Guild Wars 2

My game client crashed at the very end of the event too, just as our group entered the cave. The strange thing is that I was disconnected 3 or 4 times during the fight but was able to return fast each time. I must also admit that somehow I was put in the same overflow as before and allowed to continue the event. Sadly this didn’t work for the final crash which was actually the most crucial of all…

Well I wasn’t disconnected, but I died in a place I was afraid I wouldn’t get revived, as Ancient Karka was going back down the ramp, so I ported to the point lion waypoint and started to make my way back, and it was defeated less than a minute later, with me out of the event range, no credit for all the work I’d done, and by the time I got back the chest had already despawned.

I can understand you don’t want people “tagging” events as they run through on their way to somewhere else, but when a certain amount of effort is accumulated, whether or not you’re inside the event zone (or even logged in), you should be eligible to collect rewards commensurate with that effort. Two hours of work (or more) with no reward is not the way to run things in a game.

Yesterday when i was playing with my guild killing the Ancient Karka i was suddenly booted out and i couldn’t join back in i spent 3 + hours doing that event and ending up with no chest

I was part of the fiasco late last night… three hours just for them to announce a new build right when we start burning the boss down. We killed him with just enough time for maybe ten ppl to get the chest.. then the server goes down… I think the routine maintenance reason pisses me off most. I don’t care how they excuse this or fix it or anything. I’m done after that crap. The anet from GW1 is definitely gone, along with yet another player (and gem store customer)

I played the third part on Sunday, and it was quite fun. It was really cool to be blasting through the event and just going crazy. My only gripe was the very end, because I was unfortunate enough to die under lava during the final battle. It seemed like it was a “trap” and part of the event, but with no way to get a revive under lava I was forced to respawn. I don’t know if it was just the way the mob progressed because I had to respawn @ camp karka(captains retreat). There was no way to make it back through mobs that had respawned to help finish the fight, or get back to the chest reward. I was bummed by that. Maybe if I had played in the zone before-hand I could have gotten Owain’s Refuge which could have helped. But overall it was fun, just no reward.? I could even see the chest on the map where the ancient karka died, with no way to get to it.

Phase 1: Horribly lagged with invisi death all over the place but I gave the benefit of the doubt as I could see what they were aiming for and the idea was good. Scavenger hunt bugged badly – so much so that even after the “fix” I couldn’t get the items after Canach as the NPCs were broken.

Phase 2: OK, getting a bit peeved now… The LA portion started half hour late on the overflow I was on. This meant the port to Southsun was up BEFORE the fight took place. Broken your own story line!
Southsun was good, really liked the Stepping Stones JP!

Phase 3: Are you kittening me? Over 2 hours of combat to get DC’d and further kittened by the login servers not letting me reconnect! The rest I can forgive and forget but now I’m reading reports of people getting precursors in their chests? If I’d actually managed to get to the chest, I wouldn’t be bothered if I didn’t get one, it’s the luck of the draw but getting kittened by server side issues? That’s pretty BS. >_<

Froze up with 4 secs to go and a ‘finish them’ interact window showing, and no loot on return, i did note to Support as well. My wish is NO bonus consolation blabla weekend please, just check logs or codes and mail an Event comparable random chest like they do on daily’s for instance. We hung in there, respectfully asking your help!

Booted twice

once from the original overflow i was in

then once again 5 hours later in a different overflow

total time wasted with no reward was 6 hours …
:(

well i think they should make it run for a few days and make the reward chest one time thing per account, that should fix alots of problems. i got DC 2 times, each time ended in diferent overflow where people where slower so i did some parts 2 times so at the end i just give up. i hope i can redo it if there is gonna be something like that

Here’s my two cents. No, I don’t think my story differs substantially from others, but I want to write it all down for venting purposes.

