Guild Wars 2

<- Another player wishing they would have known the quest was bugged and cannot progress further in the story until the fix implemented.

My Thief alt took 80 yesterday, still not completed the hatchery and story quest backdated to lvl45.

With my main atleast I could do the story as she leveled up, now I have to do the story for gear I have no need for, in zones that I already have 100% in (done all zones to 100% except wvwvw).

How hard can it be to fix this quest, why wait until content patch to fix this?

Right now, I don’t care anymore as it is too little, too late now that I already am 80.

my bf has this issue too. just picked that storyline option to help the skritt, or whatever, 2 days ago… and found out the quest was bugged.

it would definitely be nice if they added an in game warning about it.

even if they just added a “sign” behind the npc that said “Recommended, do not assist Skritt at this time, the Order of Whispers has evidence to suggest something terrible will go wrong if you try. and your mission will not be complete.”

Or whatever, written better so it doesn’t break immersion, but lets people know something could be wrong with that quest.

Seems like it would be easy to drop a new object next to the NPC, or sign, that said that. Vs changing character dialogue or whatever… ~ that way at least new people wouldn’t continue selecting this broken story quest line that is apparently still not going to be fixed for another week and a half at least.

i feel really bad for people who’ve had their story quest line broken for months because of this.

still bugged =( sigh

Yeah I have been stuck on this for awhile now and I am almost to level 60. It is a shame, I really was enjoying the story line. Not sure why they can’t just at least put together a temp fix for those who are stuck on it. I mean they were quick to fix any Halloween bugs, like the never ending spawns from the doors. Im not sure why this would be any harder to fix?

In some Other MMO With Subscription a GM could help you progress. Since I don’t see anything about that here, I assume you can’t get any help in this game?

I’m going to add my name to the long list of people frustrated over this. I’ve been watching that topic every day, checking it to see if perhaps I could log in and finally finish that quest. I think it’s foolish and cowardly to have that thread locked. Like we’re hurting their feelings. If this were any other kind of game, it would be recalled or at least updated ASAP to avoid all of this drama. Storymode glitch? Are you serious? I expect this kind of behaviour from those free-to-download client MMOs, you know, ‘you get what you pay for’. But this game cost me a substantial amout of money. After bills and rent, this game takes up most of my paycheque. We’re customers and the product is broken. Things should have been dealt with way faster considering that during the Halloween event, there were updates almost every day. This is just silly now. Check your priorities ANet and don’t send someone over to block our voices when we say something true that you don’t like.

I just find this very hard to believe that they’re actually more concerned with releasing holiday content instead of working on Core Game problems. But instead, I’m seeing it with my own eyes they’re actually more worried about more holiday content. How am I going to enjoy your bonus content if I can’t even enjoy the core content?

Hello i am a lvl 44 mesmer and im stuck in the quest called The Hatchery, whenever i complete an objective in the quest there doesnt spawn a next objective and nothing happens, i have tried the quest several times but I could not complete it.

Does someone know when this will be fixed or how i can fix it?

The level 45 story mission “The Hatchery” is also bugged out on my current play with my thief (lvl. 45). As other posts about the same issue suggests, the mission is failing to proceed and no matter how many time repeated, the results are the same… incomplete.

Hey, i did this mission 3 times, always reported it and now it is STILL not possible to go on with the story missions… please skip me to the next story quest or what ever.
I am annoyed and I want to go on with this…
I am also annoyed because of not getting any reply of you…
Thx

It’s a sad state when a core quest fix gets lower priority then holiday content fixes. Patch was suppose to happen on the 5th and gets pushed to the 15th. Me thinks someone in the QA group needs to get his head out of his kitten and realize that this bug is affecting 1/3 of their customers…

Haven’t logged in for a few days. Any updates?

FIX MAY HAPPEN TONIGHT
There is another thread discussing this where the devs have been involved. The fix has been done and completed for a while but it cant be implemented until the next live update. (holloween updates do not count). Next update might be nov 5th or 6th this is all I know. Been stuck here for a around 2 weeks now like a lot of people im past ready to move on.

