Creature Handler Archive
Thread: When can we expect a fix?
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WookieOgre
Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:25 am
#1
I try not to complain too much (yea right I know I complain every week ). The current state of CH is horrible. The last patch has made CH unplayable. I'm thinking of dropping CH if we dont get an answer soon. The problems have made my playstyle impossible.
As an example, I'm master Pistoleer/MCH. I was running missions yesterday that would normally be simple, post-patch of course. I sent the pet into take agro, within 3 seconds my pet runs. Embolden didn't work, spaming "Attack" didn't work either. So what am I left with to keep my Razor Cat in one place, using the command "Stay". Well unfortuantly when I do that my pet thinks I mean "Follow" 5 seconds later. My pet brings all the vorts or Janta mento me, man's best friend ha. I was killed 3 times because of this yesterday. Its gotten to the point I have dropped all my clothes and armor in my PA and just hunt naked to prevent decay or I just take buffs and tank the critters myself while pet sits there and licks itself.
I went 2 months without dying at one point in this game (before Dec patch), now I die at least once a day. Below are some of the bugs that contribute to my death, some are just annoyances that should be easy to fix:
1)Pets Run from everything no matter what the cl level your fighting (I fought Kaadu's yesterday and my gurreck ran!?!)
2)I've heard of being close with your pets, but having a Rancors butt in my face everytime I call him is unacceptable. Annoying to the point I cant call anything bigger than a gurreck because I cant see past its butt.
3)Auto-storing is out of control. I have a theory of why they are auto-storing. Why else would it be getting worse every patch? I believe TH said it once, he claimed the reason a vehicle auto-stores is because of the error with duping, which means vehicles litter the starports when people cant store them. The devs fix: put a timer on everything so it auto-stores at any hint of this error coming in, problem fixed. Devs think removing the camp requirement helps with this problem, once again they don't play CH or think of us in anyway do they. Our pets now store 4x as more in battle than before.
4)Pet duping, a problem mentioned above. I don't think they have any idea how to fix this but it still is a problem that needs to be fixed.
I'm a patient man, but there are limits. I'm not trying to solo 300k hamm creatures, I'm trying to solo, w/ pets of course, things any master of a combat profession can. Is it too much to ask the one thing CH is used for, tanking, to work?
Having TH saying "Maybe your pets are cowards" is not constructive and shows a lack of understanding how game breaking these bugs are. I'm not looking TH to come in and kiss our pets butt, I am expecting the devs to say "Yes were aware of the problems, ETA on fixing this problem XXXX". I'm tired of this little dance we do with TH, he asks me forexamples then says well we couldn't reproduce it. What!?! After two weeks of more complaining, TH makes another apperance and says "Please give me examples" as if he just wasn't in here asking the same thing last week. Please come to my server and I'll show you. Sorry TH, I refuse to do this "Dance" with you every week, you obviously are well versed at Tap Dancing but how about something actually gets done for once.
This is not athreat to quit the game, I'm just going to do what the devs obviously want me to do, drop CH and get a real profession.
For all you TH fans please keep this in mind, I have nothing against TH. I think he has a rough job and he is doing his best. But I'm sorry he needs more experience when it comes to communication. You dont constanty talk down to your customers time and time again and expect everyone to say nothing. Here's a helpful hint, stop the jokes with CH. No matter how funny you think you are, someone is going to take offense to your comments. Do your job (communication), let Jim Carey worry about making jokes.
DeneziB
Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:38 pm
#2
I don't think he was being condescending. What he probably meant was that maybe your pet's Dependability and Ferocity levels are too low, and during combat when there is a roll to determine whether or not your pet will run, it loses. Many BE's totally ignore dependability, psychology, and ferocity in lieu of higher HAM. If your pet's not a BE pet, maybe the creature you found in the wild has low numbers for those things (each pet DOES have an internal set of stat numbers).
BlindTyldak
Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:15 am
#3
Denzei, if these number's changed between the day before the patch and the day after the patch, that's the kind of stealth nerf that's going to cost them not a lot of CH's, but a lot of paying customers. They had better hope for their sakes it's a bug.
WookieWatcher
Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:58 am
#4
Talk about impossible to play! I had been hunting solo on Endor for a long time. I too am MCH, Master pistoleer and if you watch the radar close, and pay attention, Endor was an exciting place to hunt and do missions. Since the last patch, I die there every time I go out! I use a wild gureck, and then ride a dewback. (gives me a cl lvl of 69) Now, when I send in my gurreck, it runs with dewie chasing, and on Endor, there are always red lairs close by. Invariably, they run through these lairs and bingo you have 4 battle lords, several boar wolves, and assorted others on your butt and your pets. And to top it off, if my dewie comes bounding back to me during battle, it stands right on top of me and I can't see the mobs. (of course that is if it doesn't autostore first) The profession is unplayable now but if they don't fix, I am not giving up CH, justSWG totally. I am so disappointed in this game right now, why don't they respond to our problems? Do they really want us to all get out of CH? Why won't they go in and redo whatever they did at last patch, fix the 0m distance that they stand from us. I am sure this would fix the running part also. Just my 2 credits worth.
MyraKat
Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:06 pm
#5
I'm getting quite annoyed that it's taking so long to fix the old man/glowy, as i restarted my character that was glowy, to make a different race right before the patch.....
GrimzKeeper
Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:18 pm
#6
Noone knows they havent given any date yet. But being that Jedi is their money maker im sure it will be addressed soon.
-Side note "Tater salad" Those guys got me cracking up. Blue Collar Comedy 
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