The first bug was reported by ClingingMars on Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/7u6c0o/less_than_symbol_in_ingame_chat/
Has anyone else noticed that the < symbol is no longer able to be used for in-game chat? It will eat any message you put in after it.
The chat window currently strips out all text typed between a '<' sign and a '>' sign (including the '<' and '>' signs themselves). It appears as though the chat window is trying to parse HTML tags, but it doesn't do anything with them. I tried typing text between <b></b> and <i></i> tags, but the chat window doesn't actually make the text bold or italic.
In the same thread, Reddit user NeverObsolete reports that non-Latin alphabets are no longer displayed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/7u6c0o/less_than_symbol_in_ingame_chat/dthzjn6/
Yep, same thing on my end.
And much worse - all non latin alphabets are no longer supported!
I used the cyrillic alphabet with my friends all the time and now all of a sudden nobody can access it...
This would indicate that someone has changed the character encoding scheme used by the chat window.
The second bug was reported by Blackshap9. Apparently, fly-in text for loot rolls can no longer be turned off.
Floaters are flying across my screen in PvE queues when a player picks up an item in space.
Yes I have gon ein options/hud and turned everything floater related off.
Yes I went to notifications and un-clicked everything
This is a new bug, I am not the only one this is happening too...
The same bug was also reported by Orangenee in the Reddit thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/7u6c0o/less_than_symbol_in_ingame_chat/dti6z2v/
Probably something Cryptic did just because. Similar to how I now get item rolls in fly text now after the last patch.
Note that you will not find Blackshap9's bug report listed in "PC Gameplay Bug Reports", even though it appears in the "Latest Post" column on the right.
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Here is a direct link to the bug report.
http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1237933/cant-turn-off-floaters
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Thank you for the update. Does this include fixes for the fly-in text and non-Latin characters? Those bugs probably have a separate cause.
Odd, perhaps you can use the Latin-American keyb?, that have the @ in the Q letter, thou I don't know your main language..
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No it's set up for Scadinavian languages, Danish primarily. We have weird vowels, like æ, ø and å, as well as ö and ä. And @ isn't used much, or at all, outside mails (which has autocomplete in many cases these days anyway) so the symbol has been relegated to an Alt Gr shortcut.
I really don't want to change the language of my keyboard because then I not only have to guess where all the symbols are hidden, I'll no longer have access to crucial letters in my language. That would be kind of a bummer. Especially as this is getting fixed next patch. I can live with copy pasting for a few days.
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