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Haha... There wasn't really any reason other then it was for fun. In a lot of instances when you see a body you can find a duck who looks very guilty of the murder based on the propping.
As far as Hamish not stream as much it's because he is only one person with two hands. He cares a lot about the community but is now also doing the ngon stuff as well. His plate is very full like everyone else's.
I miss me some dev streams for sure.
Can we get some more information on this topic, please?
Thanks for the videos. I'll forward them to the team. We made some adjustments yesterday that were supposed to improve the situation but it's clear that it didn't help on all occasions.
We'll further look into it.
Can we get some more information on this topic, please?
Thanks for the videos. I'll forward them to the team. We made some adjustments yesterday that were supposed to improve the situation but it's clear that it didn't help on all occasions.
We'll further look into it.
Any chance you can sneak in a fix for the bullet/damage delay on consoles? I know people are really passionate about wanting that fixed so they can come back and play the game again.
We've made improvements yesterday. If it's still happening in the extremes where no bullets or a majority do not register, please feel free to send us some videos of these!
Thanks!
But if it is for console, it can wait another month or two, right?
We deploy all of our patches at the same time, doesn't make sense for us to not include fixes for a platform. But it can happen. We didn't wait for PC fixes and the past and sometimes we'll not be able to implement all console changes we want.
Doesn't mean that one platform is worth less to us than others. I understand that there's frustration on the topic of PTS as well and if there was an easy way for us to replicate this platform for consoles and have a lot of participants, we would.
Any progress on figuring out why you keep deploying builds with long load times? This is at least the third one in a very short time.
We have an understanding of what can cause it but for example the PTS loading times and the loading times that happened when the game went live had two different causes.
We'll continue to investigate. Thanks for your patience.
Read moreNow, I'm no game developer and can't speak for all the intricacies in detail but I know that just because you create some part of software it doesn't mean that you can predict at all times how this software will behave when you change things around. And change is necessary.
Noone has implied that. But if you are making a game with several teams world wide, and for more than 3 years you can't get certain issues under control, I'd say maybe you are biting off more than you can chew.
But of course that perspective is not very Ubisoft and probably not even a consideration at Massive. Everything always needs to be bigger and bigger, even when that means that the engine slowly but surely falls apart like the Springfield Monorail.
Yes, we are the people that produce it and in the end we have to fix it. It doesn't mean that it's easy or that we put faulty things into the game on purpose.
Again, noone ha...
We can have theoretical discussions around this topic forever. If you're currently not playing that's totally fair. I can't talk about anything 3.5 years ago because I wasn't here and I'm not arguing for people back then, as I don't know what happened.
If you think that the transparent approach to our communication is purely marketing I cannot change your opinion on that, so I won't try.
I understand that a broken game or broken parts of a game can be very frustrating and that disappointment definitely is justified. I'm not trying to claim that we're always able to deliver everything perfectly. But it's also unfair to state
Chris, we are talking about almost 3.5 years at this point, when can players of your game expect basic functions like a skill to work reliably?
when a lot of these systems work and when they don't work it's often times in rare occasions (after we made fixes). We're always going to try to improve and if ...
Read moreYeah, this is weird since some Massive employee commented on reddit, that they didn't have a fix for long loading times yet...?
We actually snuck that one in after the maintenance. It wasn't ready for the main patch and the original plan was to wait for the next patch opportunity. But people were really passionate about trying to improve the situation as fast as possible.
Read moreUnfortunately this has been several different issues which made these longer loading times appear.
That may very well be but these issues are not caused by a higher power like a natural disaster that's outside anyone's control.
This is your engine, your game, your code. All of these issues are inherently caused by noone but you guys, regardless of what the root cause eventually turns out to be.
The other day I was reading this heartfelt story about the reviver hive in your forums, which is a bug that's just about as embarrassing as the loading times bug, and just another issue you guys apparently can't get under control since the first game.
The whole thing was written like Ahab fighting Moby Dick but not once did you mention that this white whale was created by you folks.
