They're now only allowing to have one Vet/Vanity pet out at a time. It was in the last Patch Notes, but easy to miss since they stealth edited the change in.
So, this was done on purpose. There has been no official word why, but, the best and most likely correct guess is that too many animated critters out, each with their own animations and AI, creates too much lag. And there are more vanity pets in the work -- the patch notes leaked, presumably on accident, that there's a mini snow beast and cherub vanity pet in the works.
Also, since this change, there's been about a dozen threads begging the Devs to allow the Buff Pet to be exempt from the mutually exclusive toggle rule.
Also, since their spawn can be made to be mutually exclusive, then they should let us have access to all the Buff Pets if we want.
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I can answer this one!! *jumps up*
Last patch info said it was going to make all the vanity pets shared toggle.
They also dismiss on "walk" or "rocketboard" when those are toggled.
(I think to relieve problems like the Atlas park crashes) So it is not bug but design -one pet out at a time. Multipets stays a class ability, I guess
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Pretty sneaky if you ask me. I too, liked having my little "cloud" of pets following me around. I'd pick them to match costume colors (blue/red wisp), character bio/disposition (demon/mekman/rikti monkey), and even included them in some bios (an alien who thinks the rikti monkey is an earth dog, and a demonic gunslinger from the old west who has the dark fairy that protects him in gunfights).|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
They're now only allowing to have one Vet/Vanity pet out at a time. It was in the last Patch Notes, but easy to miss since they stealth edited the change in.
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So no I'm not happy about the change, especially if it was to promote their new pets for purchase. I don't see how it could have put that much strain on the servers, I didn't see that many people with them out.
I now have 4 in-game "pets": 2 Veteran's award pets, the Vanguard pet and now the dog (and yes I DO have a German Shepherd!). Each time that I activate a pet, the active one dies! So, I can only have 1 active pet at a time. Shoot, I spent the Veteran award points and the rest so that I can have ALL 4 up and running at the same time! I play solo about 95% of the time and having all 4 seems like a team!
Am I the only player with this problem??? And if I am how do I fix it? And if I am not alone how do we fix it???
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