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Hi Everybody, I'm Simon Davis
I'm the design manager for Ghost Recon Phantoms
And I'm here to speak to you today about
a number of cool initiatives we have coming up
We recently made the announcement that the game would be arriving on Steam
on April 10
So that was our press announcement
And now we've got some exclusive content for you guys in the community
So today we’re going to be focusing on three areas
Firstly we are going to talk about the new user experience
Secondly we are going to talk about
A big topic for all of you which is matchmaking
And then just finally we're gonna be talking
about customization depth in Ghost Recon Phantoms
So guys please feel free to send through
Any question or queries you might have on this video
Either in the YouTube comment or in the forums
And we'll be creating another follow up to this
To address these questions
Now I’m gonna focus on addressing the big five
Questions you guys have sent for us
1) Yes, Ghost Recon Phantoms will remain free
2) We are not going to do all the changes we announced just within 3 weeks
Don’t worry we've been working on these changes
for months and now we are ready to share them with you
3) You'll be able to play from Steam or like today
to use the traditional launcher. Both options will remain available
4) Tactical insertions and smoke grenades will not
be here by launch. We wanted to have these playtests
to ensure we have your feedbacks.
Now we have collected your thoughts and the opinions of the community.
We are working on improving these features
we'll be shipping them to you guys when we think they are ready
Just finally don't worry no one is gonna lose their account.
No account will be wiped
So just before we begin, I wanna take a little time
to discuss some of the recent changes we made to the economy
As many of you know, we recently increased the RP payout by 20%
On top of that we extended the completion streak to 25 hours
It gives you up to 20% again every day
so if you combine the two it get an extra 40% a day just for playing
So now on to Ghost Coins
As many of you know, we recently reduced the price of Ghost Coins by 10%
Now on top of this, we have more happy hour than ever before
giving you the chance to buy them at 50% less than usual
We have monthly GC challenges where you can get up to
250 GC every month just by playing
And finally we will be giving rewards to all of the veterans
who have played during the beta.
You can get up to 5000 GC just for having played
The traditional experience in Ghost Recon Online
is that you would play for 1 hour or 2
until you get up to the right level
which in our case would be level 5
then you would be kicked out of the newbie playlist
and you would be in a shark pool
Firstly we are going to extend the newbie playlist
We’ve already raised it from level 5 to level 7
and we'll be increasing it to level 8
Another big change we've been making to improve the new user experience
is that we have revisited the tier system
So currently the tier system kinda feels
like a bit of a grind to get from tier 1 to tier 9
To make things easier for new users we've taken the first two tiers out
But don't worry if you have a tier 1 or tier 2 gun
it's not going anywhere. We're gonna leave these guns in your inventory
You're gonna have a unique gun, that no one else has
that no one else can buy anywhere
What we are going to do is that we are going to make the existing
tier 3 the new tier 1 tier 4 will become tier 2
tier 5 will become tier 3 all the way through up the tier 9 guns
which will become the new tier 7
This affects the weapon proficiency in a way because these are tied to tiers
so the maximum proficiency for tier 9 gun will be the tier 7 proficiency
An example of this will benefit you is that if you are a brand new specialist
Like me - I love playing specialist
You would be able to buy an M249 straight away
The good news is that the price of the weapons will follow the same trend
and will be reduced. You will get better weapons for less
Now traditionally the matchmaking system
has worked along the lines as of taking all your performances
and your skills ratings against other players into account
and giving you a score based on that
And then it would try and match you as much as possible
Depending on the amount of people connected to people that had similar skills as you
It wouldn’t take into account any of the gear you had
So sometimes it would result in you being killed
by someone who had a much better gun
and even if you were a much better player than them
this just doesn't feel good it's not a good experience
So going forward for Steam we're gonna have a system that takes into account
roughly 50% the weapons you have and 50% your skills
so unless you are a very very good player who is using low level weapons
there are few chances that a player will low level weapons would encounter someone with a high level weapon
One of the extra benefits of coming on Steam
is that it actually increases the number of users available to us for matchmaking
Right now you may have a situation where you may have a lobby with few users
and not so many players connected at your level
but more player coming in we're gonna have more possibilities
than ever before to match you with people with similar gear
and similar level to you, meaning better matches for everyone
The benefits of this are clear for everyone
both new users and veterans
So as a new user coming out of the newbie playlist
you're gonna be coming out against much more accessible opponents
Likely to have very similar gear to you or similar skills
you're not likely to be matched up against
the high level players like a level 30 general with a spas 12 for example
for skilled players you are much more likely to
come across players with similar gear and similar skills
so this leads to much more satisfying experience much more balanced matches
and in summary players with all kind of abilities
will face better balanced opposition
Now on to customization
So we have 2 cool new features coming up
The first one is the Mod Master which is a weapon which is fully customizable
so you can adjust the gun just as so your play style
and we'll be replacing that against the old variants
And in addition to this we are bringing weapon camo where you can change the look of your gun
and give yourself a unique weapon
You’ll have ten cool weapon camos to begin with
Now let's watch a video on this
This is the Mk16 Modmaster variant.
It will replace all standards variants in store at launch
Mod Master allows you to create your own unique variants
like before you can change scope, bottom attachment, magazine
but what is new is that you can change
the stock and the barrel
which gives you full control of your weapon
The stock impacts ready time, accuracy and control
and the barrel will impact damages, rate of fire, control and accuracy
We put some rules in place to make sure we don’t create
imbalance/OP weapons but now
you can create your own CQC, SV or SP variant
Don’t worry about your current inventory: none of your existing guns will disappear
Your current variant will still be part of your inventory
and we will provide full details of this in the forums and online
Now let's move on to the camo system and see this on a different gun
So this is a very distinctive mk5
as you can see you can have snake skins, wave effects
all kinds of crazy paint jobs
And here it is in the shooting range as you can see we also had a bit of a paint job
on the scopes and attachments as well so your gun looks consistent
So on customization
we are very excited about the camo system you just saw
We are going to start up with having 10 good looking camos
If you have ideas for cool camo prints
feel free to send them to us
And these cool camos in combination with mod master variants
mean that you can literally have millions of different combinations of guns
so there is no reason why your gun shouldn't be unique on the battlefield
Now if you have any question or queries please don't forget to post them here on our Youtube channel
or send them to us by the forums and we'll be addressing them in a future video
Thank you very much for your time
Thanks for watching and it's been emotional