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Mintcrystall
Profile Joined February 2017
Germany55 Posts
November 27 2019 05:37 GMT
#1
So i was booting up sc2 and some strange stuff is going on so i did the only normal thing and created an Tl post

Here are some stuff I encounterd and
[image loading]


and
twitter.com

On what is the stuff on twitter some have bad "bugs" some can play nearly normal.

But anyway i made a video looking into that
what =? no
phodacbiet
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1740 Posts
November 27 2019 06:06 GMT
#2
Did you post this on their site as well? Also, you need to give more info like what spec is your computer, drivers, etc. For all we know you could be running a new patch on a potato connected to some paperclips.
Deleted User 379564
Profile Joined January 2016
12 Posts
November 27 2019 06:34 GMT
#3
On November 27 2019 15:06 phodacbiet wrote:
Did you post this on their site as well? Also, you need to give more info like what spec is your computer, drivers, etc. For all we know you could be running a new patch on a potato connected to some paperclips.


Its the same for everyone
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5542 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 07:49:08
November 27 2019 06:56 GMT
#4
I dunno ive played about 20 games on ladder with no issues.

Edit: Just had hotkey bug for the first time o_o
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LoneYoShi
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
France1348 Posts
November 27 2019 07:06 GMT
#5
I've played one game right now on Eternal Empire and no ramp was pathable...

Blizz Please.
followZeRoX
Profile Joined March 2011
Serbia1451 Posts
November 27 2019 07:39 GMT
#6
I tried to play 4 games on EU and all 4 was discs, either me or my opponent, on NA i got only 1 disc out of 5. Havent saw ramp issues.
GreasedUpDeafGuy
Profile Joined August 2018
United States398 Posts
November 27 2019 08:32 GMT
#7
oh buddy, this will not end well
Cant catch me. You're wasting your time
Pentarp
Profile Joined August 2015
227 Posts
November 27 2019 08:42 GMT
#8
Oh, a relatively less popular game with limited funds is having issues. What a surprise. Suck it up and wait for a hotfix. No need to make a new thread about it like you're asking to "speak to a manager".

Manage your expectations. Game is free. You want it fixed "RIGHTNOW"? Well, pay for it or shut the fuck up. Oh you paid for it before? ITS BEEN 4 YEARS SINCE RELEASE!

Fking hate this whiny ass community sometimes. Let the game flourish within its means. Complain when its well deserved, but there's no need to make drama over technical issues.

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abuse
Profile Joined April 2011
Latvia1946 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 08:56:30
November 27 2019 08:54 GMT
#9
On November 27 2019 17:42 Pentarp wrote:
Oh, a relatively less popular game with limited funds is having issues. What a surprise. Suck it up and wait for a hotfix. No need to make a new thread about it like you're asking to "speak to a manager".

Manage your expectations. Game is free. You want it fixed "RIGHTNOW"? Well, pay for it or shut the fuck up. Oh you paid for it before? ITS BEEN 4 YEARS SINCE RELEASE!

Fking hate this whiny ass community sometimes. Let the game flourish within its means. Complain when its well deserved, but there's no need to make drama over technical issues.


idk what drugs you're on, but calm down, Karen.
Nobody even complained about anything here(yet) even though they can complain all they want, this is more than a tiny glitch.
Personally never seen a patch in any game (especially AAA) break a game so badly, and as someone who no longer plays sc2, this video is appreciated just to see what a mess it is now.
I don't believe you.
Deleted User 379564
Profile Joined January 2016
12 Posts
November 27 2019 08:55 GMT
#10
On November 27 2019 17:42 Pentarp wrote:
Oh, a relatively less popular game with limited funds is having issues. What a surprise. Suck it up and wait for a hotfix. No need to make a new thread about it like you're asking to "speak to a manager".

Manage your expectations. Game is free. You want it fixed "RIGHTNOW"? Well, pay for it or shut the fuck up. Oh you paid for it before? ITS BEEN 4 YEARS SINCE RELEASE!

Fking hate this whiny ass community sometimes. Let the game flourish within its means. Complain when its well deserved, but there's no need to make drama over technical issues.


