Goa asking bianshees to..

[Killswitch]

The problem is that who ever is testing the stuff in the mythic factory probably isn't playing the game 8-10 hours a day like many people here.
Game companies have proved over and over again that no matter how they test stuff, the power gamers will put 2 classes together that the testers didn't envisage and overpowerdness will be born.

How they missed warlocks is a mystery tho

LoS issues - totally understandable...VERY hard to identify and fix

Water Bug - happens only in certain circumstances...easy to miss in testing

Bainshees - their unique, class-defining spell...the very foundation of the class can be used to nuke through walls. Now, unless they do all their testing in the middle of Salisbury Plains, surely this isn't the hardest thing in the world to spot.

I totally agree that it's impossible for Quality Control to find everything. I'd imagine DAOC is a more complex piece of code than Internet Explorer, but IE has one or two (hundred) exploitable bugs in it.

I think Mythic do a good job, but some things are just inexcusable. As far as Warlocks go, I'm not sure how testing is done. Certainly people who roll them on Pend (for example) won't have access to fully Min-Maxed templates and RR6 with pre-knowledge of the perfect base points spec, RAs, tactics and exploits (go VNboards ra ra ra!!!).

What I think is needed is a Class Review (like the NF RA review) where the TLs and Mythic just gut the classes. We've had enough experience of the SI/TOA classes now and I think this would be a better solution that the current train of half-baked fixes, stealth nerfs and nonsensical changes. Players might be upset, but it would be for the good of everyone in the long run.

 

[Naffets]

No it cant, Sound bounces off walls.

Surely if you're neighbour next to you has music on loud enough you can hear it through the wall?

The only way sound cannot travel through a wall is if there is a vaccuum of space inbetween two layers of concrete or so. Sound needs air to travel through.

edit: Nevermind, various people beat me to it.

 

[Deadnala]

its not the sound traveling true the wall but the vibrations
like if it mater anyway, they fixed the same isue with pbaoe (as the oldscool players know)

 

[Vindicator]

Surely if you're neighbour next to you has music on loud enough you can hear it through the wall?

The only way sound cannot travel through a wall is if there is a vaccuum of space inbetween two layers of concrete or so. Sound needs air to travel through.

edit: Nevermind, various people beat me to it.

Thats correct I didnt think I was gonna have to talk about the different phases a sound wave can go through whether it be refraction, reflection, diffraction and how transmissions accross boundaries occur . It was more of a quick answer for somebody who didnt give a fuck in the first place..... Hehe then to have people jumping on me for not fully elaborating is funny. If I had of I would have been just as equally been spurned for it . Alrite no win situation :worthy:

Thats right naffets but being silly I was thinking of a castle wall which is rather thick walled not like todays hallow cardboard walls .

 

[Matriarch|Sneakers]

im gonna abuse it till they fix it

I'm gonna rightnever u !1

 

[Chronictank]

Balance is one thing,
fixing REPORTED bugs is another

There are more bugs in this game than any i have ever played (yes including wow), the bug spot in malmo, vendo, spindel all still exist 3 years after game release.
Bugged mob pathing in almost every dungeon still exist 3 yrs after the game is released.

Instead of fixing them mythic pile forward with expansion after expansion, bringing more and more bugs.

So no they arent doing a good job if a bug from 3 years ago is still presant today even tho its been reported 100 times over.

I would have thought it was evidently clear mythic really dont care what the playerbase want, they are here to make money and that is what they are making.
Why fix it when you can just ban everyone

 

[elbeek]

I would have thought it was evidently clear mythic really dont care what the playerbase want, they are here to make money and that is what they are making.
Why fix it when you can just ban everyone

You kinda contradict yourself in the same paragraph.

 

[Bracken]

Just a little reminder, specifically for Calisti and Screamo

 

[LordjOX]

Just a little reminder, specifically for Calisti and Screamo

Hehe aye