Friday February 7, 2013 the Defiance Dev team streamed a play and Q&A session on the Trion Worlds Twitch channel .

Questions

Mod vendor specials



There is a bug that adds the base vendor specials to all mod vendor specials, in the grand scheme of things it's a lower priority bug but it is on the list.

When will we be able to use vehicles without them dissapearing?

In our testing environments we are having trouble pinning it down, if you can reproduce it reliably please send us a message on the forums.

Any plans to help organise the inventory?

Not right now, the favoriting and the sorting we have is what we want right now.

Can incursions and ark break interiors count towards ark way of life pursuits



No, not the way it was really designed or thought about. It's not something we are looking into doing.

Carry more grenade stims and spikes

No, the way we want to do spikes stims and grenades is how it is. So we are pretty happy.

Plans to adjust in-game events



There are plans!

Indicator for players when in a firing disabled state

Something we are considering, but it's a lower priority.

Summary under the minimap for major events

Space screen is limited, they are not considering doing anything that would add more to either side of the map. The information is already available on the map and want to keep that clean and as much space open so they can play the game.

This was my question so I'll elaborate a little. I was talking about adding a quest tracker like section under the minimap on the main game screen which listed the name of any major events on your server e.g. Incursion in Marin or Major Arkfall in Madera. UI elements already fill that portion of the screen like when in a quest or in particular sieges or events and while I understand in a shooter screen space is important, information is also important.

More people in warmaster and breaking locks early



We aren't going to be letting any more people into the Warmaster fight and we aren't planning anything specific to address people breaking locks early. That said we are looking for ways for people to queue for the warmaster with clans and friends but that is further off.

Timing on incursions

They are on the same spawning system of arkfalls, they can get in the way of eachother. A particular incursion can't start if the siege it will end with is current active, which is why Mount Tam happens so often because the siege is new.

We are updating the system managing all the events but that is in the future.

DLC4

Keep an eye on the blog next week.

Trion currency across all games

It would be complicated.

Incursion mob spawns for larger player amounts



More mobs and more mob spawn locations already occur.

Incursions kicking people out

It's being worked on.

Extra Life Event with vendors

Almost definitely yes, we don't have a specific event planned but we enjoyed it and would like to do it again.

Charge rifle nanos

We are going to make sure we fix everything. Nano rolls wont be replaced if they exist.

Incursions in San Francisco

There are incursions in San Francisco and it features the Volge.

Instanced Incursions



We are more likely to activate more than one incursion at a time than instance them.

Emergencies scale up in health for incursions



They do scale up to 4x in health, we are implementing a more robust scaling system.

Remove sick people at Top Notch



Not on the list, probably no. It's part of a mission and wouldn't make sense.

Titan takes a longer time to despawn

It has a long despawn time on purpose, when players do the mission all roads lead to bloodbath we don't want them to confuse them by having the titan despawn during the mission.

Faction vendor boxes to echelon and paradise vendors

Not in the near future, the vendors are slated for an update but it's a different patch.

Emotes



We will be adding emotes as slash commands. Quick tab emotes aren't going to be available on console.

They are available now, but there is no list.

Challenge white bungee cords

It's a minor problem and is low down on the list.

Castithan Outfits in shop

There was going to be Castithan specific outfits in the cash shop. The idea has been dropped for the time being. There are some code issues, the concept wasn't wasn't fully fleshed out in a way that worked and could be called broken.

T4 synergy mods back in the game

Epic hoard lockbox will appear on a vendor and it will take more than keys to buy it.

Episode missions unique rewards

It was intended to receive the unique weapons once.

Incursions spawn

All dynamic events can't spawn when there is another event in the way. An area where dynamic events have been completed may increase the chance just because it clears the space.

Mount Tam siege exclusive to incursions



Exclusive to incursions, we are looking to add more in the future.

Incursion rewards

15% chance of being rare. Small rep reward means that higher rarity weapons are limited to the vendor.

Incursion types

As well as mutant sieges in mount tam and plague sieges there and volge sieges in san francisco and marin.

synergy converters to all mod vendors but synergy effect trigger % mods removed



Probably not, they weren't working right. They provided better bonuses to high projectile volume weapons for example shotguns which were more than intended.

Videos

The Defiance portion starts at 1:18:00



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