25.4 Known Issues - Test Subject Banned from Wild - Various Art and Animation Issues & More
The usual Known Issues Post for Patch 25.4 with various bugs and issues. Read them below!
Quote from BlizzardHello all,
Patch 25.4 launches today, bringing the Return to Naxxramas Mini-Set, the Mercenaries Mythic Boss Rush, and more! Follow this post for details on known issues being tracked with this patch.
The issues we’re tracking this patch include:
- Test Subject is temporarily banned due to an unintended interaction in Wild. The card will be un-banned when an adjustment is made.
- Diamond Zephrys can be found in-game, but the card is not ready yet and is not available.
- From De Other Side’s art is not showing correctly.
- In Mercenaries, Old God corruption has reached their Diamond animations, which now aren’t displaying properly.
- [Resolved 2/14] In Mercenaries, the team is aware that a non-Mercenary card back is appearing in Mercenaries Packs. This is not intended. Mercenaries pack opening has been re-enable. The issue with the packs has been resolved. Affected players will receive compensation at a later time.
- [Added 2/14] We are tracking reports of a bug with the Blazing Transmutation card pool.
- [Added 2/14] The team is investigating reports of players replaying the Hearthstone tutorial and then being able to progress quests and certain other progression after that.
Additionally, some players are unable to access the Shop. We have identified the issue and working on a solution. Until then, your reports have identified a workaround for PC:
- Go to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170 10
- Download and install X86 from that site or through this permalink: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe 10
- Installing the above seems to resolve the issue for PC users.
We will continue to update this post as we get more information.
Someone literally posted the OTK in the card reveal topic for Mind Sear. The clowns making this game couldn't figure it out when they MADE THE CARD? BEFORE they released it? No competence in design. No testing whatsoever.
There are 4000 cards in wild, people seem to severely underestimate how fast a bunch of bugfixers should be able to find such interactions vs how fast millions of players can.
@Twitchy it takes 3 minutes after card reveal for the people that play the game, the community, to point out problems with cards. the devs just don't listen. ever.
therefore "no competence" is absolutely correct. don't know why you're trying to grand stand for bad developers here
Any 1 cost or 2 cost spell can go infinite easily in classes with a spell mana cost reducer. They have refused to fix the problem that keeps cropping up by refusing to institute "but not less than 1" on all infinitely scaling cost reducing effects.
As such, they only have themselves to blame when these type of combos crop up again. If they refuse to institute "but not less than 1" or a limit to the amount of cards you can play per turn or add legitimate counterplay opportunities to interrupt a solitaire turn then this will happen again and again.
This is not a bug. This is the state they've left their game in.
Only the best developers in the business get to work at Blizzard, Riot Games or Epic Games but it seems like every single community for every single one of their games assumes they are bunch of incompetent fuckups. So either they are right or players just severely underestimate how difficult it is to develop, test and balance a game.
But hey, all this forum ever wants to do is be hateful towards the developers so don't mind me and my stupid pragmatic attitude.
That may have been true 15 years ago. It certainly is not true of Activision today. Talent is fleeing the company in droves.
I see you had nothing to actually debate, just went "Well obviously they know what they're doing" which is clearly not the case because if it was they wouldn't keep getting caught with their pants down and have to ban cards like this.
dude stan-ing for somebody that does a bad job on a regular basis is not "pragmatic", it's just stupid.
remember the Hysteria Wretched Tiller otk? the minute Hysteria got revealed the community screamed OTK. the devs were too stupid to listen.
but you're right, maybe the devs aren't just utterly incompetent, maybe they really wanna test how addicted their player base is. mini set for 70$ is already a big step in that direction.
i really implore people to uninstall this game and waste their time in a different way. hearthstone was good in until late 2017. then brode left and the game went to sh*t.
i've tried to come back to this game after the Genn and Baku decks, then Descent of Dragons happened. tried it again, Ashes of Outland happened. tried it again with sunken city, which was fun, suprisingly, then they went full casino-mode every deck just the next expansion and everything went down the toilet again.
so either these devs are dumb, or cruel. #uninstall
Another patch another bugl
Blizard : pls wait till we give a fuck (or wait! there is a bug?) to fix it in the next patch maybe 2 months from now and here you go! Have another bug
xD
you need to have 99999 IQ to know This card is unbalanced. no one could See the ban comming
Blizzard are Just huge losers. cant wait Till every Page on ur card collextion has atleast 1 card banned lol
So Zephrys will be a part of next years core set? One can only hope. Return of highlander decks.
Aaaaaand mercenaries pack opening is broken. Small indie company, I know, I know.
Unbelievable. It took them only a month to provide solution for the "Shop closed" problem. I wasn't expecting it until next expansion...
A sad little fact is they weren't the ones to figure out the solution (And for some players, this won't even work if you still run Win7). If you were following the Main Thread for the issue, posted when the problem started on January 17th, that goes to a totally random forum poster on February 7th with Blizzard officially responding to the solution on the 10th.
And let's not forget them taking 2 and a half weeks to even acknowledge it wasn't the players side at all, with that post being made by a Blue on the 4th of February.
A mess, honestly.
I respected and admired Varian Wrynn the most out of all characters in WoW universe (sweated my ass to make the original 10 mana 7/7 work in those days meta), but this legendary portrait... Well, it's not Varian, I tell you what..
Truly, truly a shameful moment for whatever artist who made it (and a manager who greenlighted such an atrocious outcome).
It seems like the same problem with Arthas, where those small facial details become super apparent to an extent where the character looks like a caricature. Ironic since they already have fine animations of the character and arguably would have scored more points by just copying that in...
Also interesting that the new Varian looks older than the guy when he died...
It's incredible how ugly and overpriced these portraits are.
I found one more issue: all the new skins except Saraad are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ATROCIOUS.
The Maiev one isn't too bad. But I refuse to even accept that's what they're releasing and calling Varian...