[Known] Light disappears but buff is still active

01/07/2017 12:04
Title: Light disappears but buff is still active
Reproduction Rate: 1/1
Blocker? N
Details: Cast light inside encounter, on overworld lacking illumination yet Shadow Form immediately cancelled
Steps to Reproduce: Cast light, leave encounter for overworld
User Specs:
OS: Linux 4.11 Fedora 24 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4) System RAM: 32098
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 6144
SotA.EarlyAccess.LIVE.Linux.64.620.Date.06.30.17
Area: Novia
Area Display Name: Novia
Loc: (-161.1, 17.2, 264.9)

 

Trying to replicate, and got the exact opposite, light invisible in encounter appears when moving to overworld. Other difference was that this encounter happened during the day:

 

And it turns out that casting shadow form causes the light to disappear, so maybe there's some on/off switch that has got flipped around due to shadow form?

 

Doesn't seem to be related to Shadow Form. I'm having the same issue. Cast light but no light comes. I know they were working on a fix for it being dimmed, maybe you are onto something about the wrong switch being flipped

 

Same here, the light turns out when I cast another Light spell before the existing one expires. The spell behaves like a switch to toggle on / off the light.

 

Yes same issue.

 

Yep, confirmed each casting of the spell (while original still timing out) toggles it on and off.

 

Also reported here: https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f...randomly-disappears-while-on-world-map.93759/

 

There are some funky light issues going on with it vanishing on its own, and sometimes people have to hit it twice to work - but the toggle off and on thing - are you guys still seeing that? I can't get that to happen now on the current build.

 

Is having to hit it twice much different than the toggle case? I'll admit that once I get a working light I stop messing with it I'll test it again tonight, I want to level the spell up anyway.

I did have an interesting experience with the Light spell the other night. We were a party of two in Elysium Mine, I was the first into the scene. Light was working fine for me but not for my friend - even if I cast it on her or her pet she couldn't see the light though I could. When I left the scene she found that she could now see her Light spell active. If I can replicate I'll log a new defect, but it might be a scenario relevant to this issue others can test.

 

I entered Ardoris, I re-cast the spell, it popped up, then I ran down to the boat. On the way, the little lightpop and the light disappeared. I cast a second time and it worked. This was today, on the current build (629).

 

Periodically I still have to cast twice to get it to work.

 

Attenwood got a 100% repro case going, bug has been updated, weeeee
Thanks guys!