Not sure how the portal attacks are working?

Not sure how the portal attacks are working?

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Posted by: CrossedHorse.4261

CrossedHorse.4261

Sorry if this has been asked before – search function still not working properly.

I’m not sure I understand how these events in the open world are working? Several times last night the note would pop up at the side of my screen saying “Scarlet’s watchwork minions are attacking XXX” or similar, and I’d head there only to get red text saying “they are not attacking this world” … it seemed a lot of people were confused as map chat was littered with people querying where the event was we’d been directed to.

Do you need to literally guest on other servers until you happen across an event? Or is there some way to actually know whether the event is happening in your world? And why does it NOT happen in your world?

Just got very confused and in the end I gave up entirely. I don’t have a lot of time to play through the LS update this month, so was looking forward to a few hours last night before I go away to bashing out a good few of the achievements, but found it completely impossible.

Is this a plan to make us slow down in how quickly we go through the achievements for the LS? Or am I simply just not understanding something extremely simple? If the former, I don’t like it – I have very limited time and appreciate being able to use the time I do have effectively if I want to.

Anyway, gripe at the end aside, if anyone could help with my question re the events, I’d be grateful.

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Posted by: Elidath.5679

Elidath.5679

How it does work: an invasion is announced, server-wide. The invasion begin, and every overflow created in the next 10 minutes will have it, too. If you try and join the area after those 10 minutes, and the main server and all overflow created in the 10 minutes are full, you’ll end up in an overflow on which the invasion isn’t occurring. You’ll then get the message about the invasion happening somewhere else.

That’s the theory anyway, we can’t exclude the possibility of bugs stopping the invasion from happening on some server/overflow.

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Posted by: Diy.5296

Diy.5296

Every hour on the hour give or take a minute, a new zone will be attacked, it is shown on “the note on the side of your screen” which zone it is. The zone will fill up fast, but they have set it so the invasion event will run in all overflows that were created within 10 minutes of the invasion starting. So as long as you go there within 10 minutes you will get into a zone with the event running.
If it’s past 10 minutes, it’s likely you’ll get into an overflow where the event isn’t running, because events run concurrent on all servers, and there are lots of people who are also showing up late, and continually creating new overflows that are past the 10 minute mark. At that point, you’ll need to find someone who’s in a zone with the event running and join them in their instance of the zone.

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Posted by: CrossedHorse.4261

CrossedHorse.4261

Ah, right thanks to you both for the answers.

Seems an odd way of structuring it, but I hear people are enjoying the events. Sadly, it seems like I’d be spending a lot of time not doing much and waiting to get in on an event, so I guess I’ll sit this update out (only have about 3 evenings over next two weeks free for a couple of hours).

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Posted by: Mad Queen Malafide.7512

Mad Queen Malafide.7512

I get the impression that if you’re stuck in some of the overflows, they don’t appear. So you have to get there quick. Either be on the main instance of the explorable, or one of the early overflows. But not all overflows will have invasions going on. Of course, I may be wrong. But that’s what seemed to be going on.

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