Baal Bug?

[andrewdebbie]

Last few weeks I've been having problems with Baal runs on the US East realm. Oftn the monsters won't spawn. Sometimes leaving the throne room will get the next set going. Sometimes it won't.

sorry if this is a repeat -- the search function isn't working right now. (I did read through about 5 pages of topics...)

[Orphan]

Yea, that happens sometimes, but very rarely. It's unknown yet what actually causes Baal to do that, but as you said leaving the throne room area, either by doubling back just outside the doors to the room where he summons or by jumping up to town, will usually fix the problem, even temporarily.

If you find it too much of an annoyance, then quit and make a new game

[andrewdebbie]

Yea, that happens sometimes, but very rarely. It's unknown yet what actually causes Baal to do

It has been happening to me a lot. Like every 2nd or 3rd run.

I noticed a few things

It doesn't matter if I make the game or not. It may happen more often if I make the game.
A few times the monsters would spawn after one players traps were gone.
Someone said it was revives, but that isn't it.
I thought it might be me using poison explosion, but that isn't it.

I'll start writing things down. See if there is a pattern.

[Quietus]

It has been happening to me a lot. Like every 2nd or 3rd run.

I noticed a few things

It doesn't matter if I make the game or not. It may happen more often if I make the game.
A few times the monsters would spawn after one players traps were gone.
Someone said it was revives, but that isn't it.
I thought it might be me using poison explosion, but that isn't it.

I'll start writing things down. See if there is a pattern.

If you find one, let us know - we'd all like to know what's causing this.

[andrewdebbie]

Still happening to me every 2nd or 3rd run.

I did some more testing.

Absolutly not related to revieves or skels. We tested this several times.
No relation to traps either.
Going to town may or may not help. Sometimes the monsters will appear if I just wait in the throne room long enough. 4 or 5 real minutes. Hard to know as people start leaving the game by then and that may trigger it too.

[Tripredacus]

This isn't as tough as you guys think. Baal won't summon if there are monsters in his throne room. Usually, some monster wanders in from the side paths into the main entrance to his throne room. Or sometimes they glitch and hide behind pillars or flags and they won't attack until you go over there.

Any time this has every happened, it was 100% caused by some monster being in that room still.

Also, I encountered this one time as well. The winged demon minions spawned, and I was getting owned, so I ran out of the throne room and down to the lower part to try to get them to single file it. Well, I ran back into the throne room about a couple steps, and since there were no monsters in there anymore AND I was in there, Baal spawned Lister and co. So I had to take both groups at the same time. It wasn't fun.

[Terenas]

It happens to me too, very rarely. I have not been running really often for a while, but it did happen and there were no monsters left in the room, all players were actively searching for signs of critters around, but no one did show up.

I thought that it may be a monster turning invisible for some alien cause *fear*.

[nickedoff]

Sometimes he twigs out when someone casts bone walls where the minions normally spawn.

Bleh, just from experience.

[Necrochild313]

I once fixed the issue. There was a stygian witch (or whatever the relevant Throne of Destruction variant is) that was actually BEHIND baal's throne, and you couldn't see it. I don't know if this is the case for every time it happens, but I was able to target and kill it with dragon tail by shift clicking a little next to the Worldstone Chamber entrance (it auto targeted the creature). It was just by chance that I noticed it, as it's name appeared up above with no monster actually there.