Defiance: new blend of MMO

jigsawhc wrote:
HantaXP wrote:

So some pretty substantial bugs happened to me last night (360 version).

1) My main Assault riffle had an attached scope. Now, it will zoom in, but not display the crosshair rendering the gun pretty much useless.

2) I bought a tier 3 lockbox with resources. Resources were taken out, but I didn't receive the lockbox/ any goodies. Sad ...

Not sure about #2 - try opening a support ticket with Trion for it, but for #1 they release an update today that is suppose to fix that.

#2 will happen if your inventory is full and you buy a box. Recent patches have let added a flashing indicator to let you know when your inventory is full but it ownt stop you from buy a box that has 3-4 items and you only have 1 inventory spot free.

Just read the review on IGN and thought it was a little rough. I usually agree with them on game reviews but it seems like he may not have played as much as some of us that have been enjoying the game... Oh Well.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me the best way to raise ego? Seems like I get it at random times and not when doing missions.

DeThroned wrote:

Defiance - $33.60 at GreenManGaming using code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA

Same code gets you the season pass for $22.40.

It only took it down to $48.00 USD for me; are you somewhere other than USA?

Nekroman wrote:

I was wondering if anyone could tell me the best way to raise ego? Seems like I get it at random times and not when doing missions.

Completing missions does some but completing goals/pursuits boosts it quite a bit. Check the goals menu and see if there are any you are close to finishing. Wrapping those up should give a nice boost. I found I had some 3/4 of the way complete and just 1 time trial or rampage completed the whole set.

TigerBill wrote:
DeThroned wrote:

Defiance - $33.60 at GreenManGaming using code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA

Same code gets you the season pass for $22.40.

It only took it down to $48.00 USD for me; are you somewhere other than USA?

Crap, looks like the sale ended. It was $41.99 this morning, then the additional discount on top of that.

DeThroned wrote:
TigerBill wrote:
DeThroned wrote:

Defiance - $33.60 at GreenManGaming using code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA

Same code gets you the season pass for $22.40.

It only took it down to $48.00 USD for me; are you somewhere other than USA?

Crap, looks like the sale ended. It was $41.99 this morning, then the additional discount on top of that.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

TigerBill wrote:
DeThroned wrote:
TigerBill wrote:
DeThroned wrote:

Defiance - $33.60 at GreenManGaming using code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA

Same code gets you the season pass for $22.40.

It only took it down to $48.00 USD for me; are you somewhere other than USA?

Crap, looks like the sale ended. It was $41.99 this morning, then the additional discount on top of that.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Buy it anyways!

Nekroman wrote:
TigerBill wrote:
DeThroned wrote:
TigerBill wrote:
DeThroned wrote:

Defiance - $33.60 at GreenManGaming using code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA

Same code gets you the season pass for $22.40.

It only took it down to $48.00 USD for me; are you somewhere other than USA?

Crap, looks like the sale ended. It was $41.99 this morning, then the additional discount on top of that.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Buy it anyways!

You are not he boss of me; no one is I'm unemployed.

ranalin wrote:
jigsawhc wrote:
HantaXP wrote:

So some pretty substantial bugs happened to me last night (360 version).

1) My main Assault riffle had an attached scope. Now, it will zoom in, but not display the crosshair rendering the gun pretty much useless.

2) I bought a tier 3 lockbox with resources. Resources were taken out, but I didn't receive the lockbox/ any goodies. Sad ...

Not sure about #2 - try opening a support ticket with Trion for it, but for #1 they release an update today that is suppose to fix that.

#2 will happen if your inventory is full and you buy a box. Recent patches have let added a flashing indicator to let you know when your inventory is full but it ownt stop you from buy a box that has 3-4 items and you only have 1 inventory spot free.

I've had something similar happen to me. When you get items and you're inventory is full, check the store, there's a claim items tab. They are usually in there. On the PC it's at the bottom on the left side of the store page. That's also where you collect any bonus items from doing the web stuff or special editions.

OK i either got hacked or there's a bug with the new patch.

I have no scrip and all the gear in my inventory except what i had equipped is gone

ranalin wrote:

OK i either got hacked or there's a bug with the new patch.

I have no scrip and all the gear in my inventory except what i had equipped is gone

ranalin wrote:

OK i either got hacked or there's a bug with the new patch.

I have no scrip and all the gear in my inventory except what i had equipped is gone

I wouldn't freak out just yet. I was missing items and put in a support ticket and the GM's got my things straightened out.

Nekroman wrote:

I was wondering if anyone could tell me the best way to raise ego? Seems like I get it at random times and not when doing missions.

Pursuits are the fastest way to raise your EGO rating. The various "completion" pursuits for each area award a lot of EGO rating, it's well worth hunting down all those data recorders and doing the side missions. Other than that it's just a matter of filling your XP bar to earn 1 point at a time.

Keep in mind that you only get points to spend on perks by filling the XP bar, the EGO awarded from pursuits only inflates the number which is mostly meaningless once you hit 250 and unlock contracts.

Speaking of pursuits... when/where do you unlock the 3rd capture/hold pvp battleground? Trainyard i think it's called.

Also anyone else that does pvp have their waterfront stats working? i avg 8 kills a match and play it 4 or 5 times when i log in and im still stuck at 9/25 kills. That doesnt count all the times i played that map before starting to check on the stats.

