Post by ahzmo on May 16, 2008 21:42:52 GMT -5
Some of you unlucky people might have been on wed morning when the full impact of the patch set in on my mac. Other than the ability to loot corpses twice, the game is totally unplayable. Neat-o things like:
Mobs constantly regenerate health while your fighting them.
Pets wont attack.
Buffs disappear when you take a hit in combat, 1 hit all buffs gone.
And this one if even more fun, I pull aggro on every mob in the area upon landing, even if they were already fighting someone else.
Lag issues that never happened before patch. I mean all over the place crazy fluctuations.
Missing sounds.
Spells doing zero damage.
Casting one spell empties the mana bar.
Global cool down on ANY key press is back ( IE you can only press 1 key every 2 seconds even if its a movement key ) , PS I leveled most of the way to 70 thinking the game worked that way and wondered how the fuck rogues could jump and run and attack all at the same time when i had to stand perfectly still and press 1 key exactly every 2 seconds.
Nearly any mod will cause complete lockup if you try to exit the game.
But in trying to fix the problem I tossed out my cache and interface and wtf folder like I was told but forgot that all my macros, key binds, etc were in there... Lost them all, my fault on that. And yes those things were happening after I re-moved those folders and mods.
I think most of these are caused by some type of network communications failure between the client and the wow server. lost packets, malformed messages, or the like. Not my job to figure out tho...
On second thought it might be that my thread on the server is crashing and in recovery it back steps, therefore "restoring" the HP to the mob, not marking the damage from a spell, not being able to sync stats like mana or health and defaulting to zero, neat that mobs default back to full health and you go to ZERO, sweet.
EDIT: I think I am right as that would explain almost if not all of the odd behaviors, and I think that the mac client is sending bad messages to the server, server thread crashes, wala action never happened...ummm...I might call support back, might not be my job but...I absolutely assure you that I AM a better programmer than ANYONE that works at Blizzard.
I see after looking thru the mac support forum that I am not the only one with major issues with the new patch. Some people cant even get connected to enjoy some of those wondrous fuck ups. Others just get a gray or black screen right after connect so is that better or worse?
Did I mention that I could loot corpses twice! HAHA
It's bad enough that most aspects of the game itself are borderline broken, but this is just an insult to the paying cust...err I mean victim.
My pissed off level with blizzard is at "go find the building and blow it up level". Not sure at this time if I will try again.
But it sounds like from Polys post about Wed night that your better off with out me anyway.
/rant off
Not quite done, all of this of course started the day after I put in a new 60 day card, those mfers.
Off to the hello kitty closed beta 2! See ya...
Mobs constantly regenerate health while your fighting them.
Pets wont attack.
Buffs disappear when you take a hit in combat, 1 hit all buffs gone.
And this one if even more fun, I pull aggro on every mob in the area upon landing, even if they were already fighting someone else.
Lag issues that never happened before patch. I mean all over the place crazy fluctuations.
Missing sounds.
Spells doing zero damage.
Casting one spell empties the mana bar.
Global cool down on ANY key press is back ( IE you can only press 1 key every 2 seconds even if its a movement key ) , PS I leveled most of the way to 70 thinking the game worked that way and wondered how the fuck rogues could jump and run and attack all at the same time when i had to stand perfectly still and press 1 key exactly every 2 seconds.
Nearly any mod will cause complete lockup if you try to exit the game.
But in trying to fix the problem I tossed out my cache and interface and wtf folder like I was told but forgot that all my macros, key binds, etc were in there... Lost them all, my fault on that. And yes those things were happening after I re-moved those folders and mods.
I think most of these are caused by some type of network communications failure between the client and the wow server. lost packets, malformed messages, or the like. Not my job to figure out tho...
On second thought it might be that my thread on the server is crashing and in recovery it back steps, therefore "restoring" the HP to the mob, not marking the damage from a spell, not being able to sync stats like mana or health and defaulting to zero, neat that mobs default back to full health and you go to ZERO, sweet.
EDIT: I think I am right as that would explain almost if not all of the odd behaviors, and I think that the mac client is sending bad messages to the server, server thread crashes, wala action never happened...ummm...I might call support back, might not be my job but...I absolutely assure you that I AM a better programmer than ANYONE that works at Blizzard.
I see after looking thru the mac support forum that I am not the only one with major issues with the new patch. Some people cant even get connected to enjoy some of those wondrous fuck ups. Others just get a gray or black screen right after connect so is that better or worse?
Did I mention that I could loot corpses twice! HAHA
It's bad enough that most aspects of the game itself are borderline broken, but this is just an insult to the paying cust...err I mean victim.
My pissed off level with blizzard is at "go find the building and blow it up level". Not sure at this time if I will try again.
But it sounds like from Polys post about Wed night that your better off with out me anyway.
/rant off
Not quite done, all of this of course started the day after I put in a new 60 day card, those mfers.
Off to the hello kitty closed beta 2! See ya...