Getting killed after running away

I was in Brightbone Pass, there were four zombies in the control point so I charged in and had at them with a bunch of fire spells. I fought for a short while and then saw my health was getting depleted so I quickly backed off. I was standing at the top of the stairs, the zombies were still all standing at the control point and then I died. I scrolled back through the log to find out what killed me and it was a regular melee attack by a zombie, a zombie which at the time was standing more than ten feet away from me.

This is not the first time I've experienced this sort of thing, but seems like a good one to report since it's easy to work out exactly how far away I was standing from the enemy that killed me and there were definitely no archers or magic users in the field.

What seems to be happening is that in a mob battle the number of attacks is overwhelming the network's ability to report/record those attacks, with the result that you are still getting hit with sword/melee blows which happened a second earlier after you've run away.

 

Plague

 

Surely if the plague killed me it would say in the log that the plague killed me (and if it didn't, that would still be a bug)? As I said above, it didn't, it was just a regular attack.

 

well it was the plague it doesn't say when it kills you. and if you properly bug reported it they could have then gone back and looked at the log and found out.

/bug and a copy of a lot of information is saved logged and when you copy it here they can find it and figure out what happened.

 

I would be surprised if it wasn't the plague, but it should indeed say it in the log. It's certainly also possible that it was due to some kind of lag issue. I agree with Honador, report it as a /bug and see what happens.

 

Yeah, I think it may have been the plague, here is the log:

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[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 41 points of critical damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 5 points of damage from Fireball.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 9 points of critical damage from Fireball.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 6 points of damage from Fireball.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 5 points of damage from Fireball.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 2 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 11 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 18 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 18 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 3 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 4 points of glancing damage due to armor.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 9 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 2 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:53] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 21 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 4 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 9 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 4 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 4 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 4 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Wintermute Ofcof has been slain by Zombie!
[18/04/2016 00:06:55] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 4 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:56] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 2 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:56] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 3 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:56] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 4 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:06:56] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 3 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:57] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 3 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:58] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 4 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:58] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 3 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:58] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 4 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:06:58] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 2 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:59] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 2 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:07:00] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 5 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:07:00] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 6 points of critical damage.
[18/04/2016 00:07:02] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 5 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:07:04] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 6 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:07:06] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 6 points of damage from Fire Arrow.
[18/04/2016 00:07:54] Wintermute Ofcof attacks Zombie and hits, dealing 9 points of damage.

So only the tick damage from Fire Arrow and (some?) Fireball is being explicitly called out, I've got immolation going on which is what I think the tick damage is after I died. I am fairly confident that 21 points of damage happened after I ran away but I wasn't screen recording so I can't check if that second makes a big enough difference for the timing.

Here are three things that happen when I use /bug: 1 2 3. So that's not happening.

 

ouch :-(

 

Just some further data, I've filtered all the successful zombie attacks from the log:

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[18/04/2016 00:06:41] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 15 points of damage from Plague Claw.
[18/04/2016 00:06:43] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 35 points of critical damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:44] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 21 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:44] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 11 points of damage from Plague Claw.
[18/04/2016 00:06:45] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 11 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:46] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 12 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:46] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 17 points of damage from Plague Claw.
[18/04/2016 00:06:47] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 9 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:47] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 19 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:48] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 16 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:48] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 4 points of glancing damage due to armor.
[18/04/2016 00:06:49] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 26 points of critical damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:49] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 16 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:50] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 22 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:50] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 23 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:51] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 41 points of critical damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 18 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 4 points of glancing damage due to armor.
[18/04/2016 00:06:52] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 9 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:53] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 21 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 9 points of damage.
[18/04/2016 00:06:54] Zombie attacks Wintermute Ofcof and hits, dealing 4 points of damage.

The total is 363 points of damage which, assuming no health regen or healing, would be enough to kill me. I'm still pretty sure the last three attacks happened after I was out of melee range though.

 

Two things.
1) plague DoT damage is not shown in the log, I've reported it in the past.. /shrug Several other NPC damage types are not shown in the log as well.
2) If you move to a spot where your target cannot path, even momentarily on an outcropping of stone, or a raised portion of the path, or jump over a fence, or down a slope, the following happens:

All creatures on your hate list, before they return to their spawn point, hit you once, no matter how far they are from you, with or without line-of-sight. They can hit you from hundreds of meters away, without line of sight, in other words.
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In your case it may have been this "parting shot" mechanic, or just client->server latency. (given how there's just 14 seconds total of combat at all.)