An educated discussion on the Parry bug

As I sit down wondering about the Parry bug, larger questions are looming on the horizon.

Mainly, what if it can't be fixed? This game is huge, with an ocean of logic continuously being built into it, to scale even.

Where could it have been lost?

Was it in the development of a new champion ability? Hercules' Feats of Strength makes him Stun (Parry) immune, did something go wrong there?

Was it in the development of a new node?

Could it have been in the development of a new feature such as mastery swaps?

Moreover, we've seen how the issue has been able to crack the game. What if solving it might actually make it worse? What if the roll back solution causes us to lose more than gain the Parry mastery?

What are your thoughts?

Comments

Diplodocus

In the beta version parry was working much better and dexterity issue was almost gone. So no need to worry from false fears.

The_Sentry06

I believe Kabam had to update their Unity game engine framwork or something (saw DNA say this in another thread iirc) so it's possible that might have messed up the interaction.

Additionally, parry and dex were working pretty well in the beta however it was pretty much impossible to time your special attacks correctly after another attack like a heavy. I couldn't use Doom nor Prof X properly so hopefully the devs are aware of that.

Rookiie

In the beta version parry was working much better and dexterity issue was almost gone. So no need to worry from false fears.

That's helpful, Diplodocus 🦕

I might add, from my experience, that what's in beta does not always reflect what's in prod, but I will give Kabam the benefit of the doubt

Reference

As far as I know the bugs is caused by change of image engine. In plain words, the flip rate per second increases and which made your touch response become too slow. I guess (pure guess) Kabam want to speed up the animation and make the fight tougher, parry/dex bugs are by products and it seems not intentional. I guess they just want to make parry/dex difficult but the result is you can’t parry or dex. Basically.

The worst outcome now is, for example, the opponent just attack when the “start” logo disappear. Normally you can either parry / dex / attack at that moment, but the bugs make you fail to do these and basically you get hit at the beginning of every fight when the bugs prevails. Yes reparry is one of the way to tackle the parry issue, yet it is not guaranteed working. That’s my experience from Cav EQ and 7.2 so far.

Nonetheless, Kabam is currently beta testing the fix with some volunteers. Let’s see if we can have it next month.

Rookiie

As far as I know the bugs is caused by change of image engine. In plain words, the flip rate per second increases and which made your touch response become too slow. I guess (pure guess) Kabam want to speed up the animation and make the fight tougher, parry/dex bugs are by products and it seems not intentional. I guess they just want to make parry/dex difficult but the result is you can’t parry or dex. Basically.

The worst outcome now is, for example, the opponent just attack when the “start” logo disappear. Normally you can either parry / dex / attack at that moment, but the bugs make you fail to do these and basically you get hit at the beginning of every fight when the bugs prevails. Yes reparry is one of the way to tackle the parry issue, yet it is not guaranteed working. That’s my experience from Cav EQ and 7.2 so far.

Nonetheless, Kabam is currently beta testing the fix with some volunteers. Let’s see if we can have it next month.

Brilliant response

Speeds80

Honestly I’ve had some of the problems that were happening in this bug randomly at times for the last few months, just at a much lesser rate ( specials not firing, dex blocking and parry failing) I think my iPhone 8 can’t quite keep up with the game, when the parry bug came out at the start of the month it was like what I have been experiencing but just so much more often. I was just pumped that when I checked forums other people were experiencing it too and it was being acknowledged as a a bug, Gives me hope that it will be fixed, the games been horrible for about 4 months for me. The matches where I know it’s going to be **** the whole background shakes as soon as the fight starts, whenever that happens I know parry is going to be 50:50 and there’s going to be lags and freezes

DrZola

Beta was significantly better, so there’s hope.

You’re not alone in your concerns, however. I’m not a programmer, but I’ve worked with complex systems before and I worry about unintended consequences from any fundamental game changes.

Dr. Zola