BFD Zone Drop Freeze Glitch

[Domunique]

Anyway Ive been farming for a "Doomspike" and an "Axe of the Enforcer" in BFD for about 3 days now, these are the rare "zone drops" that have dropped for me so far:

- Doomspike (looted it)
- Onyx claymore
- staff of the blessed sear
- Martyrs Chain
- Tree bark Jacket
- Crested sceptre
- Grimclaw (looted it)

No axe yet

Anyway, I found this weird thing that happens on my computer every time a rare "zone drop" is in the process of being looted. Basically 100% of the time ill loot the corpse or someone else in my party will loot the corpse and my freakin screen will freeze for like 3-4 seconds!, then a blue zone drop appears up for loot. is this a coincidence? It didn't happen when blues like "band of purification" or "feet of the lynx" or "blackfang" dropped, ONLY when the zone drops were in the process of being looted from the corpse. This also Happened to me a long long time ago (last year) when a shadowfang dropped and a freakin warrior needed it off me, I had this 4 second freeze.

I know some people might think this is not worth posting but this freeze thing got me thinking, why does it freeze?, do rare zone drops have some sort of cooldown, or you can only get 1 per dungeon max? Is it run on some pure chance number generator system or is it partially organized?

like because it froze is it artificially put in their after a certain amount of time/gameplay/number of mobs killed?

Has this ever happened to anyone else? I just want to know is all

thankyou

 

[Skarey]

I've never had that happen, nor heard of it happening to anyone else

My best guess would be that those instance specific blues have a weird tag or something, and as they were never intended to drop in a cross server group, it sends more info to each player individually, as opposed to the whole group like normal, which might stress low end systems. Again, just a guess

 

[Domunique]

ok, I just had a evocators blade drop for me (BFD zone drop), and it happened again.. so yeh

 

[TaXiCaB]

i am farming zone drops right now on my ally rogue just to prove how OP these little buggers are


maybe because before if the weapon was "unique" that means you could only have one in the inventory(or equipped), and it would never drop for you again

they changed it now to "unique-equipped" so if it drops again you can see it and loot it

 

[Stamm]

I grabbed feet of the lynx for my ele sham on my first BFD run since no one else in the group actually needed it. No one greeded either, which i find funny.

 

[Baumbart]

It started happening to me like 2 months ago. Happens often when a new item drops (not just zone drops) but doesn't freeze for nearly as long - more like 0.5-1 second. I guess it's because the PC has to load a new item into memory.

 

[Vail]

An old Pc I had would freeze for a second whenever a rogue was approaching me from max distance in stealth... was like a 6th sense almost lol.