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Post by Lantesh on Nov 16, 2013 14:11:15 GMT -5
So it came to my attention that Cryptic broke CO pretty badly this week. That sucks. But I want you CO people to know that you aren't alone! Cryptic also managed to break STO pretty badly this week too! After all, they can't just leave only one of their games broken. Oh no, that just won't do at all. First up was the proc bug. Instead of having our passive abilities affect the enemies we were shooting at, they backfired on us! We literally killed ourselves for a few days there. That was fun. Next up is a really fun one that I have screenshots of! Missing item icons! i.imgur.com/FdhgLv0.jpgBlinding white missing textures of doom! i.imgur.com/xRY1upT.jpgThe amazing missing/see through UI! i.imgur.com/FdgBItw.jpgTasty orange glowy things! i.imgur.com/1qrJA3X.jpgAnd my personal favorite of them all...Blocky Minecraft space combat edition! i.imgur.com/QGirNzK.jpgIt's a pretty wide spread issue affecting a whole bunch of us. This usually happens around 20-40 minutes of gameplay. The only way to fix it is to exit to desktop and relaunch. Cryptic tried to pass it off as latency at first, but eventually admitted it was a problem on their end. So as I sit there talking to you on the SECRET channel, this is what I see lol. Oh and not to mention other random things like a good amount of people who can't even log in since the game crashes on launch. Or the whole when you use a consumable item it just vanishes from your hotbar instead of being used. That's a fun one too. So you see CO, Cryptic is really thinking about you here. They don't want you to be alone in your broken game-ness, so they decided to share! Isn't that just so thoughtful of them? I mean breaking 2/3 of their games in a single week is <3. I'm very impressed.
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Post by Lantesh on Nov 16, 2013 23:35:48 GMT -5
So. Rather than logging in and out constantly, I decided to tempt fate and see what would happen if I just muscled through the jacked up graphics. It uh...it didn't work. Have some more amusing screenshots of broken-ness. Enjoy. i.imgur.com/lW2b5S2.jpgi.imgur.com/slKx1AA.jpgi.imgur.com/MBD6Nf5.jpgThose shots I posted before? Those were after around 40 minutes of play. These ones here are after around 3 hours. Apparently the graphics continue to gradually degrade until the game is literally unplayable. Yay. Maybe I'll play CO or something tomorrow lol.
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Post by TheBlueRabbit on Nov 17, 2013 7:08:43 GMT -5
Wait...so they broke something and it actually isn't hitting ME? It's a sucky thing, but I have to do a small happy dance for minor miracles.
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Post by Lantesh on Nov 17, 2013 9:16:42 GMT -5
That's a first isn't it? Haha. But yeah, very lucky you don't have to deal with it. We're pretty sure it's a memory leak of some kind. The weird thing is that it doesn't seem to be any particular type of setup that's getting this. Some, like me, have old rigs and see this. Others have brand new top of the line rigs and still get this. Others have decent rigs but don't get it. It's pretty random. So you totally dodged a bullet on this one.
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Post by Meegatron on Nov 17, 2013 13:00:33 GMT -5
Ah, yes. Season 8 not only introduced new content to STO. But also introduced and reintroduced twice as many bugs. Bugged graphics, broken costumes, broken AI, broken maps, broken quests.
Cryptic.
If this company was bigger, they could be named Electronic Arts of MMO market. Equally bad.
Or maybe not. EA games are shallow, but at least have QA.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 14:10:42 GMT -5
My son logged on yesterday to try the revamped Federation tutorial and got hit with a 1000% extra bloom bug...while the bloom option was disabled. The bridge of his Miranda looked like your average hollywood white room full of nothing cliche concept. After logging him out and logging into my account I found I wasn't being affected. Re-logging back to his account saw the same issue return.
Definitely one of the most weird bugs I've ever seen.
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Post by not1stepbackwards on Nov 19, 2013 8:33:29 GMT -5
The bridge of his Miranda looked like your average hollywood white room full of nothing cliche concept. Ha! Great description. It's like if Q was visiting.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 10:32:31 GMT -5
The bridge of his Miranda looked like your average hollywood white room full of nothing cliche concept. Ha! Great description. It's like if Q was visiting. If only that were the case. In fact, I'd love to play a mission where the textures purposely start going nuts because of Q's meddling. Maybe have him show up on your bridge talking about technical difficulties.
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Post by Lantesh on Nov 19, 2013 11:39:42 GMT -5
That would be a great way to make fun of this bug.
Actually, Cryptic does that once in a while. When the servers had problems at launch (or close to it anyway) a thread popped up titled "Shaka, when the servers fell." Cryptic got enough of a laugh out of it that they gave everyone who had an account at that time a Tamarian Envoy title and a Tamarian badge.
There was a second major bug that caused K-7 to completely disappear. It was game breaking because it has missions that require you to go there. After they fixed it, they put a few NPCs in the Admirals office (or near it, I can't remember exactly) which featured a group of Starfleet security officers interrogating a Klingon operative. They question him about why he cloaked the station and what he hoped to gain from doing that. He just stands there and says "I'll never answer to you Federation dogs" or something like that. As far as I know, they're still there. Also if you go to Drozana, several of the NPCs there make references to that. There's one pair by the ramp up to the vendors that say "...and then he cloaked the entire station! It was brilliant!"
The last one that they did was with the transporters on Qo'nos. There was a bug that caused the transporters to send you to the wrong location frequently. It turned out to be a nasty bug that took them several tries to fix. It got to the point where the dev trying to fix it joked on the forums that if his latest fix didn't work, he was going to execute that NPC in a true Klingon style. The fix didn't work. So when he did eventually fix it, he replaced the old NPC with a new one. So now when you talk to the NPC in the shipyard, you get an option to ask what happened to the old transporter officer. He just replies, "Executed for incompetence."
Would be awesome if they passed off this latest graphics bug as Q messing around or something.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 12:37:00 GMT -5
I remember the Shaka server thread, it was glorious. My main Federation character still wears the title.
I also remember the Klingon transporter operator execution, but I had no idea that K7 disappeared. Now all of that NPC banter makes sense!
If Q gets blamed for the latest bugs I'll kamikaze my ship into the first Borg vessel I see.
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Post by Lantesh on Nov 19, 2013 19:05:07 GMT -5
Quick derail, but going to post this here since this is the currently active STO-ish thread. Free TMP uniform giveawayInput email, get code, get uniform. Simples.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 19:59:03 GMT -5
I'm getting a "We're sorry, but there are no more Code available." message trying to sign up for a code.
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Post by Lantesh on Nov 19, 2013 22:30:22 GMT -5
Huh. I just tried with an alt email I have to see if I could grab you one and I'm getting the same message now. I guess they ran out really, really quickly. O.o
Sorry 'bout that. Didn't think they would go that fast. Maybe they'll refill the codes like Alienware did with their CO giveaway.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2013 6:17:19 GMT -5
In the meantime, here's a TOS Mirror Universe uniform giveaway. www.mmobomb.com/giveaway/star-trek-online-free-uniform4Be sure to check the Z-store's appearance tab to claim the uniforms after you've applied the key to your account. There were ~3400 keys left as of a few minutes ago.
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Post by Meegatron on Nov 20, 2013 11:06:19 GMT -5
Yeah, that was probably the quickest giveaway ever. Only few dozen keys for TMP outfit. But then, I'm not using Federation uniforms anyway. I'm still hoping for ANY new Z-Store sets for KDF. Any.
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