Papulatus = Totally bugged + Free maple crashes! :/

Jeeez... Why is Papulatus so incredibly bugged?

1. When you summon him, background music starts stuttering / normal skill sounds can also go away totally (random) + game freezes each 2 seconds for about 10 seconds duration.
2. When he starts attacking he sometimes disappears totally for 2~3 seconds, especially at summoning the bombs...
3. When you're lucky that you fought Papulatus to 2nd body without Maple has crashed, at the 2nd body summon, Maple freezes for 2 seconds...
4. At 2nd body kill, you have about a chance of 50% on random Maple total shutdown (Crash to Desktop), without any error message afterwards...

And sometimes (rare occasion) you fight Papulatus without -any- problems... Papu is really bugged right now...
Also, it doesn't matter if you solo or go with multiple people, crashes happen randomly...

[SIZE="7"]Nexon, PLEASE fix Papulatus? [/SIZE]

I have a similar problem at Zak and bodyguard A, but I haven't had issues with pap, yet.

I think it applies to all item summoned bosses.

pap has been fine for me lately. :f6: it did that to me sometimes before big bang though.

Haven't tried my Vista good comp (that usually doesn't dc at anything Zak-) but my W7 comp dc's on everything for sure.

I knew it wasn't just happening to me. I've tried fighting Pap three times by now, and each time, the music loops every half second and the game starts to get this increasingly longer-lasting lag, until my client crashes 2 minutes later.

Fiel said something like this would happen due to Nexon America copying Korean data for the boss HP bars and not actually editing the Korean out of them or something. I could try to find his exact post, but I'm too lazy. Zakum probably does the same thing.

I seem to D/C every time I finish off the first form of Pap.

I don't D/C but I have a hard time getting out of the room because the prompt goes invisible.

I don't D/C but I have a hard time getting out of the room because the prompt goes invisible.

Hit left or right on your keyboard and it will highlight the No button. Then just hit the left or right again to highlight Yes and hit enter.

Hit left or right on your keyboard and it will highlight the No button. Then just hit the left or right again to highlight Yes and hit enter.

...or you can just put NPC chat on Y and tap it.

This happens to me as well, as Taiketo said, this happens with all summoned bosses. My guildmate says that it has to do with a the client having a memory leak causing the game to crash on you and suck up huge amounts of memory. Just so you know, when my client crashes from those bosses now my memory use goes at 1,000,000+ K usage (now isn't that just pretty?), I've never seen any game or program that ever ate up 1gig just to process.

As for Sarah, that doesn't help in the least bit. After I decided to check out Pap on my hero, and killed it fast I clicked the npc and it bugged out on me. The npc dialog just went blank and after I hit the npc chat button to continue so I can leave, the screen goes black and I crash with that 1gig usage (makes me wonder what kind of specs you even need to run this lousy low graphics game). When I crash, my screen also gets stuck there in my face and won't let me close the client unless I use the task manager to force it to close.

I just killed Zakum and this is what happened back there:
- Background music stutter.
- Since I summon him untill I kill him I cant see anything from keyboard, menu... anything u open in game not show.
- From body 1 to last body: hp bar, his body, buddy chat - no show, sometime monster summon from Zakum no show too.
I rly fought him in blind. Btw I dc at 1st body if I use 1024x768, this time I use 800x600 low quality, can kill him but glitch bad, need restart MS after done.

@Nexon tip for us: stay away from bosses, go make war in gallos f5! >.<

Edit: My OS is windows XP!

This happens to me as well, as Taiketo said, this happens with all summoned bosses. My guildmate says that it has to do with a the client having a memory leak causing the game to crash on you and suck up huge amounts of memory. Just so you know, when my client crashes from those bosses now my memory use goes at 1,000,000+ K usage (now isn't that just pretty?), I've never seen any game or program that ever ate up 1gig just to process.

As for Sarah, that doesn't help in the least bit. After I decided to check out Pap on my hero, and killed it fast I clicked the npc and it bugged out on me. The npc dialog just went blank and after I hit the npc chat button to continue so I can leave, the screen goes black and I crash with that 1gig usage (makes me wonder what kind of specs you even need to run this lousy low graphics game). When I crash, my screen also gets stuck there in my face and won't let me close the client unless I use the task manager to force it to close.

It wasn't a method to prevent crashes or fix any instabilities, just to get out if the chat box is transparent.

This is the same "Windows 7 issue" that people have been having for the past couple of years, it's just even more pronounced now, especially if you're playing in 1024x768. It's some kind of memory problem and it's made worse by an OS that is more graphics intensive to begin with. They really need to get cracking on fixing this problem, because it's only going to get worse.

Papulatus and Zakum themselves are working fine.

This is the same "Windows 7 issue" that people have been having for the past couple of years, it's just even more pronounced now, especially if you're playing in 1024x768. It's some kind of memory problem and it's made worse by an OS that is more graphics intensive to begin with. They really need to get cracking on fixing this problem, because it's only going to get worse.

Papulatus and Zakum themselves are working fine.

I'm using WinXP, so it's not only Win7 now... it's also WinXP, and most likely WinVista as well...

This is the same bug that's haunting JMS right now. :|

This is a problem with ALL summoned bosses.

All Windows Vista and Windows 7 users are having this problem, while only about half of Windows XP users are having this problem (Kind of like Vista/W7 used to be)

I predict one of three things happening:

1. You disconnect at Zakum and Horntail
2. The HP bar at the top of the screen doesn't show.
3. Well, nothing different from the normal happens at HT/Zak

For some reason, they imported KMST data over these two mobs causing the defaultHP and defaultMP data to be in Korean. So yeah, I'm not sure how that's going to work.

this helps ? it may be unrelated though.

I've fought him six times and not once have I crashed. The music loop glitch is still there though, and he's disappeared like 2 times only. I guess i'm just lucky.

It wasn't a method to prevent crashes or fix any instabilities, just to get out if the chat box is transparent.

Sadly, this doesn't let me out either *facepalm* . After I crashed I just ended up outside the boss room when I relogged. One may as well just relog or X out the client and get the same result to get out. This same result happened to me at the dojo before too but I've only tried to test once. I can see the npc in the chat dialog but the chat dialog itself is blanked out.