TPN League Disconnect/Instance Bug

Tonight my TPN league was about to fight Maelstrom for the last time when the entire league mapservered. A lot of us couldn't log into our characters for a good 5 minutes. We got messages saying that they were still logging out. Once we logged back in and clicked on Rejoin in the LFG window, it put us into someone's level 36 mission with them. The second time it put us onto another person's mission, this time at level 6.

I can only imagine their surprise to find a bunch of Incarnates had invaded their mission.

Were you with us on Triumph? Same thing happened to us.

IIRC, something similar happened when issue 20 launched. People would queue up for BAFs and Lambdas, only to find themselves in someone else's mission.

Just another instance of the LFG queue being screwy.

Had a second instance happen on Triumph, just curious, we had EVERYONE INSIDE for the last building before the final fight with Mael. Anyone else have this tactic going on for the mass DC/unable to log on bug?

All players were instructed to be inside the building immediately prior to the trial crash. I can't say who was outside or in the hospital, but the plan was for everyone to be inside.

Happened again on Champion. League wide crash just before the final fight with Maelstrom. Used the strategy that ignores Telepathists outside...

...Now I'm in a mission with some level 22s.

This *just* happened to a TPN I was hosting on Virtue. I was personally outside the building when everything mapserved.

Error Code: 1065972337

This happened to me, once yesterday and 2 times today.

Server Virtue, I was with my character Condor Azul

Just saw two leagues in a row get this bug on Freedom, both near the 250 PO bits. Considering the last lil patch did nothing to TPN (I think?) how did it manage to get totally broken? Is it the usually 'wait till next week for a fix'? Since obviously one of teh new major bits of content being broken doesnt deserve a quick fix..

Even worse, it seems that after the crash, people can not log in those toons for some time.

We did the TPN today on Zukunft (with the "all players into the building" / "ignore the telepathists" strategy), and it went well with no crash at all.

10joy

This just happened to my league on Justice. When I tried to log back in I made it to the character select screen and chose my character. When I tried to enter the game I got instantly kicked back to the log in screen. A pop-up appeared and said I have been kicked.

I restarted the NCLauncher and restarted the game and it fixed it then found out the rest of the league was also kicked and we logged into a lvl 11 mission another player was running. When we all exited we we found out that we were all rolled back so we earned nothing.

Oh, the swearing that echoed around my flat just now when this happend. 36 minutes of trialing for nothing. I'm glad to ehar it's only about 5 mins until i can log back in on Casey, but this blows chunks of satan's bottom squeexings IMO.

Eco

Quote:

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

It happened to me, too. TWICE. In the same NIGHT. All that hard work ruined, on the LAST BOSS. I literally cried.

Devs, I know you're busy with i22 coming up, but you seriously need to take a look into what's causing these mapserves at that specific point in the trial. Please?

This is NOT my workaround, but try this.

You need someone with Incandescence.

Yes, there is actually a use for it.

When you're on the last 500 points of Public Opinion section, you need someone outside with Incandescence. The far NW corner of the map was used the other night. As soon as you get to 500 PO, then the person with Incandescence fires it and teleports the entire league to that NW corner.

The league I was on on Tuesday night did this and we made it to the end.

As far as details to the strategy go, you're on your own, sorry. I didn't come up with it, but it did seem to work, YMMV, as always.

Good luck if you decide to try it.

:edit: Oh, and as a side note, when you are actually able to log that character back in after a Mapservered TPN? Make sure you go to the LFG and leave the event you're in. That little status flag was playing havoc with trials forming for days afterwards, as the characters that'd crashed were still flagged as on a trial, causing fresh trials to fail to queue...

There's a fix for this in the latest beta server patch.

I have a hunch the fix will go live quickly, then. Anytime player actions can reliably crash an MMO server, it opens the door for a certain severe type of exploit. For example, look how quick the Winter Lord trial crash got fixed -- good thing, too!

Just an update, I was slightly mistaken, you need to be Incandescence'd out of both of the 500 point Public Opinion sections to avoid the crash, we ran a TPN tonight that way and didn't crash.

Hopefully this is of some use for people before any fixes go live for the issue.

Has this actually been fixed yet on live? I can't see any patch notes which specifically mention this has been fixed to prevent crashing on TPN.

No it hasn't been fixed yet, got hit with it Thursday night. First mass disconnect that I know of on my server.

Thanks to Aggelakis, I know about this. I'd seen the thread, but not really experienced this faaaaaabulous bug. Did last night, and was locked out of my character for, for me, the rest of the night.

Happened to me for the first time last night on Virtue. Character lock out lasted about 5 minutes. And attempts to rejoin last trial resulted in the beginning of the warp out to mission animation and then immediately aborted with a mapnotfound error message three times in a row until finally the option to rejoin was no longer available.

And it was precisely at the first salvo against the last Maelstrom fight.