Darkness bug; appear invisible after rest

[davidhoff]

Hello,

Tralek uses Darkness on Vrebel sometimes when we're in battle.  Then after, when we sleep, Tralek "appears" invisible to Vrebel.  Also, after sleep, if Vrebel fights in this state, he is suffering a 50% miss chance on enemy monsters.  This happened again when used with another player.  The other player complained that we both appeared invisible to him.  We had to log off/on to clear it.  It happens almost everytime.  Is there some trick to avoid this from happening?  Please advise...thank you,

Tralek

[Hellblazer]

Does this happened while you fight the first time you cast it. Or specifically after you have rested? IF it is before you rest. Then that is normal as the spell is not party friendly. Only remedy is to cast ultra vision.

If it is after you rest.. then that I have no clue.

[davidhoff]

Good point...I left that out...I always cast ultravision on both of us before I use darkness.

This lingering affect where Tralek "appears" invisible to Vrebel only occurs after we rest after a fight where darkness was used.  It's a pain for us to have to log off to fix it, but it's a tactic we like to use.  If we continue on, without loging, then Vrebel suffers a 50% miss chance on his next attacks.  It's as almost like, after we rest, the scripting is saying the darkness affects are still following Vrebel around without the help of ultravision being cast...if you can follow that logic.

It may be something we have to deal with...just wondering if someone had a fix to it or a trick to use to avoid this affect.

Thanks

[orth]

Moved to bug reports.

Are you sleeping in the darkness or is it after the darkness wears out?

[davidhoff]

Thanks for your reply...

We sleeep after the darkness wears out...way after...when we find a nice rest spot; then after we rest Vrebel says "I can't see you again"; so he's gota log off/on to remove the "effect".

I wonder if it makes a difference if I cast darkness actually on Vrebel's head...or if I just cast it on one of the monsters or the ground?  Not sure if that could solve the problem or not...

[Ravemore]

I use this with Gimli all the time and we have no issues, so not sure if this info will help the bug people. Our situation is that Gimli has the blindfighting feat and I cast on a monster in the pack around him, not him specifically. In our situation there is no ultravision being used. We have been doing it for years and I have never experienced this bug.

[davidhoff]

Thanks for your post...that is interesting.  The fact that Gimli has the blindfight feat may why you don't experience it, or because you only cast on the monster, not him.

We just tried it again tonight in the area on Dregar where the Giants guard the Mohagany, and it happened again several times.  Tralek even woke up from his rest to find out the next Giant appeared invisible to him and could not target spells and if Tralek got close enough he could see the Giants but was getting a 50% miss chance in mele.  Really frustrating...I'll try again to just cast darkness on the monsters, not Vrebel, and see if that solves it.

Thanks again

[miltonyorkcastle]

Actually, I think the bug is associated with ultravision rather than darkness. In my experience, when you recast UV the effect goes away. I think a similar thing occurs with True Sight as well. I think both invisibility and darkness can create the effect.

[Aerimor]

Its as Milty says, its the Ultravision bug or the UV bug.  Also as he said you can remove the effect by casting Ultravision after you rest, it will 'restore' your sight.  It seldom happens on self cast Ultravision and almost always happens on UV's cast on someone else.  The major nuisance is when you go into a magic dead area and can not recast. I always make sure to use a dispelling rune before I go into magic dead areas.  And as you noted, if you relog it clears itself also.  

~A

[davidhoff]

Very good!  Thank you for your replies Aerimor, Milton and Sty.  So it's the ultravision, ah ha.  I will experiment with the recasting of ultravision after rest and see if that helps.  Also I will invest in one of those dispelling stones and play with that a bit.  Very good feedback and thanks again all.