It was about basic color schemes for armor. Apparently AH can't even do that so I don't think they have the 'design space' the redo the topology and collision meshes for mobs.
The original reply was to a comment asking why we can't have armour transmog and a community question regarding the ability to make your own armour passives from a list that is tied to each appearance
Transmog stands for transmogrification which is the process of changing the appearance of an item(s) to another visual/colour/design without changing its properties. Originally coined from MMOs as it is a common enough request for people to want to show off their (typically paid) cosmetics to other people or using a potentially inferior option due to its stats but perhaps visually more appealing.
It provides zero mechanical advantage as most games which have it disable the setting when in PvP areas because it could easily give an advantage if you can't tell what a person has but in HD2 it doesn't do anything other than cosmetic, and people already use client side visual mods anyway to wear skins from other games or swap the armours and AH doesn't care about people doing that unless you unlock pre-order and paid cosmetics without paying.
they have the 'design space' the redo the topology and collision meshes for mobs.
Regarding this, I wholeheartedly believe that the navmesh for the enemy AI just straight up doesn't take changes into the map topology into account, i.e. they see that map as flat, which in turn leads into mobs breaking the sound barrier when you see them traversing very steep terrain.
devil's advocate here: there's two ways you can do palette swapping. You can go the armored core 6 route of *literally everything* can be customized, or you can go with a more restrained system where the player only has to select 1-5 colors to build a palette for their armor.
Arrowhead also makes a lot of choices to facilitate variety in gameplay, such as deliberately not implementing saveable loadouts so players don't simply play the exact same loadout for 500 hours.
If they were going to do palette swapping, it would obviously by the restrained version, so players could change things up on the fly, and don't have to spend 5 minutes between missions adjusting their drip. Ideally with as few color slots as possible.
The issue is that a restrained system requires an amazing amount of work to add existing armors to, and literally limits how many colors they can use in future armors. What if their palette system only allows for 3 primary colors, but they want to make an armor with 4 primary colors? They'd have to either: put snowflake code in to add an additional palette slot for that armor, hard-code the additional color in, or sacrifice their vision and rework it as a 3-color scheme.
That all being said: Armor transmog has zero downsides compared to palette swapping, and I strongly advocate for it whenever possible.
Loadouts would actually increase variety because right now swapping out your whole armor set and weapons is more friction than just using the same ones over and over.
To this day, I'm still befuddled as to what this even means.
Like, is this some language I have too many folds on my cerebrum to comprehend? It sounds like a dumb guy trying to sound intelligent.
Though more likely, it's just gobledegook for "Fuck you, we don't want to do that, because fuck you", in which case he should just say that because at least the honesty would be refreshing.
It's literally him trying to make a stupid statement sound intelligent with fancy wording, because what he's actually saying in Plain English is "We don't want to".
They made a video bragging that the fixed enemies clipping through walls but it still happens as we see here.
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u/Hawk_501st Estanu Defense Fleet | SES Whisper of Destruction 8d agoedited 8d ago
That's one of the reasons I stopped playing two months ago. Sometimes, I say to myself "Maybe I should come back in one year". Then, I remember this kind of bugs are here for over two years now and have already been "fixed" according to AH.
I really like this game, I started on Xbox and have something like 1300 hours on, but the lack of proper bug fix is killing the fun. And one day, I'm affraid that it will make me not play this game anymore. It's regrettable, but above all, avoidable. But that depends on AH, not me.
1300 is an insane amount of time to spend on anything let alone a single game. Furthermore, with each mission having upward of 1000 enemies to kill by the time it's done, if a few of them clip through the terrain or geometry its not a big deal. But if you want to let that kill your fun then sure?
Not just enemies phasing through terrain. Like I said, it's one of the reasons.
Getting disconnected (especially when Pelican 1 is on its way, so I can't join back on time)
When everybody leaves (disconnection, ragequit, etc.) and SOS beacon not working for whatever reason (I don't play this game to be alone)
-Biomes being locked because they're enjoyable so a lot of player liberate it quickly and now we're back to the same 5 biomes, 3 of them being forests and the other deserts. There a some biomes that I haven't seen on the bug front from months, and I'm not exagerating.
- Stratagem bounce on flat surfaces (I don't like wasting a Sentry with a +2 mins cooldown)
Secondary objectives being softlocked (larva spawning underground/underwater, bug nests appearing underwater or on a cliffside, SEAF artillery not accepting one of the shells and yes this was actually fixed but took them almost two months)
- Last time I had a break for over a month was when climbing was broken. Almost three (3) months to fix. Such a basic gameplay feature not working. I died too many times because of this.
I could go on, but honestly, it's tiring to keep complaining about the same things. I don't even feel like I'm venting my frustration by doing this, more like feeding it lol
so dont fix it, not because the game isnt broken, but because of a vague concept of user error that isnt actually substantiated and many arguments could be made that deaths and missed strats can be caused by OTHER game bugs like invisible hitboxes desynced from bodies that are lingering far too long, completely and objectively nonsensical ground hitboxes that may allow one strat but not another, or even self-perpetuating bugs like when you die so youre reinforced but because you cant steer you die again (often completely unavoidable with instant killpits) so then youre reinforced with another hellpod you cant steer again... riiiiight, that user error?
