Updates from the News Frontier - January 23rd 2020

[Ceeg_LOTB]

Hello Troopers and welcome to the weekly update.

We have a lot going on later today and tomorrow (keep an eye out on the Social pages and the Forum on Friday), so I will be keeping this short!

Clan Boss

The Art team has sent over some stuff for the Clan Boss who we will be seeing in a not-too-distant future. These are mock-ups, not screenshots from the game!

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This is set to be the Clan Boss dungeon, where you and your Clan will work together to take down the boss for rewards.

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There will be multiple levels of the Dungeon with varying rewards through each of them.

That’s all we have to share for now on Clans! But do not worry, there is more to come.

Caria, Women in Uniform

We have seen lots of discussion about the origins of our naming conventions for characters like Caria, which is awesome to see! We would love to talk about it.

Caria specifically is named after Artemisia I of Caria, an ancient Greek warrior Queen. You can look up more about her here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_I_of_Caria

Just like all the great Operators, 007 and Maverick for example, military Callsigns and Codenames make things way cooler. Caria and her upcoming Women In Uniform (hint), all get Codenames to make them sound way more badass.


Our Survey Says!

We have had an overwhelmingly good response to our Survey posted during the week and would like to thank all of you who added to that. If you haven’t already, you can still submit to the survey at the link here - https://forms.gle/Lqd9Fq1rbbbFGsUS7 (https://forms.gle/Lqd9Fq1rbbbFGsUS7)

That’s all from us this week,

Signing off.

[scott-5496]

Looks like the old dude out of How to Train Your Dragon!

[Ydex]

How will our clan "work together to take down the boss" ??

[Beddie]

The Caria Wikipedia link is broken

[hugoW]

Soo... another type resource of sands for us to purchase in order to be able to farm in the clans

[Metallicamilo]

How will our clan "work together to take down the boss" ??
Maybe the leader can choose 3 teammates to go to the dungeon. They may weaken the boss but then another team continues the battle.

[RobG-9641]

The Caria naming info was interesting and very cool. I like the “code name” angle. Credit to the developers for thinking that through and giving it purpose. Honestly thought it was going to be some lame reason like a designer named her after his girlfriend or something. Looking forward to the future members of her team. Good work!

[RobG-9641]

How will our clan "work together to take down the boss" ??

Maybe a points system? Each member who beats it gets points. The points cumulate times number of clan members. After certain number of points, boss is beat?

[Yup]

Note yet another currency... sands of clan?? Not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Hopefully the "10" on the right isn't an indicator that they will be a horrible to come by as SOW are if they didn't drop for grinding.

[Ceeg_LOTB]

The Caria Wikipedia link is broken

Fixed, thanks!

[Ceeg_LOTB]

How will our clan "work together to take down the boss" ??

That's not something we are discussing just yet!

[Ydex]

That's not something we are discussing just yet!

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[Azagthor]

How will our clan "work together to take down the boss" ??

My guess, strengthened by the second concept artwork showing a health bar, is the raid boss has a high communal HP, and each clan member contributes damage towards that total. As long as we get participation rewards, in addition to a jackpot if the clan manages to defeat the boss each week/time-period, it should be simple enough. Could be an interesting challenge to design teams focused on dealing damage, instead of aiming for quick clears. Looking forward to it!

[druid138]

My guess, strengthened by the second concept artwork showing a health bar, is the raid boss has a high communal HP, and each clan member contributes damage towards that total.

That makes sense. I believe that is similar to how Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes works.

[MuzakMaker]

That's not something we are discussing just yet!

Yep, it would be completely out of character to provide any help or insight.

[Saints_sin]

this new energy better be easy to get or boss fights will fail hard

[dragonmat89]

That's not something we are discussing just yet!

As long as it doesn't depend on actually being online at the same time as other people in your clan - I guess that would limit us slightly to clan with people in the same time zone or people with a similar work/life balance.

[Natasmai]

As long as it doesn't depend on actually being online at the same time as other people in your clan - I guess that would limit us slightly to clan with people in the same time zone or people with a similar work/life balance.

THIS!!!! This is my biggest concern with the whole Clan concept. We NEED to be able to each individually contribute to the end goal on our own time schedule. This ABSOLUTELY must be at the core of the concept of clan competition. If you expect to get 30, or even 10 people from the same clan online at the same time with the capabilities to work together toward a goal for a set amount of time.... you might as well scrap the entire clan concept right now and save everyone the time and aggravation.

[dragonmat89]

THIS!!!! This is my biggest concern with the whole Clan concept. We NEED to be able to each individually contribute to the end goal on our own time schedule. This ABSOLUTELY must be at the core of the concept of clan competition. If you expect to get 30, or even 10 people from the same clan online at the same time with the capabilities to work together toward a goal for a set amount of time.... you might as well scrap the entire clan concept right now and save everyone the time and aggravation.

Also, getting x number of people online at the same time who don't then experience server connection issues might be an additional logistical challenge...

[Maiden]

I played a lot, A LOT Lineage II.. no pls no more raid bosses where everybody has to be online at the same time xD