Inventory items disappear in multiplayer

acdha

We've twice experienced problems in a local (TCP/IP) multiplayer game where items disappear permanently – a far more annoying version of the BG/BG2EE duplication bug.

In one case, my wife was moving an item from one character to another: it disappeared from the first but never appeared in the target. In another, simply unequipping a shield caused it to disappear.

I believe this may have something to do with the other player (the host in both cases) engaging with a merchant or, possibly, opening the character sheet dialog as we were buying some new gear both times.

Both systems were running the release OS X version.

acdha

Update: this happened again while simply swapping out an equipped item with the now-gone phase dagger

Gate70

Hi @acdha‌
Issue #9982 covers clients moving items as the host saves. If your wife had the shield "in the air" during a save, that's this cause.

If you can work out a case that repeatedly causes this issue e.g. around stores we can get it logged and investigated. It may be that there are several issues, e.g. at a store, 2 players putting items in one bag of holding, etc. so fixing one scenario might leave others.

If you can get a case, a format such as shown in the example below would help us replicate it.
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/36148/how-to-report-bugs

Thanks

acdha

@Gate70: that's certainly possible. I'll try to see if I can reliably reproduce it.

acdha

@Gate70: after a bit more time, it looks like the only problem is #9982 – coordinating saves on the host seems to avoid all of the problems.