MAR2007 Bug Reports

[HellsCook]

My MS:C HLDS cimbs in CPU usage until it gets to 70-90% then crashes. While its climbing, pings get worse. Memory usage stays about the same. Tried changing process priority and lots of other stuff, but cannot seem to fix it.

 

[HumanSteak]

Ok I know that's an old bug but I cannot take it anymore... I hate when you're not even being hit and get stunned anyway! Isn't there a way to fix this? Like the enemy attacks from a very long range (especially ice reavers), doesn't even register as if he was attacking you, but you're stunned anyway. Also, sometimes the enemy misses or you parry the attack, and you're still stunned! I think at high level areas we spend way too much time without being able to move... frozen, encased, stunned, stunned without saying anything like when pushed away by a monster. This is getting very old and frustrating.
BTW speed potions are useless... Been buying those everytime I saw them but it seems they got nerfed and it sucks...I can run faster without it than with it.

 

[Thothie]

My MS:C HLDS cimbs in CPU usage until it gets to 70-90% then crashes. While its climbing, pings get worse. Memory usage stays about the same. Tried changing process priority and lots of other stuff, but cannot seem to fix it.

Not much has changed in this MS.DLL, so there shouldn't be any *new* crash issues. The only crash issue that I see commonly is the No Free Edicts issue.

The new client.dll is a big change, but I don't think it's actually loaded with the server, just used for validation checks.

If you can turn the developer to 5, and get some idea of what might be going on in there when this happens, maybe I can figure something out.

Might also try using the SSE1 build, if your CPU will support it, it's in a zip folder in the dlls folder.

I am going to have to restore several moduels to their original build to track down this game_text issue, but apparently this issue has been in the build since FEB2007a, so I doubt it's related.

Ok I know that's an old bug but I cannot take it anymore... I hate when you're not even being hit and get stunned anyway! Isn't there a way to fix this? Like the enemy attacks from a very long range (especially ice reavers), doesn't even register as if he was attacking you, but you're stunned anyway. Also, sometimes the enemy misses or you parry the attack, and you're still stunned! I think at high level areas we spend way too much time without being able to move... frozen, encased, stunned, stunned without saying anything like when pushed away by a monster. This is getting very old and frustrating.

Some creatures use the old method for determining stun targets, but I thought we weeded them out. I'll go through it with a fine tooth comb again. The Ice Reaver has a really nasty reach, and may stun you, even if you parry the damage from the blow itself.

Best advice: get a good hat. Hats add stun resistance.

BTW speed potions are useless... Been buying those everytime I saw them but it seems they got nerfed and it sucks...I can run faster without it than with it.

I'll look into that too. I dun recall nerfing them, but the speed effect changed at some point, maybe I forgot to conform them to the new system.

 

[Gaz]

Thothie, can you confirm the New helmets and Troll models have been recieved? I pm'd you the links over MSN

 

[Thothie]

No, they weren't, but I'm grabbing them now. Hopefully these include a source I can use should we need to fux wid em later.

Kinda odd the Trillian didn't leave me a window with yer message, maybe I rebooted and missed it somehow. E-mail likely more dependable.

...ah good, yes, it has a source. Could use one for the Troll too - I know there are various modelers with plans to do stuff with him, or at least there've been a few in the recent past.

Umm... Hmmm... What, pray-tell, am I supposed to do with this straw hat?

 

[Thothie]

Hellscook: if you still have major problems after trying the other MS.DLL - I can rig up a version of the FEB2007a MS.DLL that shouldn't eff with anyone, but still report your server as MAR2007a. (Might stop some fx from displaying proper, that'd be about it. Only the SC.DLL has any effect on people's inventories.)

Gaz: See previous page.

 

[HumanSteak]

Antidote makes you immune to poison, but not the the annoying drunk effect lasting 30 seconds until you lose all your HP because your character is just goofing off just because of some poison that he's supposed to be immune to... Then when you die, you lose 20% small arms XP even though you're level 23.

 

[Thothie]

Heh, that's more than one bug - one of which is mentioned (odds are, you didn't actually lose the 20% xp though).

The greater poison effect is just the regular poison effect with the drunk effect stuck on via #include. I'll see about seperating them, or figuring a way for the drunk include to be aware that you resisted.

 

[Gaz]

Straw hat is by Ceruix Its a great low level hat. Even if it has no stun protection, it would make a nice customisation reward for low level quests.

I hate that only the Uber chars wear cool stuff, and everyone lower than level 20, usually just has a backpack ><

I'll msn you the troll source link (and email justin case)

 

[HumanSteak]

I don't know if it's an old bug but when I die sometimes everything that was in my hands disapears if I press many buttons of the keyboard as I die... And no, I didn't just drop it. I had a PFCK and a bone blade, both gone... I can't ask for a rollback because I have found a volcano scroll about 30 minutes ago.

