07-16-2004, 04:11 AM
Just a note to let you know I've encountered this bug in 1.10 singleplayer, with expansion, though only once since the patch came out. My merc had just teleported to me after getting stuck on the jungle terrain.
The bug is slightly worse now, when it does manage to occur, in that now you must exit the current game and make a new game before the monsters will recognize your merc as being there with you. Town Portals and Waypoints no longer seem to fix monster awareness of mercs. Resurrecting a dead merc might fix the problem too, but my mercs don't die as much when they're being ignored.
My zon had Decoy, fortunately, because she found a massive wave of flayers going AROUND her fully healthy merc and heading straight for her. The merc tried to attack them as they went by, but they paid him no attention, even though he could damage and kill them. I went through probably 20 battles like this and finally quit that game and started a new one.
The bug is slightly worse now, when it does manage to occur, in that now you must exit the current game and make a new game before the monsters will recognize your merc as being there with you. Town Portals and Waypoints no longer seem to fix monster awareness of mercs. Resurrecting a dead merc might fix the problem too, but my mercs don't die as much when they're being ignored.
My zon had Decoy, fortunately, because she found a massive wave of flayers going AROUND her fully healthy merc and heading straight for her. The merc tried to attack them as they went by, but they paid him no attention, even though he could damage and kill them. I went through probably 20 battles like this and finally quit that game and started a new one.