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New Patch, New Bugs: Message dropping
AramDol
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This game has always dropped messages. This has been particularly noticeable in distraction free environments, such as vMA. It becomes very obvious when you're running around at full health and fall over dead from an attack the death recap claims does 500 damage. Or as is common, call over dead from full health with no attack landing... according to the client.
These dropped messages manifest for all tanks in the form of the "I pressed block, no f- you I really did". Here's a video from 8 months ago demonstrating this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8MgW75pWsY
You'll note that Qcell created their "Am I Blocking?" addon some 3 years ago now? It's to point out this very bug.
Right now, it's the worst I've ever seen. Porting to a zone, it will take at least a second for my resources to display as non zero.
Just did vSS-HM, and apart from *lots* of randomly dying from full health with no visible attack landing, *every single time* I died, screen would go grey, and I would have >%50 of my health. 5 seconds later it would update. I'd get a res, and my health would continue to show as 0 for 5 more seconds. Sometimes it would just stay at 0. Sometimes it would never stop being at full.
Messages are being dropped, worse than I have ever seen it, and it's happening on both PC-EU and PC-US. Don't you dare tell me it's my connection, this bug has been in the game since beta and you are well aware of this. I know it's TCP networking and theoretically shouldn't be able to drop messages, but that just means its internal to the game, it's its own way of... ZOSing things up.
It was fixed briefly... back in February I think it was? For like a month? Some point around the massive block is broken saga that decimated the tank population in this game. You remember... But it caused some other bug, which was more serious, so it was returned to the long standing droppy state.
Edited by ZOS_Bill on June 6, 2023 7:41PM These dropped messages manifest for all tanks in the form of the "I pressed block, no f- you I really did". Here's a video from 8 months ago demonstrating this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8MgW75pWsYYou'll note that Qcell created their "Am I Blocking?" addon some 3 years ago now? It's to point out this very bug.
Right now, it's the worst I've ever seen. Porting to a zone, it will take at least a second for my resources to display as non zero.
Just did vSS-HM, and apart from *lots* of randomly dying from full health with no visible attack landing, *every single time* I died, screen would go grey, and I would have >%50 of my health. 5 seconds later it would update. I'd get a res, and my health would continue to show as 0 for 5 more seconds. Sometimes it would just stay at 0. Sometimes it would never stop being at full.
Messages are being dropped, worse than I have ever seen it, and it's happening on both PC-EU and PC-US. Don't you dare tell me it's my connection, this bug has been in the game since beta and you are well aware of this. I know it's TCP networking and theoretically shouldn't be able to drop messages, but that just means its internal to the game, it's its own way of... ZOSing things up.
It was fixed briefly... back in February I think it was? For like a month? Some point around the massive block is broken saga that decimated the tank population in this game. You remember... But it caused some other bug, which was more serious, so it was returned to the long standing droppy state.
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