Zeebie Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I'm getting tired of every time I login after a patch finding bugs that they say are fixed but aren't. abandoning quest/warzone win counting/aldaaran tower bug and there was a few other that I can't remember now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnatB Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Even more fun when they say they fixed a bug that wasn't even there UNTIL they say they've fixed it. Ever since 1.1, My companions Kira Karson's "Freeze" ability toggles back on whenever she's summoned. Never happened before that patch. In that patch notes? •Companion abilities that have been disabled by the player no longer toggle back on when the companion is re-summoned. LIES. We're ADDING this bug just to F you over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeebie Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 That is just classic, I had a few companion bugs, that had to be fixed a couple of times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KahnyaGnorc Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 You are apparently not in software development because that happens a lot. It is just that in most other circumstances, the time between releases is long enough that "bug fixes that don't fix the bug" are discovered to be incomplete before released. It is called "Shotgun Surgery" because you end up having to fix a certain bug in several areas of the code before it actually fully resolves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink_Saber Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 In a lot cases it's just a matter of what someone thinks the patch notes say, and what they actually do say, being different things. They're probably wrong a whole lot less than they're misinterpreted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akirator Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 You are apparently not in software development because that happens a lot. It is just that in most other circumstances, the time between releases is long enough that "bug fixes that don't fix the bug" are discovered to be incomplete before released. It is called "Shotgun Surgery" because you end up having to fix a certain bug in several areas of the code before it actually fully resolves. This, and the state of the PTS doesnt help matters any. Those patch notes could be right in that they fixed it for 100% of the people on the PTS, but since there are sooooo many more on live, it didn't fix it for all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelinCarnate Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 They really need to put in key words like "should" in the patch notes. As in x should no longer happen because of Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnatB Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Not sure if any of that was directed to me. I'm ok if it takes them several tries to actually fix something. It's when they break something that wasn't broken and claim it as a fix that irritates me... and in the month+ since haven't even apparently made an attempt to refix it. Or even simply revert their original breakage. Or heck, admit that they broke something that was fine in the first place other than their automated "we'll forward this to the correct department". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalpodster Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I never had the "companions sometimes appear naked in convesations" bug until the patch which claimed to fix it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KahnyaGnorc Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 It's when they break something that wasn't broken and claim it as a fix that irritates me... and in the month+ since haven't even apparently made an attempt to refix it. Or even simply revert their original breakage.. That is probably a hold-over from build notes. I've been in situations where a fix for one bug introduced another bug, then when that new bug was fixed (which may not have been fully fixed), it is still put in the build notes (in part to inform Q&A and/or project managers), and the build notes are used to build the patch notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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