Guild Wars 2

I’ve just recently got my Meteorlogicus and I’ve noticed a visual bug.

When sheathed the weapon looses it’s glow effect ALMOST always, on the rare occasion that it doesn’t it get an awesome glowy trail that was a feature of the original look of the Meteorlogicus that everyone liked and wishes was still part of the new look.

The only times i was able to get the glow working while sheathed was when i equip it from the inventory while my other weapon (a dagger) was sheathed. This doesn’t work all the time however.

Was the removal of the awesome glowy trail a bug or did you mean to remove good visual features from legendaries when updating them? The effect is still obviously tied to the weapon since I can occasionally get it to work and look good.

I’d like to update this bug with some screen shots of what i mean with the glowing trail. I actually wasn’t able to reproduce the weapon glow disappearing when i was going to make screen shots.

The first screen shot shows Meteorlogicus with the blue/purple trail that everyone wants back from the original look before the update. This appears when you equip the weapon sheathed or first log in with the weapon equipped and goes away if you take the weapon out. The second screenshot shows how the weapon will look after you take it out and re sheath it.

Oddly enough Meteorlogicus just went from nighttime look (purple) to daytime (blue) and the weapon glow disappears when sheathed in the daytime look but not the nighttime look (see pictures)

I’d really love it if we could get some dev recognition regarding the current state of this weapon.. to know what things are WAI or not.

With further testing, I could not get the glow trail in daytime mode using simple unequip and equip method. When I tried to relog the weapon went back to nighttime mode. Seems meteorlogicus can’t tell what time of day it is. This is at 3:49pm eastern so at 12:49 pacific, which should most definitely be daytime.

you need to look at the servertime! I noticed another bug with meteorlogicus. During daytime it has a blue glow but still thunderclouds as footsteps. I thought it was intended to give it white clouds for daytime?

Discomoose.4913:

With further testing, I could not get the glow trail in daytime mode using simple unequip and equip method. When I tried to relog the weapon went back to nighttime mode. Seems meteorlogicus can’t tell what time of day it is. This is at 3:49pm eastern so at 12:49 pacific, which should most definitely be daytime.

I’ve never seen the trail during the day time.. only at night when first entering an area.

And the day/night thing has to do with your character’s surroundings… not the real world time.

Yeah when i looked at the sky it looked night time. I always thought the day night cycle was pretty slow in this game (and didn’t pay attention because it didn’t matter to me before now) but looking at my screenshots and the in game condition seems like it very short, like ~1 hour in length. It does mean that Meteorlogicus wont switch from day to night without a load screen or something because it was in day mode until i relogged then it turned to night.

Discomoose.4913:

It does mean that Meteorlogicus wont switch from day to night without a load screen or something because it was in day mode until i relogged then it turned to night.

Yep I’ve experienced this as well. It will switch from night to day without a loading screen I think (though I’m not positive about that.)

Lothirieth.3408:

Yep I’ve experienced this as well. It will switch from night to day without a loading screen I think (though I’m not positive about that.)

Yes I have had it switch from night to day without a load screen. It sucks that it wont go from day to night since with the screenshotted behavior above, night is actually the better looking of the two forms by far.

Can we get a little recognition that the team is working at fixing these bugs? It’s a very high profile item that takes a long time to make, it was literally just worked on last patch. The bugs noted here are:

- Contradictory handling of sheathed appearance between day and night (day looses glow while night does not) Preference would be for it to not loose its glow for me personally.
– In night form a loading screen or equipping while sheathed will give Meteorlogicus the awesome glow trail (The reason this doesn’t work in day I would assume is because the weapon looses its glow while sheathed during the day.) Preference would be for it to always have the glow trail in both day and night.
– Doesn’t automatically switch from day look to night look without a loading screen (It will switch from night to day.)

Discomoose.4913:

Can we get a little recognition that the team is working at fixing these bugs? It’s a very high profile item that takes a long time to make

This x 1000.

Could we please at least get an acknowledgement about the inconsistent behaviour of this weapon. Please Mr. Davis? Silence tends to frustrate your customers (Josh Foreman’s interaction with the community was amazing and really headed off problems escalating.)

This weapon took those of us who have it a lot of hours of work and lots of money to get it and frankly it’s not acceptable for legendaries in general to be buggy.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/How-to-fix-Meteorlogicus-for-Everyone-1

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Love-the-Meteorlogicus-changes-Buut

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Is-Meteorlogicus-Bugged

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Meteorlogicus-What-have-you-done

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-Meteorlogicus-merged

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Problems-with-the-new-Meteorlogicus

I’ve been saying around the web when talking to meteorlogicus owners that we really need to make this issue more widely recognized. This forum post is the best one I’ve seen yet that highlights the issues at hand without turning into whining over extra features.

There are 2 bugs, which in my eyes are really pretty drastic:

-There’s no sheathed glow during the daytime,

-And there’s no trail ever.

You can temporarily fix the bugs by zoning into a night-time zone. This brings back the sheathed glow and trail, until you either draw the weapon or it turns day-time.
It seems to me that the purple glow they added is effectively another “layer.” In other words, the weapon should be glowing and trailing exactly as before the update, but at night time, you also get the nice purple glow and stormy clouds. This is perfect.

Please, please fix this ArenaNet. I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread.

Here’s some pictures other people took of what we mean:

I have added my documentation of these issues in the thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Issues-with-character-art-weapons-or-armor-2/first

Note: I removed the issue about it not automatically switching from day to night, i went to take a screenshot of day meteorlogicus with a night sky this morning and it auto switched. Might have been fixed in the patch this morning. I did however add the issue with footprint clouds being slow to appear.

