It's always best to expect two wrongs for one right, and in case of Season 8 we can fear any of the following things:
1) Trait system is reworked, horribly fucks up balance even further.
Well if they touch it, they will likely screw up and working as intended until patches later.
2) Romulans are an actual mini-faction, have a full SB and Embassy, with the old costs
Well the problem with a Fleet and Embassy system for then is Rommy Embassy cannot be in New Romulus as its silly so its a new map (even if likely they just recycle Embassy Map since its a Rommy building anyway) the and Starbase Incursion also needs map since Fed and KDF maps are diferent, also Rommy Starbase would need 5 new models and of course a OPs map for it since they cannot just kitbash it like with the other floors.
The costs currently involved are the problem, when we got the Fleet System we had max leveled characters and we had alts, if they throw it long with the current costs this is really starting from nothing and if KDF struggles to T5 then Rommy will be dead in the water because even at mini-faction we have the commendation to work and everything else to work and we already know what grind the Fleet is, at least KDF had heads up with maxed characters as Fed did, just less people.
Its simply not something that is going to work with maybe 8% of the total players, they really need to make incentives to make people other then Fed but the problem is how its still stuck on Red versus Blue and as long that continues we will get a majority as Fed with the other factions wasting away because if they cannot make unique content for 2 factions they are not going to do it for 3, mini-faction or not.
KDF is getting a new tutorial, not much idea why ... I hope they just drop the whole "and here is how you shoot gun" bullshit since I already KNOW how I shoot gun, I have to play Fed before this for much levels you know?
Current KDF tutorial doesnt work because even if they do lock you in room until you learn how to shoot gun they dont have anything about how to drive Starship that is kinda funny as BoP play is very different that Fed and requires some different tactics, unfortunately they dont even take advantage of since you are stuck with a BoP you have Battlecloak and so make the tutorial explain those mechanics.
If you start at level 1 as KDF without knowing anything about the game, the current tutorial doesnt explain how to drive ship and you cannot understand how to drive ship because its not explained, also you cannot understand how to kill Fed because it also does not explain how BO and abilities work.
The current KDF tutorial doesnt work for level 1, no previous experience players, it always needed to be changed for that.
You can guess which is wrong is bound to happen.
Well not 3 since we been told that, they certainly made noise about KDF getting content but I will not be surprised if KDF and Romulans get to share content with KDF getting recycled Rommy missions ... but even that is something, last thing they got was "Alpha".
