Official Bug Reports from Factions & Head Start Event

I don't think it's really a bug...but I can't find the reward guy after Into the Whirlpool. Only thing left to do, then I'll have beaten all the kurzick stuff. Starting on Luxon now

After the 2 updates I am still having lag/freezing problems with the etnaran pvp mission with the many players. I have never had problems like this where i lag so much that my entire computer freezes. I am using a ATI graphics card and this problem arises both when I am in the mission and when I am forming a group. I have been playing all day in other areas of tyria and cantha and have not had this problem except in etnaran alliance battles. If anyone else has had this problem with a ATI graphics card and were able to fix it, please tell me what you did or if I could get a post from a dev if they are working on some lag problems in that area. I havent been able to complete playing that battle all day through 5 tries in which each time i had to restart my computer. Any help would be appreciated on whether its my bad computer, maybe a connection problem (i highly doubt) or some bug. Thanks and great job on all the other stuff you guys did for us for free this weekend.

I have nvidia and I too am getting the lag. Just so many people playing is part of the problem. The attack the Kurzick bug for the last group was horrible. didn't spawn till I left the area and had to run back down the mountainside to fight them. Won though and that it all that matters.

Fissure armor in Cantha. I didnt know that was possible......
I saw warror and Necro standin next to eachother, and i took a screeny, and ill post it in a sec

when i lay a spirit with my rit, if i lay that spirit again it kills the first spirit.

This is normal. This was an update a long time ago where you can no longer spirit spam, it sucks sometimes, yea, but its for a good reason.

My bug report - this happens in both profesies and factions but ive never reported it - some Monsters show that they have no health when the really do and it doesnt update at all. It seems to happen more in factions.

i had a problem with the kill the Kurdziks near the Turtle hatchery (cant spell it which is why im doing Luxon quests).

The groups either werent spawning or were taking a very long time to do so, standing at the green marker did not result in a group - only when i moved so the marker was off the map did a group spawn.

The last group did not show up so i headed the direction that the others came from - the teams Ritualist had been casting spirits that had blocked the path - the AI eventually made it through in ones and two but was quite easy to ambush the split up group even with the boss.

In the courtyard to the north immediately outside the Altrumm Ruins, while attacking several mobs, my character's shadow flickered like crazy, in a manner obviously not intended. I was playing a Ritualist in a party of all henchies with a couple of spirits running, and it happened with each mob encounter - once the battles were over, the shadow would stop flickering. Totally repeatable behavior, and I've not encountered it anywhere else in the game, either in the FPE or in Prophecies, so I doubt it's my graphics card.

Not read the whole thread so not sure if anyone else has had this...

Created a As/Rt and when I hover the mouse over the skill I have in slot 7, I don't get the skill description pop up...I get the current weapon slot details!! If I leave the cursor there, after about 15 seconds, the skill decription appears, but then it reverts back to the weapon slot details.

Also found that when I was clicking the skill in slot 7, it wouldn't activate 90% of the time and I had to use the keyboard.

Only with slot 7 though, all others seemed to work. And here's a screen shot of it. Unfortunately, you can't see the cursor in the image, but I double checked that the cursor was over skill slot 7.



Rich

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature...

When doing the recruit 4 new people quest in the Luxon area, I collected all 4 of them then headed back to the Recruiter. The recruits are a bit slow, so I got there a bit ahead of them. I started the conversation, noticed that the recruits weren't there yet, so waited for them to arrive. They stopped a short distance away, but when I tried to complete the quest I was told I had not finished it. Looking around, I now had 1 recruit and 3 peasants! I went off to collect them again, but no luck - they were not there any more.

I had this bug a few times, when I was out on various PvE areas. With the assassin when I Death's Charge to an enemy she starts running back to the location you casted it instead of attacking it. /doh
I've encounterd this a few times now, in various areas. It isnt very harmful tho, but it really ruins the suprise attack.

In the competitive mission areas such as Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry, you cannot form a party to return back out the warp. This means you have to teleport to the closest previous town to do so, which is very annoying.

Also, not really a bug, but there should be some sort of timeout for the healer hench if its the only one alive, and its not rezzing. How annoying is it when healer hench just keeps running round in circles cause it cant decide who to rez, and you have to restart the whole mission/quest cause you dont respawn!!!?!??!!!

