Update - Monday September 17

FelixCarter

FelixCarter

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/Me

Bug Fixes
  • In the Slavers’ Exile dungeon, the entrance leading to the final boss, Duncan the Black, will now be closed unless all party members have completed the appropriate steps in the quest "The Last Hierophant."
  • Removed a graphical glitch that appeared while viewing some Norn bridges in first-person view.
  • Fixed a bug in the Eye of the North quest "the Asura Trap" that caused Justiciar Naveed to drop the Grimoire Arcanum before reaching his destination.

Sergeant of Marines

Sergeant of Marines

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

Japan

[트두므s], Guild Leader

Mo/

About time they fixed that Slavers' bug...

fRag_Doll

fRag_Doll

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

Australia

Prid of Ankh Morpork [Prid]

W/E

Quote:
Removed a graphical glitch that appeared while viewing some Norn bridges in first-person view.
Poor Bald-naked-guy, your life was so short.

cellardweller

cellardweller

Likes naked dance offs

Join Date: Aug 2005

The Older Gamers [TOG]

Quote:
Originally Posted by fRag_Doll
Poor Bald-naked-guy, your life was so short.
Its not length that is the measure of a life but rather the number of people that have seen your kenmound. I hope he rests in peace.

Croco Clouds

Croco Clouds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Montreal, QC, Canada

Divine Illumination [LaZy]

E/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by fRag_Doll
Poor Bald-naked-guy, your life was so short.
At least we have his picture, he'll be remembered forever!!!

LONGA

LONGA

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Thailand

Agot

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Croco Clouds
At least we have his picture, he'll be remembered forever!!!
Ow, I cant use that "Bigfoot in the bridge" trick anymore.

Roshi_ikkyu

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

Mo/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by fRag_Doll
Poor Bald-naked-guy, your life was so short.
He will come again, sometime when you least expect it he will appear and the truely blessed will see his presence and they will know, its all about the kenmound!

chowmein69

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

the naked guy is gone , luckyly i still have a screen shot of him

Winterclaw

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

W/

I don't want to know.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

...amazing. Game-breaking bugs, poor AI, unbalanced drops abound and they focus on an exploit into slaver's and a naked dude in a bridge that you'd have to be QUITE BORED to find without being told it was there.

Mind boggling.

Skuld

Skuld

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

A/

Game is rated 12+, can't have nudity in it. Cope with (afformentioned things), or have GW's servers shut down?

Boops

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2007

N/W

he wasn't any worse than a ken doll

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

Okay they fixed the naked dude. Fine. But in the last two major updates they fixed exploits that pretty much kept people from being required to spend more time/money on the game, rather than fixing the game so those that don't have as much time to play can have a more enjoyable time of it.

Anet loves the hardcore players with no lives, although they said the game was for the casual player.

Which is it?

King Kong

King Kong

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by A11Eur0
Anet loves the hardcore players with no lives, although they said the game was for the casual player.

Which is it?
Depends who is asking them it, at the time

Gli

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by A11Eur0
Okay they fixed the naked dude. Fine. But in the last two major updates they fixed exploits that pretty much kept people from being required to spend more time/money on the game, rather than fixing the game so those that don't have as much time to play can have a more enjoyable time of it.

Anet loves the hardcore players with no lives, although they said the game was for the casual player.

Which is it?
Casual players don't run the same dungeon cookie-cutter style over and over again. This bugfix doesn't inhibit casual players in the slightest.

Longasc

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

I am still missing the bugfix that adds around 12 more explorables and 1-2 dungeons of FoW/UW/Urgoz/Deep caliber.

Basically, the shameful lack of content that became obvious after the preview weekend. We all knew that GW:EN is only an "expansion", I was still shocked how unfinished and few content we got.

revelation

revelation

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

Slavers' Exile is already overfarmed, onyx gems dropped in price for 50%, deldrimor armor for heroes can be bought for few k's too.. It doesn't make big difference anymore..

Effendi Westland

Effendi Westland

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Isle of the dead

[DVDF][LDS]

P/W

^ You missed the part where onyx' nearly doubled in price?

rangersaurus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

The GW community as a whole boggles my mind. After GW:EN comes out all people were doing is complaining about how the drops suck, then we (the community as a whole, I never did the quest) find a quest that can give decent drops in a reasonable amount of time. So what do we do... complain about it and get it changed. I guess people can go back to complaining how the drops suck now.

Esan

Esan

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2007

Wars

Quote:
Originally Posted by rangersaurus
The GW community as a whole boggles my mind. After GW:EN comes out all people were doing is complaining about how the drops suck, then we (the community as a whole, I never did the quest) find a quest that can give decent drops in a reasonable amount of time. So what do we do... complain about it and get it changed. I guess people can go back to complaining how the drops suck now.
Ah, but the people who complain about drops are not the same people who complain about "exploits".

lucifer_uk

lucifer_uk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Nottingham, England

The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL]

R/

Sad to see the naked man go... Guess next time we could see him will be in GW2 with a new graphical model?

thezed

thezed

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

Iowa, USA

HoTR

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esan
Ah, but the people who complain about drops are not the same people who complain about "exploits".
And that is why this Slaver's situation is a perfect example of "You can't please them all."

