Guild Wars 2

I think we broke the META event somehow on Hendge of Denravi. We held the settlements for some time, Got credit for “Island defence complete” and have been retaking settlements the last 1/2 hour with no mention of the META. No queen has yet spawned.

I am here as well. We are very confused.

We held 4 settlements for enough time that the “Island Control” meta completed (I was awarded a bronze, no gold/karma rewards though). Then we stood around for a while longer, fended off Steampipe once or twice, and decided something was wrong after 20ish minutes. While we were standing around, there was no UI notice telling us about settlement control. It had left when we completed “Island Control”.

This whole time there has been an open chest marker on the map where the Queen is supposed to spawn. Does that have anything to do with it?

UPDATE: Just sapwned, many defence events still going tho.

Yep, it finally happened, but there was no Island Control UI note like I’ve seen in screens of the fight. Not sure if that’s a bug or not, but there’s the info for you all.

the respawn timer for the queen seems to be hourly. So even if you hold all the settlements she will spawn only once an hour.

I thought it was every 2 hours

Well in Northern Shiverspeaks all pre-events leading to the Karka Queen have stopped. All the settlements are overrun with Karka but there are no live events tied to it. On that note, the entire Southsun area is dead of activity as of this writing. On map chat, players seeking to finish their accomplishments were encouraged to guest on other servers by other players. All in all, it feels like a big mess.

slycere.1296:

Well in Northern Shiverspeaks all pre-events leading to the Karka Queen have stopped. All the settlements are overrun with Karka but there are no live events tied to it. On that note, the entire Southsun area is dead of activity as of this writing. On map chat, players seeking to finish their accomplishments were encouraged to guest on other servers by other players. All in all, it feels like a big mess.

Southsun is deserted, i found 8 players on the map.. total. and I am on a well populated server, at the release of the event overflows were overflowing but as soon as people realized the event was terribly implemented left faster then you can say kitten.

-No settlements can be secured, no mob’s spawn, at those settlements except drakes.
-The young karka north side of southsun dissapeared, or at least there are only a few were there were dozens.
-Queen event is a mess, after capping all settlements, the become contested immediately needing 20ish people to hold it. wich is nearly impossible now that noone wants to go to southsun ^^
-Where to respawn when everything is contested, and if you respawn say goodbye to your event reward.
-Young Karka spawn too close at the Dungeon entrance wiping parties trying to form. [I dont mind this one]
-Scaling of events really doesn’t apply on southsun, how am i going to fight a champion super legendary karka alone?

I am really dissapointed with the follow-up on a otherwise great event, this also having consequences for the only map i actually do pve on.

Are you lot at Anet all crabtossing over there?

Seems to be broken on Desolation as well. Can’t take the last camp as the karka nests won’t burn.

The one with karka nests… It’s active but You could do nothing to finish it… which means no karka queen for us

Blackgate

You don’t not miss out on your event reward if you respawn. Only if you leave the map. I don’t see how people still get confused by this.

Ayrilana.1396:

You don’t not miss out on your event reward if you respawn. Only if you leave the map. I don’t see how people still get confused by this.

Well, I can tell you that I missed out on my reward last night because I couldn’t even take part in the event. On my way from Kiel’s to Driftglass I was slaughtered. The Queen’s helth bar went down fast, and no player could have raised me in the middle of an ocean of karkas. I WP’ed to Captain’s Retreat (the best option, as you don’t have to pass through the Driftglass Settlement, which will be a wall of karka) but didn’t make it back in time to even get a hit on the Karka Queen. So, no reward, but not for lack of trying.

The same happened to my boyfriend – twice.

We looked around a bit on other servers and finally guested somewhere where the event was going, ran from Captain’s Retreat, managed to take part in the Karak Queen killing, and got our achievements. (This was our third try.)

So yes, dying on the way to the event, in a spot where raising just isn’t going to happen, and with no viable waypoints close, can indeed mean that you miss out on rewards.

TC seemed to have a healthy player population in Southsun this morning. Don’t recall if I initially logged into an overflow or main server tho. Got the achievement within half hour, but I probably had really good timing. The Steadings were fully overrun with karka while the Queen was outside, so it was hard to get through — seems unbalanced to me, but maybe that’s an intentional challenge or a ward to keep the zerglings from an easy chest.

There’s a difference between dying/respawning on the way to an event compared to dying/respawning after you did enough damage/participation to get credit for the event. I was referring to the latter.

