Bug seen on Twitch--Answered officialy--let it die

[Graygan]

Just watching CohhCarnage and saw what looks like a bug in salvage...

He had 2 salvage rights and chose 2 items...then changed his mind and dragged 2 others on top of the first two.

When he finished, he received all 4 items instead of just the final 2.

Somehow I don't think that's working as expected.

 

[44th MAC|Bonsai]

Not sure if a bug or just RNG luck. Could be luck, as the other items are randomly chosen.

 

[Exemplar Voss]

That wasn't a bug. That was part of the random salvage. It looked impressive, but keep in mind there were three pieces of Shadowhawk there in the pool.

 

[Graygan]

Pretty sure it's a bug... those are the items we get to specifically choose while the rest is random.

 

[Graygan]

The reason I think it's not random is he specifically got the 2 items he put up first.... that's stretching the laws of probability pretty far if it's truly random. There were a lot of other items he could have randomly gotten other than those 2 specific items.

 

[Graygan]

It shouldn't be too hard for the devs to at least try to replicate. If it's random, great. If it's not, they need to fix it.

 

[Jadedfalcon]

skipping through the salvage screen does not tell you what salvage was added to your inventory...

 

[Graygan]

It clearly showed him what the result of his salvage choices was... ie., the items that got added to his inventory.

 

[gruese]

Saw it too, was also thinking it might be a bug. Might be totally random. Worth looking into.

 

[Col. Klink]

Graygan means the part where Cohh originally picked 1 Quickdraw and 1 Shadow Hawk part instead of the 2 Jenner parts that also were available. After approximately the entire stream chat yelled at him to take the Jenner parts (because he already had 1 JN part in storage) he changed his mind and changed his priority salvage to the 2 JN parts. Then he hit done and got the QKD and SHD parts in the random salvage anyway. So either he was really really lucky or something is bugged and the game gave him those parts because they had been in the priority selection before being exchanged again.

 

[Graygan]

Thank you Col. Klink, for clarifying for me.

That's exactly what I was talking about. It stretches the laws of probability for him to have received those exact two parts randomly.

On the other hand, hopefully one of the devs will read this and it should be super-easy to replicate. I have no clue how hard it'd be to fix it, though.

 

[Jadedfalcon]

It clearly showed him what the result of his salvage choices was... ie., the items that got added to his inventory.

No, it skipped without so much as a "would you like to." screen. when he skipped through the screen. I remembered, as I was looking forward to the salvage screen in particular. (I remember this before Cohh salvaged a Jenner part)

 

[R0D]

It was amazing luck, no way to know if it was a bug currently without dev access.
There were a lot of chassis parts available and there might be some weighting towards them...

 

[Exemplar Voss]

The twitch video is up (as 13) now. Starts at 18:27ish
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/244774500

The salvage pool has a lot of partial mech bits.

He actually does remove the quickdraw and shadow hawk parts and puts the jenner parts into empty boxes. And gets 8 items total.
It can very easily be RNG.

 

[Kereminde]

I recall that event. So . . .

He managed to take out a lot and immediately wanted the Quickdraw part since it was a Heavy and he thought it was a good pick. He took the Shadow Hawk part because he was liking his 2H already. Stream chat suddenly lit up with "wait, no, finish the Jenner!" and he thought about it for a bit, then decided that was a good call, locked in the picks, then it picked the random picks and those two parts moved over. As he had as many parts as weapons/equipment - so it seemed - it threw in some random parts.

Which happened to be the ones he picked.

I'd still peg it for the devs to look at and see if there's something anomalous happening here regardless, since . . . that's what this period of time is for.

 

[Cyttorak001]

The twitch video is up (as 13) now. Starts at 18:27ish
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/244774500

The salvage pool has a lot of partial mech bits.

He actually does remove the quickdraw and shadow hawk parts and puts the jenner parts into empty boxes. And gets 8 items total.
It can very easily be RNG.

If so, that answers a long-standing question of whether random salvage would include 'Mech parts, or whether it would be "anti-prioritized" by your employer (i.e. you'll get heat sinks and like it).

 

[44th MAC|Bonsai]

I think it was stated that there are no employer priorities involved. Can't remember where exactly. But as far as I understand it, you choose your picks, then it's rng.

 

[Exemplar Voss]

I'd still peg it for the devs to look at and see if there's something anomalous happening here regardless, since . . . that's what this period of time is for.

True. He's also on an older version- the jenner had the SRM ammo in the arm again, and they fixed that after it first appeared on stream. So it could well be a known/fixed issue, assumed it isn't just RNG.

 

[Kereminde]

True. He's also on an older version- the jenner had the SRM ammo in the arm again, and they fixed that after it first appeared on stream. So it could well be a known/fixed issue, assumed it isn't just RNG.

Yeah, I recall hearing that be brought up as "we already fixed that".

 

[HBS_Eck]

Graygan means the part where Cohh originally picked 1 Quickdraw and 1 Shadow Hawk part instead of the 2 Jenner parts that also were available. After approximately the entire stream chat yelled at him to take the Jenner parts (because he already had 1 JN part in storage) he changed his mind and changed his priority salvage to the 2 JN parts. Then he hit done and got the QKD and SHD parts in the random salvage anyway. So either he was really really lucky or something is bugged and the game gave him those parts because they had been in the priority selection before being exchanged again.

He just got lucky. The way salvage works is you get a number of priority picks out of the salvage, and then a number of random picks. Those numbers are controlled by the contract negotiation. 2/6 means 2 priority and 6 random. It just happened to pick some of the stuff he was interested in.

- Eck