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I'm trying to get it to go off, but so far all my chat entries have been clear of wwwwaaaaasssstrash.
110020000110001000000Can anyone verify that this bug is gone?
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I hate this bug. It's a minor issue ultimately since it isn't crashing servers or corrupting data, but it is highly visible, distracting and annoying.
What's broken and why is it taking so long to fix? The key problem here is way back when, someone decided it would be a good idea to have three separate keyboard input interpreters and any changes done have to play "house of cards" game with the three. The current set of bugs began appearing a while back when we started making changes to implement the mission editor, which morphed into the Mission Architect.
I've no doubt that it will be fixed at some point; I just wanted to basically point out that, yes, we're aware of it and yes, we are trying to fix it. It's just an enormously more complicated task that it "should" be.
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It's pretty fun to wander over into programmer land and causally ask, "So what's up with the chat bug?"
They have said that not having reliable repro steps makes this particular bug nigh-impossible to track down, so if anyone can figure out a way of making this happen 100% of the time, I'm sure those guys would name children after you or something.
I'd even push for Posi to hand out the vaunted 'badge-which-must-not-be-named"
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I can reproduce this 100% of the time. Please have a dev or other NC Soft rep contact me in game.
