OMG bugs


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My client just crashed (perhaps NCSoft took the servers down), but today's patch has some showstopping graphical bugs.

First, the humorous -- a coalition-mate claimed to have a tentacle coming out of his toon's head. Yeah, I know, great for RPing a certain flavour of anime. But ... that ain't right.

Second, the OMG nausea-indcuing -- I don't consider myself all that prone to strobing lights, but, OMG ... a FF defender (yay, found one!) cast the small bubbles on the team. Upon entering the mission, they changed from their usual translucent teal to electric green, strobing monstrosities that nearly had me tossing my cookies. Upon exiting the mission, back to the usual, calming teal. Back inside the mission, instant headache. Buffs wear off, no more strobing green.

Third: the same bubbler's dispersion bubble, inside the mission looked ... warshade-y, dark purple, covered only the caster, with some bits along the floor. It did not look like the usual DB I've grown to love.

The game's not playable in this state.


 

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yeah, crashed while entering DfB


 

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Yeah, my Warshade entered Atlas Park, and my Gravity Shield's gfx had changed to look like a different power. Something weird was going on, and then my game crashed.


 

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inb4 rollback/emergency downtime


 

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it seems to be limited to atlas 1 only...all powers are majorly *****'d


 

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I love how it only happens to Exalted.


 

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Originally Posted by Severe View Post
it seems to be limited to atlas 1 only...all powers are majorly *****'d
Not just Atlas 1 -- the bubbler's powers were borked in an instance (mish location in FF) on Freedom.


 

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Originally Posted by BurningChick View Post
Not just Atlas 1 -- the bubbler's powers were borked in an instance (mish location in FF) on Freedom.
I stand corrected.


 

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ok so i used fulcrum **** and now i have a big glowing circle over my head..

hotfeet is now burn

imps dont have fire auras

one guy has a parachute on full time and i have no clue what power he used.

nemy staff is some werid gun on my hand

black wand is a bow now and sandsof mu...no animation at all


 

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I suspect more down time.


 

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Wow, sounds like some major PIGG corruption. Looks like I'll be elsewhere until this gets resolved.


 

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Pics or it didn't happen!


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Originally Posted by Severe View Post
ok so i used fulcrum ****
Awesome typo.


 

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Originally Posted by Doctor Wishbone View Post
Awesome typo.
Better mental visual.


 

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Snakes mission in mercy had interesting issues:

Ok picture upload fail but I had the following -

Mercs/Traps MM - two targeting drones, all pets covered in a bright tesla cage aura, MM was carrying two Viper blades.

dark/fire brute - fire aura powers were casting Dark Miasma FX such as tar patch and shadow fall. Voltaic sentinels were seen - two viper blades in hand.

Oh, and the snakes were packing UZIs...that shot arrows


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OK, I logged into Pinnacle and didn't see any bugs. I'll try Victory next, but what bugs should I be looking for?


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Originally Posted by Severe View Post
one guy has a parachute on full time and i have no clue what power he used.
pic?


 

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
OK, I logged into Pinnacle and didn't see any bugs. I'll try Victory next, but what bugs should I be looking for?
Blue wisp pet cause arachnoid arms to grow out of your back, blackwand is a bow, nem staff is... a thing you hold like a shield, and my ninjas killed someone with Aid Other.

That kind of thing.

Oh, and the hellions were packing rikti rifles.


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Blue wisp pet cause arachnoid arms to grow out of your back, blackwand is a bow, nem staff is... a thing you hold like a shield, and my ninjas killed someone with Aid Other.
That's not what I saw on Pinnacle. The Nemesis Staff was the same clockwork lollipop it has always been and the Black Wand was the same old evil trident. I'll check out the Blue Wisp pet on Victory, I think I have that on a character there.

Could this be server-specific? Or maybe client-specific?

*edit*
No, still not seeing anything. My Blue Wisp Pet came out as expected, though my Domesticated Giant Rikti Monkey seems to have gotten even bigger, but it's been a while since I've summoned it.


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Server specific. Definitely not client specific. All of Atlas was like that.


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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
That's not what I saw on Pinnacle. The Nemesis Staff was the same clockwork lollipop it has always been and the Black Wand was the same old evil trident. I'll check out the Blue Wisp pet on Victory, I think I have that on a character there.

Could this be server-specific? Or maybe client-specific?
Everyone in the same instance saw the same borked bubbles.


 

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
Could this be server-specific? Or maybe client-specific?
Client specific, I'm sure. I think I've seen this once before where the patch was misapplied on a large scale and caused visual bugs like this. The fix back then was force the launcher to do a repair.

I can't remember exactly how to do that... something like delete the check sum file, but I can't remember what it was called.

Anyone else remember this?


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why the fark aren't you all taking screencaps of this?


 

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I'll see your graphical bugs and raise you a "VIP status doesn't work on the Defiant server." That's no VIP content accessible at all from VIP Accounts when playing on Defiant, fine on Union!

Something borged the server hamster?