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			      I sent ticket, I wrote on forum, zero response from Carabine. The only new thing with every patch in this game are new bugs. I am writing it here, becouse bug section probably doesn't exist for people who are responsible for things that should be changed. I hope more people will give a feedback about it to show that so many things are not working like they should. As a stalker player, I can't play normally, becouse of skills that are not working. Punish is bugged, I wrote about it in bug section, also I find out that Stagger is broken and there is few percent chance  it won't stun and become usless. Good ******* job with Contracts.... I filled up all bar, took my award, log in few hours later, my bar is empty, award is gone. I saw many people have this problem so maybe do something about it and don't force us to wait ridiculous amount of time to fix this, becouse for now this is waste of time.....	
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there is hardly any substance in this post other than your rant, which could be appropriate.  but please explain the bugs for those of us who may not know or notice the issue you have with punish or stagger.  you never know someone may have come across it and knows about it, maybe you just found it.
 
as to contract reset, i do not think they have a complete handle on the cause.  i hear other things were resetting too like dyes acquired and things of that nature.  with the change in server resets happening this week, it is in my opinion that they are linked.  i could be way off base.
 
but calm down a little and be a little more descriptive. inquiring minds would like to know.  i play with lots of stalkers and i have not heard about those issues yet.  maybe they are just talking amongst themselves but i would expect to hear something when they are messing up in raids due to a bug. or if their dps is crap it would be their excuse (which isn't happening atm)
			
				
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Stagger - as I said it is not stunning, I see how it does damage to the target without any effect.
Punish - after crit it activates for a really short time 0,5 - 1 sec, sometimes a little bit longer and immediately become unavailable, - drop of dps, really annoying, specially when I can't crit again for a few seconds	
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			I have been reporting these issues with challenges and contracts resets for weeks, with as much details as I could provide. NCSoft support don't care, that's for sure, but I hope Carbine will take a look at this major issue soon, because it affects many players and it seems to be a data corruption issue, server side. So far, no answer. I can only hope that someone is looking at this.
			
				
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for stagger, do the mobs have interrupt armor?  just curious.  that would make it hit but not stun too which wouldn't be a bug.  forgive the noob type question, just do not know what your experience level is.
 
this would have implications for my raid as there are numerous interrupt mechanics where if someone misses = wipe.  i would like another thing to blame on stalkers lol.  	
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			The problem I keep having is losing progress on a whole days worth of work. All my mounts, pets, and quest would reset and I keep losing everything.	
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so with punish if you have it on your bar when you crit you get a buff called "punish" which says that you can punish within the next 6 seconds. if punish is on CD you cant punish until the cd is up but if the CD is up and there is only 1-2 sec left on punish buff then you have a 1-2 sec window to use it. any time you crit the buff refreshes, but there are times when it will seem that punish is only available for a short period of time because you weren't able to crit in the last 5ish seconds and you had punish on CD until now.
 
stagger cant stun certain mobs, like bosses they can only be MoO'ed.
players also have a immunity to stuns if they have been stunned already within a certain time frame, same goes for any other CC to prevent chain CC of the same type
if a mob has interrupt armor you will not stun it with stagger unless you remove the IA first, stagger T4 removes 2 IA so you can stun a mob with 1 IA or remove 2 IA from another mob but no stun.
 
hope that clears some things up.	
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			This thread would be extra awesome if the OP has just been playing Stalker wrong. :lol:	
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Tex, you're on a roll today, bored at work? :D
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Long shot in the dark, but a while ago there was an issue with some things being lost depending on how you closed out the game.  If you closed the game by hitting the X in the upper right(windowed mode), people were losing currency they gained during their play time.  Could this silly bug be back and on a larger scale?
 
Tex, you're on a roll today, bored at work? :D	
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Actually, I got here at 5AM and did so much freaking Christmas work I *had* to take a few minutes break and come here - or else my brains was gonna assplode in a hailstorm of tinsel, garland, string lights and turkey dinners.
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			Since I lost all my progression from last night, do you guys think I should hold off on playing that char until its fix or does it matter? Sorry I'm new to this game and haven't ran into a problem like this before.	
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Since I lost all my progression from last night, do you guys think I should hold off on playing that char until its fix or does it matter? Sorry I'm new to this game and haven't ran into a problem like this before.
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so with punish if you have it on your bar when you crit you get a buff called "punish" which says that you can punish within the next 6 seconds. if punish is on CD you cant punish until the cd is up but if the CD is up and there is only 1-2 sec left on punish buff then you have a 1-2 sec window to use it. any time you crit the buff refreshes, but there are times when it will seem that punish is only available for a short period of time because you weren't able to crit in the last 5ish seconds and you had punish on CD until now.
 