Are you fucking serious? It's a billion dollar company. People buy in game items. There are professional players playing the game for a living. This shouldn't happen with the experience they have.
thePunGun
Profile Blog Joined January 2016
598 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 09:17:56
November 27 2019 09:17 GMT
#11
Fuck ups happen all the time, we're all human remember that. No matter how big the company is, as long as it's on planet earth and run by humans...fuck ups will happen.
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
MockHamill
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1798 Posts
November 27 2019 09:20 GMT
#12
As long as it is fixed by the time I come home from work it is ok.
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7410 Posts
November 27 2019 09:21 GMT
#13
On November 27 2019 17:54 abuse wrote:

Personally never seen a patch in any game (especially AAA) break a game so badly, and as someone who no longer plays sc2, this video is appreciated just to see what a mess it is now.


Anthem

On topic: Yesterday I had a login queue in b.net launcher for like the 2nd time ever (first was after this years blizzcon). Queue times did get longer the more I waited. Then launcher started and immediately shut down again.
No idea if this is connected at all, but I guess they had some general issues as well
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
xongnox
Profile Joined November 2011
540 Posts
November 27 2019 09:41 GMT
#14
On November 27 2019 17:55 Aleksander Nordmo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 27 2019 17:42 Pentarp wrote:
Oh, a relatively less popular game with limited funds is having issues. What a surprise. Suck it up and wait for a hotfix. No need to make a new thread about it like you're asking to "speak to a manager".

Manage your expectations. Game is free. You want it fixed "RIGHTNOW"? Well, pay for it or shut the fuck up. Oh you paid for it before? ITS BEEN 4 YEARS SINCE RELEASE!

Fking hate this whiny ass community sometimes. Let the game flourish within its means. Complain when its well deserved, but there's no need to make drama over technical issues.


Are you fucking serious? It's a billion dollar company. People buy in game items. There are professional players playing the game for a living. This shouldn't happen with the experience they have.


Yep. They make a f***ton of money since free to play. The patch is a minor balance patch (+maps+ co-op), tested for weeks on PTR. They introduced not a rare bug happening for some people on some hardware combination with old drivers and whatnot.... but simply broke the game for more than half the players, in multiple unrelated ways. And it's lasting.

So, yeah.. stuff happens... and happens more with underpaid trainees maintaining a gryère-like 20 years old codebase written by alcoholic baboons. (have you see the article about Starcraft 1 ? they used C++ for fist time and wanted to use every feature just for fun and novelty, so the code is reputed to be horrendous and hard to maintain...)
XPA
Profile Joined January 2013
Germany242 Posts
November 27 2019 10:27 GMT
#15
Just played a game on triton and even there the ramp is borken. They managed to break every single map. So the game is completly unplayeble atm. That is a hard blow after the great experience that was hsc x...
BjoernK
Profile Joined April 2012
194 Posts
November 27 2019 10:55 GMT
#16
I get the broken ramps and strange textures also, when playing custom games, training etc... However SC2 is not even allowing me to start a 1vs1. The error message reads something like "You do not have the required status to enter search". (I play German version)
Ronski
Profile Joined February 2011
Finland266 Posts
November 27 2019 11:33 GMT
#17
Yeah the game is completely unplayable for me as well, you can't move down any ramps at all, also impossible to hotkey the new infestor ability microbial shroud for the infestation pit, It just resets it to nothing as soon as you save hotkey profile.
I am a tank. I am covered head to toe in solid plate mail. I carry a block of metal the size of a 4 door sedan to hide behind. If you see me running - you should too.
kajtarp
Profile Joined April 2011
Hungary492 Posts
November 27 2019 11:47 GMT
#18
On November 27 2019 19:55 BjoernK wrote:
I get the broken ramps and strange textures also, when playing custom games, training etc... However SC2 is not even allowing me to start a 1vs1. The error message reads something like "You do not have the required status to enter search". (I play German version)


Someone wrote on the blizz forums that the ladder is locked currently or something. I have the same error message. I haven't played the game in years and i guess it won't change.
Why so serious?
BjoernK
Profile Joined April 2012
194 Posts
November 27 2019 12:01 GMT
#19
Just tried to play the Wings of Liberty campaign. It is also not playable. In the first mission after the first little fight the road is blocked just like the ramps.
kmh
Profile Joined November 2010
Finland351 Posts
November 27 2019 12:02 GMT
#20
I've had some previous patches where the game didn't start for me at all, or crashed when the match ended, but this is probably the worst patch so far.

