Guild Wars 2

So, this achievement seems bugged. I’ve done it like eight times, and I’m pretty sure the last two or three that I’ve done it correctly (despite it not being at all intuitive or well explained).

I have been doing the instance solo, and there are seven people to save. In my early attempts I didn’t know where to go or when to save them, and some were unressable. In the past few attempts, I show up on time and save everyone and individually order them to leave [F]. There’s four encounters:

1. The three guys right outside the cave after the dialogue, by the little watch tower.
2. closer to the fort wreckage there’s the one guy fighting the thrasher.
3. There’s the crusader in the water a little east and north of the fort.
4. And then there’s the two priory guys just standing by the cave mouth that’s south of the first group.

I save them all, talk to them all, they all run off north. I even wait a minute or two to make sure they have time to arrive. That whole time, I’m still seeing the icon at the bottom saying I’m eligible for the achievement. Then I approach the area for the last fight of the instance and it instantly disappears. I finish the instance and see no bodies anywhere — marked on the map or visible on screen. So… What else are you supposed to do?

Yep, the same happens to me with rescuing every person.

Here’s hoping they fix this as quickly as they “fixed” the work around that was present before.

Same problem, checked all the map, rescued 7 people, waited, started that last defence event and achievement marking just gone. Seems that they “fixed” exploit by making you not able to achieve this AT ALL. Not cool, ArenaNet, not cool…

Same problem…it cannot be completed

This is definitely bugged. I tried to keep an eye on when the achievement icon disappeared from my buff list. This is my observation so far:

After retreating the first three soldiers the achievement disappeared. I traced down the next soldier to see where they are running to. At the point where the soldiers exit I saw that (at least) one of the first three soldiers that retreated had died.

So something must be going wrong in the process when the soldier retreats to the escort point.

Same here. I do it few times and “buff” achievement always turn off when i going to last base…. No matter what i do.

Done it 4 times yesterday with 3 possible outcomes.

outcome 1:
After clicking the caravan i defended last base and complete story without leaving the area, saw the ressuractable soldiers on my map, it where only 6 though and after talking with them all it did not complete my adchievement.

outcome 2:
The boon was automatically removed 2 times when i went to defend the last station.
I presume one of the soldiers had to die during their fight… but it seemed more that one of the caravan people died and therefore my boon was removed

outcome 3:
Clicked the caravan and defended the last base, the boon was still active after completing my story but there where no soldiers what so ever to ressurect or talk to.
There were no bodies even.

Tonight i’ll try to talk to the soldiers right after clicking the caravan and before defending the base but i do not have high hopes for this.

This is the place where npc dies and achievement fails.

Yeah it’s bugged. Those NPCs always spontaneously die at the portal even without being hit, which for whatever reason counts for the achievement. Therefore there is no way to get it right now.

Hoping for a hotfix after they broke it!

Just did this instance for the 5th time and still no achievement. How hard is it to fix it?

This is starting to become a theme, first achievements are too easy, then they’re fixed to become impossible.

Completely bugged. On swift wings does not trigger no matter how you do it right now.

Adding my voice to this. The screenie from Boombox is accurate. One or more of the npcs always die just before the asura portal (where I assume they would be “leaving” the instance after having been rescued). Either the portal is killing them or something, but as soon as the player approaches the goldenlight fight.. the achieve fails and one or more are shown as dead just outside the instance edge.

Is there any chance they will release a hotfix over the weekend…or will we need to wait until next week then?

Adding my voice to this. Tried this at least 10 times. Both duo and solo. Solo rezzed 7 NPCS and duo raised twice that number. Tried multiple variations and iterations. No achievement. I know we encountered the killed at the portal bug at least once and it may well be the culprit for all the failed attempts.

I don’t think the “dead” NPCs at the portal are the problem, personally. I just attempted the achieve and of course failed it the second I triggered the defense event at the Asura base just as everyone else.

But I saw no dead NPCs at any point. Not when the achievement icon disappeared (in fact, I’m almost certain they were all alive at that point as I was following behind most of them who were clustered together and heading towards the base), nor after the event occurred.

The icon disappearing at the exact moment the Asura base defense triggers can’t be coincidence. My best guess is that there’s something in the code for that event that’s not right and causing it to fail. Perhaps they were trying to code it so that IF you hadn’t rescued every NPC by that point you wouldn’t be able to any more (which was the “fix” they were trying to implement to keep people from going back and resurrecting the NPCs after the fact). But instead of only failing if you haven’t rescued everyone, it just fails it every time regardless.

We tried several variations to complete it and one of them was to ignore the Asura base event initially and run to the downed NPCs and rez them ASAP and send them off. It may well be that we could not rez them fast enough for the NPCs at the Asura base to finish off the defense event (I know that happened at least once, may have happened more times than that).

I have had several problems with the achievements for Episode 2

“On Swift Wings” will not complete , but as I have read , lots of people having problems there .

“Time Waits for No One” , I was instance leader on this one , my friend who was with me got the achievement and reward , I got an “event completed” on the side of my screen . No achievement , no reward.

“Butterflies and Viscera” , again I was instance leader , while I was in a downded state , my friend got the achievement , I got nothing .

bugged for me too as described above

Same for my husband and myself. We’ve tried it duo (saved 12 or 13…but it was definitely all of them), and tried it solo and both times no achievement.

I hope there is a fix for this soon. I feel I’m being punished for not being able to log in until 2 days after the update! Hate having to see that 1 uncompleted achievement.

Well I did it again this morning by myself and it worked. I made sure to clear the vines on the way to the cave as those kept killing one of the guys I had to save, but as soon as I told the 7th person to retreat the achievement popped. (Just remember the number to save scales up if you have more than one person in your party and only the instance owner can talk to them.)

This is really annoying. Hope they fix it soon. Also when you walk to the area those NPC’s go to you see ALL SEVEN OF THEM lying dead on the ground in front of the portal they are supposed to walk through. maybe that’s the reason the achievement doesn’t trigger? But it would be weird if the achievement only unlocks as soon as they went through the portal because the icon disappears as soon as you start the last part of the instance and by that time not all NPC’s necessarily went that far already.

Same.
After patch was bug to complete achive easy way, just revive and talk with npc/
And now, after fix another bug – cant do it. Its hard achive and i dont wanna do it again =)

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Well I did it again this morning by myself and it worked. I made sure to clear the vines on the way to the cave as those kept killing one of the guys I had to save

I did it again after seeing this and it still didn’t work. As others are saying, you can see all the NPCs mysteriously dead at the portal, out of your reach in the instance. (You get kicked if you try to go that deep in the cave.) I’m sure this was part of the “fix” to prevent people from getting the achievement after the fighting was over, but they obviously kill them off too soon.

And yeah, I really doubt Anet is going to fix it over the weekend. They probably still haven’t even seen this thread.

I would think before they released a “fix”, they would first test that the achievement actually could still be achieved…

I guess my next question would be – has anyone been able to find a temporary workaround (specific steps to take), or is it just completely and utterly broken?

badbadbad!!!! need to w8 for the fix~~