Official Bug Reports from Factions & Head Start Event

Merry Madrigal

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Xen of Onslaught

Mo/Me

Collect them all here.


Zos Chivros Channel mission is bugged. When players try to enter it says, "Can't enter between levels 0 and 0".

Joh

Joh

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Sweden

Lucid Dreams [LD]

Actually, it says "Only players between level 0 and 0 can enter." Not the opposite.

Another bug: Sometimes Death's Charge puts you inside a wall. Only way to get out is to die. Happened 3 times to me already, and using it again to get out doesn't work. Same goes for Heart of Shadow.

edit: The biggest problem with this is when you're playing with henchmen. Before you even have a chance to die, they for once do what they're supposed to do and make sure to kill everything, just so you'll have to start all over.

Sidra

Sidra

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

CT

NITE

R/

Divine Aura on the assassin female only adds a shuriken-red-star to one hand, and the right-handed one just floats.


When I went to get my secondary proffesion, the man gave me a longbow, but it didn't say "A/R" until after I had left the area and gone to a new town.


I only got to play a little bit before going to work (where I am now, waiting for a download of a software trial) so that was all I could find. I envy all of you who are able to play for most of today.

Dahnel

Dahnel

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Rt/Me

when you try to attack whilst hexed with binding chains you get the message "Pacifism prevents you from attacking"

jajo

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

DirectX 9 is messed up beyond belief. Everything on my screen just goes mad with lots of yellow squares everywhere and i can not see any of the windows such as party or my skills. Then it tells me DirectX 9 memory buffers is overflowed and crashes the game.

This started happening yesterday before Factions was open.

I have a 6600GT, Athlon 3000+ XP, 1 GB RAM.

Aeon221

Aeon221

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

[TEW]

N/

I know some! The comp missions reject everyone and say that there is no opposing party. I figured this was just the Luxon base being flooded so I went to the Kurzick base (which is harder to get to and a bit emptier) to do the mish and... same thing. Not sure if its a bug, but don't plan on playing the comp missions anytime soon.

Neither of the coop mishes works, but all the new necro skills I've tried _seem_ to work.

Vampiric Swarm has me wondering though. I only see 1 damage indicator that squares with the spell (even though it says it hits multiple targets) and I do not recieve health (even though the skill says it steals X health).

Oh, and lag is sometimes pretty heavy, but thats just the flood effect.

chikorita23

chikorita23

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Canada

DOI

E/Mo

When I press keybroad H, for hero's stats and attribute. Odd enough the menu is rather small and it only show ONE attribute at once, and I have to score down to view other attributes, very very uncomfortable that way.

I believe it's a bug, as my guildie doesn't experience the same thing I did.

sax_dude1

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Thin Red Liners

R/E

Just watch where you step... I couldn't move for the rest of the match. And I also couldn't be killed. At least we won.

Wrath Of Dragons

Wrath Of Dragons

Burninate Stuff

Join Date: Aug 2005

New Mexico

E/Mo

Me and my friend were getting some strange lag. Sometimes we would freeze completely (not both at same time) but when they clicked on their frozen skill icons, from the other persons point of view, they atually did the skill.

Wrath Of Dragons

Wrath Of Dragons

Burninate Stuff

Join Date: Aug 2005

New Mexico

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by chikorita23
When I press keybroad H, for hero's stats and attribute. Odd enough the menu is rather small and it only show ONE attribute at once, and I have to score down to view other attributes, very very uncomfortable that way.

I believe it's a bug, as my guildie doesn't experience the same thing I did.
did u try dragging the lower right corner down to resize the window?

Enix

Enix

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

I am in a transitional period.

GRE

Not a "bug" per se, but super annoying:

When you are carrying somehting, you cant instruct henchmen to attack even if you cast a spell on a monster - like when you are carying ashes. You HAVE to drop your ashes and wand them.

SirJackassIII

SirJackassIII

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Belgium

none

N/E

Don't know if it's a bug or not, but some outposts (Jade Quarry) don't have henchies in them, and going in there with a full party makes them dissappear. It pretty much makes you go back to the last outpost to get a party again to finsih those quests, since you don't survive for 5 seconds.

angshuman

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

There is a significant frames-per-second drop in The Marketplace with certain view angles. Not a bug exactly, but I'm sure some amount of optimization could be done. At first I thought it was the textures loading up for the first time, but I have verified that this is not the case - the FPS drop is consistent. I have not seen an FPS drop anywhere else in any Prophecies or Factions areas.

My system is an Athlon64 3500+ with a 7800GTX 256 and 1GB RAM, and I'm running it with all settings maxed out in DX9 mode.

Celeborn

Celeborn

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

England

Gameamp Guides [AMP]

Mo/Me

In the House zu Heltzer (or the place nexto to it) you can go to the edge of the map, and theirs just endless sea. O_O

You just walk through one of the portals and you don't teleport anywhere.

