First, I'd like to preface this "guide" with the heavy emphasis on *THIS HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED TO WORK 100% OF THE TIME FOR EVERYONE* Have you or a friend experienced the infamous Zakum "3rd Body Glitch" where after the Blue Lightning move (the move that locks your skill) your Zakum ends up looking like this?: [P.S. I have also noticed that when experiencing the 3rd Body Glitch, your interface will be messed up. This includes your inventory, key configuration page, menus (where you GFX), etc.]** https://prnt.sc/g6vzrh [CREDITS TO THE ANGRY GUY WHO GOT HIMSELF MUTED IN THE SHOUTBOX] Tired of losing buyers and attackers during your Zakum run? Well look no further, I'm here to help you out with my advice. Heed my words, friends. I'm currently playing MapleRoyals on a ~$1,000 USD rig that I built and bought parts for myself. I know there has been rumors and talks about how MapleRoyals runs better on "old rigs", etc. etc. blah blah blah, but forget that talk, we're talkin' business here. I, like many of you, have suffered from the 3rd Body Glitch where I disconnect when the 3rd body is about to die. I know, heartbreaking innit? I'm a superstitious guy (or girl, who knows?! Don't assume my gender or you'll -TRIGGER- me), so here are the following 3 easy steps that I have taken to ensure that I do not disconnect and look like a filthy casual pleb. 1).Upon taking the Mystic Door ("Door"), immediately relog and walk back to Zakum's Alter from "The Passage" [Don't be lazy, do it]. As of August 11, 2017, entering the Mystic Door can cause portal glitches that will prevent the player from entering any other portals until a relog is done. This will also ensure that your client will refresh and reset. 2). Always, and I repeat, always, play in Windowed mode on the lowest graphic setting. If you experience the Third Body Glitch even after you relog, do not panic. The first thing you should do is GFX to refresh your page. If you are a seasoned Veteran, you know that GFXing solved a lot of disconnect issues in the old source. Although GFX issues have mostly "been eliminated" in the new source, I heavily recommend GFXing when you experience the Body glitch. After you GFX, you should notice that your interface will be restored to normal, and you can now navigate your inventory and system option menu page without anymore visual bugs. Credit to Jeen here: If you notice your interface is messed up when you're trying to GFX, you can: change your graphics with just your keyboard. Esc > Up > Up > Right (Or left if you aren't playing on lowest settings). 3). Pray to God you survive till it dies and at least get the EXP if you do disconnect when it dies. Happy Royaling and hope this helps. Please comment below with your findings and suggestions. Good luck. - Lolitrap Update Log: August 11th, 2017 - Removed all caps because it was driving me nuts. Today I bossed again at Zakum both times and survived both runs. Method seems to be maintaining consistency and have not experienced any issues disconnecting since adopting these two easy steps. August 24th, 2017 - Have not experienced 3rd Body Glitch since making this guide. Seems to only happen when playing in fullscreen mode. Would heavily suggest only Zakking in windowed mode.
You can change your graphics with just your keyboard. Esc > Up > Up > Right (Or left if you aren't playing on lowest settings)
August 24th, 2017 Update: Staff has stabilized bossing greatly. Have not heard or seen anyone disconnect from Zakum in a while. If you continue to D/C @ Zakum, please let me know how and when it happens.
I have had the 3rd body issue today. Both runs lost to it d/cd as it died and the ui was missing like the IMG. Crappy part it was 11pm for me but 4am server time so I can't even try again basicly for 2 days. The first time it happened I did no set up or relog. The second time I reinstalled maple, clean booted, disabled sli (780s on most recent driver) ran windowed on lowest settings, gfx at arms and all body's, and it still happened. This enraging experience has turned me off playing for a while given my entire weekend I cant Zak and I don't play during the working week. #feelsbadman #ripzhelm #refusetolvlpast50withoutit
I'm sorry to hear about that. May I ask which OS you're running on and whether or not you played in Windowed mode on the lowest quality setting? Also, I usually always GFX during the third body at the first weapon cancel. It instantly clears up any FPS issues I have that may lead to a disconnect.
Thanks for the info I will be sure to consider it on my sext run. I am running windows 10 64bit. The first run was full screen max settings no gfx, second run was windowed min settings and gfxed.
As an update I was able to complete zakum today in windowed mode low setting and gfxing. On another note though I do have 4k monitor. I down scaled to 1080p before launching maple so it could have been that. The client doesn't like being ran on a 4k screen? Unconfirmed but worth a shot if you have the same issue as me and run 4k
I don't think the resolution has anything to do with it. But congrats! I'm almost certain that the 3rd Body Glitch is mostly caused by playing in full-screen mode. Unsure why, and this is unconfirmed, but every time I've ran Zakum on full screen I've encountered the 3rd Body Glitch. Definitely would always recommend playing in Windowed mode for all future runs.
Yea I feel you but windowed mode on 4k is tiny lol. I can fit 12 instances of maple on the screen almost lol.
I did 3 runs and DC'd every run. 1st run I did not gfx as it was my first run in 2 years and I didn't think it would happen. DC'd after zakum started flickering at the last body part. 2nd run there was no flickering at all. I DC'd right when the 1st body changed to the 2nd body. I GFX'd right before the changing of the body. 3rd run I DC'd at the last body part again. I had to AFK for the last body part and when I returned I was already DC'd. I played on windowed mode. My OS is Windows 7.
