Alliance War Outfit bug (wrong alliance) in Battlegrounds

Soleya

My wife was wearing the alliance war outfit last night on her AD character. When logging into a battleground the outfit turned into EP outfit.

Jitterbug

Spy!!
Or something...

GamerAeryn

aforementioned wife. here's pic

GamerAeryn

same character, in character load screen, proper outfit

NolaArch

@rhapsodious was with me in BGs yesterday and their EP alliance hood changed to AD. Wasn't that you?

rhapsodious

NolaArch wrote: »

@rhapsodious was with me in BGs yesterday and their EP alliance hood changed to AD. Wasn't that you?

Yes. And I couldn't place an EP forward camp that would totally help in our base because I was the "wrong alliance". Smh.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the three BGs teams are coded as 0, 1, or 2, and that they correspond to the alliances. So I guess green is the same index as EP, and... (god, what were we, orange? either that or purple...)the other teams are coded as AD and DC.

I can wear the hat again tonight and we can play around with it. See if it keeps it for green but changes it for orange and purple.

rhapsodious

rhapsodious wrote: »

NolaArch wrote: »

@rhapsodious was with me in BGs yesterday and their EP alliance hood changed to AD. Wasn't that you?

Yes. And I couldn't place an EP forward camp that would totally help in our base because I was the "wrong alliance". Smh.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the three BGs teams are coded as 0, 1, or 2, and that they correspond to the alliances. So I guess green is the same index as EP, and... (god, what were we, orange? either that or purple...)the other teams are coded as AD and DC.

I can wear the hat again tonight and we can play around with it. See if it keeps it for green but changes it for orange and purple.

Sorry for the double post and quoting myself, but an update:

Purple is DC, green is EP, orange is AD. So it's definitely a case of the cosmetics checking not for the character's alliance, but the current character's "team". Which makes sense in Cyrodiil, as an EP character would only ever be on the EP "team". But in Battlegrounds, you can swap teams.

Sooo seems like there needs to be a way to check for the character's actual alliance - this can definitely be done, because players' PVP ranks show up correctly in Battlegrounds regardless of team - and use that for the Alliance War cosmetics.

e: Pelinal's MIdyear Boon Boxes also are affected by this, as my Pact character got a Dominion forward camp. All of my characters are EP so I can't even use this.

GamerAeryn

and again. this time purple = blue outfit on a yellow character

Soleya

rhapsodious wrote: »

Sorry for the double post and quoting myself, but an update:

Purple is DC, green is EP, orange is AD. So it's definitely a case of the cosmetics checking not for the character's alliance, but the current character's "team". Which makes sense in Cyrodiil, as an EP character would only ever be on the EP "team". But in Battlegrounds, you can swap teams.

Sooo seems like there needs to be a way to check for the character's actual alliance - this can definitely be done, because players' PVP ranks show up correctly in Battlegrounds regardless of team - and use that for the Alliance War cosmetics.

e: Pelinal's MIdyear Boon Boxes also are affected by this, as my Pact character got a Dominion forward camp. All of my characters are EP so I can't even use this.

It's odd because the outfit shows proper alliance when you aren't in a PVP zone, so it can definitely go off your actual alliance.

Gan Xing

This is intriguing... that's awesome

Beardimus

Ok, glad i searched now, so this bug has been there since battlegrounds launch, on crown store items that cost IRL £€$¥.

Worth a thread necro.