CKaz

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2005

Faction unlocks - YOU CAN'T UNLOCK DAGGER MODS (!)
However all the skills are there for all the classes.
Without any dagger mods not much of a PvP experience for em...

felinette

felinette

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Girl Power [GP]

Me/

Not sure if this is a bug, but last night I picked up the luxon quest in Lion's Arch, and then I ran into the baddie I was supposed to kill far, far away from where the location was marked on my map. Killed him and nothing happened. Check the name twice, three times. Yep, this guy has the same name, but he's in the wrong place.

Quote:
Don't know if it's a bug or not, but some outposts (Jade Quarry) don't have henchies in them, and going in there with a full party makes them dissappear. It pretty much makes you go back to the last outpost to get a party again to finsih those quests, since you don't survive for 5 seconds.
This has been happening in prophecies, too, to some degree. Not that outposts have no henchmen, but that when you enter or travel to a town or outpost, some of your henchies can be dropped (and not because you're moving to/from places that allow different party sizes--assume same party size). Usually it's only one or two henchies that go missing, but if you don't notice and leave, it's annoying to have to go back to get them.

Flaygor

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2006

Mo/Me

I noticed the quest where you have to collect recruits just keeps respawning if you complete it. Just keep doing it for mega faction XP

TurinPT

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

not really a bug: ashes act as a keg/torch, it draws all the agro... rits are not made to tank.
Should be fixed IMO.

Lucifer PVP

Lucifer PVP

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Refuge From Exile [RFE] Refuge-From-Exile.com

W/Mo

This morning i have been hearing alot of freeze ups and other graphical issues.
i have had none of these issue with my 7800gtx at all but mainly the people in my guild having the issue have an ati 9800 xt card.

Everyone having problems have the latest dx drivers or video drivers?

TB_

TB_

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Most issues can easily be fixed with getting the latest drivers, ESPECIALY for nvidia owners.

Here is the bugs ive seen:
* Party sometimes reorders at will in zone changes
* The whole decompression engine..... yeah, you know what I mean.
* We have a screenshot of a friend who dropped infinite longswords, there was the word longsword to the sky, and a massive haybail of a glitterball for all the items.
* Path finding is broken in some areas.
* Rather than saying someone is loading in, when you backtrack through a zone, the player still loading are put into a seperate party and left in the zone.
* Sound engine is bad, really bad. Every 30mins or so, I hear the sound quality lower, get more hissey and less detailed until it actualy crashes and random sounds is all I hear, takes a restart to fix it. (Audigy 2ZS latest drivers). Also, most of my guild has reported missing sounds, sometimes no sound at all, on various cards from highend to motherboard.

So far, everything else seems okay given the events staus, but I gotta say, I dont know if the devs planned the line on the map to bend that much as it isnt getting longer to cover the extra area.

Kali Ma

Kali Ma

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

N/Mo

Don't know if it's a bug or intended...

Ritualist spells when cast on allies have no arrow indicator unlike enchantments and hexes do, which makes it very difficult to gauge if/when they're working or not. I took a skill set to specifically buff and heal teammates, but it was pretty much impossible to know whether I was actually doing anything or not... at first I thought the spells were actually broken.

Tv-set

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

E/

It seems to me that when you are adventuring with henches and attack monster not all henches attack same monster. Bit annoying since i have come to trust them to do that. I am not 100% sure thought.

Hamumu

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

Temecula, CA, USA

Hamumu Clan

Mo/Me

Seems that you now have to call targets to get henchies interested. You can do it while holding ashes, though. I've had henchmen standing around as I was pummeled until I called a target. This is probably an improvement (and good teaching for PVP) - as long as you realize you need to do it!

The Luxon quest to kill Kurzick scouts reappears after completing (if you leave the area and return). Intentional? Seems like awfully easy XP.

I have had some occasional sound issues ever since the 'improvement' to the sound. Lesson: if it ain't broke...

TB_

TB_

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Replace it with a better one... then fix it

felinette

felinette

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Girl Power [GP]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucifer PVP
This morning i have been hearing alot of freeze ups and other graphical issues.
i have had none of these issue with my 7800gtx at all but mainly the people in my guild having the issue have an ati 9800 xt card.
I have a 9800XT and had no problems this morning.

josh axiom

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Team Quitter [QQ]

A friend and I had the very same issue several times yesterday. Occurred twice during a GvG, actually, which was rather irksome. The entire screen simply locks up - as if a screenshot has been taken and frozen for me to stare at. I play in a window, and fortunately I found that if I minimize and re-open the GW window, it rights itself. My friend plays full-screen, though, and didn't have the same luck - he dropped from the GvG trying to get the problem fixed. It continued to occur several more times during the night for me, and while it's quickly fixed with the minimize-maximize trick, it certainly has the potential to mess you up at just the wrong moment and cost your team a match.

Aart Snikkelbaard

Aart Snikkelbaard

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Utrecht

Dutch Royal Assasins - [DRA]

N/Me

Cantha character help-message:
"You need better armor.
Travel to Ascalon City to craft one"

or something...

Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Joh
Another bug: Sometimes Death's Charge puts you inside a wall. Only way to get out is to die. Happened 3 times to me already, and using it again to get out doesn't work. Same goes for Heart of Shadow.
We'd love to have some more information:
  • Is this a targeted teleport?
  • Or a random teleport?
  • What mission or explorable area?
  • Can you cause this to happen?
  • Can you give us a screenshot here in the forums? I think maybe that's not possible in which case, can you grab a screenshot and save it? Then, the best thing to do is to send a Support ticket (via the link on the official site, www.guildwars.com) and ask that they "escalate to Gaile Gray, as per her request."
We would really like to nail this one, so please send it along.

To the others sending bugs, I think I'm going to start an official Bug Report Thread so that we can have one concise place to put all such reports. I think that having an official thread would be easier for people to spot, and I bet Inde or another of the good GWG folks will even sticky it for us!

Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

Please post all bugs you experience during the FPE here in this thread. You can help with providing: Location, whether it is repeatable or random, a full description, profession, and any other details.

Thanks so much for helping us out!

azuresun

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

WV, USA

Spirit of Elisha [SOE]

Me/

I had problems turning my character left or right this morning (7AM EST) in the FPE while running forward. Instead of turning to the left or right when I press the 'A' and 'D' keys he strafed like I was pressing the 'Q' and 'E' keys. It has also been happening to me in the Chapter 1, so I do not believe it is related to Factions specifically, but a Factions updated maybe. My first encounter with this was around 8PM EST March 22 around Quarrel Falls. It seems to happen randomly, but fairly often. The link below is to an earlier thread on this topic.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=142665

EDIT: In the FPE, It occured various times on my way from the Market Place to Cavalon while I was doing the Luxon quest from the Market Place. My character was a male A/R.

Sidra

Sidra

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

CT

NITE

R/

During the Female Assassin's dance, the divine aura (unlocked if you have the collector's edition of Guild Wars Prophecies) of the assassin only shows a red star in the left hand. The Right-handed star just randomly floats about, following the hand for random seconds at a time.


Also: When I first changed my assassin female to the ranger secondary proffession, I got the skills and the bow, but I was not able to get my party window to display A/R to anybody, even myself, until after I had unlocked one of the towns that wasn't the marketplace or explorable land.



Sidra.

Bale_Shadowscar

Bale_Shadowscar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Manchester, England

New Dragons [NDR]

The Kurzick Mission "Altrumm Ruins". When you click ENTER MISSION It says "Must be between levels 0 and 0 to enter"

Unless this is intentional?

Also, one of my henchmen (healer) got stuck behind a wall in the explorable area north of that mission, although I think thats a random bug, not repeating.

Pandora's box

Pandora's box

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Netherlands

Mo/W

I am neutral and doing quests for both Luxon and Kurzick. In Cavalon i have access to all shops but in House zu Heltzer shopkeepers refuse to trade with me telling its only for Kurzicks and their allies...

audra

audra

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

N/R

The henchmen like to use Rebirth mid-fight. Surely that's a bug

Minus Sign

Minus Sign

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Mo/N

Audio and subtitles are on and off during the cinimatic for the 1st Luxon mission. There's also a video glitch when you see Togo in the cinimatic (he has a spasm).

Sniper22

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

I dunno if this is a bug, but this game gets really laggy unless I turn my sound quality way down. Never have a problem in gw when its at max quality.

DJ Josh

DJ Josh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

my faction gain for luxon has stopped at 6750 so i can not finish the befriend quest.also the clock keeps resetting in the enter tab missions,says there is no opposing team so is it broke or has no 1 started the kurzick side of the fpe ?.

for the fpe can't wait for the real thing.

Mercury Angel

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

Not sure if this is actually common elsewhere, but the Illusion Henchman casts hexes on Spirits, which of course has no effect. I watched him spam away his energy casting Conjure Phantasm
I'd imagine this isn't limited to him; because of all the new spirits and spirit-using monsters, I'm encountering it noticeably. But, I couldn't really say if that's the case always. [Perhaps not a bug so much as a horrible AI flaw]

audra

audra

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

N/R

Is the 'Luxon Supply Lines' quest from Supplymaster Keleos supposed to be repeatable? Because it is. Easy xp/faction.

Libitina Nefarious

Libitina Nefarious

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

WI

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bale_Shadowscar
The Kurzick Mission "Altrumm Ruins". When you click ENTER MISSION It says "Must be between levels 0 and 0 to enter"

Unless this is intentional?

Also, one of my henchmen (healer) got stuck behind a wall in the explorable area north of that mission, although I think thats a random bug, not repeating.
A lot of people were having that problem with the mission...I thought we wre able to do them?...also I wasn't able to add people to my party in a mission area..I had to leave, add people, then run through the portal with them in my party.