Level Shift Mapserver Crash/Reward Rollback Issue
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Posted on: 2011-02-01 19:52 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Sure. That's a great idea. Even if Support can give me back the rewards I should have had from last nights LRSF and can have my Rare Slot, I then need to NOT use my top two tier pets, making me effectively useless! Genius!|
Originally Posted by DePr0grammer
Everyone who has had crashes should avoid using pets that spawn pseudopets or other pets, and I'm confident they won't have any more crashes. I'm thinking it's a perfect solution until the devs get around to fixing the bug.
Also, spam everyone you know with this suggestion in case the fix takes more than ten minutes, because everyone wants to have their uberness now. :P |
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Sure. That's a great idea. Even if Support can give me back the rewards I should have had from last nights LRSF and can have my Rare Slot, I then need to NOT use my top two tier pets, making me effectively useless! Genius!
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Provided you're a Robotics Mastermind, you should be able to use all of your henchman with a level shift provided that you do not use Upgrade on the Assault Bot or protector bots.
Edited to add: and with a hotfix being applied very shortly, this may no longer be an issue.
Out of my 4 Rares crafted so far, only my Illusion/Rad lost his rewards from the STF. Crafted after LR defeated, then slotted. We then attacked the flier again, right before its defeated, it wiped our team in a mapserve. 5 of the 8 on team lost their Rare, 3 kept them. I did have Phantasm out as well as PA.
I petitioned the loss of all STF rewards, hopefully I will hear back about getting the credit back.
Hotfix announcement...
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Originally Posted by Avatea
URGENT! Server Downtime - Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Please be aware that there will be a hotfix for all live servers on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 starting at 1:30 p.m. Pacific / 4:30 p.m. Eastern / 9:30 p.m. GMT / 22:30 CET for a scheduled end at 3:30 p.m. Pacific / 6:30 p.m. Eastern / 11:30 p.m. GMT / 00:30 CET Thank you for your patience with this matter! |
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A customer support representative restored most of my rewards a little less than 24 hours after my initial petition.
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Originally Posted by Reverence
Out of my 4 Rares crafted so far, only my Illusion/Rad lost his rewards from the STF. Crafted after LR defeated, then slotted. We then attacked the flier again, right before its defeated, it wiped our team in a mapserve. 5 of the 8 on team lost their Rare, 3 kept them. I did have Phantasm out as well as PA.
I petitioned the loss of all STF rewards, hopefully I will hear back about getting the credit back. |
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If you are in a public area, your level shift may not be the one causing the mapserver to crash. When the mapserver crashes, anyone in that zone gets the mapserver disconnect. All you can conclude from this is that your level shift probably works fine and someone else probably crashed those popular public zones.|
Originally Posted by Crindon
I completed a RSF on my shield tank.. crafted the rare boost after I exited the map.. no issues.. within 30 minutes I joined a team that was running a STF.. completed it.. No issues.. went to AP to go to the market.. then went to stand under the atlas statue to look at what was needed for the last tier boost.. DC'd twice while looking that up. Went to steel canyon.. DC'd twice as well..
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If you are going to test something that can crash a zone, do it in a private instance.
Guessing they are patching it right now, so that's a great turnaround time for this bug.
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is it just me, or is that Download HUGE? (100 megs)
It's cuz they're rolling it back.
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I was that player, and I would conduct further testing if the servers weren't down. Hopefully, though, the issue's been resolved!
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Originally Posted by Master Zaprobo
I'd like to see some more info from the Ill/* you cite (who maybe was also using Phantasm at the time?) and the Elec/Elec Brute (who perhaps was Elec/Elec/Mu and had the Mu Guardian pet?)
My theory so far has seemed fairly solid (and is cast-iron for my own experience - I can run with all my level shifted bots so long as only Drones get the L32 upgrade and no other type) |
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How about, "If you are going test something that can crash a zone, you'll have to do it on the test server, because zonecrash bugs should not make it to the live server thanks to the rigorous testing process."|
Originally Posted by Syntax42
If you are in a public area, your level shift may not be the one causing the mapserver to crash. When the mapserver crashes, anyone in that zone gets the mapserver disconnect. All you can conclude from this is that your level shift probably works fine and someone else probably crashed those popular public zones.
If you are going to test something that can crash a zone, do it in a private instance. |
Call me a radical if you must!
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rollback isnt a hotfix.. its a rollback.. When they rollbacked in the past, they actually called it a rollback.
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Originally Posted by FitzSimmons
It's cuz they're rolling it back.
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This afternoon I received my rewards from both a crash at the end of an RSF and from a zone crash during a mothership raid last night. Make sure you've petitioned individually for your losses. It won't help that your team lead has petitioned thinking it was for all of you.
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Really? I heard from a very reliable source that the patch is so huge because of Honeycombs.
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Originally Posted by FitzSimmons
It's cuz they're rolling it back.
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Totally slotting Honeycombs in my alpha slot.
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Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
Really? I heard from a very reliable source that the patch is so huge because of Honeycombs.
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Patch is a lot quicker to download on test, then copy & rename to CoH. Warning: unsupported and risky.
By logging to test I can confirm that the upper two alpha tiers are still in the game. Not immediately obvious what did actually change in the patch though.
I take it the server status on the website isn't to be trusted? It shows everything up but nothing shows in the game.
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Mine shows everythin' down...
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Originally Posted by Global_DJB
I take it the server status on the website isn't to be trusted? It shows everything up but nothing shows in the game.
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well hot fix seems to have fixed it but only time will tell, I did notice that i get more of a slide show in some of the STF missions, BUT this is a snowbound/ice day and the problem could be weather related
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I think they managed it quite nice.
They must of tried to find a solution to the problem then when all their options failed and time was ticking, they decided to roll back.
Good job, from my perspective!
Why don't you whining guys try other games for a change and see how an issue takes weeks to be addressed, or, in the case of a micro-payment game, even months, IF it is ever solved, because money-demanding patches always have priority.
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The release was not rolled back.. they actually did find a solution and patched it.
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Originally Posted by nemaca
I think they managed it quite nice.
They must of tried to find a solution to the problem then when all their options failed and time was ticking, they decided to roll back. |
The hotfix solved the issue indeed and no rollback was required. We may encounter network issues due to the weather conditions in Texas though but we'll let you all know if that were to be taken into consideration.
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It's like someone told me that Duke Nukem Fornever was coming out for reals or something.
I slotted my Total Radial Revamp after an extrememly fun STF with no real lag problems on my Fire/Fire Tanker. Later in the day, I ran a tip mission with the boost slotted, and I did notice a little lag, but I assumed it was my system reacting badly to the heat (I'm Australian and play on a laptop, so hot weather happens in February and really cuts into my performance). No mapserving or crashing, though there was one point where the game froze up for a couple of seconds.
I did notice one other thing, though. When I used Burn, the first tick of the DoT wasn't being credited to me. The upfront damage was in orange, but the first DoT tick was always in grey. I thouhgt it was a little odd, but now I hear that level-shifted pets are causing problems for other people and I thought they might be related.