Blizzard on lvl 20

[Richard Stephenson]

I have recreated this issue two times now. Basically whenever I cast blizzard on lvl 20 the game appears to freeze as if it is loading more, but it never stops loading. And if you force a shut down of the game your character is gone.

[Richard Stephenson]

I really think this is a lvl 20 issue, too, because I am able to cast Blizzard in the Big Room – which you’d think would have a similar problem just because of the number of creatures you hit with it – so I’m kind of at a loss, or maybe I just don’t understand how many actors/objects there really are on lvl 20.

[Richard Stephenson]

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[Richard Stephenson]

I attached a save I took just prior to going to recreate the scenario. It should be at level 19, just before going to hit 20. I walk into the room and just before the chaos runes I cast Blizzard. The first casting seems to go through, but the game stops and when I click it again the game stalls, taking up more memory than normal.

[Allan]

Submitting my own character saves for recreating the bug, player positioned at entrance to level 20. May not match R. Stephenson's play conditions due to full stealth and assassination tree skills, but I've replicated both his instance of the bug (on level 20), and other player's reported instances of the same bug (at Lake Gloom) on the same save file, and have included a number of stack trace files which appear to be from various crashes related to the bug.

Sorry if this is a bit much, but this seems like one of the only major bugs remaining.

[Jochen Terstiege]

Thanks for all the information. We’ve already worked on fixing a race condition during “blizzard”, meaning that too much was calculated in parallel. The downside is that the new blizzard execution might be a bit slower, but we still try to improve the speed again.