discussion: A Balancing Act

[Auligeur]

I think for answer to you, I will quote myself. I love so much the story content and I would like to see the next zone coming in next months but…
I love play end-game content during the wait of the new zone’s release but if this content have a problem and that each time between each zone you have never fixe this things, it does not go well. I thing about the relaunch that the game, is release with many defauts in some part and remember that the relaunch was first : save the Durham studio of Funcom (remember that there is two office : Oslo and Durham) and second : give a second chance at the TSW IP. This have work well but the game was maybe “release quickly” about that to make F2P and more accessible. When Nirvelle replaced Tiltly, he wished developped and released a tech for have a more scalable and logic content with the new SWL gameplay and finally…the weapon problem that eveyone know have finally revealed more important (Nirvelle have said in his interview that the tank was reworked at 100% and 25% for healers).
All this optimizations it’s not for end-game content only but for players which play the story of course. And if you have just a part of end-game content which use the new scaling tech, the logic it’s to port everything with that so it’s a just a logic and a wait for everyone which want to see this awesome story.

@Auligeur

Currently I think that the game is ported with the scaling tech. If we see with the relaunch, the current tech don’t support difficulty proportional to the Items Power (IP) level beyond to E10. The weapons balance and the rebalance of the loot table with new distiliates and catalysts allow to optimise the gear’s building progression, which was very necessary for players wich build mythic & legendary gears.

The weapons balanced come because the current weapons, don’t work well with E11-17 end-game group content (but everyone known their was a problem about that with the current content), during the migration from the old to the new scaling tech. That allow in the same time to fixed many issues that the game has with the relaunch.

The next big step after that is for me, maybe, scaling zones with scaling lairs. That’s will be the finale step about the port of scaling tech everywhere in the game and all the cards will be in the hand to the team for release new contents.

It’s a wait, everyone know but if new zone will be, it’s maybe preferable to fixed the game, homogenize everything before AND release new content with maybe a better advertisement with the help of Tencent to attract new players with a game “well build” and a new story content. It’s not a new relaunch but it’s a task close of that since the team have decreased in term of number of dev which work on the game.

If the game would be dead, I think they wouldn’t take the time to do that. Each time I say, it’s the lack of communication which make everything confused but they prepare “the tools” to build the game.

1. scaling tech : allow to facilitate to the team to build new contents (a little particular for group content because scaling tech need to be “personnalized” to the content).
2. weapons balance : very great when we play, that’s allowed to the team to build content with the logic of each weapon and build a strategy for boss or maybe create new ennemies like in a zone.

Even if they had more money, the number of people in the team wouldn’t allowed to develop quickly “big content”. Currently they fixe, optimize the game for us and them so wait & see and I’m sure, we will have a reward