Harrowstorms are broken

TheWoanderer

Right now I'm in game XB/EU, standing at a Harrowstorm that has finished, but is still active. Nothing to kill as it's been done but it's still active. Everyone standing around wondering what to do. People at others, waiting for them to spawn are wondering why they have been there for half an hour, well... We now know its because the Harrowstorms are bugging out and not completing, meaning the next one can't activate? I assume.

This really needs to be looked at fast. Already the level of dissatisfaction is evident and this issue is not doing the game a good service.

Just thought someone ought to let someone know about this.

TheWoanderer

This one is at Hailstone Valley Ritual Site, not sure if that info is relevant.

Deminia

Same problem currently at Giant's Coast Ritual Site Harrrowstorm. The battle music plays, red lights and bolts and spawning and flashing, but there are zero enemies. It has been going on like this for a long time.

Server: PC NA

LeHarrt91

Deminia wrote: »

Same problem currently at Giant's Coast Ritual Site Harrrowstorm. The battle music plays, red lights and bolts and spawning and flashing, but there are zero enemies. It has been going on like this for a long time.

Server: PC NA

I had the same thing happen at that one over the weekend on PS4/NA .

moonsister

It seems to be getting worse. While a few days ago only one instance in either Blackreach or Skyrim seems to have been broken yesterday it was in both areas. PC / EU

TheWoanderer

It sucks really, because most of us I'm sure adore this game, and I'm sure it's difficult keeping such a huge endeavour problem free. But especially when you pre purchase and pay monthly/yearly, we all understandibly just want a game that works.
I feel sorry for those folk that only have an hour or two to play due to long work hours. Hanging around to get one harrowstorm like this could and would take up a large percentage of your playtime.

I'm lucky... I'm single and don't watch TV, so I dedicate a lot of time to this game and I will eventually get the achievements or complete the dailies but for others, I can truly understand the frustrations....

And at the same time want to give credit where it is due. Its a massive game with a huge amount of content and I long to see people speak highly of the game and find the level of dissatisfaction really saddening.

Even I strongly considered requesting a refund for greymoor and cancelling my eso+ subscription.
I'm happy I didn't follow through but do know that I'm unfortunately critical of events and currently wonder if I will make it through the year before I say, enough is enough.

I guess time will tell 🤔

Technica

Got this on PC EU as I type at Northern Watch, looks like it's ended but it's not stopped.

RaddlemanNumber7

I /bugged two today. Seems to be getting worse.

Technica

...And again at Chilblain Peak

Avoranti

PS4 NA I waited for 3 hours at the Black Morass Ritual site and it never spawned. Went back the next day and waited another 2 hours and it never spawned. Not sure if I’m missing something to trigger it or if it’s just bugged.

Mr_Arce88

Please report every single bugged Harrowstorm via bug/feedback option. I seen ZOS saying on this forum it happens 'very rarely' which is absolute ***. This happens a lot.

Patrynn72

I saw this last night - called my wife over and she didn't see the storm, though I did.

Technica

Mr_Arce88 wrote: »

Please report every single bugged Harrowstorm via bug/feedback option. I seen ZOS saying on this forum it happens 'very rarely' which is absolute ***. This happens a lot.

yh, I posted my 2 examples about 1hr apart I think

TheWoanderer

Broken again. XB/EU 20:29 Hailstone.

Technica

Now I have this one at Chilblain Peak, looks different to the others that bugged

Technica

Just thought I'd add it seems to have gotten a lot worse today...

- I logged on this morning and ran over to start my Harrowstorm daily quest, I could see the Chillblain peak storm from Solitude, so I made my way over there. It was bugged. We had a bit of a talk in the chat box amongst each other about it to update each other on the status of the storms.
- After Chillblain finally disappeared, Northern Watch was then reported in chat as bugged as well.
- Chillblain (I think) then bugged again following this.
- Currently I'm fishing in Morthal, and from my fishing spot, I can see the Hailstone Valley storm, I asked in chat if this was bugged too, or if I was alright to run over to help end it. It is bugged too.

So far today, every single storm I have seen/been alerted to in chat, has been bugged.

