Abbot broken

[Phemt81]

Has it ever worked properly?

[GermanicusMaximus]

Actually... you arent throwing through.... you're throwing over. Step by step so there is no confusion...


ctrl/z to clear your hud, t target and be sure to aim center bottom of the roid. Z axis on targeting is off so aim lower.

All of this is good advice, but in some runs it is not sufficient.

Asteroids has several "oddities" on the live servers right now, not just the one mentioned by the OP.

Asteroids has variability built into it, just like the final fight with the Abbot. In the Abbot fight, sometimes he never infernos you, sometimes he does it almost nonstop. If you get what passes for a "normal" asteroids pattern, it is as easy as ever. If you get a really bad pattern, you can get multiple occurences of each of the "oddities".

What this boils down to is that in a lot of cases, people who passed as "OK" asteroids players are currently getting a lot of patterns they simply can't deal with. Since asteroids is currently the most difficult puzzle, its best to make sure you have 4 good asteroids players in there, and issue instructions that they be the ones throwing rocks.

[Xynot2]

We are headed towards a game based upon equality regardless of player skill. WoW panders to that market. When we reach parity with WoW, we will have entered the WoWjr phase of DDO: A game targeted to the same demographic as WoW, but with less content, fewer players, and a smaller revenue stream. It will be the ideal game...for people perma-banned from WoW.

Awesome sig. Doesnt mean I agree but still awesome.

[obscure.jester]

i experienced some roid bugs when last update came, but it just lasted a few, it has been fixed as far as i can see. what i still see is that sometimes tiles are hugely odd. i had no chance to take a screenshot as i was guiding a mate on tiles but i literally saw him falling THROUGH a green tile. in the middle of it. it was not just appeared, it was not yellow or red, it was a solid green tile. and he went through it.
corners and edges are often bugged too, i myself have fallen from and edge despite i was clearly on the tile (green) with goggles on to see where was i going. finally, another mate fell from the edge of a BLUE tile. i cant be sure about it as distance was big and he might have stopped too late but still, im sure i gave him the stop command as soon as he was on the blue tile but he fell anyway.

[Kmnh]

MORE ROIDS! THROW MORE ROIDS!

Yelling this over party chat is fun. Being done with goggles and watching roids wipe is not

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

... As long as they aren't Droids ...

[Kadran]

... As long as they aren't Droids ...

Even if they are, these are not the droids you are looking for. Move along. :-P

[Buggss]

This may or may not be true. I think it's something along the lines of, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?"

Yes.... yes it does.

[Diroctive]

Community: The Abbot raid is too hard! Can you please fix it?
Turbine: Ok, it seems the players have spoken. They say it's too easy, can you believe it!
Turbine: What should we do? Make tiles harder with difficulty? "Fix" the rewards?
Community: What? None of that seems reasonable.
Turbine: *fix*fix* What's that? *fix* Can't hear you over the sound of patching, sorry. *fix*
Community: Pugging Abbot is even harder now, I guess we'll have to deal with it.
Turbine: Still too easy? Well, looks like we'll have to do something about roids. How does making them harder to hit sound?