5.5 Update (Patch Notes)

[Snooj]

There is good in this update, but it’s completely overshadowed by the Lycanthropy bug. Where is the QA? Do devs not do their own testing?

@Kafka

We’ve removed Lycanthropy from Essence of Evil again until we can release the hot fix for the Lycanthropy freeze bug that has reappeared on 5.5.

A bug can’t “reappear” if it was never fixed. The bug just remains.

@NerdieBirdie

Last thing I’ll mention is the Lycanthropy bug - it makes me want to facepalm a bit. The effect is not at all a popular one to begin with; for some reason the devs are quite insistent that it should not halve the level like regular transform does, thus making it a neutral effect, not a negative one. EoE is indeed nerfed by re-adding Lycanthropy. What kills me, though, is that it’s already been taken off again due to a bug which I know for a fact was repeatedly pointed out long before this update . @Snooj is one who reported the bug several times here on the forums without the use of Death Mark. It really feels like someone scanned over the report thread, figured they got the gist of it, and failed to read important bits of repeated information relating to the bug. It’s sloppy work.

Apparently I was was successful at being annoying enough when I kept stressing Death Mark is NOT relevant to the Lycanthrophy bug. I was annoying enough that someone else noticed what I was doing.

Last time I mentioned it was during a stream. @Saltypatra reassured me that Lycanthropy + Death Mark also triggered the board to freeze; it’s two different issues. And yet Lycanthropy on hero still causes the board to freeze… Has anyone tried Lycanthropy + Death Mark to see if that combo doesn’t result in the board freezing at least?

Here is a bug report where Death Mark isn’t mentioned at all, the comments remind the devs Death Mark isn’t relevant, and yet the bug report is tagged “fixed in 5.5”. [FIXED IN 5.5] Lycanthropy is buggy

I also submitted a ticket asking for gems back after I lost a sigil in a faction assault courtesy of Magnus. I included a video. There was no Death Mark. @Kafka, you responded to that ticket, did you ignore the video? I’ll post it here again. Sorry for the bad quality, I had to lower the quality and cut out most of the video. Still, you can see, no Death Mark.

After I triggered this bug, because I lost gems, I stopped spending money on the game. I later was compensated (thanks!), but was hesistant to spend money on a game that kept having issue after issue. Figured I’d wait for a good update. When 5.5 was showed off, it seemed like the one. Lots of non monetization items here, QoL improvements, yessssss. …But apparently, still, there’s obviously no testing. I wouldn’t accept this level of issues from my own QA and devs. My wallet stays closed.