MegaDkm Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Short version.. i waited 15 mins for the JAWA balloon and went for a ride to the datacrons, about 5 mins before the balloon was at the sandcrawler the balloon disappeared completely and was nowhere in sight, leaving me stuck in the desert, because when i tried to move my character or the camera i/it would get moved back to the place it was 1 sec ago. Anyone tried this or was it a onetime thing that happend to me?? Edited January 20, 2012 by MegaDkm typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabekah Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yeah just happened to me about an hour ago, on the thing again now - seamed like when it despawned it appeared at the start as I went back there to find it sailing away. Going into the 2 hours of my life wasted categtory if it despawned again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karkais Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 You guys should certainly bug report this. I have heard the same thing happened to a guildie of mine. I flew the route all the way to the datacrons myself once, but that was at least one patch ago.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dardove Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 It has happened to me on two different characters. Further attempts on the same characters had no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikkeos Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 AFAIk it happens to disapear in about 1/3 of the flights from watching it from afar or falling down myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayrik Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 It disappeared on me too. I just used the force push method :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sconnoll Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I had this happen to me last night moments before we were over the datacron. The guy with me was telling us about it happeneing to him before then ppof, happened to us. We sat there for like five minutes dumbstruck...I'd like that 45 min back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyreblade Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I've done the balloon ride three different times, with two different characters. The first time, with my smuggler, balloon disappeared and we went sailing to the sand below, ouch. Ran back to the original site and waited for the balloon to come back around. Made it to the datacrons that second time. So my Bounty Hunter reached Tattoine just last night. Was getting ready to do some questing, when a couple of players mentioned in general that the balloon disappeared from beneath them. I thought it would be the best time to try for the balloon, as the thing had bugged just before. I mean, hey...bugs can happen two or three times in a row, I'm sure, but my smuggler got the datacrons successfully on the second go-around, so maybe my hunter would get lucky, too. And it worked, first trip on the balloon and my hunter received both datacrons. Felt bad for the guys who refused to try the balloon again, though. Enjoyed the trip with a very quiet level 50 Merc in the balloon with me. Watched a tv show while I waited. Life is sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
restlessone Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 This is still happening. Just wasted an hour of my night and right before the drop point, poof. The balloon disappeared and I was seeing red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex-Rolo Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Happened to me also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenovan Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Short version.. i waited 15 mins for the JAWA balloon and went for a ride to the datacrons, about 5 mins before the balloon was at the sandcrawler the balloon disappeared completely and was nowhere in sight, leaving me stuck in the desert, because when i tried to move my character or the camera i/it would get moved back to the place it was 1 sec ago. Anyone tried this or was it a onetime thing that happend to me?? Well, the bold part definitely sounds like an issue, perhaps with your latency? Generally when folks get dumped off, they just move along. As far as the balloon itself goes -- I've seen someone elsewhere on the forums describe the issue as a "1 3/4 circuit". So, the balloon starts at the start point, goes successfully to the datacron crawler, comes back to the start point, goes most of the way to the datacrons and disappears. It then reappears at the start point and resumes its circuit. After having this happen, I'm wondering if it might be a "2 3/4" circuit, or put another way, as someone said above, the balloon dumps folks 1/3 of the time. My friend and I had to dedicate a whole evening to this; he caught the balloon while I was doing other stuff AFK, then got one of the datacrons and missed the other. He met me at the start point, and we caught the balloon on its next go-round. It dumped us out. We walked back to the start, saw the balloon leaving by the time we got there, and waited again for it to do its full circuit. We caught the balloon when it returned and made it successfully to the 'crons that time. So out of 4 circuits in a row, 1 of them was a drop. Anyone else have any multiple trips in a row to report on? ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoug Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I just rode it with a guildmate of mine after the most recent patch and had no problems whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProxEnmity Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Well, the bold part definitely sounds like an issue, perhaps with your latency? Generally when folks get dumped off, they just move along. As far as the balloon itself goes -- I've seen someone elsewhere on the forums describe the issue as a "1 3/4 circuit". So, the balloon starts at the start point, goes successfully to the datacron crawler, comes back to the start point, goes most of the way to the datacrons and disappears. It then reappears at the start point and resumes its circuit. After having this happen, I'm wondering if it might be a "2 3/4" circuit, or put another way, as someone said above, the balloon dumps folks 1/3 of the time. My friend and I had to dedicate a whole evening to this; he caught the balloon while I was doing other stuff AFK, then got one of the datacrons and missed the other. He met me at the start point, and we caught the balloon on its next go-round. It dumped us out. We walked back to the start, saw the balloon leaving by the time we got there, and waited again for it to do its full circuit. We caught the balloon when it returned and made it successfully to the 'crons that time. So out of 4 circuits in a row, 1 of them was a drop. Anyone else have any multiple trips in a row to report on? ;P Word for word, this happened to me exactly. I made the first trip, missed the jump-down data cron, went back a second time, balloon despawned before crawler, went back to launch point, balloon was already out of reach, waited for next one/danced with Republicans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarnieTsk Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Happened to me a few days ago. I put in a ticket. In my case, it definitely seemed related to latency somehow. While waiting for the balloon, my latency was fine. Four blue bars. The very instant the balloon appeared in the distance, my latency plummeted to one red dot and then a red X, and remained that way until I got dropped from the baloon. I jumped on the balloon and rode it for about 10-15 minutes, then suddenly found myself on the sand below (no fall damage), watching the balloon sail off in the distance. I couldn't move my character at all. Couldn't even turn around to look behind me. My character kept snapping back facing the balloon. The really curious thing is that the instant I hit the sand, my latency jumped back up to 4 blue bars. I tried relogging to get unstuck but that didn't work. Fast travel cleared it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquarra Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I've had this happen to me many times. I've noticed when I did drop, people had companions out and or were spamming AOE skills to be annoying. When this did not happen I made it across just fine. You should still report this as a bug though, it's quite annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethHoover Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Latency can definitely make the balloon disappear. I've noticed it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxxJXTxxx Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I've had it happen to me on two characters. It seems to occur just as you change areas, so I'm guessing it has to do with that. Reported it both times it happened. I've spent about 6 hours on the stupid balloon on all my characters, and half of it has been due to the balloon despawning and resetting back to the first sandcrawler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohnoto Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 You can actually get to the datacrons without the use of the balloon. I created this short guide to doing just that at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarshr Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 LOL okay so i just tried to get this cron for the frist time in like 2 years.....it got about 10m away from the pick up spot...... despawned lol.....its still......bugged...... :| bring a friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyTokemi Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 well seems the glitch is back just vanished on me in game on shadowlands server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exosasa Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 well seems the glitch is back just vanished on me in game on shadowlands server Do a bug ticket and leave this long-dead thread at peace.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyMcNeely Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Can confirm this is still an issue. While waiting for the balloon, I just saw it disappear about 10 seconds before reaching the entry sandcrawler. Fix, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tverdislav Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 2016 The balloon still disappears!!! Grrrr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjoren Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 It was just about at my pick up point and vanished, so I waited for the second round, and it worked just fine. I did report it as a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeneas_Falco Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I had the balloon disappear on me once before. Of course it was after waiting for what seemed like twenty minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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