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Quote:To clarify: We've known about this since shortly after I15. I looked at the powers and marked it as Working as Designed since the powers worked properly. About 2 weeks ago, it came up again, and I looked at it again, and determined that, yes, there *is* a problem, but it isn't in the power itself, it's located somewhere in the guts of the timing system. You know, that same system that causes Oil Slick arrows to not ignite every now and again.Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
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LOL, I can't imagine no one bugged that STF bug.
Methinks BaBs may have been out of the loop on it.
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After a quick chat with Castle, no...it appears we weren't aware of this particular issue. He's chalking it up to some recent changes with AI and we're going to evaluate what might have changed and how it affects the task force.
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Quote:Been done. Castle isn't PVP spec'd, but even so he didn't do THAT badly against Johnny Mercone in the I13 testing phase. I think the final score was 4-1 in his favor. I was expecting worse...Originally Posted by Golden Girl
You just want to gank Castle, don't you?
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Last I'd heard, the Dom changes weren't expected to make it in until after I15 actually went live? Glad to see this is happening ahead of schedule! This is where Beta actually begins, as far as I'm concerned. I'll transfer the most current versions of my Mind/Psi and Plant/Thorn over to test as soon as I get home tonight.
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They were not supposed to. However, schedule conflicts basically meant it was now or never* so, I chose to go with now.
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Way to completely nerf psi shockwave. GJ devs
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Psychic Shockwave was a 25' area effect power that did single target damage instead of Area damage. That *was* a bug that we allowed to stand until this point, since we were not happy with Dominator Performance as a whole. Now that we have the wherewithal to make the scale of changes seen here, it was time to fix that particular issue.
The power *still* does not obey the exact formula -- we purposefully gave it a damage bonus over what it calculated out to be in order to somewhat preserve the AoE effectiveness of the set as a whole. We did the same with Psychic Scream. We also put these two powers on the Melee damage scales instead of the Ranged tables as well.
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A_C -- Good luck in college! You'll be missed here on the forums.
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Quote:Ok. It's something we've discussed and have a design for. It is *not* something currently on the schedule.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Comment about cross server pvp please.
PLEASE.
Come on... Don't ignore meh
Everyone wants something like this; the trick is figuring out when/how to get it onto the schedule and whether or not the increased infrastructure would be cost effective. -
Quote:Yes, they are very rare. This is by design. Since they drop from players, they pretty much *have* to be rare.Originally Posted by Coldmed
you gotta be kidding me...i know your busy and all..but theres no way you wanted pvp recipes to barely exsist at all at this point do you?
the drop rate is making recipes over 1 billion for one recipe. theres no way this is working as intended
i know were busy and all..but you have to look into the drop rate. theres no way its right.
Think about it this way: Say there is a 1 in 10 chance of a recipe dropping. In normal PVP play, that would make it relatively uncommon and a decent drop rate. However, players could also line up and let a friend kill them repeatedly. Let's say in this circumstance, a player can kill an average of 10 characters per minute. That would mean 1 recipe per minute, roughly.
Our reward scheme is not as naive as what I outlined above, there are other checks to help prevent the Conga Line of Death style of farming, for instance. Still, there are major concerns regarding these becoming too prevalent.
Now, all that said, I'll ask the Rewards Team to take a look at the data and see if we are happy with the overall drop rate. -
Quote:You have NO IDEA how much I've yelled over this particular issue. All I can say is, we're working on it...and it CANNOT possibly be fixed fast enough for my own tastes.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
OK, I've had about as much as I can take of this nonsense. I try to be a reasonable person, when my first reaction to the new boards software was "What the hell, man! What the hell!" I thought I'd keep my cool and just give myself time to adapt. New forum software, new interface, a lot of stuff to learn. It'll be all good, right? Wrong. Not when a basic functionality such as going to the first unread post completely and plainly doesn't work.
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Pie
Pie
Me oh my
Nothing tastes as sweet,
wet, salty and dry
all at once
oh well it's pie
Apple!
Pumpkin!
Minced
an' wet bottom.