I logged on approximately 10am UK time, it is now 2pm.


Hailstone Valley

Elsonso

Mr_Arce88 wrote: »

Please report every single bugged Harrowstorm via bug/feedback option.

This goes for all the bugs in the game that annoy people. Report in game first, then if you feel like talking about it, come in here.

Personally, I think that all of these world events should be on an inactivity timer where they go away if nothing is happening for a set amount of time.

TheWoanderer

I do find it bizarre.... The amount of issues

1.The Harrowstorm bug
2.Dragons in Northern Elsweyr are bugged, you can kill them but the audio is bugged out similar to the Harrowstorms, that even once the dragon is dead this horrid howling sound continues. Have to turn my sound off.
3. The Gold Lead excavation bug, the item being uncovered but not registering and you being told you are out of time and having to excavate the same item about 4 or 5 times before it ticks.
4. The Lead location on map not registering so you can't use the augur to find the exact location, only fix is to log out xbox home and back in which leads on to 5
5. Loading screens, this may be individual but my daughter, who is a gamer herself sat on the sofa and watched a loading screen, she turned to me and said 'You actually play this game?' For some reason that hit me and all I could say is 'Yes darling... I do!'
6. I lose all audio if there are 10 or more people doing a Harrowstorm, logging out to character select is the only fix... This does not happen at Blackreach Harrowstorms... Only above land. This is a random bug as there have been times when it does not happen but its currently a 50/50 rate of occurrence.
7. The fence bug, almost forgot about this one. Being unable to sell your stolen items.

Now the loading screen issue has been around from long before Greymoor but it really does seem even worse than before so whether it's right to list this in current Greymoor bugs is debatable but is something I've noticed is even worse since Greymoor launched.

I also understand that time is probably needed to figure out the cause of the bugs but it does seem like a rather long time to wait for a fix.

Anyway...

The timer idea is great and somewhat logical in my mind 👍

Dagoth_Rac

TheWoanderer wrote: »

2.Dragons in Northern Elsweyr are bugged, you can kill them but the audio is bugged out similar to the Harrowstorms, that even once the dragon is dead this horrid howling sound continues. Have to turn my sound off.

Try going into Champion Points screen and coming back out. That gets rid of bugged dragon audio for me.

TheWoanderer

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

TheWoanderer wrote: »

2.Dragons in Northern Elsweyr are bugged, you can kill them but the audio is bugged out similar to the Harrowstorms, that even once the dragon is dead this horrid howling sound continues. Have to turn my sound off.

Try going into Champion Points screen and coming back out. That gets rid of bugged dragon audio for me.

Awesome, appreciate that suggestion, it's a really horrible bug. Will give that a shot as soon as I tackle them dragons again 😉 👍

iamkeebler

I’m gonna add to the Greymoor bug list...

NPCs running around naked in Falkreath for no reason
Audio getting stuck on any musical emote (much like the same dragon noise glitch)
Random load screens popping up in locations that don’t have a lot of player activity
Last quest of the MAIN STORY bugged in a way that prevents progress through it unless RNG smiles upon you (took me no less than 12 tries to get that last boss battle to actually complete for me)
I also can’t even begin to explain the many weird and unique bugs I’ve encountered running dungeons
The fencing bug really irritates me too.

It makes me sad to see a game I love being so unbelievably broken with each new piece of content that comes out. I’ve lost track of the number of bug reports my friends and I have submitted tickets for. I get the need to push content so the creators can make money, but perhaps they should dial it back a bit and release content that is good quality. This release should have never made it to the public in the state that it’s in. If the game isn’t working as planned, they should have delayed the release so they could push a patch out with it at the same time. Who knows when these issues will get fixed.

