Eric Musco updated the community on what to expect with todays patch. The complete patch notes are not yet available, but below update gives a good indication on the amount of fixes coming to the game. Check it out:
EricMusco
Changes Coming in Tomorrow’s (1/21) Maintenance | 01.20.2015, 04:28 PM
Hey folks,
First, as Tait alluded to we will be having a maintenance tomorrow, on Wednesday the 21st. We didn’t have our regular Tuesday maintenance due to the federal holiday here in the states. I wanted to let you know a few of the things coming in tomorrow’s patch:
- Item rarity borders will now show properly
- No more getting stuck in Blood Hunt if someone dies to Jos or Valk Beroya
- The Underlurker will no longer rush extremely quickly back to his target after leaping
- There have been adjustments made to the Contraband Slot Machine (more on this in a second)
- There is also one other fix, check the final patch notes for more info
Let’s talk about the changes coming to the Contraband Slot Machine. When we were going into 3.0.2, we wanted to make Grade 11 materials more accessible to more players than they were at the time. As you know, we simultaneously put in the Contraband Slot Machine, which afforded you a fairly good chance to get Jawa Junk and other Jawa vendor scrap parts. This had two effects:
- It had the risk of taking the Grade 11 material costs in the economy, in the long term, to a price below where we would like
- It created a situation where it could be more profitable to completely ignore crew skills by use of the Slot Machine
With those in mind, we decided to make the following changes, which will be live tomorrow:
- The drop rate on all Jawa scraps, has been greatly reduced
- The drop rate on Contraband Reputation items, has been increased
- To insure that the Slot Machine is still an awesome item to strive for, we have added a faction specific walker mount as a very rare drop
- Lastly, we have increased the cost of each Slot Machine coin from 500 to 750 credits. It was always our intent that the coin cost would increase over time as we add more Slot Machines that accept the coin
Thanks everyone!
-eric
