In the final area of the brimstone spookat prestige mission, I picked up an ember for routine candle lighting. Suddenly every enemy in the candlestick arena stopped moving. I was still able to move around, but I was unable to throw the ember. I could switch my weapons (oddly enough with the ember still above my head) but could not fire any of the weapons. Then all at once I was dead and the enemies were moving again. Strangely, the usual countdown timer never appeared, nor the dialog box that asks if I want to revive. I stayed dead on the ground for well over the usual time limit, and my chat box seemed empty of the usual guild chat leading me to believe the chat was affected as well. I had previously noticed that the Black Kat I killed did not drop any pages, even though it was the first kat on that stage. Eventually, I was automatically logged out with a 'disconnection from server' message.
Experienced death without a countdown timer or the ability to revive
I would agree with you If I was having these same issues in all missions of the game, but this only occurs during the prestige mission. Since the issue occurs ONLY in the prestige mission, it is not a symptom of internet problems. I want the pages associated with winning this mission, but I don't want to waste any more ce on an unplayable floor. I also completed this same mission when it appeared ~3 days ago without issue, so the problem is recent.
Just some issues I'm having in this quest:
turret fiends shooting invisible bullets
turret fiends freezing in place after being shot, instead of chasing me
materials staying on the ground after being collected
near continual skipping about every 2 seconds (again, only in this quest, not in others)
erratic timing between the time a switch is hit and a gate opens (did not happen in munitions factory)
enemies appearing suddenly out of nowhere (not to be confused with enemy spawning)
and other really weird things that are making this quest unplayable.
The fact that I got server disconnected is not the cause of, but likely a symptom of, whatever oddity is going on in the prestige mission. It's likely that the disconnect was for 'idleness' from being dead for a long period of time, which was a result of previously mentioned bugginess.
Sure, a glitch only you experienced on a mission everyone is playing.
It's lag. Everything you describe happens when lagging too.
If it only happens on this level, the best I can think of is that your game got corrupted when updating. In such case, reinstall it.
this happened to me just now. Enemies started freezing so I knew it was a server disconnect. But I got reconnected a few seconds later and the timer appeared.
"I was automatically logged out with a 'disconnection from server' message."
So that's what happened. Your game went crazy because you lost connection with the server.
It's not really a bug. It's the internet.