Disconnects in Ru'Hmet

[Pamelita]

Ok, so I keep forgetting to ask about this...

Last time my LS was in sea killing Ix'DRK place holders like 10+ of the group would black screen and d/c. At the time I was 2boxing. I was playing my toon on my PC and another toon on my PS2 and only the one on the PS2 would blackscreen and d/c; and nothing would happen on my PC. This was only after we zoned through the portals in Ru'Hmet.

So yeah. WTF?

[sleekmotorwurkz]

1. its not a toon
2. Its a well known issue among the playerbase, SE denies anything is wrong.

Its ps2 only, one of our members reported that it didnt stop completely, but she didnt dc as much when she turned down the brightness on her game, no idea what that has to do with it though.

[Pamelita]

"toon" is easier to write than "character;" you know what I meant, that's all that counts.

And thanks, I'll try to tinker with the brightness settings and pray it works!

[vegetaa]

Seemed to happen a lot more than usual yesterday when my LS farmed sea. For some reasons, AOE effects (bard songs, summons buffs, stuff like that) seemed to trigger the disconnects.

[Max™]

I thought people turned down the brightness in sea because it like zomgburnsmyeyes.

Maybe thats why I don't get the random DC's.

[Charismatic]

I used to play PS2 and I never had this happen, ironically the one time I did d/c out with a black screen in Ru'Hmet, I was on PC.

It only ever happened once, and I have no clue why.

[Meloria]

The aerns kill the PS2ers in our group with the black screen dcs. Being a mage I try to just face a wall and that seems to decrease the number of times I dc, but its not perfect.

[Kainstryder]

Any Ix'Aern, we'll have a majority of 10 of our members randomly dc during the fight. Nothing causes it, we can just be fighting and then BAM black screen.

Of course this is definitely not anything SE can fix and it's due to the PS2's limitations, just like the Whitegate NPCs were not their problem either.

Didn't they address this problem once in an update, something about the aerns not doing...something...or crashing players...? If someone has a quote from an update and can find it, I definitely recall something about it... Regardless, it didn't do jack, so yeah, Ix'Aerns have Additional Effect: Black Screen. Fight with caution.

[Spekkio]

Any Ix'Aern, we'll have a majority of 10 of our members randomly dc during the fight. Nothing causes it, we can just be fighting and then BAM black screen.

Of course this is definitely not anything SE can fix and it's due to the PS2's limitations, just like the Whitegate NPCs were not their problem either.

Didn't they address this problem once in an update, something about the aerns not doing...something...or crashing players...? If someone has a quote from an update and can find it, I definitely recall something about it... Regardless, it didn't do jack, so yeah, Ix'Aerns have Additional Effect: Black Screen. Fight with caution.

old aerns had intricate orange rotating bracelets that were pretty neat lookin. since the patch, aern's bracelets have become drab blueish affairs that are immobile and just comprised of several floating chunks statically moving with the wrist of the aern possessing no animation of their own.

[Kainstryder]

That could've been it, but I think there was an "issue" with PS2 players in the gardens. Who knows, but it fixed nothing. I just remember we were all happy and then BLACK SCREEN, ENJOY RECOVERING.

[Spekkio]

That could've been it, but I think there was an "issue" with PS2 players in the gardens. Who knows, but it fixed nothing. I just remember we were all happy and then BLACK SCREEN, ENJOY RECOVERING.

Graphical adjustments have been made to Aerns in the Garden of Ru'Hmet in order to alleviate PlayStation2 processing issues.
http://www.playonline.com/pcd/update/ff ... etail.html

[Kainstryder]

There we go, that was it, thanks. Took them forever to acknowledge the Whitegate problem, now for them to notice this one.