Live Patch Notes - 5/12/10

Good job on adding more on the long list of STUPID fixes.

Having wasted 2 and a half hours to get to the stage where we were down to the green mitos and find ourselves utterly unable to hurt them (our fault for turning the difficulty on the earlier missions to stupid and killing everything although we ran that one on +0), I can't believe this change.

I really disliked this mission before the change as it basically means that some ATs might as well not have one of their powersets due to the untyped damage. It often turns into a debtfest on PuGs anyway.

With the current change it just means that the TF may as well not exist as it's completely useless to any normal group.

Revert it as it was, it was not easy before, particularly for PuGs.

Also please put a GMotd up saying that the TF is horribly broken, so more groups won't waste hours of their time getting most of the way through the TF before finding it's impossible to complete.

Redside is woefully lacking in TFs; and the LGTF is one of the very few they can do. Well not any more.

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Originally Posted by Castle I'll drop the protection some in a future update.

When?

I'm aware Dev's standard answer is soon but I'd like a bit more definition because of the Dev's recent habit of not following through.

Dr Aeon's stated "we will change the MA system in i17 or just after so that destroyable objects etc don't penalise players", a month later by Ghost Falcon changing that to "it'll be with GR". So forgive me I take "change in some future update" with a pinch of salt.

The MA alteration which was supposed to fix exploits hit non-exploiters more than the farmers. The announcement by Aeon hidden in the MA Lore section was at least an attempt at communication. Shame any goodwill that created went out the window when it was decided not to bother sorting out the screwup for another few months.

And here we are again. You messed up a TF/Raid. Then in the process of 'fixing' it, you make it undoable.

"Some future update" isn't good enough.

I like CoX, but recent issues have been shoddy (costume issues, TF broken, lag when zoning out of the base, MA mess). Communication, poor. Response to bug-reports, very very slow. I'm sick of bug reporting things and receiving standard emails from a GM who seems to be unable to read what I report.

An MMO constantly evolves and I can respect that. But I have no respect for poor forethought, lousy testing and an inability to remedy something which is messed up.

Raise your game, please.

actually castle just bump up the protection, for far too long weve had it good here. We need to be punished. Show us some FF11 love, could ya throw in some -xp too for defeats?

I don't get the removal of XP from the Origin of Powers arc. It's ALL FedEx missions until the end. That's a lot of time sink for no reward.

I'm seeing a worrying trend here. It seems like our devs at Paragon Studios are way understaffed and overworked. For so many issues now, the updates have had more potential than polish. Castle now seems to be on a drive to carry out retrospective QA and to micromanage all the deviations from original design PS's new hires have made -- apparently without understanding what things are like in game until they are pointed out to him by players (c.f. shield, LGTF Hamidon) -- while basic QA has been basically absent in spite of all the sweeping changes that have occurred.

GR is the obvious culprit for the crunch, and devs have invoked it as a reason why certain things end up on the backburner; but as GR gets closer and more GR-critical features such as ultra mode make it onto live, we find that they, too, have yet to receive the meticulous care some of us had been optimistic for.

What can we expect in GR? I know the bar is kind of low in this industry, and CoX/PS are doing comparatively well, but I think everyone, devs included, deserves better.

There's far too much srs bsns in here, Some people need to lighten up.

Edit: Entschuldigung an die Deutschen, die dieses Video leider in ihrem Land nicht sehen könne