bug alert?

Davin · #1 December 22nd, 2005, 07:37 AM

I think what actually happened was that I had a cheap combat computer (the theory works with any SYST type) in there and it got damaged, I put a more advanced one into an empty hardpoint (successfully avoiding the need to click on it to swap it) and the damaged one obviously came out.

So the bug required a slightly more complex set-up than I thought, but I assure you it's there

What I imagine the actual cause of the crash to be is the engine attempting to repair an object that doesn't exist (the one in the empty hardpoint, instead of the one you're holding with the cursor) and throwing up as a result.
Just my two cents.

rocky8311 · #2 December 22nd, 2005, 05:54 PM

I just had my WW inexplicably close. I had a Signal Projector picked up with the cursor and I pressed the '2' key to switch over to my new Muktian Corvette and the program just...closed. No error report or anything. I'm running the new patch.

Fingers · #3 December 23rd, 2005, 04:26 AM

Davin: Interesting, sounds like you've got something there.

Rocky: Hm, that'd definitely be a bug. Does this happen reliably (like whenever you have two ships)?

rocky8311 · #4 December 23rd, 2005, 02:12 PM

It's the only time it's ever happened but I'll speak up if it does again. WW is a very nonbuggy game IMO, you should be proud.

rocky8311 · #5 December 23rd, 2005, 03:09 PM

Alright I said I would, so here I am. The same bug just happened in a different way. I was holding a Neptunium Railgun with the cursor and pressed '2' to switch from my Terran Frigate to Muktian Fighter and the game abruptly closed without any kind of Microsoft error message.

Probably a coincidence that it involved a Muktian ship both times. It's when I pressed the '2', or at least the act of switching ships.

PERHAPS it is that both times I pulled something off the Lead ship and went to put it on another without putting it down in the hold first? That is my best guess, b/c that is what I was doing both times; moving something directly between the ships while using the numbers as hotkeys.

rocky8311 · #6 December 23rd, 2005, 03:11 PM

That or maybe it crashed b/c it just didn't like me using both hotkeys and having something in the "grip" of the mouse cursor at the same time. It might have had nothing to do with me moving something directly between two ships. I'll try to replicate this.

rocky8311 · #7 December 23rd, 2005, 05:02 PM

And it's happened again.

New idea: it might have to do with causing two sounds to play to close together: the sound for removing the item from one ship and the sound of switching to another.

The use of the hotkey might be what makes it easier to trigger them so close together.

BTW, this didn't happen to me before the patch.