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[Edward the Bear]

I have noticed in quite a few drops I have had lately I would take fire on a side with fewer weapons, plenty of armor and get the warning that the opposite side was critical or lost an arm, torso or weapons. Betty says Left side critical damage, but my right is torn up. Anyone else getting this?


Rolling Dice in Anger since 1980

[Rainer Frost]

I occasionally notice Betty announcing damage on the opposite side of whats really taking damage as well.

Its somewhat distracting in the heat of battle, but does not go beyond mildy annoying as far as bugs go.

Edit: I do suspect it could be a real problem for color blind people who rely on Betty instead of the paper doll and thus start torso twisting to the wrong side.

Edited by Rainer Frost, 20 August 2017 - 08:22 AM.

[Ghogiel]

yep betty often can't tell left from right

[Tarogato]

We need to figure out what triggers this.

Does it only happen with omnimechs? Does it only happen with IS mechs? Clan mechs? Specific chassis? Specific variants? Specific omnipods? Mechs with certain quirks (survivability quirks?)

Gotta narrow it down, or at least confirm that it happens with all of these.

[DAYLEET]

Another bug
Often, all my voice cues, Betty, warhorn, spotting, are delayed by a few seconds. I also dont have sounds on damage sometimes.

and completly unrelated but yesterday 2 gauss round went right through a cheatah chest and blew behind him. I have a vid of that, i just need to learn how to edit it and post it(but why though :/). I started using replay recording but i rarely think of using it because im new to this.

Edited by DAYLEET, 20 August 2017 - 11:59 AM.

[Ghogiel]

Tarogato, on 20 August 2017 - 10:17 AM, said:

We need to figure out what triggers this.

If only there was a dev studio which had paid employees to work these things out...

[Tarogato]

DAYLEET, on 20 August 2017 - 11:57 AM, said:

I have a vid of that, i just need to learn how to edit it and post it(but why though :/)

Unless you record at super high res and bitrate, probably better to post the raw footage you recorded if it's not > 9 minutes or so. Just editing or cutting footage means a re-render and loss of quality, which is important for stuff like hitreg sniffing.

[Edward the Bear]

Tarogato, on 20 August 2017 - 10:17 AM, said:

We need to figure out what triggers this.

Does it only happen with omnimechs? Does it only happen with IS mechs? Clan mechs? Specific chassis? Specific variants? Specific omnipods? Mechs with certain quirks (survivability quirks?)

Gotta narrow it down, or at least confirm that it happens with all of these.

Last time I really remember it I was in a MAD-3R, two ML in each arm and twin LBX-10 in the right torso. But it does seem to happen across my collection of mechs, about 90, IS and Clan. I am thinking it is a registration issue, lots of numbers and processors getting overloaded, but my knowledge of that level of servers is limited.


Rolling Dice in Anger since 1980

[Thorqemada]

There was a time when i could aim for specific Locations almost 2 years ago, mabe more, but since then i startet to aim centermass bcs it became pretty obvious at some point that aiming specific hit locations almost became Random Luck as they registered elsewhere.
How much is the ME, how much is the Internet and the Severs - there are people that still can hit specific locations pretty well and you wonder what Internet, what PC they run that enables them to do so well with such a reliability in such an unreliable Environment.
Whatsoever, it is as it is and you have to work with that...

PS: I have moved a few times since then and now a another but this time permanent residence with a different Provider, i did not test if aiming has become more reliable yet...

Edited by Thorqemada, 22 August 2017 - 01:44 AM.