PTS Update 47 - Bug Reports for The Writhing Wall Event

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Margravigne wrote: »

@WhiteCoatSyndrome I *think* the double-incursion is intended as part of Phase 2, since the Camps' Crafting dailies have doubled from 6 to 12 as well, so maybe it's to convey things are escalating?
It would be nice if Skordo or another NPC mentioned it for confirmation, or we had some way of being advised of the changes each new Phase introduces so we don't miss out on getting involved in something.

@Margravigne I hope so, but I wanted to mention it so you knew it wasn’t just you.

Margravigne

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Margravigne wrote: »

@WhiteCoatSyndrome I *think* the double-incursion is intended as part of Phase 2, since the Camps' Crafting dailies have doubled from 6 to 12 as well, so maybe it's to convey things are escalating?
It would be nice if Skordo or another NPC mentioned it for confirmation, or we had some way of being advised of the changes each new Phase introduces so we don't miss out on getting involved in something.

@Margravigne I hope so, but I wanted to mention it so you knew it wasn’t just you.

@WhiteCoatSyndrome ty....aaaand I'm back to only 6 crafting dailies at the main camp today? Maybe the 12 was a glitch.

Margravigne

The Central siege camp seems to be bugging, there's only 1 SR left (there are 5 demolished ones), but it keeps spawning a single cultist (no matter how many you kill another one pops out but only one at a time) and won't progress?
Snippet in case my explanation makes no sense:
https://youtu.be/s35w9QhX3y4

The other active SC/Incursion at the time is Sunport, and the bonfire there is still orange:

MoonPile

Hi, I reported this back during U46: the Wall is still shaking.

Video and more info:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/789085156486070272/u47-pts-the-writhing-wall-is-still-shaking

Other players are seeing it too; it's obvious in some other' videos like ArzyeL's here:

https://youtu.be/yc4U1IRgx8I?si=jNTmOF2P_qfxD6Sj&t=5

You can kind of ignore it from far away, but it still jitters when you get close to it, which is worrisome for when the event starts. In fact the entire skybox in Soltice and High Isle shake as well, but not other zones.

Ilsabet

Margravigne wrote: »

I've left Part 1's questline untouched on Live, so I could run it first (on a copied character who's completed the relevant prior content) and see how these flowed together, and Prince Azah has a new line he really wants us to say at every possible opportunity:

There may be a couple of other instances I missed, but it's "What do we do next, Prince Azah?" the remake, with a line that doesn't even belong in this part of the questline, since it references something we don't acquire until the Colored Rooms.

EDIT: Running another copied character who's done some of DC, but not Coldharbour or Summerset, and the line doesn't show up during part 1 (yet), will post screencap when I encounter it.

To add to this, if you actually click through the dialogue about the Light of Meridia, Azah proceeds to spoil the big dramatic event at the climax of Part 1. Please for the love of sweet baby Talos don't actually send this to Live.

Margravigne

During the "Crossing the Wall" quest, while chasing down the anchor points with Darien, all dialogue referring to the 'chains' describes it as flowing *into the wall*, yet the chains' animation is moving *away from the wall*.
Is this animation's direction able to be reversed?

Darien's dialogue in the Fissure Ruins regarding having Meridia's Light inside him says it's been there since "... the Planar Vortex in Coldharbour..." but he had that burst of light in the Northpoint Graveyard which killed the bloodfiends attacking him?
Is this a dialogue bug for different levels of completed quests?


We're given a 'kneeling' animation when we approach the dying Fellowship Soldier while investigating the stolen shipments, but for me it bugged out and my character slid around the beach on her knee looking at the clues until she was forced into the animation for opening the crate.

Any chance that kneeling animation could be used in the Fissure Ruins ritual chamber when checking on Darien?

And running the 'Justice for the Fallen' quest in the Solstice prologue, I chose the Kind option when speaking with Skordo here:


But his dialogue had an audio/text mismatch:
https://youtu.be/wsw11npV5us

It sounds as though the audio file for another response is currently in use? It doesn't match the Grim option, either. I don't recall this being an issue when I played it during U46 testing, or on Live, so it might be new.

