Darkheart problem?
 

Curious if anyone else has this problem, or if it's just me....the other day, I went to work on Gen. Darkheart, the boss at the padres beach. He disengaged, and now he's untouchable and not attacking--just miss, miss, miss, no damage, and he just stands there.

I came back to him today, and still the same thing. He's basically out of play for me now.

Anybody else have this problem? Any suggestions for solving it, if it IS just me?

I've had that happen to me, but not with Darkheart, just other enemies. I didn't really need the guy for anything so I let it go. But perhaps try taking some buddies with you and see if they can kill him. If they can, just get a few hits in before they kill him off.

Try changing servers and see what happens.
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yeah, changed servers, that didn't work. logged off and on, nothing. Buddies couldn't hit him, either. Strange....

That has happened to me with various NPC's since the updates. As I approach, it diesngages, then it does not "recognize" me as an enemy. Had it happen with Darkheart and Navy in Fort Dundee, as well as EITC in Beckett's Quarry.

Did it eventually change, Rackrat? I hate to think I'll never lob another grenade at Darkheart again, lol. I can deal with losing the occasional npc, but losing Darkheart would be a blow to someone like me who's in that grinding leveling stage.

Yea, it changes back, but generally after another player(s) take it down. Then it resets.

I've had it happen with Darkhart a few times. We can have 5 pirates attack him all at once and nothing happens, he just stays disengaged. Change servers, doesnt change. I had it happen with Venom Lash too, about 20 minutes after I read this post. Same thing, attack attack, nothing happens, change servers, still disengaged.

Did you try logging and switching weapons?

i had the opposite effect with him. i attacked and it didn't attack back. i killed him 10 times before it attacked back.

I had it happen on the swamp gator in tortuga right before you go to misty mire.

This bug is caused by when a player attacks an enemy then runs away from the enemy then the enemy " disengages ". But sometimes the enemy gets stuck in this "disengaged " state, and other times the enemy will be able to attack you but you can't attack the enemy ( this does not occur often ) but when they are like this they cant move and usually if you run away again and make them disengage they return to there normal state where you can attack them, if there not attacking then i guess you just have to wait for Disney to reset the server the enemy is on.

when this happens to me i just usally make some fun out of it and exclaim "You broke him!".

It happens when some pirate gets in a fight with the npc and they run away, leaving npc taunting that pirate and running back to its original spot.

this happens frequently and gets very annoying. i hope the gms fix it.

the best thing to do if you are fighting darkhart is lvl up with timothy, instead

There is a way to attack dark hart and not have him attack you.
first attack at slight distance with a pistol and then slowly fire at him while inching forward stop just as he stops tossing daggers and draws his sword.

You are now to far for his sword to hit you and to close for him to use daggers.

continue to hit him with ranged attacks till he dies using the weakest attacks you have.

you can get up to 100 exp plus crew bonus per each weapon and once got 450 exp
and was averaging around 250 xp plus.

if someone comes along while you are doing this he will go crazy and chase and attack and will take a long time for him to settle down and reset.

remember if you use this glitch you have to use RANGED attacks so sword is not going to cut it.

He is great for leveling nades.

Yeah--I haven't been able to get him to fight me for days, It's always disengage, disengage, disengage. Once that happens, there's no attacking.

Haven't checked this lately, but all the bosses have this circumstance. First day the boss quests came out I went through most the bosses tossing seige bombs at a distance through several characters.

He's still broken, but it was fun messing with him ;)

I had a question about this problem for him

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but he wasn't talking

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but seriously, I sent in a bug report, hopfully the big D will get it fixed soon.

I went around a bunch of servers and never found any of these problems. I am betting on it being maybe lag while in battle, then breaking off causing it to be glitched.
Jumping to another server would be probably your best bet.

I did ask him a question also, but no answer either.

Mine was "why he was giving such little rep to all the people I saw fighting him?"

I almost laughed watching some of this, but learned long ago trying to tell some people to try something else, just ends up I must have no clue what I am doing. I would recommend all the people I saw on Darkhart try using lesser damage attacks.

So I am just going to leave these for food for thought, with no crew bonus.

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Aha! But ye see, just because YOU aren't having the problem doesn't mean others aren't.

Do ye really think that after I wrote above, "...It's always disengage, disengage, disengage" that I would go to the bloke once, try to attack him and think, "geez--he's broke. Guess I'll go play poker"?

Nope. In case ye were wonderin', it was server after server after server. There is a real issue going on that many people are having probs with.

BTW: He did start fighting me again, so perhaps Big D fixed the bug, eh?

It is possible I am not having it others can be, no doubt about that. Servers I went to mostly others there fighting, so I didn't fight him only on a few empty beaches.

Its as well not the first time I have heard, and actually seen this myself. Raider in El Suderon was this way for a long time.

Also when I checked recently could of been a good time.

I would recommend getting screen shots and sending in bug reports.

I did see a few times some odd behavior, after someone died, or jumping back and forth with several targets, but always seemed to never glitch.

I have seen some computer specific issues as well, a good example of that was on test hitting f6 would crash ya. Mac users were not getting the issue.

As with EVERYTHING in POTC the weakest attack always nets the most rep..

with a cap of 100 points for each weapon used in the attack plus any crew bonus.

on no less then 4 pirates I mastered grenades in a single day using these techniques.

level 1-20 takes 3 hours at kings head (before fence update) after that 21 hours at padre del fuego beach for levels 21-25

this was before dark hurst so you can probably level up on him from level 10 and up as he will not fight back if you do it properly.

weak grenades were netting me 35 points each on the veterans at kings head up to level 17 in nades.

I picked up around 360 points this way each
 

turn with Darkhart. I hope it doesn't get fixed however. It is difficult enough to level nades now but thanks to this method I am about to master. I don't understand why the catacombs glitches were fixed when that is one place good for leveling nades and honestly that area is not real good for anything else. It was fun standing behind the wall just out of sight and grenading the enemy. After all, the Raiders, (three or four of them a round!) could attack back as could the gypsies and the grenadiers down there as they were all range attackers unlike the Kingshead glitch with the fence.

I can't recall ever using the grenades, other than maybe once or twice on the stumps just for kicks, in a battle against the Skellies or the navy or eitc. They seem useless to me. I wish there could be another weapon invented to take their place.:snowman1:

Siege bomb maxed out has been cranked to the highest damage pvp, while most other things dropped. 4 hits basically drops any character in the game, specially when many don't use endurance for max health of 2502.

Pvp has been all the focus, and why doing a solo bb and other game play has been put on the back burner.

hey what is disengage?

This occurs when the enemy loses interest in you, and stops chasing you.