Defiance - Free to play Online MMO (PS3,360,PC)

[bevo]

A friend talked me into getting this yesterday. This has to be the worst game I have played in a long long time. The graphics are easily the worst I have seen during this gen of consoles. The feeling of the controls may be the worst ever of any shooter I have played. It is full of bugs and almost impossible to get the X button to appear so you can get in cars with people, plus you just walk right through the cars like they do not even exist.

Just a terrible game and I advise anyone thinking of getting it to avoid it at all costs. It seems like it needed alot of work done to it before it released.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

A friend talked me into getting this yesterday. This has to be the worst game I have played in a long long time. The graphics are easily the worst I have seen during this gen of consoles. The feeling of the controls may be the worst ever of any shooter I have played. It is full of bugs and almost impossible to get the X button to appear so you can get in cars with people, plus you just walk right through the cars like they do not even exist.

Just a terrible game and I advise anyone thinking of getting it to avoid it at all costs. It seems like it needed alot of work done to it before it released.

Defiance is made to hold at least 10,000 players on the servers. 100+ on the screen at once. If you are expecting great graphics and 10,000 players, then you clearly haven't read any of this thread. There is no console free to play game with this many players on the screen at once. Graphically it is similar to Crackdown and Earth Defense Force. Which were both games I truly enjoyed. You cant go into this game expeting great graphics. Not when it has the ability to hold 10,000 players. haha

I bought it last night after renting it last week and I am enjoying the game. I don't have any problems with the x button you are talking about. As for going through vehicles, that's because friendly fire is off. You cant get into other players vehicles. Do you really want 100+ players running you over at the same time.

I have seen at least 50+ players on the screen at once during the Arkfalls. The only concern I have is that it is region locked which they plan to update. So other than the region lock, I am enjoying this game and have had very little problems since a few days after launch. Plays very similar to Borderlands mixed with Earth Defense Force. I unlocked one of the 4 tier crates last night and it had some really good weapons. Including a gun for healing people. You can also upgrade weapons, and add upgrade slots. Quite a bit more customization than I expected for the weapons.

 

[DRIFT GOD]

A friend talked me into getting this yesterday. This has to be the worst game I have played in a long long time. The graphics are easily the worst I have seen during this gen of consoles. The feeling of the controls may be the worst ever of any shooter I have played. It is full of bugs and almost impossible to get the X button to appear so you can get in cars with people, plus you just walk right through the cars like they do not even exist.

Just a terrible game and I advise anyone thinking of getting it to avoid it at all costs. It seems like it needed alot of work done to it before it released.

i guess you should have played the beta or rented it first...

I bought it last night after renting it last week and I am enjoying the game. I have seen at least 50+ players on the screen at once during the Arkfalls. The only concern I have is that it is region locked which they plan to update. So other than the region lock, I am enjoying this game.

region lock sucks but i will still play it, i picked it up last night hopefully we can play tonight...

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

^ Yeah hopefully the region lock is removed. I could not play with Stevo at all because he is in Europe. Hopefully it gets removed later. Its not like you are ever alone anyway. Every where you go there are usually a lot of people around. Besides the single player missions. Those force you to play solo.

If you haven't put the game in you will have a LOT of updates. Install game, patch this, performance that, and quite a bit more. Might take at least an hour.

 

[bevo]

Defiance is made to hold at least 10,000 players on the servers. 100+ on the screen at once. If you are expecting great graphics and 10,000 players, then you clearly haven't read any of this thread. There is no console free to play game with this many players on the screen at once.

I bought it last night after renting it last week and I am enjoying the game. I don't have any problems with the x button you are talking about. As for going through vehicles, that's because friendly fire is off. You cant get into other players vehicles. Do you really want 100+ players running you over at the same time.

I have seen at least 50+ players on the screen at once during the Arkfalls. The only concern I have is that it is region locked which they plan to update. So other than the region lock, I am enjoying this game and have had very little problems since a few days after launch. Plays very similar to Borderlands mixed with Earth Defense Force. I unlocked one of the 4 tier crates last night and it had some really good weapons. Including a gun for healing people. You can also upgrade weapons, and add upgrade slots. Quite a bit more customization than I expected for the weapons.

