Bug 432: (zippyzee) Missing severals quests' locat...

[BugTracker]

Bug ID       : 432 - Missing severals quests' locat... 
Bug Date     : 2016/03/17 03:15:49
Assigned To  : zippyzee
Priority     : Low

Category     : VGClient
Sub-Category : Gameplay: Pathing
Severity     : Standard
Reproducible : Every time

Details:
Missing severals quests' locations.
i.e: "Hom On Ovis" location for the quest "Aide for the Hermit". Or maybe it's an issue with the locations references.
When you click on a location (for this quest i.e) the red mark on the compass is not correctly updated.

Originated From World: New Telon (1)
Chunk                : Isle of Dawn (1)
Location             : -23312 19383 656

[shargash]

I noticed this yesterday. However, there was a bug in released Vanguard that the compass pointer would get fubar when you clicked the location button in the quest UI. Unclicking the button would give a random direction, clicking it would give no direction (i.e. red line on the compass) at all. This was fixed in release VG by camping and coming back. I did not do that yesterday, but I'll try next time I see it. In other words, this might be a client bug.

[Starcrusher]

nm

[zippyzee]

For all the location bugs this is mainly built into the client. There may be some isolated incidents where we have the wrong locations associated with a quest, or the location data is not there for the location marked for a quest, but all those were pulled directly from the logs into the database and there's no magic involved. They get sent just as they did in-game and how the client screws them up is up to the client.

I recall having the locations and compass not work correctly quite often when I played so we may not be able to get it to work perfectly.

[Blackstorm]

Hi,
I don't know if you change something or if you have allowed to have multiple locations on the quests book but since i have reset my quests and retried the questline (some locations persist on my book), that seems to work correctly.

I am creating a new character to see if that happening again.

update: Yep that happen again with a new character and if you logoff/login the content is loaded correctly.

Maybe locations are not correctly loaded the first time ? the quest thread seems to be executed before the locations thread for this specific quest...

[shargash]

[quote="Blackstorm"]Yep that happen again with a new character and if you logoff/login the content is loaded correctly.[/quote]

That's the symptom of the client bug during release. It was around for all of Vanguard's life. I learned to live with it or camp and come back if it really mattered. That doesn't prove it isn't an issue with the emu, of course, but it may not be anything that can be fixed without the client code.