Fix for invisible lasers in Hard map and Dragan

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  1. BigPapa

    BigPapa Forum Overlooker

    My toon seems to have a random problem with lasers being invisible. Sometimes I can see them, sometimes they are invisible.

    When they were invisible, I started faking a DC by closing the window and game then quickly logging back in. This forces the graphics to reload from the BP server and the lasers would appear. It didnt work 100% becaue of the "random" problem, but I never had to repeat it more than 3 times. Although this is an annoying fix, it beat the hell out of trying to fight Dragan hard solo with invisible lasers and burn through Ander rezzing.

    Hope this helps someone.
     
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  2. _Baragain_

    _Baragain_ Living Forum Legend

    Did you ever have problems with it booting you out of the boss arena? I would hate to have spent an entrance and then lose it.
     
  3. BigPapa

    BigPapa Forum Overlooker

    No, it treats it like a DC and as long as you log back in within the time limit it keeps you in the same map.
     
  4. _Baragain_

    _Baragain_ Living Forum Legend

    I've tried it and it works, but it takes me as many as 10-15 tries to get the lasers to show up.
     
  5. BigPapa

    BigPapa Forum Overlooker

    Sorry its taking so many attempts for you. One last idea; position your toon so that it can't see where the lasers should be before you "DC". I of course don't know for sure; but, i think when you port into a map the graphics files preload from a different subroutine in the program for all the map items, even the ones you can't see. Some probably on our computers as temp files, and some called from the server.

    I believe the bug for this laser thing is a file that fails to render when loaded from a subroutine in the program. If you call it from a different subroutine it works fine. Soooooo I reposition myself so I can't see the lasers if it doesn't work the first few times. IDK just guessing and trying to be logical about the error. IN any case it eventually works.
     
  6. _Baragain_

    _Baragain_ Living Forum Legend

    Tried it from several locations... Eventually one time I got so ticked off that I just put on reds and killed him before he finished spawning the lasers.
     
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  7. _G_R_A_M_P_S_

    _G_R_A_M_P_S_ Old Hand

    I'm a bit late but i tried your trick and it worked just fine at first, but since R138 it would cost me one extra pearl to dragans refuge (difficult) every time i faked a dc. It would just be counted as a new entrance.
     
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