Ashes Battle Royale Testing - Known Bugs, Testing & Improvements

jahlon

Known Bugs from this weekend:
Solo Mode XP bonus not working
Duo Mode was not enabled
4 Quests could not be completed
Weeklies spawned with no information
Door issues (opening and only destroyable from one side)
Weapons could be hacked/glitched
Massive XP glitch

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Kyleran

Is this a report for Apocalypse or ATM (Ashes the MMORPG?)

jahlon

Kyleran said:

Is this a report for Apocalypse or ATM (Ashes the MMORPG?)

APOC.

I'm glad MMORPG did an Ashes of Creation MMORPG forum thread and then an APOC forum thread.  

Kyleran

Thanks, I didnt realize BR games had XP gains and quests, thought they were mostly about king of the hill / last person standing.

tweedledumb99

Kyleran said:

Is this a report for Apocalypse or ATM (Ashes the MMORPG?)

I chuckled.

Kyleran

tweedledumb99 said:

Kyleran said:

Is this a report for Apocalypse or ATM (Ashes the MMORPG?)

I chuckled.

Gotta call it something, ATM seemed appropriate. 

jahlon

Kyleran said:

Thanks, I didnt realize BR games had XP gains and quests, thought they were mostly about king of the hill / last person standing.

Sadly the vocal reason for the results that APOC is providing has been drown out by all the people who are just raging about another BR, that Intrepid sold out, the pyramid scheme thing, the cash grab thing, the overmonetization, etc.

Talking to the development team on several occasions, they actually had a really good roadmap for the technology (tech) they were going to test.

BR Mode
Initial Match Making
Initial Test of Hit Boxes
Initial Test of Action Combat
Initial Test of Hit Scan Weapons (Nightfall)
Initial Test of Projectile Weapons (Longbow, Crossbow, Wand, Scepter)
Initial Test of Ground Reticle Weapons (Grimorie) 
Initial Test of Weapon Animations, Melee Range, Melee Hit Registration
Initial Test of Intractable Environment
Initial Test of Destroyable Environment
Initial Test of Assets
Initial Test of Effects
Initial Webpage Integration
Initial Patcher Deployment
Initial TECHNO-SHIT SERVER SIDE STUFF (architecture, stability, deployment)

and some more stuff I don't remember


So, thus far in Apoc we have seen 

1) a shit ton of bugs
2) floating tables
3) hacks/exploits on the weapons
4) hit box errors
5) environment glitches

and this keeps people spun up.


But we have also seen

1) The Prone Hitbox error corrected
2) Improvement to hitscan and projectile weapons
3) Improvements to melee weapon registration 
4) Bugged assets removed and corrected
5) Assets acknowledge as "too much"
6) Stability in the servers
7) Webpage Integration fully functional 
8) Improvements to the Patcher
9) Client Side FPS improvements
10) Improvement to not disconnecting on loading

So all the people who say "the BR was a waste" aren't seeing that there are improvements being made.


Now for the people who are saying they should have just done it in the MMORPG.  True, they probably should have; however (big HOWEVER) the community in 2017 was rabble rousing about Unreal Engine 4 not being able to do the combat Intrepid was planning.   People didn't want just tab targetting they wanted heavy action.  What is more heavy action testing than a BR?


All of this is the crawl phase.


Next up we get Castle Sieges which will add MORE to the puzzle.

Class Kits
Class Abilities
More people in one area

But it will still use things like 
Server Architecture
Matchmaking
Hit Boxes
Hit Scan
Projectile....


As bad as people are making the BR mode out to be, without it, the Castle Siege mode would have been a dumpster fire.  

The BR did give a bad first impression, but it pay off when and if the Castle Siege mode launches well.