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[Notice] Ver. 4.1.7a Emergency Compensation for Split Arrow Completed
— Operations Team
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ㄴ RunningWind_Ryu: The compensation criteria say “all adventurers with archer-type classes,” but wasn’t it only the guys who took the Multi Arrow skill who were affected? I went out on a night subjugation yesterday and our whole team got wiped because Split Arrow wasn’t there, but I’m an archer too. Why did I get compensation?
ㄴ PrairieHawk: lol the devs don’t even know who to hand out feed to
ㄴ RunningWind_Ryu: No, I’m being serious. Archers who didn’t take Multi Arrow had no problems yesterday. So why did I get compensation too? It means the devs couldn’t even properly identify the affected characters and just went, “Give it to all archers.”
ㄴ RustyHelmetMerchant: This isn’t actually wrong, so… I can’t even curse at him
ㄴ StormBefore77: Didn’t they just spread the compensation wider to cover up their mistake? It’s only 500 gold anyway, what’s there to be stingy about?
ㄴ RunningWind_Ryu: That makes me even angrier. They just gave it to everyone to blur the lines of responsibility.
[Current status of the guys who went down the Split Arrow tree lolol]
— BowShootingFarmer
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They were running their mouths in the night dungeon boss room, saying Split Arrow was about to activate,
and nothing flew out,
then one arrow flew out,
and the party members all stared at them.
ㄴ WalkingKnightOrder: lolololololol
ㄴ CastleAboveClouds: Why is this so funny lololol
ㄴ BowShootingFarmer: Is it for real that the look in their eyes was, “You took the Multi Arrow tree?”
ㄴ NightKnightLogan: I was there. I was there, and I didn’t have Multi Arrow, so I had no problem. But the party got wiped. Turns out the two Multi Arrow users were responsible for sixty percent of the damage. I requested extra revival fees.
ㄴ StormBefore77: But honestly, the Multi Arrow tree is insanely complicated. It’d be weirder if bugs didn’t happen with that tree.
ㄴ IronWallDefenseCaptain: True. They’re the suckers. Their mistake was trusting the devs while taking such a complicated tree.
ㄴ IAmASplitArrowUser: I thought it was made with care because the tree was complicated, damn it
ㄴ BowShootingFarmer: lolololololol
ㄴ IAmASplitArrowUser: I know it’s funny, but I really feel wronged. I prepared for a month to take that tree. I used three skill books too.
ㄴ CastleAboveClouds: …Ah, that’s kind of pitiful
ㄴ IronWallDefenseCaptain: No, but if you had the money to take that tree, why not just go mage instead of archer lol
ㄴ IAmASplitArrowUser: I got recruited after sneaking peeks at the bow lady at the Academy shooting arrows, and now I’m stuck...
ㄴ NightKnightLogan: insane
[Summary of this patch for you (rage warning)]
— ContinentalPeddler
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1. Dwarves made cannons
2. The devs put in a balance patch
3. That patch caused a bug
4. They fixed the bug with an emergency patch
5. The emergency patch caused another bug
6. Multi Arrow users’ skills stopped working during night missions
7. The devs paid compensation
8. The compensation criteria are nonsense
9. We are now reading this notice
Is this what they mean by bugs giving birth to bugs and patches giving birth to patches?
ㄴ RustyHelmetMerchant: “Bugs giving birth to bugs” is seriously a legendary quote lol
ㄴ WalkingKnightOrder: But the dwarves in number 1 did nothing wrong. The dwarves were just working hard.
ㄴ ContinentalPeddler: True, the dwarves are innocent. The devs are guilty.
ㄴ BouldurWorkshopFan: Dwarves innocent, guns guilty
ㄴ StormBefore77: But it’s not like the devs did this on purpose. They’re just incompetent.
ㄴ ContinentalPeddler: Whether it’s on purpose or incompetence, the damage is the same.
ㄴ IAmASplitArrowUser: ㅠ
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— Veil of Pitch-Black
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ㄴ Flame of the Crimson Furnace: I watched for a bit because of the dwarf cannon incident, and in the end, the devs caused a bug. The tinkering old man I raised with my sponsorship money is in his workshop experimenting with all sorts of things right now. It is fun, but my trust in this patch has gone down a bit.
ㄴ Veil of Pitch-Black: lol Sponsoring while trusting the patch director is kind of scary. But the world activity index is being maintained, isn’t it?
ㄴ Flame of the Crimson Furnace: It’s maintaining “Normal.” But honestly, it’d be more fun if it shook a little more.
ㄴ Frost of Dawn: Just watch. If it’s a structure where bugs give birth to bugs, something’s bound to blow up again anyway lol
ㄴ Veil of Pitch-Black: I agree with that. They say the Split Arrow logic is scheduled for review, but doesn’t it feel like something else will blow up if they touch that?
ㄴ Flame of the Crimson Furnace: If it blows up, we’ll watch.
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“That’s so true I have nothing to say.”
