Hey there,
Straight to the point: I'm organizing a test run for the newest dev app changes.
The test will take place on next Sunday, June 22nd, at 5 PM EST / 9 PM UTC. For reference, the Sunday community skirmish starts at 3 PM EST / 7 PM UTC on this Sunday (June 15th). You will be able to attend both the testing session and the Sunday community skirmish, as the testing event has no time constraints - you are free to join and leave as you please.
It would be excellent if we could get at least 8-16 players in total to test things for roughly 2 hours, give or take. If we can get more people, we can make it a 3v3, but for now I'm planning a 2v2.
We will meet in the dev app around 5 PM EST / 9 PM UTC. I’ll create a match and everyone will be free to join. If there are people who can't make it at the start but could join later, no problem - everyone is free to join the match via match list later on.
During this session – which will consist of regular matches in a scrambled lobby - it is very much encouraged to use the new and changed ammunition and openly talk about game balance via in-game text chat. Whenever you have time; during deaths, out of combat time, lobby phase, etc. This is the most important thing; unique, individual and also group feedback about the changes. I will be recording the chat and will forward your opinions so you don't have to go beyond discussing them in-game if you don’t want to.
You are of course also free to use voice chat, but be aware that it won’t be recorded and as such will not be as useful as text-based feedback, especially if I’m not on the same ship.Of course, in addition to this, everyone is more than welcome to join the discussion here at the dev app forums. The reason I mention the forums as a second alternative in this case is that I feel that there are a lot of people who do not frequent the forums but would still have a lot of very useful feedback about the balance changes. By organizing a testing session where in-game feedback is also recorded and forwarded, it is not necessary to log in on the forums to give your input.
As we are all in the dev app forums right now, feel free to relay this message to your friends who haven’t used the dev app or the dev app forums before. Contact me or Keyvias for dev app keys, and contact Keyvias for dev app forum access. We’re always more than happy to get more people testing.
The biggest changes on the dev app currently relate to different kinds of ammunition. One of the main goals of the next live patch is to make the gunner class more viable compared to the gunning buff engineer, and a number of steps have been taken to accomplish this. The dev app will regularly get updates, and it is possible that there will be another update before the test day.
Feel free to invite your clan members and other friends to this testing session. The more the merrier. Let’s get this ball rolling.
Regards,
Vesa „Schwerbelastung“ Vahermaa
p.s More info about the gunner improvements / ammo testing in the following thread:
https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,4115.0.htmlp.p.s Here is the link to the Community Events forum. A thread about Sunday community skirmish #7 is not up at this time, but it should be visible on the front page once it pops up.
https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html