stagger cant stun certain mobs, like bosses they can only be MoO'ed.
players also have a immunity to stuns if they have been stunned already within a certain time frame, same goes for any other CC to prevent chain CC of the same type
if a mob has interrupt armor you will not stun it with stagger unless you remove the IA first, stagger T4 removes 2 IA so you can stun a mob with 1 IA or remove 2 IA from another mob but no stun.
 
hope that clears some things up.
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Nope, I see you think I am new to this game, but nope. I bought it month after premiere, and I was playing stalker a lot (I am after GA). Stagger is not working on mobs which don't have any interrupt armor e.g. Tracking robots on Slavemaster Drokk, shadows on last boss SSM. The best egzample is wipe on one of mini bosses before Omha where you split raid for stun groups. First and second person stun twice (if I remember good) and last person is interrupting before and of the cast, I used stagger, I saw dmg, nothing happend = all dead. So don't tell me how interrupting in this game works, becouse for me this is clear it is not working as intended.
 
Punish deactivate in time less then 1s even if it is not on cd and I crited second or two before it was up or during time it wasn't on cd...
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Nope, I see you think I am new to this game, but nope. I bought it month after premiere, and I was playing stalker a lot (I am after GA). Stagger is not working on mobs which don't have any interrupt armor e.g. Tracking robots on Slavemaster Drokk, shadows on last boss SSM. The best egzample is wipe on one of mini bosses before Omha where you split raid for stun groups. First and second person stun twice (if I remember good) and last person is interrupting before and of the cast, I used stagger, I saw dmg, nothing happend = all dead. So don't tell me how interrupting in this game works, becouse for me this is clear it is not working as intended.
 
Punish deactivate in time less then 1s even if it is not on cd and I crited second or two before it was up or during time it wasn't on cd...
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Someone else just made a thread about a possible character rollback, similar to one of your issues. I'd post in that threat with your info. It will be more visible there than in this kind of catch-all thread.
 
Your example of interrupts failing on the mini before Ohmna, is that the only example? IIRC, if you were too close to the mob, maybe inside the hitbox your interrupt sometimes wouldn't register. It's been a while since I have done this guy, but I remember raid lead always calling this one out to remind especially the melee classes of it.
			
				
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			The character rollbacks are weird, they were(maybe still are?) happening to people playing SWTOR too.	
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Someone else just made a thread about a possible character rollback, similar to one of your issues. I'd post in that threat with your info. It will be more visible there than in this kind of catch-all thread.
 
Your example of interrupts failing on the mini before Ohmna, is that the only example? IIRC, if you were too close to the mob, maybe inside the hitbox your interrupt sometimes wouldn't register. It's been a while since I have done this guy, but I remember raid lead always calling this one out to remind especially the melee classes of it.
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I really, really hate this attitude of "they don't care".
 
In what world would they not care?  Why would ANY game dev not care about their game working? 
 
Now, I agree - I wish things would get fixed faster, and that there weren't as many bugs.  Sometimes it does feel like things take ahwile.  But with all the layoffs and everything else happening within the studio, I honestly can't be that harsh on them.  I just can't realistically see someone not caring about fixing the bugs/ not working on it.
 
So yes, it's fine to complain about bugs, and you DEF should be reporting every bit you find - but god stop with the attitude like people don't care that things are broken. 	
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I really, really hate this attitude of "they don't care".
 
In what world would they not care?  Why would ANY game dev not care about their game working? 
 
Now, I agree - I wish things would get fixed faster, and that there weren't as many bugs.  Sometimes it does feel like things take ahwile.  But with all the layoffs and everything else happening within the studio, I honestly can't be that harsh on them.  I just can't realistically see someone not caring about fixing the bugs/ not working on it.
 
So yes, it's fine to complain about bugs, and you DEF should be reporting every bit you find - but god stop with the attitude like people don't care that things are broken. 
 
 
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If they just say they will look into that, send e-mail after ticket, anything would be good, but no 0 resposne. Have you seen all these empty topics with bug reports which are happening all the time in forum's bug section? With every patch there are more and more. You really think they care if someone has problem when this situation has place? They are so unlucky with these all errors?
 
From the other hand I see I am bad guy here and every single post trying to prove I am wrong. Probably I wrote about it without any reason, becouse I don't have anything better to do.  Ok, my bad, if for all everything is fine we can just end this discusion, I will just stop playing the game, becouse I am the only person with these problems.
 
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			Was a pretty quick response really, once they were made aware it was effecting so many people. As in, a few people weren't just "thinking" they'd lost progress when they might not have, support would get false reports like that all the time I would imagine.	
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This thread would be extra awesome if the OP has just been playing Stalker wrong. :lol:
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Not experiencing any of the bugs mentioned in this thread and honestly, I have a feeling it's just that people are not quite understanding how their abilities function.
 
