Known Issues with Bank Maps?


MrOsterman

 

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So I was just putting the final touches on "Little Girls Don't Pla Soldier" last night and when I hit the publish button nothing happened. I took out a few custom mobs (the lat map is all custom critters), and that didn't do it.

Then I swapped out the bank I have in mission 4 for a warehouse and presto, it published.

Is there a known issue with using the banks hero side? Now I tested the mission and it ran fine. I had no errors, and as near as I can tell I wasn't over on any of the detail limits. The map was one of the 4 that allow for two floor collections, and in it I put 2 Floor collection, 2 bosses, one patrol and one ambush. As far as I recall, the map allowed for all of those.

I'm not a fan of the warehouse so far. The two collections when I tested it last night spawned in the hallway half way through the mission, and I don't care for the flow in a warehouse compared to a bank.

Did I miss a known issue?


 

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I have had this happen also, but not just with bank maps. Are you playing the new edited mission right after you publish it? I have found if I don't wait a couple mins after I edit and save this will happen to me too. Even if I see the message that the mission was updated.


 

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I have had this happen also, but not just with bank maps. Are you playing the new edited mission right after you publish it? I have found if I don't wait a couple mins after I edit and save this will happen to me too. Even if I see the message that the mission was updated.

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I had just finished editing the local copy, and went to do the 'offical' publish as I typed in the last bit of flavor text.

And what rubs me is that the bank was the 'perfect' map. The mission had perfect flow and I did test the mission a few times... though with one less boss. I wonder if I dump that second boss if I can get it to publish with that map...

Of course with the warehouse I can probably find a better warehouse and add some more hostages to rescue....

Still..


 

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You might want to try one less boss. If I remember correctly the bank maps only allow a boss or two. I really like the bank maps too, I hope you can get it to work.


 

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It probably didn't cause your error, but there's a rare bug with small maps like the banks. If you have multiple ambushes/bosses set to spawn off a trigger, they don't always appear. There's a very limited number of spawn points in those maps. If you have one set to spawn in a particular location (say, at the back), and another set to spawn "any", the one without a fixed location will occasionally occupy the position the set spawn was supposed to take. This results in the preset ambush/boss not spawning.

I've never seen this cause a mission to not publish, though. In the rare times this bug occurs, you can run the mission just fine, but it might not be completable.