Fellow pet speed bug

[ƛssman]

Hello everyone,

I'm playing around with fellow pets and realized that there is a movement speed bug. There are some threads about it here and on RZ, but I couldn't find a solution in any of these.

What's the problem?
If you summon a fellow pet it will have the speed which is defined in _RefObjCommon in Speed1 column. However, once you move the server will send 0x30D0 and overwrite the pets speed with the owners speed. Players can use zerk, speed scrolls and other stuff to increase their movment speed, move a bit and then have a fellow pet with super fast speed. This will last until you de-summon the pet or dismount and run around with slower movement speed.

It would be possible to track speed of the fellow pet and prevent mounting it when the speed exceeds a certain limit, but I don't really like this solution.

Does anyone know if there's another way to fix this issue?

[lidzy]

if your using filter its easy to do
just make to not ride it while character using zerks
and thats it

[ƛssman]

Originally Posted by lidzy

if your using filter its easy to do
just make to not ride it while character using zerks
and thats it

Well, this wouldn't work out because even after zerk ends the pet speed would be changed depending on your character's speed and it would differ compared to the original speed which is defined in database. However, I mentionend that tracking the speed and preventing to mount is an option (which I currently use), but I'm specifically asking for ANOTHER method to actually fix this bug.

[#HB]

That will need some game server workaround here.

First thing you might think of is modifying the pet not to acquire owner's speed.

However, that's not really the right solution here; Because it's necessary for the pet to acquire your speed, when using berserk or some skills like Rogue's Scud, otherwise the pet won't be able to follow you and it'll be hard to use/ride it.


So, I believe right solution is going to be alternating the fellow pet's speed to default on attempting to ride it. And that will need some work/research on game server's instances, param allocation and packet/message handling.