Team Window Zone Bug
By
Cobalt Azurean,
Posted on: 2011-07-08 10:28 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Yes, it's been reported numerous times in numerous threads under numerous conditions.
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"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
I've been having this problem on Virtue since the last patch. Had problems with the arrow disappearing on the map for other players, but not the name blacking out.
Sometimes Arrows still don't show up on the map for other team members who are on the map, but now their name is blacked out as if in another zone while it says they are on the mission map.
The problem is random. I play with my wife, sometimes it happens on her machine sometimes on mine. I.e. sometimes I don't show up on her computer but her arrow and name shows up on mine, sometimes it's the other way around. On larger teams the names that black out and arrows that don't show up are random. This suggests that it's a client side problem.
Just two more cents...I hope this can be addressed quickly since I've started my first empath....as you can imagine, it gets very difficult to track your teammates' health if you can't monitor the listing. 
it's happening everywhere I think. I am on Virtue and a few days ago I was on a league preparing to do a BAF. We were waiting on one player to zone and after a while the league asked if the individual was coming or not.... turned out not only was the player IN ZONE he was standing right next to the leader.
Did the Sutter TF and Kal SF on Friday with SG members and some PUG players we invited and had the same issue there. Player that were on mission maps but still showed as being outside somewhere and no green triangle on the mini map.
I have also seen it multiple time while duoing with a good friend. And it has occurred during tip missions, newspaper missons, on one mayhem mission we ran and mission from zone contacts. Now usually if my friend leaves the mission and returns it clears up but OBVIOUSLY that is not an option on a BAF trial unless you crash or log off and back on.
So you see its happening just about anywhere and on any kind of mission you can imagine and has been reported. I am sure they areworking to figure out why and on how to correct it. Until then we just have to cope with it.
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It's in the known issues thread:
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The workaround, for now, is to pass the star. Just pass it to someone (and have them pass it right back if you want to keep the current leader.) This appears to fix the team display window.
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I don't venture outside my home server forum much, so I'm not savvy in where to post bugs and things, this seemed like the correct place.
Has anyone else been having this issue recently? I think I've only had it occur while doing tip missions (no task forces or leagues) since issue 20.5, but it occurs during almost every single one I've run. The bug seems to be that the client never receives notice that a teammate ever entered the mission map, and appears in the team window to still be loading in. However, as you can see in the picture, this is not the case. I was SO glad to see a patch yesterday morning, expecting this bug to be fixed, but I was let down.
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