I know with the update, some of the holograms spawn pirates instead of the usual minions. However, since the 2nd update today, I’ve found some holograms that do not spawn pirate and do not have the interact option. I’ve found these in a few zones (gendarren, frostgorge, wayfarer). I’ve attached a screenshot of one such hologram.
I’ve seen several of these projectors in various areas. They show as active, but spawn no Aetherblades and cannot be manually activated for holograms. I’ve seen them in Queensdale and Blazeridge Steppes (haven’t really been in many other areas yet today).
My theory is that the random spawn is broken — meaning that eventually, all projectors will be disabled but marked as active.
I found one in Metrica Provence just as you exit from Rata Sum into the lowbie area. I submitted it via the in-game bug report and hope the screen shot was applied.
How to bug an holo projector. I tested it a few times and I was able to repeat it every times, so it’s not a random bug. Please don’t do this yourself. I’m posting it so the devs can correct it.
1 – Find an inactive holo and stand in the middle of it.
2 – As soon as the aeterblades appears, start attacking. You should be able to hit the veteran.
3 – Once the aeterblade veteran is dead, the holo is now bugged and will keep its active graphic but it will be impossible to activate it.
I prefer not to say, otherwise some morons will go and bug all the holos out there…
Fair enough.
I second the recommendation to bring this bug to ArenaNet’s attention directly, though I’m not sure how much of an exploit it actually is. It’s not like you’re profiting from the broken projector (the opposite, in fact). But that’s semantics, and reporting it as an exploit might be best.
Edit... and then you post it all there anyway (missed that before posting the above comment). Might I suggest editing that out of the post? Any decent forum software will let moderators see the previous versions.
