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"Persistent" VFX removed on death
« on: June 17, 2019, 01:07:38 PM »
Persistent effects (in this case VFX 386, but likely others as well) are removed on death, though become visible again on server resets or with the use of a DM's "Fix Character" tool.

I've observed this bug on my character and one other in the past (in the case of a character with a persistent swarm of flies around him, who abandoned him every time he died and returned on resets).

Other circumstances (such as being knocked unconscious and standing back up) have triggered the same erasure of effects, though inconsistently. It is a guarantee on being corpsed, however.

It can be consistently replicated by applying a persistent VFX to a character and then killing it, which I discovered as Brimstone's guinea pig, and which he might have more details about.

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2019, 07:25:19 PM »
I'll fix the death bug.

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2019, 09:08:56 PM »
This should now be fixed.

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2019, 08:04:43 PM »
Anyone tested this?

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2019, 08:12:43 PM »
In some dueling very recently as of two or three days ago someone's VFX flies were beaten off them in the MC, I didnt write down their name unfortunately, it was a comment from one character to another I'd walked into.

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2019, 08:19:00 PM »
It might have been Etrigan. The player with that Discord nickname was asking Brimstone about lost VFX in chat.


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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2019, 10:14:55 PM »
Ah yeah, I only fixed it when someone got raised, not when they recovered from being unconscious. I'll fix that.

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2019, 02:20:04 PM »
So it’s all but been fixed. Horns still disappear as a ghost as do any items that count as “use device to equip” such as masks, hats, glasses etc.

Turns out custom horns counts as one of these items.

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2019, 09:04:26 PM »
I should specify however that it’s only as a ghost that VFX’s are missing. Once raised they all return.

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Re: "Persistent" VFX removed on death
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2019, 03:17:20 PM »
These should now be fixed. Can anyone confirm?