[2019] Revive hive consistently screws me

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I have a 5s Revive hive/10s RCL build. The number of times revive hive has FAILED to revive in a clutch moment is beyond counting. I'm already seen as dead weight for healing instead of going the one build this game seems to want you to go, and to have my rez fail so often is just embarrassing. Literally my only job is to throw out powerful CLs and pick up anyone who goes down, it's untenable when half of my kit is a complete crapshoot.

Please fix it.

As a sidenote, I'm mindblown that on the PTR revive hive has a really long pickup time. Are you actively trying to kill the only skill build you claim to care about?

/endrant

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over 5 years ago - /u/ChrisGansler - Direct link

Originally posted by Sloi

I know that’s not how they designed the hive, but why couldn’t they just make it a binary item when it’s used for solo play?

Do you have it available? Yes? Then it 100% revives the player.

Is it on cool down? Yes? Then you can’t use it and therefore it won’t revive you.

I don’t know why it can’t be that f**king simple. Can someone explain?

Because bugs! If we boil it down, it should work like you're saying. If you have it equipped and it's off cooldown it revives you.

over 5 years ago - /u/ChrisGansler - Direct link

We're fixing a couple more instances of the Reviver not working properly with Title Update 3. Feel free to test it on the PTS right now and let us know if you find more instances of it not working.

Reviving, it turns out, is pretty difficult to get bug free due to some circumstances of how you die, with which effects on you and what you're doing while you die. We'll get there eventually, but I can tell you the devs put some serious work into fixing the bugs we found so far and it's unfortunately not easy and every bug needs its own fix.

over 5 years ago - /u/ChrisGansler - Direct link

Originally posted by RiChessReadit

I’m no game dev so I can’t even begin to understand the level of troubleshooting that goes into making something work, but why are conditions or circumstances of the death/down even a problem? Is it not a binary state?

Can you go into more specifics as to why revive hive fails so often? On the surface it seems like it should be simple, that’s why it’s so frustrating on the player end.

I can't go into details as I'm not a developer either. What I know is that certain instances can make it happen that you don't get revived. The thing I'm personally failing at is to understand what is a simple solution and what is difficult. Without knowledge of the intricacies of software development, I often times think something will be an easy fix to then find out it's not, or expecting something to take a long time when it actually is a quick fix.

Once we're certain the Reviver works as it should, maybe having one of the devs talk about the fixing process would be an interesting topic.

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