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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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I forgot to ask... I stopped reporting this after a couple of months. Should we still report this every time it happens?
I thought that this kind of thing was a feature, since there was talk of having random spawn-in points to deter base camping.
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Yesterday I was running the missions in Bloody bay and three times I ran into a disturbing problem...
When zoning in from COV I ended up someplace other then the villan base.
One time I ended up in the forest to the east of the base and twice I zoned in directly to the city, once with a hero no more then 20 feet from me!
Luckily I go in with shields up and managed to run, choose a mission and enter the mission door before he could touch me.
Is this a known bug?
/e bow
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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Yet another known issue is not documented at the Known Issues page.
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I haven't played with the PvP zones much yet so none of my characters have ever had a shivan shard, yet the random spawn is very common for all of them when I happen to go into bloody bay. When in a group that is zoning in everyone gets sent to a different spot on the map too. It never bothered me because I can usually get moving with my travel power before anything happens to me.
Don't be cross.
Known issue = Stuff they are actively trying to fix. (On the QA dept's plate.)
Known bug = Stuff that is on the list to fix. (Still in line at the Cafeteria.)
If they listed all the known bugs on the website, people would just get disheartened and scream more. Also: some bugs are more serious than others, and some are complicated than others... It's not like they can run through and fix them in chronological order. So such a list would undoubtedly frustrate people who see an issue they care about sidelined over and over as more important/urgent/easier things are queued up instead.
And that's why they don't list all of them.
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I believe it's a known bug... or at least it should be since it's been happening for at least 1-1.5 months now.
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It happened to me two weeks after launch, so that's almost 4 months now. I called it "forced PvP" back then since you were required to hit a contact in the zone when you reached level 15. At least they moved that contact outside the zone, so as far as I'm concerned I consider the random drop a feature now.
Rather than spending resources trying to fix it they should just change a couple lines of text; chopper pilot tells you "I'll try to drop you on the base, but if there is heavy hero AA watch out for the trees..."
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Yesterday I was running the missions in Bloody bay and three times I ran into a disturbing problem...
When zoning in from COV I ended up someplace other then the villan base.
One time I ended up in the forest to the east of the base and twice I zoned in directly to the city, once with a hero no more then 20 feet from me!
Luckily I go in with shields up and managed to run, choose a mission and enter the mission door before he could touch me.
Is this a known bug?
/e bow
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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I know I had the same thing happen to me the very first time I entered Bloody Bay. I managed to make it all the way to the person I needed to talk to then got the heck out of there. As I had never step foot in the zone before, I can tell you that it has nothing to do with the Shivan Shard power.
I never /bug'd it in game, as well... I was a tad busy trying not to get killed at the time.
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I think the way this goes is if you HAVE the temp power you get dropped in the right spot. That's been my experience, and seems to agree with the posters who are all saying "but I don't have that power"
This "feature" really needs to be fixed. People tend to camp around the dropspots and whack unsuspecting players as they zone in. This is not fun.
My first time ever into the zone I was ported right in the middle of the map. It happens with any toon on their first visit. I thought it was a welcome wagon to the zone:
You have 25 seconds before you are pummeled!
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I think the way this goes is if you HAVE the temp power you get dropped in the right spot. That's been my experience, and seems to agree with the posters who are all saying "but I don't have that power"
This "feature" really needs to be fixed. People tend to camp around the dropspots and whack unsuspecting players as they zone in. This is not fun.
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For fun, I zoned in to BB, and appeared mid-zone, made my way back and zoned out. I zoned right back in, appeared at the base, zoned out. I zoned back in, and was at a different spot mid-zone.
Never had the shivan power on any character at that point (though I did go around and earn it at that point, just for kicks even though I'm past the usefulness of it).
This was on a villain character fyi.
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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I think the way this goes is if you HAVE the temp power you get dropped in the right spot. That's been my experience, and seems to agree with the posters who are all saying "but I don't have that power"
This "feature" really needs to be fixed. People tend to camp around the dropspots and whack unsuspecting players as they zone in. This is not fun.
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Last Thurday (2/16) a friend and I both zoned into BB. Me first and then him. Both villians comming from the Cap. I appeared at the base and he over a mile away. Neither one of us had ever been to BB before, with any toon, CoH or CoV.
