Oh dear, lost my cape!
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Hyperstrike,
Posted on: 2010-05-05 11:06 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Pics please. Show us the cape on your second slot and the message from the city rep.
Remember that the Cape Mission status was reset when they updated the cape mission, so that even though you had already done the old cape mission, you will get prompted to do it again. Though I've not heard of people losing their previously earned capes.
I always do the mission, but very few of my characters wear capes, so I likely wouldn't have noticed if this did happen.
Did they drop the boring history tour?
Did you pick a costume option on that slot that is not cape friendly? I can't remember if you can use capes with say, trenchcoats or wings.
We don' need no stinkin' signatures!
I noticed something else when I was taking pictures. The cape isn't slot-specific. It's mantle and gender specific. The cape works on all three slots if, and only if, the toon is male and using the high collar mantle. This is significant because the slot I had the cape on already was male and had a high collar mantle. The other two slots were female and had no cape.
Unfortunately, I noticed the picture quality was very bad after I uploaded them. If it's too bad to see what's going on, let me know and I'll take new screnshots.
Here is the toon on the slot that already had the cape.
Here is the tailor screen, trying to get a full mantle cape with male sex selected. Only Valkyrie is available.
Here is the tailor screen, showing that all cape options are available on a male using high collar mantle.
Here is the same toon at the tailor screen, trying to get a high collar cape as a female. Only Basic, Arcane, and Valkyrie are availble.
Here is the same as above trying to get a full mantle. Only Valkyrie is available again.
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Ah, thanks. That's a helpful clue. I thought the only new i17 missions were those new 20-29 arcs and the taskforce update, so it's good to know there's more new content, too!|
Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
Remember that the Cape Mission status was reset when they updated the cape mission, so that even though you had already done the old cape mission, you will get prompted to do it again.
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Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg
Did you pick a costume option on that slot that is not cape friendly? I can't remember if you can use capes with say, trenchcoats or wings.
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the cape missions were changed back in i16.
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Ah, in that case there is still something fishy about getting it again. This toon is only a few months old.
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Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
the cape missions were changed back in i16.
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Sorry for double post, but could anyone please take a look at the pics and either confirm or debunk this as a bug? Or let me know if there is any more useful information I could provide.
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Originally Posted by thehallows
Sorry for double post, but could anyone please take a look at the pics and either confirm or debunk this as a bug? Or let me know if there is any more useful information I could provide.
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Originally Posted by thehallows
Here is the toon on the slot that already had the cape.
Here is the tailor screen, trying to get a full mantle cape with male sex selected. Only Valkyrie is available. Here is the tailor screen, showing that all cape options are available on a male using high collar mantle. Here is the same toon at the tailor screen, trying to get a high collar cape as a female. Only Basic, Arcane, and Valkyrie are availble. Here is the same as above trying to get a full mantle. Only Valkyrie is available again. |
Unless I'm mistaken, you can use the magic and valkyrie capes because you PAID for them. I believe that these capes are granted independent of the cape mission and can be used before reaching level 20. (I'm not at my home computer to check.)
Your screenshot proving that the old costume has capes uses a high collar one from the magic pack. The screenshot showing capes available lists as the back detail "High Collar" i.e. the magic pack cape. Unless I'm misremembering, nothing in your screenshots indicates that you ever unlocked standard capes. Is it possible that you have NOT done the cape mission on this character? Maybe your friend who remembers doing the mission with you is mistaken about which CHARACTER.
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That is my first impression too.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
hmm....
I see a pattern there, in the toon who has a cape and the other ones trying to get various types of capes. I might be mis-remembering how the different capes work, but I THINK you *DO NOT* have capes unlocked. Unless I'm mistaken, you can use the magic and valkyrie capes because you PAID for them. I believe that these capes are granted independent of the cape mission and can be used before reaching level 20. (I'm not at my home computer to check.) Your screenshot proving that the old costume has capes uses a high collar one from the magic pack. The screenshot showing capes available lists as the back detail "High Collar" i.e. the magic pack cape. Unless I'm misremembering, nothing in your screenshots indicates that you ever unlocked standard capes. Is it possible that you have NOT done the cape mission on this character? Maybe your friend who remembers doing the mission with you is mistaken about which CHARACTER. |
The other possibility is that they fixed the "cape unlock" so that you cannot access the regular capes using the Valkyrie / Magic Pack unlocks until you do the cape mission now; previously you could use all capes with the Valkyrie / Magic Pack from level 1.