Hopefully they can fix it soon.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27405 Posts
November 27 2019 14:19 GMT
#21
On November 27 2019 17:42 Pentarp wrote:
Oh, a relatively less popular game with limited funds is having issues. What a surprise. Suck it up and wait for a hotfix. No need to make a new thread about it like you're asking to "speak to a manager".

Manage your expectations. Game is free. You want it fixed "RIGHTNOW"? Well, pay for it or shut the fuck up. Oh you paid for it before? ITS BEEN 4 YEARS SINCE RELEASE!

Fking hate this whiny ass community sometimes. Let the game flourish within its means. Complain when its well deserved, but there's no need to make drama over technical issues.

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Well that’s a hot take.

According to some even stuff like the WoL campaign is broken. I don’t expect patches to be flawless or completely bug free but the one thing I absolutely don’t expect is for them to break functionality of everything that previously worked fine.

Which wouldn’t be nearly as much of an issue if it was easier to revert to old builds, but of course that isn’t the modern way either.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
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Mintcrystall
Profile Joined February 2017
Germany55 Posts
November 27 2019 14:24 GMT
#22
On November 27 2019 21:02 kmh wrote:
I've had some previous patches where the game didn't start for me at all, or crashed when the match ended, but this is probably the worst patch so far.

Hopefully they can fix it soon.


I hope cause i am as said in the video suppost to cast on the main WESG starcraft channel the centreal european loosers final ^^
what =? no
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 15:21:24
November 27 2019 15:15 GMT
#23
On November 27 2019 18:20 MockHamill wrote:
As long as it is fixed by the time I come home from work it is ok.


It's not fixed. As of 4pm 9 times out of 10 in a co-op game it will drop one or both players instantly, 1v1 is disabled and it's impossible to play anything with more than two people.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7410 Posts
November 27 2019 15:23 GMT
#24
I feel for all the tournaments going on right now like Wardii's Team League. Hope at least custom games with custom map works, so they can play on the HSC XX maps or sth.
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 15:38:08
November 27 2019 15:24 GMT
#25
On November 28 2019 00:23 Harris1st wrote:
I feel for all the tournaments going on right now like Wardii's Team League. Hope at least custom games with custom map works, so they can play on the HSC XX maps or sth.


Doesn't work, even xel'naga caverns and the WOL campaign is broken

edit: If every client does the workaround language thing and joins a custom game, it might work.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
bela.mervado
Profile Joined December 2008
Hungary417 Posts
November 27 2019 15:33 GMT
#26
obviously blizz is working on the fix
and since it is an NA based company and there are timezones and stuff
you know
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 15:37:21
November 27 2019 15:36 GMT
#27
On November 28 2019 00:33 bela.mervado wrote:
obviously blizz is working on the fix
and since it is an NA based company and there are timezones and stuff
you know


Not sure if sarcasm but if they're not ready to fix or revert a gamebreaking patch for a whole day they shouldn't push it live at all. This has never happened before for good reason.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
bela.mervado
Profile Joined December 2008
Hungary417 Posts
November 27 2019 15:40 GMT
#28
no sarcasm, i agree with the warned guy above.
and it is 7:40 am pacific time, blizz hq is LA afaik.
they will fix it, chill
you can play tetris in the meantime
i trust you have a smartphone, right?
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12133 Posts
November 27 2019 16:37 GMT
#29
On November 28 2019 00:40 bela.mervado wrote:
no sarcasm, i agree with the warned guy above.
and it is 7:40 am pacific time, blizz hq is LA afaik.
they will fix it, chill
you can play tetris in the meantime
i trust you have a smartphone, right?

