Black Ice farming nerfed

[Ignørantus]

WTF why did they do that the grind was annoying.... and it got even worse....

[SleepyWillo]

bump

[Symeon]

I agree with your statement, but it comes as no surprise.

[DigginTiger]

Originally posted by 1stTX.H Pvt. Obermann:

I agree with your statement, but it comes as no surprise.

Good luck building black ice bases now !

[Use Your Brain]

So black ice was already by far the most time consuming building ingredient to farm so they reduced the amount you can get. That makes a lot of sense. Now the frost giants have 5x the hp which is way to much 2-2.5 increase would be more then enough. The undead skeletons with them in Icefire Chasm now do damage which is fine. If the damage was balanced they are straight up assassins atm. I do not get such drastic changes. Make small changes and balance fixes especially if you are this inept in that department.

Edit: this patch has ruined my game play far more then any previous one gj Funcom

[Viral]

I suspect the testlive magguffins who gave feedback to the devs were the everythings fine type. Assuming they took any notice. No excuse for a weeks expected testable patch to .. Need patching and feedback on.

Also patch didnt ruin the experience for me, it broke my game so i have no experience atm, re DL`ing it :/

[Mullahadin]

Viral, I feel obliged to answer - as I was one of those You've called "magguffins". Let me stress out, taht numerous changes were added to the "Update 30" without going throu testitive branch AT ALL - one of those changes was drop rate of black ice. Second - despite numerous reports, MANY bugs were left unfixed by QA deparment. Despite being given to 'em almost 2 weeks ago. So as much as You feel pissed at the quality of delivered patch, me and many who participated at testitive branch, giving out insight and time to the Dev feel even worse - not only it's broken for Us as well, but we told Them it was broken. So why bother with testitive You ask? No idea Bud, as I'm pretty pissed at meself for doing that.

[CraigNik]

Meh, deleted.

[Solomon Hawk]

Once they're through running through tests.. doesn't it have to be re-cooked again in order to send it to live?
IF that's the case ... think that over for a while.

[Viral]

Originally posted by Mullahadin:

Viral, I feel obliged to answer - as I was one of those You've called "magguffins". Let me stress out, taht numerous changes were added to the "Update 30" without going throu testitive branch AT ALL - one of those changes was drop rate of black ice. Second - despite numerous reports, MANY bugs were left unfixed by QA deparment. Despite being given to 'em almost 2 weeks ago. So as much as You feel pissed at the quality of delivered patch, me and many who participated at testitive branch, giving out insight and time to the Dev feel even worse - not only it's broken for Us as well, but we told Them it was broken. So why bother with testitive You ask? No idea Bud, as I'm pretty pissed at meself for doing that.

Ya as i said, "Assuming they took any notice" of you or even bothered to add everything to test. As i work with a lot of "its finers" and everything gets to my department im like "how is this fine?" i get you. Apologies for assuming badly, the messages portrayed were seeming if due and delayed it was for reasons, such as feedback interaction.

Seems my "no excuses" stand is right though. Whats the point of letting you test the next patch if its not gonna be the next patch, leads to people saying exactly what i said. passing the blame, even slightly when its not right to do so as things were altered, added or not changed despite you being there to give feedback.

[hades]

If you play co-op/solo or run a server I released a fix for mining black ice nodes
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1139479769
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1137112948

PS: before todays patch black ice shader was bugged and it looked like white ice, this bug has been fixed but they are still a little bugged and mining black ice nodes still returns normal ice.

This mod fixes that so you get black ice as drop when mining them =)

[Wintervoid]

IMO, I understand wanting to lower the drop rate on Black ice as far as the top end weapons/armor (Although I don't think you should need Black Ice for Starmetal, especially since Black Ice Weapons/Pick are Better/Equal and cost less to repair) The T3 buildings though is another matter. Black Ice was already tougher to make then T3 Reinforced. Now, there will be very few Black Ice Fortresses.

[Theosaurus Rex]

Nerfed black ice and now the skeleton knights do damage. Kind of makes it not worth the trouble of farming black ice. I averaged 40 black ice from each rocknose on an 8X server. Vanilla must be pure hell. smh

[Lekker]

Are you about to complaining that skeleton damage is nerfed? U wot?

[Gotcha]

LOL mobs do damage!! whats with this game? :P

[BendeBeg]

no problem with that you still can farm black ice with a grupe of 3 players just fine. bevor it was mutch to easy to get in my opinion.