Anet needs to continue to take our suggestions but to make changes when, where, and how THEY see fit. Everyone probably wont agree with all of them, I havent, but the game will be better for it. I would rather have game development professionals, who are also players, making the call then a bunch of angry message board posters.

Vanquisher

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2005

Herts, UK

One Hitter Quitters [QQ]

Slaver's fix sucks. Should allow you to continue fighting Duncan without having to do all the other bosses again. So boring.

Antheus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esan
Ah, but the people who complain about drops are not the same people who complain about "exploits".
The people didn't complain about the dungeon.

They complained about people making money off taxiing.

Some just find it incredibly offensive that someone should find a way to make money that doesn't involve picking up 104 gold pieces at a time.

Gli

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

How about, some people saw a bug being exploited, and reported it? Nothing more complicated than that?

Darkobra

Darkobra

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

E/Me

It was obviously a bug.
It was obviously going to get fixed.
End of story.

Davros Uitar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Fool Wolves

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkobra
It was obviously a bug.
It was obviously going to get fixed.
End of story.
This pretty much sums it up for me.

I did have fun reading the other thread where people tried to justify why it wasn't a bug. Most of the excuses showed that given enough self interest and benefit you really can convince yourself that black is white.

Logically it was a bug, Anet called it a bug, but I epect all the logic dodgers will complain for weeks and call it a nerf.

seut

seut

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Europa

Quote:
Originally Posted by Davros Uitar
Logically it was a bug, Anet called it a bug, but I epect all the logic dodgers will complain for weeks and call it a nerf.
Bug or not, i don't care. The shortcut's effect was: low price onyx gems and hero armor. It eased up the stupid grind that the Hall of Monuments is.
Now the game is back to stretched grind instead of actual content.

Sub Frost

Sub Frost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Portugal

R/

Funny how every one in the party needs to have all the 4 bosses/quests completed before duncan... but only one person is required to have completed "A Time for Heroes", to allow access to the "Elite" Slavers' Exile.

Darkobra

Darkobra

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

E/Me

Why would you need a tutorial area for an EXPANSION? One that you MUST be level 20 to get to!

Diddy bow

Diddy bow

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

Jawsome!!!!!!!!!!!

looking for one :p

A/D

nooz naked man is teh gone!

On a less important note looks like onyx might have some value again.

Sub Frost

Sub Frost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Portugal

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkobra
Why would you need a tutorial area for an EXPANSION? One that you MUST be level 20 to get to!
What are u talking about?

Darkobra

Darkobra

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

E/Me

Seut's post. He said they didn't make the tutorial for an expansion so it would save them money.

darktyco

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

Wait- I thought the fix just blocked access to Duncan unless all party members had defeated the other 4 bosses.

Does this also mean that each time you kill Duncan you need to clear the other 4 bosses again?

Darkobra

Darkobra

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by darktyco
Wait- I thought the fix just blocked access to Duncan unless all party members had defeated the other 4 bosses.

Does this also mean that each time you kill Duncan you need to clear the other 4 bosses again?
Yeah. Then your quest would be completed and you'd need to start over.

seut

seut

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Europa

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkobra
Seut's post. He said they didn't make the tutorial for an expansion so it would save them money.
The time saved for not needing to make a new tutorial island should have been converted into additional lvl20 content areas... This didn't happen. Content was scrapped to reduce production costs!

Anet's argument for an expansion was: No new professions and tutorial areas frees up development time for high level content. That was a lie!

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

Someone pointed out this quest acted similiar to SF / Final Assualt quest.
I do think anet intended to implement the way it went live but did not forsee how the players would use (7 team + 1 runner) so they changed based on the response of the players actions.

Also due to running, trying to find a pug to do all 4 was hard because everyone was looking for runner.

Is it true that 1 hour you can clear all 4 bosses?

darktyco

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkobra
Yeah. Then your quest would be completed and you'd need to start over.
I was thinking you could just neglect to cash the quest reward in but still have Duncan spawn.

Winterclaw

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Seut
Where did my money go?
Into Anet's/NCsoft's pockets. And to the few people that actually contributed new things to the game, like the norn warrior armor, the heroes, and the handful of new mob types (destroyers).

kmburton

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

Texas

Heroes Etc. [HeEt]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by EternalTempest
Someone pointed out this quest acted similiar to SF / Final Assualt quest.
I do think anet intended to implement the way it went live but did not forsee how the players would use (7 team + 1 runner) so they changed based on the response of the players actions.

Also due to running, trying to find a pug to do all 4 was hard because everyone was looking for runner.

Is it true that 1 hour you can clear all 4 bosses?
No, more like 4 hours to do the whole thing, now. Over, and over, and over. But, we have plenty of time till GW2.....