Bugs, features, and oddities

Grrr and grumble.

If anyone is impacted, ie lost levels etc, please send me a pm.

Spor

sporaxis wrote:

Grrr and grumble.

If anyone is impacted, ie lost levels etc, please send me a pm.

Spor

I think I lost my Holy Avenger.

LMAO....good one Charity.

*gives Charity's druid/barbarian a holy avenger which is undroppable with so many goodies you can't UMD it even if you took rogue levels*

It's working...It's working...it's working....Lah-lah-laaaaaahhhh!


And have the drops been upgraded? I went to my usual haunts and opened a chest to find a +1 greataxe Normally I get 10-30gp

Not complaining though

Has anyone else noticed a bug in which certain monsters are not visible? Not as in invisible or hiding, but for some reason are not displayed on screen. The creatures can attack and do damage, but you cannot put cursor on them to attack (even though name of creature appears when you hit tab). This bug can be got round by going thru a transition then back again (hey presto monster appears) or of course by finding something else to squash and then get a cleave attack on the non-visible monster .

So far it has only happened to me with weaker critters.. but if it occurred with a more powerful monster, then it could lead to a bit of an unfair death

Yes it's happened to me and used to happen to me on Mysty too so may be a Bioware bug.

It is a BW bug - the actual targetable model is actually there but at a completely different location (and probably high up in the sky too ) so is a bit hard to click on. Happens more often with mobs, so probably very unlucky if it happened with a boss. Fortunately it is a client rather than a server issue, so if you are in a group versus a boss then at least others will be able to hit it. Only other way to hurt them is AOE attacks or get an attack of oportunity on them and then your targetting will keep a lock on them as wilth a normal creature until you break your current action. The highlight key will at least show you what the name is.

Yeah its a BioBug.

As Andy says, what seems to happen is that the visual of the creature is being drawn at some crazy coordinates miles away from where the camera can actually see, while the game logic treats it as being where its supposed to be. You can see it most clearly with some of the spells that have area targets, eg Missile Storm - cast it nearby and you can watch the missiles go rocketing off somewhere above the screen to hit the creature.

I remember a few sneaky fire giants doing it to me on Mysty... not sure if there was anything worse. Maybe a white dragon, once...

I also remember reading somewhere that you can decrease the chance by forcing nwn to use more memory although I can't remember where I seen it. I haven't experienced the problem since just after the last patch came out, however I play around with my config files on a regular bases so I have no idea which setting may have stopped it happening to me. I remember seeing on one server though they added a command to redraw the creatures textures in the area to fix the problem up. If I get a chance i'll see if I can find the source of where I seen these two different solutions.

Squeak.

...also seems to be related to trying to run scripts on the beasties while they are still in the middle of the spawn in animation. I think the spawn in animation gets truncated, leaving the visual for the body at rather an odd offset from its actual location. If you can list the critters you see it happening for, we may be able to tweak things a bit to make it less likely.

mykael wrote:

...also seems to be related to trying to run scripts on the beasties while they are still in the middle of the spawn in animation. I think the spawn in animation gets truncated, leaving the visual for the body at rather an odd offset from its actual location. If you can list the critters you see it happening for, we may be able to tweak things a bit to make it less likely.

So far only goblins and kobolds for me.... more often kobolds... probably about 4 or 5 times with them now.

Hey, just letting the powers that be know that Jaks is having MAJOR issues with traps at the moment. Whenever she tries to lay them, be they minor or deadly, they go down successfully (the lovely green square is visible) and two seconds later they just disappear. It happened when we were in Aran mines the other night, and its happening now in the goblin caves.
Phae even put a totally new trap in my pack for me to try and the same thing happened.

But this is even more weird. When I walk over traps that Phae has laid, Jaks sucks them into the ether as well! He put down a few to see what happened, and as she walked over then, they just went away. She didn't trip them, they just vanished.

Would someone be able to look into this? I'd really appreciate it!

LOL, Jaks has achieved Rogue Epic status. Traps flee in terror at the mere sight of her.

lol....that's not helpful Charity.

I set off a trap I just laid once, but it was a one-off so I thought it wasn't important (tricky to get away from when you are standing in the middle of it after it is set).

I assume it hasn't been a big problem before, or are you just using traps more often now? Is it one particular type and power of trap? Crafted or found?

I'm not setting them off, they are just vanishing. Its says its been laid successfully, and comes up saying "lost item trap" but its no longer on the ground. And the fact that I suck up DM or regularly occuring traps as well, is really weird.

I'm not actually tripping either my own, or the ones in red, they are literally just vanishing. I tried various types and strengths, and Phae put a brand spanking new on in my pack to try, and that vanished after being laid as well. He watched as I walked over one's he'd set and they just went away. It's like Jaks is a black hole for traps.... lol.


But a rogue without traps is no rogue.... *sob* and I've now lost about 8 deadly traps and over 10 strong/avererage traps in trying to figure it out. HELP!

Looking into it. Suspect an update may have caused issues

The Mad Hatter wrote:

But a rogue without traps is no rogue.... *sob* and I've now lost about 8 deadly traps and over 10 strong/avererage traps in trying to figure it out. HELP!

You didn't test this in the Goblin mines did you? 'cause I found those traps, the hard way, and died three times! Impossible saves and instant death!

It doesn't even say what the damage was (ie: Elemental, sonic, divine...) Just death!

No, those were not my traps. The traps in the lower goblin caves are always there, and they are deadly ones as I've removed a few.

Ok, problem sorted.

I'm back baby!!!!

All sorted, was a conflict with an item picked up effecting the Trap feats.

Being booted from the server instantly, Phae is in there but no one else can get in it seems.

Edit:And it is now fixed...False alarm folks.

Bloody gnomes.

Yes I was having some alone time with a couple of succubi ...


...Oh no wait, it was just a reset ...ahem.