Cataclysm: Preparing For Patch 4.0.1

[Merusk]

 

He's snarky with shitty posters, if that's what you mean. I like it, personally.

Except he also does it to cover up his own lack of knowledge or understanding of the finer points of mechanics he's implemented.

[Ingmar]

I really don't think that his interactions with the forums does him any benefit nor the community nor the game as a whole.

I strenuously disagree. It is the only real window we have into what they're doing and why, and I find it immensely interesting and reasonably valuable personally. I always always always prefer when the devs actually participate in the community. Sanya et. al. are just wrong about that IMO.

[K9]

Fair enough, my experience is that most of the time when GC has some comment to make relevant to a class I play, it's usually about changing an interesting mechanic to a less interesting and generally less enjoyable one in the name of "fun". I do think he does get bogged down in petty clarifications too, but if you find it interesting then I won't deny you that.

[Typhon]

The last two weeks it seems like he has two moderator-type posts for every "here's what we did and why" or "we're still tweaking that" posts.  My thoughts are, "Really?  The game currently has a whole new crop of bug and balance issues and you're moon lighting as a forum admin?  Are you fucking daft?  Just concentrate on the balancing, etc, and let the mods do their job."

[Fordel]

Fair enough, my experience is that most of the time when GC has some comment to make relevant to a class I play, it's usually about changing an interesting mechanic to a less interesting and generally less enjoyable one in the name of "fun". I do think he does get bogged down in petty clarifications too, but if you find it interesting then I won't deny you that.

Well he doesn't need to post about mechanics that are working fine, only the shit that needs to be changed because it either sucks and/or is overpowered.

[Chimpy]

Devs shouldn't interact with the player base directly. That is a customer service/marketing job. Sure, they can read whatever they want, but devs usually don't have the training or skills to be dealing with the public. Any responses from development should be filtered by the CM types, that should be part of their job.

[K9]

Fair enough, my experience is that most of the time when GC has some comment to make relevant to a class I play, it's usually about changing an interesting mechanic to a less interesting and generally less enjoyable one in the name of "fun". I do think he does get bogged down in petty clarifications too, but if you find it interesting then I won't deny you that.

Well he doesn't need to post about mechanics that are working fine, only the shit that needs to be changed because it either sucks and/or is overpowered.

He rarely seems to fix the genuinely sucky though, and seems prone to picking apart mechanics that are actually quite fun.

[Ironwood]

He's awful.  He's case in point for Sanyas Shut The Fuck Up Theory.

[Fordel]

No, it was way fucking worse when all you got was the useless CM canned response once every 6 months. DaoC is like the poster child for shitty game to player communication.

[Ingmar]

Tabled.

[Fordel]

Ask again next report.

[Sjofn]

No.

[Nevermore]

Thanes do not have Evade I by design.  We have no intention of giving them Evade at this time.

[Ingmar]

 

Anyway yeah. I think there's plenty of value in direct communication from devs. When we get it from CMs it always feels like lies to me, probably because DAOC was my first exposure to that approach, and what we always heard in the weekly Herald updates, their online documentation, etc., was often really, really inaccurate.

[Fordel]

I think Ingmar should be a CM, "really inaccurate" is putting it real gently. 

[Sjofn]

He has all the tact in this family.

[Ashamanchill]

I've always liked Ghost Crawlers approachability so to speak, but I don't like his insistance on vision.

Also, where did the friendly squirrel go?

[Sjofn]

It was a bunny! And I dunno, I felt like a change. A change to horrifying monkeys.

[Azazel]

Is anyone else finding that alt-tabbing makes you really, really likely to get a linkdeath as of the 4.0.1? I never had the issue before, but now if I alt-tab while on a bird or somesuch, I'm almost always linkdeaded on my PC, despite usually still being ingame. Doesn't even take long. Just happened to me then, and I've been alt-tabbled for just long enough to write this post (2-3mins?)

[Setanta]

Is anyone else finding that alt-tabbing makes you really, really likely to get a linkdeath as of the 4.0.1?

Happens to me too

[Ingmar]

Just happened to me tonight as well.

[Ironwood]

Lots.  Don't you dare avoid the loading screen....

[Merusk]

It's the  landing when on a gryphon that gets you a disconnect.  You can alt-tab for the majority of the flight, but you'd better be back by the time you land or it's LD-land.

[Sjofn]

You kids and your not playing in a window!

[Ratman_tf]

It's the  landing when on a gryphon that gets you a disconnect.  You can alt-tab for the majority of the flight, but you'd better be back by the time you land or it's LD-land.

Most frustrating bug of the patch. I always alt-tab out to fart around on the web while flying a route.

[Selby]

You kids and your not playing in a window!

This.  I used to crash a few years ago when alt-tabbing too much until I switched to windowed mode (full screen).  Now the problems are gone, even with 4.0.1.

[Ironwood]

It hits the fps.  Sometimes extremely hard.

[raydeen]

The biggest bug for me so far has been that damned pumpkin in the Horseman instance. Just mousing over it causes me to lock up and sometimes disconnect. Talk about yer Halloween Trick.

[Rasix]

The biggest bug for me so far has been that damned pumpkin in the Horseman instance. Just mousing over it causes me to lock up and sometimes disconnect. Talk about yer Halloween Trick.

That's been fixed apparently in the recent point patch.

[Rendakor]

Wow, I haven't heard "linkdead" in a while. The pumpkin was crashing me a lot too; worked okay yesterday though.

[Xanthippe]

He actually spelt it the correct way. 

Merriam-Webster doesn't recognize it as anything but grain.  Shakespeare is not a good source for your grammar lessons.

What an odd coincidence.  I cooked and ate spelt for breakfast yesterday for the first time (and hadn't read this thread prior).  Either I cooked it incorrectly or it wasn't very good - I prefer oats or wheat to spelt.

/offtopic

[Xanthippe]

I never followed any of the other expansion, so I have little context, but reading mmo-blue tracker these last two weeks I'm kind of astonished at what an obnoxious douche bag Ghost Crawler really is.  Has he always been like this, or is it just the pressure of the patch having issues?

He's always been like this.

I'm not a fan.

[Xanthippe]

Is anyone else finding that alt-tabbing makes you really, really likely to get a linkdeath as of the 4.0.1? I never had the issue before, but now if I alt-tab while on a bird or somesuch, I'm almost always linkdeaded on my PC, despite usually still being ingame. Doesn't even take long. Just happened to me then, and I've been alt-tabbled for just long enough to write this post (2-3mins?)

What's this alt-tabbing you speak of?

I've been playing in a window as long as it's been an option.  A big window but a window nonetheless.  Why would you want to full screen?

[Ingmar]

Running in windowed mode can cause performance problems on some machines/OSes, for one. You can't vsync if you're running XP or earlier if you're in windowed mode I think, if you get tearing or whatever. There are other reasons, I forget if WoW has a 'full screen windowed mode' option but if it doesn't having the windows frame around the game can be a deal breaker for some people, that is often why I won't run games in windowed mode.

[Chimpy]

It has had fullscreen windowed for ages. It is how I played when I started having only one computer and needed to tab out to look at websites as tabbing in fs-windowed vs fullscreen was like a 20 second difference in speed.