Alchemist's Boon crashes other clients

tl;dr
Alchemist's Boon causes party members to crash randomly.

It will crash Vulkan and non-Vulkan clients - PC AND Console players.

Crash to desktop - no error report.

Party members who crash will immediately crash again upon log-in UNTIL I leave the instance.
If I leave and re-enter the instance, they are able to log back in.
If I stay in the instance, they will just crash as soon as they log in to their character.

De-toggling Alchemist's Boon AFTER they crash still does not allow them back in - I have to leave the map or they are in an endless crashing cycle.

I can crash someone in their hideout as well as campaign and maps. Towns seem to be safe.

It does NOT require the use of potions or skills.
I will crash the party just by walking with them - no skills. No potion use.

I will not crash the party if I stay by the entrance portal (unless they crash at the start of map). Yet when they come close there is a good chance they'll crash.

It does NOT involve Companion Beasts, Nurturing Guardian or Eternal Youth. I have tested with and without all of these.

It does NOT crash me (gtx4080, Ryzen 9 7950X, 96gb RAM - Lowest graphics settings in-game)
I know of one other person it does not crash (GTX 3060, 16gb RAM)

It crashes the entire party usually (but not always) at the same time - often in waves of 1 to 2 players at once. When the crashing starts, within 10 seconds they're all offline.

I have tested over a dozen hours (literally over two-dozen hours now) to finally find and confirm these things.

My character is Big_Thinker - a Ranger Pathfinder.
I stripped her gear to a new character - Huntress - and have the exact same problem. Character name: Raspy_Yuten


Original Post:

My Ranger, Big_Thinker on Dawn of the Hunt standard league crashes other people I party with.

When I join a public party and enter the map we play for 3-10 minutes. Then the entire party crashes, one or two at a time.
The crash repeats the moment they try to login with the same character on the same map as me.

We have tested with Vulkan and non-Vulkan clients.
The very moment I leave the map they can log in again - until then nothing they seem to do allows them back in until they time-out of the party.

I have tested with multiple parties, multiple people. Mostly randoms, but also with one friend.
It has happened throughout campaign, but I did not realize I was causing it until mapping.
It happens in parties of all sizes, from 2-6.


GGG can log in to my character, but I'll put a few details on her below:
Pathfinder named Big_Thinker
Two companions spamming Invulnerablity aura: Alpha Primate and Quadrilla
Alchemists Boon, spamming healing potions every 2s - mana potions every 3.5s to share for team.
A new unique, Starkonja's Head Leatherbound Hood.
Merit of Service Pelage Targe and the Keystone Glancing Blows


My party crashes weather or not I have my Invisible Dye on.
Thanks much :)

One more thing,
This has happened throughout several patches, not just the most recent two.
Since Dawn of the Hunt release, I believe.

Update for the day.

I crash people when I join their hideouts as well - the second I loaded in I crashed the hideout owner.

Several people (not all would respond) who've crashed have told me this hasn't been common for them until now.

The people affected seem random - sometimes the party is fine for a while. The longer we're on a single map the more it seems to affect folk.

I was just in a map for roughly 13 whole minutes before people started to repeatedly crash until I left said map.

When I dismissed my beast companions people still crashed.
When I cast no skills people still crashed.

I was in a party who I had already repeatedly crashed.
I let them run an entire map without me and no one crashed.
Then of course I left them to their gaming.

The people who crash have no error report or popup - just straight to desktop.

Adding this afternoon:
After crashing an entire party at once, one of them said it was his FIRST crash this league.
His /played was 2days 3hours according to him.

Alright, over a dozen hours later of testing - it's Alchemist's Boon.

I can run happily in a party with Alchemist's Boon toggled OFF.
Yet with the same team, the moment I toggle it on the crashes begin.

After a party member has crashed, toggling it OFF does NOT allow them to log back in. I still have to leave the map.

I don't have another character high enough level to use Alchemists Boon so I cannot test on other characters - but I'm 95% sure it's the reason for crashing party members.

If anyone else has Alchemists Boon - do you notice party members crashing more?
It surely can't be just me. I'll put a TL;DR at the top for the bug fixin' team.

Post 0.2.0f the crash still happens.

I created a new character - Huntress - and leveled her in hopes perhaps it was simply my old character.

I ran three maps in a row with a single team - no crashes. Yet just like clockwork, when I turned on Alchemist's Boon the very next map everyone crashed except me.

I now run my character as a rarity stacking block-share build. I've played easily 8 hours without Alchemist's Boon and have seen roughly 4-5 crashes in that time.
Yet I can't run 7 minutes with Alchemist's Boon without dropping the team.

If anyone on the support team sees this, please let me know what other testing I could possibly do, if any, to help the technical team out.

I do feel like I should bump this until I know someone up there sees it.

If I'm out of line let me know - I just think this is too important to get lost in the pile.
If this is happening to other folk using Alchemist's Boon, then it's got to be causing a ton of crashes.

I sure know I've caused many, many crashes just by myself.

If we're in combat, the people I crash often die. In Hardcore that really sucks, in Softcore it's just a bummer for the xp loss.

Let me know if any more testing can be done on my end...