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"Fog of War" bug is back with access to more zones

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By all_hell,
Posted on: 2010-08-20 11:00 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I've noticed this on a few toons, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be the very last 4 or 5 zones you visit that will always reset to black/grey. (For example, every villain zone below St. Martial for my Defender.) Reports are going to be a little different for everyone. (So it's not specifically Nerva or Grandville or Peregrin that's the issue.)

And I send a /bug about it pretty much every day, heh.

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Same here, un-fogged all blue-side zones and after a few red-side, [Reveal] simply resets the FoW to the original configuration.

The OCD in me hopes very much for a solution to this bug sooner rather than later.

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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
/this.

It makes sense for a RTS, for instance. For the MMO... not so much (since even "in game," it would be logical that someone could, oh, *buy a map of the city* and find where they're going. Or look at the ones on the trams, blueside.) Admittedly it helps keep track of where you've been in missions, but for the zones themselves... not so much.
*snerk* So true.

 

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Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
City of GPS:

"Turn right at the Hellion mob."
"Detour around Freakshow Ambush."
"Arrive at destination. Kill Skuls."
As a GIS professional, I would find such functionality in the game awesome.

Or perhaps could add it.

I can haz job maybe? (bloody economy...)

 

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I agree that once you have uncovered the map it should stay uncovered.

 

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Ah, so that's what it is! Thanks for explaining it Turgy! It was doing my head in.
My undercover Hero cannot keep Nerva, GV and some others red side I can't remember now uncovered (he previously couldn't keep any of the SS maps open, but that doesn't bother me much as I hardly go there).

So far my bicurious Villain has only had problems with the SS maps and has all of the "regular" blue zones uncovered.

What is also doing my head in is the fact that my newly acquired Reveal power not only does not work in the SS as it also resets any portion of the map I may have uncovered up to the point I use it.

Needless to say, petitions have been issued.

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As a GIS professional, I would find such functionality in the game awesome.

Or perhaps could add it.

I can haz job maybe? (bloody economy...)
I fully support and endorse your being hierd to code a GPS system for the game.

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I'm not sure if anyone else is having an issue with there "Reveal" veterans power, but so far as a vigilante in the rogue isles instead of revealing my maps its doing the complete opposite... I haven't checked on any rogues, but Im assuming it does for rogues in paragon... I've yet to check if it changes if the toon completes there alignment to the otherside... Is issue being looked in to... I know I havn't read all the posts, but just wanted to know if I was the only one with this problem??

 

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Originally Posted by romansamoan View Post
I'm not sure if anyone else is having an issue with there "Reveal" veterans power
See my post above.

My petition has been responded with a message stating the development team is looking into this and will put out a correction when it's ready...

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They really, really, REALLY need to ditch the whoe FoW idea. With the internet, it's pointless, since it's easy to find the maps.
That is true, but goes for most of the content of a game. You could ditch exploration badges for the same reason, twisting plots, dialog, story, ... everything is on the internet.

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it would be logical that someone could, oh, *buy a map of the city* and find where they're going.
Which is likely why intact city zones blue side have their whole maps visible from the start.
Or was that changed?

And you can set nav points. There is your GPS.

(And before someone mentions "But you could see how the places LOOK on google earth!" : Even if Nemesis or the Rikti or whoever did not blow up or steal or corrupt the video satellites, know that some of google earth's pictures in our world are many years old too. Wouldnt help in hazard zones. )

Besides, I think CoX still goes as an MMORPG. And I like the RPG in that.

 

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Second-hand information: I've heard complaints from other players who switched from hero to villain side that NONE of the villain maps would retain cleared Fog Of War for them. I can't imagine how they had already reached the cap.
That's the case for me. My character skipped the Hero tutorial zone (Outbreak) but visited the old Rikti Crash Site, which is not in his list.

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That's the case for me. My character skipped the Hero tutorial zone (Outbreak) but visited the old Rikti Crash Site, which is not in his list.
I don't remember about all villains maps, but for my hero turned villain the following maps are definitely in "Fog of War": PO, Nerva, GV.

For my villain turned hero all maps in Shadow Shard, except of FBZ are black.

 

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That's the case for me. My character skipped the Hero tutorial zone (Outbreak) but visited the old Rikti Crash Site, which is not in his list.
I have a hero gone bad who retains revealed FoW for some of the zones.

I will say, this incarnation of this bug is better than the original one. In the original one, as you visited new zones, previously revealed ones would be forgotten. So you could go back to some zone you hadn't been to in a long time and find its maps "re-fogged".

The new incarnation just seems to max out and refuse to remember new zones above the storage maximum. It's still annoying, but I much prefer what it's doing now to what it did before.

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Oh, it gets even better. My scrapper gone villain has the villain zones 'fogged' again every time he logs in. So, one day, I figured I'd use the Reveal vet power to clear the map at least temporarily.

Not only did the Reveal power NOT clear the fog of war, it RESTORED the fog on the areas I had cleared just minutes earlier. um... lolwut?

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Heh. That makes me glad I don't use that power. When I got it I was all like "cool!" Then I realized I liked knowing where I haven't been in most places (even outdoors sometimes), and almost never use it as a result. The Shadow Shard is, I think, the only exception so far.

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Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
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Just wanted to drop a note that the Fog of War bug will be fixed when Issue 19 goes live.



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Just wanted to drop a note that the Fog of War bug will be fixed when Issue 19 goes live.