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So I've put in a report and put one in on the forums as well, but no answers at all
teknesia
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Cryptic, why is my character using a costume that I don't even have for the character anymore during cutscenes?
Every cutscene, my character is using a costume that I made when my char sided with the Klingons that I later on thought was ugly and changed. It's no in the saved outfits. It's not in my five different costume slots. I don't know what to do, but it's a really weird and annoying bug. I feel like I'm watching someone else's ugly character play the game.
Any players have this same bug? Any work arounds that they've found?
I remember Trendy making some point about how she didn't like a certain type of thread and didn't like the term Craptic and then congratulated some poster for listing complaints. Why can't that level of acknowledgement happen more often? There's been absolutely no confirmation that any one even notices this bug or that it's important.
Shouldn't it be though? It's not game killing, but if I were a first time player and saw that, I would walk away as soon as it started happening and no one gave me a response.
Every cutscene, my character is using a costume that I made when my char sided with the Klingons that I later on thought was ugly and changed. It's no in the saved outfits. It's not in my five different costume slots. I don't know what to do, but it's a really weird and annoying bug. I feel like I'm watching someone else's ugly character play the game.
Any players have this same bug? Any work arounds that they've found?
I remember Trendy making some point about how she didn't like a certain type of thread and didn't like the term Craptic and then congratulated some poster for listing complaints. Why can't that level of acknowledgement happen more often? There's been absolutely no confirmation that any one even notices this bug or that it's important.
Shouldn't it be though? It's not game killing, but if I were a first time player and saw that, I would walk away as soon as it started happening and no one gave me a response.
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Yeah. Part of the problem is that originally I envisioned a half-klingon, half-romulan character, but that looked ugly. So... now that she just looks like a Romulan there's a problem apparently.
Not trying to be a butt here about it, but it's frustrating that there's almost no acknowledgement that things are being taken care of or considered. Instead, we get bits and pieces about content being removed, because that's more important.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Get used to it.
But, no response doesn't necessarily mean that they haven't noted or are not working on a fix for it.
My character Tsin'xing
You might have won my thread.
I don't think that's a solid argument. There seems to be a lot of things Cryptic does for STO that no one asked for or needed like removing content. On the flip side of that, how hard would it be to make a post of bugs acknowledged? Just a small tidbit on the status of the bug with a subject to change amendment at the end. I'm sure that the devs have a lot on their plate, but ultimately they build this game for people to play and enjoy, and solid customer service is part of that. Making the small effort to let us know how things are progressing in terms of these issues would go a long way, I think. Not acknowledging them or coming up with excuses not to is the opposite direction to go from satisfactory service.
Am I entitled to this? Maybe not. But I am a paying customer. That should matter. They should be so lucky that I'm willing to acknowledge my gripes with them instead of just walking away without giving them a chance to fix the problem and going to a different game.
My hat is off to Taco, Trendy, Borticus, and some of the other devs I see posting here lately, but it certainly feels like more could be done. I understand that the forums can seem devastating for a dev to argue with at times, but I'm not really asking for that as much as I am an understanding of how things are gong and what they are doing to fix issues. There doesn't need to be a thread of argument or anything. Just a simple list or statement.
Yeah. The character select thing is fixable by logging out with your ground avatar.
Actually, that part got me thinking that what Cryptic ought to do is make sure the wear command affects more than just immediate appearance. It's clear that some aspect of the costume change isn't updating.
Uh... what?
Thanks for the troll.
I had a reman alt get bugged in the same way so I deleted them and started over as soon as I noticed it happening. I realized a possible cause: Early on when you're given a mission to visit the tailor on the Romulan Flotilla - do NOT change your appearance or add another costume. The glitch seems to occur at that point - as my Reman do-over never got the bugged outfit. I didn't change their appearance at all until after picking an allied faction.
My character Tsin'xing
Yeah, that was a pretty cool look.
Also, that was on a cold planet. That was as intended to keep your char from freezing to death. Very different from an obvious defect.
Yeah.. that might be it. I did chance the costume at that point because I was going from a civilian outfit to one that has to do with running around with the Romulan Republic.
If I log out from Space, it shows the obsolete (and no longer in a slot) costume on the selection screen.
During the majority of cutscenes, it puts her back in the obsolete costume for the duration.
I can only vaguely one or two instances where she's in the correct, current costume for a cutscene.
My oldest character doesn't have this issue (when he started there was no Odyssey costume, after all), it's like the "default" was "locked" at some point.
Thanks for the response, but I already know about that bug. No, the costume I am referring to is simply gone. I got rid of it and there's another costume in whatever place it came from.
I did go so far as to make sure though that my first costume listed is one using entirely free to use costume parts and not C-store stuff, but it really doesn't make any difference. The ugly one is still the default.
Rock solid.
Thought about that too. I went into the folder and deleted them all.
Second, I'm not seeing a lot of useful details that could be useful in trying to reproduce it. That leads me to ask questions, and I'm not even a Dev.
What species was the characer? Again, not clearly stated. Alien?
Do you have an example of a cutscene where this happens reliably?
Do you have a link to a screenshot of the cutscene where this is occurring?
What's the character name@handle?
Do you have a link to a bug report somewhere else on the forums? Have you tried posting in the "Art" forum so an Artist can look at it?
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Well, I posted in bug reports, but nothing until today when someone else posted a similar problem in Art, which is not necessarily a bug forum.
If that had been a response, I would have gladly given those details. Questions like these may seem obvious to some, but it could be easy to overlook if they're not asked. Seems more of argument for better responsiveness.
KDF-Rom, species Romulan, every scene thus far from DR, a fair share from before it. I could easily take one from Kobali. Nila@dorko1
If they responded to every one they wouldn't have time to, like, fix bugs and stuff.
How much time does it really take to type up a list of known bugs? That sounds like a weak excuse.