Didn't Zombie Man have a cape inconsistency bug list?
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That's exactly my point. That's why you can see that when the toon is female, I can get the magic and Valkyrie capes, but as shown |
Originally Posted by Ironblade
Unless I'm mistaken, you can use the magic and valkyrie capes because you PAID for them. I believe that these capes are granted independent of the cape mission and can be used before reaching level 20. (I'm not at my home computer to check.)
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here, I only get Basic, Arcane and Valkyrie on the high collar cape. Then when the toon is male, as shown
here, I have all the cape mission capes available on a high collar cape, including the long cape with fringe that he is currently wearing. The options are only available when male and using high collar. I can't reproduce that high collar cape when the toon is female, because those unlockable options are only avaible when it is male.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
Is it possible that you have NOT done the cape mission on this character? Maybe your friend who remembers doing the mission with you is mistaken about which CHARACTER.
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Originally Posted by Katze
The other possibility is that they fixed the "cape unlock" so that you cannot access the regular capes using the Valkyrie / Magic Pack unlocks until you do the cape mission now; previously you could use all capes with the Valkyrie / Magic Pack from level 1.
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Originally Posted by thehallows
Sorry for double post, but could anyone please take a look at the pics and either confirm or debunk this as a bug? Or let me know if there is any more useful information I could provide.
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You need to run the cape mission again. For some reason your actual cape status (not just cape mission status) was reset.
You can probably complain to customer service, but it's probably faster to just run the cape mission again.
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Thanks, mate, but I'm not here to complain. I don't mind running the cape mission again. I just want to find out whether there is a bug or if I'm just missing something. If this is a bug, I thought I should bring some attention to it.
I usually just do an in-game bug report when I find a bug, but I figured that support wouldn't believe me, just as several on this thread didn't believe me, which is why I brought it up here.
Would others agree that this is indeed a bug then?
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Originally Posted by thehallows
So if you're a level one with a high collar cape, your options should only be Basic, Arcane, and possibly Valkyrie - just like what is happening when my toon is female.
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Basic
Occult
Arcane
Long Cape
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DVD Edition
Valkyrie
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Basic
Arcane
Valkyrie
Okay, your situation is messed up. But so are the choices here.
Think I'm going to petition the disparity between male and female on this.
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Ah! You're right! This happens on every toon. Males with high collars get all those options from level 1, but females have to unlock the cape mission to get those options. I guess my friend and I are going crazy and I didn't do the cape mission. That is really weird though. I hope you can see why it confused me so much.
Ah not a bug good.
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Well...I would argue it is a bug, just not the one I thought it was. Is it really working as intended if females have to do the cape mission to unlock capes that males get from level 1?
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Originally Posted by _Klaw_
Ah not a bug good.
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I have three costume slots, one of which has a cape. I tried to put a cape on my third costume slot, but I don't have access to capes at the tailor anymore. I still have the single shoulder cape from my veteran reward, the high collar cape from the magic pack (though not with the extra options you get after cape mission), and the Valkyrie cape. I do not have access to all the other capes, the ones you get after doing the mission. I also tried loading a saved costume file with a cape and it would not load.
I might have assumed I was going crazy, and that I just thought I had done the cape mission, but hadn't. But my second costume slot still has the cape, and my friend who I did the mission with remembers doing it with me. He hasn't lost his cape, and he even tried deleting his cape costume, then going back to get one again and he definitely still has access.
Oddly enough, this is only on one toon. All my other toons that have done their cape missions still have full access to capes.
When I go to City Representative, she gives me the cape mission again, so I'm going to run through it again when I have some time and see what happens. If I get my cape back after the mission, then I don't really mind, but I thought I should bring up this problem on the forum.