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Originally posted by johnson_united

By the sounds of it yes, you should be worried, as it seems one of the ambassadors is in fact an A-Hole. I would suggest pulling them out of the loop regardless. What’s the benefit of sharing anything with them early? Promotional? Free advertising? Would they give feedback on patch notes that would in fact change what you plan to roll out in said patch? If the answer to the last one is NO, then the leaked post of yours could have been just shared with the general Reddit community. I would have been happy with it. It says hey, we’re working on it and we are almost there. That’s literally all we wanted to know.

Originally posted by greyves

You do what you and your company feels appropriate. Anyone who's a fan with a brain know that you guys care. Sorry that it got leaked, that was definitely inappropriate. Some of these players don't know how it works in the corporate world. You're a solid dude with the best intentions for the game. Keep it up, I'll be playing for a long while regardless of any of my criticisms.

Originally posted by Critical-Ad9247

I know there's alot of impatience. But u guys are doing fine. U can only do what u can do. There's still those of us that will be patient as u update when u can. We appreciate ur attention to the game and the fact that you attempt to address any issues we may present. Or what may come up.

Originally posted by johnson_united

Not a lot of detail there; it’s big, you’re working on the patch notes, and maybe it releases this week. That’s literally all the news the whole community was asking for. I don’t see how this is a blatant leak, there are literally zero details of what’s in it.

Originally posted by JibletHunter

How dare he communicate with the dwindling player base! We will make sure to communicate even less in the future as a result!

-PCF

Originally posted by ryderjj89

Patch is looking likely for a release tomorrow.

Source: Toby on Discord.

Edit: Since folks think I'm actually joking about this, here: https://i.imgur.com/WVIHjIs.png

Originally posted by xJVIayhem

Off the top of my head, here is a list of known exploits that were promoted by multiple creators or ambassadors, including those of good standing:

Reset your PC clock to refresh Vendor's Special Offer Exploit

Force-Close Game to Refresh Quest Rewards Exploit

Earthborn Gear God-roll Exploit

Force-Close on Crafting Exploit

Skip a new character to Endgame & Tiago to exploit resource scaling

Apocalypse Tiers Leveling Exploit

Final Arbiter Retries Exploit (yes, it's an exploit)

Boulderdash Exploit

There's one underlying thing with most of these as well, changes can be made in terms of mechanics to prevent them from happening, which has been done in some cases. Not saying that it's all "preventable" for lack of better terms, but adjustments can be made to fix them, or at the very least, reward the intended behavior. Granted, I'm not a developer, so I wouldn't know how feasib...

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Originally posted by NiceguyLucifer

Thanks for the update.

Those are all great reasonable points , but ...

There is a huge difference between getting loot, XP , progress in game because parts of the game are broken , and getting them with a 3rd party tool while creating content claiming they never used 3rd party tools.

Also , there is a huge difference between random players using any kind of cheats/exploits and even creating content around it, and an official Ambasador doing the same thing.

Originally posted by Electronic_Radish_20

Great post, well written, but also fundamentally wrong on one important point.

There is a world of different between an exploit (an unintended result from pre-existing ingame interactions) and an external modification.

Exploits are essentially things the Dev and QA team missed, and thats not intended as an insult. Corner cases exist in every implementation.

Third part tools modifying game code are a whole other ballgame because there is no world in which a dev or QA team could have caught that.

Philosophically it would serve the PCF team well to make that distinction and treat exploits vs third party modifications as different things.

I.e.: fix your end game loop instead of placing 50%+ of your playerbase who reset the final boss fight in TG into the same basket as someone who externally modified game files. If I wasn't the type to try to give someone the benefit of the doubt I would be rather offended by the implication you just made.

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Originally posted by hanZ____

Your definition of an "exploit" is ... interesting. Returning to lobby is in the same list as using external cheat-tools? Well, I should just give up and directly use trainers and stuff. Would not change anything as nearly all of us are already cheaters (anyone here, who never returned to lobby in the trials?).

But besides that: What about fixing your terrible design decisions (like loot-tables resulting in 99,9% of the loot being crap, terrible drop-rates of APOC gear, the most terrible and pointless grind in the newer gaming history or frustrating "targeted loot" areas (like one single item from the targeted loot in (purple) APOC quality as "reward")? I guess the amount of "cheaters" would drop drastically. And by the way: Fix the static, repetitive trials by adding some randomness in the mobs spawns or else. Thanks.

Originally posted by TheMistbornIdentity

I'll spare you guys the need to watch that one guy's video that people keep linking to: you need to add "-force -dx11" (minus the quotes, and mind the dashes and the space) in the game's launch options. Without those arguments, mine was still getting stuck on a black screen after launching.

I'd like to add that linking a damn video when the instructions are so simple is a waste of everyone's time. It's even worse considering that the actual launch option only appears on-screen for about 2-3 seconds before he moves on to showing in-game footage. He doesn't even stop to address it other than saying "it works with only one tweak".