So long -1

[RikOz]

On 11/28/2025 at 12:33 PM, Bill Z Bubba said:

Same goes for the new difficulty reward tables being broken. That, too, will get fixed.

 

Oh good, so this was already known? I posted a bug report about it after looking around to see if it had already been mentioned, but didn't see anything.

 

 

On 11/28/2025 at 2:14 PM, Jacke said:

Notoriety set to -1 not giving mobs who are Levels -1 and 0, but 0 and +1, is a bug and has been reported.  It was missed during both Closed Beta and Open Beta.

 

As a possessor of, at this point, 145 alts, I can safely say there has always been a weird issue where some characters, for some reason, end up with every mission spawning mobs at +1 to whatever their actual notoriety setting is. It's just odd that it seems to affect some characters but not others. Especially annoying on that one Midnighter mission in Steel Canyon to rescue Lady Jane, and you find yourself in a cave stuffed with those large demon/ghost lieutenants with their -ToHit debuff auras and all conning orange. Though that glitch does seem to mostly go away after level 20 or so.

[Jacke]

2 hours ago, RikOz said:

As a possessor of, at this point, 145 alts, I can safely say there has always been a weird issue where some characters, for some reason, end up with every mission spawning mobs at +1 to whatever their actual notoriety setting is. It's just odd that it seems to affect some characters but not others. Especially annoying on that one Midnighter mission in Steel Canyon to rescue Lady Jane, and you find yourself in a cave stuffed with those large demon/ghost lieutenants with their -ToHit debuff auras and all conning orange. Though that glitch does seem to mostly go away after level 20 or so.

 

This is a common case in nearly all missions: Some mob spawns are +1 Level to the mission.  There are only some Task Forces that put a hard ceiling on that.

 

 

[RikOz]

2 hours ago, Jacke said:

This is a common case in nearly all missions: Some mob spawns are +1 Level to the mission.  There are only some Task Forces that put a hard ceiling on that.

No, I'm referring to a specific issue in which particular, random characters find every mission spawning a majority of +1 (relative to Notoriety/difficulty setting) mobs. Like, I could do missions on one character and almost all mobs in every mission are +1, then do the same missions on a different character of the same level, and all or most of the mobs spawn at the correct level. Then go back to the first character, and once again I'm fighting at +1. And once a character has manifested this "glitch", it remains even through logouts. I have noticed, though, that any "final boss" and its minions always spawn at the correct level. And the glitch typically seems to correct itself by the mid-20s.

[Jacke]

2 hours ago, RikOz said:

No, I'm referring to a specific issue in which particular, random characters find every mission spawning a majority of +1 (relative to Notoriety/difficulty setting) mobs. Like, I could do missions on one character and almost all mobs in every mission are +1, then do the same missions on a different character of the same level, and all or most of the mobs spawn at the correct level. Then go back to the first character, and once again I'm fighting at +1. And once a character has manifested this "glitch", it remains even through logouts. I have noticed, though, that any "final boss" and its minions always spawn at the correct level. And the glitch typically seems to correct itself by the mid-20s.

 

If you're seeing this recently, it's likely part of the bug affecting Notoriety, like -1 not being -1 but 0, and other manifestations.

 

 

[Mopery]

It could be a bug.

Or, it could be an international conspiracy, spanning centuries.

Choose your own adventure.

[lucifael]

8 hours ago, Mopery said:

It could be a bug.

Or, it could be an international conspiracy, spanning centuries.

Choose your own adventure.

Nemesis??!