They shouldn't push a patch that's not properly tested and which they cannot revert on time. Blizzard is a global company and ANY of their branches should be able to revert a patch and prepare an emergency patch which fixes a bug that's making the game unplayable. If they cannot right away fix it. Excusing this by time zones is not acceptable. Does this mean they're in so bad shape they don't have people who can do a basic revert?
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corydoras
Profile Joined November 2013
161 Posts
November 27 2019 17:06 GMT
#30
I confirm, we're going through WoL campaign with my son and half of the missions are literally impossible to beat due to ramp issues. We used reapers as a workaround, but well...
Adun toridas!
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16095 Posts
November 27 2019 17:40 GMT
#31
no big deal, just do something else in the meantime and wait for a fix.
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 18:18:33
November 27 2019 18:17 GMT
#32
On November 28 2019 02:40 Charoisaur wrote:
no big deal, just do something else in the meantime and wait for a fix.


That's fair enough when we're talking about 2 hours but the game being completely unplayable for >24 hours is absurd and unacceptable.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27405 Posts
November 27 2019 18:27 GMT
#33
On November 28 2019 03:17 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 28 2019 02:40 Charoisaur wrote:
no big deal, just do something else in the meantime and wait for a fix.


That's fair enough when we're talking about 2 hours but the game being completely unplayable for >24 hours is absurd and unacceptable.

It’s incredibly frustrating when you have a really light week and your main aspiration is to get back actively playing the game.

Ladder breaking is bad enough, but the campaigns being unplayable according to some accounts is just inexcusable as I’ve paid for those.
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Snakestyle11
Profile Joined December 2018
191 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 18:38:15
November 27 2019 18:33 GMT
#34
Wow one full day now of unplayable ranked play (literally). And on a new season with huge changes none the less, meaning higher active players than usual, gold opportunity to sell coop commander and skins. Many ppl baught new commander and cant even play. If this was WoW, HS, any other blizzard game, or any AAA game with some sort of self respect, there would be multiple updates about the issue and it would be resolved much faster...

Just check blizzard CS twitter, its actually sad. A small delay on a weekly planned maintenance for WoW classic has multiple posts and updates(like prob one hour late?). But SC2 new season, new commander, new balance changes completely unplayable for 24 hours. Dead silent, no update, no fuck given. Same on starcraft twitter. Cant find any update on it. Some basement dev found the cause in about 2 hours and its beeing discussed by players, but no word from blizzard. They release a huge patch with new MTX, and on the same day they dont leave a dev on call with possible backup in case of major issue with update?

What a joke...
Mintcrystall
Profile Joined February 2017
Germany55 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 19:51:09
November 27 2019 19:50 GMT
#35
(https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/e2ecz9/workaround_for_black_square_on_maps_switch_your/)
what =? no
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 20:06:14
November 27 2019 19:54 GMT
#36
On November 28 2019 04:50 Mintcrystall wrote:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/e2ecz9/workaround_for_black_square_on_maps_switch_your/)


Works for many people but if anybody in the game (even an opponent or observer) has a broken game client then it will start to indiscriminately kick people out. This makes anything aside from organized premade gameplay impossible as an enormous fraction of players on EU are queuing with broken clients.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
followZeRoX
Profile Joined March 2011
Serbia1451 Posts
November 27 2019 20:01 GMT
#37
On November 28 2019 04:54 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 28 2019 04:50 Mintcrystall wrote:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/e2ecz9/workaround_for_black_square_on_maps_switch_your/)


Works for many people but if anybody in the game (even an opponent or observer) has a broken game client then it will start to indiscriminately kick people out. This makes anything aside from organized premade gameplay impossible as the vast majority of players on EU are queuing with broken clients.


Sorry but what do you mean by broken game client? Just curious. That means if we all fix it, disc bug will be gone?
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 20:06:28
November 27 2019 20:04 GMT
#38
On November 28 2019 05:01 JanDe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 28 2019 04:54 Cyro wrote:
On November 28 2019 04:50 Mintcrystall wrote:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/e2ecz9/workaround_for_black_square_on_maps_switch_your/)


Works for many people but if anybody in the game (even an opponent or observer) has a broken game client then it will start to indiscriminately kick people out. This makes anything aside from organized premade gameplay impossible as the vast majority of players on EU are queuing with broken clients.


Sorry but what do you mean by broken game client? Just curious. That means if we all fix it, disc bug will be gone?