You can’t blindly run through karka as you do for everything in other maps. You need to run around them to avoid aggro while using any speed buffs. If you get aggro then use your dodges. I’m used to avoiding mobs and running (plenty of practice in dungeons and pre-nerf Orr) so maybe that’s why I don’t notice an issue.

I am aware of the concept of dodging :P Some players made it through the settlement, but many others didn’t; we were among them.

For me the issue was this – I partook in the pre-events, ridding several settlements of mobs. So from my point of view, I was already a participant.

I took “the usual path” from Kiel’s to Driftglass, and the wall of karka in the settlement took me by complete surprise. There is no path that leads around the mega-mob if you run from Kiel’s or Pearl Islet (which is what my boyfriend did). Running from Captain’s Retreat really seems to be the only option, and that’ll only work at the beginning of the fight; the Karka Queen didn’t last long enough for me to make it on my first try.

So doing all the pre-events and then missing out on the actual event & reward due to lying face down in the mud is pretty lame, especially when you have to wait 2 hours (or so everybody assumed – no one knew for sure) for the event to respawn. (We’re in Europe so it was already pretty late in the evening, too.)

Unfortunately pre-events do not count except for the event the boss is in. I can see how running through that settlement can be a pain. It sounded like you were referring to outside the settlement which left me confused why you were having issues.

While playing this event last night in an overflow server, a few players had come telling us that the queen had not spawned for 45-60 minutes on a particular server. We had spent roughly 25-30 minutes holding the settlements down, but the Queen did eventually show up. It does seem like something may be broken.

This event is bugged on Jade Quarry as well, no amount of flamethrowers or ingenuity will burn the karka nests, thus making the karka queen event unobtainable. It’s bugs like these that will keep people out of southsun.

The flamethrowers, they do nothing!

I just went in on Stormbluff and it says no settlements 0/4 are taken but there are no events at them.

Mimir.4690:

While playing this event last night in an overflow server, a few players had come telling us that the queen had not spawned for 45-60 minutes on a particular server. We had spent roughly 25-30 minutes holding the settlements down, but the Queen did eventually show up. It does seem like something may be broken.

When I am in the overflow servers, the Island Control UI notification disappears. The events on the island are still running and the queen will spawn.

Thanks Mark.

It’s broken on Maguma as well. We got the queen to spawn, failed to kill her in time, and now everything on the island has stopped. No events or anything. Been about 45 mins.

I did manage to get into an overflow while it was up once but was outside the area and died 3x with a group of 4-5 others trying to get to the actual fight because of a ton of mobs outside driftglass spamming attacks for 5-10k a hit. Gotta love all the limited content that is broken half of its existence.

Can’t your team release a single patch without unplayable content? What was supposed to be the highlight of the event turned into another bugged mess.

Sephyros.9652:

Can your team release a single patch without unplayable content? What was supposed to be the highlight of the event turned into another bugged mess.

4 different settlements, all with interlocking events, not to excuse the quality here but i am surprised it works at all…

No doubt the limited portion of content will be extended due to bugs, but IIRC the karka queen event was supposed to be permanent.

Borlis Pass Karka Queen event has been bugged all day too. Any ETA on a fix or maybe an extension of the event once it is fixed?

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Thanks for the reports everybody. The team is looking into this issue now, though there isn’t an ETA for a fix at this time.

Thanks Mark. Always nice to get a responce to these sorts of things.
Though I am surprised that because of the dynamic nature and therefore complexity of these events that there isn’t some kind of PTR version of GW2 so the inherant problems that are bound to arise can get found and stamped out before the offical release.

This just bugged out on the Anvil rock server. I put a report in the bug section before seeing this thread here.

My original bug report: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Stuck-GroupEvent-Reclaim-the-settlement/first#post2162926

Thanks for your time and good luck!
~ Dara

wanted to pop in here and say that it is broken on Fergussons crossing as well, we killed her after the first capture and then it broke all the spawns for the settlements…..everything is re-spawning instantly killing everyone before they can finish

surviving the mobs on Southsun isn’t really a problem, getting stuff done is ^^
I assume the Queen karka will become a world boss and map population might grow a bit again once that is implemented.
I do like to point out that when the event went live the people came to southsun en mass and the event was easy to complete.
I enjoyed the events too but it seems the smaller settler events, with the possibility to drop supply crates, were keeping southsun populated nicely.
i dont mind fighting Karka, but those kitten Drakes..

As for missing event rewards i mostly ran from point lion, passing masses of dead players on the way, i didnt miss out but i immagine all the deadies did and probably wont try it again soon.