[2019] All the raid tuning complaints are fine and dandy, but can the so called "fixes" for sound bugs, texture loading and especially enemy AI be adressed? Because all three of these became noticably worse since the "fix", instead of better.

I literally have more sound bugs than ever before, so do all of my clanmates.

Can you guys provide us with some examples? Please be as precise as possible. We're currently aware of a bug that stops all sound from happening for a couple of seconds and then plays all the missing sounds back at once. Please add if you have different bugs and especially when they occur, how often they occur and what hardware you're using, both in sound card / onboard sound and headsets + potential software.

Thanks!

And enemies behave even worse since the patch.

As Joker linked, we're looking into this right now. TU3 has surfaced some bugs that are causing this, so unfortunately we have to do a full investigation and create new fixes for these. I say unfortunately because I've seen players hoping the integration just didn't work properly, meaning it could be a quick fix. For now I don't have an estimate yet, sorry.

I can run across half the white house with 90% of the interior being invisible.

What platform are you playing on? Can you give us some screenshots and let us know if this is happening constantly, or after a while, when freshly logging in, etc.

Also just to reinforce this: Raid tuning (and I'm not saying this is happening right now) wouldn't stop us from fixing bugs. The game's health is always our priority, but we can also do both things at the same time.

We've seen reports as soon as immediately after maintenance Tuesday, when TU3 was applied. We think we have a good understanding now what caused it and it seems to have happened with TU3 not when the raid was opened.

The pure amount of hours played that one day of the patch being live versus what we can internally play-test is huge. We test every build and have dedicated QA/QC teams that do so as well. It's not like we're having a better time for you to find these bugs. We have to fix them and we'd prefer to do so before the content releases. I don't think there's any advantage of having them go live and find them there.

I understand the sentiment, but we don't open threads on reddit. We just leverage the info from here. The more info I get, the more I can forward. I can see that change in the future, but we would need to have more dedicated resources looking at reddit specifically.

As a Community professional for 5 years and having worked in triple A for nearly 9 now, I have never heard that ever. We even delayed Title Update 3 and the raid to further work on the patch. I understand that it's frustrating and I definitely agree (and the team does too) that those issues should be found earlier. But I'm in contact with the dev team, with QA/QC and just people playing the internal builds here every day. It's not like anybody is trying to hide these issues, they just were not found.

I also don't experience all of the issues described here. As you can see in my post history, I have the aggressive AI too. But I have not had any audio issues at all so far.

That's why we're so fortunate to have our community that will bring up these issues as fast as they do and also provide us with reproduction steps and other ways that help us identify these issues.

Thanks for the feedback, it really means a lot to us as well. We'll do our best to make it a better experience for sure.

Both the game and the raid received tuning during the delay. Also taking some part of a patch out of a patch and making it a different patch is a lot of work. Basically you build a patch by putting everything inside you want to push at the same time. That building process takes time and it's unfortunately (from my very simple understanding of coding) not like Lego where you can plug out the raid segment and push that live earlier.

Also, we think that the balance changes in TU3 helped making the raid as epic as it was.

The intention never was to have the raid with Title Update 2, which was the first, smaller balance pass. The raid was released later to focus on fixing bugs and also listening to the feedback from players about Title Update 2.

Our initial thought was to release the raid immediately with TU3 release, but with all the changes coming to the game we thought it's better to have a couple of days to update your builds and with the new loot rules also being able to get better gear, if needed.