If the problem is as simple as engine code handling certain system language settings perfectly but breaking when others are set, yes. It's not practical to make everybody in the world set their OS language settings a certain way though, anybody can not do it and break the game for everybody that they queue into.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Ben...
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3485 Posts
November 27 2019 20:13 GMT
#39
I didn't run into this issue but I (or more, my opponent) ran into a bug on Zen where they couldn't build their command center at their natural expansion in the correct spot. It had to be a square further away than normal. They were on the southwest spawn and I was at the northeast. My nexus built fine in the right spot though so it might have just been them.

Other than that though, I haven't had any issues. I played a dozen or so games last night and they were mostly fine other than it being day 1 of the ladder season so most of the games were typical bad day 1 games with people cheesing to try to get promoted. I played 6 PvPs in a row and all were proxies. It was pretty funny.
"Cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide" -Tastosis
Drusas_
Profile Joined November 2019
24 Posts
November 27 2019 20:26 GMT
#40
Well folks, looks like we better git to work on making flat maps.
BabelFish1
Profile Joined September 2015
186 Posts
November 27 2019 20:32 GMT
#41
This is why you don't freaking publish a patch right before a holiday lol. At best, you have distracted employees who might not be doing their best work, At worst, you have them rush stuff out the door and this fiasco happens.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 20:48:25
November 27 2019 20:41 GMT
#42
On November 28 2019 05:13 Ben... wrote:
I didn't run into this issue but I (or more, my opponent) ran into a bug on Zen where they couldn't build their command center at their natural expansion in the correct spot. It had to be a square further away than normal. They were on the southwest spawn and I was at the northeast. My nexus built fine in the right spot though so it might have just been them.

Other than that though, I haven't had any issues. I played a dozen or so games last night and they were mostly fine other than it being day 1 of the ladder season so most of the games were typical bad day 1 games with people cheesing to try to get promoted. I played 6 PvPs in a row and all were proxies. It was pretty funny.


You're playing on NA, so maybe the issues are nowhere near as bad over there.

I queued 30 times on EU, all but two of them immediately dropped players and ended in seconds.

They put some mineral patches and geysers in the wrong place when making the ladder version of maps somehow, that's dumb for sure but it hardly matters until you can actually load a map without getting kicked out
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
v5872012
Profile Joined May 2018
35 Posts
November 27 2019 20:55 GMT
#43
I understand if there's minor bug or sth.. However, such messy like this one is the first time..
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5542 Posts
November 27 2019 21:32 GMT
#44
Ranked play doesn't work right now, even though i legit played 20 games on ladder yesterday just fine. Unranked is still searchable though....

Blizz simultaneously fucked both broodwar and sc2 within about a week of each other. New broodwar patch dropped along with a new season, lots of people couldn't play and the game would open about 20 random processes and eat up all CPU. Others that could get in said the game felt sluggish and wasn't running well regardless. Then they released a hotfix and as of yesterday lots of people couldn't log into battle net because it said they needed to update even though they were running the latest update.

I'm not particularly angry but what the fuck is going on over there lol. All QA testers must have been on vacation so they just said fuck it it worked that one time we tested it five days ago so send it out. Blizz just aint the same.
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Tyrhanius
Profile Joined April 2011
France947 Posts
November 27 2019 22:01 GMT
#45
On November 28 2019 05:32 BabelFish1 wrote:
This is why you don't freaking publish a patch right before a holiday lol. At best, you have distracted employees who might not be doing their best work, At worst, you have them rush stuff out the door and this fiasco happens.

An holiday ? It was a tuesday. In which country it is an holiday ?
Snakestyle11
Profile Joined December 2018
191 Posts
November 27 2019 22:06 GMT
#46
https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

It does not take a long time from looking at this twitter that they just dont care about SC2 players. We are nothing to them. If this was any other game, this would be resolved, or patch would be reverted until its ready and stable. Or at the very least, we would get an update every couple hours.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27405 Posts
November 27 2019 22:15 GMT
#47
On November 28 2019 06:32 jimminy_kriket wrote:
Ranked play doesn't work right now, even though i legit played 20 games on ladder yesterday just fine. Unranked is still searchable though....

