Halloween Event now on Test!
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Posted on: 2010-10-14 09:49 in The Global Training Room Test Server
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The Halloween tip is a Treat, same as the costume salvage and costume powers. Keep trying; you'll get it eventually. It's called "Whispered Rumor", or has a pumpkin/Jack-o-Lantern for an icon.
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Originally Posted by Silas_Dark
The Halloween Tip Mission isn't showing up for me at all.
When I activate a Costume Power, and defeat several Trick-or-Treat enemies, at some point I get the "Tip Found" message, but there are no Tip Missions listed under Contacts | Tips at all (not even the usual "tip info" contact). This is a level 50 Hero that's been sitting on the Test Server for several months. I've never done any Tip or Alignment Missions with this character (on Test), but I have taken the same character through the entire Hero -> Vigilante -> Villain -> Rogue -> Hero arc on Pinnacle. |
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Quoting this so it won't go unnoticed. |
Originally Posted by Heronator
Doing a little more testing, it seems that credit is not being earned towards the Zombie Apocalypse badges (at least the ones for defeating minions and lieutenants). Soling the apocalypse, tried fighting zombies in Grandville and Cap, and after going through several waves of zombies in both locales, the character (level 50 villain, never side-switched) does not have a single point of credit towards either.
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BUG: Neither collecting costume powers nor defeating zombies seem to be counting toward their respective badges. The Dark Banner event should also be checked to see if it's giving badge credit.
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Okay, good to know.|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I believe the use of the singular was on purpose. There is only one Halloween Tip Mission. When the reward menu is working correctly, you'll have to do the same mission four times to earn all the rewards.
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Interesting, also. The text and tone of the mission complete kind of feels like it's hanging, waiting for a next chapter.
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I checked, and it turns out that my character does have the Return To Contact "mission". However, there is no contact to return to, and no way to drop/abandon the "mission".
I did it on another character, and when it offered me the chance to do the Mission a second time, I just closed the window, and went back to ToTing. It wasn't too long before the 'WeenTip dropped again for that character.
I also did some ToTing in Praetoria. As per usual with lowbies, ToTing is a royal pain in the ***. Spawns can easily kill any character under Level 10, and any character over 10 without much effort.
I never recieved a 'WeenTip on a Praetorian. I used: A new character made on Test, who hit Level 2 via the Tutorial; a Level 5 SS/SD Brute, a Level 10 KM/SD Brute, and a Level 15 KM/WP Scrapper.
Has anyone gotten the 'WeenTip on a Praetorian?
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Just jumping in to say I'm seeing the same problems with the Halloween Tip mission as others here: I completed it and it's stuck with the "Return to Contact" problem. 
I also noticed that I managed to get 6 different costume drops within about the first 20 ToT doors I did. Not that I'm actually "complaining" about it but did I just get very lucky with that or are they really supposed to drop that frequently? I simply don't remember them being that easy in previous years and was wondering if their drop rate was messed up somehow. *shrugs*
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I spent an hour and a half to two hours ToTing in a costume on a level 4-6 character yesterday. I got costume salvage as normal though the spawns still seem broken with many boss+lt spawns and such. A bit much for a solo low level character.
I never got a Halloween Tip. My question is can the Halloween Tip be gained by characters lower than level 20? I can't seem to see any information on that in this thread. If it is gated to level 20 that seems...well not a great idea.
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Were you on a single faction team, or a mixed one? Don't forget that this is the first event since Vigilantes and Rogues were added to the game, along with the tweaked badges to avoid duplication, so the event badges might be a little messed up right now.
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Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
Quoting this so it won't go unnoticed.
BUG: Neither collecting costume powers nor defeating zombies seem to be counting toward their respective badges. The Dark Banner event should also be checked to see if it's giving badge credit. |
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At the time of making that post, I had not personally noticed those bugs. Both were mentioned by Heronator, one in Beta Testers, and the other in the post I quoted. I just felt it important to bring attention to possible bugs.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Were you on a single faction team, or a mixed one? Don't forget that this is the first event since Vigilantes and Rogues were added to the game, along with the tweaked badges to avoid duplication, so the event badges might be a little messed up right now.
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Just now, I've noticed that a Praetorian Brute of mine does not have any progress bars for costumes earned, or a progress bar for the few zombies I defeated while an attack was taking place in Imperial City.
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I wonder if that's because the game doesn't give Praetorians a blue or red flag until 20?
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That would be kinda sucky. I don't think there are faction-specific badges for the costume power and zombie apocalypse badges, so there's no reason WHY that should be applicable. Besides, I AM being given credit for the ToT spawns I defeat.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I wonder if that's because the game doesn't give Praetorians a blue or red flag until 20?
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Also, I think Heronator noticed the lack of badge progress credit while playing a villain. I'm about to hop on a hero and see what's up. It could very well be that nobody is being given credit for costume powers and zombie apocalypse NPCs.
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I don't mean it's intentional - I mean it might be an oversight from the devs when they were working on the tweaked badge system for GR.
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Since no progress bars appeared for the hero I was just on either, I'd venture to say it's bigger than just Praetoria.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I don't mean it's intentional - I mean it might be an oversight from the devs when they were working on the tweaked badge system for GR.
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CONFIRMED BUG: players are not earning credit toward the costume power or Zombie Apocalypse badges. No progress bars appear when a costume is earned or a zombie is defeated, and no badge was awarded when a Praetorian character earned her 10th costume power.
