Red Directional Arrow On Map Pointing Wrong Direction...

Im going to try to go by the Bug Report Template -

1. Red Directional Arrow On Map Pointing Wrong Direction...

2. I dont know what reproduction rate is...

3. I dont know what a blocker is either...

4. The red directional arrow on the online-in town map is pointing the wrong direction on several maps of towns. Sometimes its just pointing backwards as you go forward, others like in Highvale Outskirts during a siege it was pointing forward when i went left, back when id go forward & so on. Its happened on several maps now, most were player owned towns but just earlier it happened on Highvale Outskirts & Nightshade Pass...

5. To reproduce it i just go back into the area it happened...

6. I assume by User Specs you mean System Information, if so heres a link to it - https://mega.nz/#!pLg0lIIA!vYCQi6-SfvwnLr266Jhr2AzGXzV0CyxYP-RnCjkFJWo

 

@Khalest, if you do /bug in game (or hit the bug report icon i the upper right), the game will generate a report with the right template, with a lot already filled in, and put it on your clipboard. it'll then open your browser to the bug reporting forum for the current release. all you have to do is create a thread, post in the template, and fill in details.

a blocker is something that actually keeps you from playing or completing the game. crashes, severe graphic errors to the point you can't see what's going on, broken quests in the mainline quest... things like that.

 

I did hit the /bug & i waited for a few minutes but nothing ever happened. You do mean type /bug in the chat box while were in the game like we do /stuck right? An i didnt see the info about the Bug button in the upper right among the others, im heading back in right now & ill do that as soon as im in an area w/the problem, thx.

Also ty very much for explaining what a blocker is...now i have a really dumb question for you...umm...err...how do i put it on my clipboard? lolz, ive seen that term before but evidently ive been able to accidently avoid using it or finding out what it means...

 

Your very welcome, an you & everyone in tech support are doing one helluva bang-up-job. I mean all new games suffer from problems & one like this that has taken on all the things it has to do. Then combined all that into a huge game covering, id say, the equal land mass of one & one half earths, which is 196.9 million miles plus another half earth bringing the total mass to 295.35, so about 300 million miles of territory. So...NO, you guys are doing above & beyond what any game company could even think about doing, let alone actually doing it, an doing it well & keeping it all pretty much in check, including continuously adding new content regularly.
An as for the other map names, i would have listed more but try as i might i couldnt remember any of the other names. I actually suffer from a condition called CRS...(Cant Remember ****) and it causes me to not remember things...
So as soon as i hear back from you & you educate me on what a clipboard is & explain how i post things to it, ill get you the information you requested...

 

- Twins Foothills red arrow is off (at least it is now after I died and re-spawned at the Ank, I will need to check if breaking the map nav happened due to death).
edit: this is really weird @Undone , i am sure Twins Foothills map has always worked. I exited and re-entered to check if my death disoriented the map navigation, but nope, Twins map nav (red arrow) is broken.

- The new map in East Vauban foothills doesn't navigate properly.

 

@Undone Bravehaven (PoT)

 

okay, reverse order here. when you copy and paste something, your clipboard is where the information is temporarily stored. copy writes to the clipboard, paste reads from it. you don't need to do anything special to write to it, the /bug command does it in this case, and you don't get any notification that something has been written to your clipboard, any more than you get a pop-up telling you you copied something every time you normally hit copy doing other things on your system.

...actually that's not quite true in this case; the command:

a: opens your web browser to the forum
b: generates a draft report which it puts...
b1: in your chat under misc, with some extra intro text
b2: on your clipboard

(hitting the bug button and typing /bug do the same thing.)

do you have misc turned off? you would never see it, then, but it would still be happening.

here's mine:


The following has been added to your system clipboard for convenience in pasting.
Please check the Shroud of the Avatar bug forum to see if your bug has already been posted,
and please post the following as a reply to an existing bug or as a new thread. Thank you
for helping to test Shroud of the Avatar!

