T_Immortalus

How can you use a laptop upside down?? o.O

We have all seen the pets getting stuck after a loading screen when they are "automatically resummoned".

I noticed something different a while back.
My Demons/Time mastermind, right after Freedom launched, never saw stuck pets.
I forgot about this until just a little while ago, due to having moved away from playing masterminds for a while.

I noticed something odd about those Demons versus my other Robots mastermind.
The upgrade power icons, when they were resummoned, were stacking for the Robots.
It was as if the upgrade power was either being used multiple times after each zone load or the pets were carrying over the instance of the upgrade powers from every previous zone load.


I think fixing the upgrade buff stacking will solve the pet freeze after loading screen issue.



Also, it could very well be that, since Demons pet AI seems to work fine, the stacking upgrades are possibly causing the pets to have "too many copies of the granted powers to choose from" and thus favoring brawl(whether they can use it or not) when the AI has trouble picking a ranged power to use.

Anyway, at least the sticking bug can likely be solved.



Edit:
Can a VIP please private message this thread to a developer, specifically somebody who will make sure it gets read by the right people and worked on?

Your signature reminds me.

The pets locking up after a zone load bug is still there.
It actually didn't affect my Demons/Time mastermind after Freedom launched. I think Demons are the only ones that it didn't affect.

The only difference I can see is that Demons, at least for a time, didn't have stacking occur on the upgrade that were cast on pets after each loading screen.
It seems that once the upgrade icons on pet buffs should too high a number, in the double digits, they just lock up.

It could also partly be causing the AI problems if it "sort of" grants them multiple copies of the powers from the upgrade, maybe making it a lot harder for the pets to choose "which copy of this power do I use?".

Anyway, it would solve the stuck issue likely.

When did Singularity get a fix for "gotta melee" fever?
I really want to know.


Which set do you rate higher, assuming SOs and without a secondary?
Gravity or Illusion?

I'm probably going to make one of each, saving Radiation/Time for another time when I am more willing to play a more risky character, or can free a 3rd slot.
Electric just looks a bit too busy, odd to slot compared to everything else I have played and much too low damage even compared to Illusion that has no AoE.
Illusion does have the nice Spectral Terror to keep me safe and debuff to-hit.
Gravity just has the coolest looking powers(especially Propel), one of the best pets in Singularity, pretty good damage and an AoE immobilize at least.

I just wonder which is best between Illusion and Gravity because I have 2 name ideas and want the best name for the best set.

I also prefer believability, immersion and open choices.
I'm also rather sick of the UI bloat and MUCH too many powers we have now. It's all a bit much for somebody who just wants to look cool while being super.

I'm 99% sure that you can buy them from the vendor without confirming your alignment.
I believe the reason for the necessity of confirmation for the morality mission reward was because of a bug with that mechanic. The vendor avoids that mechanic.

You could always login on a character you know you have not confirmed alignment for and check to see if you are allowed to purchase without actually purchasing. It would be obvious that you could not if it were so.

I thought changed/deleted pieces were removed if you so much as opened the tailor window, whether you accepted the changes or not. I think that happened to a few of my oldest characters when I went through a deleting spree before I unsubscribed for Freedom.

You need to enable geometry buffers in your graphics options. Your graphics card should have that function.
That will definitely help, maybe even solve the issue.

Also, make sure the option "show only free costume pieces"(or whatever the little white check-box says) is unchecked because it may hide things you really do have access to.

Ok, I'm even less decided than I was at the start.

I've been looking at the numbers an graphics for all these sets.
It is just such a hard choice.

Radiation = fast damage, defense debuffs, not much to boost survivability but damage is fun
Illusion = really cool concept and look, slow damage really, no AoE, cautious confuser, kockback in pet is bad for Time
Electric = built to mix it up in melee, good AoEs but low damage, less endurance issues
Gravity = really cool concept and look, good damage, knockback is bad for Time, repel in the melee prone Singularity isn't good for time, Propel is one of the coolest powers ever

They all have their advantages but all have disadvantages too. It's so hard to choose.

Odd. o.O

I noticed a weird bug myself this morning when at the tailor. I was rotating the character and it stopped rotating but played the sound still. I backed up to the body type screen and then back in and could rotate but the hairstyle I was playing with was stuck to the head so I could have two hairpieces on at once. I backed all the way out and fixed it. It never happened since.

Maybe the server just a "Colonel Sanders from The Waterboy hit by a baseball"(the noise he made makes me giggle every time) moment.

It definitely sounds to me like he gets stuck in a "petcom_phantasm defensive stay" mode where he would rather stay where he was spawned, like Spectral Terror, and not attack anybody outside the "defense range" of where he was spawned.

Here is a test to try. Summon him far from a spawn and lure the spawn in and see if he attacks. Also, try luring the next spawn back to where you summoned him. This may or may not be tough to do if he doesn't attack but still draws aggro.


Oh yeah, this is a bug, but I'm just trying to think of ways to figure out what is going wrong to make it easier to fix it.


Edit:
It is probably a bug with the Circle of thorns enemies though, and I have no idea how they could be preventing him from attacking, especially only on groups after the first group.

I was just saying their could be a bug with alignment changes and the SSA stuff because somebody reported one on the forums.