Mar 15, 2008, 08:19 PM // 20:19
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Technician's Corner Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: The TARDIS
Guild: http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/
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[Discussion] Guild Wars unintelligent bug fixes
For anyone who follows the Guild Wars updates, there are surely times where you have seen a bad or completely unintelligent bug fix.
So feel free to discuss these oddities and if you have any of your own all I ask is that you list the bug fix as it was listed in the wiki (link if you want so others can see what happened during that time) and your reason for why it was an unintelligent bug fix.
November 16, 2007 (2007-11-16)- Fixed a bug that allowed players to exploit their pet's corpse.
Players exploiting pet corpses? A pet is a living creature, just like players, henchmen and heroes. It's logical that they leave a corpse when they die. So why can't a MM get a minion from it, use [skill=text]Necrotic Traversal[/skill], [skill=text]Putrid Explosion[/skill] or any other Necromancer skill on the pet's corpse? To me it sounds like a mistake on ArenaNet's part. What's next, are they going to stop allowing players, heroes and henchmen from leaving corpses too?
What does everyone think of that "fix"?
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Mar 15, 2008, 08:21 PM // 20:21
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Scandinavia
Guild: Straight Outta Kamadan [KMD]
Profession: W/
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It reduced Heroways efficiency so they could not let their pets die and raise minions to provide them energy.
Good fix.
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Mar 15, 2008, 08:23 PM // 20:23
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Wasting away again in Margaritaville
Guild: [HOTR]
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It sounds better to call it a bugfix than a nerf.
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Mar 15, 2008, 08:30 PM // 20:30
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ArenaNet
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to exploit their pet's corpse.
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It was a blatant lie. That was never a bug; it was an intended feature until the HA losers started bitching instead of thinking of a counter.
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Mar 15, 2008, 08:45 PM // 20:45
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Forge Runner
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarun
For anyone who follows the Guild Wars updates, there are surely times where you have seen a bad or completely unintelligent bug fix.
So feel free to discuss these oddities and if you have any of your own all I ask is that you list the bug fix as it was listed in the wiki (link if you want so others can see what happened during that time) and your reason for why it was an unintelligent bug fix.
November 16, 2007 ( 2007-11-16) - Fixed a bug that allowed players to exploit their pet's corpse.
Players exploiting pet corpses? A pet is a living creature, just like players, henchmen and heroes. It's logical that they leave a corpse when they die. So why can't a MM get a minion from it, use [skill=text]Necrotic Traversal[/skill], [skill=text]Putrid Explosion[/skill] or any other Necromancer skill on the pet's corpse? To me it sounds like a mistake on ArenaNet's part. What's next, are they going to stop allowing players, heroes and henchmen from leaving corpses too?
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Read previous update.
On previous update, pets no longer left corpses, and they could no longer be exploited for raising minions.
However, after this *rule* change, there remained a way to still raise minions.
Then, this patch was added that *fixed a bug in new ruleset*, under which corpses were no longer exploitable.
Yes - this was bugfix for the changed ruleset.
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What does everyone think of that "fix"?
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Lack of reading comprehension, quoting things out of context, random selective whining.
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It was a blatant lie. That was never a bug; it was an intended feature until the HA losers started bitching instead of thinking of a counter.
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No - read the previous update. They changed the rules. Under new rules, exploiting a pet's corpse was a bug.
Last edited by Antheus; Mar 15, 2008 at 08:47 PM // 20:47..
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Mar 15, 2008, 08:49 PM // 20:49
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Antheus
Under new rules, exploiting a pet's corpse was a bug.
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A bug that went on for an incredible amount of time then, such that it wasn't really a bug but rather an accepted and indeed, in some cases, relied upon game feature.
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Mar 15, 2008, 09:06 PM // 21:06
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Texas
Guild: We Wear Sombreros [文文文], Ugly Ducklings [ugly]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk
A bug that went on for an incredible amount of time then, such that it wasn't really a bug but rather an accepted and indeed, in some cases, relied upon game feature.
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incredible amount of time? did you even read his post? look how close together the updates are.
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Mar 15, 2008, 09:16 PM // 21:16
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Did I hear 7 heroes?
Join Date: May 2005
Guild: Scars Meadows [SMS], Guild Leader (Not Recruiting)
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Antheus said it all. New rules were made, there was a bug in the new rules, hence that update to fix the bug.