The trouble I was having with vehicles was being a passenger. It took 5 minutes for me to get the X button to pop up so I could get in. The buggy would be there and I would just run right through it. I don't see how friendly fire would have anything to do with that. They could just make it push you out of the way or something. There are tons of other games that don't kill you when someone runs a car into you. It just seems very unpolished.
MAG had just as many players on the screen as this game does and it ran much smoother and looked much, much better than this game.

Another thing that drove me crazy is that it says 2-10,000 players co op but you can only have 4 players in a group. I was expecting much larger groups than that so we could do missions together. We have 6 people wanting to play together but that can't happen. It should say 2-4 players co op on the box 2-10,000 multiplayer online.

As for trying out the beta or renting it, I hadn't even heard of the game until yesterday. Really I just bought it to have something to play with friends besides COD and figured since this was a huge MMO we could all play together, but with the 4 man group that kind of killed that idea.

I'll still play it though since it's not COD and they all seem to be liking it so far. If nothing else hopefully this game gets them off of COD for awhile and they will tryout other games in the future besides just the COD series.

Hopefully some patches come out that will smooth out the controls and maybe fix some of the detection problems. Really though I think I'm just not a MMORPG type of guy. We fought some huge monster last night and it didn't feel like you were doing anything to add to the fight. There needed to be a lot more bad guys on the screen attacking us, but there was just one huge worm thing in the middle, and then a few things would fly off of it and just sit there and let everyone shoot at them. It wasn't like we were being attacked or anything and I really didn't see what the point of fighting it was. You could just stand there and not move and you wouldn't get hurt and the thing was going to get killed anyway. Seemed really pointless.

Hopefully I can get into it. I'm going to try and play a little today and see if I'm missing something. I really like the idea of a game and tv series interacting together, it just seems like this one wasn't done very well and really rushed out the door.

Another thing I just noticed. Is this games audio just stereo? It's not showing up as surround on my receiver.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

The trouble I was having with vehicles was being a passenger. It took 5 minutes for me to get the X button to pop up so I could get in. The buggy would be there and I would just run right through it. I don't see how friendly fire would have anything to do with that. They could just make it push you out of the way or something. There are tons of other games that don't kill you when someone runs a car into you. It just seems very unpolished.
MAG had just as many players on the screen as this game does and it ran much smoother and looked much, much better than this game.

Another thing that drove me crazy is that it says 2-10,000 players co op but you can only have 4 players in a group. I was expecting much larger groups than that so we could do missions together. We have 6 people wanting to play together but that can't happen. It should say 2-4 players co op on the box 2-10,000 multiplayer online.

As for trying out the beta or renting it, I hadn't even heard of the game until yesterday. Really I just bought it to have something to play with friends besides COD and figured since this was a huge MMO we could all play together, but with the 4 man group that kind of killed that idea.

I'll still play it though since it's not COD and they all seem to be liking it so far. If nothing else hopefully this game gets them off of COD for awhile and they will tryout other games in the future besides just the COD series.

Hopefully some patches come out that will smooth out the controls and maybe fix some of the detection problems. Really though I think I'm just not a MMORPG type of guy. We fought some huge monster last night and it didn't feel like you were doing anything to add to the fight. There needed to be a lot more bad guys on the screen attacking us, but there was just one huge worm thing in the middle, and then a few things would fly off of it and just sit there and let everyone shoot at them. It wasn't like we were being attacked or anything and I really didn't see what the point of fighting it was. You could just stand there and not move and you wouldn't get hurt and the thing was going to get killed anyway. Seemed really pointless.

Hopefully I can get into it. I'm going to try and play a little today and see if I'm missing something. I really like the idea of a game and tv series interacting together, it just seems like this one wasn't done very well and really rushed out the door.

Another thing I just noticed. Is this games audio just stereo? It's not showing up as surround on my receiver.

You CAN have more than 4 friends in a group. You can have 100+ of your friends together if you want. You were probably doing the "4 player co-op" missions. That is the ONLY mode that is restricted to 4 players. Otherwise its 100+ players.

Defiance has 3 modes.

