Issue 13: BUGS


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Posted

Server: Guardian
Zone: Talos Island, Atlas Park, King's Row
Character name: 2BeOrNot2Be
Time: Late Evening, Saturday Dec 7th
4:30pm Sunday Dec 8th
Location: Wentworth's
Bug Description: I can't seem to open up the auction house window. Everytime I try, I freeze for a bit, then I lose connection to the mapserver, and then I get kicked out to the login screen. I have tried /sync, /clearchat, and /unloadgfx to try to clear up some memory, but nothing seems to work.


Link to Forum Discussions:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....D=#Post12740239


Guardian Server:
Kami5 - lvl 50 Natural Dark Melee / Dark Armor Scrapper
2BeOrNot2Be - lvl 50 Magic Illusion / Kinetics Controller
EngiNerd - lvl 26 Technology Energy / Electrical Blaster

 

Posted

This bug isn't specific to any of the new features of I13. It's related to chat and binds.

I use binds similar to the following to manage chatting in different channels

/bind o "startchat$$chatset "Chat Channel""
/bind i "startchat$$chatset s"
/bind k "startchat$$chatset t"

Prior to I13, these binds would change the chat channel and activate the text entry so that I could begin typing (don't have to press enter).

Now, these binds do much the same thing, but they insert the character that they are bound to (i.e. "o," "i," and "k") into the entry box before anything else I can type.

For comparison:

Previously, I could press "o" and begin typing my message.

Now, I press "o" and begin typing, but there is already an "o" at the beginning of anything I type.


I've tried re-binding the binds, tried them on different keys, etc. Doesn't help.


 

Posted

CRASH when opening e-mail in base editor

Server: Justice
Zone:
Character name: Bo'Tanika
Time: 11:02 PDST
Location: Mischievous Urchins base
Mission:
Mission Contact:

Bug Description:
While editing base, had chat window up.
Noticed I had new e-mail.
Clicked to open.
E-mail window got as far as the outline, then game crashed.
This is the second time it's happened.
Auto Crash report sent.

*edit: Upon verifying files and returning to the game, I was unable to reproduce. The E-mail was sent from a spammer (ggggg-guess who), so maybe that is a factor.


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Posted

Server: Virtue
Zone: St. Martial
Character name: Clopin
Time:Around 2:30 a.m. MTN
Location:Outside
Mission: NA
Mission Contact: NA

Bug description:
After using/respec and respeccing my character I was"hit" by something. Still alive and standing upright I noticed I had gained debt. No mobs were present and I had not had any debt prior to using /respec.


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Posted

I did a search and didn't find any mention of this.

Server: Freedom
Zone: Any
Character name: Orion Force
Time: 12/7/2008
Location: Any
Mission: Any
Mission Contact: N/A
Bug Description: I think Inky Aspect and Orbiting Death are broken when used together. I just got Inky on my lvl 28 Warshade. I found a couple of greys in Steel Canyon and tuned on IA and OD and walked over to them. They were stunned but took no damage. I even put one on Follow and he remained stunned and did the "drunk walk" but never took any damage. I turned off IA and he immediately began to take damage.

Is this a bug or working as intended? I have never had a WS get to this lvl. It seems wrong that one power would cancel another one out.

Again if this is a known issue or working like it should, sorry, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Link to Forum Discussions: None I could find


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Posted

Base Editing Crash

Server: Freedom
Zone: Base, out to Shark.
Character name: Nuclear Tease
Time: 12/8/2008
Location: Any
Mission: Any
Mission Contact: N/A
Bug Description: I had been in base, editing for a number of hours. In and out of the edit window, in and out of the plot upgrade window. Finally I needed to craft a teleporter so I tried to zone to shark (as my cap beacon refused to link! ) I got this error. I suspect you really dont want me to call Cryptic up eh?

"City of Heroes encountered an error. Please report this to Cyrptic Studios on the beta forums. Thank you."

