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ToastedSarnie
6 years ago

EXPRESSIONS/EMOTES ERROR AFTER RE-ORDERING

I set my favourites up for expressions/emotes and recently used the option to re-order them, so more useful ones were near the top, but since doing so I have had an on/off problem with the previous selection showing in the speech bubble.

For example I exchanged "Sorry!" for "Thanks". When I select "Thanks" the speech bubble shows "Sorry!", although the small msg that appears on the left side of the screen is showing "JetBlackCat72 said Thanks". 

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  • SigmaTheDJ's avatar
    SigmaTheDJ
    6 years ago

    Yep, I have this problem too (Xbox One). Here's a video showing the issue: -

    https://youtu.be/Be8P_eex-OQ

    After I get revived I use a "Thanks" emote, but my character on screen says "Need Healing!". In the feed on the left, it correctly displays "SigmaTheDJ: Thanks".

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    SigmaTheDJ
    6 years ago

    I've just tested it on my Xbox One and I can confirm that it is definitely related to reordering.

    Steps to reproduce: -

    1. Add "Hello" and "Hey" emotes to your favourites, so "Hello" is first and "Hey" is second. Everything works fine at this point.

    2. Reorder them so "Hey" is first and "Hello" is second.

    Now when you trigger "Hey", your character says "Hello" and when you trigger "Hello" your character says "Hey", so it's triggering whatever emote was in a given position when it was first added, rather than the re-ordered positions.

    This doesn't affect the feed at the lower left. Also, I don't know what other players are seeing as I've not been able to test that.

    Obviously, a temporary workaround for this is to remove everything from your favourites, then re-add things in the order you want them to be in, because as long as you don't use the "reorder" option, the correct emotes will display.

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    SigmaTheDJ
    6 years ago

    There is definitely another cause to this bug, cos even after removing all of my emotes then re-adding them without reordering them, I just played a game where the wrong emotes were triggering again, but back when I was in Giddy Park, they were working fine.

  • ToastedSarnie's avatar
    ToastedSarnie
    6 years ago
    @SigmaTheDJ Thanks for saving me the job of trying that - was going to do that today! That's very strange! All the errors I've noticed have definitely been favourite selections - I didn't have much playtime yesterday but tried using lots of speech & emotes on things I haven't had as favourites & didn't have problems there. Also used favourites I know for sure I didn't reorder (both in GP & turf) and again no problem. I'll try today to find out what other people are seeing in the bubbles I'm having problems with
  • ToastedSarnie's avatar
    ToastedSarnie
    6 years ago
    @EA_David Went into BFN earlier & checked my speech favourites as @SigmaTheDJ did and also found everything working correctly in Dave's Manor, Giddy Park, Zomboss HQ & the town.
    Then went into turf & tried selecting numerous speech favourites, both ones that I had reordered & those I knew I hadn't. All of them came up with correct selections. Tried a 2nd time hoping maybe the problem had been fixed but this time found some came up correctly & others others didn't. (Want to emphasize it's just the speech in the bubble that's incorrect) The really strange thing was that before if they came up wrong, they were ones that had been swapped over as previously described. THIS time, the msg in the bubble was any random speech selection. They were all ones from my favourites though, apart from one about liking cantaloupe which I DEFINITELY have never had in my favourites! I'm completely baffled now!
    I can confirm though that other players are seeing the same things as me, both the correct speech being shown in the group messages & the incorrect speech in the bubble.

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