Creature Handler Archive
Thread: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Get our SPECIALS working PLEASE :)
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JCooper2
Fri May 14, 2004 4:58 am
#1
I recently caught me a copy of the rare Merek Deaths Head but have found to be nearly useless since 90% of the time I cannot get his 2 specials, Strong Poison, Strong Disease to land even after spamming each one 20 odd times during any conflict.
This has got to be fixed.....period.
Please sign and show your support fellow CH's
Thanks 
OOM
Fri May 14, 2004 5:42 am
#2
I'll /sign this. I'd love to get my pet's Knockdown working reliably.
Cheers,
Aitwexoeth
Kedgeboy
Fri May 14, 2004 6:39 am
#3
I'll /sign this too, it is anoying having a pet with a good special and you can't use it all the time
ZonJaiNezBA
Fri May 14, 2004 11:06 am
#5
I'll sign for you guys,
One question: Which creatures, and which specials are you having trouble with?
Knockdown with my Mountain Dew and my GWs, don't work, however, my Mountain Dew's Dizzy works.
Otherwise, my Screecher, TMB, Merek CC, Merek Assasin, GSH, GSR, Graul, and a few others are pretty good at using theirs.
Right now my GSR is at level 26 and matched with the GSH at 44, I am getting a poison spray, strong poison and medium poison hitting pretty good.
Also, that Ravenous Torton always used his Knockdown on his own pretty consistently, not sure about on command though.
Barb-Wire
Fri May 14, 2004 11:18 am
#6
getting our specials to work should be vertexon's number one goal right now. it probably is nothing more than a simple coding error that is preventing the special from working properly. with the combat revamp on the horizon our pet specials will be of great use once the playing field is leveled. we need it fixed now not later.
Vertexon
Fri May 14, 2004 4:47 pm
#7
Barb-Wire wrote:
getting our specials to work should be vertexon's number one goal right now. it probably is nothing more than a simple coding error that is preventing the special from working properly. with the combat revamp on the horizon our pet specials will be of great use once the playing field is leveled. we need it fixed now not later.
Auto-storing is our number one bugfix priority right now (though getting Poison, Disease, and Knockdown fixed is right up there). I'm more than willing to re-evaluate the priorities in our issue list at any time, though, iffolks would prefer this be bumped up to number one.
MeatPuppet_Starsider
Fri May 14, 2004 4:52 pm
#8
I would prefer auto storing get fixed first. This second. And third, something has to happen with PVP, either our pets get the 75% damage reduction, or they do full damage to players.
taloncard
Fri May 14, 2004 4:59 pm
#9
Autostoreing #1
However this should have been fixed with the release of open beta, Specials should have been working when introduced period!
The devs realy need to push things to TC faster for testing and not 2 weeks before live and hope the few 100 people that dabble there get all the bugs found.
However this should have been fixed with the release of open beta, Specials should have been working when introduced period!
The devs realy need to push things to TC faster for testing and not 2 weeks before live and hope the few 100 people that dabble there get all the bugs found.
Vertexon
Fri May 14, 2004 5:22 pm
#10
The specials always have worked on their own, to the best of my knowledge. At least in the case of Poison and Disease, the pets use them occasionally of their own volition. The bug in question is that these three specials can't be called for with the "UseSpecial1" and "UseSpecial2" commands (which wereadded to the gamemuch more recently than Beta).
taloncard
Fri May 14, 2004 5:33 pm
#11
I meant that autostore should have been fixed day 1 Vert and by open beta I mean the release of the game. Cuase lets face it, this game never really came out of beta
You remember the first few months the servers were taken down on a almost daily basis for fixes. Now it is far less but they still come down at least 2x a month.
You remember the first few months the servers were taken down on a almost daily basis for fixes. Now it is far less but they still come down at least 2x a month.
Vertexon
Fri May 14, 2004 5:52 pm
#12
Ah, I gotcha now.
Seriously, though, I don't think the autostoring bug is as simple as just sitting down and fixing it. It can be difficult to even reproduce (some players get hit with autostoring constantly, while others can go for months with no incidents). I can only imagine wading through the server code to try to figure out what's going on there.
Propagandalf
Fri May 14, 2004 6:07 pm
#13
I'm no programmer, but finding a bug likeautostoring should not be a major undertaking, and enough players experience it that it should be something of a priority. Like it has been said, if hand-held weapons started autostoring there would be such an uproar...but we get nothing when ours store.
I don't claim to know everything. I'm not an OG in this game. But there is absolutely no reason for this kind of delay and constant shrugging off. No other MMORPG has even remotely the rate of buggieness and broken core gameplay. No other online game has the unacceptably high rate of unsatisfied players as this. Most every thread in this forum has to do with some kind of bug or improving the game in such a way that the ignored bugs are tolerable.
Vert, I admire and respect your sticking with this proff. You are a far better correspondent thanmany other proffs get, and I appreciate you putting up with the rants. However much we seem to be ignored, at least we know our concerns are being heard.
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