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[Hrett]

Im starting to get "Calls to Arms" which are awesome. I saw the April Roadmap and saw some of the changes, but I will be damned if I can find the patch notes. Is there some place I am supposed to look?

[Totem1]

Patch is on 19th I believe so probably not up yet?

[Revis Volek]

Hrett, on 14 April 2016 - 12:56 PM, said:

Im starting to get "Calls to Arms" which are awesome. I saw the April Roadmap and saw some of the changes, but I will be damned if I can find the patch notes. Is there some place I am supposed to look?

Call to arms stuff has been around for a while, since Beta 1 i believe. Its not new, maybe they made it look better or something but its not a new mechanic for FW.


and like Totem stated, PGI has gone to ONE PATCH A MONTH from TWO or MORE and this months patch will be out next Tuesday. (19th)

[Hrett]

Thank you. I'm new (obviously). I think why I never got a call to arms was because one of the mechs in my dropdeck was invalid because I removed the engine. I fixed that today and have gotten quite a few now. I thought it was from the patch. Guess not.

Thanks for the responses!

[Not A Real RAbbi]

To answer the original question, though, NO. Patch notes aren't up yet. Anticipate that on Friday, 4.15.16. Give or take. It seems like they're getting into the habit of posting patch notes the end of the week before it goes live.

Further to that, Russ seems to have confirmed on Twitter that they're at "zero bugs" for the April patch. So unless something catastrophic pops up over the weekend, the 4.19.16 patch looks good to go.

TL;DR- expect patch notes Friday, patch next Tuesday.

[Rogue Jedi]

Hrett, on 14 April 2016 - 12:56 PM, said:

Im starting to get "Calls to Arms" which are awesome. I saw the April Roadmap and saw some of the changes, but I will be damned if I can find the patch notes. Is there some place I am supposed to look?

did you just recently take a contract?
that would explain why you recently started getting "call to arms", you only get the call if your faction needs defenders for one of their plannets so if you had no contract you would not get calls, I have recieved them with no dropdeck setup.

as for patch notes lately they are often posted a few days before the patch but until the last 6 months ago they were not usualy posted until the servers went down for the patch, if you want the notes check this evening or tommorow morning, failing that check back monday evening and again just before the patch on Tuesday.

Edited by Rogue Jedi, 15 April 2016 - 12:29 AM.

[Koniving]

As stated by Rogue and Revis:

The call to arms is not new.
It is also not regulated/toggled by the state of readiness in your dropdeck.
It appears only if there is a need for players in the offense or defense of a planet in which the opposing team's attackers have completed their team or in the case of attacking an attack has been declared but they need more attackers to launch it.

[Hrett]

I have had a contract for about a week and I didnt get any CTAs until the last 2 days. Huh...

Regardless, I am looking forward to Stage 3. I have only been able to play in one CW match so far. Wait times have been horrid, so I just play QP instead. It LOOKS like the patch is going to consolidate fronts every week so the whole universe will be fighting over a limited front. That sounds fantastic to me and will hopefully increase the fight frequency.

I played a lot of Eve FW. This game seems to have taken out all of the logistical stuff I hated about Eve (every time I quit Eve over the years its because my corp did a big move to some other part of the galaxy and that bored me to tears). Now it just needs to get the fighting part to happen a little more often.

Edited by Hrett, 15 April 2016 - 08:26 AM.

[Koniving]

Hrett, on 15 April 2016 - 08:22 AM, said:

I have had a contract for about a week and I didnt get any CTAs until the last 2 days. Huh...

.I have a fair idea as to why this may be. It has been weeks since I seen the map but last I looked the rassalhague teritory was either non-existent (annihilated to one planet left) or they rendered one of the clan factions to that point. Between this (no drive to and/or no one to fight) and the occasional bug that fails to create an attack avenue for a side... It's possible there just wasn't any attempts to fight while you were on at the very least.

There is also the cease fire timer which in my firm belief needs to be removed in favor of a victory counter, if attackers score x victories they get planet. No shows count as 1/10th to both keep from abuse either way.

