Since no one else has said much about the new challenge after it's release, I thought I'd say something about it.
In my opinion, it was a good update, the game needed some new PvE content and this added a new way to kill some time in between missions, rare hunting, grinding and so on. Now, while the main reward (War Score) isn't of interest to me, the fact that the Mantis drop Cryonite makes it still worth playing in my eyes.
Despite it's small map size, Arkon looks like a pretty cool planet, it's a interesting hybrid between some of the elements of Baumar, Mars, The Moon and Gazica, plus Draconis now looks fully finished off with Arkon now on the Star Map, not to mention Draconis as a star system feels more unique with this new addition.
From what I've played, the balancing seems fine when I played in a squad of three with some friends, it starts off fairly tame but after a few waves, it begins to get more challenging so the pacing is good.
Another thing, although the servers were acting up at the time, the update it's self was pretty much bug free, the only bug I saw was the location of my buddies/squad mates was showing the code name rather than the real name, I.E. 'Draconis4orbit' instead of 'Orbit of Arkon' but this is merely cosmetic and nowhere else is effected, only Arkon.
As for improvements, all I can think of at the moment is having a special set of blueprints that can only be found on Arkon from the Mantis waves, maybe the Mizar Sniper Items and a new set of rare Defender items for Mizar and Sol, plus, a Drone or two perhaps. Having a Rare Mantis show up after so many waves would be cool too.
All in all, it's a nice, new feature and I hope some more stuff and possibly some more rewards will be added to the challenge.
In my opinion, it was a good update, the game needed some new PvE content and this added a new way to kill some time in between missions, rare hunting, grinding and so on. Now, while the main reward (War Score) isn't of interest to me, the fact that the Mantis drop Cryonite makes it still worth playing in my eyes.
Despite it's small map size, Arkon looks like a pretty cool planet, it's a interesting hybrid between some of the elements of Baumar, Mars, The Moon and Gazica, plus Draconis now looks fully finished off with Arkon now on the Star Map, not to mention Draconis as a star system feels more unique with this new addition.
From what I've played, the balancing seems fine when I played in a squad of three with some friends, it starts off fairly tame but after a few waves, it begins to get more challenging so the pacing is good.
Another thing, although the servers were acting up at the time, the update it's self was pretty much bug free, the only bug I saw was the location of my buddies/squad mates was showing the code name rather than the real name, I.E. 'Draconis4orbit' instead of 'Orbit of Arkon' but this is merely cosmetic and nowhere else is effected, only Arkon.
As for improvements, all I can think of at the moment is having a special set of blueprints that can only be found on Arkon from the Mantis waves, maybe the Mizar Sniper Items and a new set of rare Defender items for Mizar and Sol, plus, a Drone or two perhaps. Having a Rare Mantis show up after so many waves would be cool too.
All in all, it's a nice, new feature and I hope some more stuff and possibly some more rewards will be added to the challenge.