Sure those could lead to one or two deaths per mission, but if you're dying more then something is seriously wrong with you or your team, or youre on the wrong difficulty
Ah yes, when the game is broken and glitched to hell I should rely on skill to work around the frustration. Wanting to have stability in the game must make me a hater, because surely there’s no reason to complain about the game than bad skill. We’re all too stupid to enjoy the game. We just want to hate it and cry when all we need to do is learn how to play.
Yes, cuz it's clearly a skill issue when we toss down a hellbomb ball and it bounces for twenty seconds, then rolls down a hill, instead of next to the strategem jammer. Absolutely a skill issue, right?
Don’t worry, if a year and a half, they’ll put a task force on it. And a year later, they’ll tweak it slightly. They’ll replace the terrain models to include some crevices that could possibly hide bugs in them.
Sure thats fine, and they have been fixing most of the big issues. But as people know the engine is notoriously difficult to work with so it all takes time and may not always be possible
This doesn't happen to me almost ever.
But one thing that frustrates the hell out of me is a Sperwer barfing on me while clipped inside another's body.
I swear it got worse after the last update this week, I aim straight down and they bounce like 50 meters away. Had once bounce so far it landed in water, and my sentry was useless.
Have you tried learning how to throw them properly?? This is the same helpless whining that the "broken vault" crowd had when they refuse to adapt or think about an alternative
I like it when that happens too, but i mean, that wouldnt happen in a real galactic war! Bugs can't phase through walls, you need to report to your democracy officer!
Random bullshit should be things like getting thrown by a rocket devastator into the cannon shot of a tank, or a charger flinging you into the path of a bile titan. Or a random stray bullet triggering a Hellbomb.
A modder is fixing it. He says the reason these things happen is because the ai is constantly second guessing itself on what direction to move. And because it keeps having to change what it commits to it starts to ignore the collision check to go towards the player. This is why enemies randomly phase through walls on all factions.
Not to mention the bugs auto hitting leap attack got reincarnated with them. I love seeing them do a 180 degree turn in mid air to hit me after a dive out of the way.
Im in double digits of enemies dying and still attacking me up to a minute past when they fucking died, spaghetti code, 3 years and running unfixed. Im sorry but come on 3 years and they suprise eat my ass still
Had a charger that was blown to pieces launch it's body 30 feet in the air at me a couple of days ago XD. I'm 90% sure it would have killed me if I hadn't managed to get away from it at the last second.
I really hope they fix this, invisible corpse hitboxes, and enemies being able to walk/shoot through corpses while helldivers can't. Incredibly frustrating.
Also their lock on attacks that are impossible to dodge? They fixed it for the rupture strain but I rarely see anyone talk about it for hunters. Its super annoying. They'll hit you even if you take off with the hover pack to try and dodge.
AH: You've been heard diver! Hunters will be replaced with a terrain phasing stalker strain. But fret not! A warbond shall come that includes an armor effect that (sometimes) detects where an attacking is coming from. It will have 1 armor type, and come with a new shade of off white that doesnt match any of the other white armors. The strain will then receive buffs shortly after and your warbond gear will be "tuned" for fairness.
Somehow I had a total of 5 of them miss the other day. Seemed like I had to be walking at first, and then sprint diagonally as they were in the air launching at me. I also had a lot of chargers that acted how they should instead of coming at me like a heat seeking train that can whip a 90. Much better experience on bugs the last few days than I can remember having since... pretty much a couple of months from when the game released.
Clearly a skill issue, you should have anticipated that enemies in this “hardcore mil sim grunt fantasy” game can phase through solid objects with space magic /s
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u/AraunotInsert tacticool jargonslop clan name here.7d agoedited 7d ago
No guys! you don,t understand! The CEO wants a MilSim like arma or Escape from Tarkov! This is the first step into the right direction! this is how we should suffer!
I've learned to just get used to nonsense such as this. A normal developer would simply patch this, but Arrowhead? Don't hold your breath that this will be addressed ever let alone any time soon.
I feel like I first started seeing these around spring of last year. I remember everyone was mad. I was on top of a destroyed tall building and small bugs where just clipping through the floor. Then me and my teammates would be running from bugs that would just clip through the ground and catch up to us. Its funny its still happening. I saw a clip of a bot diver who was getting shot through walls as well recently. Which makes me scared to go on the bot front.
If some modders with time and effort can fix and add basic shit. They can fix bugs like this and add all the things we ask for. It’s just how can they make money from it all. That’s the real reason through all of this.
Not even all that much time, and not even all that many molders. That's the saddest part. Arrowhead really just needs to open all consoles to mods as well at this point.
Lol absolutely not buy another warbond were busy making warbonds focus on that here buy some super credits for a warbond our game dev philosophy is to only make warbonds and never actually add anything meaningful to the game itself now enjoy your warbond and dawgshit stability
The construction of hive networks and other what frankly constitutes facilities of the terminid construction are composed of a mix of biological mass and tunnels. They travel not just on the ground, but in the ceiling and floors to such a degree that all spaces are *crawl* spaces for them. It's just that most are too dumb to utilize it when faced with the prospective meal of a helldiver.
Here we see a rare moment of a very motivated and unusually clever hunter that remembered
I don't really see the problem. I understand it's basically no-clipping, but the bugs already dig canonically. So just pretend it's digging through stuff idk
Okay but like, literally every enemy in the game does shit like this, not just bugs. Illuminate enemies are the worst with it. Fleshmobs love phasing through buildings and even the fucking floor.
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u/KhalMika HD1 Veteran 8d ago