Dude, wheres my Zombies?!?!?

Just thought I'd confirm the observations from everyone else: exactly the same thing happens to me to, since 0.99 was released.

Seems my zombies do most of their action off screen, so I have to go check and see if they've created any drops for me

Zombies are like a teenage kid. You as their parent are totally uncool, and they wouldn't be caught undead being seen with you!

Seems that the zombies disappearing is related to mobs coming into view (spawning?)

I did a test on ledge with 9 zombies.

First I cleared from on end to the other, and every time I go close to new monsters some of my zombies would disappear (anywhere from 1 to 9). When backtracking they would appear again (not as in standing around, but popping in).

Once I cleared the entire ledge, I tried to run from end to end with my zombies, and I did not loose a single one.

This was done on 0.9.9e

So seems to me this is not AI related at all.

give us back pre 9.9 zombies :(

current zombies are really strating to irritate me, almost to the point of quitting playing my witch until this is fixed.

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siis wrote:

give us back pre 9.9 zombies :(

Pre-99 zombies ran off the screen after things all the time too.

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Torin wrote:

current zombies are really strating to irritate me, almost to the point of quitting playing my witch until this is fixed.

This is exactly what I did, start another class while this bug is fixed. Not fun to play a summoner for now.

I can also confirm that zombies tend to disappear for no good reason.

Also, one maybe related bug -- I was in the Mud Flats with two zombies, and while re-summoning them in the middle of a messy fight (had two rares together), I somehow acquired a third zombie. At least it looked like that, it's possible that the game was really confused and summoned me a new zombie with the lag/sync causing an old zombie to remain on-screen for a while. But I definitely had three zombies moving and fighting for a bit. Unfortunately that didn't last and soon enough I was back to my normal two zombies...

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Buzi wrote:

As a side issue related to summons in general:
Witches need some sort of minion that can be summoned that is as good as a zombie but does not require a corpse to raise it to help deal with the boss fights where there
are NO corpses in the area. Whats up with that?
Skeletons are useless (I've not tested since the new patch however) and move too slow. I determined that some weeks ago. Waste of a skill slot for a witch. REdo from start please.

Spam summon zombies ON the boss. They should block the boss form advancing and if you summon them fast enough the boss (unless they spam AoE) shiould have trouble taking them down as fast as you summon.