Ok, first off, I have been busy with law school recently and with Halo 4 out, I left guild wars 2 for a little over a week. I had no idea what was going on when I logged in on friday.
I got a little caught up on what had been happening, and what was planned, but I didn’t make any special plans. I didn’t even look up when the one-time event was going to take place. I figured whatever the time was going to be, I’d probably have some opportunity to participate.
So I get home and turn on my computer for the first time that day and my razer naga decides it doesn’t want to click anymore. Like for real, doesn’t click. That upsets me, and for a while I try and fix the kitten thing. I eventually give up, and use my old mouse.
By that time, my server has already killed the boss. I don’t really care. Then I find out about the loot. Now I care.
So I get in a group with a guildie. He’s in an overflow where the event is stil running. I try and join his server but don’t get there until its over
I have to sit through all the guild chat spam of their loot. Frustrating.
Then another guildie has a second working overflow. I actually get in on that one, but its slow going. My computer is nice, my fps never drops, and I don’t detect any real lag. This, I figure is the experience as was intended. I’m excited to get my loot, even if it does take hours.
Then my guildie’s client crashes. Uh oh. Well my rig won’t do that to me, right? It doesn’t for a time. Then it does.
Somehow I manage to get back in that same overflow. I figure my troubles are through. I’ve crashed but I’ve made it back on. Times are good.
Then the clock strikes 10pm and my client crashes. Not to worry, if I get back on fast, it’ll be no worse than last time right? False. Everyone crashed, overflow access is gone to me and my party.
At that point I’m tired of this noise, so I try and find a grp for fractals, level one. (after all, I haven’t had much time to play) And cannot find a grp for level one, everyone is on some higher level. Ok. That’s lame.
Then I find out that there are still overflows running the event, so I try and get on one of them. It takes me forever, but I do get on one. They’re not far from where I was before at 10pm when everyone crashed. This, I figure, is my reward for having faith. Nope.
We’re told the servers are coming down for maintenance. We were at the time aware that the maintenance was an issue, but thought we had more time. So that’s lame too.
TL;DR:
I don’t know if I liked this whole event. The fractals are cool. Still love the game. No, I’m not really complaining about the quality of the one-time world event, because I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a good one. I just feel I’m entitled to loot.

I DC’d mid-event and couldn’t log back in because the login servers were down. I hope I get some kind of reward because it seems like everyone who got the chest got a huge chunk of gold and I’m just sitting here empty handed after playing the most laggy event ever for just over one and a half hours.
I’d be happy with the 20 Slot box alone…

Add me to that list. DC’d 3 times, all a file error. Repairing the install not a timely option. Each time, I reconnected in a new overflow that was further behind in completion than the last. After final DC couldn’t get back in. Event over, no reward, huge repair bill. Events over and no more file errors.

Add me as well about 4-5 hours of work and nothing! Dc’d 3 x as well lol

Yup, throw me into that mix as well. Utterly deflated to be honest. Feels like there was just no reward, just repair bills.

As I said in the beginning of the thread I crashed out in at the end of the event and when I quickly logged back in it was over. I didn’t get anything for my 2hr+ effort.

Well last night some of the EU servers were still running the event. I was lucky enough to get added by someone and give it another shot, (hey I think I deserve it right) and well… it happened again. I logged back in and the overflow I was added to had killed the ancient. All I could do was laugh… and then I went to bed.

Add me to the list also, crashed multiple times over the course of the event only to get moved to overflows who were at completely different points in the event. Last crash was at 11/12 explosive piles, got back in and it was over. No reward at all for me, just hours of wasted time and 50s in armor repairs.

Has there been any official word about this?

I was lagging since the beginning of the event but I wanted to see how it ends. The worst is that I was kicked by the game during phase 3 and couldn’t log in until the event was over – no reward I lost 3 hours and had to repair my ruined armour! I’m curious – is Anet going to do something to compensate people like me?

FatCity.7359:

Add me to the list also, crashed multiple times over the course of the event only to get moved to overflows who were at completely different points in the event. Last crash was at 11/12 explosive piles, got back in and it was over. No reward at all for me, just hours of wasted time and 50s in armor repairs.

Has there been any official word about this?

Yeah
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this

Hey Anet for a laggy crashy event that I didn’t get the end reward for can I get some love? like a 20 slot and karka exotic? I did kill a bunch of Karka and all

I was disconnected on second reinforcement phase first time through had to restart over since I no longer could rejoin same overflow. Then I was later diconnected prior to receiving my chest on a new run.
Other then that I believe the amount of time + effort contributed to the event was worth the rewards, providing you received them. And I would like to be added to that list.

Some problem here… many disconects… many overflows…. no reward its a very sad 4 hours for nothing…

I, like most people, crashed at the final cutscene as the Ancient Karka died. And guess what? The log-in server was dead. So all that grinding, all that suffering through intolerable lag … for nothing. Am I frustrated and rather upset? Hell yes. Do I expect ANet to make up for this? Hell yes.

