I'm experiencing what may be a new (to me, anyway?) bug in the software, and the response from NCSoft seems to indicate it's real. Recently, I've experienced powers auto-firing without my asking them to. This happened to me once last week and I thought it was a fluke, but on Saturday morning I had the following happen:

Upon loading the game, I found that a leftover temp power had kicked in, and my last pet charge from last winter's event appeared on screen next to my toon. Now, that temp power icon is on my 2nd tray, meaning I'd have had to click two keys to get it to launch, and I wasn't even touching the keyboard. Less than an hour later, Hasten went off while I was staying at the screen, waiting for AFK teammates to return. Again, not touching anything.

Finally, last night I loaded up the game only to find that upon zoning, my Base Teleporter had activated and the first thing I saw on screen was the option to choose a base to 'port to. Anyone else experiencing anything like this? Feedback from NCSoft below the cut:

( NCSoft feedback )

From the latest patch release notes for the Test server:

User Interface

* The issue involving random characters appearing in the chat line has been fixed. For example, players should now no longer see “asdawasdsawdsLevel 10 Scrapper LFT”
* Global Chat Channels will no longer change colors randomly upon zoning.

In case anyone checks LJ before logging in, globals have been down since maintenance this morning.
No official word on an ETA for them being up again.

So I have a friend that I introduced to the game, and he took to it like a duck to water (YAY!) To my great surprise, he informed me that he was able to roll Kheldians and VEATS immediately and has, in fact, rolled one of every EAT red and blue (His crab is now almost to 40 and he's had it for <2 weeks.)
Did he get bit by a beneficient account bug or is this some feature for new subscribers I've not heard of?

Current Mood: confused

(I know this is technically against the rules, but this is a limited time mission that will be unpublished when the bug is fixed. If you don't know the bug I'm referring to, play the mission and be entertained.)

Mission ID: #243388
Published by: @SpaceNut

Short, 1 Mission

Destroy the set of Michael Bay's next movie: EXPLOSIONS!

Current Mood: amused

According to Ghost Falcon, the base corruption issues have been fixed. They will be doing some additional base restorations on Thursday morning (tickets that had not been processed on Monday when they crafted their Tuesday/Wednesday plan). If you find that your base is still corrupted, you (specifically, the SG's Super Leader) need file a petition so that they can get your base restored.

Hallelujah!

Edited to add: I do see, however, that the "white-on-white banner" issue persists. Hopefully, this is because they wanted to fix the bigger issue first.

Does anyone else encounter an issue when in the Mission Editor screen, everything freezes up?

I can still move the mouse, and occasionally still hear background effects (even though I usually work at the terminals in the Studio B power-free zone), but none of the buttons operate, and I can't even use ctrl-alt-delete or use the windows key to windowed-mode the screen. The only option out seems to be to manually switch off the computer.

Just curious. It's probably my computer, but just thought I'd throw this out there.

@Royal Forester

Sorry if this isn't tagged right, I have no pants on and a trying to rush this out while getting ready for work, which I'll likely be late for.

Current Mood: annoyed

Last night, I respec'd one of my characters, stored away the IOs I'd just spec'd out (to give to a teammate), went to the BM for the new ones, headed back to the base to craft them and...

"Map failed to start." I ended up right where I started at the university courtyard of Cap au Diable.

( In short, our base is gone and I have some user-experience questions... )

So other than whining... I just wanted to ask 1) Any of you guys experienced this after i14? and 2) Those of you who have lost bases in the past (i14 or prior), were they able restore them? How far back does the back-up go? I'm pretty certain that even with a restoration, the IOs I put away just before the crash wouldn't have been backed-up yet, but I'd like to get a feel for how much we might actually get back so we can plan accordingly.

Thanks!

Current Mood: depressed

Since I haven't seen anyone post this stuff, here are a few tidbits in case you don't watch the Dev feed.