MoonPile

Patch v11.1.3
1. The Writhing Wall is still wobbling.

2. The new UI text for the event is stuck to the Minimap block; it cannot be moved or unstuck even with add-ons like Azurah UI.

Video shows both:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/789709290189553664/eso-u47-pts-patch-v1113

Edit: more video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A36e8yS0QSg

Re:

MoonPile wrote: »

Hi, I reported this back during U46: the Wall is still shaking.

Video and more info:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/789085156486070272/u47-pts-the-writhing-wall-is-still-shaking

Other players are seeing it too; it's obvious in some other' videos like ArzyeL's here:

https://youtu.be/yc4U1IRgx8I?si=jNTmOF2P_qfxD6Sj&t=5

You can kind of ignore it from far away, but it still jitters when you get close to it, which is worrisome for when the event starts. In fact the entire skybox in Soltice and High Isle shake as well, but not other zones.

MoonPile

MoonPile wrote: »

Hi, I reported this back during U46: the Wall is still shaking.

Video and more info:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/789085156486070272/u47-pts-the-writhing-wall-is-still-shaking
...

NGL when I saw the patch note:
"Resolved various community and dev identified bugs."
I got a little hopeful

Nope, the wall is still jiggling glitchily :,)

Margravigne

I guess Darien's duplication glitch had to be patched? Unfortunately it's not quite a complete fix, he becomes stuck out-of-bounds and stops following completely if you cross the edge of his playpen and trigger his 'wrong way' dialogue:

• Fast-travelling to a Wayshrine will relocate him, but he's still stuck rather than Following
• Going through a Loading Door will reset him to Following once again, and he can safely Fast Travel within his boundaries after that.

Honestly, this might be worse if it goes live than the duplication glitch, because it's a lot easier for most players to do accidentally after leaving Sunport with him before they head to the first location, his boundary there is pretty close to the edge of town.
Most people aren't going to be picking up dailies mid-quest on their way, and once you've done the first one he stops following you and just meets you at the second (and at the fissure).

Brief 2min clip showing what's currently happening:

https://youtu.be/hfVnJNryHvg

Margravigne

The respawn-wayshrine inside Tarnur Mine has an activation point, but attempting to use it does nothing, should this be disabled / removed, as I don't recall other such respawn points having them, only the Wayshrines useable for fast-travel?

NxJoeyD

erebus_79_ESO wrote: »

Took the event quest from the crown store: Support the Fellowship. I'm prompted to talk to Skordo. When using the map to find Skordo, it tells me to go to Stirk Island...There's no wayshrine there to travel...that's not where i need to go. Skordo is in fact on Solstice at the camp south of Sunport. When using the "Show on Map" tool....the location needs to be fixed.

There’s a bug with this NPC, Skordo the Knife.

When directed to speak with him in the camp in Solstice, after collecting the 3 vitrified souls, a bug arises where when you speak to Skordo he only delivers a generic line dialogue but doesn’t progress the quest.

Even though the quest marker points to him and even though the quest objective says “talk to Skordo the Knife”, you can’t.

I tried reloading the UI, logging out and logging back in, traveling to another zone and then back again, nothing fixes the bug. The “Support the Fellowship” quest is not progress-able past this point. (PC NA)

tomofhyrule

NxJoeyD wrote: »

erebus_79_ESO wrote: »

Took the event quest from the crown store: Support the Fellowship. I'm prompted to talk to Skordo. When using the map to find Skordo, it tells me to go to Stirk Island...There's no wayshrine there to travel...that's not where i need to go. Skordo is in fact on Solstice at the camp south of Sunport. When using the "Show on Map" tool....the location needs to be fixed.

There’s a bug with this NPC, Skordo the Knife.

When directed to speak with him in the camp in Solstice, after collecting the 3 vitrified souls, a bug arises where when you speak to Skordo he only delivers a generic line dialogue but doesn’t progress the quest.

Even though the quest marker points to him and even though the quest objective says “talk to Skordo the Knife”, you can’t.

I tried reloading the UI, logging out and logging back in, traveling to another zone and then back again, nothing fixes the bug. The “Support the Fellowship” quest is not progress-able past this point. (PC NA)

Are you talking about the live server?

