Crew and Faction
Issues
We’re still getting intermittent reports of players having
problems with their crews or factions not loading correctly. If you’re experiencing
this problem, please make sure to send the issue in via /ccr and provide us
with as much information as possible. We’re continuing to investigate the
issue and every bit of information we get helps.
Q-Gun Exploit
The statement that the problem with the Q-gun was fixed in
Update 44 turns out to be partially true. Some versions of the Q-gun did have
their DOTs fixed. However, some did not, which is what some folks have been
reporting.
We’ll have a fix for this issue as soon as we can. Until
that time, please refrain from using any
version of the Q-gun in game. We appreciate your patience as we resolve
the problem.
Where’s the
Synthesized Protein Fortified with Vitamins and Amino Acids?
Now that I’ve covered a couple of the hot topics, let’s
move on to the main course. From the responses I saw about last week’s
article, what you want to hear about most is upcoming developments for the
game.
At the top of the list is fixing some nagging bugs and
other issues. Some of our development time will always be focused on this, especially when there are issues that
reduce the enjoyment of the game. For example, the “Target Not In Range” spam
due to weapons not auto-equipping. It’s a small issue that causes a lot of
annoyance. Those are things we’re hot to fix.
And, of course, there’s the episodic content (i.e.,
critical missions). This also will always be part of our dev cycle. Fifteen new missions every six weeks may not seem
like much, but it does eat up a good chunk of time. One of the reasons we
work on a six-week schedule now is to allow extra time for our designers to
work on things other than missions.
What are those things? Glad you asked.
Archival Missions
Our current top priority is the introduction of Archival
Missions. In short: All players will be able to play through the critical
missions from past chapters for all three Organizations. These missions won’t
affect your reputation with your current Organization.
Each
Organization’s Archivist Vendor will have special tickets for sale for these
missions. Players can purchase one and use it to launch the mission. When you
complete these missions, you’ll earn a token that can be turned in later with
other mission tokens for reward items.
The archival missions are now undergoing testing for
release in Update 45. Then even new players will get to experience the full
storyline of The Matrix Online.
White Hallways
No, not white rooms—white hallways. You know, the hallways that lead to backdoors in the
system. Yes, they exist in The Matrix
Online. And, after some time and testing, we plan on bringing them to
you.
The plan is to make white hallways accessible by taking
special missions. There will be three possible “backdoors”—one for each
Organization. These doors will lead to special Org-only areas where Crews and
Factions can meet in private.
The team’s been doing a lot of work on them over the past
few months and we’ll begin testing soon.
Organization
Abilities
We’ve been talking about Organization-specific Abilities for
a while now. If you’re just joining us, these are sets of Abilities that will
only be usable by members of each Organization. They’ll be earned through
each Organization’s graduation missions. We’ll be re-doing the missions, so
players who have already done the graduation missions will be able to retake
them to get the Abilities.
More details about the Organization Abilities will be in
an upcoming interview with the team. We haven’t set a release date for these,
either, as a lot of testing has to be done before they’re ready.
We haven’t set release dates for either the white hallways
or Organization Abilities quite yet. The hallways will likely come first, as
the Abilities will require both functional and balance testing before we
release them. We’ll have more news as progress continues.
That’s it for this week. I’ll catch you on the other side.
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