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Hayato 4th V skill increase memory usage per cast

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edited March 2021 in Bug Reporting
Bug type:

Skill-related

Brief bug summary:

Using the Hayato's 4-th V, instant slice, increases the game's memory usage permanently by at least 6MB per skill cast.

More details:

There has long been a suspicion that using this skill cause our game client to mem-leak faster. After monitoring the memory usage of the game with Windows Task Manager, I found that the memory usage increased by 6 MB ( at least ) per cast.

Please note that this behavior differs significantly from that of other Full-Map-Attack like skills. For example, using Falcon Honor ( hyper skill) and Summer Rain ( 0-th job skill ) also increase memory usage by 2MB and 8MB respectively, but only temporarily, as the usage drop back after the effect ends.

The following link is a video of proof of increasing memory usage by casting this skill alone. It should be readily observable how the memory usage increase after each cast of instant slice.

https://streamable.com/d74rnr

I've also posted this issue on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/lzwd6n/how_to_permanently_increase_your_memory_usage_per/

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have a 5-th job Hayato with the 4-th V node
2/ Keep using the skill