Uber WoW glitch

[Glitchy]

Right, so yesterday I logged out just outside of Stranglethorn Vale. Nothing out of the ordinary there. But then when I logged back in, I wasn't met with beaches or jungle or villages. Instead, I was treading water in the middle of a seemingly endless ocean. This is what I saw when I first logged in:

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Well, there's part of the village..a couple of NPCs just floating there. Here's a different view from the same position:

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Seriously...WTF. Not only was I stranded apparently BELOW the area, but when I went to check my map this is what came up:

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...yeah...pretty sure that's not STV. So then I messaged one of my friends hoping for some advice on what to do. Apparently I was the only one having the problem, because there were other people running around above me:

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My friend never responded, so I tried jumping in and out of the water...that didn't do anything. Then I noticed that when I was submerged in the water, I didn't have a 'breath' bar.

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At this point I just got frustrated and logged out. I was hoping that when I logged back in everything would be back to normal. Big mistake. When I got logged back in I wasn't met with endless water...I was met with a massive free fall into nothingness:

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Where I eventually died...once again in nothingness:

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After I released my spirit, I was immediately prompted for resurrection.. After that everything was fine.


Overall, it was an entertaining fifteen minutes.

[DavidJCobb]

On that sixth screenshot... Upper left area, below the water... it looks like there are trees in the distance.

Perhaps you glitched into a beta or WIP area, possibly through a coordinate mismatch when it loaded your data? (that is, they might've sneakily put the area beneath STV to save on space, and when you logged in it didn't check your Y-coord do it thought you were beneath STV?)

Wait, no, the area names visible above the minimap disprove this. When you were in the water, you were apparently in "The Veiled Sea"; yet when you were falling through the air you were below "Grom'gol Base Camp".

I wonder... is there a body of water named "The Veiled Sea" that is accessable through Stranglethorn Vale? (not familiar with WoW) Because if there is, then perhaps the game developers had that body of water extend through the shore*, and when you spawned you spawned below that area, landed in the water, and the game assumed you were in the Veiled Sea.

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Where the slope is the shore and the horizontal line is the water.

[Franklint]

Woah. This is rather screwed, but cool. Like Dave, I've never got into WoW, as I'm not a fan of getting addicted and continuing to dish out money every month or whatever to keep playing . I have an addictive personality like that, and chances are I'd get hooked and go broke, neither of which are particularly good things.

I too noticed "The Veiled Sea", and jumped to the conclusion that you had indeed reached some beta section of the game. I don't know enough about it to say anything much though.

I love glitches like this. Best kind. Not too insignificant to be not at all entertaining, but not so severe that they cause a reboot or corrupt save files. Just general oddness that can be explored and investigated.

Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
Franklint

[DavidJCobb]

Hey... You're not the only one (unless you also go by the name DpDr13): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmc2N4Vup7I

And here are some more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jVdl7BKAE0&feature=related
According to a comment made by Piisuke, you'll die if you swim out too far. This also happens in an area called The Great Sea, apparently.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrQfYJakVQw&feature=related
Evidently, as this user shows, the Veiled Sea is a legitimate area in the game. No idea how you ended up under STV, but my theory in my initial post on this topic would explain it (though unless the sea is adjacent to STV I don't know why it would extend so far underground).


More oddities:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUiA-BISwU&feature=related
This person died in STV and respawned in what appeared to be a vortex. Perhaps the background of a warp or respawn cutscene? STV's pretty glitchy.

[alek]

Haha, ah yes, World of Warcraft. I haven't played that game in such a long time. Seeing that screen shot almost made me want to play again but I just can't bring myself to pay those semi-monthly fees again.

Not to mention my human priest character got slammed with ultra-lagg while my other characters didn't on my brand new computer (at the time).

A similar thing happened to me actually. I'm not quite sure where it was, all I know is that it was on a tropical island, with Trolls on it I think.. For some reason I remember some of the trolls being friendly to humans.. In anycase, I fell through the island when I logged in the next time. I got out of it by just swimming in different directions and then it just shot me back up to the island.