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Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:36 pm
by Dr. B
To put it another way, a portal destination "X" will now appear in the list of options in the dialogue for portal X. Clicking it will cause two teleport VFX to fire around your character.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 7:33 am
by Artenides
Adding this to my list to investigate.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 2:05 pm
by Artenides
This is a WIP now.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:59 am
by Artenides
A fix is in the pipeline, this should be in live soon.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:49 pm
by JustMonika
I always thought that was intentional.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:12 am
by Revelations
And I worried that the fix would be implemented the way it now seems to be according to the update notes.
It can be very useful to move to a portal in the same area, if doing that portals you across the area (e.g. using a lense or -teleport).
What was the harm in this „bug“ anyway?
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:59 pm
by Dr. B
Lenses and -teleport yes, but until the last update a portal's list of dialogue options did not include that portal. That only changed with the update, which I assume means the portal dialogues are not working the way the developers intend for them to work, which is why I noted it here.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 9:03 pm
by R0GUE
Revelations wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:12 am
And I worried that the fix would be implemented the way it now seems to be according to the update notes.
It can be very useful to move to a portal in the same area, if doing that portals you across the area (e.g. using a lense or -teleport).
What was the harm in this „bug“ anyway?
There's no harm per se, but as a designer you want to have a clean, helpful UI. Having a portal that loops back to the same exact portal is not very clean and would be considered an annoyance if you had to sit through a load screen to end up right back where you started.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:22 am
by Dr. B
There is no load screen. It jumps you to the portal that you are already standing at.
Re: Portals can teleport you to themselves
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:33 am
by R0GUE
Dr. B wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:22 am
There is no load screen. It jumps you to the portal that you are already standing at.
Fair enough, just cleanliness then.