Here's a bug I came across again tonight that always gives me a giggle:
This happens when tails, auras, and back items still show through automatic NPC temp costumes. I am especially amused when they are such drastic mismatches.
One graphics bug I think is still going on in game now is with some of the Crey mobs. It's with the Medics, I believe, but I can't recall if it happens with any of the other scientist-looking ones. Basically, when engaged, one of those little medical scanners will pop up right next to their head and go through the 'scanning' effect, like they're scanning themselves in the head or something. It'll always stick with me.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
No AT/powerset, AFAIC, is "undesirable." Give me a halfway competent player - or at least one willing to listen and go with the rest of the team - and we're good.
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I've got a couple of bugs, nothing too incredible but they were important to me as I encountered them myself.
Firstly, does anyone remember at one time, the texture for 'flack jacket' would sometimes turn transparent? I used it for one character, deleted them then cursed my mistake when the texture was fixed a week or two later.
Another one wasn't a bug so much as a quirk during the Halloween Event with an activateable door being placed in a location instead of just a texture of a door.
And the last personal bug...well, not so much a bug... I think it was just my computer slowly chugging away after alt-tabbing but...
Eastern Standard Time (Australia)
is 15 hours ahead of
Eastern Standard Time (North America)
which is 5 hours behind
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Found a few things in my screenshots folder:
The Titantic Tiberian Fiend
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Originally Posted by Mad Grim
"Just said No to Superadine", actually.
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I will be here for as long as I can. I already requested vacation days for November 29th and 30th as well. I do hope it lives on after those dates though. I along with Tony V and others are fighting for it to live on.
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BBkickit!
So back in 07 there was a "Kheldians only" bug that let a PB or WS use their dwarf form transformation
to "break" the emotes list. Once done the normal emotes were replaced with ones not normally open
to players i.e. using a boombox and playing Jumpy (bbjumpy) would make you projectile vomit.
This led to all sorts of fun stuff you could do but my favorite was by far the air tumble.
Using the boombox channel Kickit let you perform the animation of being hit with Ghost Widows
Soul Tentacles (except without the actual tentacles... or horrible death that usually follows 
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and it would let you tumble around about 10ft off the ground as if you were floating in
some invisible hamster ball/gyroscope contraption for as long as you wanted.
I made my first dwarf form PB just to have it and used it all the time!
There were tumble parties going on in Atlas with dozens of Khelds spinning/floating under
the Atlas statue but I couldn't find a screenshot (maybe someone else has one?).
Wish this one had never been "fixed." 
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On the subject of graphical glitches, there was a glitch on beta I was experiencing which I did not get around to troubleshooting yet. It caused NPCs to get distorted when they were a certain distance from me. Up close, it was fine. Very far away, fine. But as you approached them, there was an intermediate range where it seemed the model got deformed. What happened was, essentially, they got pinheads and their torsos were stretched.
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detail but in testing how many instances of the game I could run simultaneously
without lag (7 turns out) I turned all the visual settings down and saw this same thing.
I forget which slider it is but turning it up a small amount corrects it.
Holy mutant arms batman!
I remember when the 'card trick' animation was glitched. The neck and arms were really affected...
and remember the sideway faces?
�Many things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.� Another "was-it-a-bug" I encountered: the drop rates for salvage increased twice, so that by Issue 22 beta, it was double the published drop rates (I haven't checked since -- for all I know, it's gone up again). Was this intentional, or not?
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Here we go. I believe he had called himself "Klop", although that may have been another instance that I didn't end up screenshotting.
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This reminds me of a bug I found relatively early on in the game, back in 2004 or 2005; the outdoor map that had terrain like that of the very eastern edge of the Talos Island zone, with force fields on the west and south sides. Well, the force field on the south side went right up to the War Wall... but where the ledge did a jog inward, the force field continued straight up; if you got up on the ledge, you could just walk out through the gap between the War Wall's force field and the zone's force wall. The area outside was pretty boring -- it showed off even better that the map had been copied from the Talos Island geometry, as there were large holes in the terrain where the buildings had stood.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Nothing TOO fancy, but back when the Faultline revamp first hit, I found a hole in one of the crevices that allowed me to fly under the map, then up along the outside of the War Walls. I showed it to a couple friends, and we had some fun messing with people by pounding on the outside of the walls, begging to be let back in.
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"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
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You still can see NPCs in the Portal Corps building (the one at the base of the 'U' behind Tina McIntyre) walk out of a wall, across the lobby, and through a wall on the other side. For a while after the addition of Recluse's Victory, NPCs in City Hall would do it downstairs, too, sometimes walking across in mid-air.
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Originally Posted by TheNet
Even when things dont work this community can find the fun in it. Some wonderful bugs Lets see...
Way back when the game released the maps were not set up right so you would often see bad guys just leap through a wall. I remember having to petition those a few times. |
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
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Originally Posted by srmalloy
You still can see NPCs in the Portal Corps building (the one at the base of the 'U' behind Tina McIntyre) walk out of a wall, across the lobby, and through a wall on the other side. For a while after the addition of Recluse's Victory, NPCs in City Hall would do it downstairs, too, sometimes walking across in mid-air.
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And while I am sure there's no real connection, I discovered today that Roy Cooling, the guy who helps you solve the medi-porter crisis? In demorecord mode the name of his model is Model_Director11_Ring. Random naming weirdness, or is Director 11 messing with our heads?
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We can beat them, just for one day
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Originally Posted by srmalloy
You still can see NPCs in the Portal Corps building (the one at the base of the 'U' behind Tina McIntyre) walk out of a wall, across the lobby, and through a wall on the other side. For a while after the addition of Recluse's Victory, NPCs in City Hall would do it downstairs, too, sometimes walking across in mid-air.
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Was great working alongside some of you for the Extra Life event. It has been really hard on me, emotionally, to log in since the announcement so it was really nice to just get in there and play. Getting back into the game and just playing and teaming with others reminded me of why I love this game and its community. Though we may scatter, next year I hope we can all team up again to help the Children's Miracle Network.
Proud ex-member of Paragon QA.
I never thought the walking through walls or in mid air was a glitch! I just assumed there were paranormal people working there!
*** Spoilers for SSA2 ***
So I finally got on Beta today to run SSA 2 part 5. After completely clearing out the first mission I tried to enter City Hall to personally assure Mayor Morales that the coast was clear of all Nemesis assailants...
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Hehe, oops!
Probably the first and only time I wish there had been a Ruin Mage around to take out.
I can't call this a "favorite" glitch, but it's certainly something I found infurating: the broken map at the end of the LGTF. At one point, someone at QA told me that it had "always" been broken, which prompted me to make a video to prove that it worked fine at launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOPInTuOJ2I
Never got a reply after that, unfortunately.
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