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The Devs for Cake servers are pretty easy to find on Discord. You could jump on their discord and ask around if they would be interested in looking in to this. If they take an interest, perhaps they could get to the bottom of it and share the information with the other servers. For reasons of bugs in game that not every Dev can tackle all at once, it would be of everyone's best interest to share bug fixes with one another. I don't know how realistic my idea is, but it's worth a shot, especially since this is one of those bugs that drives you nuts. It's a stretch I know, but there is always a chance.

We agree on your first 2 sentences and partially agree on your last sentence. It may not be a huge priority, however, in the class of small bugs here and there, I feel this bug should take priority in that list of small bugs to fix here and there.

There has to be something else at play here. I have Sudden Acceleration in my Dawn Strike (and all other KB AoEs) and none of them knock back...not even when used against Clockwork, who usually still knock back even when hit with a knock down. So I am not sure what is causing your issue, but it's something outside the parameters of the IO. I would start checking on all your other IO's and see if any of the other set bonuses actually increase KB. Let me know, this bug interests me.

I am going to go against my better judgement and respond to you and attempt to answer your question. However, at the end, I have a question for you as well. It is an honest and direct question in an attempt to ascertain your motives in this thread. Now, on to the response to your question; because if you let the lingering bugs that have been around for 4 years and longer go, the other little nonpriority bugs stack with the bug I am reporting now. After a while, you have so many lingering bugs that accumulate over time, that the game just becomes unenjoyable. Let's look at it this way, let's compare City of Heroes to a beautiful park. Nobody really notices one cigarette butt laying on the ground. However, over the course of a few years those cigarette butts start adding up...and over time, it starts to make that once beautiful park look atrocious. I have noticed this bug 4 years before the game shut down. When the game came back, I gotta tell you, the first thing I did was check to see if that irritating bug still existed, and much to my disarray, it was still there. The bug annoyed me for the first 6 months of me noticing it. It irked me for the following six months, and as time went on, it grew to be a pain in my rear. It is a constant struggle to keep the bug from popping up while playing and honestly subtracts from the level of enjoyment that I get from the game. Dev teams on ALL games (even games that have become emulators) make an attempt to tackle a small bug or two along with tackling the game breaking bugs. You have to make an effort to keep the game clean of these bugs, because even though this bug may not bother you, you have to understand that it pesters the hell out of others, and if no attempt is made to stay on top of these bugs, they can accumulate overtime and as a collective, can be game breaking. It should always be a common practice to knock out a small bug or two with every patch. From what I can tell of these Devs, they do just that. This is evident with the Energy Sniper bug they have just fixed. That was a small bug, and in my opinion even less on the priority list than the aforementioned bug in this thread. So by judging from past actions of the current Developers of this game, I can deduce that they too share a similar mindset as my own when it comes to tackling bugs in the game. Since this is the evidence that I have to work with, I think it is safe to say that my bug report is a report that would be valuable to the Developers to have. Since it is ultimately up to the Developers to decide what bugs will be fixed and what bugs will not be fixed, then I am here posting this in hopes that the Developers agree with me on this subject. The most recent small bug the current Developers have tackled was a bug that ONLY affected Energy Blasters, with ONLY one power, and ONLY if that power was customized. It had no affect on the gameplay whatsoever. It was a sound effects issue far from game breaking. The sound would execute before the animation. That bug targeted specific players only. The bug that I have brought to the attention of the Developers affects ALL players in this game regardless if they have ever notice the bug or not, it is across the board affecting every last player who plays this game. Therefore I believe this bug report is justified. Now on to my question for you. So, the only regret that I have about making this bug report, is that a simple bug report thread has turned into yet another endless debate. As far as I know, this is not a discussion thread, this is a bug report thread...to which I have used this thread for that very purpose. This is the bug reporting thread and I find it absurd that anyone would come to a bug reporting thread and feel the need to enter this particular bug reporting thread to tell somebody else how unimportant their bug report is. Since I don't see you telling others in this section of the forums how their bug is not a priority, it forces me to ask the question, why is my thread so special that it garners your attention? Why come to this thread to tell me how unimportant my bug report is on the priority list. Isn't that up to the Developers to decide the importance of a bug? What purpose does entering another person's bug report thread serve when, honestly you had nothing to add to the report other than telling the reporter that their bug report isn't important? I am asking you with sincerity here, because I find no logic in this move and find it ridiculous that I am having this discussion at all, in a section of the forums that is about reporting bugs. Would you please enlighten me and tell me what your motive is here? Maybe it was because I asked the developers please, then went on to ask them to make it a priority. Even so, that is ultimately up to the developers, so even if this is your reason, I still find no logic in your move here. I feel there must be a much better reason that you are here than this one that I can come up with.