Assertion failed

Program: ...am Files (x86)\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Mon Dec 08 06:51:42 AM
Process ID: 2248
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.


 

Posted

[ QUOTE ]
Base Editing Crash

Server: Freedom
Zone: Base, out to Shark.
Character name: Nuclear Tease
Time: 12/8/2008
Location: Any
Mission: Any
Mission Contact: N/A
Bug Description: I had been in base, editing for a number of hours. In and out of the edit window, in and out of the plot upgrade window. Finally I needed to craft a teleporter so I tried to zone to shark (as my cap beacon refused to link! ) I got this error. I suspect you really dont want me to call Cryptic up eh?

"City of Heroes encountered an error. Please report this to Cyrptic Studios on the beta forums. Thank you."

Assertion failed

Program: ...am Files (x86)\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Mon Dec 08 06:51:42 AM
Process ID: 2248
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yup. Same thing happened to me.


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Posted

Server: Gaurdian
Zone: ALL
Character name: Green Don (ALL)
Time: Midnight Alaska Time
Location: ALL ZONES
Mission:
Mission Contact:
Bug Description: Friends tab is continually popping up after being closed. It has happened on all my characters since i13. it takes anywhere from immediatly, to 1 or 2 seconds for the friends tab to pop up after i close it. i even tried not touching the keyboard to see if it was an off bind and it was still popping up.


 

Posted

Eden Trial fails to award merits

Server: Infinity
Zone: Eden
Character name: Kid Faltine
Time: 6:30pm 12/07/2008
Location: Crystal Titan room
Mission:Final timed mission
Mission Contact: Woodsman
Bug Description: Released the captured Heroes then destroyed the Crystal Titan. 2 Merits were awarded for the Titan, none for the Trial. Exited mission, still no merits, called contact, still no merits.


 

Posted

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Base Editing Crash

Server: Freedom
Zone: Base, out to Shark.
Character name: Nuclear Tease
Time: 12/8/2008
Location: Any
Mission: Any
Mission Contact: N/A
Bug Description: I had been in base, editing for a number of hours. In and out of the edit window, in and out of the plot upgrade window. Finally I needed to craft a teleporter so I tried to zone to shark (as my cap beacon refused to link! ) I got this error. I suspect you really dont want me to call Cryptic up eh?

"City of Heroes encountered an error. Please report this to Cyrptic Studios on the beta forums. Thank you."

Assertion failed

Program: ...am Files (x86)\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Mon Dec 08 06:51:42 AM
Process ID: 2248
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yup. Same thing happened to me.

[/ QUOTE ]

Same thing to me, and as near as I can tell, it's happening every 128 minutes after the first time you enter the editor as long as you remain fairly consistently in the editor (popping out to check something and going back in does not reset the timer).


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Posted

[ QUOTE ]
Bug Description: Released the captured Heroes then destroyed the Crystal Titan. 2 Merits were awarded for the Titan, none for the Trial. Exited mission, still no merits, called contact, still no merits.

[/ QUOTE ]

The Eden Trial awards 2 merits. Merits are awarded immediately upon completion, rather than mission exit or calling the contact. So it seems that you got the reward and the Titan does not award merits.


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Posted

The Eden Trial awards 2 merits upon completion. There are no extra merits awarded for defeating the Crystal Titan to my understanding.


 

Posted

Level Pact plus XP Off switch

Server: Pinnacle
Zone: Port Oakes
Character name: Seer Skittle (Seer Keekee is the pact mate)
Time: 12/8/08 approx 11:30 am
Location: n/a
Mission: n/a
Mission Contact: Angelo Vendetti
Bug Description: Character is level 10. I turned off xp to try and get a badge mission before outleveling the contact. I was solo, but when my partner logged in I discovered she was ahead. I turned my xp earnings back on to see what would happen, and the Pact server gave me all the xp I thought I had given up by turning it off.


