Poorly designed patch - Blue Tracker

#0 - Oct. 19, 2010, 6 a.m.

I dont think you actually read or even care what the customers want, but least you could do is have better testing on your ptr servers. This patch is the worst designed and deployed patch ever in the years I have played this game.

First I will give you a sample of my computer
its an amd9950 quad core chip, running vista under 16gigs, and a dual crossfire mode 4970 video
Killer mk1 network card, yes I did buy one, and I am also aware that having 16gigs ram is insane and not needed but I dont care

1 there is no reason I should ever see an ounce of lag anywhere yet dalaran runs worse then wolfenstien on a calculator, choppy and just horrendous frame rates.

2 my connection to this game has become horrid, I am DC at every opprotunity this game can allow, changing toons, clicking a table, port , instances, battle grounds anything that has a load screen freezes.

3 You have a ptr for a reason not to just willy nilly drop poor patches. Having a ptr and testing there is a poor indication of how a games tests out, 12 million players and what 1percent use ptr? Test longer imo

4 did you really listen to your customers? I can say for sure they didnt ask to have skills taken away , talents gone only to have to relearn them later. Come on for common sense if I had misdirect on a toon at lvl 40 I should have to have it relearned at lvl 81 , consecrate is now an after though not even used hardly, and if you have a talent tree that lists Frostfire orb , way early in the tree then I should have to wait till 81 and 2 months before I can even cast it.

5 I dont know if I am actually going to buy caty or if I will go to something else , sadly I dont think you or any of the developers will really care. But if I go , I know my kids go , and I can tell you for sure that my friends who play are also discontented with the current state of the game. all in total I can say for sure that there are at least 15 people who will stop playing

Orlyia

#1 - Oct. 19, 2010, 6:06 a.m.

Most of your issues really need to be presented in the Suggestion Forum, Black.

As to freezing/disconnects we've had good reports that these commands will work as a temporary aid until the issue of instability associated with 'cogs' is permanently addressed. This may also help with some freezing issues when zoning into a BG or instance, although resetting your UI (complete method) is still recommended if you find your game freezing even with tooltips turned off via the macro below.

You will need to create two macros, one to "turn off tooltips" and one to "turn on tooltips".

Turn Off Tooltips

/script GameTooltip.Temphide = function() GameTooltip:Hide() end; GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Temphide);

Turn On Tooltips

/script GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Show);

Orlyia

#4 - Oct. 19, 2010, 6:12 a.m.

Q u o t e:

I tried that. Was hitting the macros every time I zoned anywhere new, and I still got booted when i sneezed near the flag.

Have you also done a full reset UI?

There may be more than one factor involved. I'd recommend testing this with a freshly reset UI prior to adding ANY addons back in.

To do a full reset UI, you will want to save your addons in another spot if you wish to preserve them.

Then rename/delete or move your WTF, Cache and Interface folders while WoW is shutdown. Reboot your system.

Note, if you are running Vista make sure your permissions are set so it does not undo your changes.

More detailed instructions for different operating systems, including Macs are here.

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=18761&searchQuery=reset%20UI&pageNumber=1

Orlyia

#7 - Oct. 19, 2010, 6:18 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Why is everyone telling us to do full UI resets? Has it actually helped? I have yet to meet or speak with anyone who it's helped.

Even if a reset doesn't address an issue, it puts everything back to a neutral state. It's quite impossible to accurately determine the cause of something in a program as heavily modified as WoW can be with addons unless there is a common starting point.

And I do beg to differ, it can help MANY issues, some you may not even realize you have. The insidious thing about UI issues are they often manifest in things you can NOT see and you may not even realize it.

Even if you've never ran an addon or have any currently installed, those three folders can be modified by addons and it's possible other changes could have been made at some point. That's why it's important to recreate them fresh to test things and trouble-shoot. It removes that as a realm of possibility for an issue.

I'd recommend it for EVERYONE periodically, especially after a patch and most especially after a patch of this magnitude.

Orlyia

#9 - Oct. 19, 2010, 6:22 a.m.

Q u o t e:

I've done it three times. Only thing that's every accomplished is reseting all my preferences to my addons when I move them back. Nothing more discouraging then having to spend 20 minutes configuring IceHUD and Bartender after something doesn't work...

And have you tried these macros without any addons?

Addons right now may or may not work - especially if they haven't been updated to work with the current patch. Even those that have been updated, well, there are changes being made everyday. I'd highly recommend doing without if at all possible for the time being, at least those that you don't feel are absolutely essential. For testing purposes, there needs to be zero addons to accurately determine if something works or does not work.