As with a lot of you I did this event and spent over two hours doing it to crash and then reenter a new sever that had just finished the event ! What a wonderfully grand thing this was to get nothing for all that time and effort. Same with doing the new Dungeons I for one wont be playing any of thoes till its fix for its not fun being kicked back to LA once one guy is kicked!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this/first#post788769

I was unable to effectively play the final event due to many of the issues discussed on the forum.

Yep, just got DC as the webbing was being destroyed off the charges. Gutted, but appreciated the event overall.

AFRDZAK.4710:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this/first#post788769

Sweet! I got tossed from the server at the part where we were fighting the second wave of the ancient kakas minions, whilst pushing him back to his nest. Couldnt log back in for the rest of the night, and missed the final part (I missed part 1 and 2 to similar problems aswell)

I was doing the final event for 2 hours, so I got irritated when I suddenly couldnt take part any more, and not get a reward for my time (and all the coin I used for repairs).

I was also disconnected during the event after incredible lag issues on Sunday, so I got to watch my friend get to the end and score all the loot. Very frustrating.

Glad to see GW2 will be compensating those who were unable to get back into the event.

Same here, only my DC started with the Sound bug problem later on my Screen got stuck, and gw2 crashed back to desktop, tryed logging back in till 00:00 but geuss what no luck.. Deu to RL work i hade to call it a night, and could kiss my exotics and 20slot (kitten** expinsife) bag goodbye.

I know Anet made an official post now but still i cant press this evenmore further then this, We need/want our rewards. wasting time on a game without getting anything back is a waste of time especially waiting so long till the event to actually pop (21:00h Belgium) And then after a 2hour participation getting smacked out.

I hope that Arenanet do something for those half event was thrown out and then was prevented from returning (gave me error 42 that disappeared at the end of the event, after about an hour and a half of waiting).

i had the exact same problem.. dced right before ancient karka died.. i wasted 2 hours there with nothing to show for it but repair bills..

Same here ! I prepared for the event all week, and while i was pwning the big karka dude …. FREAKIN’ DISCONNECTION ! Came back praying and ….. kitten- Same story here ! _ _"

Same problem as everyone else. Tried the first time and got Dced, missing the reward :/

I was there since the start of the event , went trough all of the thing till the death of the Ancient Karka, when the cinematic started i was kicked out of the game and could not re-log back, it kept giving me a Log in error, and no, its not my pc, os, firewall or whatever. was totally on your part
Little is needed to say, that once i got back, there was no loot, chest or whatever after all that hell…
Thanks allot for getting my day ruined…
and of course i have no will , whatsoever, on participating on anymore events…

I read that official post and all I could think of was the old saying “the checks in the mail.”

With the number of server side issues during the event, and the fact that some people ended up doing the event on multiple servers because of disconnects and relogs, I doubt there is any way for them to truly gauge who participated and to what extent. Even if it was possible, do they have someone skilled enough to pull all that data out? I have serious doubts after the ridiculous number of programming errors during this short time event.

I’ll just write that promise on an ice cube and leave it at that.

Frankly, it’s too bad. NCSoft has had some games show real promise, but they, like most gaming companies, don’t want to invest a lot in games due to a fickle gaming community which is fickle largely due to companies not really investing in their games. The big catch-22.

All I can say is; I am not happy.

I have sent a support ticket i explained it there i will explain it here as well. So at first i wasn’t having problems the game went just fine,a little lag but im use to it.
After we defeated the karkas in the cave we kept dying and i teleported back to the nearest waypoint,it took me a while more than it does usually.
after we did the cave i mined the rich orichalcum ore and i was really happy since i got 70 silver in 30 sec.
Then we walked to the ancient karka the ancient was on 60% HP i was really enjoying event and i was really looking forward to it,then i got hit by it and i lost all my hp because everyone was busy fighting the karka and couldnt revive me,i decided to teleport back to the nearest waypoint,i did that and i was stuck at the teleporting screen for quite a while after 5 minutes i left the game and i tried to log back in and i couldnt,tried for a while once every 2-3 minutes,u cant imagine my face when i couldnt log in ! + i have evidence i was there with my guild leader and 2 guild mates if u dont believe me ( in the same overflow+party). greetz

im on far shiverpeaks my name is wanquisher

It’s going to be tough to figure out who were in progress, I really hope they find a solution. Especially like the server we were on, last step and all.

