Guild Wars 2

The item will not show the bat effect if you down or WP very much like a tonic

EDIT: sometimes it wont even show when entering combat.

EDIT: Every time you enter combat the bats go away….. this is very VERY frustrating for a 2000g crafted item

It is also nearly unnoticeable on an asura.

Adrian.3689:

It is also nearly unnoticeable on an asura.

yea well that also goes for a decent amount of other items.. still sad none the less

I was kinda hoping the bats flying around would be the same size as the batwing brew tonic bats

Yea.. lots disappointing especially the freaking fact that its now on top of everything bugging.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Nightfury-Graphical-Bug-Reverant/first#post5704279

More information on this bug, needs to be fixed and i agree bats are way to small also they are more grey than black. Its expensive and one of the most popular halloween items, would like to see some changes to this soon.

as people get the item these complaints will only multiply … hopefully anet gets to it very soon it feels like an easy fix.

Bumping this, waiting for a fix.

I’ve also had this issue. It is somewhat unpredictable when the effect will disappear, but it pretty reliably vanishes after going into combat once or twice.

Some things will make the effect return – waypointing to another zone (but not within the same zone), using a tonic and transforming back, or clicking the show/unshow button for the shoulder piece. One thing that I would have expected to make the effect return, but does not, is necromancer death shroud: entering and leaving shroud does not make the effect come back if it’s gone.

i’m at least happy that others are trying to raise some awareness to this awful bug.. i really hope arenanet gets to it soon this is so inexcusable for such an expensive item.

So, along with everything else that has been commonly reported, had it vanish after using jump pads in LA to the TP today. Never had that happen before, so, either the bug is getting worse, or whatever triggers it is completely random.

New observation to report – the effect vanished immediately upon carving a pumpkin in the labyrinth. This does not happen every single time I carve a pumpkin, but it’s one of the few cases where I saw the problem triggered by one single clear action – most of the time it happens in combat where it’s hard to tell exactly what action caused it.

thanks for the observation .. all these responses help to fixing this awful bug

Bump to keep this alive.. please post anything else related to this bug.

Has anyone noticed a difference today? I haven’t played much today so i didnt get to test if they snuck a ptch in.

I’m having the same issue. Really sad to spend all this gold to get something that doesn’t work correctly.

They disappear almost every time my Rev or Necro go into combat.

I submitted a ticket and got the reply saying they can’t help and “This is a known issue and we are working hard to fix it.”

I’ll continue posting new observations about the behavior of this bug to hopefully help pin down exactly what’s causing it.

Today’s new observation: While running around Tangled Depths, I noticed the effect stayed visible for a surprisingly long time while I was fighting nothing but single enemies one at a time – I was able to cross pretty much the whole map without the effect vanishing. On the other hand, if I go into a fight that involves multiple players and multiple enemies, the effect is almost guaranteed to vanish quickly. Could it have something to do with the number of skill effects onscreen at once?

The bug still continues to this point.. very disappointing

Bump The bug still persists, anyone know of any updates with this bug ?

Significant new observation that I don’t believe has been reported elsewhere yet: the bug appears to be triggered client-side, not server side.

Reason I believe this is the case: when playing in the same zone as my wife, I noticed that the nightfury effect had vanished from my character on my screen, yet on her screen my character still had it. There were times when I could see the effect and she couldn’t, as well. This suggests that each individual client is deciding for itself whether to display the effect, rather than the server dictating the same display status to all clients.

i had the same thought actually because my guild was doing guild missions and 7 of us nightfury guys were hanging out and we were going back and forth saying " did my bats disappear" and us responding in unison with NO. it was very strange.. interesting how its client side though.

VincentDW.9376:

Significant new observation that I don’t believe has been reported elsewhere yet: the bug appears to be triggered client-side, not server side.

I just tested this with a couple different people and in both cases (and on more than 1 test/map each) they couldn’t see the bats.

This issue seems so random in cause and how it presents.

Today I had it where I could see the bats but the 2 people with me couldn’t, this issue is so random. :/

I’ve been playing on my mesmer while using Nightfury lately, and noticed that contrary to what I heard people saying in other places, my clones DO seem to consistently spawn with the Nightfury effect visible, even when it has bugged out and vanished on my character. As far as I could tell, the clones spawned with it visible 100% of the time. Anybody else have a different experience?

the nightfury effect always disappear
i need to click “hide/unhide” to re-active the effect, but the effect will disappear at a short time
anyone have same problem?

still.. STILL no freaking official response.. this is rediculous!!! you guys said someone spent a lot of hours on this yet it looks like you’ve done little to no work and slapped a ridiculous price on it! FIX THIS .

The karka helmet skin is the same , dissapears randomly or when in combat like nightfury.

Nightfury’s effects seem to turn off at random for me. Sometimes it will turn off after waypointing. Sometimes it will fail to load with my character from the character select screen. And sometimes I’ll just be afk in one spot and the bats will disappear without any good cause. (Never do they reappear, mind you!) Hope it’s on your radar for fixin’. I really do like it when it’s working! Thanks!

UPDATE: So I have been in contact with support for the past few days on this matter.

The basic answer is “We have sent this information to our Development Team and they are currently working to fix” and they also said it will might take quite some time to fix.

I really hope it’s not going to be another Howler incident where it’s still broken after 1+ years.

So I’ve noticed that my show mini will uncheck itself from time to time too. Maybe Nightfury and the mini selection are related somehow.

I was so happy when I finally got Nightfury. But when I used the skin on my asura I could not even tell if it was showing bats..
In character selection screen the bats seem to be more visible than in the open world.

@Fuzzy Butt. I noticed this also yesterday.