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Mar 15, 2008, 10:56 PM // 22:56
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Northern California
Guild: HoTR
Profession: N/Me
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the pet leaving an exploitable corpse is a classic.
the soul reaping 'fix' has been an unfinished eyesore that anet is trying to forget ever happened
the time when spiteful spirit fluctuated between 10 and 15 energy in several alternate updates
I'm sure I'll think of others
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Mar 15, 2008, 11:43 PM // 23:43
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jul 2006
Profession: D/
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The sign fix that came a couple weeks ago in its own update
seriously, did anyone actually care?
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Mar 15, 2008, 11:50 PM // 23:50
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Ascalonian Squire
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Heh you can kill an animal and exploit the corpse but not your pet.....
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Mar 16, 2008, 12:35 AM // 00:35
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Academy Page
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Guild: [NErd]
Profession: N/Mo
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i think its an ok fix...i really think its just being used as a way to nerf the over powered heroway by stopping the herowayers from creating a minion army off of pets
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Mar 16, 2008, 01:51 AM // 01:51
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Guild: Flaming Turtles [FT]
Profession: E/R
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Exploiting Pets' corpses doesn't really affect me but I used to do it when I started the game so it's sad that it's gone, but I'm not going to fight for it to be back because it's not like it broke the game for me.
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Mar 16, 2008, 06:20 AM // 06:20
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Australia
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Keep it civil and polite and on-topic.
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Mar 16, 2008, 06:46 AM // 06:46
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: NYC, USA
Profession: E/Mo
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What I think of this "fix" is that it's classic ANet problem-solving: instead of dealing with the cause, work on the effect. Pet corpses were nerfed -
(yes, nerfed, because it is absolutely ridiculous that an untamed animal leaves a corpse, but a tamed one does not)
- because of Soul Reaping problems. But Soul Reaping problems were only a symptom themselves, having been singled out by ANet as the issue behind the unlimited energy of spiritway. Instead of hitting the spirits (the cause) with a well-deserved, player-advocated, and - as I believe the OP would state - a logical nerf of "no Soul Reaping from things that are already souls," ANet decided to change a game mechanic in a way that had not been seen outside of the difference between preview event and game retail versions of attributes. Granted, you can't please everyone, and each nerf is bound to create a round of QQing, but there is a certain point to the argument that "this is not the game we bought." It's not something I'd trash my necro over, but it was - for some people.
Anyway, I find it incredibly ironic that the creative use of established constraints is more likely to reap nerfs than praise from the game developers. When it's something useless like Echo Mending, it gets made into a skill, but when people actually find ways of making that skill useful, it gets nerfed. True, some things actually "break" the game and make competition unfair, but the vast majority of things ANet has "tweaked" in terms of skill use did not fall into this category. Jumping the gun and "fixing" something without letting the players work out counters stifles creativity.
I think Ensign said similar and more things in his great post on how nerfs are responsible for the current state of the game, but I don't PvP much, so I don't have the link saved
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Mar 16, 2008, 08:12 AM // 08:12
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sol 3
Profession: R/
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Pets leaving corpses is logical. The change, however, was not and will never be.
Last edited by RSGashapon; Mar 16, 2008 at 08:17 AM // 08:17..
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Mar 16, 2008, 10:08 AM // 10:08
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Bubblegum Patrol
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Singapore Armed Forces
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Balance isn't based on lore, logic, or 'what makes sense', it's based on making things even.
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Mar 16, 2008, 06:28 PM // 18:28
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: NYC, USA
Profession: E/Mo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Avarre
Balance isn't based on lore, logic, or 'what makes sense', it's based on making things even.
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See, this is the problem with PvE + PvP.
In PvP, balance is king. A fair playing field is essential for the survival of the game, so all efforts to ensure it are justified. (Minus, of course, the efforts that nerf too many things across the board and result in stale formats, but still...)
In PvE, however, immersion is king. Players need to "believe" the game world, and such internal inconsistencies as pet corpses may annoy some players enough to break the suspension of disbelief. Even if consciously the player does not mind the change, understanding why it is implemented will affect the player on the subconscious level, because the out-of-game concerns (reasons for the nerf) will infringe on the world the game is attempting to create around the player.
Now, I'm not saying that PvP and PvE need to be completely separate. I believe GW is so successful precisely because the two are so intertwined, and anything other than the current setup will make GW2 less successful. But, as an (amateur) author who cannot help but look at things from the "immersion" perspective, I believe that both sides of the GW coin need to be looked at for internal consistency.
(This is where I go on a rant about NPC speech typos and improper genders, and eventually walk off into the distance, muttering incoherently )
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Mar 16, 2008, 07:24 PM // 19:24
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Jungle Guide
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Avarre
Balance isn't based on lore, logic, or 'what makes sense', it's based on making things even.
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Good reason to separate PvE and PvP!
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