1. 4 player co-op (only allows 4 players in these modes)
2. 100+ real player co-op vs AI enemies including arkfalls. You can have 100 friends if you want. Its a full free roam 100+ player mode against the AI.
2. 100+ real players vs real players.

I am very thankful people cant physically hit you. Can you imagine 100+ vehicles all "pushing" you around like you said, that would suck. Having them drive through you transparent is perfect.

Game is in surround sound on my system. Maybe check in game audio settings.

Also not sure if you looked at the post right above yours but there are 100+ patches in that list set to be released soon. They are also giving back to the community as a thank you for being patient.


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Here is their thank you.

http://forums.defiance.com/showthread.php?31639-I-think-our-relationship-could-use-some-Boosts

Like in all relationships, it’s give and receive. We’ve asked a lot of you lately, going through some difficult times during our launch. While you’ve been very understanding and patient with us, we still feel we can do more. More than addressing the issues with servers, improving the client, deploying patches and preparing a long road of massive free (and paid) DLCs, more than evolving the future of Defiance with you.

You might have had disconnects, unable to log in early on, long time to patch, wrong keys, pre-order items missing or simply had to read through my blogs while waiting for the servers to come up after code deployments.

It’s been rough, we know. So your account now has a gift from us, to you. To make good, to show you that we really appreciate what you’ve gone through with us. It includes;

• Exclusive Launch-Only In-Game Title: Daredevil
• 1-Week Weapons Skill Boost
• 1-Week Scrip Boost
• 1-Week Loot Boost
• 1-Week XP Boost

We hope this shows you that we do appreciate you on this journey of Defiance, trying out something new, trying something different. The first episode is on Monday and honestly, we’re pretty excited doing something that hasn’t been done before. Well, the brutal honesty is that we don’t know what to feel. Scared, excited, nervous, giddy, ecstatic. Normal, I think. I’ll tell you after the weekend.

 

[DRIFT GOD]

is sll that avalible now bro ???

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I think so I am just not exactly sure how to activate them. They might be activated already. Not sure where to tell since I am still getting used to the menus.

Oh also in terms of graphics. I forgot this game defaults with "blur" on so make sure you turn of the game blur in the display settings in the main menu. I think its called blur or screen grain or something. Turn that off.

I guess this is how you redeem the free gift..

Press start or back. Then hold Left Trigger to bring up the radial measure. Select store which is located at 6 o'clock. In store select claim items, which is toward the bottom and really small.

I also should note that I didn't have to redeem them. They were just active when I logged into the game. They are displayed as active on the upperlefthand side of the screen, near the health bar. Four little icons, and one of them says XP.

 

[DRIFT GOD]

this update was released today

I thought the patches for TDU2 were huge but wow just wow. Look at this list. Very impressed with how fast they are working to fix the bugs in the game. I have never seen a developer respond this fast.

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Defiance: Patch 1.010 - Sharks (in winter solstice)

Our team is working day and night to provide updates and add more polish to Defiance across all platforms. Below you will find the current draft patch notes for our first major update.


GENERAL
● Improved server and client stability.
● Main missions are now replayable after completion of the last mission.
● Extraction timer upped from 30 to 90 seconds to allow more time for fellow players to revive you.
● Optimized objects throughout the world to minimize pop-up and improve overall performance.
● Area voice chat has been improved and is now on by default.
● Voice and text chat channels can now be muted independently.
● Text chat now displays for longer and no longer hides when sprinting or boosting.