1. Stagger only stun ON THE FIRST HIT. There are 4 hits and they don't all come instantly and it take about 0.5 second for the entire thing to be done.
If you used Stagger without the target being in the telegraph on cast but your telegraph clip on the target before the 4 hits are done, you will see damage appear but no stun because the stun is only the first hit.
 
2. Punish was already explained earlier. You get a buff when you crit that enable Punish. Most likely, you see 1-1.5 sec of being active because it just came off CD but you didn't get any crit for the past 5 seconds.
Punish is and has been working perfectly fine for me and according to my addon which tracks the Punish buff on me, there is no bug with it for me.	
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Not experiencing any of the bugs mentioned in this thread and honestly, I have a feeling it's just that people are not quite understanding how their abilities function.
2. Punish was already explained earlier. You get a buff when you crit that enable Punish. Most likely, you see 1-1.5 sec of being active because it just came off CD but you didn't get any crit for the past 5 seconds.
Punish is and has been working perfectly fine for me and according to my addon which tracks the Punish buff on me, there is no bug with it for me.
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      I sent ticket, I wrote on forum, zero response from Carabine. The only new thing with every patch in this game are new bugs. I am writing it here, becouse bug section probably doesn't exist for people who are responsible for things that should be changed. I hope more people will give a feedback about it to show that so many things are not working like they should. As a stalker player, I can't play normally, becouse of skills that are not working. Punish is bugged, I wrote about it in bug section, also I find out that Stagger is broken and there is few percent chance  it won't stun and become usless. Good ******* job with Contracts.... I filled up all bar, took my award, log in few hours later, my bar is empty, award is gone. I saw many people have this problem so maybe do something about it and don't force us to wait ridiculous amount of time to fix this, becouse for now this is waste of time.....
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Hey Everyone -
 
We do care, and we're well aware of the issues. In fact, we just performed a realm restart on Entity and Warhound (Jabbit and Luminai to follow) in order to address these issues. Sometimes reproducing these reported issues doesn't always yield a clear-cut answer, or an easy fix, and we have to continue to investigate - which takes longer than we'd like.
 
We do think we found a fix for the reported issues, but it may be temporary. Please, if you are  still experiencing missing progress, items, AMPs, etc. we do ask that you continue to let us know by giving us the realm name, approximate time the issues started happening, and character name.
 
Thanks everyone!
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I'd also add that they figure out a way to embed twitter (WildStar Ops) to the forums somehow. 1) Not everyone has twitter or is willing to use it, and 2) a lot of updates are seen there and take time to make it to the forums. So if they embedded the posts from WildStar ops to a centralized (and locked) forum thread, that may help too.
 
Generally I see things on FaceBook and Twitter before they make it to the forums (or I make it to the forums to check).
 
 
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I got to thinking about it, and maybe they can just add a "widget" to the side panel above/below the most recent posts widget. That way it's always on the side bar as you are browsing the forums.
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Not experiencing any of the bugs mentioned in this thread and honestly, I have a feeling it's just that people are not quite understanding how their abilities function.
 
1. Stagger only stun ON THE FIRST HIT. There are 4 hits and they don't all come instantly and it take about 0.5 second for the entire thing to be done.
If you used Stagger without the target being in the telegraph on cast but your telegraph clip on the target before the 4 hits are done, you will see damage appear but no stun because the stun is only the first hit.
 
2. Punish was already explained earlier. You get a buff when you crit that enable Punish. Most likely, you see 1-1.5 sec of being active because it just came off CD but you didn't get any crit for the past 5 seconds.
Punish is and has been working perfectly fine for me and according to my addon which tracks the Punish buff on me, there is no bug with it for me.
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What are you going on about?  There's an entire part of the front WildStar home page dedicated to dev posts across Reddit, Twitter, and the Forums.  It is called the 'devtracker'.
On the front page on the right side you'll see it and then click the 'View All Posts' link to get to this page with all the things.
 
I get using social media, but it seems Carbine's studio may not be big enough anymore to handle maintaining all these seperate things.
If they fix the forums and optimize their ticket system a bit and are *clear* as a studio on a singular message (not providing conflicting messages about how to submit bugs for instance) and make it easy for people to help them out with player reports and bug reporting and suggestions from one centralized location, THEN it is less work for them and less work for their players.
 
Ideally it could all be done from in-game and should be done from in-game, but then another CRB person goes 'oh just post it on the forum' and then another CRB person goes 'oh the forums rarely get responded to just /bug it' so the left hand doesn't seem to know what the right hand is doing.
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