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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - September 24, 2012
zer0niusrex
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We will be bringing the Tribble server down for maintenance to apply a new update.
ST.20.20120909a.10
General
ST.20.20120909a.10
General
- Updated the NPC pathing on several missions:
- Stranded in Space: USS Azura
- Barge of the Dead
- Shrine of Kahless
- Deep Space K-7
- Resolved an issue where players would not immediately receive their Transwarp powers from gaining Diplomacy or Marauder levels.
- Resolved an issue which prevented players that had not spent all of their skill points from receiving Diplomacy or Marauder transwarp abilities.
- The Acid Horta Hatchling no longer thinks it's made of crystal.
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Now I must ask, what's the status on a KAGE fix? I must haz my armor.:(
Agreed!,
made a new toon and got to level 50 in time for kage to break >.<
Assuming you mean Khitomer Accord ground, QA is looking at a potential resolution for that soon.
So still nothing about the Tier 4 "Marauders" outfit for KDF?
Figures.
If it helps the problem seems to be that the borg at transporting into the 'Shield room' later in the map,
Also an unusual bug happens if you use "/stuck" and have engineering drones about, they get transported into the room too >.> (i got stuck in my own cover shield used the command and my drones and shield vanished to the shield room)
Thanks for the info. We actually know what's causing it--bad pathing data.
We've got the path-finding drones working through all our maps as quickly as possible to catch all these issues, and we're also manually fixing several of them, which you can see in the patch notes for this build.
Yup I meant Khitomer Accord Ground sorry, thanks for the response.:)
I take it this is the same issue that is related to the NPC's and/or away team members warping thru walls/floors/ceilings and either dying or becoming stuck in terrain/geometry that is affecting most if not all ground missions currently? Yea I am praying this one gets resolved soon as it's currently a game breaker on several missions not allowing people to progress with storylines I.E. The Gates of Gre'thor where you can't even get thru the first gate.
One thing I would like to ask is this also related to the issue of the comet in Night of the Comet not appearing/not breaking up properly and causing that mission to fail also? As it seems unique that it's a space mission and space items with the problem as so far it seems like the issue has been confined to ground missions.
Space maps do not use path data like ground maps, so this is unlikely to have a role in Night of the Comet.
Hey - good to see you posting again. Hope you are feeling better.
Speaking of space maps, I ran Diplomatic Orders tonight and the support ships for the end fight with the Undine ship lost their way so I had to take him on alone. Luckily i was running this on a VA ENG with the Regent so it was actually a lot of fun. I got him down to about 50% hull and bored with it lured the undine over to where the starfleet ships were piking out. They eventually helped me kill the Undine and it completed but at level this would be a killer.
No fix for the Romulan plasma-weapon issues that plauge the Romulan missions? I for one am highly amused by ping-pong plasma but it really really should be fixed.
The reward BOFF costume is still bugged as well..... the last the Dev team even acknowledged this bug was Jan 16th, 2012... When we were told "Top People were on this"
Which is why I defend Ferengi's when people accuse Cryptic of being Ferengi's. Ferengi's wouldn't ignore 20% profit (20% is what they say is the KDF playerbase)
Glad you are doing better... Hopefully
I did get a proto body armor in KA today though
Temporary KA walkthrough:
Brings lot of Engineers...
Drop lots of transphasic bombs and chroniton mine barriers...
Repeat for about 20 minutes straight...
Kill the boss...
Have team meet in the console room...
Repeat bomb and mine method on all the thousands of borg inside the room
Collect your random loot bag
Hey now, i find it quite entertaining that the Romulan BoP's can determine if I am their enemy or their comrades are. Who am I to complain when they are shooting their own ships. makes my job easier and saves on Ammo lmao
*Junior Tactical Officer* But sir the cube IS right in front of us.
*Me* EXACTLY! Its right in front of us and you still missed it! Just step away from the console.
I know, I'm also really wanting this fixed too.
K'ymara, Orion Engineer. Caedera of Borg, Liberated Borg Tactical, Elyza Vix, Joined Trill Scientist. Christina Bellona, Augmented Human Tactical.
T'Lana, Vulcan Scientist. Arbol, Martian Tactical. Ayzer Bryn, Joined Trill Engineer. Hawke, Betazoid Scientist. Karna Valkras, Klingon Engineer. Beth Parker, Human Tactical
Sarel, Romulan Engineer (Federation). Yazuri, Reman Scientist (KDF)
It does not happen all the time now (only while changing instances - probably due to warp-out/warp-in animations?).
It is, however, now even harder to fix as when you change camera views back, it ignores the setting the first time you set it back to it's original setting.
So you are forced to do this each time it happens:
1. esc (when it works)->options->controls
2. set the cam manually to free (so it matches what it actually is already set to)
3. hit OK to exit the options menu and set the new setting.
4. esc (when it works)->options->controls
5. set cam to chase again.
6. hit OK to exit the options menu and set the new setting.
7. esc (when it works)->options->controls (again because the 1st attempt doesnt work)
8. set cam to chase again. (again because the 1st attempt doesnt work)
9. hit OK to exit the options menu and set the new setting. (again because the 1st attempt doesnt work)
This is *cough* highly inconvenient in battle (or on respawns).
1 month old (ignored???) bug report here: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=357061
This is our view of the complete game people, not some some vanity pet or minor quest bug we can always wait and play later...
Clearing your target gives you back control but its still VERY annoying.
Its tied to the engineer kit changes.
Take an engineer to a point where the borg should spawn but aren't.
Put a turret down.
If the DOFF for the turret kicks in and it spawns more than 1, the borg spawn along with it. Always. If its just 1 turret they dont spawn.
But it gets better...
If you drop just 1 turret.. and SWAP the kit... and drop a generator...
the borg spawn. For a second or two then vanish.
So it seems to me that when the engineer kit swap-prevention code was put in it did something to the 'spawn' triggers that rely on one npc spawning which 100% of the times trigger the spawning of other NPC's near it.
This is also seen in some ground missions where npcs actually spawn stuff of their own... if you swap the kit or get the doff to kick in and drop extra stuff the npc suddenly stops being able to spawn his own stuff. The tholian mission boss is a good example of it... it wont spawn crystals from the ground if you swap-kit and get the doff trigger.
So.. tell the devs to return engineer kits to how they were. Its much less aggravating.:D
And this is why we need longer testing times and greater detail in the patch notes.
Given two weeks on Tribble we would have caught these bugs, and there would have been time to make changes before going live.
*shrug* what do I know.
All the issues I have noticed relate to spawning eg: non-spawning comet shards, borg spawns in khitomer ground, boffs spawning in walls/under ship, players spawning in cmdr wildmans office on deep space k-7........hmm common thread seems the spawning not pathfinding .....hmm what changed recently related to spawns ... oh wait didn't a useful exploit for engineer kit that "spawned" things get fixed. After the bot pathfinders are done y'all ight want to look at the engineer code that was fixed
Patch Notes:
Fixed path finding in the Fire Cave
Known Issues
Broke path finding in every other mission
How this patch doesn't get rolled back is beyond me, its so game breaking it isn't funnny
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