Guild Wars 2

I’ve enjoyed leveling up my 80 warrior dude during the first days of GW2 (soo many people around!!) and of course doing the player story quests.. up until I got into Orr to do ‘The Steel Tide’ quest.
The bug in question is the tank bug, which you are supposed to control and fight the incoming hordes, which you can’t control because if you try turning the turret its wonky and kicks you out of the tank… basically it breaks the quest completely. Using the mortars next to the tank only helps a small amount but I always end up getting swamped with the risen it, so mortars don’t really help to be able to complete it.

Now I know that bugs take time to fix but I’ve been away from GW2 for a while, a few months, and had thought that by that time this major story killing bug would have been fixed. It obviously has not at all. Before I left I tried a few times to go back and play the quest to see if it was fixed.. left for a few months… came back… still not done.

Even the guild wars 2 wiki page for ‘The Steel Tide’ quest has the quest still being broken. I mean… this is the main story quest, not some side quest.

Anyway, it is a little confusing why this hasn’t been dealt with yet. I’m hoping, as I speak, this GW2 February will fix this story breaker once and for all. Will post later with the answer

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

For now, you can use the mortars instead. The objective completes after killing a couple of Risen giants. We’re working on the bug, but Indon’t have an ETA at this time, sorry.

Thank you for the extremely quick response Vaughn. Well there is now a reasonable chance, I guess, then to finish it if it will complete with only two giants to kill (instead of the 6 quoted on the guildwars 2 wiki). Will try after patch when possible.

Thanks again!

I completed the quest, finally, yeehaa Admittedly, I used the mortars, died, then killed the 2nd giant with mortars. Wasn’t too hard, dying once was fine… which makes me wonder why I didn’t just keep at it till all 6 (originally 6?) giants are dead and just spend a lot on repairs..? I had issues with an early quest (trying to kill a risen type queen monster? helping the Skritt) that I would die in, go back in and die again.. wouldn’t really help how many times you went back (or seemlying).. that probably made me give up too easily and that it has a bug in it.

I’m done with it now so I’m happy,, moving on

Three months ago and apparently this is still bugged. I did this segment of the story a few days ago and every time I used the turret I got kicked out of the tank. Tank fired and the fight went on, but I had to constantly get back into the tank and activate the firing sequence. Did not know about the mortars when I did it, but it finally finished.

It took so long to complete this. I was getting frustrated with this bug…but I was determined to finish this. If I had known about using the mortars I would have used them, but what I did in between firing the tank, was to use my long bow barrage and send my bear into the fray.

Can’t believe this is not fixed after all this time.