FAQ-ing Fridays #6 - May 26th, 2017

(Chris Mullins) #1

Hey all,

Welcome to FAQ-ing Fridays number 6!

If you didn’t know, what we’re doing every Friday is combining all of the juicy dev replies we’ve done during the week into one central space so no-one will be out of the loop with anything we say. As always all feedback is welcome and if you can think of a way to improve this further let us know.

We also saw after last weeks FAQ-ing Friday that you guys posted a LOT of questions in the comments, so we’ll see what we can do to get back to you on those (and the new ones we expect on this post too).

So here we go:

Dirty Bomb Forums

Ozzie - Now when you gib someone you get the same amount of combat exp from killing them instead of half
Getting half before was a bug which we fixed with the latest update. Enjoy the extra XP!
silphatos - Do you keep your Ranked Points at the end of the season?
You keep them all! And they’ll carry on into the next season
PhD_Phil - Will there be Ranked Season 3 skins
Yea there will. But you’ll have to stay tuned for when we show you what they look like closer to the update
iD4NG3R - What happens if you go over the current limit? I.e. you already have 5.5K and get another 2K from end of season rewards
It’ll cap at 6k, so unless you spend some of your Ranked Points to bring your total down before you get your end of season rewards, you’ll be missing out on 1.5k

Reddit

CarnelianHammer - In every match I play I always get at least one short freeze that’s about 0.5 seconds long*
This is odd. Please send a screenshot of your dxdiag to our support team to look at. Thanks!
Everyone - Can we please have 24/7 Dockyard Only servers please?
Yes you can! And they are live now. Just search for Dockyard in the server browser and enjoy. Some of them have FF on too!
JellyHero - What’s the best 3 mercs to pick?
Nader for damage, Proxy for engie and mines, Aimee for snipey fun
TundraGon - EAC does not seem stop aimboters and wallhackers
Let me assure you that EAC is great at what it does. Not only that, but we are constantly adding to and improving our system to have more robust protection. Please remember to report players in-game.

A but of a shorter one this week as we’ve been hammering out the Dockyard Update. Enjoy!
shoe.

(Mc1412013) #2

Amiez good but if there are a lot of openings vasili works better. Places like chaple and train yard that have under ground he can alert team to flankers and places like emp part of chale u can use them. At the choke points to ready your aim for take outs as well as alert team of incoming enemies

(Szakalot) #3

can confirm the short freeze, started with dockyard patch.

(ImSploosh) #4

What about the freezes that were introduced with EAC update(s)? Not sure why people have stopped mentioning them other than maybe giving up. They happen frequently, every minute or so for anywhere from .5 seconds to 3-4 seconds. It’s gotten me killed many times and has ruined matches, even ranked ones for me.

As far as I know, there’s been no fix for this? I only know a handful of people who have solved their freezes, but many others still suffer from them. It’s just frustrating, but I hope it’s solved somehow.

(hawkeyeguy99) #5

Pls don’t encourage more proxy players…

(ENDgie) #6

@ImSploosh said:
What about the freezes that were introduced with EAC update(s)? Not sure why people have stopped mentioning them other than maybe giving up. They happen frequently, every minute or so for anywhere from .5 seconds to 3-4 seconds. It’s gotten me killed many times and has ruined matches, even ranked ones for me.

As far as I know, there’s been no fix for this? I only know a handful of people who have solved their freezes, but many others still suffer from them. It’s just frustrating, but I hope it’s solved somehow.

I second this.Also, speaking of things killing me in ranked, why in NA peak times (early, middle, or late) when set to que for NA I always get 100 ping servers with mostly 80+ ping players? This game messes up so much with shotguns and especially melee at above 90 (I’ve meleed through downed people w/o finishing and lagged to the side and shotgunned teammates instead of enemies at 100-110 ping).
Ty in advance for reading this. :slight_smile:

(Arvid_H) #7

Will there be an option to use the default skin for your mercenary no matter which tier of loadout card you are using?

Also, for competitive play will there ever be an option to make everyone appear to be using the default skin?

I feel like these two features would be quite fast and easy to implement, and would mean a lot for us who enjoy the game but are uninterested in customisation/skin system other than the full set of perks.