That’s a known thing, since Skordo isn’t even supposed to be active to offer the quest until the event starts in October. The bug currently isn’t that it’s not completable, it’s that it’s accidentally available already and shouldn’t be.

Once the event starts in October, then the quest will proceed.

w002exp

tomofhyrule wrote: »

NxJoeyD wrote: »

erebus_79_ESO wrote: »

Took the event quest from the crown store: Support the Fellowship. I'm prompted to talk to Skordo. When using the map to find Skordo, it tells me to go to Stirk Island...There's no wayshrine there to travel...that's not where i need to go. Skordo is in fact on Solstice at the camp south of Sunport. When using the "Show on Map" tool....the location needs to be fixed.

There’s a bug with this NPC, Skordo the Knife.

When directed to speak with him in the camp in Solstice, after collecting the 3 vitrified souls, a bug arises where when you speak to Skordo he only delivers a generic line dialogue but doesn’t progress the quest.

Even though the quest marker points to him and even though the quest objective says “talk to Skordo the Knife”, you can’t.

I tried reloading the UI, logging out and logging back in, traveling to another zone and then back again, nothing fixes the bug. The “Support the Fellowship” quest is not progress-able past this point. (PC NA)

Are you talking about the live server?

That’s a known thing, since Skordo isn’t even supposed to be active to offer the quest until the event starts in October. The bug currently isn’t that it’s not completable, it’s that it’s accidentally available already and shouldn’t be.

Once the event starts in October, then the quest will proceed.

Thanks for this. I was trying to figure this out because I came back to the game after several months and did the Solstice main quest before the prologue.

When doing the prologue on Stirk, the quest markers to pick up both the quest from Skordo and the daily were available, leading the player to believe this was a continuation of the prologue. However they are extremely buggy and cant be turned in. Because of the dialogue I suspected they were supposed to come after main quest and this might be tied to the next update. Funny that it managed to sneak into the public environment release.

Maitsukas

@ZOS_Kevin the Writhing Fortress cannot be completed.

As I entered it while doing the Crossing the Wall quest, I picked up Support the Fellowship. The latter quest is stuck at the "Reach the Soul Spire" stage, with the hints telling me to Defeat the Infernium (which isn't dead, it's stuck in one place outside of its fighting area with 4 mil HP and cannot be attacked by anyone) and Destroy Remaining Barriers (all 4 barriers were down when I arrived). At the time of writing, there's probably 3 other players in here with me with no way to progress further.

Edit: Immediately after posting this, the Writhing Fortress progress was reset. Gonna try again now.

Edit 2: Managed to complete it, can confirm that the server-wide announcement for destroying the Soul Core was working for a player in Craglorn as well.

licenturion

When i am in the writhing wall instance it crashes my client every three minutes. Everything freezes and the a "program stopped responding" crash to desktop error. Then I have to start again. Unplayable like this

When exploring the western part of the map, no issues. On live also zero issues, so it isn't my PC

licenturion

Maitsukas wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin the Writhing Fortress cannot be completed.

As I entered it while doing the Crossing the Wall quest, I picked up Support the Fellowship. The latter quest is stuck at the "Reach the Soul Spire" stage, with the hints telling me to Defeat the Infernium (which isn't dead, it's stuck in one place outside of its fighting area with 4 mil HP and cannot be attacked by anyone) and Destroy Remaining Barriers (all 4 barriers were down when I arrived). At the time of writing, there's probably 3 other players in here with me with no way to progress further.

Edit: Immediately after posting this, the Writhing Fortress progress was reset. Gonna try again now.

Edit 2: Managed to complete it, can confirm that the server-wide announcement for destroying the Soul Core was working for a player in Craglorn as well.

I finished it too. It was visually very well done.

Did you have any special music apart from the random drums and standard boss music?

It looked great but musically I would have expected some new epic music tracks to make this way more epic and special since they were bragging about the high production values for this event this year.

We didn’t even get new login music screen this year for the writing wall.

Compared to WOW and previous chapters it is all very scaled back this year when it comes to music.

Brad Derrick, where are thou??!!