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Holiday Events quest "The Transformation"

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DaveMoeDee
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I was doing the main story line quest where you go with Sai Sahan and Manimarco raises all those dead Redguards when I noticed I could interact with an anomaly in the room. When I interacted with it, I transformed and got a quest "The Transformation" that told me to "Find the source of the transformation" with the hint "explore a Dwemer ruin".

Is anyone familiar with this quest?
  • Juhasow
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    It quest gaved to You by add-on creator/s. There are also mails in game with DB logo and phrase ,,We know". Happy fools day :smile:
    Edited by Juhasow on April 1, 2017 5:27AM
  • Stefirex
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    Well it's locking up my game in the dwemer ruin when I try looting he bodies. This is bullsht.
    Edited by Stefirex on April 1, 2017 5:32AM
  • DaveMoeDee
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    I went to a Dwemer ruin, killed a mob, and got the "Dwemer Rod of Transformation" dialog, and my game crashed.

    Not cool.
  • SanSan
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    An item that makes your game crash?
    HA April Fools!
  • Stefirex
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    Not Funny HarvestMap! Not funny at all! Locking up people's games is not the least bit funny.
  • Betheny
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    Didn't lock up my game.
  • psychojudge
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    Did not lock up my game either.

    Nice memento you get from it.

    Thx harvestmap :)
  • Morgul667
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    Game crashed on this quest too but was ok the second time
  • Cinbri
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    Waht is memento doing?
  • Smerchy
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    didnt lock my game.


    Momento gives you transformations :smiley:

    I was getting weird skeletal cat mount lol
  • max_only
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    Wait what? You have to have HarvestMap add on to get this quest? I'm confused.
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  • Cinbri
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    Smerchy wrote: »
    didnt lock my game.


    Momento gives you transformations :smiley:

    I was getting weird skeletal cat mount lol

    but how long this transformation, is it like other mementos 10 sec?
  • prototypefb
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    this quest is so damn broken, crashed my game few times while trying to take the quest and then when completing quest, receiving rod of transformation.
    it must have some serious glitch maxing all your cpu/gpu
  • Sigma957
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    Cinbri wrote: »
    Smerchy wrote: »
    didnt lock my game.


    Momento gives you transformations :smiley:

    I was getting weird skeletal cat mount lol

    but how long this transformation, is it like other mementos 10 sec?

    so far it has lasted for 10 minutes with me, have a skeletal horse which positively looks gross but awesome at the same time,plz note you don't get the mount or any of the costumes.
    NKP8g8q.png
  • ntheogenic
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    You can disable the april fools quest in the HarvestMap settings page if it crashes.
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  • Fyaal
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    Heres a video, short explanation and screenshot of this working.

    No edits, live TS, and 5:00 long. https://youtu.be/7PBzu4t6QUU

    Screen shot with me on a mount that does not exist in game, but was datamined a while ago.
    i.imgur.com/EkbQHn3.jpg
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  • Bazeric
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    Ah, I was too slow... thought I was first! The "event" seems to be okay for me for the most part. I went through it for about an hour and a half randomly but I have a clip that shows quite a bit in under a minute. It's late and I am off to bed. Good luck.

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/332671/best-april-fools-day-ever-the-transformation-vidclip-showing-future-content-unlce-sheo-too#latest
    Looking for broken things in hopes they may be fixed. I've given up, my game literally works differently from yours.
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  • LMar
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    It is a quest by an add-on. It only shows up on your client. If you use those fake horses you don't actually move Faster than on foot since it isn't an actual mount

    Not sure about the stance of ZOS on such "quests" since they only change the appearance client side like some gfx enhancing addons (sweetfx)
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  • Magdalina
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    Isn't this a bit...off if an addon can actually tap into game deep enough to insert a quest with a reward in it? Does that quest also award gold/xp?
  • LMar
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    No. And it doesn't actually give you anything. Just a graphical change that only you can see.
    Just like the markers it can put around you
    Edited by LMar on April 1, 2017 12:38PM
    "If a stick of fish is a fish stick, it will stick like other fish sticks stick"
    "Taller races now sit in chairs correctly"
  • Vaoh
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    LMar wrote: »
    No. And it doesn't actually give you anything. Just a graphical change that only you can see.
    Just like the markers it can put around you

    Oh..... I can't actually do this on console can I...? :disappointed:
  • josh.lackey_ESO
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    Stefirex wrote: »
    Well it's locking up my game in the dwemer ruin when I try looting he bodies. This is bullsht.

    It's not HarvestMap, it's Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter. You can fix it by commenting out line 1214 of DolgubonsLazyWritCreator/WritCreater.lua.