Blizz simultaneously fucked both broodwar and sc2 within about a week of each other. New broodwar patch dropped along with a new season, lots of people couldn't play and the game would open about 20 random processes and eat up all CPU. Others that could get in said the game felt sluggish and wasn't running well regardless. Then they released a hotfix and as of yesterday lots of people couldn't log into battle net because it said they needed to update even though they were running the latest update.

I'm not particularly angry but what the fuck is going on over there lol. All QA testers must have been on vacation so they just said fuck it it worked that one time we tested it five days ago so send it out. Blizz just aint the same.

It’s fucking piss poor in combination.

If the new patch breaks everything else, just revert to the previous functional patch. If that’s for some reason not feasible at least communicate with the community as to what’s going on.

I understand sometimes weird bugs happen or whatever that are unexpected but it’s the combination of either not reverting to the previous stable build, or alternatively communicating why that isn’t viable that is really frustrating.

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jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5542 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 22:25:11
November 27 2019 22:23 GMT
#48
Patch is here

Edit: ranked still down
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
November 27 2019 22:32 GMT
#49
I'm not seeing any patch
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5542 Posts
November 27 2019 22:37 GMT
#50
its live on NA at least
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BabelFish1
Profile Joined September 2015
186 Posts
November 27 2019 22:38 GMT
#51
On November 28 2019 07:01 Tyrhanius wrote:
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On November 28 2019 05:32 BabelFish1 wrote:
This is why you don't freaking publish a patch right before a holiday lol. At best, you have distracted employees who might not be doing their best work, At worst, you have them rush stuff out the door and this fiasco happens.

An holiday ? It was a tuesday. In which country it is an holiday ?


The US has Thanksgiving coming up right away.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-27 22:55:38
November 27 2019 22:54 GMT
#52
Got it now (EU)

243MB, 4.11.1.77474
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Ben...
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3485 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-28 00:04:35
November 28 2019 00:03 GMT
#53
On November 28 2019 05:41 Cyro wrote:
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On November 28 2019 05:13 Ben... wrote:
I didn't run into this issue but I (or more, my opponent) ran into a bug on Zen where they couldn't build their command center at their natural expansion in the correct spot. It had to be a square further away than normal. They were on the southwest spawn and I was at the northeast. My nexus built fine in the right spot though so it might have just been them.

Other than that though, I haven't had any issues. I played a dozen or so games last night and they were mostly fine other than it being day 1 of the ladder season so most of the games were typical bad day 1 games with people cheesing to try to get promoted. I played 6 PvPs in a row and all were proxies. It was pretty funny.


You're playing on NA, so maybe the issues are nowhere near as bad over there.

I queued 30 times on EU, all but two of them immediately dropped players and ended in seconds.

They put some mineral patches and geysers in the wrong place when making the ladder version of maps somehow, that's dumb for sure but it hardly matters until you can actually load a map without getting kicked out

Yes, that's most likely the case. Other than the odd game on the Brazil server, pretty much everyone else speaks English in game on NA so it makes sense that those of us on NA would have a substantially smaller chance of hitting this bug since many folks would have their OS set to English. Obviously there will be people that don't have their OS set to English, but that's likely to be a substantially smaller percentage of people in NA compared to EU.

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ZerglingSoup
Profile Joined June 2009
United States346 Posts
November 28 2019 00:13 GMT
#54
Ladder is up btw gl hf
Stream plz
AlexZhang1012
Profile Joined June 2019
63 Posts
November 28 2019 01:22 GMT
#55
Ladder was unplayable yesterday. Is it fixed by now?
Drusas_
Profile Joined November 2019
24 Posts
November 28 2019 01:27 GMT
#56
On November 28 2019 10:22 AlexZhang1012 wrote:
Ladder was unplayable yesterday. Is it fixed by now?

I just played a 1v1 match on NA, worked just fine. The new map had a unique layout and ended up to be a fun game.
crbox
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1181 Posts
November 28 2019 01:42 GMT
#57
On November 27 2019 17:42 Pentarp wrote:
Oh, a relatively less popular game with limited funds is having issues. What a surprise. Suck it up and wait for a hotfix. No need to make a new thread about it like you're asking to "speak to a manager".

Manage your expectations. Game is free. You want it fixed "RIGHTNOW"? Well, pay for it or shut the fuck up. Oh you paid for it before? ITS BEEN 4 YEARS SINCE RELEASE!