MISSIONS
● General polish and bug fixes for all missions and side missions.
● Heart of Darkness: Completing this mission now unlocks new side missions.
● Removed timer delays between a few main missions.
● Updated several side missions to ensure that they would not be void of enemies.
● Bolinas Smeltery, North Point Mine, Alamo, Happy Pow Farms and Kinship Plaza now have increased rewards.
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed some data recorder typos.
○ Removed health bar from APS dropbox at the crash site.
○ Kith and Kinship: Fixed flyout text for a dead soldier.
○ Muir Processing: Fixed some inactive enemies.
○ Sniper’s Ridge: Added flyout text to interactable ammo caches.
○ Sniper’s Ridge: Fixed an issue where event would reset if you left the area during the boss stage.
○ Sutro Tower: Added collision to the destroyed monolith.
○ KTAM: Added some missing doors to the buildings that were disappearing if you returned after completing the mission.
○ There Goes the Neighborhood: Removed some unnecessary EGO voice overs.
○ Down at the Docks: Players now receive proper credit if they complete the mission outside the POI radius.
○ Mine 98: Fixed a missing spawn door.
○ Iron Demon Ranch: Players will no longer extract to a hostile environment.
○ Good Ol’ Smets now matches the cutscene in Ridgecrest.
○ Radio Silence: Fixed comlink antenna animation.
○ Pirate Radio: Fixed continuously respawning scrappers after completing the mission.
○ We’re on the Air: Cass should move up to fix the control panel sooner.
○ Angel of Death: Fixed a bug in Part 1 that caused the mission to not complete properly.
○ A Little Competition: Fixed an issue where you would be unable to obtain the mission until after you completed the event, if you had entered another player’s phase before getting the mission.
○ Added some missing scanning interactions to various mission objectives.
○ Raid the Medicine Cabinet: Fixed an issue that stopped progression
○ Seize the Day: Fixed a potential progression issue.
○ Control the Future: Fixed a potential progression issue.
○ Torc’s Garage: Fixed an issue that caused Von Bach to float.
○ San Quentin: Fixed some explosions that were not firing after the cutscene.
○ Safe No More: Moved Smets to lean against the wall to match the cutscene.
○ Murder in Madera: Fixed some raiders that were fighting each other on the docks.
○ Enter the Law Keeper: Adjusted player position to match cutscene.
○ Fixed the reactor in the tutorial being active before the player arrives.
○ North Point Mine: Fixed an issue where the Foreman and Technician would stop patrolling to each of the objects they are interacting with.
○ Fixed missing voice overs in a few missions.
○ Miwok Ranch: Fixed an issue where the rancher during the Boss Stage would sometimes not move after reviving the first fallen rancher and would prevent you from completing the mission.

CHALLENGES AND RACES
● Hotshot: Dam Defense - Adjusted rocket launcher damage.
● Hotshot: Reservoir Chickens - Adjusted chicken re-spawn rates and made scoring points tweaks.
● Sharpshooting Savior and Hamburger Hill challenges have had their scoring tweaked.
● Rescored Rampage: Minigun Mayhem: Bronze: 20000, Silver: 40000, Gold: 60000
● Bug fixes
○ Rankings should now be displaying on the end screen.
○ Prevented an exploit in which players could get infinite ammo during a rampage.
○ Players should no longer be able to enter a phase while in a race.

EMERGENCIES
● Added new emergency types throughout the bay area.
● General polish for all emergencies.
● Tuned emergency sockets in Marin.
● Bug fixes
○ Road Minefield: Fixed an issue that caused delayed mine explosion.
○ Fixed an issue that caused emergencies to not end properly.
○ Gang War: Fixed a bug that caused enemies to ignore ATV collision.
○ Fixed a problem where emergency vendors would show as interactive, but not actually be interactive.
○ Fixed a “no string” text appearing upon completion of some emergencies.

ARKFALLS
● There’s a Bioman Minigunner in the final wave of the Mutant Mayhem Arkfall – Only accessible on the “hard” wave!
● Updated wave progressions for the 99er minor destroy arkfall.
● Adjusted arkfall difficulty scaling.
● Minor arkfalls will now respawn after 30 minutes.
● Progenitor Armatures will now destroy vehicles.
● Bug fixes
○ Evolved Hellion arkfall now gives credit towards the Ark Hunting as a Way of Life pursuit.
○ Fixed incorrect key code rewards for arkfalls.
○ Fixed a floating arkfall crystal.
○ Results screen now appears if the player teleports to an arkfall.
○ Emergencies within a major arkfall radius should now despawn.

PLAYER CHARACTER
● Bug Fixes
○ Fixed a bug that caused characters to dive-roll in place.
○ Fixed a bug that caused characters to run in place.
○ Fixed a bug that caused ladder animation to play while not on a ladder.

