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17/08/2017, 02:19

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Critical Mass: New Continent Lock Mechanics

In an effort to foster more impactful fights over continents, and create a stronger sense of accomplishment when conquering one, the Critical Mass update later this month brings with it some major revisions to how continent locking works. Most of the inbound changes center around the Victory Point system, which has been revisited to create more straightforward and achievable goals while emphasizing the strategic importance of territory control.

Previously, the VP system acted as a sort of checklist where factions would complete various objectives which then rewarded points to that faction. Earning these points was somewhat removed from the moment to moment experience, and would often reward factions for what they’ve done in the past, instead of painting a picture of the current state of a continent. This was especially noticeable toward the end of the process, where continents would lock abruptly, often interrupting high-intensity battles in a dissatisfying or anticlimactic way.

With this month’s update, we intend to bring back a stronger sense of connection between your actions as a player (or squad of players) and how those actions impact your win or loss of a continent. Here’s how.

Changes to Victory Points

First, random alerts have been removed (at least for the time being). We like the focused nature of alerts and the fights they generate, but victories (or losses) didn’t feel punctuated or meaningful. We’ll talk more about alerts further down.

Second, most of the checklist goals from the old Victory Point system have been removed. Some of these objectives detracted from the overall continent flow, and added an unnecessary layer of complexity to continent locking. In the new system, factions will still require points to win over a continent, but these points are now gained solely from controlling territory or from refining cortium, and you will need to do both in order to reach the maximum points threshold for that continent. Eight points are gained through territory control, two points are gained through cortium refinement, and each continent now has a ten point cap.

Third, reaching the ten point maximum will no longer automatically lock a continent. Instead, when a faction reaches ten points, we trigger what we refer to internally as a Meltdown Alert. This alert requires the initiating faction to defend territory for the duration of the alert. If that faction can defend enough of their territory, their victory will then lock the continent. If that faction cannot defend enough territory, that faction will lose the points earned through cortium refinement and need to once again regain them - as well as the territory lost during the alert – before getting another shot at locking the continent. This setback gives the other two factions time to catch up.

Continent Locking Rewards

Finally, the Meltdown Alert will also offer more interesting rewards in a couple of different forms. All players will receive an amount of ISO-4 (the implant progression currency) for participating in an alert. This reward scales with how much time you’ve spent in the alert (with the most ISO-4 gained when you’ve participated for the full hour) and whether or not your faction is victorious.

If your faction finished with the least amount of controlled territory in a meltdown alert, you will receive the least amount of ISO-4. If your faction didn’t trigger the alert, but did end up with the most territory at the end of it (thus preventing the other faction from winning,) you’ll receive a moderate amount of ISO-4. If your faction triggered the alert and won the alert, you’ll receive the most amount of ISO-4, as well as a loot box reward.

Factions that initiate the Meltdown Alert and are victorious (thereby locking the continent) will receive an item reward on top of their ISO-4. This reward ranges from consumables, to weapons, to cosmetics, and will always give you an item you don’t already own, provided it’s not a consumable. You may even find equipment drops that you cannot purchase directly out of the depot.

Similar to the ISO-4 scaling based on time spent, this item drop is given only to players who have participated for the majority of the alert. We want to discourage players from swapping from their faction to the “winning” faction as much as possible, and this is a behavior we’ll be looking very closely for when the system goes live.

This system will soon be on the public test server, and we look forward to any feedback you can offer both now and after it goes live to PC and PS4 later this month. Feedback can be shared on Twitter, Reddit (PC), Reddit (PS4), or here on the forums.

Source: Official News and Announcements


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17/08/2017, 09:58

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That's interesting. I think I'll play again once this goes live :)

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17/08/2017, 10:44

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Also there is a new jumpjet coming and repair grenades for the engineer (it can't be stacked. First throw first served)

Full vid of the live stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/167547770

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17/08/2017, 11:18

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We need to start to train our platoonleaders for the new mechanic. no more warpgate zerging.
Also the building system can have a heavy influenc to block the enemie by defending terretorie, so we need to work on strategic building.

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17/08/2017, 11:32

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Is it defend for 1 hour? If so then locking continents will be really hard when you get double teamed for 1 hour. Time to cert AI module and more turrets. I think ghost/backcapping will be a handy little tactic as well to slow down enemies.

Repair grenade does like 500hp heals over 10 secs, a vanguard has 4000hp. 12.5% repair is like another fire suppression but you got to get out of the tank to do it. Edit: 25% of a MAX's health though, that is a bit more of a boost.
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17/08/2017, 12:03

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Repair grenade does like 500hp heals over 10 secs, a vanguard has 4000hp. 12.5% repair is like another fire suppression but you got to get out of the tank to do it. Edit: 25% of a MAX's health though, that is a bit more of a boost.

You could hit fire supression, reverse, get out throw granade and repair with the tool and then get back inside  ;)

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17/08/2017, 12:06

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I like this lootbox stuff.. still rewarding for the winning faction, but everyone participating will have at something off of it

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17/08/2017, 12:50

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Yeah these changes to the implants sound finally good, no need to spend millions of certs anymore. Also really like the meltdown alarm, awesome changes!! Though it might become less strategical as you only have to cap territory instead of going for risky techplants caps or so

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17/08/2017, 13:48

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17/08/2017, 15:22

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Though it might become less strategical as you only have to cap territory instead of going for risky techplants caps or so

Ye, because Zerging down one lane til the WG is soo tactical.

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17/08/2017, 19:41

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Awesome changes. Finally, working on an alert will make sense. Long live PA2

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18/08/2017, 11:37

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Hopefully the NC will get some new builders though ... I have the feeling that TR and VS have much more activity there. But overall these changes sound promising.

When strategic building gets more important: Do we have a map with known cortium spawns at hand?


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18/08/2017, 11:51

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Not yet but have some position in mind.
i try to make one.

 

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