Warmth Glow persists after the actual effect has expired

Good Friday!

1. I encountered this issue on XBox Series S

2. I was playing with one other person -- my game partner -- who uses an XBox One

3. I was playing as Drizzt

4. I've seen this same kind of phenomenon with character-intrinsic buffs on Wulfgar and Bruenor when my gaming partner plays them. Interestingly, he cannot see it when I do.

Steps:
Moved up to a flaming sword for heat before crossing an ice hazard.

Result:
The glow of the warmth buff often does not disappear on Drizzt when the effect has expired. He may continue for the entire rest of the mission with the pretty heat halo surrounding him.

My buddy and I have played the whole game through at Rank 1, Rank 2, and we started Rank 3 last night. I have seen this happen intermittently on all missions at each of the three levels.

Expected Result:
Warmth buff halo would disappear after time on the buff has expired.

It can be tedious watching the Tally Screen sit there and disclose all of the information about the completed level when all you want to do is get back to Kelvin's Cairn and level up, equip gear, etc. I know what gear and crystals that I got: I was there. Instead of having it auto-run, a player can press A/X/Enter to speed up the rundown, and then press that button again to advance to the next screen. As slow as it seems to go sometimes, there are other times where I actually want to read the screen and it advances with no way for me to stop it or control it.

1. I encountered this issue on Xbox One
2. I was playing Alone
3. I was playing as Drizzt

When I die on the Goblins at the Gates level, whether it is in the level itself or the boss fight, Drizzt will start respawning as just a cloak or a cloak and pants. I have clips taken on Xbox where the HUD is completely invisible, the bosses are invisible, and Drizzt is just a cloak, and it stays that way for like 45 seconds. I have had it where I attacked the bosses anyway and they have killed me before Drizzt even fully renders and the HUD has not even appeared. It feels like I am playing the beta of the game.

What ever patch you guys did for Loot is RIDICULOUSLY ******. done 10 straight raids with level 6 on Mask of Kelvin SOLO and all legionaries that dropped if any where rank 4 only??? I thought after patch oh couldn't be that bad...i can still get above 4k gear score. Im 3819 now over 90(since level 0) plus hours into the game and i have done over 300 adventures/raids and i cant get any of the gear i need on legendary but im supposed to do a level 6 at 4k gear score? FIX YOUR GAME. Have something that is rewarding for those that want to max their character. I haven't even moved to another character because i want to have my archer at the best....Something like a weekly reward to where you can turn in in-game currency(not buying currency) for legendary gear that is needed. Or have a way to upgrade gear that is Epic to legendary as the same rank. This is too much work and honestly depressing that i can not get a freaking rank 5 necklace to drop or one of the other 4 pieces of armor because of your guys worry about the others that were able to abuse the loot cheat....yea glad the rest of us were able to get 4.1k gear score like them with no consequences. Makes me want to honestly quit cause of how this team was like, "oh the loot system is more important than the bugs we have....get it first ASAP." Terrible way to do the game. I had high hopes for this game and it is honestly a let down.

I'm a huge D&D fan. I have all the 5e books. I use D&D Beyond. I DM for Adventurer's League. I go to conventions to DM for AL. I'm also a huge co-op PvE video game fan. It seems that I'd love this game from the get-go. I did. It is a great premise and I sincerely hope you guys can bring it back.

I play with friends on Xbox and PC and I have one of all four characters. The game in its current state doesn't give me a reason to return. Ther loot progression is not there, the difficulty has been increased to beyond frustrating, and the constant connection issues and other "I have to start this whole mission over" bugs have made me set Dark Alliance aside until you guys fix it.

Once that get's fixed my friends and I will be eagerly jumping back. Please, please fix this game, because it's a needed representation of D&D in video gaming!

I am hoping to hear some kind of update on when if ever we can expect s fix for this issue? I bought this game and convinced others to buy it solely for this feature which was advertised as being there at launch. I have heard players who bought a digitial version on ps5 can download the ps4 version for free and play thst way (but with no save progress transferring over). However those of us with physical copies are left hoping to at very least hear you guys admit it is a known problem and not constantly ignore it. I would like to know so I can make an informed decision on trying to pursue a refund for the product.

