The patch to fix the ‘issue’ with showing the PlayerID, has been pushed today. Though this caused more issues, in the form of “why aren’t you talking? Why isn’t anyone talking?!”
Creepery discovered this thing (as I was still working on a blog post from last night, but nearly fell asleep infront of my computer before I could finish it). He was also having some issues with his computer (and Steam), but got them mostly sorted out.
I logged in too, curious if this bug is also happening to me. And it clearly was. It was like they were trying to speak to me, but nothing was being said. Yet I was able to speak just fine to Creepery. It was really freaking us out.
I love how the VRChat Devs took a thing that wasn’t broken, and broke it. Lovely. Now they’re going to have to patch the patch.. fucking hell. Plus, they never even posted this update on the News section of VRChat (to list what else it might have fixed).
Thought “is this also happening in the other worlds?” and hopped over to a random world. And they too, were not talking to themselves (or me). That was, until someone in VR started making sounds of adjusting their headset. Ran over and said hey, and they said hey back. I’m all “cool, I can hear you!” I’m trying my best to explain what’s going on (with my brain not wanting to fully lock on words that would be useful).
The person said that they too have been seeing the same thing, and said “this is probably a glitch”.
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But it was soon discovered (when more and people were able to speak again)… it wasn’t a glitch or a bug. People that hadn’t updated yet, were being muted. Still, this should had been posted (being an ‘issue’) by the devs.
This greatly worries me, if this is going to be ‘the new norm’ of future updates to this game… well, I’d be lying if I said “this is OK”.
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Finally, this also didn’t fix what’s causing my world not to load right. I already knew it wouldn’t.. but, you never know.. it’s kind of been the theme of my world.