[BUG] The Battle of Fort Trinity

#2 - Sept. 14, 2012, 5:43 p.m.

Are you leaving the area before the scene finishes? When it’s over, there’s a cutscene that triggers, but only if you’re in the area by Trahearne.

#4 - Sept. 14, 2012, 6:53 p.m.

Do you remember if you did “Forging the Pact” multiplayer?

#15 - Sept. 17, 2012, 7:22 p.m.

We haven’t been able to reproduce it, so I doubt it.

#20 - Sept. 18, 2012, 3:59 p.m.

We’re having an extremely difficult time trying to reproduce this, but we are looking into it. I don’t have an ETA for a fix since I don’t know what the problem is.

#30 - Sept. 19, 2012, 10:10 a.m.

There are multiple discussions going on in this thread, but I have a question for those that are stuck right at the beginning: which quests did you do right before this? Specically, which “greatest fear” was picked? The isssue appears to be that the game doesn’t know where you are in the story, so it doesn’t know which cutscene to play.

#38 - Sept. 19, 2012, 4:16 p.m.

I’ve asked our testing team to run through this story step a few times and send any bugs my way. I’m going to try and clean it up for the 10/1 update.

#49 - Sept. 20, 2012, 8:31 p.m.

I’ll post tomorrow when I’m back at work and can look up the story step names. The fears are failure, suffering, and the death of an innocent.

#55 - Sept. 21, 2012, 2:24 p.m.

Re: my above posts

The three fears are:
- Death of an innocent (“Tower Down”, “Munition Acquisition”/"To the Core’, “Breaking the Bone Ship”)
- The suffering of others (“Striking Off the Chains”, “Wet Work” , “Willing Captives”/“Intercepting the Orb”)
- Failure (“Shell Shock”, “Volcanic Extraction”/“Fixing the Blame”, “Marshalling the Truth”)

#56 - Sept. 21, 2012, 2:47 p.m.

Update: Ok good news/bad news.

Good news: we found and fixed the problem with the story stalling out when you meet Trahearne.

Bad news: it won’t go live until the 10/1 update. (So 10 days to go.)

I’m also looking at the problem with the docks stalling out, bad AI behavior, and a few other misc issues.

#69 - Oct. 1, 2012, 11:08 a.m.

For the 10/8 update I’ve thinned out the spawns quite a bit, and cleaned up the spawning around the docks so they shouldn’t end up in odd places.

#72 - Oct. 1, 2012, 11:55 a.m.

Tonight’s patch should fix the issue with it stalling when you talk to Trahearne. The 10/8 update will have additional changes.

#75 - Oct. 1, 2012, 7:08 p.m.

Konahrik.5069:

Just patched up and tried to progress my story and… no change, still the same bug with no cut scene.

What are your last 3 story steps? (From the journal.) Did you do any of them co-op?

#78 - Oct. 1, 2012, 7:48 p.m.

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#78 - Oct. 1, 2012, 7:50 p.m.

Konahrik.5069:

Striking off the chains, Wet Work, Intercepting the Orb

You stood by Trahearne until all the scenes finished? I honestly can’t find any reson why it wouldn’t kick off the LC after the scenes.

#93 - Oct. 2, 2012, 10:23 a.m.

For the docks, have you checked inside the fort? There’s a third wave that gets launched over the docks past the first line of defense.

For the stall, the only thing I can think of is that the fix didn’t get into the 10/1 update for some reason. I can’t find any situation where it’s not working correctly on our internal servers, and looking at the script it has a failsafe to force it to continue.

#108 - Oct. 3, 2012, 4:37 p.m.

Update:

I just found and fixed (for reals) the problem with the story stalling when you tried to talk to Trahearne. Turned out to be some corrupt data, so it looked ok in some cases, but was failing on the Live server. While I was at it, I also thinned out a lot of the spawns. I’m still seeing weird name color issues at the end, and I’ve asked our programmers to look into it. (They’re showing up on the correct hostile team, but displaying the wrong color for some players.) It’s currently in the queue for our testing department to run through it, I’ve asked that this be expedited and added to the 10/8 update since this story step has been such a huge problem.

Since it’s 4:30pm local time, it won’t hit testing until tomorrow, but I’ll post another update once I get approval to add this to the 10/8 update.

#114 - Oct. 4, 2012, 11:37 a.m.

Update 2:

Sounds like the fixes passed stage 1 of testing, so they’re moving it into the 10/8 update for further testing. Specifically, this should fix the block for some folks when they talk to Trahearne at the start, and reduces a lot of the spawns across the story step. There’s still some funkiness with the enemies at the end displaying as white/yellow instead of red, but that’s a seperate issue we’re looking into for a later update.

#136 - Oct. 8, 2012, 10:21 a.m.

If you’re stalled at the front gate, look around. There’s almost certainly a zombie hiding out somewhere. Once it dies, the next wave will spawn.

#138 - Oct. 8, 2012, 11:27 a.m.

“We”? How many players were in the group?

We’ve now played through this about a dozen times with no blocking issues, so I’m having a hard time trying to identify the problem.

#140 - Oct. 8, 2012, 11:38 a.m.

Try running it solo, it might be a scaling issue.

EDIT: It looks like it’s set up correctly, so the only thing I can figure is that one of the undead is either spawning in a bad spot, or being pulled to a bad spot by combat. Check around all the routes they attack from, and check around the fortress gate, to see if any are “stuck”.

#144 - Oct. 8, 2012, 12:49 p.m.

As posted above:

1 – Try the story solo. This seems to only pop up when doing it with multiple players.

2 – Look around the gate, it seems to be a nefarious zombie that’s hiding out under/around the ramp leaing into the fort.

#150 - Oct. 8, 2012, 4:23 p.m.

I’m trying to offer a possible workaround for a bug that I cannot reproduce after playing through the story step a dozen times. Since I can only test solo myself, it might be an issue with multiplayer.

#171 - Oct. 9, 2012, 11:08 a.m.

What map are you in? The story start point is just outside Fort Triniry in the Straits of Devastation.

#176 - Oct. 9, 2012, 1:32 p.m.

The marker is probably trying to display the shortest route from your current location, which would be through the asura gate at Vigil Keep. (It doesn’t know whether or not you can actually use the gate.)

#190 - Oct. 10, 2012, 5:26 p.m.

Update: I modified the gate attack sequence and our testers tried it with 1, 2, and 5 players, and it worked every time. Unfortunately, the next content update isn’t until 10/22, so it will be a while before the fix hits the live servers.

#226 - Oct. 17, 2012, 7:47 p.m.

?

As I’ve stated before, we tested a change that worked for 1,2, and 5 players, but it’s not slated to go in until the next content update (10/22).

#278 - Dec. 6, 2012, 10:32 a.m.

When did this happen? That bug was fixed about a month ago.