Guild Wars 2

Just tried to do Claw Island on an alt, it did not go smoothly.

1. “Talking” cinematics, where characters speak facing each other, would not play properly at all. They would play, but with no audio, no captions, and no characters, showing only the painted backgrounds. They also wouldn’t end on their own, I had to skip to the end to make them stop.
2. For the better part of the mission, the minimap showed as “unexplored,” the painted look a map has before you go fully into an area. It showed properly a bit after reviving Mira.
3. Trebuchets are broken again, necessitating swimming out to the boat to attack it. I can’t do this since I have pretty bad hydrophobia, I had someone with me do it. Regardless, I went out into the water briefly and Mira got stuck in the water for a while, until the light tower section.
4. NPC nameplates, stars over their heads, and speech bubbles would sometimes drop to their feet when they spoke.
5. Risen would periodically get culled, causing me to get knocked flat on my face (there were so many knockdowns I could barely move in some areas without getting hit four or five times) and get downed unexpectedly before a large group appeared right on top of me.
6. I died at one point (due to culling) and clicked return to checkpoint. Instead, it kicked me to Lions Arch and the game crashed to desktop. I gave up for the night at that point. Not in the mood to go through that again right now.

In my screencaps, you can see a busted cinematic, the minimap issue, and the dropped names and speech bubbles.

Wow. Any one of those bugs is pretty bad individually, but all together? That’s horrendous.

Yeah, if I hadn’t had a guildie with me to help me out, I wouldn’t have been able to get as far as I did. The game kicking me to LA and crashing after going through all of that really added insult to injury.

..I just logged in on that character to this. Keep in mind, I did not complete the mission, the game kicked me and crashed before the end.

If I were a new player, I would have been terribly disappointed to say the least. I still am, to a large degree, but at least I’ve seen the whole mission before on another character. But the trebuchets were broke that time, too.