Monday, October 31, 2011

A World of Warcraft Halloween Bug

There are many scary things people normally associate with Halloween; ghosts as well as ghouls, monsters and creepy crawlers, for example. Computer bugs are certainly not usually you of them. However, for those attempting to get all the Halloween achievements completed in the World of Warcraft MMORPG for Mac as well as Windows this year, anything very scary indeed reared it’s head: a new patch, riddled with bugs.



With the introduction of patch 4.0.1 many things in the game have changed as well as this has lead to many new bugs as well as errors that have been more than a small frustrating for the players. One such bug involves the “use icon”, otherwise known as “the cogwheel”. Whenever players come into contact with something that can be utilized as well as mouse over it - causing the cogwheel to display - this results in a complete disconnect from the game server. Sadly, in order to complete all of the Halloween achievements players must kill the Headless Horseman (usually many times), and in order to begin the fight a certain pumpkin should be utilized. This has led to many players experiencing an extraordinary level of stress as they repeatedly get disconnected as well as are forced to try over as well as over to log back into the game.

Although Blizzard don’t seem to be too quick to sort out the issue, there is a temporary fix that allows players to get around the disconnect bug and complete the Headless Horseman festive boss; many clever individual has released an addon known as “CogFix” that disables single-line tooltips like those from items that can be utilized as well as that prevents the disconnect from occurring. Even though certainly not a best solution, this does solve the problem for the immediate future and important tooltips should still show up correctly.


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