    Look for this:
    if shouldDivinityprotocolbeactivatednowornotitshouldbeallthetimebutwhateveritlljustbeforabit() then
	divinityProtocol()
end

    Change it to this:
    if shouldDivinityprotocolbeactivatednowornotitshouldbeallthetimebutwhateveritlljustbeforabit() then
	--divinityProtocol()
end

    You will stop having rainbow colored text everywhere (which is fun!) and your game will stop crashing when you loot gear items.

    You can also just disable the addon for today if you don't want to edit the code. It should stop calling the problematic function when it's no longer April 1st.
  • phairdon
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    Completed the quest, got the rod of transformation without any issues.
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  • Magdalina
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    LMar wrote: »
    No. And it doesn't actually give you anything. Just a graphical change that only you can see.
    Just like the markers it can put around you

    But if it can alter our appearance by a skin(even if it's one only we will see)...can it also alter out appearance otherwise? Make altmer have black hair? Give a nord random horns? Give my nice sweet breton a halo?:p ...I thought this kind of stuff was not possible due it being MMO and most things being calculated on server side rather than our side(?).

    Also isn't it tapping into game files deep enough to show us items that are not even in game yet, according to some?
  • olancho
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    I had to disable the Destinations add-on to prevent my game from freezing when starting to researching an item, deconstructing an item, or turning in a quest. And, yes, not a cool April Fool's joke!
  • Leandor
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    Magdalina wrote: »
    LMar wrote: »
    No. And it doesn't actually give you anything. Just a graphical change that only you can see.
    Just like the markers it can put around you

    But if it can alter our appearance by a skin(even if it's one only we will see)...can it also alter out appearance otherwise? Make altmer have black hair? Give a nord random horns? Give my nice sweet breton a halo?:p ...I thought this kind of stuff was not possible due it being MMO and most things being calculated on server side rather than our side(?).

    Also isn't it tapping into game files deep enough to show us items that are not even in game yet, according to some?

    What the addon does is substitute locally the model that is displayed using existing models from the game resource files. It does not create new skins or inject new models.

    Yes (probably) to giving an altmer black hair since black hair skins exist in the game. The halo not, since there is no halo skin/model in game.
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  • DaveMoeDee
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    Magdalina wrote: »
    LMar wrote: »
    No. And it doesn't actually give you anything. Just a graphical change that only you can see.
    Just like the markers it can put around you

    But if it can alter our appearance by a skin(even if it's one only we will see)...can it also alter out appearance otherwise? Make altmer have black hair? Give a nord random horns? Give my nice sweet breton a halo?:p ...I thought this kind of stuff was not possible due it being MMO and most things being calculated on server side rather than our side(?).

    Also isn't it tapping into game files deep enough to show us items that are not even in game yet, according to some?

    Addons have long been able to do place items in the world. Harvest map places 3-d markers at each discovered node.
    Edited by DaveMoeDee on April 1, 2017 8:01PM
  • NeKryXe
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    anyone found a way to fix Lazy Writ Crafter and use it again?

    i already tried a few old versions but the game is still crashing on launch if i don't disable the addon.
    i always get the message "an error has occurred. please wait a few minutes and log in again", and it's no longer april's fool day.
  • fgoron2000
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    josh.lackey_ESO wrote: »
    Stefirex wrote: »
    Well it's locking up my game in the dwemer ruin when I try looting he bodies. This is bullsht.

    It's not HarvestMap, it's Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter. You can fix it by commenting out line 1214 of DolgubonsLazyWritCreator/WritCreater.lua.

    Look for this:
    if shouldDivinityprotocolbeactivatednowornotitshouldbeallthetimebutwhateveritlljustbeforabit() then
	divinityProtocol()
end

    Change it to this:
    if shouldDivinityprotocolbeactivatednowornotitshouldbeallthetimebutwhateveritlljustbeforabit() then
	--divinityProtocol()
end

    You will stop having rainbow colored text everywhere (which is fun!) and your game will stop crashing when you loot gear items.

    You can also just disable the addon for today if you don't want to edit the code. It should stop calling the problematic function when it's no longer April 1st.



    sorry but uh uh....first, I have the harvest map but I DON'T have the other addon you ref'd, and second, I'm still crashing almost immediately after taking the quest, and it's now April 2nd...not cool...
  • NeKryXe
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    fgoron2000 wrote: »
    sorry but uh uh....first, I have the harvest map but I DON'T have the other addon you ref'd, and second, I'm still crashing almost immediately after taking the quest, and it's now April 2nd...not cool...

    i'm having similar problems. it's very very hard to login, usually it crashes after a long time loading, and in the very rare occasions that i had the luck to reach the game it crashed on this fake quest. i even tried to delete the quest in some characters but in the next time i manage to enter the game without disabling the addons the quest is in my journal again.

    anyway i already deleted all my addons and used an old backup of my "live" directory previous to 1st april and it didn't solve the problem. it's like the addon was turned into some kind of malware.
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