Fking hate this whiny ass community sometimes. Let the game flourish within its means. Complain when its well deserved, but there's no need to make drama over technical issues.

User was warned for this post


You are precisely what you despise. Congratulations on the cognitive dissonance.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
November 28 2019 03:11 GMT
#58
Works now ;D
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
2007 Posts
November 28 2019 07:30 GMT
#59
On November 28 2019 12:11 Cyro wrote:
Works now ;D


Is ranked up as well?

I have to say it is really strange that problems of this magnitude were not picked up during internal testing.

Thinks like the mule bug BC/abduct bugs are much more forgiveable.
Buff the siegetank
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France13021 Posts
November 28 2019 08:13 GMT
#60
Well it's pretty clear what happened, the ton of employes who got fired managed to sneak up into blizzard offices and convinced former colleagues to fuck up post blizzcon patch as a silent protest
WriterMaru
Mintcrystall
Profile Joined February 2017
Germany55 Posts
November 28 2019 08:54 GMT
#61
On November 28 2019 17:13 Poopi wrote:
Well it's pretty clear what happened, the ton of employes who got fired managed to sneak up into blizzard offices and convinced former colleagues to fuck up post blizzcon patch as a silent protest



not like because they have so few staff that they cant support a game properly =?
what =? no
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7410 Posts
November 28 2019 09:30 GMT
#62
On November 28 2019 17:13 Poopi wrote:
Well it's pretty clear what happened, the ton of employes who got fired managed to sneak up into blizzard offices and convinced former colleagues to fuck up post blizzcon patch as a silent protest


Nah, it's more likely they fired all the engineers and have only some suits left who don't know shit about anything but money
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27405 Posts
November 28 2019 09:49 GMT
#63
On November 28 2019 18:30 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 28 2019 17:13 Poopi wrote:
Well it's pretty clear what happened, the ton of employes who got fired managed to sneak up into blizzard offices and convinced former colleagues to fuck up post blizzcon patch as a silent protest


Nah, it's more likely they fired all the engineers and have only some suits left who don't know shit about anything but money

How many engineers would you need? The whole thing is confusing.

If they did have a skeleton crew running if anything I’d have expected the fix to have taken way longer
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Mintcrystall
Profile Joined February 2017
Germany55 Posts
November 28 2019 13:48 GMT
#64
On November 28 2019 18:49 Wombat_NI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 28 2019 18:30 Harris1st wrote:
On November 28 2019 17:13 Poopi wrote:
Well it's pretty clear what happened, the ton of employes who got fired managed to sneak up into blizzard offices and convinced former colleagues to fuck up post blizzcon patch as a silent protest


Nah, it's more likely they fired all the engineers and have only some suits left who don't know shit about anything but money

How many engineers would you need? The whole thing is confusing.

If they did have a skeleton crew running if anything I’d have expected the fix to have taken way longer



Well i guess some higher ups pressed the red button and from everywhere people would try to fix it asp ^^
what =? no
BronzeKnee
Profile Joined March 2011
United States5226 Posts
November 28 2019 15:35 GMT
#65
They didn't test it huh...
Parrek
Profile Joined May 2016
United States893 Posts
November 28 2019 16:12 GMT
#66
On November 29 2019 00:35 BronzeKnee wrote:
They didn't test it huh...


I think it's more likely that it worked fine right before launch, but something stupid happened which had a huge effect because of spaghetti code
Ben...
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3485 Posts
November 28 2019 19:18 GMT
#67
On November 29 2019 01:12 Parrek wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2019 00:35 BronzeKnee wrote:
They didn't test it huh...


