One Shots: WAR gets colorful

by Krystalle Voecks Jan 14th 2009 at 2:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, Warhammer Online, One Shots

Those weird and crazy graphical glitches keep coming in from Warhammer Online players. First we saw a guard in her skimpy nothings, then we saw some crazy rubberbanding, and today we've got a combination of strange missing and rainbow textures. This screenshot comes in to us from Kriestov, who notes the oddness: This screenshot [is] from Warhammer Online. Not sure what caused [this], but I had to close & restart WAR for it to go away! Looks kind of futuristic with all the weird colours - boyfriend liked it, I didn't at all!

For all that they are kind of strange, glitches can be kind of fun to look at - if nothing more, it makes you stop and wonder what the heck caused it! If you've run across any weird glitches in your travels - in WAR or elsewhere - grab a quick screenshot and send those in to us at oneshots AT massively DOT com. Be sure to add your name and the game it comes from so we can pontificate on what went wonky.

Gallery: One Shots

Tags: ea, glitch, glitches, kriestov, missing-texture, mythic, one-shots, screenshot, screenshots, war, warhammer-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Leshrac said on 3:29PM 1-14-2009

I decided to stop bitching about all of the little glitches and bugs in WAR and actually try and help address them. I submit anywhere from 1-2 bug reports per play session. Everything from mobs being stuck in terrain, bosses in tower BOs disappearing in the floor and resetting, rubberband looking chars/npc's, getting stuck on simple terrain, etc.

Flatlander said on 4:06PM 1-14-2009

The pretty colors you are seeing are generally used as a "texture not found" texture. They generally set to load automatically whenever a texture is not found, thus during the development process whenever you mislabel a texture name you will immediately notice that the texture you wanted to place is not there.

This looks like a case of where either WAR didn't load the textures properly while loading the area or corruption in the memory of the players computer causing the texture to not be able to load.

And now you know! And Knowledge is Power!

Evi said on 9:52AM 1-15-2009

Be careful. I started seeing those kind of glitches in WoW when my video card began to die...

mike said on 11:56AM 1-15-2009

I got this same texture problem after upgrading to the latest (november?) video drivers. Problem went away after rolling back to october drivers. Other problems such as video stutters every 15 seconds went away too.