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Strange...bug?
Aug 18th, 2013 at 8:22am
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While being in a Character, suddenly a friend (we were duoing, nobody else in Group) cannot hear anymore what I am saying. When i change to other character, he hears me. Other people hear me too.

He couldnīt read my party chat or guild chat, but tells were OK.
Anyway I told him to write /squelch remove Asurbanipali, but was told that Asurbanipali was not in the list, (error message).

Somebody a clue?
  
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Re: Strange...bug?
Reply #1 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 8:29am
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Reply #2 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 8:41am
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I don't know the cause, but have also experienced it a few times.  "The chat bug" is what the people I play with call it, but yeah.  Only tells work.

Usually relogging fixes it, even just relogging to the same character.
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 10:24am
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Deathdefy wrote on Aug 18th, 2013 at 8:41am:
I don't know the cause, but have also experienced it a few times.  "The chat bug" is what the people I play with call it, but yeah.  Only tells work.

Usually relogging fixes it, even just relogging to the same character.


Basically this. It's an old bug that mostly went away, then came back.

From the way you describe it, it happens in the middle of playing. I've only ever seen it happen on login. A few things to notice when logging in: You will not join any of your user chats; you will not be notified in standard channel that you are joining the general/trade/advice channels; you will still see the guild motd and login/logout messages, but not guild chat.
  
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Re: Strange...bug?
Reply #4 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 10:27am
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Can't they actually fix anything over there? Jesus christ, this bug was around this past winter for awhile too.

Why the fuck is it that they can't fucking fix something over there and KEEP IT FUCKING FIXED?

Have fun on Monday everyone. Roll Eyes
  
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Reply #5 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 11:09am
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Deathdefy wrote on Aug 18th, 2013 at 8:41am:
I don't know the cause, but have also experienced it a few times.  "The chat bug" is what the people I play with call it, but yeah.  Only tells work.

Usually relogging fixes it, even just relogging to the same character.

This.  It's annoying as fuck.
  
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Reply #6 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 11:49am
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I dunno about Azog's description of the symptoms, but sounds like maybe failing to join the chat server. The chat server is a separate server from the gameplay server that handles chat channels and voice communication. Since u18ish there's been a problem on either the client or server side again where the client fails to connect on login sometimes. I've had to relog after about 1/3rd of logins lately to get a connection to the chat server.
  
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Re: Strange...bug?
Reply #7 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 11:57am
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I have gotten the chat bug several times, it's annoying.

I wonder though if this is two things working in combination, like maybe he dc'd from chat but then when reconnecting got the chat bug?
  
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Re: Strange...bug?
Reply #8 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 12:06pm
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Deathdefy wrote on Aug 18th, 2013 at 8:41am:
I don't know the cause, but have also experienced it a few times.  "The chat bug" is what the people I play with call it, but yeah.  Only tells work.

Usually relogging fixes it, even just relogging to the same character.


Yes, the dead chat bug. When it happens, logout and relog to the same character solves it.

Dickbutt wrote on Aug 18th, 2013 at 10:24am:
From the way you describe it, it happens in the middle of playing.


It may happen ( rarely ) in the middle of playing. Most of the time you'll get the connection lost to chat server message along with the chat server reconnected message but you'll be unable to chat, but in even more rare case you just get nothing, and it's up to you to guess that nobody sees what you say.

  
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Re: Strange...bug?
Reply #9 - Aug 18th, 2013 at 1:06pm
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I'll confirm that it can happen mid-quest, with not even a dis/reconnect to chat servers message.  It's an odd experience.  You're running with people you know, having a lively chat about whatever, and then bam! Silence.  Like that one point in a bad pug group when everyone admits to themselves its a bad pug group and shuts up, continues the quest in silence to get the xp, and jump ship as soon as they're outside.

What's far more common is the chat fail on load.  The one where channels don't load and it's really obvious it failed.  You know what's annoying? Zoning crash -> relog -> chat fail -> having to send a /tell saying 'relogging again' -> relogging while hoping it doesn't happen again immediately.

On the bright side typing "/tell <leader> Chats bugged" is faster than "/squelch <name>" 5x.
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Re: Strange...bug?
Reply #10 - Aug 20th, 2013 at 4:24pm
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Dropping and rejoining party will sometimes fix it, and will save you the /logout.
  
 
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Re: Strange...bug?
Reply #11 - Aug 24th, 2013 at 7:15am
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umeannothing wrote on Aug 18th, 2013 at 10:27am:
Can't they actually fix anything over there? Jesus christ, this bug was around this past winter for awhile too.

Why the fuck is it that they can't fucking fix something over there and KEEP IT FUCKING FIXED?

Have fun on Monday everyone. Roll Eyes


Because they don't use reasonable versioning software.

If Bob is making changes to code, he downloads a copy to his computer.

If Steve has to make changes to the same code, he pulls a copy to his computer. When they finish their work, they push their copies to the main code storage.

One of the two of them will be 'first'.

If Steve is done first, good versioning software will tell Bob...hey Bob, your co-worker Steve updated the code you're working on. Want me to grab a copy to test his changes against your changes?

Not sure what they're doing in Turbine, but it probably involved monkeys flinging shit against the walls.
  
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