Guild Wars 2

So the map popup says that Scarlet’s minions are attacking Harathi Hinterlans. I go there and it’s not an overflow. I get a message saying:

“Scarlet’s minions are not attacking this world

Please return to your home world when prompted"

Why are they not attacking and what’s my home world?

Same thing happened to me on Far Shiverpeaks.

Same here on Kodash.

Same on gandara

Same on Piken Square. I checked the map and it doesn’t show overflow so either it means that a) overflow display is bugged and it’s past 10 maps or b) the event is bugged.

Same here

Same thing on Yak’s bend, anyone able to do the event?

Same here, a bunch of us are waiting on the map

[Underworld]

Paul Belz.7351:

This is a slight hiccup with new maps starting up; the new invasion will be starting very very soon, this should clean all that up

“very soon” yet no overflow map have any of the events.

moar than 30 minutes passed.

The whole event got spoiled out already for me and everyone else who ended at overflow channels.

Great Job really you never fail to deliver moar FAILS with every patch don’t you ANET ?

The events are simply not happening in overflows. Quite buggy as of now it seems.

ugh so anoying i have slow loading times and will most likely end up in overflow anyways,.please fix this. i would love to see at least 1 event….

Way more than 10 mins on desolation overflow. nothing is happening. Besides lots of grumpy people.

Don`t play on a patchday

An event without a failure from ANet? Noooo!

Ilirya Shan.5489:

An event without a failure from ANet? Noooo!

Exactly what i was thinking, it will likely be 2-3 days before its actually working the way it was intended to work…

Meh, going to play another game. Now hopefully ANet will realize that churning out all this temporary crap does not really work out. I’d rather have them focus on persistent additions to this world (start with that door in Ebonhawke leading into the Crystal Desert please).

Guys calm down a little bit. This is the first time they are trying these kind of things so of course you are gonna have sine problems. The patch is only up for one hour now and I(m sure Anet will fix this asap.

We have a great fun in overflow.

Aveneo.2068:

Meh, going to play another game. Now hopefully ANet will realize that churning out all this temporary crap does not really work out. I’d rather have them focus on persistent additions to this world (start with that door in Ebonhawke leading into the Crystal Desert please).

These invasion events ARE a permanent addition to the game according to the patch notes.

Yep nothing happening here.
Then again i remember the Karka event, man that was a total mess as well.

Well nothing happend in my overflow but we had a great deal of fun regardless. Three countries together and everyone just spouting jokes and black humour xD

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Yep nothing happening here.
Then again i remember the Karka event, man that was a total mess as well.

It had a definite advantage over this one. Something was happening. You might not have seen huge parts of it due to culling and latency, but it was there.

Astralporing.1957:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Yep nothing happening here.
Then again i remember the Karka event, man that was a total mess as well.

It had a definite advantage over this one. Something was happening. You might not have seen huge parts of it due to culling and latency, but it was there.

Thats true but the lag that was so widespread meant that it wasnt happening for alot of people lol

thanks for the reply, not the one I hope but fine, If I’m few mins late I’ll not got the event at all, and on day one it seems a lot of people wont’ have it.

maybe you should review the timing.

/facepalm

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Paul Belz.7351:

any overflow that opens up 10 minutes after the invasion begins will not have the event active.

And how can we know if the overflow we are in opened 10 mins after the invasion begins?

if I undestand well, we have to sit there waiting one hour for the event to begin?

if so, I must say it’s the most failed things you devised so far. You seriously need to rework how this event works

Just need to find a low population server to guest on. One that people claim are dying or dead. Of course, if we get knocked into overflow even then…

Blanche Neige.7241:

Paul Belz.7351:

any overflow that opens up 10 minutes after the invasion begins will not have the event active.

And how can we know if the overflow we are in opened 10 mins after the invasion begins?

if I undestand well, we have to sit there waiting one hour for the event to begin?

if so, I must say it’s the most failed things you devised so far. You seriously need to rework how this event works

Yep, it seems poorly designed in my opinion.

Paul Belz.7351:

any overflow that opens up 10 minutes after the invasion begins will not have the event active. This is to prevent them from carrying over into the next invasion, as they will be active for 45 minutes maximum.

Check for invasions near the start of the hour, though there is some slight variance.

We ran straight to the zone (Fireheart) where there was an overflow and we got the error message. So, thats not true.

So not only are we blocked from trying to finish the queens gauntlet, we now have to wait hour(s) just to try to get to a map so we can do the new achievements. wtf. Well this patch just kittened me off (I can’t even express the anger I feel right now. I’d have way to many kittens in it). I thought they were learning from past stuff. Who thought it was a good idea locking people out of the beginning months content?

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Yep, it seems poorly designed in my opinion.

That seems to be happening more and more frequently…

Jeez guys. The events are happening every hour for a couple of weeks, but you missed the first so it’s bad game design? Owch.

Sitkaz.5463:

Jeez guys. The events are happening every hour for a couple of weeks, but you missed the first so it’s bad game design? Owch.

Yes becouse with this we will be glad that we will get in to at least 1 event in those weeks so it is realy bad design.

Sitkaz.5463:

Jeez guys. The events are happening every hour for a couple of weeks, but you missed the first so it’s bad game design? Owch.

Your comment irritated me, so I had to respond to it.
Simply put, yes it is bad game design, you want to know why?

Lets say you go to a theme park and you intend to go on the new ride they have been hyping up for two weeks, when you arrive the line is so long that you have to wait for HOURS to even be able to get on the ride.

That makes sense in real life, but in a game world? No. You shouldn’t have to wait HOURS in line to get on the new ride, it should be available from the start of when it was released unless there is a long quest chain interfering with it. It’s not fun to stand in line for hours, or hope that people will let you cut in front of them.

Sitkaz.5463:

Jeez guys. The events are happening every hour for a couple of weeks, but you missed the first so it’s bad game design? Owch.

Not just the first, but the second, and probably the third when it comes around. Overflow servers are stupid enough as it is, but it makes them worse when getting stuck in one keeps me from doing content.

I don’t have hours a day just to sit around and hope I can get into a zone fast enough not to get stuck in a kittening overflow.

Irikol.3495:

That makes sense in real life, but in a game world? No. You shouldn’t have to wait HOURS in line to get on the new ride, it should be available from the start of when it was released unless there is a long quest chain interfering with it. It’s not fun to stand in line for hours, or hope that people will let you cut in front of them.

Considering Anet themselves have previously made statements to the effect of “waiting to play the game isn’t fun”, this is a very reasonable analogy.

Paul Belz.7351:

any overflow that opens up 10 minutes after the invasion begins will not have the event active. This is to prevent them from carrying over into the next invasion, as they will be active for 45 minutes maximum.

Check for invasions near the start of the hour, though there is some slight variance.

This would be great except for the fact that the invasions aren’t even happening on the home worlds let alone the overflows.

I’m on JQ in blazeridge NOT in an overflow and it is telling me to go to my home server…

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Paul Belz.7351:

any overflow that opens up 10 minutes after the invasion begins will not have the event active. This is to prevent them from carrying over into the next invasion, as they will be active for 45 minutes maximum.

Check for invasions near the start of the hour, though there is some slight variance.

This would be great except for the fact that the invasions aren’t even happening on the home worlds let alone the overflows.

I’m on JQ in blazeridge NOT in an overflow and it is telling me to go to my home server…

Same here. This is really….bad….