Freight Yard is the map you're looking for and it hasn't gone live yet. Yes, it is stupid that the pursuit is live and the map required to complete it is not. It was in Alpha & Beta but I don't honestly know why it was pulled upon release because I spent zero time testing PvP.

Stat tracking in PvP is just as broken as the tracking everywhere else in the game. I usually break even on it because I'm terrible in PvP so the times I get credit for something I didn't do cancel out missing credit for what I did!

Man I need a new assault rifle stat! I bought a lvl 4 box (68 keys yo!) and it did not have one. I'm still using one I got early on (it does not have a number next to name, I have no idea what those numbers mean anyway), has been xp maxxed for awhile and all the ARs I've found stats don't come close to it.

Hmmm...now that I type that, is it because it is xp maxxed? I need more info on how weps work!

karmajay wrote:

Man I need a new assault rifle stat! I bought a lvl 4 box (68 keys yo!) and it did not have one. I'm still using one I got early on (it does not have a number next to name, I have no idea what those numbers mean anyway), has been xp maxxed for awhile and all the ARs I've found stats don't come close to it.

Hmmm...now that I type that, is it because it is xp maxxed? I need more info on how weps work!

quest rewards dont have numbers and just have '--' instead. The number next to the weapon indicate the weapons level.

If your weapon's xp is maxxed you wont be able to level up that weaopn type.

Here is a good catch all for info on the forums - http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...!

Just did the 2nd co-op map. Pretty fun w/ vehicles also!

Anyone know which missions are the ones for ep 2? I'd like to finish them before they go away.

EDIT: Also if you go to San Francisco can you go back to early spots to do side missions and stuff?

karmajay wrote:

Anyone know which missions are the ones for ep 2? I'd like to finish them before they go away.

EDIT: Also if you go to San Francisco can you go back to early spots to do side missions and stuff?

There are no side-missions for it yet. Just pursuits to complete.

Yes, you can go back and forth between the areas. At least I have been.

jigsawhc wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Anyone know which missions are the ones for ep 2? I'd like to finish them before they go away.

EDIT: Also if you go to San Francisco can you go back to early spots to do side missions and stuff?

There are no side-missions for it yet. Just pursuits to complete.

Yes, you can go back and forth between the areas. At least I have been.

What are those pursuits listed under?

karmajay wrote:
jigsawhc wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Anyone know which missions are the ones for ep 2? I'd like to finish them before they go away.

EDIT: Also if you go to San Francisco can you go back to early spots to do side missions and stuff?

There are no side-missions for it yet. Just pursuits to complete.

Yes, you can go back and forth between the areas. At least I have been.

What are those pursuits listed under?

Under the Episode section (Under the Goals menu)

Looks like the servers crashed at 1030

They said on twitter they are doing rolling restarts on the servers.

Anyone want a friend in Defiance (PC)? I'm enjoying the game but the repetition gets a little old without other players around and I only have one friend currently playing the PC version.

The social search only works if the player you're searching for is logged in, but my character name is Murandina. I'm still in the first "zone".

Ran into my first real bug yesterday. I've finished all of the zone goals for unlocking all of the outfits but it decided to completely reset the accomplishments for 2 of the zones so it took the outfits away and showed that I still had to find all of the recordings and do all of the side missions, races and hotspots for those 2 zones even though the side missions are no longer showing on my map. I also lost at least 1 ego skill point that I noticed. I submitted a ticket so I guess we'll see how it goes.

I'm now starting to work on co-op maps and levelling up weapons though I had no idea I no longer gained weapon class experience if the particular weapon I was using was maxed in xp. Guess that explains why my sniper rifle skills seem to have gotten stuck at level 5.

Kehama wrote:

Ran into my first real bug yesterday. I've finished all of the zone goals for unlocking all of the outfits but it decided to completely reset the accomplishments for 2 of the zones so it took the outfits away and showed that I still had to find all of the recordings and do all of the side missions, races and hotspots for those 2 zones even though the side missions are no longer showing on my map. I also lost at least 1 ego skill point that I noticed. I submitted a ticket so I guess we'll see how it goes.

I'm now starting to work on co-op maps and levelling up weapons though I had no idea I no longer gained weapon class experience if the particular weapon I was using was maxed in xp. Guess that explains why my sniper rifle skills seem to have gotten stuck at level 5.

I want to finish the episode 2 stuff but finding shadow wars running is tricky. Then winning one. I have onle managed to participate in 1 and that was a loss (if only barely)

Do you feel like the episode effecting stuff is working?
I watched the show and didn't feel like there was any room for game influencing stuff. Maybe the Vulj forces were thinner because players took some out?

so far the best was the prologue because it was the only one that mattered. In it you help Nolan and Irisa find that glowy stick thing that they use at the beginning of the pilot. The Ep1 and Ep 2 stuff is almost completely removed from the show. Episode 2 stuff is even things like "win 1 multiplayer match"

Its not great. I hope it gets better.

It also makes you wonder if there is the possibility of infighting between the show writers and the game writers.

I.E. game players are adept at exploits and barreling through content quicker than expected. I would not be surprised to see someone pull a killing of Lord British in UO and kill one of the major characters that was supposed to be invulnerable.