Upcoming Phase 3 will have loyalist voting on planets which will eliminate the auto system and its bugs. With it will be fewer planets to attack at once increasing the rate of actual attacks that don't burn out before getting somewhere.

Most know the whole map is getting reset again either this month or next, and St the moment there is no real reason to attack or defend beyond loyalty bonuses which short of new players many of us have already got most of them for most factions. Hopefully they reset the rewards too (without taking what we got away) so we have a reason to do it again, as well as allow the planets to mean something. If that's not in phase 3 it will probably be a phase 4 as we were told they "will" mean something.

[Rogue Jedi]

Koniving, on 15 April 2016 - 08:45 AM, said:

Upcoming Phase 3 will have loyalist voting on planets which will eliminate the auto system and its bugs. With it will be fewer planets to attack at once increasing the rate of actual attacks that don't burn out before getting somewhere.

Most know the whole map is getting reset again either this month or next, and St the moment there is no real reason to attack or defend beyond loyalty bonuses which short of new players many of us have already got most of them for most factions. Hopefully they reset the rewards too (without taking what we got away) so we have a reason to do it again, as well as allow the planets to mean something. If that's not in phase 3 it will probably be a phase 4 as we were told they "will" mean something.

Form what Russ said during the Town Hall there will not be a phase 4, but rather regular small improvements instead of the every year or so big changes.

[Koniving]

Rogue Jedi, on 15 April 2016 - 09:51 AM, said:

Form what Russ said during the Town Hall there will not be a phase 4, but rather regular small improvements instead of the every year or so big changes.

Given the twitch nature of the townhalls I don't bother watching, never could get a working stream on it.

Know if any thread that is a one stop shop for townhalls transcripts?

[Rogue Jedi]

Koniving, on 15 April 2016 - 10:44 AM, said:

Given the twitch nature of the townhalls I don't bother watching, never could get a working stream on it.

Know if any thread that is a one stop shop for townhalls transcripts?

sorry, no.

I have looked up some summery threads in the past but they tend to be written with the listeners opinion instead of the facts, so I have found about half the information to be inaccurate or incomplete, they used to do full transcripts, also they are. usualy also put on youtube a few days later, I usualy watch the twitch archive the next day, as listening to a 2-4 hour event starting at 1am is not usualy a good idea

[Not A Real RAbbi]

Koniving, on 15 April 2016 - 10:44 AM, said:

Given the twitch nature of the townhalls I don't bother watching, never could get a working stream on it.

Know if any thread that is a one stop shop for townhalls transcripts?

You get a decent summary on the OutreachHPG reddit after each town hall. They're usually updated every few minutes AS it's happening, but this last one took a few hours I think. ANYHOW, it's there. A LITTLE bit of personal such-and-such tossed in there, but the information is pretty solid--I watched the TH and read the notes, each of the last few. It's good enough.

And I'm actually a bit surprised. Russ went so far as to say a few days ago that QA had cleared the bug list for it, but not April 19th patch notes yet. I was honestly expecting that to drop on Friday afternoon, like the last one or two have. ESPECIALLY so, given how enthusiastic Russ has been about Phase 3 (PRAISE BE!).

And I'm freaking DYING for the official details on 4v4. SO many assumptions, SO little hard data. Killin' me...

[Rogue Jedi]

Sister RAbbi, on 16 April 2016 - 08:57 PM, said:

You get a decent summary on the OutreachHPG reddit after each town hall. They're usually updated every few minutes AS it's happening, but this last one took a few hours I think. ANYHOW, it's there. A LITTLE bit of personal such-and-such tossed in there, but the information is pretty solid--I watched the TH and read the notes, each of the last few. It's good enough.

I have tried reading those then watching the townhall after it was uploaded to youtube before I discovered the twitch archive feature, but the information tended to have enough (mis)interpritation and (probably accidental) misquoting that I found half of it to be inaccurate, and if even 1/4 of the information is inaccurate unfortunately that makes the whole thing worthless as an information gathering tool, hence I stopped reading them.