I confirm this bug, couldn’t interact canon or anvil. This bug is serious as game (can’t continue / need to retry until you notice it’s a bug) Also I think lots of people waste hours of game play. If it’s hard to fix, it should be announced.
I recently returned to the game. My account had been hacked and your team was very helpful in restoring it for me. They were very timely and helpful and got my account back to and in the same state I had left it. I was very excited to return the game and play again. I was enjoying my time until I got up to the last personal story mission only to find it bugged. I realize your team is aware of this, however, I am extremely disappointed in the response. I don’t usually complain and am generally understanding on most issues, but this a serious game breaking bug. To find out it’s been this way for over two weeks is extremely disheartening. I was looking forward to finishing the main story so I could buy the Living World story pack and then pre-purchase the expansion. However, seeing the lack of response to such an extreme bug has me rethinking this. Has in fact made me rethink even wanting to play the game at this point. While I’m aware this is not the sole issue in the game and there are many problems and projects going on at once, in the case of such extreme bugs it should be your top priority to return the games functionality. Then to hear you’re testing a fix but to assume I’m going to have to wait until Tuesday for it to be rolled out, a kittenumption at the moment, this all tells me you just really don’t care. That speaks volumes to me as a player and I’m simply not sure if I want to continue with this games at the moment.
^ At this point I wouldn’t even assume that this Tues will have the fix. Maybe one Tues. The team appears to be concentrating HoT and “extreme bugs” are not a priority. Weekend beta and selling HoT is #1 priority.
Same as you, I will be keeping my wallet closed.
Seriously, Stop dealing with HoT when their are game breaking bugs in your game. Seriously, you could at least give an update after what, 2 weeks? Yeah guild wars, great customer service there, will not be paying you a dime ever but will continue to play for now.
An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience.
And seriously, I can understand the frustration but please don’t overreact and lessen the drama, that instance isn’t the only thing in game. There are a lot of other content in the game that you can do while wait for the fix. If none of the other contents fit your likes, well then there is life out there too :P Just be patient, a fix was done and it’s in testing. Better a long and properly tested fix than a quick “amendment” that can bring up more issues.
An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience.
And seriously, I can understand the frustration but please don’t overreact and lessen the drama, that instance isn’t the only thing in game. There are a lot of other content in the game that you can do while wait for the fix. If none of the other contents fit your likes, well then there is life out there too :P Just be patient, a fix was done and it’s in testing. Better a long and properly tested fix than a quick “amendment” that can bring up more issues.
Yep, lots of stuff to do—BUT—perhaps if they had concentrated on the game instead of sales we could have moved on by now. Sometimes patience runs out and they don’t need people defending them. They could and should be speaking for themselves. Even posting about it in General discussions rather than adding to/copying to/merging with bug thread is an oversight. (imho).
I didn’t want to post here, but here people are throwin “kittens” at the developer face too much, if you all had the decency to check before talkin’ like, the dev section, or even the General discussion, like the one over me said without checkin, you’ll find information, cause in the Personal Story Restoration update topic there’re dev responses about this matter.
So stop making such a fuss, the bug collided with 2 event, so is not that easy to handle all the stuff. Some of the staff not being there cause of the gamescon, and also the HoT beta weekend, cause if they did repair this, and not finished everything for the beta, surely a post regarding the beta not having everything.
So relax, do something else, like jumping puzzle and other things, while they repair this.
P.s.: I also have 2 pgs that are in the wait for the last quest of the Personal Story.
@Myridar I have got all my character in all class to 80 completed all the maps, done all the jp, gear all them up so really there are nothing much left to do, all I need to do is finish my personal story…
and this is really a game breaking bug, is not like a minor bug like missing dialog I can live without…
so yea dev fix the kitten thing
Also with the experience nearly 2 years with Anet, they always response really slow in this kind of subject matters, some bug are still here since the release the game (yes I am talking about the necro minion ai – it went full kittened sometimes)
I used to be really forgiven like you, but you will see XD
I can’t quote because my phone and this website seem to be having a quarrel, but to the PP who mentioned the resources in this game not being adequate….
At least they are listening and working on it, based on official feedback. I have recently come back from a game that had to get all the patches from overseas, and they didn’t even know what the patches contained. Then, if the daddy company didn’t want to fix a bug, they called it “emergent gameplay” and it was just left there.
That, and it took at least 7 days for a ticket response. ANet is amazeballs in comparison.