Ok not ranting or out but i was wondering am i the only one that thinks 2 or more weeks to fix a bug is a bit slow for any mmo ?

I hope they’re still gonna fix this November fifth (2 days, woot) because I accepted this quest at 43, entered at 45…

…I’m 74 now. I can tell you, running trough those Flame Legion zones as level 66 with 69 mobs was not amusing. I finished ‘em, sure, but I wouldn’t have minded some personal story quests along the way to level fast, relatively safe, and get some much-needed upgrades.

Still, I truly hope this is fixed in 2 days cause hell, it’s about time.

This is my first post on this forum. Sadly it is to report a bug about the HATHCERY. I just read a 7 page plus thread stating that this is a known bug that brakes part of the personal story quest. I have enjoyed the game TREMENDOUSLY till now. I am not disappointed there is a bug… rather I am disappointed that it has been known for WEEKS and the game still allowed me to pick a BROKEN OPTION for my personal story. I mean… seriously??? Not telling people to about this is inviting folks to be upset. Very frustrating. ALSO.. I went to post a reply on a 7 page thread.. only to find it was locked. Why lock something that is still broke! Why not warn people or not allow that option in storyline!?!?!?

Again wonderful game… however… very poor decision and intervention on behalf of a game breaking bug and to allow people to choose this option.

This is the thread that must of been locked prior to my post about the same issue. If anyone wants to read background info on this known issue.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/The-hatchery-bugged/first

OK… I am the latest victim of this bug. I googled “Hatchery Bug”… and found a previous thread. I tried to post on that thread, and found out it was CLOSED. I opened a new thread, as seeing it was only closed in the last day or so.. and now I find this thread that is the new BUGGED Hatchery thread. Oye Oye Oye.

I am not disappointed that there is a bug… but am extremely so that the game allowed me to choose a game breaking choice that has been known for WEEKS. Also.. was frustrated that the thread was closed.. without having the game fixed on this issue.

I think back on beta, and in the background there was an image or something saying “under progress” or something similar like that. Game went live.. and presto… all of those background images were gone. Could they not put an image up during the cutscene so unsuspecting people do not make a choice that is the most frustrating point of the game yet for so many players!?

My new thread.,. which can be deleted if need be. But perhaps it does not, as the more information that people can find.. the less folks will make a broken choice.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Hatchery-Bug-Not-Fixed/first#post638967

I am VERY SAD that I am stuck on this bug right now. I’ve already gone through major bugs with large portions of my storyline on another character being skipped because I had the gall to play a massively multi-player online game with…another player. Now I’m stuck again.

Between the very obvious grammatical and QC errors which should have been caught in beta (and I would have reported had there been a decent report system in place) and these storyline-halting glitches, I’m really disappointed in A-Net’s quality team. Yet they’re holding up the fix for this? Pfff.

Stucked for almost three weeks, i’am 60 now and i can’t make quest for 45… it so sorrowfully. And it’s getting annoying to wait your fix.

76 now! We’ll see what comes first, the fix that’ll allow me to do my level 45 Personal Story quest, or me hitting 80.

Level 80 and personal quest stuck at 45. Get “The Hatchery” fixed, please!

still waiting for fix…

just fix the bug already !! we wanna play story line !!

I’m currently sitting on two characters stuck in two different story quests because I didn’t google whether they’re bugged or not before accepting them.

When it happened the second time, I was tempted to just frell it all and go back to the game with 3 letters.

In the end, I picked myself up and leveled a new main for the third time. This time I’ll google everything I don’t know for sure it’s working. I’m either too patient or I really like the playable part of the game.

It didn’t make me quit, but I’m pretty sure most players wouldn’t just suck it up and start over three times. The way this issue is handled is beyond sloppy.

sigh My ranger is stuck on this one. Looks like I won’t be playing her for a bit. I wish I had known, I would have chosen a different path if I knew about this path.

