Disconnects and loosing Trial Rewards
By
Capa_Devans,
Posted on: 2011-04-12 07:14 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
There seem to be numerous issues with the new Raids and the attitude I'm seeing from NC is "tough we don't care".
So far I've experienced:
- Random disbanding of the league mid Trial
- Crash to desktop without warning
- Sound loop lock up
- Rejoin LFG not working
I didn't care when the league disbanded at the second mob but I do object to losing the reward after waiting nearly an hour for the Trial to start, participating fully throughout the raid (including the final fight) and losing out because the game crashed as the final boss was at 3% health and I couldn't rejoin.
Any other TF I'd have got the reward for being on the final map. Even when on the tank team with Hami, a petition would get the reward returned to me. On these Raids I get "you weren't on the map and we can't verify anything".
So I would say to anyone right now don't play these TFs for the rewards. Because you probably won't get them and if you don't, no one is going to care. Apparently fully participating throughout the Trial counts for nothing.
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I've experienced all of these but I get the disband and crash only when the groups are larger than 12. |
Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
There seem to be numerous issues with the new Raids and the attitude I'm seeing from NC is "tough we don't care".
So far I've experienced:
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I am able to rejoin but this option is only available if you were disconnected.
Finally, I wish they would raise the queue number before creating teams. The LFG was suppose to make teaming easier but I wish they would set it higher like 15 users or more because 1 or 2 always drop. I was spending too much time loading and then aborting.
I forgot to add this. I notice this problem only during 3 red times/peak.
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Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
So far I've experienced:
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| So I would say to anyone right now don't play these TFs for the rewards. Because you probably won't get them and if you don't, no one is going to care. Apparently fully participating throughout the Trial counts for nothing. |
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Uhm. WHAT? The issue is less than a week old. And a lot of these issues were NOT evident in beta.|
Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
There seem to be numerous issues with the new Raids and the attitude I'm seeing from NC is "tough we don't care".
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Also, the root causes of said problems are not always obvious or easily fixed or quickly fixed.
Moreover, since the issue dropped, there have been two or three unplanned downtimes for maintenance (one of which was quite extended).
And from this, you draw "We don't care"?!?!?
The GM's aren't simply going to give you rewards because you said you've lost them. In the past, when certain TFs failed to award merits, etc, players weren't compensated. But the bug was eventually fixed.
I suggest you retoggle your Patience.
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Be careful, you just got the "Tactical Facepalm." This is the first weekend after a release. I'm sure their working on it. I'm sure they'll give us a patch next month after sound examination of the issues and concerns...|
Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
There seem to be numerous issues with the new Raids and the attitude I'm seeing from NC is "tough we don't care".
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I just feel bad. If others experienced what I did then the LFG is off to a bad start. I just queued myself and watched it load and quit all sunday night. I even walked out and got pizza and came back. It was hilarious.
"The event failed to start"
Just an FYI. NCsoft doesn't make the game, Paragon Studios does.
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I'm in the same category here.
Every other Trial I was on this last week ended up in a sound loop lock, total D/C to desktop, or the league was dropped back to homesite (aka Pocket D), teamless. Each D/C that happened, I was not able to rejoin the league after the first hotfix they did after launch (was able to the first time it happened, pre-hotfix).
One thing I'd say in regards to OP, I don't think NCSoft doesn't care, its pretty much Paragon Studios, and I know PS cares. I think the programmers and devs are working through all the info and data and trying to figure out how to fix these issues and making sure it's being done right. I don't envy them their task; the new hotness is on the street, being used by everyone and their grandmother, and they've got to figure how to fix this without screwing it up and chasing away players with multiple downtimes.
Hope they figure it out soon though. Not liking getting D/C'd from a great league just before the killing blows land on Marauder and/or Siege/Nightstar.
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One note I was the OP and I didn't say anything about them "not caring", I did say that i20 for all intents and purposes is in open beta on the live servers, we are all basically shaking the bugs out of the system the only way real stress testing can do. This is a BIG issue, there are lots of new systems and moving parts, I understand that, but I defiantly think it needed a little more polish before it was released on the unwashed masses. So best thing we can do with the situation at hand is report problems so they can fix them, I believe that dropping connection and having a reward rollback is a serious enough issue to merit immediate attention.
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Originally Posted by Major Deej
One thing I'd say in regards to OP, I don't think NCSoft doesn't care, its pretty much Paragon Studios, and I know PS cares. I think the programmers and devs are working through all the info and data and trying to figure out how to fix these issues and making sure it's being done right. I don't envy them their task; the new hotness is on the street, being used by everyone and their grandmother, and they've got to figure how to fix this without screwing it up and chasing away players with multiple downtimes.
Hope they figure it out soon though. Not liking getting D/C'd from a great league just before the killing blows land on Marauder and/or Siege/Nightstar. |
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Originally Posted by Residentx_EU
Be careful, you just got the "Tactical Facepalm." This is the first weekend after a release. I'm sure their working on it. I'm sure they'll give us a patch next month after sound examination of the issues and concerns...
I just feel bad. If others experienced what I did then the LFG is off to a bad start. I just queued myself and watched it load and quit all sunday night. I even walked out and got pizza and came back. It was hilarious. "The event failed to start" |
I'm not sure how good of an idea the LFG queue was.
Currently, with the rush, mostly leagues are only going when fully stocked.
In the few instances of LFG working, it drops in the second there's enough to meet minimum requirements. Leading to sub-optimal runs as your forces are barely enough.
I'm afraid that, later on, after everyone kits out, that we'll see LFG ONLY yielding minimum-members teams.
This is a well-intentioned feature that needs a bit of work to make useful.
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Oops, my bad regarding the NCSoft 'we don't care' statement, Thraxis; that was Capa Devens. Looks like I need to get better glasses and scroll up better.
Apologies.
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Reminder: MANY OF THESE BUGS DID NOT OCCUR ON BETA! And on the occasions I participated in Beta runs, there were healthy numbers of people involved.|
Originally Posted by Thraxis
One note I was the OP and I didn't say anything about them "not caring", I did say that i20 for all intents and purposes is in open beta on the live servers, we are all basically shaking the bugs out of the system the only way real stress testing can do. This is a BIG issue, there are lots of new systems and moving parts, I understand that, but I defiantly think it needed a little more polish before it was released on the unwashed masses. So best thing we can do with the situation at hand is report problems so they can fix them, I believe that dropping connection and having a reward rollback is a serious enough issue to merit immediate attention.
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And, unfortunately, there's NO way to account for the variances in server loads between high-traffic servers and low traffic servers.
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During 2 separate BAF's last night, the whole league and part of the league disconnected from the server, when we logged back in all of the ixp, merits, drops, everything was gone! The first time we were in the middle of the BAF and it crashed the entire league out and we had to reform, the second time we had just completed and the crash happened while zoning out. This was on pinnacle and the whole server crashed once last night as well.
Welcome to i20 open beta folks, now on the live servers for your convince!