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We've had no official word on this.|
Originally Posted by Jasmine Strega
I spent an hour and a half to two hours ToTing in a costume on a level 4-6 character yesterday. I got costume salvage as normal though the spawns still seem broken with many boss+lt spawns and such. A bit much for a solo low level character.
I never got a Halloween Tip. My question is can the Halloween Tip be gained by characters lower than level 20? I can't seem to see any information on that in this thread. If it is gated to level 20 that seems...well not a great idea. |
All the time I was ToTing in costume under 20, I didn't get the Halloween Tip, so, I'm guessing you need to be 20+ to get it. Dedicated badgers will probably have to powerlevel to 20 or join a team.
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I was wondering that myself, as so far I've only been testing solo. That also means that Praetorians are unlikely to get the badge, since are around post-20 to get Tip drops (assuming the Jack O'Tip Treat requires 20+ like other Tips).|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
We've had no official word on this.
All the time I was ToTing in costume under 20, I didn't get the Halloween Tip, so, I'm guessing you need to be 20+ to get it. Dedicated badgers will probably have to powerlevel to 20 or join a team. |
Edited to add: I just checked a spanking new Praetorian, and while I am getting badge credit for monster defeats, I haven't gotten credit for the costume drops.
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ok, I checked on my hero DS/therm MM lvl 50 +0+0 and i am getting progress on the defeats for the monster mobs from the ToTing. nothing on costumes, I do have a few of the badges for the zombies,but i got them due to people turning in salvage and spawning an zombie invasion.(on Live version )
I was soloing and also did notice the mobs seemed a bit tough(I was in PI),lot of mezzes.but my Demons could handle them.
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My 50 brute got the mission and had the same fail to get reward as has already been reported. My 50 widow has the tip. Both a new Praetorian (now level 4) and my level 21 demon MM who hasn't left Praetoria have failed to get the tip so far.
None of them have made any progress on costumes - the two 50s have not had their existing costume counts updated and the two Praetorians have no costume count. The monster counts are being updated.
The salvage drop seems to be higher than previous years (maybe just for testing?) but the critters are no easier.
Yeah, the ToT monsters are counting; it's the costume powers and zombie apocalypse enemies (and possibly the dark apocalypse events as well, haven't been able to check) that aren't counting for anyone.
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Or "native one, Praetoria."|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
native one. Praetoria. > native one: Praetoria.
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From that same line "different than their native one" should be "different from their native one".
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well i hope they get it all fixed by 21st, a few years ago there was a bug on mob spawns,they had a fix but could not do it as they were all busy with issue 1x at the time, so wonder if they will say they are too busy with issues 19/20.
Think they could have started testing a week or so sooner?
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In Nova Praetoria on a brand new toon created on test. The Zombie Invasion starts you get the eerie music but sky doesn't turn red. The badges for the Zombie Invasion defeats aren't counting. No Progress bar nothing.
The badges for ToT spawn defeats ARE counting.
The badges for ToT temp costumes AREN'T counting. Again no Progress bar on those.
Deadly Apocalypse event. The sky goes darker and all lights turn out as is normal for this event. The Timer doesn't even show in Nav until you get close to a Banner. Doesn't matter which area you are in: Praetoria, Paragon or Rogue Isles.
The badges for the spawn defeats around the banners aren't counting, no progress bar.
On a lvl 50 hero I had the Halloween tip drop and like all of the others here completed no reward table on completion. Tip still showed in my contacts with "Return to Contact" dialogue ran again tip disappeared.
I Futzed with the devices added time yet Clockwork still showed when original time ran out. I had 3 minutes left on my clock.
I logged in again on the same hero and after an 2 hours of costume ToT the Halloween tip didn't drop. I had cleared all my tip contacts out and all I got was ordinary tips.
I noted that the Halloween tip drop rate seemed to be a little long. it took me over an hour of solid ToTing to get one (and yes I was in costume the whole time)
on a personal note I LOVE seeing the glowing eyes of the CoT in the underground tunnels. it reminded me of those cartoons of something spooky in the woods and all you could see were eyes. seeing the fiery auras on the demons in the dark was also a nice touch.
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well seems the mobs are balenced ,getting some for all badges.no tips other than normal
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I'v just done the new Halloween Tip mission, and I think it's very well done - the "magic" Paretorian tunnel map is very good - I can totally see it being used in the MA a lot too.
The biggest bug with the mission seems to be not getting anything at the end - I got the mission complete message and "exit" button, and when I checked the Tip tab, the Halloween Tip said "Return to Contact" - but the "Investigate" button was still active too, and clicking that just brought up the opening text window of the mission again, and I was able to reselect it - so right now, it seems to be on an endless loop where you can select it, play it, complete it and then select it again, with no rewards available.
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Meanwhile, back in Reality, it would be nice to hear how work is going on fixing these issues. However, after the recent deluge of Red Name replies in both the Can't Copy Characters and Keep Being Logged Out Of Forum threads, I expect the same thing here.
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The Halloween Tip Mission isn't showing up for me at all.
When I activate a Costume Power, and defeat several Trick-or-Treat enemies, at some point I get the "Tip Found" message, but there are no Tip Missions listed under Contacts | Tips at all (not even the usual "tip info" contact).
This is a level 50 Hero that's been sitting on the Test Server for several months. I've never done any Tip or Alignment Missions with this character (on Test), but I have taken the same character through the entire Hero -> Vigilante -> Villain -> Rogue -> Hero arc on Pinnacle.
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