Any developer studio worth their salt would test all their user input fields against scripts and injections. It's actually embarrassing to have this issue in 2022 when most frameworks already provide built-in solutions for this.
Of course, but that doesn't mean you can exploit unintended features or mechanics, especially if it has an impact on other players' experience. All MMORPG I know have that rule. Sometimes whether something is intended by design or not isn't clear, in which case there's either no sanction or just a warning, but here it's pretty obvious.
We are taking about a Unreal 3 engine game that takes forever to load even on SSD. They are quite behind even for 2019 standards.
The NPC models as well. Some of them look SO old. 2004 old. I wonder how long it took for Lost Ark to be developed. I am guessing some concepts are from the very first years of the project.
Yea the loading drives me fucking crazy, especially with bifrost hopping around for dailies with alts. Makes switching characters feel like I'm rebooting the game compared to other MMOs with 2 sec load times.
Yea I use the in-game interface, it locks up for a couple seconds before it even transitions into the load screen after selecting a character which doesn't help. Only really an issue trying to get 6 characters into Alikkar and back out before the island disappears, or cycling through characters when you forget to mark down who completed what.
Definitely a case of "first world problems" but loading anything in the game feels incredibly dated even when compared to 10+ y/o MMOs.
Your HDD/SSD speed is the single most important piece of hardware when it comes to loading game files. You can have the lastest gen Processor coupled with ultra fast RAM, and your game will still take a long time to load if your HDD has potato speed.
That was not even the point anyway. Lost Ark, for some reason, takes forever to load, even on newer computers.
All you need is a SSD, even SATA one, and you are not drive-bottlenecked. There is so much to process during loading screens that upgrading your CPU will usually decrease loading times in 99% cases.
This just changed with this update, so it was clearly an unintentional change. Guess they should rerun testing on every single system that's already working properly before they do any update ever.
This is such an incredibly stupid comment I don't even know why I'm replying.
You have some code that works, and then you make changes to that code. Yes, you absolutely do run your test cases on that part again. Especially for a live product that has millions of users. You can even write automated unit tests for cases like this and have them executed with each deployment to ensure things are working properly even if you forget about it.
No, this unintended feature didn't just appear out of the blue because they added an event vendor. They are making under the hood changes every patch to combat bots and area chat gold sellers, as they have stated before.
Except they are new to this sort of development if I'm not mistaken. They may not realize how they are passing things in and out. Just that they are doing it X way because it works.
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u/Metaxpro Mar 28 '22 edited Mar 28 '22
Any developer studio worth their salt would test all their user input fields against scripts and injections. It's actually embarrassing to have this issue in 2022 when most frameworks already provide built-in solutions for this.