Dreanys, what is the other bugged story quest? The wiki should warn about that as well, since ANet doesn’t…

…or maybe, which storylines confirmed doesn’t bug?

Count me in as one of victims here. My guardian hit the quest a week ago, and at first I thought I didn’t reach the objective in the quest so I decided to wipe out all the destroyer eggs since Tchkik said "The destroyers killed my Kittaka! Rot and Rust them all! ". It was painful due to the fire immunity of destroyers, and I died like five times LOL.
Well, hope Anet fix this in the near future.

Actually the worst part for me is not the bug or even the storyline i’ve done it several times. however, i cant hide the storyline text up in the top right corner so i’m getting taunted in the face every.single.time i play :’(

wtb a checkbox inside the personal story log “dont display”

In the last thread Jeffery Vaughn said it would be fixed on November 5th, so we’ll finally get to finish out story quests today! WOOO! I’ve been looking forward to this lol

Here’s hoping and praying for an update

I have every heart, way point, undiscovered’s and more things complete on my necromancer so I really need to finish my story off

Again, please fix this asap. I need my fix for Tybalt hijinks.

I’ll go try it now but I didn’t see an update and didn’t have to download anything new, so… not gonna hope for much. Picked it up at 43, am now 78. Oh, boy.

Still can’t progress.

I understand that they’ve fixed the issue and are testing it before they push it out, but what I don’t understand is why this was not pushed through more quickly.
The decision to wait for a major update to get this fixed was the wrong one.

As a player we have absolutely no means of recourse when we hit a bug like this. The game doesn’t let you drop your storyline quest and choose another arc (which I would have happily done the instant I hit this bug).
A bug like this that halts progression should be an emergency fix.
At the VERY least, if the devs knew it was going to take this long to play-test, players stuck here should have been passed onto the next quest or given the chance to choose a different path.

There’s really nothing more we can do, but I just wanted express my disappointment with how this has been handled, in hopes that other options will be in place for players if this happens again.

Ok, maybe I can help here. I first tried this with a friend on the same quest. We got stuck, quest didn’t progress, plus we kept getting eaten by the destroyers. We leveled up and came back later. What did finally get it to work (and may not work for everyone) is he went to Tchkik while I stayed back to res the other skritt. It was neither pretty nor fun, but the quest updated allowing us to finish.

Adding my name to this list. Excited to make a Priory aligned character, only two meet not one, but two gamebreaking, progress halting bugs in a row.

In the story quest prior to the Hatchery, engineers players cannot progress if they choose to retrieve the Dwarven Scabbard, without a convoluted work around involving dropping the Scabbard ‘kit’ near water, and walking onto land to retrieve it.

After many frustrated attempts at getting around that quest, I get to the Hatchery, and it’s completely broken, with no apparent work-around. Been about two weeks for me now, but I hear it’s been broken since early September possibly?

Hoping the fix is with tonight’s updates.

already level 80, but personal story still 45 cause of “the hatchery bug”, heard that there will be a fix on 5 Nov., but nothing!!! when will it be fix?????/

fairy.3502:

already level 80, but personal story still 45 cause of “the hatchery bug”, heard that there will be a fix on 5 Nov., but nothing!!! when will it be fix?????/

Well, its only just barely the 5th in some parts of the world …maybe give it some time?

DinoDoll.3682:

fairy.3502:

already level 80, but personal story still 45 cause of “the hatchery bug”, heard that there will be a fix on 5 Nov., but nothing!!! when will it be fix?????/

Well, its only just barely the 5th in some parts of the world …maybe give it some time?

I wouldn’t count on it. There is a major possibility that now they’re going to wait until the 15th till patching this game breaking issue.

Saya.1260:

Ok, maybe I can help here. I first tried this with a friend on the same quest. We got stuck, quest didn’t progress, plus we kept getting eaten by the destroyers. We leveled up and came back later. What did finally get it to work (and may not work for everyone) is he went to Tchkik while I stayed back to res the other skritt. It was neither pretty nor fun, but the quest updated allowing us to finish.

