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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0004630Valley 1Bug - OtherOct 11, 2011 1:09 pm
ReporterKDR_11k Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version0.518 
Fixed in Version0.522 
Summary0004630: Rampaging vengeful ghosts appear after every character death
DescriptionEvery time I die the game spawns a new squad of vengeful ghosts even though it already spawned one the last time I died. I'm pretty sure I defeated the ghosts of the characters it's drawing from, too.
TagsNo tags attached.
Internal WeightMajor Problem

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jerith

Oct 6, 2011 3:13 pm

reporter   ~0015933

I may have seen this as well. I /think/ I've killed some ghosts more than once, but I'm not sure enough to post a bug report without it happening again.

Toll

Oct 6, 2011 3:21 pm

reporter   ~0015934

I've had the same thing, but after a few deaths, they stopped coming.

keith.lamothe

Oct 6, 2011 3:26 pm

administrator   ~0015935

Hmm, ok, I'll try to reproduce this. It was fixed once before, but it may be a more subtle bug (defeated ghosts coming back to death).

keith.lamothe

Oct 6, 2011 4:12 pm

administrator   ~0015944

Ok, I've tried:

1) New world.
2) Die 4 times. (rampaging unit only spawned on last death)
3) Die again. (no rampaging unit spawned)
4) Kill the first rampaging unit.
5) Die 3 more times. (rampaging unit only spawned on last death)
6) Kill the second rampaging unit.
7) Save and quit the application, then reload the game.
8) Die 4 more times. (rampaging unit only spawned on last death)

So I'm gonna need a saved world where this reproduces :)

Penumbra

Oct 7, 2011 10:36 am

reporter   ~0016070

Last edited: Oct 7, 2011 10:42 am

This just happened to me twice. The last 3 deaths all generated wandering ghosts. The save is 6 megs, and I can't upload it, should I email it to you?

c4sc4

Oct 7, 2011 5:01 pm

reporter   ~0016141

I had it happen too, I was adventuring in too high of levels and died twice in a row, now both of them formed rampaging monster groups. It happened in my massive world though.

Hm, strange, this seems different from when it happened in the alpha. Both groups have 4 ghosts in them even though I only died once after the first group formed.

c4sc4

Oct 7, 2011 11:58 pm

reporter   ~0016188

Last edited: Oct 8, 2011 12:15 am

Yeah, this is definitely happening on my world. I'm going to send you my world file Keith, all you have to do is die and then a group will spawn. Die again and another group of 4 will spawn. I don't know where the other 3 members for these groups are coming from.

EDIT: Alright so my file is to big for gmail's attachment limit, I'll figure out some other way to get it to you.

Itchykobu

Oct 8, 2011 1:07 am

reporter   ~0016192

I had this happen prior to 0.517, but have not seen it since, though I deleted my world and started a new one after a lot of the major mechanics overhauls. I have not seen it since, but I also don't have a backlog of corpses anymore.

keith.lamothe

Oct 10, 2011 11:56 am

administrator   ~0016366

Ok, I think I know what happened: in a recent version there was a massive change of how stats scale, etc, and to patch up things from old versions it healed everything in the world back to full. So all those dead ghosts came back to death.

Haven't confirmed/fixed this, but I think that's what's going on.

keith.lamothe

Oct 10, 2011 2:22 pm

administrator   ~0016373

For 0.522:

* In a recent version all destroyed ghosts were accidentally "brought back to (active) death", leading to many players encountering a situation where every time they died it would have a large pool of those other ghosts not currently rampaging to go rampaging with. The nature of the bug is such that it won't recur, but there are still worlds out there with a significant overpopulation of "free"/"threat" ghosts so:
** When loading any world older than this version, all ghosts not currently in a rampaging group will be quietly put back into really-dead status. They may be back someday.

Sherlock

Oct 11, 2011 1:09 pm

reporter   ~0016411

I have to say, I'm starting to enjoy this bug. Bumping into your old avatars from time to time is great!

(sorry to necro-post)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Oct 6, 2011 3:08 pm KDR_11k New Issue
Oct 6, 2011 3:13 pm jerith Note Added: 0015933
Oct 6, 2011 3:21 pm Toll Note Added: 0015934
Oct 6, 2011 3:23 pm tigersfan Internal Weight => Major Problem
Oct 6, 2011 3:23 pm tigersfan Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Oct 6, 2011 3:23 pm tigersfan Status new => assigned
Oct 6, 2011 3:25 pm keith.lamothe Assigned To Chris_McElligottPark => keith.lamothe
Oct 6, 2011 3:26 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0015935
Oct 6, 2011 4:12 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0015944
Oct 6, 2011 4:12 pm keith.lamothe Status assigned => feedback
Oct 7, 2011 10:36 am Penumbra Note Added: 0016070
Oct 7, 2011 10:42 am Penumbra Note Edited: 0016070
Oct 7, 2011 5:01 pm c4sc4 Note Added: 0016141
Oct 7, 2011 11:58 pm c4sc4 Note Added: 0016188
Oct 8, 2011 12:15 am c4sc4 Note Edited: 0016188
Oct 8, 2011 1:07 am Itchykobu Note Added: 0016192
Oct 10, 2011 11:56 am keith.lamothe Note Added: 0016366
Oct 10, 2011 2:22 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0016373
Oct 10, 2011 2:22 pm keith.lamothe Status feedback => resolved
Oct 10, 2011 2:22 pm keith.lamothe Fixed in Version => 0.522
Oct 10, 2011 2:22 pm keith.lamothe Resolution open => fixed
Oct 11, 2011 1:09 pm Sherlock Note Added: 0016411