PS4/PS5
With friends and Alone
Drizzt

I feel like the developers are very out of touch with their players. Nobody and I mean nobody asked you to make the enemies even stronger while nerfing the players. We asked for a more responsive AI which it is now but in a bad way. Unfortunately now this just magnifies the game breaking issues of mobs teleporting, un-telegraphed one shot moves. Mobs like the Vebeergs chaining multiple red moves and or changing their move mid animation now all just happen more frequently.

Cultists are consistently bugged in that they now charge you and and are able to do a 90 degree course correction when you dodge them hitting you anyways. In addition the hit box for said charges by the exploding cultist are just flat out broken.

Also, the backstab animation on cultist is clearly broken you can not get into a position for the R1 to appear before it goes away (much quicker then other mobs btw)

Giants not telegraphing their hits or the hit box for example downing me when he is charging the opposite direction which his axe slide still hitting me and one shot killing me even though I was out of combat range and BEHIND HIM.

PS4/PS5 gameplay is still not fixed and this one really sucks. I sure hope you plan on offering a way to port your PS4 saves to PS5 when this is finally fixed as I'm basically forced to play the ps4 version to get groups.

Even though I don't feel ANYONE asked for you to make the mobs harder and more tedious to kill endgame farming you did, which would be fine IF you actually fixed any of the other parts of the game that are causing people to just randomly die for no reason.

Lastly loot is still an issue, so you've made the game harder and more tedious congratulations but in addition you've done nothing to change the loot pools to reward the harder gameplay? WTH? We should not be getting commons on bosses when doing all the loot upgrades, not dying to the broken one shot mechanics of this game.

While this game has been severely broken since day one of release, it was still fun to play. Now it's just tedious and the reward for completing the levels on the hardest difficulty is just not there. What was the idea behind this?

Why is the priority to nerf the players over fixing the NUMEROUS bugs in the game. Fix the bugs then lets talk about game balance!!!

When this game started, Cattie-Brie's moveset was really limited and the combat was boring.

As I unlocked more and more moves, I had a lot of fun incorporating each new move into my attacks and combos. I think that the minimum stamina being 50% was too high, as it doesn't particularly punish spamming stamina eaters all that much, but I was still having fun.

Until I unlocked piercing shot.

Now 90% of my attacks are piercing shot. It does way too much single-target damage for the small setup that it has, not to mention when you actually line up a couple targets. If combat was a little faster paced and that setup time actually cost me taking a hit every now and again, maybe it would be okay. Maybe if minimum stamina was lower than 50%, I would actually have to be careful about using moves that eat stamina.

But as it stands, no matter what combination of moves I use, nothing seems even close to the DPS that I get from spamming piercing shot, and it is too easy to get that DPS at basically no cost. Sure, I could just not use it, but it's so hard not to. I shouldn't have to take it easy on the game to have fun with it.

Save me from myself. Nerf Piercing shot.

EDIT: If you want a suggestion beyond just changing the stamina mechanics/every enemy's AI, I would propose cutting the short-range damage output by like 40%, making that damage uniform at all ranges, and extending the max range by like 100%. This way, players still get good damage from using the ability to actually skewer multiple targets, and aren't incentivized to spam near-melee range piercing shots at every enemy in the game.

Greetings!

I've enjoyed my time spent in dark alliance thus far. I play solo and also with a group of friends at times. Loot grinding games are some of my favorite games. However, they are only good when the reward is worth the effort. Before the latest patch it was riding the line of whether the time spent was worth the potential rewards. After this latest patch I fear it has tipped the scale in the wrong direction.

I do enjoy the increased difficulty that this patch brought! I feel that the way the loot currently works is not a great system for the level of difficulty this game has. With how much effort a player has to put in to getting the highest level gear it needs to rely less on random numbers and needs to be more targeted specifically to what the player wants.

Obviously, this can be accomplished in many ways but the bottom line is that it needs to be more about player choice rather than RNG.

This concludes my TED talk.

1. Issue is on gampass for windows 10 PC
2. Played yesterday online with friends and during the session I was no longer able to connect to an online session. Now when trying to join online, either quick play or custom session it just spins trying to connect. Looking at gamepass, my current version is 1.16.91.0 - installed 7/13/2021 so I'm assuming that I can't get online because the version I have is not the most current version.
3. all characters
4. I have not found a workaround. Checked both gamepass app and windows store to see if I could download an update and there is no update showing as available. I will try to uninstall and re-install but worried about loosing progression given all the stories I read about people's characters being reset.