Bug: Complteded the whirlpool quest but when i tried to zone to the next area by talking to the guy, it sent me back to the armory.

I found out what's up with the missions not working

http://www.guildwars.com/events/inga...onspreview.php
'Story Missions: Experience two of the missions that let you participate in the quest to stop the traitor Shiro Tagachi. Visit the outposts for Eternal Grove and Gyala Hatchery to jump right into the storyline!'

So anywhere else that had a Enter Mission button, apparently the button isn't supposed to work until the retail release of the game. They have recently removed the Enter Mission button in the areas that aren't supposed to have it, so that kinda helps...

Too many pages to read here, so i might write about something someone already wrote, but:
A few times when i fight monsters their health doesn't show, and when they are hurt enough they just die. Sometimes their health starts showing a few minutes later.
One time i was walking with a henchie party and suddenly i stopped moving and all of the henchies were standing where i was at the same spot. The henchies kept spreading around and coming back, but even when none of them were where i was i still couldn't move (not with the keyboard and not with the mouse).
And the funniest thing.. The image of the item 'Writhing Focus' is actually a head of a builder-guy with the text 'Under Construction'...

O and another minor thing.. The animation of the cape for a ritualist when he's sitting is really not smooth, looks square and not smooth on his back.

I already complained about this once, but it deserves another complaint. Shadow Stepping needs a fix. Sometimes you get stuck either in a wall, or with the feet burrowed under the ground. It's really annoying since nothing helps. Rebirth perhaps, but no other res, and shadow stepping your way out of there doesn't work, and Rebirth requires you to die which isn't always possible.

This is a wonderful game extension. For those that don't know me, I hate to use a mouse; I have very painful wrist problems and mice hurt. So, my primary problem /w the game is mouse oriented. Most of these are old issues, but they are now more important /w good use of Factions.

1. With the 12 person party, I need to be able to set F9-F12 to choose members of my party from 9 to 12.

2. (old issue) Please assign ALT+F1-F12 to pick *opposing* team members. One of the big problems with spirit spam about 9 months ago was that targeting a particular opponent was very burdensome: you had to tab through a sea of spirits before you got to your victim. This is specially difficult for mesmers and rangers who are often switching between 2-3 targets rapidly. With Factions, this problem re-emerges due to the large number of players (12) and all of the damn spirits: in one match, there were over 40 spirits.... it would take up-to 4-5 seconds to find a particular non-called target via the keyboard!

3. (old issue) In order to use ashes, I need a keyboard hook so that I can drop ashes; at this time I simply cannot use 1/3 of the ritualist skills. This is an old issue, since I've occasionally wanted to drop the flag with the keyboard, but there doesn't seem to be a way.

4. (old issue) I would like a keyboard mechanism to drop the most recent maintained enchantment up. At this time I cannot use "Holy Veil" or "Watchful Spirit" (and I often play a monk). In factions there are more skills like these - and it would be nice to be able to use them.

5. (old issue) I have no easy way to select the guild lord /w a keyboard. What would be nice is a way to TAB through "allies" that are _not_ party members. This would also allow me to target pets, minions, and spirits for healing. With the new Ritualist spirits, this is increasing in importance (in a similar way, it would be nice to have a way to tab through enemy spirits and non-player allies).

6. (old issue) Just by calling a target, your pet and/or henchmen should charge. At this time, you have to bring an attack skill or use a wand to engage them - and it's not the best idea if your character is "defensive". This was always a problem, but for Ritualists, it is even more important.

I'm sure there are more keyboard related issues. If you could just assign a developer to work on them for a day or so it would be excellent.

:S this morning i came onto the FP event, and all was fine, small lags, hardly noticeable..

i came back on about 3, 4 hours later and ...my game refreshing frames very visibly, i turn and i can see all the lil frames, and its incredibly laggy,full colour.. thats when i play in a window

but when i do full screen, no lag, nothing at all....BUT...im playing in black and white..

anyone know whats wrong?

