Guild Wars 2

The thing is if the event fails once (or better: should have failed) it is bugged. As long as the event is completed successfully every time it is triggered it won’t bug. Also note that the event will only trigger if a player gets into the vicinity of the event.

/e: bugged again on Vabbi

There is an other problem with this event.
As you may know there is a betting minigame at the end of the event. I can only advise you NOT to partake in that since it is currently bugged.
I thought I’d give it a shot and bought a ticket just to find out that the cow never actually got launched (see attachment). So I ended up with a ticket in my inventory which vanished when the event reoccurred. So yeah thanks for nothing. Wasted 50s… The next time the event ran not a single cow was launched! For a fact I know this should not happen and it was working properly before the “Living Story” content was released.

@Caol Ila.3298: There is a reason my charr is named “Mad Mardine” … best event ever

FYI Anet almost had the event fixed when the “Living story” content really messed it up and it would get stuck on almost every server (before it would only get stuck on some servers after a few days or weeks).
With the recent update Anet tried to finally fix the issue due to the new content. Unfortunately they only fixed one of two issues. The one they fixed was where the event got stuck because the event would not finish correctly after it succeeded. This issue prevented the event from recurring but the cattlepult was most likely still usable.
The issue Anet missed was the one that is observed now. Of course you would wonder how they would miss that? Well if the event runs only once and gets stuck at the end of the event there were only a handful of servers on which the event bugged because it should have failed.

I would put my money on Anet that the next patch will fix it permanently since it seems quite straight forward to add the right conditions to cause the event to fail (aka if cows alive < cows needed…) but it would not be the first time for Anet to nullify my expectations.

The developers are looking into this issue. There will be most definitively be a fix in the next patch. So be patient and take the time to play the new content or finish up other maps.

Can confirm this.
Stuck on all 3 servers I was on. Event description says “Cows alive: X; Cows needed: X” but all cows are dead. Basically it’s as Osirous already pointed out: the event does not fail when it is supposed to (fewer cows alive than Mad Mardine still needs).
I also wrote an in-game /bug report.
Appreciate the effort!

Well I guess removing the event would be one possibility but that would be a rather sad “last resort”. It can’t be that hard fixing one event after months of “fixing it in the next patch”? Kind of embarrassing for the team working on the fix if you ask me… considering the recent “fix” seems to have broken the event on every server whereas before the event only bugged out on some servers after several days if at all.
Kind of feels like it was improved for the worst.
But still have not given up hope even though it feels like the topic has been abandoned :/

As I mentioned I would not want to see the event removed because it’s incredibly funny

If you need the vista and the cattlepult is unusable use the guesting feature. On most servers the event should be bugged in the right way (cattlepult usable ) .

Can confirm what Crispy describes but I’m pretty sure you still can talk to Mad Mardine
Really sad the event no longer runs since it’s the MOST HILARIOUS event ever . I even named one of my chars after that mad scientist

I guess Smooth Penguin has a point there. Hopefully this will lead to suspending all Accounts which have names which are anagrams to any inappropriate word. Let’s start with White Shore, Whacky Shore and Pong Lenis since they match this pattern

And I am also proud to report that my account has now been suspended for 72h for use of an unacceptable name. Did I just miss the account suspension for Mitch Bassacre (I was justed asked to change the name) or are those 72h for a “repeated” felony ?

So somehow one of my chars seems to have an offensive name?
Well I’m somewhat puzzled. The name in question is “Mitch Bassacre”. I can only suspect that this is due to the “ kitten #8221; in the last name but I really can’t see how that name is offensive. I would have completely understood the forced name change for one of my other characters because the name is pretty offensive (and I would love to change it).

Would someone please enlighten me?

melandrien.5362:

kittenata.7906:

On Piken Square, the NPC seems to think his apprentice is off collecting more cows (during which I should be able to use the cattlepult), the apprentice thinks he’s off collecting more cows too.

But he’s not, he’s just walking in circles around the cattlepult. So it’s stuck in the not-firing, no-event, can’t-use state.

Can I just point out how dumb it is to make a map completion element time-dependant? It’s a neat idea for a vista, but it’s a PITA that you have to wait or repeatedly visit it to get past this.

Also, this could have probably been fixed in a few minutes if the game had a proper GM-petition system, wth is up with that?

This. Same behaviour on Desolation. Not sure if it’s at all relevant, but either way after 2hrs or so of waiting, no event.

Also stuck on Dzagonur (no event for 3h, cattlepult unusable, NPC behaviour as mentioned)

/edit: Working again! If it didn’t just fix itself: Thank you!