My theory is that those Arachnos helicopter pilots are lazy and want to get back to their game of rummy at the Cap au Diable airstrip--so rather than flying in all the way and landing, they just shove you out the door with a parachute and head back.
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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Hi ALexa, ty for the information. Please note however the villan in question never had the power or even attempted the mission. However one of my heroes did have the power...
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Every time I've entered BB on Champion (admittedly only a few times on my Mastermind) I've appeared somewhere other than the villain base. Never had a shard temp power before, during, or after this on that character.
Foxtrot Charlie, Merc/Trap on Champion. Was level 18-20 at the time.
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Ok is there a thread thats got all the known issues consolidated onto the first page? Obviously the Known Issues section of the site doesn't list this and many other issues and it's getting harder to keep track of all the bugs. Just don't wanna end up running a TF again and not getting a abdge and being told it's a known issue so you guys aren't rewarding the badge...
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Yesterday I was running the missions in Bloody bay and three times I ran into a disturbing problem...
When zoning in from COV I ended up someplace other then the villan base.
One time I ended up in the forest to the east of the base and twice I zoned in directly to the city, once with a hero no more then 20 feet from me!
Luckily I go in with shields up and managed to run, choose a mission and enter the mission door before he could touch me.
Is this a known bug?
/e bow
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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I have had this happen to multiple toons in COV. I have never had the shard temp power on any toon at any time.
I can also confirm that it is not related to the Shivan Shard temp power. My Mastermind frequently zoned in at the middle of the zone somewhere, and she's never even tried to amass the meteor fragments before. I was only out there on a plaque hunting quest. Not to rag on QA any, but if it helps them track down the bug, they can rule the temp power out.
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Don't be cross.
Known issue = Stuff they are actively trying to fix. (On the QA dept's plate.)
Known bug = Stuff that is on the list to fix. (Still in line at the Cafeteria.)
If they listed all the known bugs on the website, people would just get disheartened and scream more. Also: some bugs are more serious than others, and some are complicated than others... It's not like they can run through and fix them in chronological order. So such a list would undoubtedly frustrate people who see an issue they care about sidelined over and over as more important/urgent/easier things are queued up instead.
And that's why they don't list all of them.
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Then don't list any at all. If they're maintaining a list, it should be an accurate and up-to-date list.
If it's too embarassing or disheartening to list them all, then there's a problem here that goes beyond my being "cross".
oh. I always zone in random spots. I thought this was a feature of bloody bay. I've only been in on the villian side.
-k
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Yesterday I was running the missions in Bloody bay and three times I ran into a disturbing problem...
When zoning in from COV I ended up someplace other then the villan base.
One time I ended up in the forest to the east of the base and twice I zoned in directly to the city, once with a hero no more then 20 feet from me!
Luckily I go in with shields up and managed to run, choose a mission and enter the mission door before he could touch me.
Is this a known bug?
/e bow
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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This happened the first time I zoned into the map with my villian, before I new you could get that temp power. Speaking of which, any way of making those shivians lvl specific. Kid of dum fighting at lvl 35 and have lvl 15 Shivian monsters.
I always thought it was a "feature"...one that other zones could use, IMO.
Having to repeateclly travel from villian base in SC sucks, IMO.
IIRC the Shivan Decimator from the power goes up to 25, and it is after all a low level PVP zone.
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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I'll pipe in here:
Never had the Shivan Shard Power on any toons on any of my accounts.
Never had it, never will.
So, that eliminates that from the possible values.
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Yesterday I was running the missions in Bloody bay and three times I ran into a disturbing problem...
When zoning in from COV I ended up someplace other then the villan base.
One time I ended up in the forest to the east of the base and twice I zoned in directly to the city, once with a hero no more then 20 feet from me!
Luckily I go in with shields up and managed to run, choose a mission and enter the mission door before he could touch me.
Is this a known bug?
/e bow
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This is a known bug. According to QA, it's related to having the shivan shard temp power (there might be other things that cause it, too, but this is what they've been able to reproduce).
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As someone without the temp power and still zoning in at seemingly random places (usually closer to the hero base, rarely on top of mobs) I can say that there must be another factor.
My MM has never gotten the temp power and zones in the correct place around half the time. My stalker, who HAD the power sometime in November, always zones in incorrectly.