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Summary
A. There are compound errors in "critical hit damage bonus" numbers.
B. These errors have been evident for over 14 months.
C. In my opinion, it's time for an overall review and meaningful effective action to resolve these compound errors.
Extent of errors
These errors, relevant to the "critical hit damage bonus", extend to:
a. individual gear pieces (variability of base numbers), and
b. weapon screens (inconsistencies and/or omissions in display), and
c. reconciliation between the PvP pre-battle & current buff screens (different numbers displayed when they should be identical), and
d. omission of the critical hit damage bonus number (inherent) from the weapon summary screen (often this can be compared with the PvP current buffs screen and there is a difference or omission), and
e. the underlying mathematics (totals not being an accurate sum of the individual parts).
Further details
1. In my opinion, the players should not be doing this testing - this should be a job for Gameloft.
2. There are intermittent issues of consistency and basic continuity involved here - in my opinion, junior quality assurance resources (or anyone with an average eye for details) should be able to easily identify such occurrences (just by navigating around the game - i.e. no fancy auditing software required and no hundreds of hours playing the game required).
3. There are more examples of these types of errors than the two cited below - i.e. the entire situation (holistically) needs to be looked at, not just patches applied to resolve the specific weapon and/or gear examples cited.
4. If anyone needs further details and examples (other than the examples cited below) please reply in this thread and I will explain more.
References / examples
1. Recent weapon & gear set example
This thread has 7 screen pics and extensive description of a very recent example of every one of the above noted errors.
viewtopic.php?f=2031&t=712034&p=4125380#p4125380
2. Weapon & gear set example from over a year ago
This thread has responses from Gameloft (a year ago) saying the issue was "hot fixed" but it's never been sorted out properly.
viewtopic.php?f=2031&t=694007
viewtopic.php?f=2161&t=693941
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Other somewhat related information
There are other historical (possibly somewhat related) examples, here's a selection.
viewtopic.php?f=2161&t=677641
viewtopic.php?f=2033&t=659311
Interesting post including a GM comment about weapon critical numbers not being known until the weapon is won.
viewtopic.php?f=2031&t=701757&p=3988415#p3988415
This post is about critical immunity not working (but, if you think of this from the other side of the coin, it may have been critical damage not being dealt out by the weapon / gear combination as expected).
viewtopic.php?f=2161&t=684673
A post from Gameloft explaining the difference between "Critical hit bonus damage" and "Critical hit chance bonus".
viewtopic.php?f=2031&t=683147&p=3740923#p3740923
Version of SF
The version of SF that I am using (at the time of posting) can be found here:
viewtopic.php?f=2033&t=686365&p=4112214#p4112214
[Edit: Scope of post clarification.... To be absolutely clear: The crux of this post has nothing to do with the 'critical hit chance bonus'.]
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