Odd Rat Bug

[Silda]

I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this:

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The rat facing the same way as the yellow arrow is always there, and the rat facing the same way as the red arrow is the one that spawns. The problem is that when a rat spawns it is blocked by the, I guess, permanent rat I cannot see it. If I try and attack the permanent rat (yellow arrow rat) it tells me that the apple is already dead.

It is very frustrating when there is another person there who is not \'sharing\' the rat if you will, and I cannot see the spawed rat to try and get a shot in.

The \'bug\' occurs in the arena, at the rat spawn, obviously, and I wanted to know if anyone else had experienced this, and if they knew how to fix it; or if it is just me.

[Wired_Crawler]

Yes, I experienced it numerous times, not only at the arena, and I think it is not only me. Most probable cause of this is network problem. Your client does not receive the message from the server, that dead rat should disappear (packets loss). Sometimes similar things happens - You don\'t see a monster, which is spawned. In any case - reload Your client to fix this. Probably after going far from that place (to another sector ?) and then going back would fix it too.

Cheers.

[DaveG]

Yeah, I this happens to lots of people.  The most annoying part is that most times only you will be able to see the phantom monster or non-disappearing corpse.    I posted this on BugTracker a while back. Though, no one seems to have looked at it since then...  Theoretically, someone will get around to fixing it sometime.