Patch meassage 9/5/07

[Cabe]

[Funi]

[Tordail]

[frocus]

[m970456]

[Scowls]

[Lonedor]

I've never had a problem with the West bug until the last couple of weeks. Worse in the guild hall.

[Kilgaroz]

I've never seen the E/W bug on my computer. It's a Dell 6300, 2.6GHz Pentium processor, 2 Gig RAM with an Nvidia video card (256 Mb overclocked). I've owned the computer since...2003? and not once have I lost portions of my screen while facing east or west while playing EQ or any other game. I had a 128 card before this one, also Nvidia, and didn't see it while running with that unit either.

[Amanensia]

I've never seen the west bug either, and I regularly play on four different PCs, all with completely different builds. Weird.

[Kianor]

[m970456]

Actually, I'm fairly certain that if it was my job to write the code for this and a bug, yes a bug, was making the game 'busted' for a huge portion of the player base (probably 1/3 to 1/2 see it consistently), I would fix it out of pride in my work. This isn't something new. It has been around for a long, long time. It seems to have gotten worse lately, but make no mistake, it had been around for a long time.

As for not being able to reproduce it, I call BULLSHIT. Huge, steaming piles of bullshit. As many people as have this, I'm pretty damn sure that if they took 5k and built a variety of machines and fired up EQ on them, they would see it on at least one machine. 10k and I'm SURE they could find it. Maybe this issue isn't worth 10k to fix for them, but that would go back to my first post.

I design/make machines that make computer chips. I know all about how sometimes customers see things that you didn't see during testing. I also know that I go to the customer location and see the problem for myself to fix it. As these machines have software and hardware, I understand how sometimes software that should work fine has odd reactions to some hardware. This is why you run a variety of hardware to flesh out bugs before you send it out and certainly when trying to troubleshoot it.

For some shaman, this isn't a huge deal since they are mostly stationary players. For pullers, this is a huge deal when trying to split mobs and look around corners and such.

As for being rude to SOE, their customer service has earned a negative feeling from the player base. They have a great game concept and people love it. The customer service sucks and hasn't earned much respect.

[runeshaman]

When I get hit by the W Bug my screen goes black except for particle effects and happens in chunks of the compass from shortly after north to shortly before south. It can happen at inconvienient times, but at least on my screen you can still see the target rings and effects of that nature. I once went through half a raid strafing and using particle effects and target rings to judge distance and stuff because we didn't have time for me to re-log. It was actually kind of funny. Anyway, it would be nice if they fixed it, but I would really rather them devote time to more important stuff first.

With that being said I noticed they mentioned fixing weapon procs. I guess this covers panther and VoV and such like that too. I am very thankful for that.

[Catmandew]

They updated the wording to say that procs have been fixed, not just weapon procs.

[WaringMcMarrin]

[Bigcat Daddy-o]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[Tugela]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[Tordail]

[m970456]

[Tordail]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[Kianor]

[m970456]

[m970456]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[Hecude Poison`Blood]

sry for big text but so much about west bug and so little about this actuall patch that borked so dam much.

[WaringMcMarrin]

[m970456]

[ZsaZsa Vavoom]

[Jalelin]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[m970456]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[Unmei]

[m970456]

[WaringMcMarrin]

[Galelor]

[Shamylamy]