Weekly Update
Good afternoon everyone
We’re back from our two week break, we’ve been discussing a few things and will be making some changes in various areas to improve the experience for our players. We’ll go through these changes below, as well as explain what our plans are for this week.
Changes to GZW Events
Removal of the Bounty system
Effective immediately, we’ll be removing the Bounty system from the official Discord. Upon reflection, it was a rarely used feature and, when it eventually was used, it was to grief other players. This may make a return in the future under new rules, not for a while though.
We’re working with MFG on something different to implement so stay tuned.
leaderboard for event winners
We understand that things may get repetitive and the player counts drop in the middle of big updates. With that in mind, we wanted to give players something extra to aim for over the course of a ‘season’, so to speak.
Starting in October, we’ll be introducing a leaderboard for all event winners. Anyone who wins an event will be listed here with their number of wins for everyone to see. So if you complete the objective and are entered into the prize pool for that event, you will score a point on the leaderboard.
To clarify, we will still randomly pull names from the prize pool on a weekly basis for each event. We will then award those at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the ‘season’, before the next major update. In this case, right before 0.4.
Prizes would be geared towards helping winners out in the early stages of the following wipe, as it makes no sense to give out big prizes then wipe characters.
clip competition changes
To balance things out and lower the time GMs spend reviewing clips, we’ll be limiting the size of all entries to 30 seconds from now on. Up until now we’ve had anything from 10 second clips to 6 minute compilations win and we want to bring some consistency to this section.
Changes to prize tiers
We’re actively reviewing our prize tiers to make better use of them and offer more attractive packages to players. We’re currently working with MFG to refine these and will announce the changes shortly.
This week’s events
Cleanup (PVE)
Multiple factions on the island need knocking down a peg, intelligence suggests the best way to do this is to hit the heads of each cell simultaneously. You are instructed to locate and eliminate all LAF and militia leaders on the island, whoever racks up the most kills gets rewarded.
- Date/time: Wednesday 24 September, 7pm UK time
- Server: Any (Joint Ops)
- Event link
- Discord event link
Kill Week (PVP)
This is about thinning the herd. The other factions have been recruiting heavily since they landed on Lamang and we need to knock them down a peg. You are instructed to deploy to the AO and eliminate as many enemy PMCs as you can. However, we need these kills confirmed so we can assess the impact. Ensure you follow the brief to track every kill you make, the team with the most kills wins.
- Date/time: Wednesday 24 September, 9pm UK time
- Server: Any (Warfare)
- Event link
- Discord event link
Weekly screenshot/clip competition
Thanks to everyone for their entries and another successful week of our competition. Please find the winners below:
Screenshot: 2Ski with this entry, shown below
Clip: Helgulfr with this entry, shown below
Congratulations, you’ve both won a Tier 3 prize! Please check your in-game messages from Handshake for your delivery. Please contact TGxAltair to supply him with your IGN.
This week’s competition is now live so please post your entries in screenshot-comp or clip-comp.
Summary
Also, don’t forget to check out our new twitch channel where we’ll be casting events and hosting others in the community. The same goes for our YouTube channel, where we hope to add compilations of events.
Thanks
TGxAltair