Reveal Vet Power not always working.


Snow Globe

 

Posted

Summary:
I know this was reported in the beta test, and I know this was an problem a few years ago. The Fog of War for the minimaps keep resetting after a certain point. It used to only happen in the shadow shards, the hive, of PVP zones as those were usually the last zones visited. With the [Reveal] vet power, the zones will not clear the fog of war. The power actually will reset these zones to faded or black status. Now with Going Rogue, characters are able to visit more zones and now can hit the new upper limit just by switching sides, and not including starting from Praetoria.

Bug details:
The bug stems from the fact that each character has a buffer that can hold X amount of non-mission zones. The problem stems from the fact that there are more non-mission zones than this buffer allows. I'm guessing that there are some buffer overruns related to this as the clear data is not saved.

On my controller that I've had since 2005, I've visited or been to the following non-mission zones:
Hero Tutorial (map data is persistent between logins.)

  1. Atlas Park
  2. Brickstown
  3. Founders' Falls
  4. Galaxy City
  5. Independence Port
  6. Kings Row
  7. Overbrook "Faultline"
  8. Peregrine Island
  9. Salamanca "Croatoa"
  10. Skyway City
  11. Steel Canyon
  12. Talos Island
  13. Sewer Network
  14. Paragon Dance Party
  15. Abandoned Sewer Network
  16. Astoria "Dark Astoria"
  17. Baumton "Boomtown"
  18. Eastgate "The Hollows"
  19. Eastgate Tunnels "The Tunnels of the Trolls"
  20. Perez Park
  21. Striga Isle
  22. Terra Volta
  23. "The Hive"
  24. Venice "Crey's Folly"
  25. White Plains "(The) Rikti War Zone"
  26. Woodvale "Eden"
  27. Fire Base Zulu
  28. Cascade Archipelago
  29. The Chantry
  30. The Storm Palace
  31. Pocket D
  32. Bloody Bay
  33. Siren's Call
  34. Warburg
  35. Overbrook "Faultline" revamp
  36. Recluse's Victory
  37. Sharkhead Isle
  38. Grandville
  39. Nerva Archipelago
  40. St. Martial
  41. Port Oakes
  42. Mercy Island
  43. Cap au Diable
  44. The Abyss
  45. Monster Island
It is at number 41 where the fog of war starts resetting and the [reveal] vet power stops working in outside zones for this character. On the test server I changed the order I visited and had different blackout zones. I still had the same amount of blackout zones however.

What this means:
With the addition of the 7 Praetorian maps (Praetorian Tutorial, NP, IC, Neu, and the 3 underground maps) that Praetorians that start blue side might not be able to clear any of the CoV zone's fog of war, and even have CoH zones "stuck". Given that more Praetorian zones will likely be added in future issues, the maximum amount of zones that can be buffered should be increased.




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Posted

I had the Reveal actually cover up those parts of the map I had uncovered prior to using the power. I was on my vigilante in the Abyss at the time.


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Posted

Yes, I noted that too in the opening paragraph.

"The power actually will reset these zones to faded or black status."




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