Guild Wars 2

I cant believe they still havent fixed this bug with a 9 page long thread out here…

I can’t believe the complete apathy on ArenaNet’s part with this. I paid good money for a Deluxe Edition pre-order on this game and I’m stuck at this junction of my main storyline quest and to my knowledge, MANY people have been complaining about this from the very start and ArenaNet has not even responded to the effect that they are at least trying to resolve this issue. As for keeping Traehern alive through the quest, that is just stupid and nearly impossible for all but the most skilled players at or about Level 60.
Although the game should not be too easy, it should at least be able to be accomplished with reasonable expectations for all who buy it and staying alive yourself is hard enough at that level but having to babysit a careless NPC at the same time, just amounts to a broken game and poor design on the developers part.

fml 16 days and still no fix that works. good job.

Tried it four times on saturday. NPCs in the cave just decide to study the walls.

Just tried it again, 2nd research team doesn’t move even when the whole cave is cleared. There’s bone walls blocking all southern entrances but that doesn’t stop a true mountain goat. I got south of the bone wall you are supposed to get through (I think), and still nothing happens.

Trahearne says I just need to defend him while he summons reinforcements, but he doesn’t do anything, lazy kitten that he is.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Just tried it again, 2nd research team doesn’t move even when the whole cave is cleared. There’s bone walls blocking all southern entrances but that doesn’t stop a true mountain goat. I got south of the bone wall you are supposed to get through (I think), and still nothing happens.

Trahearne says I just need to defend him while he summons reinforcements, but he doesn’t do anything, lazy kitten that he is.

Exact same issue here.

It’s been what 2 weeks now? i’m sure those researchers have stared at those cavern walls long enough now yes?

Did this two times. Both times the NPCs didn’t move.

Just did some extra testing.

Climbing straight to the first research team instead of where the quest tells you to go doesn’t trigger anything.
Climbing straight to the first research team after looking at the initial location (with the dead npc’s), skipping the 3 barricades, doesn’t trigger anything.
Going into the cave before triggering the search for the 2nd research team means the only monster there is the Veteran Savage Abomination. He is invulnerable but will become killable when you get close.
The 2nd research team hasn’t spawned yet, though if you kill the Veteran monster, the quest will tell you to talk to the leader of the 2nd research group (but he isn’t there). Crusader Afanen will get stuck.
If you then pick up the 1st research team and enter the cave through the southern entrance(not letting Zrii plant a bomb), the 2nd research team will have spawned.
The Veteran Abomination will have respawned, is invulnerable again and will stay invulnerable. Multiple npc’s are invulnerable aswell, causing an endless/pointless fight for all eternity, once again making it impossible to complete the mission.

Because of this mission i am unable to get POI in Fort Trinity which is un lockable only through personal story. I am stuck on 99% for world map.

why you cant fix this so long? it’s fail for you.

It seems I’ve got the same bug too. The NPCs in the cave won’t move. Trahearne is the only NPC who follows me in the cave after meeting the researchers, but the southern exit is blocked and nothing else happens. I would guess a cutscene is meant to happen here and it’s not triggering because there’s a bunch research team further back in the cave who need to be there. So now after a very long instance, my progress is blocked.

Simply incredible. From the rapidly respawning NPCs, to the terrible wave based combat, this mission is just an utter failure in every regard. The fact that it cannot even be completed when a single NPC dies (and let’s face it, it’s not like self preservation is high on their AI behaviour list) AND ArenaNet haven’t even responded to this thread is beyond belief.

Creating a mission that requires you to shephard kitten NPCs is already a massive design fault, escort missions are NEVER a good thing, this was established, oh, I don’t know, 10 years ago? If you ARE going to do escort missions, you betterkittenwell make sure your AI is up to the task, and clearly, the AI in this game is incredibly badly implemented. I would be ashamed of myself if I produced AI at the level of quality exhibited in this game for any publisher.

Rapidly respawning NPCs are yet another poor design decision, in the best case scenario, the player will complete the otherwise shallow and lacking content in twice the time they normally would, but in the worst case scenario they’ll simply give up as they’re unable (or more likely unwilling) to advance. Once again, rapidly respawning mobs are something that most other video games stopped doing, because they employed quality control.

In conclusion, this is yet another hideously executed mission in a long line of poorly scripted and poorly designed “story” encounters.

Don’t even get me started on the voice acting.

Hey guys, I think I found the solution but need testers: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/I-ve-found-a-fix-for-Forging-the-Pact-srs/first#post241957

supposed to have been patched and fixed today, spent ANOTHER 20 minutes on it and still nothing, bugs at end, this is ridiculous!

