Vanquishing Talmark Wilderness

With the update early this morning, players are unable to vanquish Talmark Wilderness.

We are aware of the bug, and it will be corrected on Monday.

Apologies to those eager to vanquish this weekend.

Thank you.

Thanks Regina, we can always on you!

It'd be epic to get together a group of people who test out updates...So that obvious errors don't happen...

scratch that I'm copyrighting this idea...

Fail :P.

Shucks now I can't vanquish that place, even though I don't know where it is, or plan on Vanquishing it for that matter :P. Fun little scavenger hunt today though

big bug...

I don't see a bug in that screenshot tbh, am I missing something obvious?

I believe there are suppose to be structures of some sort in that village... not sure.

Top left corner = no Red Helmet and enemy counter? Although no telling this isn't in normal mode.

It is normal mode (check out henchmen levels)

lol......funny I like it...

She was hinting at the Shining Blade Camp I believe

Was kind of thinking the same thing myself.

I know right, and said group of people should have to vanquish every single zone, kill every single monster, and complete every single quest, just in case there is a bug. Amirite?

Yeah, if they're introducing a new game...if they're doing a major change to an area I will be content with them just going over that area with a fine toothed comb tyvm or at least...idk checking the little box that says hm before going there....just a thought...
They don't even have to kill shit to see it...just walk in, in hard mode and you'll see it...not that difficult...
Don't get the wrong impression...I love the game...I am iffy about anet...
But when you release an update usually you want to make sure obvious issues aren't there...
I would sex up every anet staff member if they did skill balances more often and did updates free of obvious bugs...

In other words take your straw men elsewhere...

Well thats ruined any chances of that happening then

I do agree though, making a significant change to one area means that only that one area or any quests directly related to that area would need to be tested.

from this update I would have presumed Talmark, Ice Chasms and HoM to be the three requiring testing,

Anyways, I'll go look at the camp next week sometime, its not like there are any new quests to be picked up there.

Yes this is a game breaking bug, but if you ever wrote code you be more understanding. You could be changing code on "A", that as no relation what so ever to another "B" and all of a sudden "B" code won't function. Then you have to go through line by line trying to figure out the conflicts/issues.
A game like Guild Wars as untold amount of lines of code, predicting something like this Hard Mode bug in the one area would be nice but, not realistic.

I don't know if the "Test Krewe" only test skill updates, or everything but if the group of volunteers are involved in this not doing a good job in helping Anet out then. That's if Anet gave them the job to test the area. Just saying this because it's their job to spend hours on end playing/testing the game for Anet.

<---is in college for game design (or at least attempting to earn money to go back to college xD). I know that games like this are HUGE code-wise... but that doesn't excuse letting a huge bug through I don't expect them to look at the code and magically say "hey look, I RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOed up there" (and I mean he's not gonna say GO RED ENGINE) I expect them to have people testing these things since they don't have an open test server

yeah...

I would even except if they explained a reason...like they noticed it and fixed it...but accidentally put an unfixed version of the code...or something got RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOed up between the test server and the live server...It's just that bugs just seem to become prevalent with all the updates..

Uhh....Did they take the Shining Blade guys out until they could fix the bug? Went down there with a guildie just now and saw this:

(nobody home!)

I heard a rumor you have to complete eotn for it to appear however I haven't confirmed such...have either of you not finished it?

That must be it. He hadn't completed EotN on his character. I just ran back down there solo and the Shining Blade were there.

There are two different versions of Talmark.


The original-




The modified version with the camp-



Just by that it should be easy to tell if the camp is going to be there, without actually running to it.