NPCS
● Updated Dark Matter enforcer’s cloak spawn animation.
● Added mutants to Serenity Academy after Kith and Kinship has been completed.
● Hellbug skitterlings are now a little more aggressive and deal a little more damage.
● Alamo Park in San Fran has now been occupied by Dark Matter when player is not on the area specific mission.
● Downtown San Francisco enemies have been updated.
● Added disguised Dark Matter allies to Dark Matter base.
● Friendly scrappers now have blue lasers instead of red.
● Elite Mad Mattock shields have been lowered from 5400 to 4500.
● Lowered health on Dark Matter snipers.
● Tuned Piercer Boss in Liberate the Lost.
● Mutant grenadier in Into the Depths is now Elite.
● Crashing a vehicle into a monarch will cause the vehicle to blow up.
● Improved “bulldoze” attack for various NPCs.
● Bug Fixes
○ E Rep Camp: Fixed E Rep Technician animation.
○ Sausalito: Fixed a Blitzer that was instantly respawning.
○ Fixed some NPC helicopters that were flying through geo.
○ Elemental raiders now use appropriate effects when taunting.
○ North Point Mine: Fixed tanker boss pop-in.
○ Happy Pow Farms: Fixed some disappearing hellbugs.
○ Fixed a bug that caused some enemies to go invisible.
○ Bernal Tower: Fixed some scrappers that would respawn after you completed the event.
○ Fixed a bug that caused ally NPCs to retain their shader after being revived.
○ Liberate the Lost: Fixed an issue that was causing the siphon monarch to not siphon correctly.
○ Minimized the chance of blitzers firing out of the side of their guns while running.
○ Mount Tam: Fixed various floating spawns and some collision issues.
○ Fixed an exploit that caused mutant minigunners to have a hard time tracking players at close range.
○ Fixed some 99ers that weren’t flailing when being electrocuted.
○ East Shore Docks: Fixed an issue in which two hostages freed from the main warehouse would path through the vendor truck.
○ Tanker rockets should not agro cloaked players.
○ Fixed a few spawners that were appearing incorrectly.
○ Fixed siphon blast pods that weren’t healing themselves with the syphon effect.
○ Soleptor Excavations: Fixed a pathing issue with the Hulker Boss.
○ Improved firing behavior for multiple enemy NPCs.
○ Fixed multiple NPCs playing run animation while walking.
○ Fixed multiple NPCs not playing animation when getting up after knockdown.
○ Fix bug where NPCs were continually playing shooting animation even when they’ve run out of ammo.
○ Fixed bug where NPC melee wasn’t damaging fully cloaked players

COMPETITIVE MULTIPLAYER
● Observatory & Waterfront: Updated and moved a few ammo caches.
● All capture and hold matches in both shadow war and battlegrounds now last for 20 minutes instead of 15.
● Updated scoring for capture and hold matches.
● Improved matchmaking for multiplayer.
● Bug fixes
○ Players are now not able to use inventory vehicles in shadow war or shadow war vehicles outside of shadow war.
○ Changed kill notifications when killed by an NPC so that it doesn’t look like a suicide.
○ Kill notification now appears properly when killed by an elemental weapon proc.

CO-OP AND SOLO MAPS
● General polish and bug fixes for all co-op and solo maps.
● Updated timing for several interactables.
● Updated fence collision in Scrapworks and Angel Island.
● Ammo caches found in boss rooms have updated visuals.
● Time goals for certain Co-op Map Pursuits have been updated.
● Scrapworks: Added Dark Matter force fields.
● Players can no longer use vehicles to combat the mini-boss in Explosions 101.
● Reorganized queue menu so that co-op maps are listed in the right order.
● Improved matchmaking for co-op maps.
● Players that enter a co-op map now get put where the leader is.
● Fixed quick match so players don’t get put in matches they aren’t eligible for.
● Co-op map prerequisites now appear in the queue menu.
● Bug fixes
○ Players abandoning “Into the Depths” while in the Delta West area of Mount Tam will now be removed from the phase and sent to an extraction point.
○ Fixed some pathing issues in the hulker fight in Soleptor Excavations.
○ Something Wicked This Way Comes should no longer end prematurely if multiple players are doing the mission at the same time.
○ Fixed an issue in Scrapworks Excavation that could cause the progenitor arm bottom heatsink to be obscured by its base.
○ Fixed missing EGO voice overs during the Motherlode boss battle.
○ Players who don’t contribute in co-op maps now appear on the results screen.
○ Fixed some issues with the mini map in Cronkhite Bunker.
○ Fixed an issues that caused some notifications to appear twice.