I think my lag problem is caused by sound, now I have to turn the quality all the way down to play smoothly.

yes alt +F1-F12 for target opponents.. just dont target #4

but yes overall i agree with some of your requests
being able to map keys to aprty memebers 9-12 would be good
being able to assign a key for drop item would be good since i already have a button to target nearest item on ground

My report
1
Vipers defence ,the one that if enemie hits you, you get teleported and enemy gets poisoned, doesnt poison the enemy - At least not for my Mo/a

2
In the area with "wardens on march" IF one attacks the enemies on the bridges from below, it glitches quite alot, and it looks like the characters are battling an invisible foe and attacking downwards.

here--fissure in fpe

I just used Death's Charge to warp to a Naga. There was hill between us and he was standing close to the edge of it. I got warped onto the steep slope of the hill (the part where you're not supposed to be able to walk) and got stuck there. I tried dying/rezzing, using Death's Charge to get back off, nothing. Had to use map warp and lost all the progress I had made towards my quest.

Not exactly a bug, but definitely a faulty animation for a ritualist holding a spike club -- see the screenshot.

I totally agreed, same happened to me in beginning of 12 v12, just had to wait for us to win, you know cant quit the team..its the difference between men and boys..so it was v. frustating

When a female assasin uses kindle arrows it doesn't show a casting animation.

Quest: Into the Whirlpool can't be finished. When you talk to the Acolyte to warp you to Waking Waters, it begins transporting you, but then switches you back to Vasburg Armory.

I am at factions level 5100 for the luxen and I cant get any more.

I am not able to get/find anymore quests and none of the merchants or traders will talk to me on the luxen side so I am not able to buy or sell anything.

Not bugs per say:

When I first enter the armor color and body scale selection screen of character creation the character and body scale meter appear small. If I click next to go to the next screen and then click back to return to the armor color and body scale selection screen the character and body scale meter are much larger. See the attached screen shots.

Secondly, when I first log into guild wars, all my characters appear at the selection screen with head gear visible. I have my head gear hidden in game. After I play the character, log off, and log back in, that characters head gear is no longer visible at the character selection screen.

The game once said: You cannot cast spells when obsidian flesh is being used"(yes, if I use it) but as i am a fire elementalist, i don't even use that skill. I also don't know how it is actually triggerd, but it appeared when i holded the kurzicks supplies, was under attack and tried to cast a spell.

The healer hench also thought that it was better to run across half the map to res some random hench instead of ressing me...
I WAS lying about 2meter from her

That new earth elite (can't recall the name, but you get it if you have ele as proffession) says it does 5 damage to adjenct, nearby, in the area foes, But isn't it supposed to become weaker with greater distance?

Henchies tend to go "flying" if you are close enough by a wall.


The other ingame stuff was just great

Where did you get this quest from?
I havent seen it anywhere.

i had a problem of when i walked outside market palce with some henchies they started to attack me it was the tengu one i havent got screen shot but i can always get one

Me too! It pisses me off. I want my glowy hands! I paid for 'em, and thsoe darn Rits have 'em without any bugs...

EDIT: Sometimes Shadow Stepping just won't work! It says my target is invalid, when I'm targeting another player in PvP. Wtf?

Little graphical glitch I've encountered with my 6600GT

Location of Bug:


What bug looks like:


The same location a few steps forward:


This appears a few other places nearby, so it's likely one huge surface. When above it, it looks like the surface of a murky, shimmering pool of water, but once you get close enough, it just vanishes. I've seen this when designing levels in Unreal Tournament, but I don't remember what caused it. I don't see any real purpose for this particular surface either.


Also, not really a bug, but:

Location:


That's one HUGE step to take!


You can walk up it just fine, but it looks like there should be one more step.

Wow, that is huge. Is that in alliance battles only? Still though...the potential for abuse.....

dunno if posted already (to many posts to read through) but you can do more than 135 dmg with the ritulist spell doom to certain targets ...but only 135 to others

What are you talking about? Prophecies characters can join Alliance missions via their Guild Halls, but they cannot play any other part of the FPE. That screenshot seems to be from an Alliance mission town.

That bug has been there since around the first Preview Event. Some people blame it on Dat file corruption but I blame it on poor coding in the loading screens.

That's huge then, you can transfer items from Cantha to Tyria very easily then. Amber and Jadeite anyone?