Posi talks about badges becoming a little more meaningful and more ( copied here )

And Posi talking about the reformed badge ( copied here )

Sunstorm talks about woes for large SG bases ( copied here )

Update to base bug ( copied here )

I just tried using the new mission teleporter for my Mastermind. He had just got a new newspaper mission and it was the actively selected one. But when I used the teleporter, it took me to the door of one of my earlier story arc missions (about two levels ago, which I was planning to drop). Not quite what I expected.

Can anyone else verify this for me?

Is it just me, or did i13 break the CoH site as well? I've had problems connecting to the site all morning, but no problems anywhere else.

I have observed this new behaviour in the costume creator after i13 was released. I am fond of clicking the "random" button to get costume ideas for my new toons. Once in a while, I'll find a look that's close or suitable, but the colours are different. At that time, I change the primary and secondary colours to something I like more.

After i13, however, there seems to be a bug. When I change the primary and secondary colours of a random costume, only the lower body part of it gets the new colours. The head and upper body retain the old colours. This is even when the "copy across [whatever]" button is checked.

Could somebody verify that it's not just me having this problem?

So here I am, making The Ghost Haunt (45 MA/NIN Stalker) a new costume. I get everything just the way I want it. The new duds cost 3mil, and I only have 3mil inf, but luckily, I have some free tailor tokens. I click accept, and.....no new costume.
I would've been megaultragiga-pissed if I hadn't saved the costume.

Anyone else have this problem?

You might have noticed what a pain in the ass it is to set missions on a team right now, what with everyone having to be in the same zone, and them being labelled and such. According to Posi, this is a bug and is being worked on now. So heave a sigh of relief and start wondering what the hell they were /trying/ to do that bugged into that.

I went to my SG base on Guardian because of this post [which I should thank blh120 for, as otherwise I'd have probably just gotten on the test server tonight, instead of my kin/sonic on Guardian that ended up making level 50!!! tonight! *G*]

I've discovered something funky. Not sure what to do to fix it, as when I went to pay up my base upkeep [because that's what I thought the problem was] I discovered it was current....but nothing's working. It doesn't seem to be registering the power *or* control items I have in the base. Does anyone have any idea why this would be, or should I try bugging it?

EDIT: Thanks for the help, everyone! Logged back on the next day to do a petition, and on a lark checked the base...and everything's fine again. >_<; Now I have to wonder if there's some kind of "you didn't use your base in x-number of days, so we're gonna shut everything off!" type of thing, but it had only been thirty-three days since I'd logged her on last. **shrugs**

After seeing a few random zombie invasions on Justice today, Abraxxus suggested turning in the Halloween salvage for the costume slot could be the culprit. A few people checked, and more invasions where triggered. Guess we can have zombie invasions any time now.

Edit: There is still some confusion on the exact mechanics, but as far as could be identified it is tied to turning in costume salvage. Justice was unable to spawn more then one Zombie Apocalypse at a time (one trigger hit both blue and red side simultaneously) and there is still an open theory that it will only happen if salvage is turned in at night.

Is it a bug, or "functioning as intended" that the "Check Name" button does not work on a server where I have not yet created any characters?

Many people have discovered that the Hero/Villain Zone Event Message channels have removed themselves from chat tabs on some alts. It's worth checking your tabs if you expect to get those messages!

I was just naming my new Hero on Virtue, and hitting the button to pick Atlas Park, when like, half the servers crashed. I waited 10 minutes and logged in to find they were back up. I clicked Virtue-- to find the open slot for my character was still empty-- but now locked. I scrolled to the side to see it was indeed the only open slot I had, and it was in the same place I left it, it's now just completely useless as it's locked.

What's the deal with that? Will I get my slot back?

EDIT: I tried logging in and out to no avail, so I closed the game out completely and restarted, and my slot was back! Yay!

Are the official forums broken again? They're telling me I don't have an active game account any time I try to post.

Help?

Edit: Already checked my account page and logging into the game. Both work fine.


Edit 2: Aaaaaaand, they're back.