[Bugs] 'PAX patch'

A short collection of bugs I experienced since playing after the last patch. Some bugs were already in earlier versions of the game though:

This patch:

Grapple detection is a gamble now. I have missed several grapples already although I was in a perfect position. If the victim just moves slightly or comes down from using the jumpjets/fly, chances are that you will not get the grapple. This is a real killer for Assassins, quite literally...

The All Star system doesn't prevent me from joining servers with 1 or 2 stars. I assume that is not intended?

Older bugs:

- the 'blue skill bug' is still around, I never had this issue before the patch that 'fixed it'

- when I jump off the edge of the map my death is awarded to the player who killed me in my last life, even when I didn't take a single hit before I jumped

Key detection is more glitchy in my experience:
- Support H/H gun refuses to work on first click (often)

- smoke bomb/jump is a gamble, I don't dare to use it for escape anymore, only to save $50 on jumppads (frequent)

- Assault bomb sometimes refuses to be thrown/detonated on first click (rarish)

- lunge sometimes refuses to work or catapults you right over the edge (rare)


I mostly play Assassin, Assault and Support. Please report bugs I forgot and bugs concerning other classes.

When I play Tank, I will often get "stuck" in the map, unable to jump or move out of a small circle until I die. It always happens after being grappled.

Also, sometimes the jump jets will randomly not activate and I will just have a little hop.

A bit of an older bug...

I don't know if it's just me, but my sniper rifle bugs out on the first 'zoom' in. If I click and hold the RMB to zoom, it sort of spazzes out and unzooms me.

I main as Tank and I have experienced both of these.

Is it not working or just so slow that you get killed after drawing a tone of attention to yourself?

The smoke bomb itself usually works, the jump after it not so much. It works most of the time but most of the time is not good enough if you are standing next to a class that can one hit kill you.

:lol:
It's sounds like they imported all the bugs from the 360 version over.

It must have something to do with connection. I play on awful pings and have never had a smoke bomb jump, on Xbox or PC, fail to initiate.

I had them failing while playing Blitz...

If you're not at top speed or at a complete stop, lunge will bug out.

You'll move about 5 inches over the course of being in the air for 3 seconds, and you won't even slash afterwards unless you collide with a bot.

I had the same thing happen to me a couple of times and I thought it was just a lag spike. You basically just hang in the air barely moving.

It sounds like the assassin's grapple is just back to how it used to be

iirc, from a red post (Ekanaut i believe), in a thread suggesting a "match-making" system made about a few weeks ago, in the wishlist forum section, Uber said they implemented a stat-tracking system to give players a better view of what players they're playing against so they could have a better idea in which servers to choose. i don't remember it saying anything about preventing pros to join servers full of new people.

Hmm, let's be realistic. Without enforcing the star system it will be just a server to stomp new players. Maybe it should be an option for server admins to either only suggest a level cap or enforce it?

i agree on making the all-star system do something instead of just be something to look at. the reason Uber didn't enforce it is probably because people should be able to join the servers they want, or some friends might be bad etc
making it a server option is a good way to do that. or we could have match-making

WHY YES, I WOULD LIKE A CUP OF RAGE, THANKYOU.

On a serious note - this bug gets me killed more than the smoke bomb one. considering most of the time i'm lunging to try and stab someone in the spine, all of a sudden i have giant flashing sign above my head complete with strobe lights and sirens going "SHOOT THIS". Really kills the experience. Literally in most cases. I'll see this once every 2-3 matches.

The smoke bomb thing is bizzare. When it wigs out it normally does the animation and seems to stop short, then the start of the same animation, then the bomb explodes, then i can't get my fancy jump and i am left to simply walk away. I have that happen maybe once every half dozen matches.

This is on a server with a steady 30-50 ping. And even in blitz a few times.

so i guess it isnt lag causing these problems for me then
nothing worse than trying to lunge at/away from someone only to hover in the air awaiting certain doom

ASDFGHKL

Yeah. It's a bit annoying. I actually had my grapple completely fail on me (on a stationary target in skill pick no less) today. It's annoying as all hell because he had the opportunity to grapple me in response with the assaults faceroll magic grapple button. I lunged right into him, was facing him, grappled him while right up against him, practically rubbing myself all over him and grabbed a big handful of air. Or maybe i was just trying to scare him by throwing my hands up and going RAWR but no, homey don't play that game. He all about the woman throwing. Got it on video too. Holy crap it was irritating.

I haven't played much cus my internet has been spazzing out, and this could be all related to that rather than the patch. But since the update I'm finding charges bugging out a lot.

Mainly they either don't effect the other player, or I get grappled mid-charge (by any class). Now, perhaps this is supposed to happen, but I had NEVER been grappled by an assassin mid-charge before this patch. Never. And now it happens more often than not!

The bug where the chat windows randomly kicks back to the console still exists, too.

Nothing better than telling your team "bots on the left side" and sending the message "ide"