Patch Director Han Jaewon muttered blankly as he stared at the community screen floating in midair.
- IAmASplitArrowUser: ㅠ
Why did that single-character emoticon weigh on his mind so much?
“Director.”
“......”
“Jaewon.”
“Huh?”
Log called to him from the perch.
He was Patch Director Han Jaewon’s exclusive system spirit, and currently the only being in the world of Arcana Online who knew his name and identity. A parrot with colorful feathers, Log was peeling a nut while holding it firmly in his claws.
“Watching it won’t change anything.”
“I know. I’m just watching.”
“Are you atoning?”
“No. It wasn’t my fault to begin with, was it?”
“It looks that way.”
Jaewon waved his hand and turned off the screen. The window in midair vanished softly.
“……So. If you have something to say, say it.”
Log slowly opened his beak as he peeled the nut shell with his claws.
“Wouldn’t it be better to block the dwarves’ technological development at a certain level?”
Jaewon turned his head.
“No.”
“May I ask why?”
“The dwarves’ technological development is naturally occurring content that doesn’t consume the Constellations’ divine power. Do you know how precious that is? If we want to create something directly, we have to use divine power, but the dwarves make things on their own. Why would we stop that?”
“I know that as well.”
Log continued speaking as he ate a piece of the peeled nut.
“That is not what I mean.”
“Then?”
“My opinion is that because your ability to control naturally occurring variables is far too poor, it would be better to block them.”
Silence.
Jaewon slowly looked at Log.
“……Hey.”
“Yes.”
“You know that was a hell of a cruel thing to say?”
“That is my role.”
Without the slightest change in expression, Log began peeling another nut.
He wasn’t wrong. Jaewon knew it too. The dwarves developed technology, variables appeared in the world, and in the process of cleaning them up, divine power was leaking away. He had inserted a patch without sufficiently understanding the design logic, and that patch had given birth to another bug.
In the end, it was a problem of control.
Jaewon pulled the patch notes on the table toward him and opened them.
At the top of the first page. A faintly glowing number.
Current remaining divine power.
His eyes stopped.
“……Is this right?”
“It is.”
“We lost this much while cleaning up this bug?”
“It includes two emergency patches, one compensation payout, and the automatic monitoring cost you just approved.”
Jaewon stared at the number for a long while.
It wasn’t much. No, to be honest, it was low. To keep this world running, divine power had to come in. The Constellations had to sponsor him. But right now, the Constellations’ attention was—
- If it’s a structure where bugs give birth to bugs, something’s bound to blow up again anyway lol
Jaewon reached out, picked up one of the nuts Log had peeled, and put it in his mouth.
Log almost slashed Jaewon’s hand with his claws, but held himself back.
“Are you stealing and eating them again?”
“Even if we create content directly with divine power, variables will still appear. As long as the world is alive and moving, bugs will come from somewhere. Blocking the dwarves won’t solve the problem.”
Log paused for a moment.
Then he answered calmly.
“That is true.”
“Then—”
“But at the very least.”
Log raised his head.
“If you had formalized the form of cannons in advance and included it in the design, those cannons would never have been judged as bows.”
Jaewon’s mouth stopped. The nut hardened in his mouth.
“You really know how to ruin someone’s appetite!”
“Since you are eating mine without permission, that benefits me.”
Log continued.
“The naturally occurring variable itself is not the problem. The problem is that you failed to predict that variable. You were fully aware of the possibility that the dwarves might apply gunpowder, were you not? If you had separated gunpowder projectiles into a separate category at the design stage, this chain of bugs would never have existed from the beginning. Please stop trying to save divine power so much.”
Silence.
Jaewon slowly chewed the nut.
He had nothing to say.
Log silently began peeling a new nut again.
Beyond the windowless wall came the sound of the morning wind.
Jaewon nodded.
“Fine.”
“?!”
Log whipped around toward Director Jaewon.
“Then will you define the rules more delicately from now on?”
“But we don’t have divine power right now, so that’ll be difficult. Rejected.”
“That’s why I’m telling you to block variables in advance so that such things don’t happen…!”
“Gyaaagh!”
The hand of the one who governed the laws of the world was bitten mercilessly by a powerful parrot’s beak until it bled.
***
Jaewon wiped the blood from his hand and took something wrapped in a piece of cloth out from inside his robe.
“By the way.”
When he unfolded the cloth, a delicious-looking loaf of bread appeared. Its surface was baked to a golden brown, and its texture was alive with layers. It looked convincing enough that it was hard to believe he had bought it from a nearby mill.
Log leaned forward on his perch.
“That looks quite decent.”
“Yeah.”
“May I have some—”
“No.”
Jaewon sat with his back turned to Log and brought the bread to his mouth.
He had been starving since last night. There was hardly anything to eat in the hut. Bread of this quality was more than enough for breakfast.
He took a large bite.
And then—
“Aaaaaaagh—!!”
A scream filled the hut.