[BUG] Hailing NPC Twice

[Arremis]

I hailed an NPC accidentally twice, and there was a second instance of the NPC talking. Though I clicked through the dialog boxes to end the conversation, the second conversation carried on anyway. Just out of curiosity, I hailed a different NPC 4 times, and 4 instances of the conversation carried on at the same time, but with only 1 instance of dialog boxes to click through.

[John Adams]

Hmm, Scatman, can you check this out? If it ends up being server/lua issues, let's move this from Content Bugs please.

Thanks for the report, Arremis.

[Scatman]

That is strange, I don't think I've ever seen that before. Then again, I don't think I've ever tried it either. Checkin' it out now.

[John Adams]

Well you can tell I am back to work in an office, because I am crashing my router daily. Sigh.

I seriously need to get off this crappy old hardware.

[Scatman]

Yep it does do this. If you hail an NPC with a playflavor four times, he'll say 4 things at the same time but with only one set of dialogs to click through.

[John Adams]

Do me a favor, log into live (sometime) and hail an NPC 4 times. If it is a "Say" response, you'll hear it 4 times (I think). If it's a "Conversation" dialog, I think it cuts off the first one to say the response again.

This may work just like it does on live now.

[LethalEncounter]

heh seems like I have some work to do

[John Adams]

The only thing that ever bugged me about our Dialog PlayFlavors was the fact that when you aborted the conversation, our NPCs keep talking. On Live, they fade out and shut the hell up.

But I can live with that for now.

I am certain our non-conversation NPC PlayFlavors work exactly as they do on live. I'm probably wrong, but that's the point... prove me wrong, community!

[Scatman]

I just tested this.
When there are conversation options, hailing the NPC the first time will obviously make it start talking. Hail it again, the talking stops. Hail it a third time it starts again.

When there are no conversation options, everytime you hail the NPC it just restarts.

In neither of the two do they repeat over each other though.

[John Adams]

Hmm. I am pretty sure if you are talking to an NPC, and hail it again (this is how I get all the mega responses from a single NPC) that the voices just blast over each other, same NPC, same time. Like a guard. Go target and hail him. He'll say something about "Don't f*ck with da overlard noob!" then before he finishes talking, hail him again and again.

Either that, or I am confusing them with the stacked NPCs (those wads of NPCs all piled on top of each other for some odd reason) and hailing each one before the other finishes, and the voices are similar to the ones in my head...


But, you just tested this... and I am wrong. So that makes me an assumer. And you know how much I hate assumers!

[Scatman]

Hmm.. I didn't try hailing two different NPCs before the first one's dialog finished. I spammed the hell out of the other tests though! I can try it again just to double check.

[John Adams]

You may try something original-game, like Freeport or Qeynos. That's where I did most of my voice collecting lately. Not sure if the newer expansions are set up the same?

[Scatman]

I did them in Baubbleshire.

[John Adams]

Of course you did, you home-body.

Ok, I concede. Moving to Server Bugs, since this is not a Content issue that can be fixed with scripting.