WEAPONS
● Lowered damage output of sawed off shotguns.
● General tuning to improve LMGs.
● Rate of fire and mag size changes have been made to rocket launchers.
● Cluster launchers have had their damage lowered.
● Anti-vehicle launcher now does appropriate damage to humanoids and a bonus to damage vs vehicles.
● Updated bloom for VBI LMGs.
● Added cooldown to prevent elemental effects from constantly applying to player.
● Tuned lock-on rocket launchers.
● FRC LMGs now have a lower rate of fire than other LMGs.
● Lowered the damage and crit Multiplier on the Northstar Flare Pistol.
● Infectors have had their homing range decreased.
● All Infectors now have the same reticle and will not change size when moving crouching or aiming.
● Infector bug speed has been slightly decreased.
● Infector bug damage has been decreased.
● Pistols have had their ammo pools increased in competitive multiplayer.
● Legendary detonators no longer have +6 mag rarity bonus.
● Reduced auto lobbers’ rate of fire.
● Reduced damage for Crash Boomer, Rebounder Lobber and Auto Lobber.
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed a bug that caused the swarm rocket launcher to deal too much damage.
○ Super Rocket Pod from Echelon vendor should now correctly show its model.
○ Fixed a weird xp bonus that was showing up on some weapons.
○ VOT and VBI LMG animations now sync with the firing pattern.
○ Fixed a potential crash caused by weapon holstering.
○ Fixed the Bull Rush 45 causing an operated vehicle to explode when damaging players inside.

GRENADES
● Increased spread damage for incendiary grenades.
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed an issue that caused damage from multiple grenades to stack incorrectly.

SHIELDS
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed damage reducing effect while standing still on the VBI Sentinel.

LOOT AND AMMO
● Added and updated ammo caches throughout the world.
● Tuned amount of ammo that drops from NPCs.
● Increased chances of NPCs dropping a weapon.
● Ammo crates have been added near the vendors at Point Bonita, Bug N Chug and Coit Tower locations.
● Bug fixes
○ Removed orange glow that sometimes appeared over loot weapons.

WEAPON MODS
● Removed magazine size mods for rocket launchers.

OUTFITS
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed various issues with helmets and hats.

VEHICLES
● Shields for rollers have been reduced.
● Bug fixes
○ Increasing vehicle skill now adds to EGO rating.
○ Flyout will now specify when you enter a vehicle as a passenger.
○ Fixed a bug that caused other players to appear to mount vehicles from the wrong side.
○ Fixed a bug that caused placed Cerberuses to not have collision.

VENDORS
● Hidden vendors now appear as people instead of the vendor trucks.
● Titles are now available at faction vendors!
● Bug Fixes
○ Fixed any duplicate items that might appear in stores.

EGO ABILITIES AND PERKS
● Updated placement of a few perks on the EGO grid.
● Thick Skinned perk now has a 15 second cooldown.
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed an issue that caused decoy projections to not have shields.
○ Fixed an issue that caused decoy pursuits to update when enemies attacked another player’s decoy.
○ Fixed a bug that caused decoys to slide.
○ Error audio will now play if you attempt to use an ability before its cooldown finishes.

PURSUITS AND CONTRACTS
● Updated the order in which pursuits are listed.
● Contracts now display the amount of time left until the contract expires, even after the contract has been completed.
● Updated outfit rewards for Living to Kill V and In the Inner Circle II pursuits.
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed contract icons in notifications.
○ Weekly contracts should now only be playable once per week.
○ Mutants at the South Radio Tower now give credit towards the Atlas Attrition contract.

CINEMATICS
● General polish for all cinematics.
● Bug fixes
○ Fixed a bug that caused incapacitation screen overlay to appear over cinematics.

