Patch Notes - R54 (Live 5/29)

So, again not needed updates to the UI. And when actually needed fixes would be made?

ZeroUnderscoreOu wrote:

So, again not needed updates to the UI. And when actually needed fixes would be made?

Read this:

IceIX wrote:

aaronschmiz wrote:

- Is there any plan to give us the option to turn off animations in the game any time soon?

Animations - Unlikely, but possible. Turning off animations means that in order to play efficiently, all players will do that and as a result, the amount of work that gets put into creating the animations goes largely to waste. We could do something snazzy where we turn them off after X uses, or after the first time in a battle or something, but that's a bit complex for a relatively small efficiency. With changes to characters removing a lot of the low AP abilities that create much of the ability animation spam, that sort of time factor gets removed to an extent anyhow.

and this:

IceIX wrote:

pasa_ wrote:

When will the long outstanding bugs (like Sunder) get fixed and the most frequent trivial UI requests (like turn off animations at least for passives, stop tab switches, which goon controls CD) will get implemented?

This really comes purely down to implementation time. We've got a listing of minor improvements a mile and a half long and we work through them as we can (like the match 4s not breaking correctly you see in R54). It's just a matter of whether it's a better use of a person's time to fix and verify that Sunder is now working correctly for the small userbase that uses it or to have that same time taken up in verfying a fix on improving scoring for the entire userbase which cuts down on player confusion and CS requests as a whole.

The devs (we also learned it's not a 3-man team as we would estimate from the state and dynamics but 28 devs!!!!) are put to work on elements that they wery well know would be turned off immediately by about ALL the users rendering the whole work as a waste. So they make sure there is no chance to turn them off, all the unwanted and unwelcome material must be stuffed down the players' throats. While they can keep up stating there is no time and resources to process the endless list of requests players actually want and need.

It's so uber pathetic I'm out of words.

The PACman wrote:

I have a question about something raised here, what is it that needs fixing about Ares Sunder countdown? I use him quite a bit and as far as i can see it works as it says it should.

If Ares uses Sunder at low health and dies from it the counter is placed still and deals damage on expiring (though at least will not resurrect him .

This is just an example of bugs that are many months old, confirmed and not dealt with despite it requires like 1 line of code. I think the Bugs topic even have a summary thread for known outstanding issues, not as if it stopped people from reporting them over and over every few weeks. Whenever we have a DA-themed PVE with Ares battles it's a safe bet you'll see at least one new topic opened for him.

SUPERTOM wrote:

Is anyone else having trouble getting the new Update? I've restarted the app, restarted my iphone, check the app store and the title screen still says I'm running R53. The app store only gives me the option to "OPEN" the app and not "INSTALL" the update.

Same here

AlexBatman wrote:

So you're just lying

So You have a problem with accepting a fact.

1100 is reachable, just read last 2 tourney' threads. Come on, You can do it! We believe in You.

cos we all believe in batman

The PACman wrote:

pasa_ wrote:

The PACman wrote:

I have a question about something raised here, what is it that needs fixing about Ares Sunder countdown? I use him quite a bit and as far as i can see it works as it says it should.

If Ares uses Sunder at low health and dies from it the counter is placed still and deals damage on expiring (though at least will not resurrect him .

This is just an example of bugs that are many months old, confirmed and not dealt with despite it requires like 1 line of code. I think the Bugs topic even have a summary thread for known outstanding issues, not as if it stopped people from reporting them over and over every few weeks. Whenever we have a DA-themed PVE with Ares battles it's a safe bet you'll see at least one new topic opened for him.

Thanks pasa, i havent noticed that myself, I'll keep my eyes open for it. Presumably it only occurs if the AI is using him, or is it that players are intentionally killing him off? Certainly cant be hard to fix though.

It does it for players too, a long time ago I used it when my ares only had 9 health left, but it's rare that a player will get an advantage off of it. But yeah, the big problem is when a level 300 PvE Ares uses it against you and kills two guys