[Known]Players are not seeing each other in the proper locations

Title: Players are not seeing each other in the proper locations

Reproduction Rate: 50%+

Blocker? (Yes/No/Partial) Yes

Details: Players cannot interact with each other or see each other in the same zone.

Steps to Reproduce:

1) Form a party with multiple players

2) Enter an instance for a particular area (for example, Vertas Pass)

3) Have players go to the center

4) Have players identify the people they see

5) Observe: A number of players will not be visible to other players.

6) Observe: Some players may appear to be running in place in other parts of the map

Additional: If you interact with a “running” player such as Trade, the window will open and close.

Additional: Partying isn’t required.

Additional: Easy to observe in Owl's Head where many players are able to be seen running in place at the same time.

User Specs:

AMD 8350 w/Geforce 970, Windows 8.1, 16 GB RAM, SotA Release 520.

Bug Category: Players

 

Believe this is tied to an issue that is currently being reported tied to the game not updating the positions properly for non-master players. We have a ticket created for this, which we hope to address as quickly as possiblee. Thank you for the additional details!

 

Bug: 38620

 

Seeing some strange occurrences with mobs and PvP as well. invisible mobs and players that will kill you, can't see them on the screen but they can see you apparently. In one case a skeleton kept attacking me even as my avatar was exiting the zone.. and the spawn point of the skeleton was in the middle of DR near the lich area.

 

What you just described with DRW is my life right now.

 

It appears to me that mobs will attack a person if they think it is in range. They think people are in range because of desync issues between the master (/whoismaster) and the person getting attacked. So if you die and res at an ankh half the map away, but the person /whoismaster is seeing you res and run into a wall near some mobs. Those mobs will see you as well and kick your butt even though you are halfway across the map.

 

Yup, we ran into this in a siege scene (outside Upper Fortus) last night. I had rez'ed at an ankh and was still getting my butt kicked by a lich halfway across the scene. We brought in some more help, and there were at least 3 separate desync'ed sets of us at times. Using a ladder up to / down from one of the in-scene walls appeared to force some sort of resync. Might be a good weekend to go mining...

 

I hope they fix this before the holiday.. real gamebreaker.