Huge exploit!

[J-M v2.5.5]

You all know the occasional bug where the chat text disappears when somebody leaves (as far as I know, this happens randomly).

A few days ago I was playing in the Plains of Daragoth with two others. One of them left, leaving only the other guy and me in the server. The text-bug happened, so we couldn't see what we were saying to each other.

Next to that, all of the monsters in the maps (the tons of orcs, goblins, and trolls, everything) started ignoring us. They just walked around like they usually do, not responding to the other guy and me stabbing them in the throat.

This, of course, made the chests easily accessible (don't worry, there was no rare item in them and I took nothing from them).

This super-exploit could happen to everybody and I think it would be wise if the MS: C team tried to fix this for v1.01.

And this 'continuation' of the chat bug has only happened to me once, by the way.

 

[Kuroneko]

Have you been able to recreate it?

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

No I haven't, but next time the chat-disappear bug happens I'll see if monsters ignore me again.

Then I'll let you know.

 

[Crow]

I've had this happen many times in my custom maps, and it is usually happens when i have way too many monsters. i have to say ive never seen it happen with orcs though...


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[HomestarR]

I have experienced while playing solo, monsters tend to ignore me while I stab them in the back, it is only when I walk in front of them that they respond.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

That's also an issue, but not as I experienced it with this bug. They ignored me even when I was standing in front of them or wherever.

 

[dRkILL]

I've only experienced it once. Lanethan was in the game with me and we were in Thornlands.

 

[Raptor]

happened to me several times, although i don't think anyone but me noticed it disappearing - the ai also still worked fine, much like jm's experience, every time it happened when someone left

 

[Thothie]

I get it quite often, and it dates back to MS 1.35

In MS 1.35, it would happen whenever the creator of a party left the server - and this is why I told people not to make parties on my server.

It generated "Error 101" repeatedly in console with the developer on.

To recreate it... I think you'd need like four players, constantly joining and leaving a server in turn (maybe in parties). It happens regularly enough that you should be able to make it happen that way after a small amount of time (no guarantees though).

Ask any MS regular around if they've experience the "Chat Lag Bug", I think most all of them have been hit by it at one point or another, if not repeatedly like I have.

The console say chat, and amx_csay/tsay are unaffected by the "Chat Lag Bug".

 

[DarkWasp]

Fix it before the reset, or you might have to do another.

Ive had it happen in Edana.