Alchemist's Boon crashes other clients

tl;dr
Alchemist's Boon causes party members to crash randomly.

It will crash Vulkan and non-Vulkan clients - PC AND Console players.

Crash to desktop - no error report.

Party members who crash will immediately crash again upon log-in UNTIL I leave the instance.
If I leave and re-enter the instance, they are able to log back in.
If I stay in the instance, they will just crash as soon as they log in to their character.

De-toggling Alchemist's Boon AFTER they crash still does not allow them back in - I have to leave the map or they are in an endless crashing cycle.

I can crash someone in their hideout as well as campaign and maps. Towns seem to be safe.

It does NOT require the use of potions or skills.
I will crash the party just by walking with them - no skills. No potion use.

I will not crash the party if I stay by the entrance portal (unless they crash at the start of map). Yet when they come close there is a good chance they'll crash.

It does NOT involve Companion Beasts, Nurturing Guardian or Eternal Youth. I have tested with and without all of these.

It does NOT crash me (gtx4080, Ryzen 9 7950X, 96gb RAM - Lowest graphics settings in-game)
I know of one other person it does not crash (GTX 3060, 16gb RAM)

It crashes the entire party usually (but not always) at the same time - often in waves of 1 to 2 players at once. When the crashing starts, within 10 seconds they're all offline.

I have tested over a dozen hours (literally over two-dozen hours now) to finally find and confirm these things.

My character is Big_Thinker - a Ranger Pathfinder.
I stripped her gear to a new character - Huntress - and have the exact same problem. Character name: Raspy_Yuten


Original Post:

My Ranger, Big_Thinker on Dawn of the Hunt standard league crashes other people I party with.

When I join a public party and enter the map we play for 3-10 minutes. Then the entire party crashes, one or two at a time.
The crash repeats the moment they try to login with the same character on the same map as me.

We have tested with Vulkan and non-Vulkan clients.
The very moment I leave the map they can log in again - until then nothing they seem to do allows them back in until they time-out of the party.

I have tested with multiple parties, multiple people. Mostly randoms, but also with one friend.
It has happened throughout campaign, but I did not realize I was causing it until mapping.
It happens in parties of all sizes, from 2-6.


GGG can log in to my character, but I'll put a few details on her below:
Pathfinder named Big_Thinker
Two companions spamming Invulnerablity aura: Alpha Primate and Quadrilla
Alchemists Boon, spamming healing potions every 2s - mana potions every 3.5s to share for team.
A new unique, Starkonja's Head Leatherbound Hood.
Merit of Service Pelage Targe and the Keystone Glancing Blows


My party crashes weather or not I have my Invisible Dye on.
Thanks much :)

One more thing,
This has happened throughout several patches, not just the most recent two.
Since Dawn of the Hunt release, I believe.

Update for the day.

I crash people when I join their hideouts as well - the second I loaded in I crashed the hideout owner.

Several people (not all would respond) who've crashed have told me this hasn't been common for them until now.

The people affected seem random - sometimes the party is fine for a while. The longer we're on a single map the more it seems to affect folk.

I was just in a map for roughly 13 whole minutes before people started to repeatedly crash until I left said map.

When I dismissed my beast companions people still crashed.
When I cast no skills people still crashed.

I was in a party who I had already repeatedly crashed.
I let them run an entire map without me and no one crashed.
Then of course I left them to their gaming.

The people who crash have no error report or popup - just straight to desktop.

Adding this afternoon:
After crashing an entire party at once, one of them said it was his FIRST crash this league.
His /played was 2days 3hours according to him.

Alright, over a dozen hours later of testing - it's Alchemist's Boon.

I can run happily in a party with Alchemist's Boon toggled OFF.
Yet with the same team, the moment I toggle it on the crashes begin.

After a party member has crashed, toggling it OFF does NOT allow them to log back in. I still have to leave the map.

I don't have another character high enough level to use Alchemists Boon so I cannot test on other characters - but I'm 95% sure it's the reason for crashing party members.

If anyone else has Alchemists Boon - do you notice party members crashing more?
It surely can't be just me. I'll put a TL;DR at the top for the bug fixin' team.

Post 0.2.0f the crash still happens.

I created a new character - Huntress - and leveled her in hopes perhaps it was simply my old character.

I ran three maps in a row with a single team - no crashes. Yet just like clockwork, when I turned on Alchemist's Boon the very next map everyone crashed except me.

I now run my character as a rarity stacking block-share build. I've played easily 8 hours without Alchemist's Boon and have seen roughly 4-5 crashes in that time.
Yet I can't run 7 minutes with Alchemist's Boon without dropping the team.

If anyone on the support team sees this, please let me know what other testing I could possibly do, if any, to help the technical team out.

I do feel like I should bump this until I know someone up there sees it.

If I'm out of line let me know - I just think this is too important to get lost in the pile.
If this is happening to other folk using Alchemist's Boon, then it's got to be causing a ton of crashes.

I sure know I've caused many, many crashes just by myself.

If we're in combat, the people I crash often die. In Hardcore that really sucks, in Softcore it's just a bummer for the xp loss.

Let me know if any more testing can be done on my end...

This happened to me in 0.3 every day every map

Bug still exists in 0.4, a party member had it and was causing crashes to everyone in the party. OP's original symptoms description is accurate on our testing as well.