Guild Wars 2

And now we waste more time … fighting the hologram …. which cannot be killed

I love ya anet…. but if i made this many mistakes at work… i would be fired.

just saying

Yep. South-west Prime Hologram goes invulnerable instead of entering phase 2. GG anet, your lack of QA strikes again.

Confirmed on Crystal Desert that this is the case. A little frustrating, but there’s always next attempt!

JQ confirm.

15 scarlets

I wonder how much of the two weeks we’ll lose to broken content this time.

Confirmed on Gandara as well. The Prime Hologram goes invulnerable when it should be splitting into the three holos.

really wish brokenet would release a patch without bugs.

Warcry.1596:

Confirmed on Crystal Desert that this is the case. A little frustrating, but there’s always next attempt!

Did you say that last time as well, when the lights did not spawn? And will you say it after the next bug? And the next?

This is my first time, but I don’t let things like that bother me. It’s here for two weeks, I know the issues will not last the full duration of the Living Story. I’m not the type that HAS to get EVERYTHING done the first time, patience is a virtue =)

Baruch Bay confirm.

Anet test your crap just this time, please. I’m tired of beta-testing.

Warcry.1596:

This is my first time, but I don’t let things like that bother me. It’s here for two weeks, I know the issues will not last the full duration of the Living Story. I’m not the type that HAS to get EVERYTHING done the first time, patience is a virtue =)

When you have limited time to play, these bugs are an absolute killer. And they are in every single patch Anet releases.

the worst part …. is that this was supposted to be an “epic” ending

Worked just fine on the first attempt after the patch and got stuck on the 2d try

Zin.1673:

Worked just fine on the first attempt after the patch and got stuck on the 2d try

Exactly what Becka said would happen.

Same here, Hologram in the instance bugged. It wouldn’t be nearly so annoying if ArenaNet didn’t decide to hide the story behind this annoyingly difficult content. I get a group who were well on our way to beating it and it bugs outs.

In the meantime everyone is giving away story spoilers in map chat which you need to keep watching to have a chance to do the content to see the freaking story. This was not great planning ArenaNet, in fact it was abysmal.

DoctorOverlord.8620:

Snip.

in case you didn’t see my other post. you can skip the boss fight n all buy picking up the spinal back (all you need is the basic which costs like 5g if you buy the mats) go to the diving goggle spot in LA and enter the portal

Monadproxy.3489:

DoctorOverlord.8620:

Snip.

in case you didn’t see my other post. you can skip the boss fight n all buy picking up the spinal back (all you need is the basic which costs like 5g if you buy the mats) go to the diving goggle spot in LA and enter the portal

Really? If this is not a troll post, then you have my sincere thanks and I will certainly try that. And I will congratulate ArenaNet on providing an option (most) every player can do to see the story.

It would have been helpful if they told people about this alternative. I didn’t see it in the patch notes and it was not obvious on the map which is cluttered with icons for this event. Players don’t have telepathy with the devs, helpful things like this do little good if they are not explained in the game.

ya, that how ppl know the ending even tho its almost impossible to do the boss fights

They did tell the player (in a way) without being spolier-y. One of the achievements in the meta is to talk to the Lionguard right outside that portal. And the achievement tells you where the lionguard is. True, it requires some connecting the dots, but if you went for the achievement for the Lionguard, you talk to her, check the portal, etc etc.

Not saying “you should look harder” but rather “anet is trying to provide ways to help, but walking fine line of being spoilerific.”

Because if they just flat out said: “use this portal to skip the fight!” then everyone would be griping " Why put in the fight??" or something like that.

Its always like this first days then all run smooth,just gonna say thx Anet for those awesome free updates

Killface.1896:

Its always like this first days then all run smooth,just gonna say thx Anet for those awesome free updates

Every game has free updates…with much more content, these updates include little content with no replay value but farming.

Sororita.3465:

Killface.1896:

Its always like this first days then all run smooth,just gonna say thx Anet for those awesome free updates

Every game has free updates…with much more content, these updates include little content with no replay value but farming.

Most games have DLC that cost few dollars,just name one game that give 2-3 free updates per month.

Killface.1896:

Most games have DLC that cost few dollars,just name one game that give 2-3 free updates per month.

Per month? Not sure, but when other Mmo’s come out with updates, its more than an hour’s worth of play.

Fox.8957:

Not saying “you should look harder” but rather “anet is trying to provide ways to help, but walking fine line of being spoilerific.”

Because if they just flat out said: “use this portal to skip the fight!” then everyone would be griping " Why put in the fight??" or something like that.

People would still do the fights for the rewards. There is no danger of that content being ignored when it offers loots.

There is no spoiler in telling players about the option. If you don’t want to skip to the end of a book, you don’t have to. But if a player has limited time, only wants to see the story and doesn’t care about the loots, or they are on one of the servers having difficulties finishing the fights, this option is a way to let them see the ending before the story really IS spoiled for them by the various posts in forums not to mention mapchat on overflow.

But ArenaNet decides not to make it clear that the option is available at all. The hints you mentioned are a terrible way to communicate this option to players. There should be no ‘connecting the dots’.

My client crashed in the middle of the final cinematic cut-scene after I had gone through all the LA and hologram fights. It was sheer luck that I knew about the portal prior to that, otherwise I would have thought that I needed to go through all the fights all over again just to see the ending. This kind of critical information needs to be shared with players, not hidden behind ‘hints’.

The portal is a very good idea but the best idea does not do any good if it is not explained. ArenaNet has been having this problem since GW1. They had the problem in GW2 with the things like Dodge mechanic where players did not even know about it because the game didn’t tell anyone. ArenaNet needs to spend less time hiding important information and more time explaining it.

Killface.1896:

Sororita.3465:

Killface.1896:

Its always like this first days then all run smooth,just gonna say thx Anet for those awesome free updates

Every game has free updates…with much more content, these updates include little content with no replay value but farming.

Most games have DLC that cost few dollars,just name one game that give 2-3 free updates per month.

Problem is you need to quantify the amount of content. 2-3 free updates per month that only add 1 new quest is not nearly as much content as a new raid every 2-3 months. Almost any F2P mmo keeps pace with Gw2 in terms of content/month, they just add the content in 2-3 month patches instead of every 2 weeks. This gives them more time to actually test the content. The thing that makes gw2 arguably worse though is that 75% of the content added is temporary. I mean out of the last 3 months of patches we only have Wurm(that no one does) and EotM. If we bring class balance into the spotlight then ANet is absolutely glacial.