A Final Ignominy (MSQ Issue) Addl. Info.

[rune1]

I posted a bug report a few days ago regarding some odd graphical issues with the MSQ quest, "A Final Ignominy." This was then placed in the Accepted Bugs forum, I imagine for further review. I've since done quite a bit more research on this, but am not able to edit my message in the Accepted Bugs forum.

So, if possible please append this information to the post "A Final Ignominy Wild Flowers" in the "Accepted Bugs" forum. That also has the standard bug template which is still applicable, so I won't reproduce it here.

I did some addl. research on this. I found 6 Youtube videos of this quest dating from 09/13 up to 02/16. I then watched each one. All videos before 08/14 did not have this issue. Those at later dates had the issue.

Ah ha! So I dug deeper. I found two forum posts (12/13 & 1/14) where this quest could not be completed. Apparently there was a hotfix to correct.

It looks like that hotfix resolved the issue of not being able to complete the quest, but introduced the odd graphical "vanishing at angles" that the flowers show now. I also noted that the quest changed with that fix. Prior it requested "Flower Vase, Wine Glass, 3 Feasting Table"; after (and currently) it requests "Feasting Table, Feasting Table, 3 Empty Space." Before the hotfix, all 3 flower bunches were visible at all times. After... they vanish depending on angle/distance viewed.

So that should pinpoint when this issue started to occur. It looks like the result of fixing a much more serious issue with the quest (i.e. it could not be completed). Final question then I suppose is, is this a bug or just a workaround so the quest will complete... i.e. maybe it had to be this way for it to work (too much stuff on the table? I'm not going to pretend to have a clue). Or, the hotfix just introduced a graphical glitch.

Okay, that's my research, hoping it helps! If possible, if the graphical "vanishing" was a known result of the hotfix to fix the serious game breaking issue... can you please file this in "working as intended" just so I have peace of mind? :-) ... my guess is the developer settled for the lesser issue of vanishing flowers over not being able to complete the quest (which is understandable!) and case is closed this isn't really a bug (or is an issue not worth fixing).

Thanks, sorry for the long-winded post. :-)