They are working on the issue, and yes it is frustrating but this game has a ton of content.
Sorry, but I just can’t accept “there’s so much other content” when the core part of the game is broken.
The personal story is(was?) the heart of GW2. The fact that you can’t finish the main storyline is a pretty kitten big deal; especially when they’re trying to sell an expansion. Why the kitten would I wanna buy HoT when the main vanilla story doesn’t work?
Just came across this bug now with my family. They are new to the game and we have been leveling together doing our stories together. Now we are at Arah and can’t go any further. Needless to say, they are ticked.
We can’t even finish the main game, yet you are wanting us to purchase your expansion. Seems you should fix your main game first before trying to get us to play HoT. This is just ridiculous.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Lady Bethany Of Noh – Chronomancer – Lords of Noh [LoN]
An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience."
Too bad he replied there instead of the bug thread though.
Bottom line, regardless, we are still waiting.
Seriously, come on A-Net; this isn’t a merchant in DR short changing us – it’s the story!
The time frame is way too long and someone somewhere has decided that this just isn’t worth your attention in light of your new stuff – but that’s not a good ad for you guys.
Hopefully you also realize that the ratio between those bothering to write here and those actually effected is not 1:1?
This is putting a lot more people out than you’re giving credit to, A-Net.
An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience."
Too bad he replied there instead of the bug thread though.
Bottom line, regardless, we are still waiting.
This debacle once again reinforced the negative impression of Arenanet I already got very early on. They only care about selling the game, after that: “Screw you, we already got your money. The less you play, the less we have to pay for servers.” Just like it took them YEARS to do something about the awful camera mechanics.
Same problem as everyone else all over again. Anyone reading this thread would have a hard time sinking more money into a game that the devs seem to be this uninterested in fixing. Thanks but no thanks. Very frustrating!!
It’s not something new … when you have to use the cannons, you can’t interact with them. Alrady sent an in-game bug report with screenshot but I know it’s nothing new, I just hoped this was fixed already.
I have had the same issue for the last 2 days. Finally talked to some other people who pointed me to this thread. How many posts does it take for ANET to reply and tell us what is going on?
Can anyone confirm if you don’t SOLO this its completable? So if I bring a friend it will fix the problem? Or doing it solo or in a party still bugs out? Thanks in advance.
Then select General PvE & Environment → Living World Journal Functionality.
And explain the issue. Hopefully getting a flood of bug reports will do SOMETHING to make the problem more in their face. Just becoming desperate to make ArenaNet do the job that their employment details. Buy to Play game, F2P or, P2P its all the same, you still need to do bug fixes and patches to keep your game working. Specially the main story line, AND it being the last mission.
Have logged out and attempted this 3 times now, still bugged. This is the first character I have gotten to the end of the personal story and I cannot progress, very disappointing :/
Have sent a bug report too.
Seems to be the same issue as everyone else, cannot use cannons or repair anvil on airship.
This is by far the most frustrating bug I’ve ever faced. My schedule included that I finish every story before Hot, very disappointed A-net. I even had to apologise to my friend for wasting his time.
I am also reporting this bugged. I’m attempting to kill the giants using guardian reflects.. but the cannons seemed to have some sort of special extra damage when reflecting the giant’s attacks.. normal reflects only reflect the attack damage. I’ve heard the copter is bugged after this, but I’m willing to attempt it anyway. I restarted this once after I got the giants “non-animation” T shape bug.. and now the giants are animated.. but the cannons are not interactable. My guess is the node to interact with them is stuck behind the airship as it moves, or even below it on the ground (similar to the problems with Scholar Brendan in the Broken Spit when you cannot kill the risen replicators. You are however, able to kill them using jagged horrors’ species skill (auto-attack).. here you can’t damage the giants.
Edit: I was able to kill the giants much more slowly than usual with player skill reflects. The story progressed to the helicopter and it was not interactable.
Edit note: I really think the devs need to up priority on certain issues. This one needs to be near the very top, above HoT at this point.. Unlike other people I’m not likely to leave and go to WoW or some other game. I like GW and its story too much. The recent string of new updates breaking old things is troubling though, and as many people have already said in this thread – its not the issue with things breaking, its how long it is taking to fix them, which makes people nervous that they might never be fixed in lieu of new content. New players won’t just want to play Heart of Thorns.. they will want to play through the whole story.. and if their first experience is a game-breaking story bug ..they may not want to stay.