I want to know should i just park my Engineer in the corner and stop playing because this quest is still broken even after the patch?

STILL the exact same behaviour.

After dozens of ridiculous strafe fights the second team doesn’t budge. All the NPCs are good for is pulling too much mobs and then stand idly by while the player gets beelined by up to 6 risen at a time.

I got a whole of 3 drops out of the whole instance. Repair costs for ONE piece of armour are around 1,5 silver for my (by now) level 80 elementalist. Add to that the run/teleport to the start of the instance and this quest is nothing more than a frustrating time and gold sink.

I simply can’t believe you have been unable to reproduce/fix this bug for WEEKS now.

Also: All risen grubs now produce the “this content has been temporarily disabled” error message in chat when they die. Their behaviour (epileptic twitching right and left after they spawn) is unchanged.

As of 9/25 even with the updates, Still the same problem. Kill everything in the cave, The 2nd team simply stands there and won’t follow you out of the cave.

Will say the fixes did make the quest a bit easier, But that team won’t follow you out of the cave, Also There is a Toon stuck under a chest, Not sure if thats supposed to be there. Its in the spot the 2nd team will NOT leave, against the wall,

Go the the end, its blocked off, team stays in that spot. I sure hope they get if fixed. Frustrating.

It’s still not working. If you can’t fix it, give us the option to skip it. How many tries has this been without a real fix?

Yeah the option to skip would be nice, help us out please. I really want to continue the story and get POI in Fort Trinity.

Bill Freist i replied to your pm sir.

It seems to be working. I managed to complete the quest. Yeehaa!!!

still bugged for me they wont follow

I can’t believe this. This quest is still bugged for me. After a total of ~5 tries, I think I’m finally giving up. The research team just does not move after I defeat the ettin boss and am asked to escort them.

3rd try – Team is still stuck, after looking back at the screenshot it may have been because I didn’t revive trahearne (see minimap)

http://imgur.com/kBWbr

4th try – After defeating the several zerg undead waves, after skipping the cutscene I’m teleported in between one of the walls at the stone house at the top of the hill. I’m stuck and am forced to try again.

http://imgur.com/Upyfh

5th try – Playing conservitavely, taking my time, going at a slow pace making sure my entire team is alive and with me. I arrive at the cave, defeat the boss, rescue the team but the team is STILL stuck (even after clearing the entire cave).

http://imgur.com/cGYbw

I can’t find a second person to do this with to at least see if that works. No one wants to bother since this quest has a reputation of being bugged. I can’t consistently ask on map chat since I get suppressed for saying LFG Forging the Pact several times in a while.

One more thing to add, now whenever I kill Risen Grub in the cave I get the message “That content has been temporarily disabled. Please try again later.”

Tried this with a friend of mine and still didn’t work. fml

BillFreist.1527:

If you can, try playing the quest with a friend or two. I’ve identified the issue, but this may get you guys through it until the update hits that contains the fix.

-Bill

Thank you! So what is the actual bug with this? I don’t want to play through with a friend and get stuck again.

Please shoot me now, This morning I grabbed my coffee and sat down to play, I giggled like a school girl when I saw a update. But still then I said to myself wait better go look and see if its fixed. Well they didn’t specifically say this one is working but they said they fixed many.
What the heck I am going to succeed this time I am sure of it! Well it started the same as usual, I practiced cpr on the first dead npc even though in the back of my mind some crazy woman’s voice was yelling " Nooo Dont!". As I went up the hill to the second mob I see a message in red saying " that content has been temporarily disabled" Im thinking " omg please let that be them working around the bugs" Well silly me after 10 of those messages, and dragging that abomination half way down the hill so the kiddies are closer to where I want them to be it happens again, as soon as the monster is dead Kekt runs back into his corner and wont budge. And btw I dont have any friends that want to waste the time doing my personal story line.

I would like to add to this circlejerk…

Something is wrong when your entire party is killed (multiple times) and you are left alone with broken armor because you get constantly rapped by npc zergs. After my 5th try, I give up…

p.s. " that content has been temporarily disabled"

Still bugged for me too and yes….
‘that content has been disabled’ after killing every grub in the cave….

This is ridiculous. I’m up to about 20 tries on this quest since “fixes” have been put in place. Last research group continues to just stand there. There is absolutely no reason that I should have to wait another whole week for a patch, especially when you say you have identified the problem. Sorry, but that’s just flat out ridiculous.

Have wasted way too much time/gold on this ONE quest, without compensation and without actual fixes. Something needs to be done NOW.

