Upcoming PVE, Boss Event, and Season Pass Timelines

SuperCarrot

Any ideas when the reset for Strange Sights is taking place?

Crowl

@S0kun said:
The Strange Sights PVE event remains an elusive one to push out on Unity without any issues as some of our players have experienced. For a little context, these bugs aren't found during our QA process and are only on the live version of the event, so they can be an elusive target to snuff out. In order to fix this, we'll have to restage the event which is currently being worked on.

As for the previously announced delays for our January Boss event, we're putting some final QA checks this week for Battle at the Basilica and anticipate it to be released in a few days.

Slightly delayed is our Season Pass which is currently blank and will be activated tomorrow on Friday January 9th along with the first set of quests associated with the pass. The end date will remain the same, but we'll send over some SXP to make up for the delay.

Lastly, we'd typically have character release information for our upcoming 5-Star Sword Master (Lin Lie), but the way character stats are created for player-facing consumption is being evaluated and we hope to have this ready for our next 4-Star character release on January 22nd.

Sounds like your QA setup is rubbish then, if your test server isn't a mirror of live plus changes then there should definitely be a staging server that fills that role. Oh it doesn't happen on the QA server is a laughable excuse for the latest instalment of incompetence.

Jash735

I think someone is [Mod edit]

@Jash735 - it is against forum rules to post accusations of cheating and to post player IGNs. Please send any dubious activity to myself, @Alfje17 and @S0kun and we can pass it on to investigate.

I believe this was done in good faith though, but please don't do it again.

entrailbucket

@nbperp said:

@entrailbucket said:
It sounds like whatever the process is now, it didn't get handed off correctly from BCS to IP2. It could be that they didn't hand off the documentation, or that the documentation was bad, or that they never had any documentation at all!

Most dev folks I've had to work with over the past 20 years use AGILE which deprioritizes documentation over releases. Everything you see - the push of stuff that's not necessarily been through every phase of testing that's needed, the errors in labelling stores and offers, the constant need to CREATE MORE with very VERY few GO BACK AND FIXes is everything about AGILE that I hate.

I'd say "what should have happened" is that BCS should have had the events set up to run through the end of February so that they were "magic button" to make happen and give the new team 2 months to learn how to set up March. But that assumes the BCS devs had that kind of time. It assumes that the events weren't being posted just-in-time because that's the best they were able to do with the resources/workload that they had.

Most shops that say they're "agile" just use it as an excuse to not have any process at all. Actually doing capital-A Agile is really difficult and requires a lot of commitment. It does work when it's done right, but so do lots of things.

I really don't know anything about BCS or IP2 or what specifically they do though, and certainly not enough to blame this stuff on a specific development philosophy.

killercool

@Jash735 said:
I think someone is [Mod edit]

In slice 1 we have one person on 17,909, another on 3,450, with the rest stuck on 200.

Sidlon

@S0kun said:.
… we hope to have this ready for our next 4-Star character release on January 22nd.

Can you tell us if the 4* release event will go back to rewarding the top 100 alliances with the new character?

We haven’t had a 4* release since October, and that one only rewarded the top 50. Was that a fluke or the new normal?

ElJoraen

I managed to pull a sword master....and saw a new 5*?

killercool

Well season pass has rewards now (and premium back to 1500 HP).

Looks like over 50 event quests too. All working as expected...

Painmonger

@killercool said:
Well season pass has rewards now (and premium back to 1500 HP).

Looks like over 50 event quests too. All working as expected...

That's a lot of Sword Master covers in the premium bracket.

Borstock

Wouldn't know. Can't get the game to load. This is fun.

Edit: Ah! There it goes. Wait.... I got a rush just from it loading? The diminished expectations....

Zarqa

@Crowl said:

@S0kun said:
The Strange Sights PVE event remains an elusive one to push out on Unity without any issues as some of our players have experienced. For a little context, these bugs aren't found during our QA process and are only on the live version of the event, so they can be an elusive target to snuff out. In order to fix this, we'll have to restage the event which is currently being worked on.

As for the previously announced delays for our January Boss event, we're putting some final QA checks this week for Battle at the Basilica and anticipate it to be released in a few days.

Slightly delayed is our Season Pass which is currently blank and will be activated tomorrow on Friday January 9th along with the first set of quests associated with the pass. The end date will remain the same, but we'll send over some SXP to make up for the delay.

