[Resolved] Siege - incorrect messaging at siege start

04/18/2019 21:02
Title: Siege cleared itself?
Reproduction Rate: 1/1
Blocker? Yes
Details: Previously I was in a siege and killed most of the siege engineers - but then I died and ran into the summoned pet bug - so I left the siege and went into Rift's End and logged out - a few minutes later I wanted to test another bug, so I logged back in and went into Novia - and then I went into Northwood which was besieged, and decided to enter the siege - when I entered, I saw the pop-up message that The Catapults are Unmanned ... as if the catapults had been cleared automatically? There were no cabalists or liches in the scene. I also checked and there were no other players. Perhaps this is a bug w/ the new anti-respawn measures?
Steps to Reproduce:
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6800K CPU @ 3.40GHz (12) System RAM: 32678
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU RAM: 8088
SotA.QA.Win.64.826.Date.04.18.19
Area: SiegeEncounter_Forest01_Road/Novia_R9_City_Northwood
Area Display Name: Forest Siege
Loc: (-40.5, 31.3, -118.0)
Debug: U2llZ2VFbmNvdW50ZXJfRm9yZXN0MDFfUm9hZHxOb3ZpYV9SOV9DaXR5X05vcnRod29vZHwoLTQwLjU0MywgMzEuMjg1LCAtMTE4LjA0OSl8KDAsIDAuNDM0LCAwLCAwLjkwMSl8NTYuNzEwNjR8MTEuNzY2MTd8Ny43Mjk5OTc=

 

Sieges are definitely something to test. Cabalists appear based on a semi-random schedule, so that might not be a bug. Also, what is this "anti-respawn measures" that you mentioned?

 

I will go test some but I can tell you this IS a bug and it is not new. It has happened before and still does happen in live in mostly the Unicorn Spawns. I have entered Unicorns Encounters to this day when the first message I receive is "there is a great evil approaching" and unicorns come out. There is somthign wrong with the mechanic that kills off all that is required to activate the "reat evil" this happen a long time ago in many of the encounters and sieges but do not remember when.

It does not have to do with th Random cycles of cabalist, there is a glitch in the Activator for "great evil"

I will go work some sieges and /bug them.

 

/bug goes to the live bug forum. Using /devbug goes to the qa bug forum.

 

Hey @Lord Subtleton - I logged in again this morning, and went into a fresh siege (Northwood) and again, "The Catapults are unmanned! Great Evil Approaches!" message appeared when I entered. I checked and the catapult flags were still up and siege engineers were spawned - so this is definitely a bug in that regard.

The "anti-respawn measures" was how I phrased something Chris was talking about on his livestream - additional measures/fixes going into place this release to prevent players from accelerating monster respawns by causing scene resets and such. He asked us folks on the stream and testing on QA to be extra vigorous in reporting issues that might be related to that, or ways to circumvent them.

Thanks!

 

Any time a player discovers a possible exploit, we ask that he/she please report it via an email to customer service rather than posting the details on the forum. If Chris mentioned an exploit on the livestream, I think it would be fair to send Chris a direct message with any details you might have on that exploit.

For this release, we have addressed some synchronization issues that have long plagued what we internally call "wave spawners". These spawners are used in a number of scenes, especially sieges and encounters. So we're looking for any fallout from these changes. The "Capapults are unmanned" message is generated by a wave spawner, so it's something we will be looking into. Other things to look for would be timing of the waves of mobs.

The second spawner related fix for this release had to do with dead bodies. Previously, the presence of dead bodies was affecting respawn timing in many cases. Now with this fix, respawn timing is independent of the number of dead bodies in the instance. We think this is a good fix, but could have unforeseen consequences.

 

Issue #64541

 

FYI @Lord Subtleton - today with QA 828 I got "The Siege has been lifted!" message after defeating the catapults - but the cabalists (Indigno) had just spawned, and was quite alive and well.

 

Message timing has been adjusted in build #829. Please repost if this is still an issue.

 

Just tested this in 829 -- it's fixed Thanks
@Lord Subtleton