1.506: The Return of the Bulletsponge!

[Pandur]

I have a few theories how coming up with a patch works at Trion

1. They get a pile of things that people like then try to implement a patch that's completely opposite to what people like. People saying they like patch 1.505 must have been a real big red rag to them.

2. Everyone gets smashed then they throw around drunken ideas and play a game of dice to what gets implemented.

3. They play a game of D&D Tomb of horrors and get an inspiration by the cursed wish gem in there.
Then they pick out a player wish they corrupt to the extreme.

I've taken to attributing stuff to incompetence but i'm starting to lean over towards malice.

[Tsort]

I think it may take a bit more than spray...

Hey, that looks like an Apex Skitterling, right? The ones that take almost more bullets to kill than TL1 Monarchs?

Seriously, I'd have less problems with the bullet sponges if they actually changed the skins. Turn TL10 mobs into Panzer tanks, Iron golems, or Chuck Norris Raiders. And change their name to "Adamantium spacebugs", "Undead Juggernauts" and "Gods of War".

Sometimes I run a couple of co-ops, arkfalls, sieges, etc, then I'm on my own in a TL2 emergency and when I one-shot a raider with a shotgun from 20 meters away, I go "WTF ???" and feel like a thunder god again. So I pull out my LMG, channel the power of Frank Castle, and kill 4 of them with each salvo, watching them wriggle and scream in agony and do backflips after each hits. I pull the pins of a couple of grenades and go full Rambo on their *****.

Then another guy comes up, TL goes up, and I unload a rocket launcher into a skitterling, and it just stands there, grinning with all its little teeth, side-stepping and taunting me. I go back to my Weaksauce Carebear persona down from Death horseman incarnate. Immersion-killing for sure. If at least that skitterling looked like Godzilla on steroïds instead, with a different name, I'd find solace in my failure.

[Pandur]

Actually i think they should just make the prefix for TL10 enemies "Spongebob" and make all their textures yellow.
It would perfectly portray the hilarity of the situation while warning newcomers about what they can expect.

[Iceberg]

Its times like these I am glad GTA 5 is coming out with their high life update. Maybe when I am done with that I will swing back around here to see if they re-re-fixed the game.

[Vonna]

Hey, that looks like an Apex Skitterling, right? The ones that take almost more bullets to kill than TL1 Monarchs?

Seriously, I'd have less problems with the bullet sponges if they actually changed the skins. Turn TL10 mobs into Panzer tanks, Iron golems, or Chuck Norris Raiders. And change their name to "Adamantium spacebugs", "Undead Juggernauts" and "Gods of War".

Sometimes I run a couple of co-ops, arkfalls, sieges, etc, then I'm on my own in a TL2 emergency and when I one-shot a raider with a shotgun from 20 meters away, I go "WTF ???" and feel like a thunder god again. So I pull out my LMG, channel the power of Frank Castle, and kill 4 of them with each salvo, watching them wriggle and scream in agony and do backflips after each hits. I pull the pins of a couple of grenades and go full Rambo on their *****.

Then another guy comes up, TL goes up, and I unload a rocket launcher into a skitterling, and it just stands there, grinning with all its little teeth, side-stepping and taunting me. I go back to my Weaksauce Carebear persona down from Death horseman incarnate. Immersion-killing for sure. If at least that skitterling looked like Godzilla on steroïds instead, with a different name, I'd find solace in my failure.

OMG, I just spit my coffee on my laptop screen. Frigging hilarious!

[Festival]

I have a few theories how coming up with a patch works at Trion

1. They get a pile of things that people like then try to implement a patch that's completely opposite to what people like. People saying they like patch 1.505 must have been a real big red rag to them.

2. Everyone gets smashed then they throw around drunken ideas and play a game of dice to what gets implemented.

3. They play a game of D&D Tomb of horrors and get an inspiration by the cursed wish gem in there.
Then they pick out a player wish they corrupt to the extreme.

I've taken to attributing stuff to incompetence but i'm starting to lean over towards malice.

A-yup. Even incompetent developers, when told over and over and effin' OVER again that something sucks, will (eventually) get the message. That they actually ramped up the bulletsponginess tells me we're being trolled.

[Tallon]

So... they applied a hotfix that caused the muderous pop-ups. Then they attempted to fix it by doing an update rollback... Only it looks like they rolled back to a date prior to the balancing. After blowing all my ammo to kill one ark-bug, I called it a night. Hopefully they will fix it before they call it a "weekend".

[dramaQkarri]

Its times like these I am glad GTA 5 is coming out with their high life update. Maybe when I am done with that I will swing back around here to see if they re-re-fixed the game.

HIGH LIFE MAY 13 - FINALLY!
Although...not sure what I want to do except buy the 2nd apartment and some cars...that outta hold me for a couple hours.

[dramaQkarri]

I've taken to attributing stuff to incompetence but i'm starting to lean over towards malice.

I've been suspecting this for awhile. There comes a point when incompetence is so absurd and impossibly pathetic that malice seems a much more likely explanation. Griefers are everywhere!

[TTOWNZ DIRTIEST]

AND WARMASTER is back to his BULLETSPONGE WAYS ALSO.....First one had 25 people in it last nite and crack his right arm @ 5:31 and we ended up at the end not even killing him.. WELL, GET THIS- rewards says 34 keycodes and 40 arkforge so I was like ok, but when I get back to overpass: my toon only has 2 keys and 19 arkforge WTF? I proceed to rally the TROOPS FOR THE NEXT WARMASTER, just too make sure my old eyes weren't fooling me: so I get like 42-44 people in and we beat him with about a minute and a half to spare and same thing REWARDS SHOW UP AND WHEN I LEAVE NOTHING????