DarkGob

That same article lists Suppression as "historical" information that "no longer applies".

Nonpositional attacks aren't anything new, I believe a couple psionic attacks are nonpositional.

For the record, the game being a cheating jerk isn't anything new either (see: Master Illusionists).

Yes, but meanwhile you're being pummeled by the ambush, which can be fatal for some ATs.

See, it's so easy!

I agree with Lemur, no reason it couldn't just use the time of whatever system is running it.

As to the original suggestion in general, the devs definitely need to make better use of the Launcher as an informational tool. They've started to do a little better since the launch (pardon the pun) of the NCSoft Launcher, but it really does bear mentioning that not everyone uses the forum, while everyone does use the Launcher (even if you normally bypass it and just launch the executable, you still need to use the Launcher to patch).

To be fair, they've wedged a lot of the neat cool new systems we've been getting into code that was never originally designed to work that way, so yeah, I would guess it's a bit of a spaghetti mess at this point.

I find it weird that you're making such an assumption when you have (I am assuming) precisely zero knowledge of what's going on behind the scenes. They could have one person whose job it is to work on this problem, when they have the extra time to devote to it, who just hasn't been able to figure it out. Bugs aren't some thing where you just look at the code and immediately know what's wrong with it. I don't know if you've ever programmed, but you can really get the strangest quirks of output from something totally mundane that you would never expect to look at, like a minus sign instead of a plus sign.

This sort of thing always reminds me of that Kenan Thompson character from SNL, the "FIX IT!" guy. No suggestions or reasonable expectations of anything, just FIX IT!

Or this.

There are a lot of bugs that haven't been fixed. This one ranks quite a bit lower, IMHO of course. Which isn't to say it will never be fixed -- I've been reading that the infamous Lag Valley of the ITF has finally been resolved. That map had quite a few more performance issues than the last mission of the LGTF, but it was still fairly low priority because hey, it's not like people couldn't complete the ITF at all because of it (far from it).

I honestly don't see them tearing down an entire problem and building from scratch when the problem is low priority to begin with. And it is low priority. I've already listed one bug that is (or damn well ought to be) higher priority. Over on the Beta Forums there's a thread about "trap purchases" and I think Masterminds are going to be a big trap purchase that a lot of free players will be rightfully pissed about when they discover they've purchased a lemon archetype.

And I still do not buy your argument from your OP that development of any other kind is inexcusable when there's a long-standing but ultimately minor bug on a single map that is used once (oh, I guess the same thing happens on some Shadow Shard maps, but don't try to tell me that sees a lot of action).

I hope by "revamp" you mean "remove from the game entirely, nuke from orbit, then travel back in time to prevent them from ever existing".

Because that's the only way to be sure.

Sorry but I'm gonna have to go ahead and /unsign this part.

Also going to /unsign you very rudely telling me how to post.

I actually kind of like this suggestion. Hunting down objectives gets to be a major hassle sometimes. Sure, the devs put a feature in to make this less annoying, problem is as others have said it rarely works right. At the same time I wouldn't want to say "no puzzles EVER", but "look around until you see/hear the glowie" does not a puzzle make, the sooner the devs realize this the better off the game will be. More action would be awesome, though, stuff more along the lines of the Incarnate Trials.

Well you're posting on a public forum, so I think I deserve some right to think about what you think. But hey, that's just my opinion.

Bull pies. Maybe this is true, but I've never experienced this. I certainly don't recall it on the LGTF I ran the other night, Scrapperlock may have had something to do with that but I definitely remember targeting enemies clear across the room (even if I couldn't see them).

The people who design how a map looks and its general layout have nothing to do with code. (Maybe issues that come up in coding require the design to be tweaked, but that's a separate matter.) That's the point I was making. The OP seems to think that Paragon Studios is a homogeneous environment where everybody can do everything. The people designing floor plans for new maps should just drop what they're doing and figure out why the last room of the LGTF doesn't quite render right. Not happening.

It absolutely should have been fixed by now, but let's not prop up newer content as the reason why it hasn't been fixed. That's a garbage argument, and a garbage excuse. Besides, I'd much rather see bug-fixing resources focused on more important bugs, like the aforementioned Mastermind zoning bug (and how did I manage to forget about the useless pet AI???). How's it going to look when a new player purchases Masterminds only to discover their functionality is crippled? That's what priorities are all about.

With any luck, Freedom will mean more revenue and thus more resources to fix this stuff.

Found the link on the page for Blue King Studios.

And as I stated, it's low priority. My team that ran it earlier didn't have any trouble getting to the generators.

Areas of development that have nothing to do with bug fixes:
*New zone design
*New skins for existing maps
*New powerset design
*New system design
*Entirely new game paradigm design

Your sports metaphor (whatever point you were actually trying to make with it) doesn't apply and/or is inaccurate because the entire team doesn't focus on the same precise objective. Different members of the team have different roles to play. In soccer or hockey, the goalie isn't tasked with attempting to score goals with the rest of the team, nor is the front line tasked with protecting the goal.