Why does it take more than a day to fix sorc boot?
This shouldn't have happened in the first place, but how long does it take to fix what is probably 1 line of code?
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it took me a few seconds to fix it, which happened after a few minutes of checking the file histories of a couple things. i think the scripting side of things (before testing or anything) had a fix candidate before i started seeing people talk about it on social media, and definitely before we disabled the item. the reason that the fix isn't already live is because of the process that happens after that (which was made more complicated in this case because we were preparing the 4.12 patch for deployment for regions that didn't have it yet). one of those steps is making sure that the candidate actually fixes the issue, so it's pretty important stuff that we don't want to skip.
i think the current plans would have the fix out to north america early this week, though i don't know exactly when as that's handled by other teams. the moral of the story is that it's really important to make sure things work right the first time, so no one has to suffer through a disruption in normal play because of bugs like this. :<
One line of code? You might be discrediting how difficult programming can be.
Knowing the issues that have cropped up in weird places in League's spaghetti code, it's probably a lot more than one line of code. Were you here during Hecarim Patch? Now THAT was a fun bundle of bugs. I still have no idea how anything in Hec patch managed to make Gragas' model never update (causing him to suddenly appear somewhere to everyone else) or cause fps drops in even the best machines. And the global laughs, oh god the global laughs.
Needless to say, although their code base is much better than back then, knowing how much worse it could be I'm fine with waiting an extra day or two.
U asume they already know WHY Sorcs give double pen with homeguards. It usually takes alot more time to find out why something doesn't work right than it takes to fix it afterwards. And as Sir ArmaMalum said, by the history of lolbugs the code is probably (unecessary-)complex and it will be more than just 1 line of code(one would asume it's just adjusting one value for homeguard-sorcs, but it's obviously not as simple for them)
How their patching works they can't just spam patches for every bug they find