[Closed] Sudden death....

[Shian]

I was on my way to the lair in Kirignat when I died sitting on the portal pad porting in from Bris.

o.O



I drowned.... on the top of a mountain -_-

What the heck happened to cause this?

[Steelclaw]

o_O

The client thinks you're underwater. Now *why* is a good question. Can you set aside a copy of your world cache for now?

[Shian]

Did so. I also tried flying away.... that didn't work....

[Theramin]

You do realize that porting with the loading screen turned off is not supported?

[Guaran]

You do realize that porting with the loading screen turned off is not supported?

He would have been dead already by the time the area finally loaded had the loading screen been on.. With the loading screen off at least he knew it was due to drowning.

[Fyrethorne]

The only reason we have the loading screen turned off, is because it takes half the day to load otherwise. If we made the whole process more efficient, then the loading screen could stay.

The times when I have disconnected flying over water, the only thing that saved me from drowning was having the loading screen off. Otherwise as Shian says, you drown before you can load!

[AmonGwareth]

I am unable to reproduce this error. Has this happened to anyone else? And can you repeatedly do it?

[Steelclaw]

Did so. I also tried flying away.... that didn't work....

From the saved copy of your world cache, locate the shard's folder (<shardname>horizons), then please create a zip/rar containing the following files in that folder:

sector_*.def
terrain\terrain_info.def
and all files in terrain\33_59

Those files should include the ones relevant to the part of the world you were in. Hopefully there's something interesting in there. Otherwise, the client had a major brainfart.

If you happen to have debug, and net logs from that session, please include them too. (don't worry, they compress pretty well)

Oh yeah, attach those to a support ticket, don't provide a link here. The world cache doesn't contain any private info, but the net/debug logs do.

[Xanthia]

I've only had this happen once to me when I ported to abandon island. I had ported in and was immediately drowning while still on the loading pad. So I ran to the portal and teleported out before the meter ran out. But when I went right back to the island (no relog or clearing the world cache), the glitch didn't repeat itself.

[Shian]

It's happened twice now in the last three days. Just now while porting to Drakul and again earlier when porting to AI How do I find what sector files are relevant considering the files in my world cache is about 322Meg?

[Starstilanxs]

Yes, this has happened to me as well, its because of the ground not loading so the client thinks you are underwater.
Best place to reproduce it is on the floating island stand on a spot thats above the water on the isle close the client, then relog. It generally shows the breath remaining meter when logging in and if it doesn't load fast enough you generally drown.

[AmonGwareth]

If this happens again please submit a support ticket with the relevant files requested by Steelclaw above. Thanks!