Dragon Blue Ink Man defeats do not award Ink Man badge

[Kai Moon]

Defeating Dragon Blue Ink Man minions in the level 15-40 Tsoo villain group does not award progress toward the Ink Man gladiator badge.

 

(Note: All other Blue Ink Man minions correctly award progress. Checked level 30-40 Eagle, Serpent, and Tiger Blue Ink Man minions, and all Blue Ink Man minions in the level 50-54 Tsoo villain group.)

 

Steps to reproduce

 

1. Have a level 20+ character without the Ink Man badge

2. Go to Siren's Call or St. Martial

3. Observe Ink Man badge progress under Gladiator badges

4. Find and defeat Dragon Blue Ink Man minions (but not Eagle, Serpent, or Tiger)

5. Observe Ink Man badge progress under Gladiator badges

 

Expected results

 

Each Dragon Blue Ink Man defeat adds 1 to the Ink Man badge progress bar.

 

Actual results

 

Dragon Blue Ink Man defeats do not affect the Ink Man badge progress bar.

[Ura Hero]

Most of the groups in PVP zones do not count toward badge progress as they are "fake" groups.  There have been several posts about similar issues.  "Fake" Malta that do not award progress toward sappers for example.  AFAIK, it is working as intended even though it may not be working as wanted.

[Kai Moon]

There is no separate Tsoo group for Siren's Call. It's the same mobs used in St. Martial, and this bug affects both zones.

[Kai Moon]

Retested and confirmed this bug is still occurring.

 

These are the "Blue Ink Man" critters in the game:

* Tsoo_CoV_Claws_Red_Men "Tiger Blue Ink Man"

* Tsoo_CoV_Kama_Red_Men "Eagle Blue Ink Man"

* Tsoo_CoV_Katana_Red_Ink_Men "Dragon Blue Ink Man" - does not count for Ink Man badge

* Tsoo_CoV_Sai_Red_Men "Serpent Blue Ink Man"

* TsooEndgame_BlueInkMan_Claws "Tiger Blue Ink Man"

* TsooEndgame_BlueInkMan_Kama "Eagle Blue Ink Man"

* TsooEndgame_BlueInkMan_Katana "Dragon Blue Ink Man"

* TsooEndgame_BlueInkMan_Sai "Serpent Blue Ink Man"

 

The only critter that breaks the naming convention (added "Ink") is the only one that doesn't count. So I'll bet there's a mismatch between the critter ID and the badge data.

[Kai Moon]

Found the problem in the public COH-VM3-i26 release. data/server/bin/badges.bin lists just 3 out of the 4 "Blue Ink Man" IDs.

* kills.Tsoo_CoV_Sai_Red_Men

* kills.Tsoo_CoV_Kama_Red_Men

* kills.Tsoo_CoV_Claws_Red_Men

 

Adding the 4th - kills.Tsoo_CoV_Katana_Red_Ink_Men - should fix it.

[Rudra]

On 1/6/2021 at 6:02 AM, Ura Hero said:

Most of the groups in PVP zones do not count toward badge progress as they are "fake" groups.  There have been several posts about similar issues.  "Fake" Malta that do not award progress toward sappers for example.  AFAIK, it is working as intended even though it may not be working as wanted.

 

On 1/6/2021 at 10:52 AM, Kai Moon said:

There is no separate Tsoo group for Siren's Call. It's the same mobs used in St. Martial, and this bug affects both zones.

Like @Kai Moon said, there are no "fake" Tsoo groups. The Siren's Call Blue Ink Men were specifically placed there so that heroes could get the badge too. Until side swapping became available, that was the only way for a blue side character to get the gladiator badge.