Traveling dead deer ..

[SkSlyr]

All these years Ive been playing,, every once in awhile, a wisp or deer keep traveling when its been kilt.. I havent seen this much on battle kills.
This similiar thing has happend rare in battle. but while crafting at least 5 times today.. Slides of crafting on Robbe of Chaos..

First one I chased next to that one essance residue..

I have Dsl, but a perty new machine, 2.5 ghtz.

[Vermithraxx]

All these years Ive been playing,, every once in awhile, a wisp or deer keep traveling when its been kilt.. I havent seen this much on battle kills.
This similiar thing has happend rare in battle. but while crafting at least 5 times today.. Slides of crafting on Robbe of Chaos..

First one I chased next to that one essance residue..

I have Dsl, but a perty new machine, 2.5 ghtz.

{Disclaimer: All of this is guesswork on my part, based on past knowledge from other MMO's}


That's a very common bug. The issue is on your client side, based on what I've figured out about this game, here's why:

In server/client MMO tech, a packet is sent from the server to your client with instructions "Object X is at Loc XX,YY, Heading ZZZ travelling at Speed QQQ"

When you do certain actions in this game... 1.) Kill a creature that was in motion or 2.) Harvest that moving wisp for essence, the packet in question either gets lost in communications traffic, failes to get processed by the client or was never generated by the server. Your client never got the "now-not-moving" packet update, so the object keeps going on it's last known heading according to the client. In this game, the update packet isn't generated unless the object moves.

Workarounds for this:

For kills, the corpse is exactly where you think it is, according to the server. So, even tho you see it moving away, if you travel to the spot the server knows it was killed, you can loot it, assuming the client doesn't do any "distance-to-where-I-think-the-corpse-is" checking when you /loot.

For wisps: You will typically harvest right on the spot where you engaged the wisp, which is where it's sitting, server side. If you want to be able to see the wisp again, just wait. The wisp will recharge, soon as it goes to move, a motion packet is re-distributed. When you get that packet, the wisp will re-pop onto your screen, right where you thought it was. (Serious pain when you're trying to harvest the only Radiant wisp on the server, heh.)


Just to be clear, this is not an issue with your DSL. This is purely an issue with how the HZ server and client (mis)communicate with each other, there's nothing you can do to fix it.

[Zexoin]

another very annoying bug : When hunting in group and with a bit of lag, it is very common that the target who's just been killed appears still alive for one or more group members, and cannot be looted.

[Justa Mirage]

another very annoying bug : When hunting in group and with a bit of lag, it is very common that the target who's just been killed appears still alive for one or more group members, and cannot be looted.

To workaround that (same with khutit bug) fly out of range of the still living mob and come back, it will die for you.

[awdz]

My favorite was when a gruok slid off a cliff and was suspended in midair. I guess in some places, pigs really do fly! ;-)

[Xanthia]

I have had golems walked of cliffs and fly, wolves jump into the air and float above it (or me), mobs running towards me and killed......but continue to keep running off in the directon they were heading never to be seen again (these I couldn't loot cause I was "too far"), and followed players who I thought were running into an army of mobs.....only to find out they hadn't actually moved because it was lag. That last one is fun cause while they may not really be running into the middle of a huge spawn...... I am!

[walkerglassmire]

To workaround that (same with khutit bug) fly out of range of the still living mob and come back, it will die for you.

Hard for a Giant to do. Just can't get his arms flapping fast enough.