Back to Torchlight 2 and Borderlands 2…

It is impossible to keep Trahearne alive with risen respawning so fast. Something needs to be done with this quest

I am so ******* tired of this. They say it’s fixed, but it still bugs. This is my 4th time wasting my time on this. It is REALLY frustrating and it’s pissing me off. Atleast make it that when we leave the instance, we do not have to do everything all over again. Thank you.

This is preventing me from wanting to go on with the game. This has been an issue since the beginning it looks like and it’s fairly unacceptable that a fix hasn’t yet been implemented.

This quest is still bugged for me as well. The researchers just refuse to move.

Here’s the screenshot:

Adding my name to the long list of people who can’t play the game because this quest is bugged.

I can’t even enter with a party member. Whenever I try to enter the instance, It doesn’t give ANY of my party members the option to join it, I just zone to the mission automatically.

After reaching the end, totally naked and broke, it was heartbreaking to watch as the NPCs stood there smiling at the walls. I never want to play this quest again but, alas, I’ll have to do it with EVERY character aspiring to finish the personal story.

still bugged.. I must have done this quest atleast 10 times minimum on my ranger..
traherne don’t die but the reseracher just stand there as usual after you talk to them ( after you kill the veteran ).

I did clear the cave from all mobs before I killed the Veteran ( though few spawn after you talk to the Resecherser )

I’m really dissapointed and I’m loosing interst in playing the game .
I cant complete the 70-75 zone because I need a POI that I can only reach when doing the personl storyline.

Getting a decent back uppgrade from later in the questline is alson not possible.

same even when trahearne doesn’t die, i end up here unable to activate cut-vids or get any further.

I got my quest to work on my 2nd try. After defeating the veteran abomination during the 2nd research group rescue in the cave, let the research crew settle down at their designated places before talking to the Asura (forgot what his name is).

This is may not be a legit solution but it worked for me.

I was just able to complete this. Not sure what I did that worked but here are the steps I took. I completed everything normally up to the cave and then

1 – I entered the cave and triggered the grubs but I did not ever hit a grub myself. I let my party kill them all as i attacked the other enemies. This stopped the ‘content unavailable’ message.

2 – I stayed to the right and went right to the 2nd group without clearing the cave first. After I killed the boss there I found a little passageway thru a spider web that I went down just a bit and that triggered a conversation I hadnt heard before.

3 – I moved with the group and led them from enemy to enemy the rest of the way through the cave. It appeared as long as they fought they didn’t run back to the starting stop.

I’m not sure which of these did it but Im guessing it was #2. The dialogue happened with the whole team appearing to head down the wrong passage. Guessing maybe the trigger point is off even though the star updates.

Unfortunately when I finally had gotten to the very last boss my computer decided to shut off with about 10 seconds left before I killed him so I’m headed back to retry it. I’ll let you know if I make it through again.

Just completed this. Only issue was the stupid grub’s being bugged(seems to be their loot that is bugged at the moment, and didn’t affect my ability to complete the mission)

Is still bugged for me, ive tried 3 times and nothing :/

I was able to complete this today after the patch, twice with different characters. Once on my own playing necro and once in a duo playing warrior. Trahearne dying didn’t appear to make a difference as he probably went down about 3 times when I was playing the necro. The NPCs in the cave actually followed me this time. However, I got a new bug with a repeated popup message of ‘that content has been disabled’.

Yup not working for me either,tried 4 times in total.
Was this even tested(i use the term tested loosely lol) ? me thinks not,so much for todays patch that fixed buggy quests. sack em i say

so we getting something for beta testing your game then ? wasted time,waypoint charged etc… :P

Just tried it NOT WORKING, VERY FRUSTRATING. seeing as its at the end of a long annoying quest that you find out its broken. What do i do now? cant carry on with the game………. £49.99 preordered…… for half a game.

cant finish the mission cause npc which i shall protect wont follow me to the south exit.
would be nice if this bug gets repaired. by the way: so many bugs in a finished product: are we all unpaid betatesters???

Was so looking forward to this patch in the hopes that I could finally complete this damnable quest with my character, but after reading how many people are still experiencing this bug, I just don’t even feel like trying. I’m not about to deal with a quest that gives the player some of the most incompetend AI ever seen in a game just to rack up loads of death penalty/armor repairs with the very small chance of avoiding the glitch.

Please, for the love of God, just let us skip this quest until it’s fixed for good!

Tried it tonight with my Nephew in the party, no NPC’s died and yet it still bugs at the same place every time….QQ

Bugged for me as well. When I find the second team they won’t move and I cannot advance.

Honestly, I didn’t have a problem with getting through forging the pact, but then again I went in a number of levels over the quest requirement, with a full compliment of food, repair canisters and revive orbs, just in case. I believe I killed all the enemies as well, and rather easily too. Oh, FYI this was on a theif.