Friday with Means - November 5th, 2010 - Details are always interesting

[Technogen]

So much for my Floating Vampire Shade.

[Vhax]

second page!

I bet Means wasn't expecting this one!

[Windguaerd]

I utterly <3 the new Alien Dailies, awesome work!

[intelknight]

Opifex floating is OK - they are "elves", after all.

Instead, can you please fix butt wiggling while running?

[Tazalanche]

What happened to the patch to correct the Halloween phatz errors?

Notes!

(A) Final Respite Backpack: It doesn't function as a backpack. It was *supposed* to, and at one point did, but about an hour before shipping the update we discovered (or, i guess, re-discovered) an issue regarding looting backpacks from a corpse which completely broke the pack functionality. The item description has been changed internally to reflect this and will be updated in the next patch we deploy. Also, for those of you who've brought it up, the item will also be losing its Unique flag - Feel free to snag as many as you want. ;P

(B) QL 300 Shirt: The item which gives you the QL 300 Shirt (the "sealed high-quality shirt" item) unfortunately only has a 17% chance to actually spawn the QL 300 Shirt. We caught this and fixed it prior to the update hitting live, but due to stupidity the changes didn't actually make it in. In the next update we've recreated the item, removed the old sealed shirt item from the Pumpkinhead loot table, and replaced it with the new version.

(C) QL 1 Shirt: The reason the QL 300 Shirt comes from a 'sealed canister'-type item is due to, again, stupidity - This time with regards to how the game handles mob loot tables and quality levels, forcing me to make a work-around in the form of the sealed canister. While I thought to do this for the QL 300 Shirt, I completely forgot about the QL 1 Shirt needing the same work-around. ;P a "Sealed Low-Quality T-Shirt" item has been created and added to the Pumpkinhead loot tables; this will be available in the next update.

So yes - A couple of screw-ups, but stuff which will hopefully be addressed in our next update. Cheers! =)

Edit: After a bit of brainstorming with Lindelu, we're going to add a tradeskill to the currently-existing Final Respite pack; after the next update, you can use a screwdriver on the item to transform it into a "proper" backpack item. This will be a one-way street, but really there's no reason *not* to do it, so go for it. =)

[Ciex]

Im so excited by empty promises and great changes on paper that i dont even have to play.

Could we get any onfo on battlestation level ranges? Is 151-174 going to stay as it is (dead)? Is 175-214 with 3 title levels in one place working as intended?

[Fawnspawn]

I don't mind the butt wiggling or the floating. Butt wiggles happen when you walk, they are just more.....pronounced in game. However trying to make a tall fat female is nearly impossible cuz of the insta-shorten so I'm glad that's getting fixed.

Yes I want to make a toon of Amazon proportions, the exception being it would hopefully have both breasts instead of only the left.

[Kintaii]

What happened to the patch to correct the Halloween phatz errors?

Addressed in the same thread: http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...8&postcount=28

[Autohead]

What happened to the patch to correct the Halloween phatz errors?

This...

Unfortunately, due to the nature of the bug with the item, we pretty much literally cannot fix it (told you it was stupid ><). Again, as noted above, while we were hoping to be able to fix these issues before the end of the Halloween celebrations, it currently doesn't look likely - As said, the shirts are not dated, and will return next year (this time with a 100% chance on the item that contains the shirt).

EDIT: OMG Defeated by Kintaii!

[erozc]

...
Engy Doc finished. Feel free to use this and release it in 3-4 hours time after you place it in an excel file.

So, you think it's OK that several 200+ SL pets remain as "more useless than RK slayer" when it comes to damage?

[MassDebater]

So, you think it's OK that several 200+ SL pets remain as "more useless than RK slayer" when it comes to damage?

dont use them. just like alot of profs get their main weapon at 110-150 till 210-218.

[Twistid]

last

[SoapTarder]

staring at my solitus soldier float around as i type this. wait maybe he was always opi and I was just wanting to believe...

[cube]

Wouldn't count on it, we were promised a new video "in 3 weeks" about 36 weeks ago or something

Haha oh boy, well I'd rather see a trailer that has content worth showing instead of the same old assets but in an updated rendering environment. Coming Soon™©®?

[Autohead]

Wouldn't count on it, we were promised a new video "in 3 weeks" about 36 weeks ago or something

There's that word again...and yes while I used to be the one with The Signature™, even I knew it wasn't "promised" to us. He was "hoping to get it to us"...pretty big difference.

[Ocene]

Seriously though.... no engi's doc..

you're pushing it.

[Niles]

mm, drinking again.. makes for late posts

[TronjanHorse]

Btw Means its called Bone enveloping (when bone rigging). I had no idea what you said about floating hehe..but i guess you guys had a issue of poly and veretx "floating" out of the mess where there
is no envelope controlled. Its a normal issue when adding a new mess to the rigg.

I still see some envelope errors on some of the chars in wow, like the human dance mode. Twisted
vertexes are not nice to look at.

Thx for keeping us updated... and keep up the good work.

[iron-hands]

my favorite size issue, is when my fat nanomage spawns a hoverboard, and I lose 50 pounds... guess that's where the materials come from. ew.

[quieter456]

Yawn. Move along.