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Thread: PET DISSAPEARS in the middle of a fight... 4 times?!?!
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Frilans
Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:25 am
#1
Hello all.
Last night I was doing some Huurton Stalkers and Huntress on Dantooine about 2 km east from Mining Outpost. I'm mid-level CH (3321) and mid-level RM (2034). When I started the hunt I was only 1013 RM and was looking to advance as much in the counter-snipping branch as I could. At xx3x you get the brand deadly Flushing Shot 2: An AoE attack which deal a great amount of damage, dizzy and posture-up your targets.
I took several missions and made my way up to 1033 using Headshot2 (simple mind targeting) and I was enlighted with the posibility of using Flushing Shot finaly 
I placed theFS2 in the toolbarand went for some more hunt since I was really anxious to test my new special on some Stalkers... I called and grouped with my lvl 25 GSP (which I've used for over8 months during old days as Novice CH with no problems) and headed to my mission wp.
Once there I send "Tarsalus" to attack both stalkers (1 hit to the first and then change to the second, so he will gain Xp from both critters) and started to spam FS2. It was working great talking about damage! Each shot drained 1/4 fo their HAM, but I was being informed each shot "You falied to change your target's posture" (remember that posture up mod of this special shot?) and after some more shot Tarsalus left the group and dissapeared from my radar. I couldn't target him and the stalkers decided to change the menu while lookingat me. Had to run for a while and heal a bit but I could finish them.
Still a bit shocked, I opened my Datapad and tried to call Tarsalus again. The option I was given was "STORE". What? he's not out! Ok, I used "store" 3 times and after that I could "CALL" him again. After 15 seconds he appeared a bit injured, as if he were just finished the fight.
This same history happend a total of 4 times in less than an hour. Everytime I stack 5 Flushing Shot my pet vanished in the air and the mobs get aggro on me.
Before and after that I used Head Shot 2 all the time and everything went ok, so I figure it's related with the use of AoE attacks with posture change maybe?
Anyone had experienced the same? Thank you for you time.
ps: It's strange on me using so few smileys 
DarthMarksman
Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:00 am
#2
I've heard of some CHs saying this happens to them. It depends on who you talk to, really. Some CHs have had this as an ongoing problem, they claim. I have never had it happen to me, personally. I know several CHs who have never had autostoring happen to them, either. I amcurrently doing a second toon, with Rifleman/Doctor. I use two tanking pets and I have yet to experience the auto-storing problem.However, the fact that it happnes at all, albeit randomly, shows that it's a glitch that needs to be fixed. I believe it's been added to the CH issues list at the top of the forum.
Frilans wrote:
Hello all.
Last night I was doing some Huurton Stalkers and Huntress on Dantooine about 2 km east from Mining Outpost. I'm mid-level CH (3321) and mid-level RM (2034). When I started the hunt I was only 1013 RM and was looking to advance as much in the counter-snipping branch as I could. At xx3x you get the brand deadly Flushing Shot 2: An AoE attack which deal a great amount of damage, dizzy and posture-up your targets.
I took several missions and made my way up to 1033 using Headshot2 (simple mind targeting) and I was enlighted with the posibility of using Flushing Shot finaly
I placed theFS2 in the toolbarand went for some more hunt since I was really anxious to test my new special on some Stalkers... I called and grouped with my lvl 25 GSP (which I've used for over8 months during old days as Novice CH with no problems) and headed to my mission wp.
Once there I send "Tarsalus" to attack both stalkers (1 hit to the first and then change to the second, so he will gain Xp from both critters) and started to spam FS2. It was working great talking about damage! Each shot drained 1/4 fo their HAM, but I was being informed each shot "You falied to change your target's posture" (remember that posture up mod of this special shot?) and after some more shot Tarsalus left the group and dissapeared from my radar. I couldn't target him and the stalkers decided to change the menu while lookingat me. Had to run for a while and heal a bit but I could finish them.
Still a bit shocked, I opened my Datapad and tried to call Tarsalus again. The option I was given was "STORE". What? he's not out! Ok, I used "store" 3 times and after that I could "CALL" him again. After 15 seconds he appeared a bit injured, as if he were just finished the fight.
This same history happend a total of 4 times in less than an hour. Everytime I stack 5 Flushing Shot my pet vanished in the air and the mobs get aggro on me.
