Focus Orb Gear "Grayed Out" STILL

[Mokune]

It's been over year since it became *mostly* broken.

Select a mob target. Its picture shows up in Focus Orb but the Interact Gear is INACTIVE. The gear on the orb seems to work properly while selecting non-mob targets like chests, doors, vine barriers.

Select self as target and gear becomes ACTIVE. Then select different target and gear for that target become ACTIVE. Cumbersome AF during intense combat scenarios where you want to keep track of DoTs or Debuffs on a boss but have to change targets to yourself or other party members.

Sure...I am aware of a key-binding as a work around. I rebound the "push to talk key" on my G13 gamepad as examine ("Z" I think or w/e). I am several years into not using my mic to talk so am not in the habit of even pressing it so forget a lot of the time anyway and just say screw it and don't bother.

I use both the mouse and gamepad continuously while playing.

Is it REALLY that difficult to fix one basic and necessary action in game?

I'd be embarrassed AF to not complete repairs on my customer's products. There would also be people screaming as a consequence.

 

[DBZ]

Rookie numbers i'd laugh but you know

 

[Qrvar]

Oo, I did not know about the keybinding workaraound, or that it was a bug. I thought the devs just decided to no longer let us see monster stats / status for whatever reason.

It's pretty bad either way.

 

[PaleFox]

I thought it was related to the monster manual being reset when we transferred characters to 64bit servers.

 

[kmoustakas]

Ghost lfms said hi, they are nearing a decade old now. Ladder bug #1 and #2 are about to ask for pension

 

[rabidfox]

The bug sequence for the greyed out orb gear was:
Game update to improve something involving focus orbs came out resulting in every time someone zoned that FPS dropped lower. This stacked each time until you were running around at 1 or 2 FPS. Only relaunching the game reset your FPS to normal; and then the frame rate drops would start fresh.

SSG quickly put out a fix a week later that that stopped those FPS drops, which also resulted in the current wonk with the gear symbol inspect not working right.

There's been no update to the orb since then; but given how badly the initial update broke things, I'm guessing they might be concerned about doing any more work on it (until they know they can do it without breaking something else in the process).

 

[jotmon]

Sounds like a normal DDO day..
Unless something is giving players an unintentional benefit it gets sidelined.
I am sure eventually, the broken or otherwise incorrectly working process will end up on the maybe someday in our spare time fix list.

 

[Xaerxiessia]

The bug sequence for the greyed out orb gear was:
Game update to improve something involving focus orbs came out resulting in every time someone zoned that FPS dropped lower. This stacked each time until you were running around at 1 or 2 FPS. Only relaunching the game reset your FPS to normal; and then the frame rate drops would start fresh.

SSG quickly put out a fix a week later that that stopped those FPS drops, which also resulted in the current wonk with the gear symbol inspect not working right.

There's been no update to the orb since then; but given how badly the initial update broke things, I'm guessing they might be concerned about doing any more work on it (until they know they can do it without breaking something else in the process).

You forgot the episode when zoomed parts of NPCs were appearing in the orb over (or instead of) the selected target.

 

[Mokune]

You forgot the episode when zoomed parts of NPCs were appearing in the orb over (or instead of) the selected target

Yeah, good times...

 

[Mokune]

It's been the standard operating procedure for these devs for years. Code a nerf or some other type of "fix" and end up screwing other stuff up that gets ignored for years.

Maybe spend more time on coding for actual GAMEPLAY and less time on trite cosmetics that literally NO ONE asked for.

 

[Phoenicis]

cosmetics that literally NO ONE asked for.

You didn't ask for cosmetics. Others have, repeatedly.

 

[Bjond]

You didn't ask for cosmetics. Others have, repeatedly.

I think folk were expecting them to know that G.Axe isn't much used and isn't a desired cosmetic.

 

[droid327]

You didn't ask for cosmetics. Others have, repeatedly.

Also cosmetics are art assets so they're basically free since that's all that artists can contribute. It's not a trade off between that and bug fixes

I just want them to learn how to do symmetric shoulders

 

[Mokune]

Valuing aesthetics over functionality is a problem.

 

[Macenzie]

Valuing aesthetics over functionality is a problem.

Well it's certainly made my marriage difficult.