AUDIO
● Updated music for co-op and solo maps.
● Updated combat music timing.
● Made some adjustments to when and how combat music comes in.
● Added spawn and despawn audio to Dark Matter drop ships.
● Added taunt audio to elemental blitzers.

USER INTERFACE
● Added pop-up text after completing the last mission notifying that missions can be played again.
● Previewing head gear in the loadout menu will now zoom in on the character’s head.
● You can create CS petitions in game now!
● Added Defiance Store option to quick menu.
● Hooked up new inventory items/new claim items indicator.
● Polished the character create screen.
● Added scrip deduction notification upon extraction.
● Added clan invite to the search list in the social menu.
● Added region and other location names to the map.
● Reconfigured player interaction picking to make interacting with objects easier in high population areas.
● Bug Fixes
○ Fixed a bug that caused arkfall and multiplayer end screens to appear on top of each other.
○ Fixed an issue that caused audio to loop when picking up an item.
○ Fixed an issue that caused controllers to loose functionality when a drop down was expanded.
○ Fixed an issue that caused direction pads on controllers to stop working in the pursuits menu.
○ Fixed task boxes so that they update without opening different pursuits.
○ Pursuit rewards preview pane now displays both helmet and outfit rewards.
○ Fixed results screens to show consistent data.
○ Fixed full screen settings persisting after logout.
○ Fixed tutorial arrows persisting after logging out during the tutorial.
○ Fixed skill progress bars to update correctly.
○ Fixed clanmate options appearing when the clan member is offline.
○ Fixed some issues with group invites.
○ Fixed a bug that caused UI interact audio to play twice for some buttons.
○ Fixed some buttons that were not highlighting properly in the salvage matrix.
○ Fixed a bug that caused quantity to appear as -1 in the Defiance store.
○ Prevented mission complete and mission reward notifications from overlapping.
○ Medals displayed on multiplayer end screens no longer blink.
○ Fixed a bug with revive stat on the arkfall end screen.
○ Fixed an issue that caused key remappings to not save after exiting the client.





PC
● Added option to turn off voice chat.
● Fixed not being able to select some options in character create with a controller.
● Removed non-functional Social button from the patcher.
● Fixed arkfall end screens only being scrollable with arrow keys.

XBOX 360
● Fixed various Kinect bugs.
● Fixed some voice chat issues.
● “Last online” for friends now appears correctly.
● Optimized audio.
● Fixed a bug that could causes players to fall through the world while on a vehicle.

PLAYSTATION 3
● Fixed a bug that caused friend invites to be delayed.
● Fixed a bug that caused friend logout notifications to be delayed.
● Fixed some voice chat issues.
● “Last online” for friends now appears correctly.
● Optimized audio.
● Fixed an issue that prevented some characters from being entered on the keypad.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

From what I have heard this update is having issues. No ETA on when it will be fixed. This is the recent update.

http://forums.defiance.com/forumdisplay.php?35-Defiance-Server-Status


**UPDATE 2**
We're back online with Xbox and PC - please log in, patch and play!

**UPDATE 1*** We're finding issues with our latest patch - we're taking down Xbox and PC for maintenance. No ETA for bringing them back online.

Still hoping they remove the Region lock in the near future.

 

[DRIFT GOD]

it now back online

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I have mainly been playing the co-op modes and the arkfall events with 50+ players against the AI.

However I decided to work on my single player campaign some more last night. It sure is rewarding when real life players show up to help with the single player campaign. I went to a farm mission last night and was getting wrecked. A couple minutes later I see more and more purple dots (real people) on the map. Sure enough, I ended up having at least 15+ players helping with my single player campaign. At the same time, its also their single player campaign so we are all helping each other. Moments like that truly set this game apart from any other games out there. So even the single player campaign can have over 50+ real life players all helping each other. 👍

 

[bevo]

I've put a good bit more time into the game after having to do a 3rd reinstall because of a patch error.

I'm enjoying the game strictly because I can play with friends. It is actually pretty fun to run around with a group and do the missions, but the game has to be the most bug ridden game I have ever played. There are several side missions I can't do because the X button will not show up to let me take soil samples. Some missions work great but others are unplayable.

