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So Season 9. Well it's not horrible.

centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
But it's not good either.*

*Keep in mind I have not played the new featured episode or the new queued events due to the disconnecting.

So what's good about it? Well Earth Spacedock is absolutely fantastic, but you already knew that, so are the kits, costume options and new head types.The new lockboxes, while definitely not the best choice, is at least the kind of stupid I can ignore. It definitely helps that the ground armor is so badass. Whoever made that, good on you.

Another good thing that no one is talking about, is the lens flares actually. They look more realistic than what I remember, and the new lighting effects look nice too.



....And now lets discuss the bad stuff. Fortunately I don't actually think there's a lot that's bad, it's that the things that are bad, are so bad they just ruin everything else. I've already mentioned one in another thread so we are going to ignore it. However, the Undine Ground gear costs 200 lobi crystals. Each. The wrist launcher, while nifty, isn't really that special. I have no idea why it costs 4 times as much as the other lobi weapons. That doesn't make sense to me.

Also, for some reason the Hirogen Armor is now 50 Lobi Crystals. I don't know what this means.


EDIT: Apparently the above was a mistake and is being fixed in tomorrows patch. You can disregard.

There's also the graphical changes. While they are nice I would have liked a warning about the fact that I was going to spend 20 minutes re-optimizing the settings. I'm sure that they couldn't keep the settings, due to the new menu.

I just would have liked a warning that's all!

Now we come to the new female body texture. I'm not going to mince words. It's awful. No healthy woman looks like that, every female character in the game looks emaciated. It needs to be changed. Right now without question.

Please keep in mind I haven't played any of the story missions/queued missions/battlezone content. I'm going to wait a few days until the servers stabilize. Personally I'm hopeful for this update. If we can get a reasonable explanation for the weird prices, and that ugly ugly ugly texture fixed I think Season 9 will be a good one. We'll just have to see how the missions are when the servers stabilize.

Whenever that is.
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  • jarodroto123jarodroto123 Member Posts: 1,337 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    The armor and wrist launcher prices were a mistake and are being switched in tomorrow's patch (armor will be 200 and launcher 50)
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    The armor and wrist launcher prices were a mistake and are being switched in tomorrow's patch (armor will be 200 and launcher 50)

    Oh so they cleared this up when I wasn't looking? :P

    That makes sense at least. Makes me glad I got the Hirogen armor when it was still a discount! You guys might want to capitalize on that. ;)
  • dongemaharudongemaharu Member Posts: 544 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Like anything, it's got its good point and bad points. The FE is pretty good. Battle at ESD was a slick reason to renovate. And the ending connects some of the mysterious elements from earlier episodes. Seems to set up the third act nicely.

    Until there's a convenient way to change rep traits, it sucks.

    More costume and face options is nice, but they really need more hairstyles. Maybe they added some but I haven't heard about that yet.

    That's all I got so far. Haven't played the new battle zone.
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