Matt Charles - Senior Producer at id Software

- Senior Producer at id Software Jason Bergman - Senior Producer at Bethesda Softworks

The development team atanswered more questions during their "Ask Us Anything" session on the official forums. Questions to developers are still being accepted on the official Bethesda forum , pitch in and get some of your own questions answered!Development Team Responses & Contributions from:: It’s one of our top priorities and you should see continual improvements – some small, some large – over time.: We’re also working on improving load times for everyone. As code & content get locked in to place, optimizations can then happen more easily.: When we’re finished with the beta period (which in true id tradition is officially “when it’s done”), the game will be free. Downloading the game will give you access to Ranger, and you can either rent or purchase individual Champions, or buy the whole lot as a single package and never be nagged again.: We’re working on an update to the launcher that will stop notifications from happening when the game is running, and in general, be much less intrusive with those notifications.: Yes, we’d like to implement different soundtrack options. We don’t have an ETA for this, but we really want it too.: We’re all fans of the music from past games in the series, and we absolutely want to add some of those classic tracks to the game. Let us know which ones we should be sure to include.: I don’t want to get into specifics since they may change, but we are working on various things which will 1) reduce queue times and 2) increase the odds of getting into a fresh match.: Good point.: The 1397 error usually shows up when the game client can’t reach any of the data centers under a very high ping threshold. We don’t want this to happen, so continue to let us know your location and your pings to the data centers in the list if you see this error.: Absolutely. This is also one of the highest priorities.: We had some licensing steps to take care of first, but yes, the old announcer is coming back. As for audio in general, a mixing pass is in progress.: Ranked matches are something we are working on.: It’s very difficult. That’s why we’re in beta. We monitor feedback and make changes. You’ll note we tweaked BJ’s abilities in a recent patch. We’ll keep making changes as we go.: Yes, it’s on our big list o’ things to do.