Quest icon bug?

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Quest icon bug?

Postby killette2 » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:26 am

I got a quest where I am supposed to talk to something after my first quest
I had an arrow pointing to where I'm supposed to go, but one time it disappeared
The quest didn't fail, so I'm not sure if the thing I was supposed to greet was killed or not, anything up with this?

Edit: I ended up abandoning the quest in the end since it was my only quest so I can reroll another :(

Edit: I ended up getting the quest again anyways
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Re: Quest icon bug?

Postby killette2 » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:46 am

Restarting my computer fixed this
Restarting my client did not
How can I reproduce or prevent this bug?
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Re: Quest icon bug?

Postby MagicManICT » Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:12 am

Two most common issues I see with quest arrows usually:

A) they don't function well with the "bad"--free--cam. This as of yet is not fully supported, and features may not work with it properly. Be sure to use :cam ortho when tracking quests (or anything else with arrows).

B) If the arrow points at blank ground, the quest spirit is on a level below you, and could be at any level below you.
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Re: Quest icon bug?

Postby killette2 » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:35 am

I read about not using the :cam bad elsewhere and would like to report that doing :cam ortho (yes I know I entered the command in the command bar and not the chat) didn't work. I think I was already on ortho to start with anyways when I tried switching to bad and back to ortho to troubleshoot.
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Re: Quest icon bug?

Postby killette2 » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:43 am

Update: the problem has occurred again when I logged in just now. Are there some quest givers which would be existing or non-existent depending on the time of day? Will give spec information if the answer to this problem isn't obvious. I also tried rotating my camera several times in ortho, and I only see the quest giver I'm supposed to return to, but not the one I'm supposed to greet. This is my 2nd quest on this new character.
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Re: Quest icon bug?

Postby killette2 » Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:29 am

Update: the quest icon appeared again, but later disappeared on me while I was following it! I continued to go in that direction hoping to find it on the map but failed to stumble upon it...
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Re: Quest icon bug?

Postby killette2 » Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:25 am

This also happens on the default client and my java is updated
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Re: Quest icon bug?

Postby jorb » Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:02 pm

killette2 wrote:Restarting my computer fixed this
Restarting my client did not


That sounds pretty close to impossible. Suspect some sort of user error, but it's very hard to tell without a more detailed brief or something. Quest arrows should not go in and out of existence, and I have never heard of this before or since.
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