I just played it and the Risen come in one at a time, with the tanks firing on them the whole time. That plus the friendly soldiers makes it quite possible to avoid being overwhelmed. My best guess would be that some Risen snuck in while the player was occupied elsewhere.
If she’s in combat, you can’t speak to her. The player who started the story instance (it sounds like you were playing co-op) can speak to her once she’s not in a fight.
It’s been a while since I completed a step in co-op, but I believe it does display: “You have earned the right to complete <Current Story Step>. If you accept, you will be rewarded and shall progress to <Next Story Step>.” The warning dialogue has no concept of your order, all it knows is what your next step will be if you accept progress.
Your order hasn’t changed, but when you accept the other player’s progress, it will put you on the same storyline as them, even if their storyline is for another order. It’s trying to make sure you can both play together.
That’s correct. The achievement is all or nothing—you need to tear down all of the posters, or read all of the books, within a single day.* It won’t show partial progress.
“Day” meaning that world resets will also reset achievement progress, so it’s a 24 hour period, but not strictly 24 hours from the time that you start.
Unfortunately, the system that tries to find the shortest route from on map to another doesn’t know which asura gates are accessible, and which aren’t. Was there a guard NPC that you could talk to get past the fence?
Is the green Risen a charr by any chance? It’s supposed to be invisible until you clear the rest of the ship, it sounds like there’s still another enemy that’s alive elsewhere on the ship. Killing it should cause the Risen to correctly switch sides, and also make the captain of that ship appear.
When did you complete that story step? It looks like you’ve progressed quite a ways past it, if you completed it BEFORE trait unlocks, it won’t retroactively unlock if you didn’t already have that trait.
“Setting the Stage” was added post-release to clean up the start of Chapter 4. Basically, all 3 Orders were duplicating the meeting in Lion’s Arch, so we split it out into its own story step so all 3 Orders use the same step, before diverging into the Order storylines.
As to the journal getting cut off, I believe that’s a bug.
F is the default for interact, I’m assuming you remapped it? Can you speak with other NPCs? Speaking with either starred NPC plays a dialogue cutscene.
When you picked the OOW by accident, it set that as your membership, but when you alt-F4d to redo the story step, and chose the Vigil, it ALSO set that as your chosen Order. This can cause weirdness in any case where it’s spawning Order NPCs or choosing which storyline to do next.
Have you previously completed Kessex Hills? New POIs were added during the living world stories, so it was possible to have the POI count display missing POIs, and hitting 100% on the map won’t reward you a second time.
When you choose to accept progress after doing a step with another player, it will set your next story step to be the same as theirs. It hasn’t actually switched your order, but if their next step was an OOW storyline, it will put you on that storyline as well.
Aha, sorry, my storyline list was out of date. Yes, if you accept the story step completion of another player, it will make your next story the same as theirs, even if that means you’re assigned a storyline from another Order. I wouldn’t worry about it, though, it shouldn’t block the story at any point.
Can you show me the description of the “Setting the Stage” step? It’s not in my list of storylines, and it’s right in between the OOW story and the Chapter 4 story.
If you did “A Meeting of the Minds” (the DP ending for Chapter 3) with your brother, and accepted the option to use his story progress, it will put you on the DP storyline for Chapter 4, since it’s trying to keep you together.
Please note that in-game bug reports are looked at by QA/the dev team, but you shouldn’t expect a response. We’re looking into the “Complete!” issue, but I don’t have any other information at this time, sorry!
I can’t reproduce that issue, I’ve now done the story step 3 times in a row with no issues. Picking up 6 relics without finding the scabbard will mark it on the map. There’s nothing preventing it from being picked up—were you getting an F interact prompt? The inability to use skills is also suspicious, since the scabbard does not disable or affect your skills in any way.
I’ve run through this story step twice with no issues. When you reach the exit and clear out the Risen in the way, Gavin says he’s too wounded to continue, the objectives changes to “Speak with Gain” and he becomes marked with a story star. Speaking with him plays a dialogue cutscene, and completes the story step.
I just ran though this story step, and it completed correctly. When you defeat the dredge chief, a short dialogue cutscene plays, and the story moves to the next step. Note that you don’t get the typical “complete” splash/fanfare, but the objective will move to “Speak with Steward Gixx.” (That story step involves moving across multiple maps.) Is it possible that another step is still incomplete? If you walk past one of the artifacts without searching it, it might leave an incomplete step.
I just played through as a L33 character, and didn’t have any problems. The pirates don’t have any regeneration boons, so I don’t see how they’re getting health back unless you kite them too far away and they heal up when they hit end their end of their leash and return to their starting location.
EDIT to add: Take out the tower (crow’s nest) right away, since you can destroy it without drawing the pirates into the fight. If you try to fight them and the tower all at once, it can be tough.
You’re not standing in the right spot in the screenshot. It’s a bit deceptive since the entrance is up in the town, and it’s possible to stand on the beach directly under the marker on the minimap, and not see the entrance above you.
What do you mean by “it glows when I approach”? The start is marking the entry point for the story—so when you enter the glowing area that’s marked in the world, it will prompt you to enter the story map. Batanga isn’t in the open world, she’s in the story map.
A trivial bug like this is something I can probably look at during my lunch break, and fix in a few minutes with no risk of inadvertently breaking something else.
Odds are you’ve already completed it and been rewarded, but when a new POI was added during the November Living Story, your map completion dropped below 100%. Completing the map a second time does not give you another reward chest.
Just talked to QA and the designer who worked on this story step, we’re investigating the issue. As always, I can’t give an ETA on a fix will be pushed out, but we’ll try to get it out as soon as we can. Thanks!
What are your visible (complete and incomplete) story objectives? That response is used if you haven’t picked a plan yet, once you choose whose plan to go along with, his conversation changes to one that allows you to complete that step.
Did you click all the way through the conversation? The vital transitions are marked with a star, and if you just close the conversation window or walk away so it closes automatically, it won’t complete the quest.
I can’t reproduce the issue you’re seeing. Sidekicking is the same across the game—this particular story step doesn’t have any custom sidekicking going on. What is your weapon level and character level? With a L80 character I had a very slight reduction in damage compared to the open world since I was sidekicked down to L76, but I was still killing everything with relative ease.
On the live servers, special Dev abilities (like immortality or teleportation) are limited to GMs, and all dev commands are logged and reviewed to make sure no one is abusing the system. The integrity of our live servers is very important to us.
ArenaNet employees can join the ArenaNet guild, and when we’re representing it, we get the special ArenaNet tag by our name. We don’t have any special abilities, though, and we don’t necessarily represent all the time, so the tag isn’t always visible. (I often rep another guild, since it has a lot of my RL friends in it.)
