Dev. Journal: squeek. (2011-12-07)

[FF_Team]

If all goes well, patch 2.44 will be released in the next week or so. In the meantime, you can preview the changelog here:

2.44 Changelog

Note: Some things are potentially subject to change (removed/tweaked/added) before release.

[FreaK367]

The changelog looks great, I agree with it all.

Nice choice on the Laser Grenade, a 189% damage increase is pretty immense, hopefully this will be enough to persuade servers to get 2.44 and stick with 2.44.

But if the Slowfield Grenade is unchanged I'd expect them to change that again to the mirv, if the Laser Grenade is good though, that's one change dealt with, so going in the right direction.

Good work dev team.

[Elmo]

I agree freak. Not that I've been around for 6 months, I always favoured a stronger slowfield n felt we nerfed it a tad too much with 2.43. Just a touch more strength across the board (ffdev_ multiplier cvar not power cvar). That said what was in wasn't bad and was still very effective when used with teamwork so isn't a really necessary change from what I recall.

I'll be around again in Feb when I'm back from Aus and get my internet hooked up at home

[FDA_Approved]

Awesome. You guys are the best, it's like christmas!

[Bully]

I have to say it, again.
I do not like the Laser or Slowfield.... sry

Give me spam any day

[AtomicSphinCteR]

Way to go Devs! I am looking forward to seeing how the tweaks work out.

[WiFiDi]

Originally Posted by FreaK367

The changelog looks great, I agree with it all.

Nice choice on the Laser Grenade, a 189% damage increase is pretty immense, hopefully this will be enough to persuade servers to get 2.44 and stick with 2.44.

But if the Slowfield Grenade is unchanged I'd expect them to change that again to the mirv, if the Laser Grenade is good though, that's one change dealt with, so going in the right direction.

Good work dev team.

just because a weapon has a new use besides killing doesn't excuse mutiny. if the servers aren't 100% behind the developers then the game will die. because we won't be playing the devs game.


this is why i personally stopped playing the game. they first put the gas nades in i was fine with that. then they just kept removing things as they pleased not seeming to know when to stop. Next thing i knew they got rid of the slow field and the laser grenade. Then (the final straw,) they started altering damage values of weapons, grenades etc...

if you watched the player counts the more altered the game became. the less players ff had... so it seemed from my perspective.

then there is the fact that they changed it without giving the weapons much of a chance. heck the admins on talos and ot were upset with these changes. i talked to them on the servers quite a few of them didn't like the changes...