Before and after that I used Head Shot 2 all the time and everything went ok, so I figure it's related with the use of AoE attacks with posture change maybe?
Anyone had experienced the same? Thank you for you time.
ps: It's strange on me using so few smileys
OldPainless
Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:04 am
#3
If it happens once, it will happen again in the same place. You are on a server border.
Delete the mission and start over in the other direction.
Traie
Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:04 am
#4
Auto-storing I've never had, but the disappearing pets I've had alot. Mostly since the publish 11 went live. Never heard anything back from anything I've submitted to customer service.
Frilans
Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:18 am
#5
OldPainless wrote:
If it happens once, it will happen again in the same place. You are on a server border.
Delete the mission and start over in the other direction.
I'm sure I wasn't near a server border... meant as "map" limit, since going 2k east from Dant Mining Outpost you get even nearer to the center of the map.
Were you guessing about a logical server border? hmmm, I hunted for several hours using TKM abilities and other Rifle/Carbine specials and my pet never vanished. That's whyI pointed the AoE as a possible cause as it was the only thing that changed over time.
Same Character, same pet, same mobs, same weapon, same planet... diferent Specials and Diferent Game version (last time I loaded the game it said in the upper right corner "unknown version"...???).
Thank you all for your inputs. I'll try to repeatthis bugin other places and planets to see if it has something to do with system message buffer caused by this particular attack (Flushing Shot 2 I mean)or something like that.
I'll let you know, mates.
valetman
Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:41 am
#6
pets dissapearing into datapads had been a problem for as long as Ive been a CH.(A year)
I, personally, have never once suffered from it, although I have seen it happen first hand when hunting with friends.
I dont think anyone has ever , in all this time, found a pattern to what happnes other than crossing server boundaries, although again, this doesnt seem to be the case all the time.
I have a CH also on test center, hes not master yet but working on it, and I have yet to suffer this whilst there either.ironically, that is the one place i wish to, as it may help get this fixed once and for all.
(It was thought to be fixed before, but has always from what I have seen, affected random people regardless)
Beargan
Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:19 am
#7
I have had this problem alot since publish 11 came out. this is my second time mastering Ch and the first time I did it this never happened to me. The past week I'd say I have summited at least 10 bug reports and 1 csr ticket on this. It always happens to me on Dathomir with either Rancors or Nightsisters. The response I got from the ticket was to summit it as a bug and to log off for 30-40 mins. I am a swordsman this time around and not TKM, so the area attack idea might have something to do with it, never thought of that before. I just wish it would get fixed somehow.
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MarlonB
Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:05 am
#8
Almost sounds to me like an "Unhandled Exception" ....
Something goes wrong in the game ..... the code doesn't know what to do with it, and it ends up in the unhandled exceptions bin ..... which is designed to store the pet when they don't know how to handle the exception ....
At least, this sounds like a reasonable explanation to me 
theorb22
Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:39 am
#9
I havent had any auto-storing since a few patches ago, but then again i haven't been hunting on dantooine in awhile.
taloncard
Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:28 am
#10
been a bug since day 1, it's worse in some areas than others. it's 987592748237745 on thier things to fix list.
Frilans
Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:59 am
#11
Wow! I thought I was special 
Thank you all for your inputs. To make it clearer, it's not exactly "auto-store" it's morelike your pet becomesinvisible and untargetable, something like a phantom that does not interactuate with the rest of the game but it's not back to your pocket yet.
WhenI try to access it via DataPad I have the option "STORE" as default (quite simlar to the old (old?? hehe)bike auto-storing bug, when sometimes you could even see your bike but can do almost nothing with it). Then, after some attempts, I finally got the "CALL" option.
The first time I called him after a trip,it told me something about a bright light at the end of the publish...
I'll try to repeat it once I get home from work.
taloncard
Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:33 am
#13
Frilans wrote:Wow! I thought I was specialThank you all for your inputs. To make it clearer, it's not exactly "auto-store" it's morelike your pet becomesinvisible and untargetable, something like a phantom that does not interactuate with the rest of the game but it's not back to your pocket yet.
Actually it is a warping bug, there is a theory that your pet warps to 0,0 however no one has really wanted to sit at 0,0 all day to prove it.
Why it also disbands the group we are not sure, unless this bug also "resets" the pet so to speak.
But no your experiance is far from unique, although the frequency of this bug occuring has been reduced it is still alive and well.
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