[335] Stair of Destiny (Outland) No NPC Battle

[MrSmite]

Description:

Stair of Destiny (Outland) No NPC Battle

Current behaviour:

When you go through the Dark Portal into Outland, the Alliance / Horde NPCs are not engaged in battle with the Pit Commander and his demons.

In order to get them to fight, the player has to aggro them and run back behind the defending line. At this point the Alliance / Horde NPCs will engage.

Expected behaviour:

The Alliance / Horde NPCs should engage in battle with the Pit Comander and his demons without the need of the player to aggro them first.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Go through the portal
2. Look at everyone doing nothing
3. Aggro some demons
4. Look at everyone fighting

Branch(es): 3.3.5

TC rev. hash/commit: c2a36c9

TDB version: TDB_full_world_335.61_2016_04_11 + Updates

Operating system: WinXP / Win7

NOTES:

• This appears to be a spawn issue. The demons are clumped together at the bottom of the stairs, too far away from the defenders to aggro them.
• Perhaps a separate issue but the Pit Commander went down very fast when battling a single NPC Mage (damn Mages always OP). Perhaps his armor / HP stats are too low?

[Kittnz]

This is weird, because it did work a month ago. I wonder what changed.

[Tauriella]

Is this the same Issue ?

#18309

[Killyana]

Cannot reproduce on rev. c2a36c9

[Kittnz]

It could get stuck if the area is not active after a while

[MrSmite]

Cannot reproduce on rev. c2a36c9

Did you try this on a fresh server with nobody online?

Is this the same Issue ? #18309

I think it may be similar but in my case I had never been to Outland and there was nobody else online.

I started the server, created a new character, used the GM command to level it up and went through the portal in Blasted Lands. Once on the other side, there was no battle, it appears as if the demons are spawned too far from the stairs. I pulled a bunch of them but the Pit Commander never aggro'd until I actually shot him.

I spent about an hour running around Hellfire Peninsula and honestly I noticed a lot of NPC clumping. Just down the road from the stairs is a clump of around 7 or 8 demons in the middle of the road, doing nothing.

After I returned to the stairs, there were a bunch of dead elementals on the ground, not sure where they came from. None of the mobs summoned them earlier.

It could get stuck if the area is not active after a while

Yeah, I think the CONF needs an option to tell the unloader to ignore grids that have scripted events so things like this can run without any players around (unless the server is shutting down), similar to my patch to keep flightmasters loaded.

Same with pathing NPCs such as the Fel Reaver. Any NPC with waypoints should always load the needed grids to move when there are no players around.

[Killyana]

Npcs spawns from portals then moves to the stairs, just wait 5 min and you will get: http://i.imgur.com/im72RTg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GnKp83e.jpg
Also they are active so no need for anyone to be present.

[MrSmite]

Npcs spawns from portals then moves to the stairs, just wait 5 min and you will get:

Strange, I don't get that. The only NPCs that spawn and fight are a few Infernal Seigebreaker and they die quickly. I stood at the top of the stairs for two "you are away" cycles and the Pit Commander's demons never moved to engage.

[Killyana]

Infernals are summoned by the Pit Commander, if he's not there it's impossible de get them there.
You're probably using an other script.

[MrSmite]

Infernals are summoned by the Pit Commander, if he's not there it's impossible de get them there.
You're probably using an other script.

No, I'm not using any custom scripts. I just don't have the same battle as in your screenshots. The only NPCs that fight are the Infernals because they spawn right on top of the other NPCs. The other demons never engage.

[Kittnz]

I think it's because of the set home in the script.