Lastly, we'd typically have character release information for our upcoming 5-Star Sword Master (Lin Lie), but the way character stats are created for player-facing consumption is being evaluated and we hope to have this ready for our next 4-Star character release on January 22nd.

Sounds like your QA setup is rubbish then, if your test server isn't a mirror of live plus changes then there should definitely be a staging server that fills that role. Oh it doesn't happen on the QA server is a laughable excuse for the latest instalment of incompetence.

This QA server misalignment has been a problem for almost three years now. The screenshot below are Discord posts from March 2023 right after BCS took over. Doesn’t seem Unity fixed that in any meaningful way (yet)

Ptahhotep

@killercool said:
Well season pass has rewards now (and premium back to 1500 HP).

Looks like over 50 event quests too. All working as expected...

And only one day to do them all. Then they disappeared with only one or two showing which kept changing.

BriMan2222

Things were working fine, then after a match it froze and now I can't get the game to load at all. I did notice before the crash that the new vault has 2 3a4 characters and is 120 items

entrailbucket

@Zarqa said:

@Crowl said:

@S0kun said:
The Strange Sights PVE event remains an elusive one to push out on Unity without any issues as some of our players have experienced. For a little context, these bugs aren't found during our QA process and are only on the live version of the event, so they can be an elusive target to snuff out. In order to fix this, we'll have to restage the event which is currently being worked on.

As for the previously announced delays for our January Boss event, we're putting some final QA checks this week for Battle at the Basilica and anticipate it to be released in a few days.

Slightly delayed is our Season Pass which is currently blank and will be activated tomorrow on Friday January 9th along with the first set of quests associated with the pass. The end date will remain the same, but we'll send over some SXP to make up for the delay.

Lastly, we'd typically have character release information for our upcoming 5-Star Sword Master (Lin Lie), but the way character stats are created for player-facing consumption is being evaluated and we hope to have this ready for our next 4-Star character release on January 22nd.

Sounds like your QA setup is rubbish then, if your test server isn't a mirror of live plus changes then there should definitely be a staging server that fills that role. Oh it doesn't happen on the QA server is a laughable excuse for the latest instalment of incompetence.

This QA server misalignment has been a problem for almost three years now. The screenshot below are Discord posts from March 2023 right after BCS took over. Doesn’t seem Unity fixed that in any meaningful way (yet)

Oh, it goes back WAY farther than that. I remember offhand comments from them like that since the beginning.

StormDragonE55

This is extremely frustrated. I have no idea how to contact support for this. I registered to start the Strange sights event for 11pm EST and it started me 5 hours early and I checked earlier to see I had eight hours before my bracket started. I'm seriously on the verge of rage quitting. I haven't been able to finish an event since the Unity update and clearance changes.

Painmonger

Logged back in to find all the season quests went away and the 2 daily refreshed.

Alliance mate found he'd been added to Strange Sights and already has missions complete even though he didn't start yet.

Edited to include that I am also in Strange Sights without having selected a SCL or slice.

entrailbucket

@StormDragonE55 said:
This is extremely frustrated. I have no idea how to contact support for this. I registered to start the Strange sights event for 11pm EST and it started me 5 hours early and I checked earlier to see I had eight hours before my bracket started. I'm seriously on the verge of rage quitting. I haven't been able to finish an event since the Unity update and clearance changes.

You haven't been able to finish an event since June?!? How have you not rage quit already?

killercool

@Painmonger said:
Logged back in to find all the season quests went away and the 2 daily refreshed.

Alliance mate found he'd been added to Strange Sights and already has missions complete even though he didn't start yet.

My Strange Sights seems to have removed the leader board and got an eternal repeat first node now.

Edit: scratch that, looks like Strange Sights has been reset

entrailbucket

@killercool said:

@Painmonger said:
Logged back in to find all the season quests went away and the 2 daily refreshed.

Alliance mate found he'd been added to Strange Sights and already has missions complete even though he didn't start yet.

My Strange Sights seems to have removed the leader board and got an eternal repeat first node now.

Edit: scratch that, looks like Strange Sights has been reset

Yeah, mine is reset now but the end times are all weird. I wonder if they're gonna reset it again to fix that?

I wasn't expecting this to get done at all until tomorrow morning US time, but I forgot they're in Australia now! I wonder if we'll get more stuff at weird times.

killercool

Not sure they should have gone for Strange Sights as their first pve, been issues with it since they went to Unity. Of course after the reset the 5E node is missing.