I think it's more likely that it worked fine right before launch, but something stupid happened which had a huge effect because of spaghetti code

Yes, from everything I've heard, this game's code is a nightmare to work with. For Heroes of the Storm, they patched up some of the issues with the engine and introduced multi-core support, but none of that made it back to SC2 since it would have required a relatively big overhaul. I think Nathanias has talked about this before a couple times and a few others.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
November 28 2019 21:00 GMT
#68
For Heroes of the Storm, they patched up some of the issues with the engine and introduced multi-core support


Multi-core support for what? That's the first i've heard of it & sc2 already uses multiple cores for some light stuff, just not the main simulation.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
ZugzwangSC
Profile Joined October 2019
87 Posts
November 29 2019 13:30 GMT
#69

I think it's more likely that it worked fine right before launch, but something stupid happened which had a huge effect because of spaghetti code


Spaghetti code... makes me hungry. But I'm already maxed out on carbs.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
November 29 2019 19:20 GMT
#70
On November 29 2019 22:30 ZugzwangSC wrote:
Show nested quote +

I think it's more likely that it worked fine right before launch, but something stupid happened which had a huge effect because of spaghetti code


Spaghetti code... makes me hungry. But I'm already maxed out on carbs.


No need or benefit (usually the opposite) to restrict complex carbs unless you mean maxed out on energy
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
392 Posts
November 29 2019 19:28 GMT
#71
Played about 4 games on EU and all was fine?
Lyyna
Profile Joined June 2011
France776 Posts
November 29 2019 21:50 GMT
#72
Tried to play a custom game after 3 months off SC2

Game crashed on game loading screen and now whenever i get on the login page >.>
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Legan
Profile Joined June 2017
Finland596 Posts
November 29 2019 21:59 GMT
#73
Patch 4.11.1 fixed the issues that broke ladder. Everything is fine now.
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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6331 Posts
December 09 2019 18:04 GMT
#74
Meanwhile I literally can't start the game now.

Very helpful error message there Blizzard.

[image loading]

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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-09 18:15:38
December 09 2019 18:14 GMT
#75
On December 10 2019 03:04 digmouse wrote:
Meanwhile I literally can't start the game now.

Very helpful error message there Blizzard.

[image loading]





nsfw
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6331 Posts
December 09 2019 20:32 GMT
#76
LMAO I still have that regions.xml under my install and somehow the file the game reads is now region.xml, removing that s did the trick.
TranslatorIf you want to ask anything about Chinese esports, send me a PM or follow me @nerddigmouse.
fluidrone
Profile Blog Joined January 2015
France1478 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-10 12:32:39
December 10 2019 09:59 GMT
#77
music while you decypher my blocks of words in piles


the launcher has a "scan and repair" button, feels so weird that i have to be the one to always type out the obvious

errors are a fun concept to dwell into, no?
.. one such error makes many a dedicated 7 days a week gamer on the sc2 arcade have to struggle needlessly..
this bug has been there for years now.. and no outrage no lobbying has occurred for it anywhere .. tsss! shame on you "community"!

ok so i'll be the voice of arcade people, just this last time ..

we call it the rejoin bug (on a platform dedicated to its "online" experience .. excuse me while i triple facepalm and start to lose a little bit of my composure...)

let me explain how the bug works.. by now we should be calling it a feature, no?

the gamer hell bent on opening a lobby to gather gamers to play the video games has to
re log in / out back in (type password obviously every time) at the end of every game
(every 15 minutes to 30) ..
i mean "at least re logging goes quicker than actually reopening the game" you say.. yes but no !
(if you close up you lose stuff you don't lose if you "only" re log but closing the game makes you open it again and that has its own things .. so lets agree that that would be different so comparing it makes no sense.. apples and oranges).

i mean at this point i would welcome a big shinny "re log" button appearing as a quicker solace solution at the end of my game .. rather than 50 buttons that all fail when used...

............................................................


now..
let us postulate that you already know about this .. and you come in this thread to read about this recent patch? .. why would this uninteresting bug be of any interest to you ? why would it need to be mentioned in this "discussion"/thread?
.. a thread depicting this "latest" blizzard patching of their game (this is the end of this patch i think and there was at least 3 patches / 1 patch and two hot fixes applied (or just one hotfix via two "extra" patches)) ..?

the why is always easy,
the bug i'm talking about forces gamers to unlog and therefore we kick ourselves out "willingly" in order to get back in ..
which we don't since you can't log in during those "hot fixes" moments..

??? has blizzard just found best way to clear its servers of its gamers ? to dress up and play make believe and then re open its doors?

how nice! this would explain why we have this ARCADE bug on its 3rd to 4th year ..

[image loading]


.. that makes more sense no?

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