There are lots of things that people complain about that I don't find a high priority either. Most of the time I stay out of it though as I feel that just because it is not a high priority to me, doesn't mean that it's not a high priority to somebody else. My question is, how long does this bug have to persist before anyone ever considers it a "high priority?" 1 year, 2 years, 3 or 4 years? This bug lasted for 4 years+ (iirc) on live and never did get touched or even recognition to the best of my knowledge. When a bug has lasted this long because it's not on the high priority list, I think at some point we need to push some of these lingering bugs up the list. The Devs fix low priority things all of the time. One of them being the Energy Blaster Snipe sound effects bug. That wasn't game breaking either, but it was enough to drive some players crazy, so the Devs fixed it on test server. We can't keep pushing the "low priority" bugs out of the way...at some point they need to be addressed. Otherwise the smaller bugs run rampant...for years and years, as indicated in this thread. I do not agree that it is low priority. I only would have agreed to that for the first 6 months of the bug being around. But after 4 years+ of this same bug annoying the living shit out of me, I am going to go out on a limb here and say that requesting it moved to the high priority list is well within reason.

While we are at it, can we get the option to change Torrent from the Dark Offensive set to share the animation of Energy Torrent? I am all for more options, even if I don't like them, simply because they are OPTIONS! 🙂

This can be easily replicated. However, this also happens outside these parameters quite randomly. Previously, it used to be only Build Up + Aim that caused this, however now there seems to be other factors at play that can lead to this issue even without BU + Aim. I have yet to pinpoint the other causes as it seems to be random.

This right here. I can't remember exactly when this bug started, but I know it started shortly before the game went free to play. Within an issue or two of that time frame.

Devs are way on top of it.

There are no game breaking issues right now. No time better than now to fix it.

This is an issue that has been going on for several years before shut down. It was never acknowledged by the Live Devs that I know of...I feel it might not be a priority, but since this issue has persisted for many years, it should be a priority. It's been long enough IMO.

It is getting worse. This started on live, but you would cast any buff power before firing off an attack and suddenly, your character will not go in to battle stance. Sometimes animations would not activate, so it looks like your character is just standing around doing nothing. It was insa ely annoying then and the issues has worsened since then. Now, it's random and happens often. The live Devs ignored this issue, please find out the cause and fix this?

Oh my lord, I am embarrassed to say that I JUST NOW caught the pun, LOL. Good one, Munkilord! And your timing was absolutely relative to the size of your steeple! (Lame, I know, but come on, I tried.)

Never mind what Doug says, a greyed out team member means they have aged and are now too old and grey to be of any use to you.

This was completely unintentional, another player brought it to my attention, but apparently when you name your character Satanic, and you go to send me a tell by left clicking on my name, the option to send me a tell says, "Send Satanic Message."

I thought this was going to be about crabs. I am so disappointed.

This right here. I was wondering how far in I would have to read before finding somebody else who rolled a Fire/Fire/Fire. Mine is insane, and honestly, I enjoy it a hell of a lot better than a Spines/Fire. Tanks get two AoEs in the secondary, which well makes up for the Spines IMO. I don't know which is "better" but I do know which one is more fun and less annoying to listen to. 😉

Bio Armor's graphics are awesome set on Minimal Effects. Especially when you do it up in blood red.

I think I overstated myself before, but this right here is all I was really trying to say. For whatever reasons, call it human nature, but all the people who are running the servers are not communicating what I would like to see as shared information. They all have nothing to lose and everything to gain, IMHO. You said it way better than I did though. I inserted foot to mouth the way I said it, heh.

It would be great if all the servers shared info. For an example, HC has costume options that the others do not have, really good costume options. Another server has Wind working and Shield Offense with some really nice animations. Would be great if they all put their heads together. Maybe one day they will.

And you can't smell your own **** on your knees! I see what you did there.

In my experience, it doesn't matter what you say, there are always going to be people who try and berate you and make you feel inferior and hate on the things you say...there just is no escaping it. For as long as you have people who *think* they are better than you, you will always have people who will object to the things you say.

Looks like I ruffled some feathers.

I have always loved Tanks, but until recently, I played them more out of nostalgia than anything else. Now I actually feel like I am contributing to teams...and I like that.