[ERA] C'thun Dark Glare - [SOD] Crowd Pummeler Gnomeregan Smash


Bug:

C’thun Dark Glare ability is not working properly.


Reproduce:

  1. Log into the game and level up without dying to level 60 any class.
  2. Find 39 other players that have leveled up to 60 without dying.
  3. Farm pre-raid bis for a month without dying
  4. Farm MC for a month without dying
  5. Farm BWL for a month without dying
  6. Farm AQ 20 for a month without dying
  7. Farm ZG for a month without dying
  8. Progress through AQ40 for a month
  9. Make it to C’thun
  10. Avoid getting griefed on C’thun
  11. Stay alive and DPS C’thun until Dark Glare ability is cast

Expected Result:

C’thun’s Dark Glare ability should rotate in a direction with a consistent motion.


Actual Result:

C’thun’s Dark Glare is currently rotating and jumping in all directions.


Character:

Sabin


Realm:

Defias Pillager-US


Recent Bugged Footage:

https://clips.twitch.tv/CourteousCuriousShallotAllenHuhu-F_cJ8A8quqi-jE43 https://clips.twitch.tv/SparklingLachrymoseWolfCoolStoryBro-ruU-xho3kUFxxHq7 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2080115698?t=05h15m17s

Older Fixed Footage before SoD Update:

https://clips.twitch.tv/HyperZanyBulgogiDansGame-T3vXo2rer8S3T4dU

Thoughts:

The bug seems to be a desync between the Dark Glare Visual and the actual Kill Vector.

The visual vector is updating before the dark glare starts.

The variance is the time between the last eye beam and the actual cast of the dark glare.

The videos show that the Visual is oscillating between the kill vector and the visual vector(the one that prematurely starts).


Possible Solutions:

  • Stop the visual vector from updating until the dark glare is actually casting.
  • Lock the visual vector to the kill vector

Future Prevention:

Separate Era common methods from SoD common methods.


Key Dates:

Dark Glare Status Dates are based on when HC Elite Raided Not actual change date.
Crowd Pummeler’s Gnomeregan Smash Ability might be related

  • Nov. 10 - Dark Glare Working
  • Nov. 14 - 1.15.0 patch
  • Nov. 18 - Dark Glare Broken
  • Dec. 12, 13, 14 - SoD Hotfixes
  • Dec. 16 - Dark Glare Fixed
  • Feb. 8 - SoD Phase 2
  • Feb. 9 - Dark Glare Broken

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LOL those key dates. I can see the headlines now.

SoD developers tell tinyviolin to hold their beer

SoD Crowd Pummeler developer proceeds to execute HC players by breaking the C’thun encounter.

HAHAHAHAHA. This is beyond comical.

Xd. Bruh.

Let’s try to keep this productive. I just want the bug fixed. The dates do suggest some sort of cross dependencies to SoD, but I’m not 100% certain on it.

If I had to guess…

There is a common dependency that was changed while working on crowd pummeler that got into the 1.15.0 patch. The developers got word that C’thun was bugged and they reverted that change in December. Phase 2 comes and crowd pummeler needs that base tweak to function properly. The C’thun bug then gets re-committed to support the crowd pummeler encounter.

/shrug

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This bug is blocking content for HC. Fix

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Hallo Blizzard please fix

I’ll fix it for free. Send me a message.

Please Fix

This is literally kneecapping your own game. Please fix.

It is clearly related to recent SoD dev. When SoD came out, this happened the very same week. You guys managed to fix it (for Era) and it was fine until another SoD update recently came out with another content patch.

Please fix.