This forum badly needs a known issues list. The players of this game have no idea what is even considered a bug until it's "fixed". With the time and/or money investment required to play this game at a competitive level, it is very frustrating that the community has no idea what the devs consider broken.
You can occasionally find an actual dev referencing something they consider broken on a random Reddit post, but practically nothing on the 'official' forums. How hard would it be to have someone who has access to the internal bug tracker for this game report to the community manager what they will be addressing in the future so that a list can be maintained? The community manager may even have access to the bug tracker, I dunno. Even moving threads from the Bug section to a known issues subforum would provide much more information to the community so we would know what is actually going to change and everyone could be on the same page. Of course I wouldn't expect to see anything that could be exploited for ridiculous gain such as the multiple achievement bugs that have allowed some people to get Vader shards at a crazy rate, but things like a damage multipler being off for an ability or a buff not being subject to dispel should be known by all.
There's practically no outbound communication from the community manager in this game other than posting patch notes, which could really be done by an automated script. I'm not saying it's his fault, it's just frustrating. Those weekly updates are a start, but usually just tell us things we already know because they already changed, or shard location changes. Never anything about upcoming gameplay change details.
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Which does not contain a known issues list or subforum. It's a way for players to report issues, not for the development team to acknowledge them. You can't take what gets posted in there as what will change.
Had you read his post you'd realize your reply is nonsensical as usual. He's not talking about a place to report bugs, he's talking about a single master list maintained by the Devs of confirmed bugs and other known issues. This is a common practice in most online games, and one this game could desperately use given the ambiguity of many ability descriptions.
+1 @Bluerock
Get on it boys, please and thank you. I'll even help this cause if I can.
We did get a Jesse response in a bug report in that forum about raid rewards not being given for guild members who did not get their rewards claimed before another raid was completed. Without a known issues section, other guilds will most likely have no idea that can happen and block people from raid rewards inadvertently.
Those are both the types of issues that players need to know are broken and being fixed.
They did have one stickied in bug reports until last month that was last updated in January. Then it got unstuck and disappeared. That shows how much they care about this issue. Sad.
I read his post.
He is asking for something we already have.
It just needs to be updated.
You need to seriously grow up.
Can't find it? Oh, must be because the devs don't acknowledge bugs and known issues. There adhere to a strict radio silence policy when it comes to transparency.
You admit yourself that it needs to be changed, yet when someone asks for it you immediately point out that it already exists.
Why do you have this visceral need to disagree with people? You have the same idea yet you still display your usual hate and contempt.
You're the one who needs to grow up.
We need this section under the Developer updates one, to ensure everyone reads it.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/4446/known-issues-and-topics-1-4-2016/p1
If you read his post and still reply in the same way, perhaps you are the one in need of growing up.
Seriously why the hate for a simple and just idea? It's not sticky, it's not updated so his suggestion is legit.
Be mad somewhere else like in the Fives topics.
@Bluerock good idea!
I think the only way that this could happen is if an active forum-goer volunteered to maintain an unofficial thread. Of course, this wouldn't help with clarifying issues such as Fives omega double-tapping because that required a dev. response, but it would help other forum-goers know which bugs/issues had been reported so the bug/issues section isn't spammed with the same problem a millions times over. And over time, if the thread were popular, eaJesse may well use whoever maintains it as a go-to point for occasionally updating the community.
So... Any volunteers?