I hope when they fix it they also look at making it more visible on a Asura, which is my main, and I want it to be pretty

Fuzzy Butt.6945:

So I’ve noticed that my show mini will uncheck itself from time to time too. Maybe Nightfury and the mini selection are related somehow.

That’s only if you transfer constantly between pve, pvp and wvw.

@Ananeos. Haven’t touched wvw or spvp at all today, and yet my show mini checkbox will uncheck itself. Will happen multiple times in the same map instance, just like Nightfury. That’s why I think there may be some correlation.

I had a situation happen that I think some others have mentioned, but I had not personally experienced until now – the bats can vanish while you are doing literally nothing. I was simply standing in one place, looking at my inventory, and when I looked back at my character, the bats were gone, so it was clearly not triggered by me moving or performing any action. There were other players nearby at the time, so it’s possible I might have received a boon from one of them without realizing it, and that was the trigger…or maybe some action that one of them performed within my field of view (behind my inventory window) did it. Or maybe it’s just completely random.

On a side note, I know the karka helm has the same problem, but what about the queen bee effect? I haven’t heard anyone complain about that one mysteriously vanishing.

Just wanted to say that i just now finished the craft of nightfury and just had this issue too!

could a dev maybe make a statement about this?

Way to expensive of an item to let this thread die. I have removed my Nightfury for the time being since losing the effect was frustrating.

What do we do with defective digital items? This thing definitely cost real money for me and in the real world I’d just return it. I’m not whining, it seems a genuine issue when we directly or indirectly buy virtual items with cash and they don’t work as intended.

Yea i agree this thread shouldn’t die for an item like this, thank you for saying that.

So Anet.. lets get an official statement because honestly as lazy as this item is im sure the fix is just as lazy.

I’m continuing to work on crafting mine in the hope that when I’m done (I posit another month or more to finish farming the linseed oil and lumps of glass and glacial lodestones) it will be fixed.

Meanwhile I noticed last night that my Glittering Wings weren’t showing, they’d been toggled off. I might have done that myself, however, when considering the Lyssa outfit on my winged alt. I have noticed my mini getting toggled off, not just hidden by rising pop, and that’s something I only toggle off when doing RP where my alt wouldn’t have such a pet. So I know that was the game doing it (haven’t had RP in a while, sadly).

Bug STILL persists.. please anet this thread can die down slowly if we can get a official statement.

I think it might also be related to the bug that causes weapon skills to flicker/reset when you harvest any node type.
It might also be related to them attempting to fix the Engi Kit bug I reported that, when harvesting with a kit equipped, the harvesting tool is overlayed by the kit skin and it looks… preposterous.

Can anyone test that? Harvest something with Nightfury and see what happens to the bats? I am only about 30% into making mine so I cannot test that… this seems to happen even more so since I swapped to 64-bit client.

Which brings up ANET’s default response of “try the 64bit client”… does that do anything differently than the 32bit one?

Bumping again to keep this going hopefully more people post that they are having this issue.

Pompeia.5483:

I think it might also be related to the bug that causes weapon skills to flicker/reset when you harvest any node type.
It might also be related to them attempting to fix the Engi Kit bug I reported that, when harvesting with a kit equipped, the harvesting tool is overlayed by the kit skin and it looks… preposterous.

Can anyone test that? Harvest something with Nightfury and see what happens to the bats? I am only about 30% into making mine so I cannot test that… this seems to happen even more so since I swapped to 64-bit client.

Which brings up ANET’s default response of “try the 64bit client”… does that do anything differently than the 32bit one?

To respond to your question about harvesting, I harvest all the time with it, and so far that action has never immediately caused the bats to disappear that I’ve noticed. Today I did, however, log in to Lion’s Arch and for the first time had the bats fail to appear at all (as opposed to appearing and then disappearing after a little time).

I just recently got my nightfury and all of its effect completely disappears a few seconds into combat. Sometimes it doesn’t, but usually it does. It seems to disappear no matter what i do, so i don’t have replication steps, but it happens so often it would be hard to not notice. Very annoying and leaves me disappointed.

On a related note, when running, Nightfury’s bats all gather up in one big blob, making it look rather ugly. Maybe changing some of the particle generation settings should fix it?

I think this may be related – Both bow models in the new Plasma set don’t seem to have ANY plasma, though their icons show plasma strings.

anyone experiencing this issue still with the raids?

Bump i wanna know if anyone is still experiencing this bug with the most recent patches?

Bug still freaking persists after he raid patch T_T

As a new owner of Nightfury… this saddens me to no end. I even sold a heap of my high end mats to fill the last bit of Lineseed Oils :’(

Edit
Just tested a few things. Seems my Nightfury visual is sticking with me even in combat, though it spazes out and more so goes inside my characters mesh.

The Nightfury bats did completely disappear for everyone else though with all the above mentioned causes, meaning that even if the bug seems to have been fixed, make sure to test them with others looking at your character.

I had to hide and then show the Nightfury on one of my characters for a guildmate to be able to see it so I’m just going with the assumption that I am the only one who actually can see the effect right now.
Also it seems visually to be bats flying around my characters’ bellies rather than a shoulder item. It would be nice if there was something more shoulder-like about it – if the bats were a little bit higher. Especially on Asura it feels like a tummy bat potion.

For such an expensive item to create I would love if the wings extended outwards from the shoulders and then dispersed into bats when you moved, reforming as shoulder wing-like projections when you stopped moving instead of the swarm of bats. Right now just reusing the same type of effect as a potion seems a little meh for the cost :/

Happens to me all the time, however it seems it requires a lot of people to make the effect disappear or maybe (most likely) some spells that trigger some sort of effect on my character make the nightfury effect disappear.

I also found out that it doesn’t matter if I’m in combat or not to make it disappear – it’s just the amount of people around me. Hopefully more people will report their findings and make the buggy part of code easier to identify.