Mr_Arce88

TheWoanderer wrote: »

I do find it bizarre.... The amount of issues

1.The Harrowstorm bug
2.Dragons in Northern Elsweyr are bugged, you can kill them but the audio is bugged out similar to the Harrowstorms, that even once the dragon is dead this horrid howling sound continues. Have to turn my sound off.
3. The Gold Lead excavation bug, the item being uncovered but not registering and you being told you are out of time and having to excavate the same item about 4 or 5 times before it ticks.
4. The Lead location on map not registering so you can't use the augur to find the exact location, only fix is to log out xbox home and back in which leads on to 5
5. Loading screens, this may be individual but my daughter, who is a gamer herself sat on the sofa and watched a loading screen, she turned to me and said 'You actually play this game?' For some reason that hit me and all I could say is 'Yes darling... I do!'
6. I lose all audio if there are 10 or more people doing a Harrowstorm, logging out to character select is the only fix... This does not happen at Blackreach Harrowstorms... Only above land. This is a random bug as there have been times when it does not happen but its currently a 50/50 rate of occurrence.
7. The fence bug, almost forgot about this one. Being unable to sell your stolen items.

Now the loading screen issue has been around from long before Greymoor but it really does seem even worse than before so whether it's right to list this in current Greymoor bugs is debatable but is something I've noticed is even worse since Greymoor launched.

I also understand that time is probably needed to figure out the cause of the bugs but it does seem like a rather long time to wait for a fix.

Anyway...

The timer idea is great and somewhat logical in my mind 👍

I confirm all of the above happening on PS4 EU. Let's be clear, we probably play this game still because of our love for Elder Scrolls universe as the gameplay is terrible right now, almost nothing works properly.

RatsnevE

What is the status of this Hailstone Valley Ritual Site? It does not reset or respawn for several days now for me and apparently has been dead a lot longer for many others. No clue if there is a work around. Please advise. Thanks.

TheWoanderer

RatsnevE wrote: »

What is the status of this Hailstone Valley Ritual Site? It does not reset or respawn for several days now for me and apparently has been dead a lot longer for many others. No clue if there is a work around. Please advise. Thanks.

As far as I'm aware Harrowstorms are supposed to be resetting far quicker with the last update. Unfortunately due to Midyear Mayhem I've not done any since the update so couldn't confirm whether this is actually happening though there has been not new posts here bar yours.

I'm on XB/EU and decided to do a game save data delete and mac address reset as is often suggested by Zos and have not had any improvements in other issues such as loading screens etc.

Wish I could suggest a work around but don't have one and can only suggest opening a ticket and say good luck with that.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

Note that many of the Harrowstorm bugs are listed as fixed on PC/Mac in June 29th's patch v6.0.8, but obviously not on Consoles yet. For other list of known Greymoor bugs, you can track them here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/531066/consolidated-outstanding-greymoor-bug-thread-pc-mac-please-add-info-re-any-other-unresolved-bugs.

Technica

I've just read the patch notes, so happy!

"General
Added two new Wayshrines along the northern coast of Western Skyrim, near the sites of the two northernmost Harrowstorm ritual sites.

Harrowstorms
Harrowstorms in Western Skyrim and Blackreach will now respawn much quicker.
The Harrowstorm daily quest now requires one Harrowstorm to be completed, down from three, and awards more gold and experience for completion.
Harrowstorms will no longer have a chance to get into a “stuck” state and prevent new storms from forming."

RatsnevE

I ended up waiting ~45 minutes for the Hailstorm Valley Ritual Site and YES we were then off with a tough but successful battle.

Elsonso

RatsnevE wrote: »

I ended up waiting ~45 minutes for the Hailstorm Valley Ritual Site and YES we were then off with a tough but successful battle.

Is it a respawn condition that a currently open one be completed? I thought I heard that was the case.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

Elsonso wrote: »

RatsnevE wrote: »

I ended up waiting ~45 minutes for the Hailstorm Valley Ritual Site and YES we were then off with a tough but successful battle.

Is it a respawn condition that a currently open one be completed? I thought I heard that was the case.

yes, which was problematic when the storms were bugged and would not complete.

Note that there is no need (in Western Skyrim) to wait at a ritual site for it to come up. Just ask in zone chat which storm is up, and if you are already at a wayshrine you should be able to get to the site in time before it is finished. (This is not true in Blackreach on PC/NA though, you may need to wait at each site if you want to mark them as complete, because it is harder to reach them and they seem to be completed faster.)