Lord Loom (not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 13:00.
to be fair, the patch offered some more - bugfixes, a bunch of new ships (although only one is really new, the rest is faction versions of existing cruisers). And yes, the align-to button. Which is basically an automated version of what players in higher level missions and PvP have been doing for ages (directing their ship towards a celestial object in order to warp to it almost instantly if shit hits the fan).
But for a major content patch with the long-awaited, long-hyped factional warfare it's disappointing, mainly because factional warfare as such is disappointing. Most of the "fluff" to FW comes from video trailers and stories of events players can't do themselves, and you've written enough about the mechanics of FW and why they don't achieve what they - in my opinion, too - should achieve so I'm not even getting into where FW fails on a gameplay level...
Re: My opinion on Factional Warfare
to be fair, the patch offered some more - bugfixes, a bunch of new ships (although only one is really new, the rest is faction versions of existing cruisers). And yes, the align-to button. Which is basically an automated version of what players in higher level missions and PvP have been doing for ages (directing their ship towards a celestial object in order to warp to it almost instantly if shit hits the fan).
But for a major content patch with the long-awaited, long-hyped factional warfare it's disappointing, mainly because factional warfare as such is disappointing. Most of the "fluff" to FW comes from video trailers and stories of events players can't do themselves, and you've written enough about the mechanics of FW and why they don't achieve what they - in my opinion, too - should achieve so I'm not even getting into where FW fails on a gameplay level...