PTS Update 34 - Bug Reports for Tales of Tribute

ZOS_GinaBruno

Please report any issues you run into while testing Tales of Tribute in this thread. In general, we prefer you to use /bug in-game but if you’d rather submit a report here, please give us as much information as possible, including screenshots and/or video if applicable. Thank you!

NoxiousBlight

The tutorial is bugged for me. Hard to learn how to play because Bragas' voice lines keep fading in and out.

When the game first game loads up where you have to "challenge Bragas to a Game of Tribute...." he starts talking and says something like "Lots of cards, eh? the ones on your side... <clip>" then his voice cuts out in the middle of the next word.

Then 20-30 seconds of silence. I never get to hear what he was going to say.

Then he says "you take the first turn" then it is more silence for 10-15 seconds.

He pipes back in "try to keep track of the value of the card <clip>" and it cuts out mid-word again. That is all I hear from him. Seems like I missed about 45 seconds of exposition where he tells me the basic rules.

That's it. Those are all the words I get. Then my cards light up and it expects me to play them.

I have no addons running.

Smaxx

Not sure if this is a bug or just an oversight:

The tutorial didn't show any on-screen instructions for me. I had to follow Bragas' voice lines, which was rather confusing at first, since my game is set to German and the voice lines are obviously still missing. So the game is just silent and there are no visible instructions etc. I had to enable NSC talk in the chat window to follow it through, which isn't really ideal.

BerylBones

Would definitely love to see subtitles for the instructions. I have them on for the rest of the game, so they should show there as well.

And Bragas' instructions where he says things like 'look at these things' doesn't give any indication what he's talking about. Nothing highlights, no arrows...makes the tutorial rather worthless.

Qrähe

I just want to be able to skip the tutorial.

MagToast

I constantly enter random endless loading screens while playing ToT, forcing me to restart the game.

Cheyenne

BerylBones wrote: »

Would definitely love to see subtitles for the instructions. I have them on for the rest of the game, so they should show there as well.

And Bragas' instructions where he says things like 'look at these things' doesn't give any indication what he's talking about. Nothing highlights, no arrows...makes the tutorial rather worthless.

This was my frustration too. I had no idea what he was referring to when he said those things because I didn't see anything highlight either.

SantieClaws

Agree with the posts above.

Visual cues - something glowing perhaps - are essential as well as an audio explaination.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

phantasmalD

The game sometimes offers you the option to activate Saint Pelin with no agents in your discard pile. Some cards might be falsely tagged as agents?!

tomofhyrule

phantasmalD wrote: »

The game sometimes offers you the option to activate Saint Pelin with no agents in your discard pile. Some cards might be falsely tagged as agents?!

I'm wondering if there's an inconsistency with neutral Pelin


His favored and unfavored both have 'have an agent in the cooldown pile' and allow you to return said agent to your draw pile. His neutral procs on an action card, but still moves an agent (if available) into the draw pile.

Is the neutral supposed to activate based on an available agent for consistency?

Lady_Galadhiel

One NPC seems bugged in the Hall upstairs after finishing the tutorial,after a few turns when it was the npc's turn he didn't do anything, I waited for 5 minutes and nothing did happen.

shadyjane62

Way too complicated even to try.

tomofhyrule

There are times that it seems the opponent NPC's turn plays out faster than the card animations run, ending up with coins jingling and things happening while the cards take a while to catch up and even are still being discarded/redealt from the tavern after the turn is over. Perhaps every NPC action should finish animating before the next begins.

NPC Patron choosing also doesn't follow the ABBA style that was mentioned in the ESOLive. They will choose both first, and then I'm allowed to pick both of mine. Also, sometimes their choices are not shown properly with the mark if they're taking decks I haven't unlocked (e.g. I don't see the icon on the deck that indicates it was selected)

Sometimes the icons for gold cost or the icon for the text box don't show on the cards, making the text or cost hard to read. This is usually fixed by just minimizing the game and bringing it back up.

And then I just had this happen...

That's a Hunding deck, but it was assigned the color and icon of Celarus' cards. I can see those are Hunding cards in the tavern under Celarus' blue, but then I also got a Celarus card in my hand even though Celarus isn't one of the decks chosen

phantasmalD

tomofhyrule wrote: »

phantasmalD wrote: »

The game sometimes offers you the option to activate Saint Pelin with no agents in your discard pile. Some cards might be falsely tagged as agents?!

I'm wondering if there's an inconsistency with neutral Pelin

His favored and unfavored both have 'have an agent in the cooldown pile' and allow you to return said agent to your draw pile. His neutral procs on an action card, but still moves an agent (if available) into the draw pile.

Is the neutral supposed to activate based on an available agent for consistency?