Come to your place everyday if you've got em'
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Quote:If I could get a twitter page to always display the most recent tweet in "Castle Says ..." format, I might just do it.Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
Then I suggest you do so - we must know how GR is coming along
Probably not, but...maybe. -
Excellent post, Dark Current.
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Quote:I don't use Twitter.Originally Posted by Desmodos
Maybe I missed a post somewhere or something, but it seems the Devs are now exclusively posting on Twitter?
I gotta say, I HATE Twitter. If at all possible, I'd like some clarification on this. Is this a temporary problem with the new forums or are we expected to subscribe to Twitter to hear directly from the CoH Devs now?
As others have said, the Dev Digest is kinda broken at the moment. Once it's fixed, you should be able to see our posts a bit more easily. -
So, what you are recommending is we add 33 Attributes which have an Area effect which checks each server tick per defender? I can tell you now that that *would* have a significant impact on server performance.
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Quote:Yep. Quite happy with the programming crew about now. Funny: we somehow missed this in the patch notes, but there was another note that referred to it in the known issues list. One of the beta testers noted it and asked, which got me to realize the note was missed and that prompted Posi to twitter which brings us back around to this post.Originally Posted by ShadowNate
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Quote:You are correct, suh!Originally Posted by Gaderath
I'd assume, in the closed i16 beta boards.
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Quote:Correct! And, since it is new code, it happens to be something very important we are testing with I16. And, oddly enough, we've found a couple nice large bugs with it already!Originally Posted by Red_Valkyrja
I'm pretty sure the code is meant for all servers (he did mention Freedom) so that during heavy play times (2XP, new issue releases) that people logging in to servers will now get placed in an access que to enter.
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Quote:Unless you are authorized (ie: Have a Beta Invite) you should not be able to get to server selection or character creation.Originally Posted by Gr33n
i still cant tell what the answer is???... lol.... am i stupid or what?
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My understanding is that some of the code which has been written has a side effect of locking out anyone who is not supposed to be authorized from getting to Server selection, much less character creation. Earlier, that code did not appear to be working, which is why folks were able to see the character creator.
The servers have been taken down (meaning, not even Beta testers can get to it at the moment) until this issue is fixed.
Now, amid the cries of "Unfair!" and "Why change this now?" I'll explain the purpose of this code change. What we've done is instituted a "Queue" server, so that on really busy weekends, Freedom won't be listed as "unavailable" if it is full, it will simply put you into the "next available slot" queue. Hopefully, this will alleviate some of the issues that crop up from the full server problem. -
Couple notes:
The Hitting post death thing has always happened but it was fairly restricted to which powers caused it prior to I15. Engineering has found the cause and a fix should be in I16.
As for the AI being alerted as soon as you activate a power (and not on being hit or missed by the power) again, this has always happened but been relatively unnoticable due to certain other restrictions. By broadening the tolerances of those other restrictions (which gives me some freedom to do some things that previously were not possible) this issue became much more visible. We're still looking into solutions to address this in a better fashion. -
Quote:Whoo hoo!Originally Posted by Doughboy
Looks good so far.
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Yep would of loved therm and fire but instead we get Traps and AR??? whats up with that.
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to me it's a toss up...
Emp/Fire is a combo i've wanted ever since I became the self-proclaimed Emeril Lagasse of Empathy...
TA/AR is a combo I've wanted since I realized how brokenly powerful the combination will be.
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Empathy/Fire? What would your character name be? "Feel the Burn"? -
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Google is griefing your pic!
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Edited link. Try now. -
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I volunteer to massage Castle! Since Castle is the only dev I haven't seen a picture of, I MUST assume that Castle is a HAWT FEMALE...
...ummm.... named Floyd.
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Oh, are YOU going to be disappointed. Here's a pic for you:
Click at your own risk!
That's Dark Watcher, Me and Synapse (Left to right).
EDIT: I see JJDrakken beat me to the punch.
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Incorrect...unless something happened between Friday and now, which I seriously doubt. -
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I've got good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
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Ok, THAT got a laugh out of me! Very nice.