07/09/2018 09:15
Title:
Reproduction Rate:
Blocker?
Details:
Steps to Reproduce:
User Specs:
OS: Linux 4.16 ManjaroLinux 17.1.11 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4430 CPU @ 3.00GHz (4) System RAM: 15993
GPU: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 4096
SotA.Linux.64.801.Date.07.03.18
Area: Ardoris
Area Display Name: Ardoris
Loc: (114.8, 56.7, 67.7)
Debug: QXJkb3Jpc3x8KDExNC44MzYsIDU2LjczMywgNjcuNzQpfCgwLCAtMC45ODIsIDAsIDAuMTg5KXwyMDEuODY1OXwxNi42MjI2M3wxOA==

 

@Undone and now i find that superstition canyon, that has always worked i'm sure, is broken.

07/09/2018 15:42
Title: broken map
Reproduction Rate:
Blocker?
Details:
Steps to Reproduce:
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8) System RAM: 16337
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (192-bit) GPU RAM: 1495
SotA.Win.64.802.Date.07.06.18
Area: Novia_R6_Hills01_SuperstitionCanyon
Area Display Name: Superstition Canyon
Loc: (62.7, 71.9, 219.7)
Debug: Tm92aWFfUjZfSGlsbHMwMV9TdXBlcnN0aXRpb25DYW55b258fCg2Mi43MjgsIDcxLjg4MywgMjE5LjY2Myl8KDAsIDAuMTIsIDAsIDAuOTkzKXwxMy45MzEwM3wzMS4xNzE3NHw0LjEzNDAyMg==

 

Brittany Alleys
Brittany Wharfs

..more coming as I find them I'll put em here, too

 

hey @Undone - for map issues, should we still be using this thread - or submit each one individually as a bug - for things like scenes missing a map, or the map doesn't match the scene any more, etc?

 

I've run into a few map issues recently and haven't been sure whether everything in the current spreadsheet is 'known' or if I should just post the bug, or what..

Perhaps it might be easier to start a new spreadsheet that includes a required column for a link to a forum bug post. Players would have an easier place to search than the forums or bug archives when checking if it's already a known issue - If it's already something you folks have a JIRA on, you could enter that into the same column?

Maybe also sticky that spreadsheet w/ instructions in the "World Building, Scenes, Environment, & Overworld" bug forum and edit the original thread to refer people to the new spreadsheet - or use the old one but clean out anything that has been fixed?

Whatever you folks think would work best to communicate which maps need some TLC and help avoid dupes?

 

When you are ready for step 2 @Undone perhaps make a sticky in the bug forum, asking specifically for areas using the incorrect maps?

I do a ton of exploring and are aware of a number of areas using the wrong map. We could enter the area and get the area map name via the /bug command and then report them to you by posting the information, if that would help you.

 

@Undone i'm pretty sure Ulfheim map nav is off as well.

Not sure if you want us to keep reporting now you have found a core nav issue, but i'll keep banging them in loc by loc as I find them for now and until i'm told to desist .

 

Aerie, Endurance, Journeys End, Elementum, Vanguard, Etceter, Xenos, Reliquary & Highvale Outskirts are all having problems with the red arrow pointing the wrong direction, but not only that but it goes the opposite direction or to a 90 degree angle to the direction im traveling. Like when i go North the arrow is pointing South but its moving in a Westerly direction, ya, its hell trying to get to something on the map when it does that. Also 2 more things, Highvale Outskirts is also showing the landmarks in the wrong area on the map. Like it shows the Monastery down past the middle of the map where the Ranch is supposed to be. It does seem to show all the little silver markers for the different things in an area in the wrong spot, instead of like just showing one of them in the wrong spot, i dunno if thats good or not And the other thing was the Overland-world map would show the towns on it (when you looked on your avatar mini-map) but when you got to the area with your avatar on the map that a town was supposed to be...it wasnt there....