After finishing second phase I had to travel to wp and got stuck in the loading screen forever so I quit the game and started it up again, only to find out that I wasnt able to login…so Im pretty peeved :|

I feel your pain brother me and my Gf had the same issue . lets just hope it is sorted out . i worry as i didn’t think to take a screen shot , but did spend 2.5hrs on the event .

Holy smokes. I’m getting nowhere with this event. First I hit the Noll bug only to find out that the rest of the quest chain expired on time and was no longer available. Then I write about my problems with the boss fight and my forum post gets accidently deleted, for crying out loud.

Then I spend over 2 1/2 freaking hours doing the Boss event to where we are finishing up the last wave and the thing freezes except for me and one little guy hopping around. Eventually I get the message that I’ve been disconnected from the server.

I try to come back on and get dumped into an overflow until after the event finishes. GRRRRR….. I really wanted to see the end of that, not to mention the chest!

Made for a very frustrating weekend.

My story doesn’t differ from anyone elses.

Spent approx 2 1/2 hours doing the event, only to be booted just before the final phase.

Very frustrating, I have no luck with drops or pre cursors anyway but I was more focused on at least getting a 20 slot bag. Would have been nice to know that i had a slight chance of an expensive item anyways haha

Very disappointing on what was a fun event (even though the reinforcement phases were way too long) and has pretty much soured me on spending so much time on this game when it can all be taken away so fast and for no reward.

I hope we get a resolution posted soon as I am still feeling pretty bitter towards the whole affair. Honestly, I don’t want to play as when I did try everything just serves as a reminder about how frustrated and annoyed I am with the event… Needless to say it’s left a sour taste in my mouth that running around in WvW or even the new zone seems unable to cure.

They should check if us (victims) looted the chest or not
And dunno make like a time travel stone and mail it to characters
We use it to travel to that chest room then it poofs and good deal
At least let us do it onceeeee, compared to people who parked their chars next to chest and were keep looting and looting and looting on different overflows

me to sounds mess up then DC 2 and half hours for nothing

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this/first#post788769

With all the complains about people getting multiple precursors, I highly doubt they will compensate the people that didn’t get their loot with the same chest or same chance of getting the precursor as the event chest.

Yep, I got disconnected after getting to the final fight with the Ancient Karka. Logged back in and the Ancient Karka was defeated. Didn’t get to complete the event.

Step 1) Make Karka Acce. & Karka Bag & Karka Chest undestroyable.
Step 2) Make NPC in Lions Arch which will warp you to an personal instance map.
Step 3) Check if Account has Karka Acce. or Karka Bag or Karka Chest and at least 1 Level 80 Character.
Step 4) If Yes (Has Bag or Acce. or Chest or doesn’t have an Level 80 Char.) → Deny Access, else send to Instance.
Step 5) Spawn Event Chest in that Instance so you can loot it.
Step 6) ???
Step 7) Profit

There may or may not could appear more steps during this process, like still everyone is mad, or everyone finds a way to abuse this, or the unlikely one, everyone will be happy.

Eirik.9145:

I read that official post and all I could think of was the old saying “the checks in the mail.”

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The sorry some people didnt get to loot doesnt cut it, Anet needs to realise it dropped the ball big time and make sure the comunity knows they realise it.
Its not just dc’s during the event.
Its the idea of having a free play during a major event then not having the hardware to handle it.
Its the idea of having an event aimed at a percentage of the player base and telling the rest of the comunity “you dont live in the US we dont care”
Its the idea of haveing an event with huge disparity from normal loot and allowing some people to run it multiple times.
Its about pulling the plug on people who with help from kind guildies managed to get an invite to the event then wer not allowed to complete it.

Yes i would love the bag and the amulet i would certainly love a chest with a few gold items or a chance at Dusk but what i really would love is for Anet to state
“yes we stuffed up on multiple levels with this event, we offer a whole harted and abject appology to our loyal community, we will learn from our mistakes this time and will not repeat them”

I was rocking and rolling for 1.5 hours and was on last mission and whammo, me and 10 others got dc’d. By the time I got back on the event had restarted then it crashed again…ugh. I hope there is a way for the many of us booted to get some reward.