Lost Connection to server... In Emperor Cole's Personal Story

I played through Belladonna Vetrano's arc with NO problems, but when I get to Emperor Cole's Personal Story, I lose connection during the battle with Arachnos. I suspect that the problem is the sheer numbers of the Arachnos spawns, which I love though. I suspect that this is causing lag which ultimately triggers the mapserve.

the problem as was in beta was crashes were caused by the aoe attacks you get to use as emp cole, if you only use single target attacks you should be ok

Yes, I've DCed multiple times in it. Using any of the AoE attacks make my ping skyrocket, apparently the longer the animation and the stronger the attack, the bigger the ping increase. It could be done punching them out one by one probably. I think I'll just wait until they fix the mission, though. That's a lot of spiders...

I lost connection 2 or 3 times while reading the text at Monica's memento. I lost connection another 5-6 times trying to get to Sinclair, not having activated a single attack. I was able to wait it out every time.

During the Arachnos fight, I was losing connection constantly, but for a few seconds at a time (I wasn't aware of using only ST attacks, and of course, I wanted to try them all!). I lost connection during the cutscene, even.


At the final wave of enemies, I hit Zeus' Lightning, and it froze and kicked me out to Login. When I logged back in, Belladonna wouldn't talk to me, and I had the badge.

Thank you, Champion.

I got mapservered and booted three times on this last night, despite turning graphics way down and trying to minimize effects and AoE. The third time I was able to get to Recluse, but as soon as I hit them, something they did (most likely him trying to spawn his banes) locked me up.

This bug is really frustrating, because it detracts from what is otherwise a really neat mission, and a significant chunk of insight into Cole's thinking. The fact that it was present all the way back in Beta, commented on multiple times, but STILL made it live with the exact same issue is doubly frustrating.

I finally wound up autocompleting it. I don't want to single punch/blast umpteen spiders. I want to stomp and send their itty bitty pieces flying in all directions. Maybe we'll get a fix for it sometime, I hope.

I got serious mapserve errors twice and after a while it kicked me back to the login screen each time. It seemed to happen when I used the AoE and killed more than 4 or 5 people at a time. I knew I should stick to the ST attacks the second time but I was getting SO bored with so many Arachnos. I tried skipping straight to Recluse and killing him first but apparently it's a defeat all mission.

I agree with Kurrent. It's frustrating because the first time through I was very wrapped up in what was going on and really enjoying it. The second time the mood was killed and it all seemed pointless. After the second disconnect I just called the contact and "Completed" it.

Have a read of this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=290695

Basically, just alternate the 2 single target attack to get through the mission until it gets fixed.

I found I could get away with a couple of uses of Zeus Lightening but the third would cause a mapserver, didn't get a problem with Hand Clap or the single targets.
My suspicion is that its related to the number of targets - or possibly to their return aggro/ragdolling animations.

Given there seems to be different thresholds for this it may be that game settings/hardware are having some influence as to when the threshold is hit.

I don't usually crosspost but...

Well 50,000 bytes per second is bad for dial-up, it's pretty trivial in terms of broadband. Even the 388ms Ping isn't that bad. It's the lost packets (the red in the graph) that are killing you.