Instant Logout Bypass! (bug or feature?)

I found a way to essentially bypass the countdown to logout. You can use it to log almost immediately to the login screen. I also tried it on the beta server and you can still use it, but it takes you to the login screen.

You do have to be level 25+ though.

Go to quit and start the countdown. Drop an Oro portal and click on it while the timer is going. It'll give you a message you've disconnected from mapserver. Then tap a key on the keyboard, like a directional key to move, and it launches you to the login screen right away.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Last time I tried something like that, my client actually crashed.

The other method people have posted was to use the /buycoh command. Clicking YES on the dialog that appears will bring you to the login screen immediately. The only side-effect is it opens a browser window to buy coh as well, which you can easily close. You might also be able to also use "buycoh$$dialogyes", but some people have reported a client crash using that.

It seems to have something to do with logging out, zoning, and losing connection to the mapserver.

You can log out instantly if you use quit when you've lost connection to the mapserver, and as far as I can tell, trying to zone (hospital, ouroboros, base, etc.) while the logout timer is going drops your connection to the mapserver.

So pressing a key "reminds" the game that it's logging out while "mapserver disconnect" is being displayed, to which it responds with by insta-logging.

I know this because I do it a lot when I am tired of dying on a character mid-mission.

There's another method of this.

type /buycoh
click yes on the dialogue
close the web browser window
log back in

This is MUCH faster than even the new logout to character select; it takes about 10 seconds to accomplish. Fastest way I know to swap characters.