Downtime Notice: Wednesday, May 12th, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, May 12th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 49.2. Find the release notes on DDO.com (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-492-release-notes).

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

What is "z-fighting" ? I have never read this term before ...

[rabidfox]

What is "z-fighting" ? I have never read this term before ...

Z-fighting should be when you get those weird texture flickers because two objects/walls/etc. are the same point in the z-buffer and fighting for which one gets drawn on top (unless they're using it in a different way here). You'll notice it when floor tiles flicker a bunch.

[krzyysiek098]

Fixed a bug with the hag boss where she was getting her level 9 spells on Heroic Normal and Hard instead of Epic Elite.
LOL, poor casual players.

[Xezom]

Hmm still no fix for the falconry attacks with repeating xbow bug in this one either. Def needs checked out and fixed

[cru121]

Beautiful Nightmares

Previously non-skippable cut scenes can now be skipped.

Looks promising. I have identified at least 4 spots where speeding things up would help; curious to see if you got them all.

[HedgeHogShadow]

"Ki Shout now properly uses your Concentration modifier instead of your Intimidate modifier."

I'm just wondering, while you're fixing this bug from 2008, are you changing the Ki cost to match the description, or will it remain at zero?

[Dj_Fisty]

> Ki Shout now properly uses your Concentration modifier instead of your Intimidate modifier.

(After 2 years of waiting, i trashed all those builds.....)

Can I ask a question though not related to the fix,
Why do the devs hate monks?

[LT218]

Why do the devs hate monks?

In general, people dislike things they do not understand.

[NemesisAlien]

What is "z-fighting" ? I have never read this term before ...

https://samlawrenceportfolio.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/z_fighting-example-gif.gif

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

Z-fighting should be when you get those weird texture flickers because two objects/walls/etc. are the same point in the z-buffer and fighting for which one gets drawn on top (unless they're using it in a different way here). You'll notice it when floor tiles flicker a bunch.

Ah, thank you.

And i thought it was a new in-game fighting game mechanic ! :D



Yes, I had seen that before, but I never had a name for it.

There are a few giantish pillars in the upper Harbour which have that as well.

[Cordovan]

The game worlds have reopened.

[droid327]

LOL, poor casual players.

Haha right? L5 newbie like "I'm just gonna be smart and take it easy on a new quest"....boom, meteor swarm :D

[rabidfox]

Several quests have had bugs corrected related to z-fighting and stuck spots.
Most of the time I'm in quests when I see them and really don't have time to /bug it right then and there. Should I just submit a mass bug report with a bunch of them at once at a later time or do I need to do /bug for each spot individually for them to be best addressed? I saw these 3 spots just off last night/today so far so there's still a bunch that this last patch didn't fix. The estar one is in town and constantly headache inducing.
In The Devil's Details:
https://i.imgur.com/s3p3WTB.jpg
In Red Rain:
https://i.imgur.com/iJDCNoj.jpg
In estar:
https://i.imgur.com/X5aUn9X.jpg

[LrdSlvrhnd]

Fixed a bug with the hag boss where she was getting her level 9 spells on Heroic Normal and Hard instead of Epic Elite.

On a related note, Strahd jacked me up with Ruin in HE Sunrise last week (on hardcore, to boot). Is that WAI, him having a spell from an epic feat (that players can't even get until 27) in an adjusted-level 14 quest?

[Steelstar]

On a related note, Strahd jacked me up with Ruin in HE Sunrise last week (on hardcore, to boot). Is that WAI, him having a spell from an epic feat (that players can't even get until 27) in an adjusted-level 14 quest?

That's an intended behavior from Strahd triggered under very specific circumstances; it's not in his general spell list.

Not going to give the specific triggers that cause it, but I'd try varying your strategy a bit.

[slarden]

That's an intended behavior from Strahd triggered under very specific circumstances; it's not in his general spell list.

Not going to give the specific triggers that cause it, but I'd try varying your strategy a bit.

If anyone has any information on the triggers - it would be great to hear. I was hit for 5k on R6 solo which one-shot me. It's happened only a few times in hundreds of runs. I seem to recall it only happens when I get the enemy of my enemy optional and have a hard time pulling strahd into the water due to my threat reduction presumably.

[droid327]

If anyone has any information on the triggers - it would be great to hear. I was hit for 5k on R6 solo which one-shot me. It's happened only a few times in hundreds of runs. I seem to recall it only happens when I get the enemy of my enemy optional and have a hard time pulling strahd into the water due to my threat reduction presumably.

Ugh yes I hate when I get Esmeralda on that quest solo because she'll just aggro the hell out of him and I'm like you're not helping

[rabidfox]

Ugh yes I hate when I get Esmeralda on that quest solo because she'll just aggro the hell out of him and I'm like you're not helping

If only she had a dialog option of "Do you want to take nice bath Esmeralda? There's a nice pool over there (diplomacy check)."

[Gabrael]

If anyone has any information on the triggers - it would be great to hear. I was hit for 5k on R6 solo which one-shot me. It's happened only a few times in hundreds of runs. I seem to recall it only happens when I get the enemy of my enemy optional and have a hard time pulling strahd into the water due to my threat reduction presumably.

i got hit by that twice so far, both time had either esmeralda or a mob grab aggro for too long with strahd out of the water, with 0 hp left. i usually sat in the tree until i realise whats going on, as soon i went back to the ground i got hit by an AoE ruin type instant circle boom that killed me. both time i think mobs were all gone

so if i had to guess the trigger, get him to 0 hp, and keep him out of the water, and kill all the trash, somethign alogn those line should reproduce it


Ugh yes I hate when I get Esmeralda on that quest solo because she'll just aggro the hell out of him and I'm like you're not helping

best is to never talk to esmeralda when shes there

[brian14]

so if i had to guess the trigger, get him to 0 hp, and keep him out of the water, and kill all the trash, somethign alogn those line should reproduce it

That should be on "Things never to do on Hardcore Server" list. Between "Jump off the bridge in Grey Moon's Den" and "Run Heroic Shroud".