If you can't get your engine or code under control, then maybe work on smaller scale projects that can be dealt with in a single team. At this...
If we're looking at software in two states "working" and "not working" it's pretty easy to say "It's not working so let's change it to working". While that's the ideal outcome it's not often that easy. Now, I'm no game developer and can't speak for all the intricacies in detail but I know that just because you create some part of software it doesn't mean that you can predict at all times how this software will behave when you change things around. And change is necessary.
We're not putting the blame on the software though, Yes, we are the people that produce it and in the end we have to fix it. It doesn't mean that it's easy or that we put faulty things into the game on purpose. The explanation on why some things require more time, like with the Reviver Hive, is meant to illustrate the process and that detailed feedback from players is much appreciated.
In terms of the hit registration issue: We made some improvements with today's maintenance, let us know if you're...
Read moreWill this be a permanent fix or should players expect this to come back with every patch now?
Bringing it back once is an honest mistake, twice is an embarrassment.
Hey. We know that it looks like it's the same bug causing the same issue. Unfortunately this has been several different issues which made these longer loading times appear. So while we have fixed the occurrences, we're looking into ways to ensure this does not happen again.
u/ChrisGansler Any update on leaderboards raid completions? since its still not fixed. So completed raid, no leaderboards, log off/on, completed raid again, still no leaderboard completions. I'm doing something wrong? i hope this is one of top priority to be fixed and if needs to deploy hotfix with 1hrs notice for server shutdown. We just would like to have an update please.
Yes. It seems like the fix didn't make it into the patch. We're inquiring what happened. Sorry for the confusion.
Read moreAs a software developer I know you're right but as costumer seems the priority it's to fix loot related things as fast as possible like bank loot cave.
I did the crate glitch 3 times and well it could drop 100 items and still hardly possible to get 5 decent items out of it, yes that's how bad it's. I run the raid multiple times every week, 99% of the time I get the loot using Z. Also every week one char can't get the razorback last key and well the crate loot it's as bad as everywhere else.
So after 4 months plus this should be priority, let people get 30 trash items a day won't ruin your game but people getting trash from whatever activities they do can ruin your game. There is none incentive to do anything in the game if I won't get anything good out of it.
Attributes can roll in a too wide range, like from 1 to 20%, so most of the attributes will be bad. A simple way to fix the insane amount of rng layers would be let people change attribute colors or may...
I do understand where you are coming from and can appreciate your sentiment.
That said, it would be incorrect to say that we prioritise fixes such as this over other fixes.
Loot is certainly going to have an overhaul, but as mentioned - overhauls of major systems takes time.
/ Johan
Update: This particular fix was not included in the maintenance as originally intended. We will be deploying it as soon as we can.
Thanks for the info, we'll look into what's going on with this.
Yes that was the most important thing to fix.
Long load times? Who cares
Sound bug? Who cares
Raid completion numbers missing? Who cares
Shitty loot? Who cares
People getting 30 loot pieces once a day? DAMN WE MUST GET RID OF IT RIGHT NOW
Some things are easier to fix than others, that is just the reality of development. Let me run down the status on the things you mentioned.
Long load times - Improvement were made today, we are monitoring it but it seems to have solved the issue.
Sound bug - Working on various sound related fixes with high priority.
Raid completion numbers missing - We will be looking into this one.
sh*tty loot - As announced previously, it is on the list of things to be overhauled. Larger overhauls take time to get right.
We recommend to try this workaround for the time being, while we work on a permanent fix.
/ Johan
Glad to hear it.
Is anybody still experiencing long loading times booting up on PC?
Fix. It.
Yes.
In the meantime an official statement about the workaround could help. Alot of us have figured out if you fast travel from the raid back to the BoO, and then fast travel back the keys will be there after reloading in.......its not optimal if you're trying for speed runs, but you can at least get the keys if it glitches out with a simple bit of fast travel trickery.
Hey. We'll add that to the known-issues list, thank you!
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