I’m looking at this right now, thanks! It’s a bit baffling since we made no changes to this story step for the May 28 update, but the Risen are rather devious…
Check your Windows audio settings, if it’s set up as a multispeaker system but you only have 2 speakers, it could be trying to play the audio on speakers you don’t have. (If Windows thinks you have 4 speakers but in reality you have 2, it will be trying to use the 2 phantom speakers for some audio.) And of course, make sure that the Dialog Volume under Audio Options isn’t set too low.
No changes have been made to retaliation that I know of. Note that several updates ago PvP/WvW and PvE damage were split, could that be the difference you’re seeing?
There were an excessive number of bots at that location on several servers, so the spawns during the event (only) had their loot reduced. No changes were made to any creature outside the event, including wraiths in other locations. We tried to find the simplest, safest change possible. I hope that answers the question, but I really don’t want to get into a debate about “What is farming?” or “Does farming hurt the economy?” or “Economy? It’s a game, who cares?”
I’ve stated this is several other threads now, but the maintenance update and the event change are totally unrelated, they just happened on the same day.
As I stated in another thread, despite the suspicious timing, the update did NOT contain any content changes. The changes to the Lyssa Temple event are totally unrelated.
I’ve adjusted the Lionguard so they’re the same level as the open world NPCs, and reduced the power of the abominations a bit. I was able to solo this as a L24 elementalist without dying, though some dodging was required when one of the abominations took a swing at me. I don’t have an ETA on when this will go live, though it will be in a future update.
What exactly is your current story objective? I just tried this, and it worked fine. You need to use the VOED to ping the artifact, once you close enough you can F – Pick Up tjhe artifact and the story will progress.
I haven’t been able to replicate this issue, so I need more specific info. What was your current objective? Did you find the sheath by picking up a relic, or did you pick up enough that it marked the relic for you? (If you pick up enough relics without finding the sheath, it will mark the location for you.) Which objectives (if any) were NOT marked as complete at the end? Just the final step? Or were they all marked as complete, but the story step didn’t complete?
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She has been downtuned since launch, so it’s possible the Wiki is just out of date. She’s currently at L10, and I know that the duration of her poison attack was reduced significantly several updates ago.
The Wiki is incorrect, then. She’s L10, as is the story step she’s in. (And she’s lower level in the lower level story steps.) She could only reach 11 if you take multiple players into the story step, causing it to scale up.
Are you somehow pulling Vyacheslav from his end of the bridge or blitzing him as quickly as possible? There’s a tripwire on his end of the bridge that will complete that step when you enter it, unless you’ve somehow killed him already.
I didn’t want to necro the old thread, but I did want to let folks know that I (literally) sat down with the audio designer on this, and we made some minor changes to make the puzzle friendlier.
There’s now a small rampup where the flags and wind kick in, which gives you a couple of seconds before the wind will knock you off the wall—if you’re in the middle of the run when the wind kicks in, you now have a small window to activate stability or get to cover. The sound then dies off as the flags die down (and the knockback effect ends.)
Hopefully this will make the ledge portion a bit easier, so you don’t have to die and use the checkpoint. I don’t have an exact ETA on when it will go Live—the audio folks want to do a little more work on the wind audio, then it will go into the next available content update.
Did you receive the miniature in your mail? If not, try cleaning out your inbox. If you did receive it, you might have done “Deposit All Collectibles” at some point, which will send minpets to the collectibles tab in your bank unless you keep them in an invisible bag.
Look under Options and see if you have Fast Cast Ground Targeting turned on, if you do it will try to fire at your mouse cursor, which might not be at a valid location. Try turning it off.
We’re investigating this, but it’s proving to be very difficult to reproduce. (As noted in this thread, the bug comes and goes.) In order to hone in on the cause of the issue, we would like to know if players who have lost the commander tag can still make squads and use the commander tools?
We recently added some randomness to the start locations, so that if a party enters at once, they aren’t stacked up on top of each other. I’ll double check that instance, one edge of the area it can spawn you in is probably too close to the prop.
Thanks! Sorry about that, glad you were able to progress.
Update: the skills and balance team are going to take a crack at this and other sigil/rune bugs, so they can decide on a case by case basis whether the tooltip or the effect needs to be updated. (And we’re working on a system that will base the tooltip on the mechanical effects, so we don’t have to make sure they match up by hand.) Thanks all!
As Colin mentioned in another thread, we’re investigating a bug that’s causing scaled up creatures to deal more damage than intended. (Originally they were capped to scale for 10 players, we’ve been boosting the scale caps on some events to handle many more players, but this is boosting their damage way too much.) I don’t have an ETA for that. I’m also looking at Jonez in particular, right now he’s using default creature stats, so I’d like to make him a lot tougher. Again, I don’t have an ETA yet, sorry!
I’ve passed this on to our localization team for a future update. (Sorry, I don’t have an ETA on when this will get fixed.) It might seem like a 5s fix, but it’s really not, since the fix has to be made in all language files. Fortunately it’s a number change, so no additional translations are needed.
I just tried it, and it worked fine. After obtaining the explosives, there are 3 groups of Inquest that attack. Once they’re defeated, the story step completes. Is the “Defeat the Inquest” objective still marked as incomplete? Are any objectives incomplete? Is it possible that there’s an Inquest spawn stuck somewhere?
I mentioned this in another post, the NPC for the first step is in the ship’s hold, so he’s slightly under your start position. His story star is visible, but tends to get obscured by the ship. Speaking to him will advance the story, and kick off a cutscene on deck.
Did you speak to the NPC at the very start? It looks like you’re running ahead of the story and trying to get into a fight with the NPCs before you’ve advanced the story steps.
For some reason, one of the guards isn’t visible. At the platform at the bottom of the stairs, though, where he should be, you can still “F Knock Out” the guard. There’s no visible marker for it, but if you’re in the right spot you’ll be able to complete that step and progress normally.
What’s your current story step? If it’s meeting the strike team, note that the NPC you need to talk to is down in the hold of the ship, so his story marker is obscured a bit by the ship itself. Speaking to him and selecting the dialogue marked by the story star will direct you to go up on the deck, where a cutscene will play out.
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Clear out your inbox. Even if it doesn’t display as full, too many messages will prevent new mail from arriving. Delete some messages, and the dyes will likely arrive.
I haven’t been able to reproduce this issue, and I’ve played this story step dozens of times. I’ve seen a post from someone who said that turning down their graphics options helped, I suspect the issue is that varying load times are affecting the timing.
Are you outside the ring when the her introduction ends:? Or trying to talk to her during the intro? I just ran it now and it was fine, so I’m trying to figure out how to break it.
Hrm, looking at the game script… Timing shouldn’t matter, you can’t interact with mines until the “Clear the mines” objective becomes active, at that point you need to clear all 12 mines to complete the objective.
Swimming shouldn’t matter. I did increase the size of the exit location so it should be harder to accidentally not trigger it. It should be in a future content update.
I can’t reproduce the issue, going to the marked locaton while the “Escape” step is active should play a cutscene, and complete the story step. Go to the center of the marked location, the exit region might not match the circle on the minimap exactly.
