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[Daggett]

This patch introduced a whole armada of bugs that it currently makes absolutely no fun to play anymore.

In about 8/10 games i have one or more of the following bugs which were not there before:
- The game does not even start because it shows only a black screen after loading the map
- Minimap is not updated correctly to my mech's facing
- When hit in the back, the front armor is damaged instead
- After a match the resultscreen is not shown and the game does not end
- Thermal vision sometimes switches automatically back to normal vision

Not to mention all those additional bugs reported by other players like the broken chat or IFF-bugs.
And yes, my AMD graphics drivers are up-to-date.

I don't think that you created that many bugs while implementing the new features, so my guess is that there went something terribly wrong with merging your feature branches into the current build.

I'm totally serious when i suggest to think about a roll-back rather than try to fix all that stuff that already worked fine in the last build.

Before the patch the only bug that annoyed me was the one that causes a game freeze (which i also had in my first post-patch game).

Now the game feels rather unplayable to me.

[BananaNutMuffins]

Im in the same boat I cant drop a single game right now it just goes to a black screen I missed out on team practice and all of tonights games I tried 3 different computers and all of them do the same thing. All are up to date Nvidia or ati it dosnt matter all wont let me in a game.

[Accused]

AnaArt, on 02 April 2013 - 07:19 PM, said:

As for getting hit in the back and damaged in the front - can you please specify which mech this happens to?

thanks!

All of them. It's an old bug which I've noticed since last patch. Damage transfer bug.

[Marj]

Repeatedly alt-tabbing seems to fix the black screen bug. It takes switching back and forth up to 15 times for me to clear the black screen, but I've been getting in before/as the game starts. Just keep alt tabbing quickly. In the last match my mech was still powering up when other people were moving...seems to be more than a graphical glitch.

[Dalinor Frostreaver]

team chat 75% of the time non functional for entire match.
global chat 75% of the time non functional for entire match.
Disco polygon deal (fixed with current nvidia drivers)
No hud what so ever 25% of the time. (radar, weapons, armor readouts, targeting readouts, IFF indicators, nothing)

Game in it's current state is worse that it has been in many many months. In fact, except for the time we couldn't log in, I cant recall a worse/buggier patch.

I know we are beta testing, and I'm cool with giving the feedback, but how did this patch get through internal testing? I assume you guys test a patch before you push it to the servers?



Good stuff.

Fun to see/kill the heavy metal mechs. Fun to shoot them also. So kudos on another fun mech. (not sacarsm, I really like shooting pink highlanders in the air)

Heavy Metal Pilots, for the love of god, don't try to jump away from a fight, its just sad.

Edited by Dalinor Frostreaver, 02 April 2013 - 08:41 PM.

[Daggett]

AnaArt, on 02 April 2013 - 07:19 PM, said:

Hi Daggett,

thanks a lot for the detailed report. We are aware of those issues, and devs are working hard on resolving "match wont end" issue along with others.

As for getting hit in the back and damaged in the front - can you please specify which mech this happens to?

thanks!

This happened in a CTF-3D.
Here is a link to the original issue-thread, in case you are creating statistics and don't want to count me twice:
http://mwomercs.com/...__fromsearch__1

[riverslq]

Daggett, on 02 April 2013 - 06:38 PM, said:

- When hit in the back, the front armor is damaged instead

I'm almost thinking they enabled splash damage for all weapons now,
something seriously went wrong.

Daggett, on 03 April 2013 - 02:43 AM, said:

This happened in a CTF-3D.
Here is a link to the original issue-thread, in case you are creating statistics and don't want to count me twice:
http://mwomercs.com/...__fromsearch__1

A clan mate of mine saw this a few times as well tonight. He primarily plays atlases, but I can't guarantee that was what it occurred on. I don't think he owns any cataphracts.

Marj, on 02 April 2013 - 08:23 PM, said:

Repeatedly alt-tabbing seems to fix the black screen bug. It takes switching back and forth up to 15 times for me to clear the black screen, but I've been getting in before/as the game starts. Just keep alt tabbing quickly. In the last match my mech was still powering up when other people were moving...seems to be more than a graphical glitch.

Another clan mate of mine from New Zealand seems to drop into the match 4-5 minutes into the game. He has a black screen for awhile... then bam, he's in the match.
The downside? The majority of people already in the game crash when he enters. :/

[Slanski]

Dear Developers, work to develop best practices while documenting and implementing features. The code will spin completely out of control if you try to jury rig things on. Work on your processes and not the product for a month and we'll all be happier afterwards.

[Cest7]

What about the CTDs?