Another bug: you can see the white daytime clouds glitching in and out at night in the stormy ones. Honestly given what the nighttime stowed glow looks like, it looks like the daytime stowed glow is occurring at night at the same time as well, instead of the day.

You never know.. they might fix it in tuesday’s update though I severely doubt it.
The more I see the trail (You can see it a lot in dungeons since most are indoors and in darkness) the more I miss it. Can’t understand how it passed QA, unless the people testing it didn’t know of the effects beforehand.

I’m more worried that Anet don’t actually acknowledge it as a bug.

Oh well, we’ll just have to wait and see.

I do think we won’t see any changes, at least not for many, many months. I just don’t have faith in the bug fixing team on the art side. Bolt has had a problem since launch whereby the sword creates a clone of itself every time an attack is performed. That’s still here, and it’s never been addressed.

The only time I’ve seen art/visual bugs addressed is when it’s an item that lots of people have, like the whispers armour bug that changed the colour of the daggers. So again, sadly, I doubt anything will happen unless the profile is raised considerably or anet really does pay attention to their bug reports or these threads.

Personally, as petty as it is, it’s something that’s put me off the game. I find I have zero motivation to log in now after putting effort into making these items and it’s somewhat ruined the game for me.

If they atleast said that they will work on it, it would be fine (for me). Maybe it would take a month but we would know that we can look forward it.

Meteorlogicus has been responded to as being added to their tracker with the other legendary bugs, it was just not responded to in this specific thread.

HERE and HERE.

You can always check my “Tracker – Living World/Game Update Bugs” thread to see the status on any issue. Maybe bookmark it. If you know of an issue not on the list or of an issue on the list that has been fixed, please respond and inform me of it so I can add the new bug to the list or remove a fixed bug from it.

• Weapon – Legendaries: Various Effects Issues and Bugs
  (all of them are in their tracker to correct)
  Bifrost [ Dev Response ]
  Bolt [ Dev Response ]
  Eternity [ Dev Response ]
  Incinerator [ Dev Response ]
  Meteorlogicus [ Dev Response ]
  Moot [ Dev Response ]
  Rodgort [ Dev Response ]

I took a look at your thread, StinVec, and I must say I’m impressed with your efforts.

Thanks for letting us know that anet are at least aware of the issues, I think that’s the main beef people had.

So now we play the waiting game.

I like the new meteorologicus but I still feel that Anet should do something about the lack of trail. (Honestly I really like the bugged night trail and I wish they would just keep it all the time; its beautiful). It makes no sense that there isn’t a normal trail in the daytime.

I like the new footfall but I think it has 2 major problems. Firstly, the clouds should come before the lightning, and the cloud should be bigger. At the moment I barely notice the clouds, and with something like meteorologicus, the emphasis should be on the clouds, not on the lightning.

My other problem with the footfalls is that they just don’t fit the daytime version. I would love it if they would just switch the dark clouds and the lightning with normal white clouds. We know that the normal cloud texture is already exists since its on the weapon in the daytime.

Despite this, I really like the improvements on meteorologicus and have started working towards making my own in game.

Omerben, without wishing to cause offence, I don’t think the OP intended for this thread to deteriorate into yet another thread asking for more features or suggestions.

What we’re asking for here is simply a bug fix, rather than any additional effects or alterations. The danger is if we dilute the thread with content that doesn’t pertain to the bugs, anet might just see it us a bunch of people moaning that they want more from their legendary and as a result take no notice.

The Meteorlogicus issue was directly acknowledged HERE .

We know that they read all threads but cannot post in them all so they have all the details from this post in their bug tracker. Once again the list of bugs without worrying about personal preference towards the visual appearance is:

• Contradictory handling of sheathed appearance between day and night (day looses glow while night does not.)
• In night form a loading screen or equipping while sheathed will give Meteorlogicus a glow trail with merged day and night glow on the weapon (The reason this doesn’t work in day I would assume is because the weapon looses its glow while sheathed during the day.)
• The Cloud effect of the footfall is too slow to appear (because rendering clouds takes time) so we get cloudless lightning for ~2 steps behind the character.
• The footfall effect seems to only be night form footfalls (they match the dark cloud/lightning effect present on the weapon only at night.)

The last one may or may not be a bug, I don’t know if they have the tech to have footfalls change with time of day (or else eternity may have had footfalls from the start) so clouds with lightning is cooler than just clouds so they may have had to make a design decision on that one.

A new patch has come so let’s outline what has been changed/fixed and what bugs still persist.

New changes with Oct. 1st update:

• In day appearance, while wielding the weapon, the glow now has a trail while moving (the return of the trail from before the visual update.)
• In night appearance, the glow always has a trail while moving (both wielded and sheathed.)

Persisting bugs:

• Contradictory handling of sheathed appearance between day and night (day looses glow while night does not.)
• In night form a loading screen or equipping while sheathed will give Meteorlogicus a glow trail with merged day and night glow on the weapon.
• The Cloud effect of the footfall is too slow to appear (because rendering clouds takes time) so we get cloudless lightning for ~2 steps behind the character.
• The footfall effect seems to only be match the night appearance (may be a design decision due to not having the tech to change footfall effects with time of day.)

Very happy with the changes so far. All we need now is the sheathed daytime glow and I’ll never moan again!

Given the daytime now has a trail when wielded.. I’d really love to know if the no glow whilst stowed during the day is WAI.

God, I really hope not.. It looks terrible. And again, why remove existing features? that makes no sense. Also, the very fact it glows during the night while sheathed says it all.

It’s kinda impossible to find one central thread on this but..

it seems this was finally fixed? Mine is glowing blue whilst stowed during the day! \o/ Hurray! Though it has no trail whilst running.. but I’m so very thankful to have the daytime glow back.