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Posted

[ QUOTE ]
Server: Virtue
Zone: Base
Character name: Johnny Raven
Time: Last few days
Location: Everywhere
Mission:
Mission Contact:
Bug Description: Where has my chat bubble color gone, in options it shows that it should be a custom color, yet ALL my toons simply chat in generic white bubble with black type. BOOO!
Link to Forum Discussions:

[/ QUOTE ]

Server: Guardian
Zone: All
Character name: @psynado all toons
Time: since i13
Location: Everywhere


 

Posted

[ QUOTE ]
Bug Description: Character is level 10. I turned off xp to try and get a badge mission before outleveling the contact. I was solo, but when my partner logged in I discovered she was ahead. I turned my xp earnings back on to see what would happen, and the Pact server gave me all the xp I thought I had given up by turning it off.

[/ QUOTE ]

That sounds like exactly what I would expect to happen. All the descriptons of the pacts would have suggested to me that the pact will enforce the XP level to be the same. As you discovered, turning off XP just suppressed the gains, much as if you were offline.


Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

Posted

[ QUOTE ]
The Eden Trial awards 2 merits. Merits are awarded immediately upon completion, rather than mission exit or calling the contact. So it seems that you got the reward and the Titan does not award merits.

[/ QUOTE ]

That's what the Eden Trial is worth. The Titan is a "Monster", not a "Giant Monster", and as such is not worth any merits.


Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

Posted

I tried searching and did not see this posted already so..

Feature Name or Description
Arachnos Soldier Muzzle Flash animation

Server: Victory
Zone: Doesn't matter
Character name: Yoctobyte
Time: n/a
Location: Doesn't Matter
Mission: n/a
Mission Contact: n/a
Bug Description: Changed my costume for my Arachnos Soldier, picked weapon C. Now looks like the animation and FX is not lining up with weapon upon firing.
Screenshots: GunFlash1 GunFlash2


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Posted

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Bug Description: Character is level 10. I turned off xp to try and get a badge mission before outleveling the contact. I was solo, but when my partner logged in I discovered she was ahead. I turned my xp earnings back on to see what would happen, and the Pact server gave me all the xp I thought I had given up by turning it off.

[/ QUOTE ]

That sounds like exactly what I would expect to happen. All the descriptons of the pacts would have suggested to me that the pact will enforce the XP level to be the same. As you discovered, turning off XP just suppressed the gains, much as if you were offline.

[/ QUOTE ]

Whereas I would expect it to contribute nothing of my earnings to the pact, and not level either of us up, much less hand it all back to me later. If this is WAI for pacted people, then it need to be made the same for non pacted people. Let them pool the xp they would earn and get it back after they do the content they want.

However in this case I seriously doubt it is WAI. I could take a pacted person into Dark Astoria, farm as much as I want, then turn the pact off and leap much closer to 50 in one fell swoop, along with all the benefits of the farming of easy foes.


"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill

 

Posted

I'm not quite sure if this is considered a bug, but This is weird...

(NOTE: I haven't read through the thread before posting...)

Server: Triumph
Zone: Port Oaks/Mercy
Character name: Mr Johnny D & Lil the Moll
Time: about 9:30 - 11:15 PM CST
Location: finishing Paper Missions for Atlas Mayhem and zoning back to PO from Mercy...
Mission: see Bug Description
Mission Contact: see Bug Description
Bug Description: When my GF & I logged this pair of Level Packed Characters (Both Thug/PD MMs) a few days ago, they were at Level 5 and and XP turned off and the 1st Paper mission done.

Finished Paper mission #2 and headed to the Door of Paper #3 (Lil's mission). I think we had maybe 2 or 3 bars of patrol XP and one Bar of regular XP. We decided to turn XP back on and then Enter the mission. I kinda noticed that the patrol XP seemed to go away just before I entered the mission. After zoning into the mission we had both been Leveled up to 7! We then turned XP back off, Finished the Paper, Atlas Mayhem, and the rest of Mongoose's Story Arc with XP off.

