I’m playing with my SO. She started about a month ago, I have been playing on and off a couple of periods since launch.
I had a character somewhere mid the 7th chapter, human priory. She has a sylvari and also choose priory. I tagged along with her storyline until we clear her chapter 7. After that we clear my own chapter 7 which ended with saving apathia. We started chapter 8 together. We switched around who triggered the storylinepart, which went all good up until we cleared chapter 8 ‘Blast from the Past’. This is where things went magical and we got a cutscene that was an actual blast from the past.
She triggerd the missionpart where we use the old cauldron to blast away zhaitains army and end up fighting the prince Nekandezzar. Mission complete, we continue. I trigger the part where we search for the pilot that crashed after dropping said cauldron. Mission complete, we get a get a cutscene that said pilot gets honored. We get promted to go to Fort Trinity.
Here is where things go nutty:
At the Fort we get a cutscene, we get introduced to Gretchen and Laranthir, both we already met, Laranthir guiding the whole cauldron mission. Now we get told that Trahearne has found a way to cleanse the orr corruption, which is nice, but we already did that in chapter 7 during a mission with my SO storyline in chapter 7.
My own storylog now gives the storyline : 8.Victory or Death: Against the Corruption.
My So has already cleared things in chapter 8 up to ‘blast from the past’. Her storyline log has now been put back in chapter 7 Forming the pact: Against the Corruption as the active storyline and the rest is erased from her log as completed.
This is the first time we actually notice our storyline not matching up even though we both have been able to “proceed storyline” after the other triggered it since we were running the same missions.We’re gonna play the mission as we both get promted with it as our active storyline, hoping nothing is broken.
The storylines themselve we’re pretty unclear at some part, we understand that there has been some major updates regarding the storyline and have been meeting character sthat we should know and have never met, but this just seems tacky, especialy since we’re playing the same storyline. It feel kinda like storylines just got sliced and diced. somewhere and shoved together and it just makes no sense. I don’t know if this is something to fix or just something we deal with.
Update:
As we went on to find a the source of Orr after the first storyevent, I picked the Grenth’s reapers part, since we already done the Romkes map part the first time around during my SO’s storyline in her chapter 7.
My own story kept updating in chapter 8. At my S however, it showed the whole part of Romkes map completed after this choice, with still no active storyline in the hero panel still. Top right corner of the screen did state to go to Cathedral of silence for the both of us. We cleared that one and both got storyline rewards. After this we cleansed the source of Orr, where we both got storyline rewards. Both our objectives are now to kill Zaithan so it did pan out in the end, even with some extra rewards for my SO.
Our main concern at this moment is that my characters we’re all created in the first 2 months after the game launched. Her characters were created in this past month or to be created. We plan on playing the storyline together on a few more characters or are already doing that.
Other that that, the storylines just dont seem to match up with this the update. We first go into the heart of Orr to cleanse it. After that we go fight and take the territory? Are we just able to just pop in everywhere around Orr?
Anyway, it has been a big anti climax. Will these mixmatched storylines continue to be a thing for us where is gets all mixed up at chapter 7 and 8?
(edited by Chron.2976)