Mitne 724 Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) We know who will be added after EU 3.5 goes fully public (for uninformed that would be Lucas von Rooyen (Specialist Enforcer) & Lynette Casey (Specialist Criminal) - it's old news tho. (Source: https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2019/7/23/content-update )). We don't know who gonna be next contact and as EU 3.5 is around the corner I think it's best to start speculating. The logical first idea would be final contacts. Leader of factions, people who normally were behind scenes of all faction lore. That would be Mayor Jane Darren, politican who led in life CSA and who is victim of assasination of her father John Darren by what is current faction leader of criminals... Luke Waskawi who is also mastermind behind criminals action. He is enigmatic character with unknown goals, yet lore clearly states that he is directly responsible for what is happening right now in San Paro. The other possible idea is additional specialist contact. Problem is... it wouldn't match ranks found in files of game... Let's say that Lucas von Rooyen and Lynette Casey follow pattern of taking 20 levels to complete like other specialist contacts already present in game. We know current max ranking level is R255, new specialist contacts would increase then max ranking level to R275. We know from several sources that real max rank might be R295, R300 or R305. Probable scenario is R300 meaning only 25 levels would remain... ideal for only boss contacts. And we also don't have any data indicating other specialist contacts... What do you all think? Edited May 6, 2020 by Mitne Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vsb 6171 Posted May 6, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mitne said: Let's say that Lucas von Rooyen and Lynette Casey follow pattern of taking 20 levels to complete like other specialist contacts already present in game. they are intended to be mid-tier contacts, which would put them at 10 levels Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mitne 724 Posted May 6, 2020 Just now, 404 said: they are intended to be mid-tier contacts, which would put them at 10 levels It's unlogical taking how Blood Roses and Tigers both don't have their own specialist contacts. My assumption is based on fact that they possibly both take roles of them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vsb 6171 Posted May 6, 2020 1 minute ago, Mitne said: It's unlogical taking how Blood Roses and Tigers both don't have their own specialist contacts. My assumption is based on fact that they possibly both take roles of them. lore-wise it wouldnt make sense for them to be specialist contacts, rooyen is simeone's bodygaurd and casey is just a random prentiss tiger little orbit apparently agrees, and we've already gotten more indepth info on the new contacts already Quote https://youtu.be/EKvAdRXOeYY#t=28m52s Q: 3.5, we've gone through performance etc.. So the big one is obviously new content, you're getting 3.5 out the door. I know there was a discussion before with the intention of RIOT being kind of the game mode that was going to come hand in hand with 3.5 to kind of showcase here's the engine upgrade, we've now got RIOT, lets do them both at the same time. A few things happened there unfortunately, so we've gotta look at other options here. In the July blogpost you mentioned that there are two new contacts coming, 'Lynette Casey' and 'Lucas Van Rooyen'. What can you tell us about them, is there anything you can tell us about what they're going to bring to the game, new weapons, new items. What is their progressions going to provide to the community that's going to be fresh? A: I'm actually really excited about these guys, we made them lower level contacts i think. They didn't feel like the higher tier kind of contacts, one's a bodyguard and they're both fixers. We kind of changed where we were going to put them to make them more accessible to all players. For clarity, all players are going to have to go through and progress these contacts, you're not going to get automatic standing with them. Basically every player will have to go back and check out what they have to offer. From a content standpoint, I'm excited. RIOT being what RIOT was, it was somewhat disconnected although a lot of the underlying systems that are shared in the game overall are really exciting and we will be doing stuff with those later. With these two new contacts I feel like they really feed right into the heart of APB in terms of hopefully what players actually want, which would be something that is going to get them out playing missions and having a good time. I've already announced the EMP, which is kind of the big gameplay content piece for these guys. The EMP is really an anti-vehicle grenade that we're playing with, it's got some really fun gameplay associated with it. So I'm hoping that players will have a good time with that. One thing we haven't announced is that on these contacts we're putting the two Refer a Friend guns, so we're bringing those back. The temptress and the Cap 40, those will be in the progression just like the showstopper will be added to both contacts as well. We've got kind of one quirky piece of clothing that's going to go on these that I think is kind of worth mentioning, it's a tattoo sleeve. There has long been a complaint about how tattoo's work and those tattoo's are attached to your character and not to your outfit. If you want to switch outfit you have to redesign the entire tattoos or swap them in and out, which can be a somewhat tedious and difficult process. The tattoo sleeves were a really basic piece of clothing that you can match to your skintone, you can prebuild all your tattoo's onto that piece of clothing and you can swap it out with your outfits. It enables players a little bit more flexibility with tattoos, that's something we heard was a bit of a pain from the design community which we wanted to address with one new piece of clothing. I don't have the exact count in front of me, but I want to say that there is maybe nine new pieces of clothing on these contacts, we've got a couple new emotes. So they're pretty well rounded in terms of what we've been able to do with them. I'm excited about them.https://youtu.be/EKvAdRXOeYY#t=32m46s Q: It does sound you've got these all thought out and enough content to satiate sort of, I'm guessing the 10 levels of progression on these contacts. If they're at fixer level I would assume that for reference sake for those watching at home that is on the same level as Grayson Fell, {Bonita Benjamin, Tyron Sennet, Jeung Bloodrose, Kaspar Danko, Hea Choi, Chiza and Byeong Lee} and all of the other contact name have now eluded me, well done. So I think it's at that level at Grayson Fell, which is basically the one just before...Matt: I think they're Tier 3. In any case, that's really awesome. I can't wait to see what kind of clothing we've got. A: Technically we finished production on the new contact items, they're basically all done now. The contacts are done, the items are done and those will be going into test this week. But the production on those is all finished. There's been talk of releasing them early, personally I think we're going to hold them. The main thing is to just put everything into the engine upgrade and give players a reason to come back and try things out. source: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mitne 724 Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, 404 said: lore-wise it wouldnt make sense for them to be specialist contacts, rooyen is simeone's bodygaurd and casey is just a random prentiss tiger little orbit apparently agrees, and we've already gotten more indepth info on the new contacts already source: Interesting... Well then we got even bigger question now. What after release of this two? We then have about 35 levels of progression left and it would be even more wonky now as organization trees gonna be imbalanced. Honestly I wonder what Matt is trying to do. I understand balance but if they really would want balance then good way for that would be for example opening modifications which are locked behind R195 rank. That would bring real balance. Plus lore needs closure. Right now it's all open book, missing final chapter. Edited May 6, 2020 by Mitne Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
