It comes as no surprise that last minute content, added 3 days before Christmas, was broken. New content usually comes to us broken. That doesn't upset me as I've come to accept the new normal, however, what does irk me a little, was the timing of this years event update. Nobody wants to work over the holidays and so it baffles me that this update didn't go up a week earlier. Nothing like having broken content up for everyone to see over the holidays.
Anyways, this years "features" includes:
1) the return of the no credit bug, where you can spend 16 minutes fighting Clarence, rank in the top 10 even, and still not get credit or a reward (unless you count green secondary gear and I don't).
2) Nightmare Clarence's no tell, 360 breath weapon, that hits for outragous damage in a cone out in front of the bear, but also anyone in melee range beside or behind the bear.
3) wireframes that aren't sufficiently large enough to show the range of the attack. If you're just outside the wireframe you're actually 10 feet inside the attack radius.
Now I don't expect things to get fixed over the holidays, but I do ask the question why put broken content up so close to the holidays if you can't fix it? This isn't unplayable, it not even close to the worst glitches you had, but it is frustrating not knowing what killed you, or not getting credit for a fight you invited a quarter of an hour on.
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1. There are so many opportunities to beat Clarence, that you just do the next one and get credit. Most runs I've done take less than 10 minutes. I've only seen this bug three times out of about 50 Clarence runs.
2. That breath weapon is rough, true. There is no wireframe or BOOM or similar tell, but Clarence's model animation does indicate it's coming. Annoying, but not the end of the world. Someone will just rez you, and you can keep fighting.
3. The wireframes are a bit smaller than the attack radius, true. Now that we know, we just move our toons a bit further out.
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The one good thing is that star refills are pretty easy to come by this event. Some are on a time limit though, make sure you use those first.
I get that leeches are annoying, but it's, imo, far more irritating for those who do participate to not get credit just because someone might decide to hit once or twice and stand back. I think it's time to rethink how this needing to get enough points to get credit. At least when it comes to limited time holiday events. If it were something permanent like Cosmics that would be fine, but this event will end before they get around to fixing this.
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Clearly the content needed more testing time.
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Time to let the normal majority of the players onto PTS and get this game sorted.
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Personally I'd have just preferred if they'd given themselves enough time to fix things after it went live, never mind before.
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Well yes, I'm not an idiot. But it would be nice if the wire frames were accurate. Dude, when there's 30 people fighting a giant monster who can hit everyone, you can't even scroll up fast enough to see what hit you. We're talking 30 updates every half tick sometimes, that's not even counting people attacking Clarence. Sure I could copy paste and look through it later, but the idea that I can just switch tabs and check seems pretty naive. There's usually like 40 to 60 updates between when I died and when I can move the mouse over to switch to the combat tab.
Also, not sure how long it's been since you fought a giant monster like Clarence, but most of his attacks have wire frame tells now. There's usually no great mystery as to what killed you, unless you're standing behind a nightmare Clarence and start taking massive damage (more then 1000 through blocks even) and have no idea what hit you. It took me getting killed while standing beside him to realize it was his breath attack. I'm sure it's easy to see if you're at range, but in melee I usually can't even tell if he's leaning forward.
I fight giant monsters all the time. See link in sig. As for Clarence I just fought him a few hours ago and 4-5 times yesterday. You can make it easy to see by typing the following command into your chat box: /camdist 150
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Stop trying to tell people what to do though o3o
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Foxi as they are better known enjoys the game and thinks its good thats not sucking up thats just saying what they think. Forums should not be an echo chamber for special snowflakes.
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They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
I'll do that. I didn't know it was even an option. Why would seeing other people's combat even be an option? Thanks What does this command do?
I'd rather get trolled by Foxi now and then than have to put up with another doom thread.
Theres a difference between being a d*** and a suck up and Foxi aint and never will be a suck up.
Also I have defended you and countless others in the past does that put you and them in the same bracket as Foxi?
*edit* Foxi has also proven themselves to be better at CO than most of the people that argue with them with only Vixy or Lyn able to out play them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Which live changes has he actually criticized them over?
So Spinny is not a suck-up. Woop dee doo. He's still a very disruptive, trolling ***hat and you saying things like "I'd rather get trolled..." and "is better at CO than most people that argue with them" comes off as supportive of that.
I do team with the loon now and then they in all honestly love most of the changes but the Foxi also loves stuff like Dark Souls and really hard grindy stuff like Monster Hunter. They honestly do like the changes.
We might be WTF WHY THESE CHANGES ARE AWFUL ....but Foxi really does love them. Hard to wrap our heads around but its true. If you check my forum posts as a whole I kinda agree with you about many things wrong with the game except when you called Foxi a suck up. They ain't.
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Get it right or GTFO
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They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
With that said we've all been d&*ks.
Oh and the original poster was NOT at all overreacting.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
That . . . would explain a lot.
Don't want anyone getting the wrong idea, we share a guild but I don't play favorites and we ain't in any way shape or form friends. I ain't no cheerleader but if someone is good I will say so no matter what beef I may have with them >_>"
A thinking a few people on this forum need to adopt when it comes to Foxi ( and Dazee to some extent ). It doesn't matter if you like someone if someone is more knowledgeable about that game than you are respect the fact that they are.
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/bind numpad3 "camdist 150"
If you enter that into your chat box then whenever you press 3 on your numpad you will zoom out to 150ft. You can always zoom back in
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Well see now you're misrepresenting. I don't like grindy games - if you told me "hey this game has lots of grinding!" that wouldn't make me interested in it... probably the opposite if that's all you had to say about it. However, if a game has me doing the same fun stuff over again, and each time I do it it continues to be fun, then I'm okay with that. People often talk about grind being this evil thing while being completely blind to the fact that all games have you doing the same thing over and over again. It's especially humorous when the same people complaining about grind are also saying that they're not interested in new challenges, because new challenges are the only thing that actually makes new parts of a game interesting - slapping a new paint job on the same content is a way to trick people who don't think into grinding the same content over and over... kind of like taking your kids old toys, repainting them, and giving them to them as presents on christmas.
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EDIT* wait wut did we just get this thread accidentally back on track
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
My super cool CC build and how to use it.