alien upgrade bug *still here*
S_Badguy
Join Date: 2003-12-03 Member: 23925Members
Join Date: 2003-12-03 Member: 23925Members
Was lerk with adrenaline only, the team lost adrenaline upgrade and movement hive then built other upgrades. I was unable to get upgrades on the lerk, kept adrenaline. If I picked cloaking or carapace and clicked upgrade, the upgrade menu closes and the upgrade sound begins but nothing happens. The adrenaline icon is orange.
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That doesn't make any sense.
If you haven't chosen your crag/shade upgrade, you shouldn't be barred from doing so just because you've lost your shift upgrade.
That's the most bull###### I've read on these forums byfar.
Because thats not normal, no.
Other than way back in beta I haven't had anything but freedom in chosing upgrades, even after the selection has been culled.
I especially like how if you lose hive you get to keep bile etc, important for that slim comeback chance.
The problem is known and being worked on, so hang on :)
This one actually was intentional. Actually, I remember it being added and being personally unsure if it was a good idea. Basically, the idea is if an alien team loses any upgrade or abilities, alien players will retain their upgrades and abilities until they either die or evolve. What it means in play is that when you take out the second hive, there will still be a few leaping skulks or lerks with adrenaline to deal with. if I remember right, marines were supposed to have a similar feature with their arms lab; when the arms lab goes down or loses power, marines alive from beforehand would keep the upgrades, while newly spawning marines would lack it. I don't actually know if the marine side made it in. There were a few questions to work out, like what to do to an unleveled marine when the arms lab comes back up. But the alien side, at least, is there.
As pampelmuse said, there are multiple known and reported bugs with the alien upgrade system, the one xen32 mentioned was reported before the game launched.
To be clear what he means by evolution can simply be boiled down to "gestating" .. i.e. picking silence makes you lose spores if you had them, this is not intentional.
@OP: Thanks for the reproduction steps.
EDIT: I should add, I don't see anything wrong with that, you lost the upgrade, if you still want it, you can't have benefits from things that happened after you lost it if you wish to retain it. You should consider it lucky you don't just lose adren immediately when the upgrade is destroyed.
I know that used to happen, but I haven't had that happen for a month'ish now.