The graphics too which have gotten better once I finally got a smooth install and patch are still horrid. I can't think of a current gen game with worse graphics.

As for more than 4 players in a group, if its possible we haven't figured out how to do it even outside of missions. It will only let you make a 4 player group. It's not a real big deal but you can only have 3 friends help you do actual mission objectives in real time. I thought they would allow huge groups the way it was advertised.

With a that said though it is gun to just get with a few friends and run around like idiots shooting brainless AI.

The patches are huge but the patch system is horrible. I doubt all the patches in the world could score this game over a 60 or so.

 

[bluemoon_19]

I think one of the reasons the graphics are poor is because of the nature of the game. Since each server can have 100+ people on it that will surely impact on graphics(for consoles). Just look at MAG 256 players and it looked rubbish.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I've put a good bit more time into the game after having to do a 3rd reinstall because of a patch error.

I'm enjoying the game strictly because I can play with friends. It is actually pretty fun to run around with a group and do the missions, but the game has to be the most bug ridden game I have ever played. There are several side missions I can't do because the X button will not show up to let me take soil samples. Some missions work great but others are unplayable.

The graphics too which have gotten better once I finally got a smooth install and patch are still horrid. I can't think of a current gen game with worse graphics.

As for more than 4 players in a group, if its possible we haven't figured out how to do it even outside of missions. It will only let you make a 4 player group. It's not a real big deal but you can only have 3 friends help you do actual mission objectives in real time. I thought they would allow huge groups the way it was advertised.

With a that said though it is gun to just get with a few friends and run around like idiots shooting brainless AI.

The patches are huge but the patch system is horrible. I doubt all the patches in the world could score this game over a 60 or so.

I am quite sure you didn't read our previous replies. You CAN have more than 4 friends with you. You can invite your ENTIRE friends list! You can have up to 100 friends with you at a time if you want. We already explained this in the previous replies.
Glad you are enjoying the game.

 

[mikAE86]

Has anybody watched the tv show on Syfy?

 

[bluemoon_19]

I watched it but not on syfy if you know what I mean. It was good in my opinion but I didn't really spot a lot of stuff that is also in-game(at this time). The arkfalls on the show also looked wayyy better.

 

[bevo]

I am quite sure you didn't read our previous replies. You CAN have more than 4 friends with you. You can invite your ENTIRE friends list! You can have up to 100 friends with you at a time if you want. We already explained this in the previous replies.
Glad you are enjoying the game.

I did read your replies. You can not have more than 4 friends in a group. There are also problems trying to get more than 4 friends inside of your phase so that you can play with them. I don't think you have tried playing with more than 4 people. It works about 30% of the time when you try and get more than 4 on the same phase.

I've played this game around 10 hours or so now and my friends have much more time in it because they will play be themselves. We all understand what the single player, coop, and other modes are.

Like you say you can have more than 4 people, its just not very often you can so that, and you CAN NOT have more than 4 in your group. If you can we have never figured it out and I would love to know how to do it.

The game is still super buggy also when playing with 4 in the group. Many times it will not let everyone complete objectives even when you are in the same phase.

This game needed a much longer beta stage. I'm not trying to bash it, I'm just telling it like it is. The ratings the game is receiving of 5.5 and lower is very correct. The idea behind the game is great, they just did a horrible job making it.

I still like it much better than COD though. Ill play this as long as it keeps my friends off of COD.

 

[ohMickey]

Of course it's not F2P. There's no monthly fee, but you have to buy it to play Generally it's really good, but I think that as for MMO this game has such a tiny world. It should be much bigger.

 

[Starfirebird]

I just bought this used as my last hurrah with Gamefly.

Do you have to play with people online or can the 4 player mode consist of CPU controlled characters.

I doubt many people are still playing this as I seen the reviews this game got. It's cool though I just need something to pass the time.

 

[bluemoon_19]

The main part of the game is PVE (player vs enemy) but its always online. there are some co op missions for up to 4 people against AI. When this game came out me and a lot of friends played it but they never fixed a lot of the bugs and now no one I know plays it anymore.