It’s not working for me, tried it 3 times by now.

ya this topic will not die till the patch to fix said quest is fixed! why did they lock first thread?

I got this Hatchery bug. I think it is kitten. This bug clearly stops the main story and gameplay yet it is taking quite long to fix. I would have thought that as this is a game stopper type bug, it will be the first priority.

I guess we will just have to wait longer.

I am used to work on medium-large software projects.
If you work on it you must follow process laws.
Testing is the last but not least law to follow because you complete all the work team.
I understand that is hard to accept, but it’s the only right way.
I have the same issue on my human elementalist. It’s frustrating.
But I enjoy my others pg or my ele in other ways.
It’s only a game. A great game but only a game.
Good work ANet.

While I do have a lot of patience, waiting for what seems like now OVER a month is total bull kitten. I can understand the need to take time to fully test a patch before it’s to be implemented into a live game. I CAN’T understand then how ANET puts out holiday content and is so quick to respond in patching it. I still think this patch hasn’t been released because it’s being put on the backburner for the November content.

I’m also stuck on this part of my personal story. I can wait for the fix but I will be further disappointed if the patch is mediocre at best. I had even held off starting the personal story for well over a month after launch, waiting for bugs to be resolved in the story that plague most games in infancy. I wanted to enjoy the story’s experience at my leisure.

I have been waiting for a part of my main dish to arrive to my table and the rest of the meal has gotten cold. I watch other players with their plates full, already digging in. I feel I’m being punished – I’m that idiot in the restaurant, sitting at his table, eating bread as he waits for his food.

Customers will get angry, customers will want to know what is being done, and if told to wait, some of those customers can wait. So please, in respect to those players that are left in limbo, don’t brush them under the rug. Closing the thread makes it look like it is fixed. It is not. Expecting your players to play another part of the game as a “solution”(player options are understandably limited when waiting for a fix, I admit) should not be considered an answer, they would probably be doing that already or stopped playing altogether.

It makes your team sound incompetent and I politely ask you to sing Sheldon’s Soft Kitty song from show Big Bang Theory to each of your fellow team members as an apology. If they use the forums, they’ll understand the joke.

add my name to the list too, iam now on a point where iam thinking about stop playing the game, cause it just doesn´t get fixed.

Wow. Weeks and this still isn’t fixed. Do something else? Ha! I suffered through the storyline jumping ahead from 30 to 48, then got doubly screwed by Anet when they rolled back everyone affected, I went from 77 back to 26. So here it is a couple months later, new character and what a surprise, more broken storyline. I afraid to do anything else, I would probably just find more stuff broken.

Maybe you guys should have aimed for a Christmas release. It might actually be playable by then.

I like how Jeffrey Vaughn’s post from October 24 got edited over a week later to remove November 5 as ETA for fix. (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/The-hatchery-bugged/528545)
Jason, I get a feeling that you don’t understand well what all those pople here say. You talk about dirupting everyone’s gamplay. Yet we don’t ask “why there wasn’t an emergency build to fix this issue”, we ask “why none of all those already pushed builds didn’t contain fix, even though it’s been ready for weeks”. There were fixes for pvp, holiday event, crafting. Many of those were addressing bugs discovered after The Hatchery became broken.
Personally, I like doing storyline quests and exploring maps as I follow my personal storyline, that’s my playing style. I tried pvp, but didn’t like it. Same with crafting – good for additional XP, but I found it pointless besides that. Why do you make me feel like I belong to some worse category of players? Why other problems get fixed, but this one keeps getting pushed further in schedule? You tell me to start another char, but how can I invest time and heart in another toon, knowing that it all can be ruined by a simple bug?
One last thing. You explain why you don’t fix issues immediately. Jason, let me ask you, knowing how long this bug is present, don’t you find the word “immediately” a bit… inappropriate?