Before I Zoned from Mercy to PO, I had turned XP back on (We decided to run our 1st PO Contact with XP on as much as we could) and had about 3 bars into 7. Upon zoning back into PO, I Leveled to 8! My GF had XP off going back into PO. She turned XP back on, but didn't ding. It took her to zone from PO to Mercy (Both of us still at the PO Dock) to Level to 8.

We had created a simular pair on Test during Open Beta and had noticed occasionally leveling upon exiting a mission. We figured it must of been from rewards generated from a Co-Op finish. But what had happened tonight was just plain weird.

Link to Forum Discussions: N/A

Thank you for the time....


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Posted

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[ QUOTE ]
The Eden Trial awards 2 merits. Merits are awarded immediately upon completion, rather than mission exit or calling the contact. So it seems that you got the reward and the Titan does not award merits.

[/ QUOTE ]

That's what the Eden Trial is worth. The Titan is a "Monster", not a "Giant Monster", and as such is not worth any merits.

[/ QUOTE ]

However, the Arachnos Flyer in the STF *DOES* give 2 merits (and since it respawns, you can farm it - for 6 merits an hour). I wonder if both are working as intended, or if one is bugged.


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[ QUOTE ]
Whereas I would expect it to contribute nothing of my earnings to the pact, and not level either of us up, much less hand it all back to me later. If this is WAI for pacted people, then it need to be made the same for non pacted people. Let them pool the xp they would earn and get it back after they do the content they want.

[/ QUOTE ]

"Non pacted" people do not have a second character gaining XP on their behalf, and are not engaged in a mechanism which explicitly banks XP earned by that other party when the recipient can't recieve it (such as not being logged in on that character).

[ QUOTE ]
However in this case I seriously doubt it is WAI. I could take a pacted person into Dark Astoria, farm as much as I want, then turn the pact off and leap much closer to 50 in one fell swoop, along with all the benefits of the farming of easy foes.

[/ QUOTE ]

How is this different from leaving the pacted person offline or in some other zone while you farm?


Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

Posted

Server: Virtue
Zone: AP Safeguard, KR Safeguard
Character name: Purified Knight
Time: afternoon, evening
Location: weapons deal map
Mission: AP Safeguard, KR Safeguard
Mission Contact: see Bug Description
Bug Description:
Weapons deal produced no temp power on either map.
Could find no mention in patch notes, other than bank missions can no longer be dropped.


 

Posted

Feature Name or Description Double XP for time logged out

Server: Champion
Zone: Talos
Character name: Ebon Starlight
Time: 10pm Central
Location: A happy cheery council base
Mission: Defeat Nosferatu
Mission Contact: Sunstorm (my wife's mission, not mine)
Bug Description: Lost earned XP
Link to Forum Discussions: n/a

I died during the mission while 4/10ths of the way into level 41. When I rezzed at the hospital I was reset to base level 41, no debt, and had all the high end inspirations as if I had just leveled. So I lost 4/10s of a level. This is the first time I've played this character since issue 13 went live.

If this is a feature it really needs to make it into the patch notes. That way the PvPers won't feel like they are the only ones being picked on.


 

Posted

Server: Protector
Zone: Any
Character name: Pink Lioness (my main toon, but also occurs with my alts)
Time: Any
Location: Any
Mission: N/A
Mission contact: N/A
Bug description: Ever since I13 went live, I have been getting these infrequent "broken" tells. What happens is, I'll hear the tell notice, but in my chatbox will not be a full tell message, but instead a single or fragmented word in yellow. There are no names attached to these broken tells, so I can not even reply to them.

I am someone who never ignores a polite tell message, even if I can not fulfill a request. I would hate to think that others think I am cold shouldering them just because of this issue.


 

Posted

Server: Infinity
Zone: Any
Character name: Any
Time: Any
Location: Any
Mission: N/A
Mission contact: N/A
Bug description: Whenever I select my global friends list the list just switches to the global list automatically, it has made getting a team aggravating, I never know if my friends are on or not.