(Nail) #8

except people don’t expect to see an iron or lead have 3 augments, at least with bronze you know they have 3

(GatoCommodore) #9

@stayfreshshoe…proxy for engie

not cool shoe, not cool…

(K1X455) #10

@GatoCommodore said:

@stayfreshshoe…proxy for engie

not cool shoe, not cool…

What he meant was Proxy for enemy salt to shake… You know how it is…

Proxy still needs Bigger Blasts augment… her healthpool is just too low and a slight balance in damage potential is just needed.

(KangaJoo) #11

@ENDgie said:

@ImSploosh said:
What about the freezes that were introduced with EAC update(s)? Not sure why people have stopped mentioning them other than maybe giving up. They happen frequently, every minute or so for anywhere from .5 seconds to 3-4 seconds. It’s gotten me killed many times and has ruined matches, even ranked ones for me.

As far as I know, there’s been no fix for this? I only know a handful of people who have solved their freezes, but many others still suffer from them. It’s just frustrating, but I hope it’s solved somehow.

I second this.Also, speaking of things killing me in ranked, why in NA peak times (early, middle, or late) when set to que for NA I always get 100 ping servers with mostly 80+ ping players? This game messes up so much with shotguns and especially melee at above 90 (I’ve meleed through downed people w/o finishing and lagged to the side and shotgunned teammates instead of enemies at 100-110 ping).
Ty in advance for reading this. :slight_smile:

Did you double check it didn’t put you in an EU server? Last season the mm was bugged and kept resetting your region to EU every time the game restarted.

(pumpkinmeerkat) #12

@K1X455 said:
Proxy still needs Bigger Blasts augment…

Would make her more annoying at low level.
Would not make her more viable at high level.

(ImSploosh) #13

@KangaJoo said:

@ENDgie said:

@ImSploosh said:
What about the freezes that were introduced with EAC update(s)? Not sure why people have stopped mentioning them other than maybe giving up. They happen frequently, every minute or so for anywhere from .5 seconds to 3-4 seconds. It’s gotten me killed many times and has ruined matches, even ranked ones for me.

As far as I know, there’s been no fix for this? I only know a handful of people who have solved their freezes, but many others still suffer from them. It’s just frustrating, but I hope it’s solved somehow.

I second this.Also, speaking of things killing me in ranked, why in NA peak times (early, middle, or late) when set to que for NA I always get 100 ping servers with mostly 80+ ping players? This game messes up so much with shotguns and especially melee at above 90 (I’ve meleed through downed people w/o finishing and lagged to the side and shotgunned teammates instead of enemies at 100-110 ping).
Ty in advance for reading this. :slight_smile:

Did you double check it didn’t put you in an EU server? Last season the mm was bugged and kept resetting your region to EU every time the game restarted.

The defaulting to EU was another major (surprisingly) issue with ranked. However, if you know for sure you weren’t queued for EU, it could be that you were placed in one of those far-off west coast servers, unless you’re in the west. For some reason, any time I play ranked, the game has a tendency to throw me in these west coast servers that are the farthest away possible. It also does the same for other people and so everyone is stuck with 80+ pings except 1-3 people generally.

I guess ranked has different locations for some of their servers or something because I usually max out at around 100-110 for west coast servers in pubs, but in ranked, it can go upwards of 120. In a competitive environment, this is terrible. Can’t count how many games I’ve lost because I got unlucky with the server selection.

Of course this may not apply to you, but this was just my experience with ranked. It seemed to always choose the server where the least amount of people could have low pings. Also glad that I’m not the only one experiencing some serious gameplay changes above 80 ping… I’ve mentioned 80 specifically multiple times now. It used to never be noticeable until a certain update or something. Can’t remember what happened. I just know that back in late 2015/early 2016, the game was buttery smooth and higher pings didn’t affect that much.

(AlbinMatt) #14

June 2nd FAQ?

(K1X455) #15

@pumpkinmeerkat said:
Would not make her more viable at high level.

Depends really on player. It’s probably a good trade-off for Lock On

(Outblast) #16

Hey. First time poster, long time player. My friend has started playing DB after years of Enemy Territory. He got used to not seeing the weapon on the screen using cg_drawgun 0 command. Is it possible to do that in Dirty Bomb?

(nokiII) #17

@Outblast said:
Hey. First time poster, long time player. My friend has started playing DB after years of Enemy Territory. He got used to not seeing the weapon on the screen using cg_drawgun 0 command. Is it possible to do that in Dirty Bomb?

Nope, sadly not.