 

[Thothie]

Actually, I've not seen that happen. :\ I've seen chars go to fubarb by mass clicking on join - but not by mass clicking on death. Maybe you have your drop weapon key bound to something close to your movement cluster? (Obviously, you should not be able to drop weapons while dead, but if you can, I wouldn't have noticed, as my drop weapon key is nowhere near there.)

As for the hat... The *only* thing I could think to do with it, is make it "the odd hat" that guy in Deralia has, and make it wearable. (I dun think I could make *him* wear it without altering the model though)

 

[HumanSteak]

It happened like 3 times by now, everytime I get angry for losing the wrong type of xp after death. My drop key is backspace, wich is real far from my control keys and where I happen to spam the keyboard at when angry Anyway, I don't think I would have dropped my both weapons and besides, It would have said "You drop pfck" "You drop a Bone Blade" and it didnt say anything. (I tested it by dropping something while dead and it still writes it)

 

[replica]

i found a pretty interesting bug. on foutpost i was using a bow with greater holy arrows. i forgot i had them and i just thought my bow was messed up. i noticed after what i was shooting at was killed by someone else id get xp. at one point i shot as many arrows as i could at a flayer and then i killed him with a sword and got 400 xp. another bug that ive seen, i dont know if this is supposed to be in the game, but i get stuck on arrows shot by elite archers sometimes.

 

[Thothie]

If yer near a wall, and you get struck by a jagged arrow (like those the elite's use), it'll stick you to it. This is, apparently, part of the game, but I admit it's a bit obnoxious.

It's also supposed to be that your speed is halved for every arrow that's stuck into you, but this element of the game seems to be broken.

That other thing you mention is a borderline sploit there. If you run into a sploit, please PM in instead of posting it.

 

[ITS'aME'aMARIO!!!!]

well it's just the buggard exp with doing however many hits to gain maximum exp...

 

[replica]

speaking of XP. the amount you get from brawlers is way too low. i usually get like 130-170. it should be at least 500. id rather fight three cave trolls than 1 brawler. same goes for sir geric he doesnt give nearly enough xp. i usually get like 600-750 and thats fighting him solo. should be twice that cause hes got so much hp, he runs, he does that annoying hit where you stop completely for a second, and he tosses you across the room. please consider raising the xp gained

 

[Thothie]

The meanest boss in the game is currently worth 800xp - I can solo brawler's at level 26 without even using an ice shield, so there's no way they are worth anywhere near 500xp. 200xp, at best.

Currently Geric is worth the same as Lord BS - since he's a bit meaner now, I can raise him a bit, but he isn't nearly as well escorted (he used to be the exact same beast, just easier to kill due to the traps around him).

You may get robbed of some of the xp you would have got off him if you used the fire traps.

 

[Thothie]

I shouldn't do this, as I try to avoid mid-month patches, but for those server hosts who have been demanding access to it, the troll fix is available here. Replace your existing monsters/trolls. This is of use to server hosts only; it has no affect if you install it on your client.

 

[replica]

brawlers are a serious menace even if you can solo them. and at lvl 26 it mustve been really tough soloing one without an ice shield(unless you used archery or magic from a cliff). when i was lvl 24 i remember only being able to kill brawlers with my gib. without it beating them in melee was an impossible feat. i still say they should give much more xp a long with the really tough bosses. you dont seem to flexible on giving people xp though but i guess i cant really blame you. btw thanks for getting trolls fixed

 

[Thothie]

Walk up, stun once with cal mace, hold shield up if blinded or stunned, brawler usually dies before he even comes out of stun. He doesn't have that many hp and has no armor.

Ice Reaver's are a lot meaner, more than twice the HP, and several times the damage and reach, and even they aren't worth 500xp. I do need an ice shield to solo those, and generally I have to sploit them some by getting them to wedge me some place - even then, there's not much left of me.

As for the troll, thank Gaz.

 

[evilsquirrel]

ice reavers - meet my fireball, with 29 fire magic!

thats the only way i can kill them :|

 

[Gaz]

As for the troll, thank Gaz.

Heh, no worries Sorry I broke it in the first place! ^^

 

[HumanSteak]

Can't pick up or buy dwarven bolts,
The dude at mines has double interaction menu like this:
Hail
Ask about jobs
Hail
Ask about jobs
[minor sploited noted and edited]

There's a few more I can't remember.

 

[pimpsta]

I keep losing my scrolls everytime the server crash! WHY!?!?! then I would reconnect like 10 times and still no sign of it. If I am about to activate the scroll and server crash.. THEN its gone forever! I lost acid bolt, summon undead, and ice storm. Also same thing with weapons! Thanks god I have 30 weapons in storage.

 

[HumanSteak]

I have 3 GiB tickets and none of them are giving me a GiB... I noticed some tickets works and some don't. As far as I know, only GiB tickets are buggard.