Hah! I actually didn't notice that, but it explains why you can activate Pelin without an agent. I assume it's a typo then, as the inconsistency doesn't make sense otherwise.

ClickStar

MagToast wrote: »

I constantly enter random endless loading screens while playing ToT, forcing me to restart the game.

same here, loading screen appear after few rounds of play, client is trying to load until games DC, endless loading screen and DC remain after login back and selecting same character to play ... I had to close client from windows bar to log character into play without endless loading

seems to happen only when i spent too much time to play my turns when exploring all the cards on table

Jaclynn

shadyjane62 wrote: »

Way too complicated even to try.

I thought so at first as well. Admittedly, I rushed into the first few games without having "absorbed" the tutorial. However, after losing a few games, I went back and read the 2 lore books, and I am happy to report that it helped a TON.

Bugs as follows: I have been knocked back to log in screen a few times, and (card) game has frozen mid-game a few times causing me to have to exit (ESO) game, and restart. Also, sometimes a turn will end before hourglass is clicked. (see note below)

I may be still confused by the game itself and not sure if it's a bug, but I don't seem to be getting the additional patron move on a turn when the appropriate card is played....(IDK)

Suggestions: A larger "End Turn" prompt, and maybe a visual aid (clock timer) near hourglass to indicate time left on your turn?

Confession: I wasn't super excited about this game, but now I seem to be addicted, and can't wait for it to go live!

Question: Can we talk with other players in chat while playing? Is there or will there be a special chat prompt for it?

tomofhyrule

I'm not able to play against The Author.

I get the dialogue to fight and select it, but then instead of the ToT screen coming up, she just says a line that sounds like a concession "At long last... what a joy it is to be known..." and then it ends.

phantasmalD

tomofhyrule wrote: »

And then I just had this happen...

That's a Hunding deck, but it was assigned the color and icon of Celarus' cards. I can see those are Hunding cards in the tavern under Celarus' blue, but then I also got a Celarus card in my hand even though Celarus isn't one of the decks chosen

It seems that Veteran NPCs pull from a slightly different, potentially outdated Patron list. Some of the other patrons are quite different too, like Pelin only costing 2 powers with no card requirements and the Hlaalu patron having no tooltip.

Hunding is flat out broken when an exprt NPC chooses it; can't be activated as the requirement is 'Your opponent pays two power", which is an impossible condition to fulfill.

Bo0137

Sometimes I can buy cards for way less gold. It usually happens after I play combos. I can buy 4 gold cards for 2 gold or sometimes 1 gold or not pay at all (no, it was not a bonus from the played cards). I will dive into it today to bring more details. If somebody has also experienced cheaper cards, agree this message please.

Silverlotus

MagToast wrote: »

I constantly enter random endless loading screens while playing ToT, forcing me to restart the game.

This has happened to me twice now. Both times with NPCs is the upper floor of the gaming hall. I don't remember which ones since I'm just picking random ones.

Silverlotus

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

One NPC seems bugged in the Hall upstairs after finishing the tutorial,after a few turns when it was the npc's turn he didn't do anything, I waited for 5 minutes and nothing did happen.

Yes! I had this happen with my first ever non-tutorial game. If I remember right, it is the high elf woman (Vastilen) who is sitting with the Bosmer.

Saucy_Jack

So this one's a two-part doozy:

Played the questline to the novice tournament and beat it. Talked to the guildmaster; he said I needed to get better before I could join the intermediate tournament, so I picked up Kishka's "play three NPCs" daily. Played the first game, won, got credit; played the second game, won, got credit.

When I played the third NPC game, I won, but DIDN'T get credit for the daily (still told me to play a third game, and the quest circle was still over the Tribute table in Stonefalls). So I played again, and won, BUT:

- my level was immediately maxed out at 8,
- the game immediately rewarded me the "Tribute Veteran", "Tribute Expert", and "Tribute Master" achievements
- I was immediately able to enter the intermediate tournament, and the expert tournament directly after
- I never got credit for the third NPC match; had to end up just taking the silver reward.

I should mention that previous to this, the other NPC games I played didn't seem to award any xp at all. I checked the xp after the 1st npc match, and after the second, and it was still the same. So it's possible that the game just finally decided to award me withheld xp from previous matches all at once?

Also, incidentally, I tried starting the questline on an alt since it went all wonky on my main, but ran into a hiccup - since Tribute level transfers over to all alts, my alt literally couldn't progress past the "play a novice NPC" part of the quest in the guildhouse, because the alt's Tribute level was maxed out and they therefore could only play expert players, none of which are in the guildhouse quest circle.

Ragged_Claw

Saucy_Jack wrote: »

When I played the third NPC game, I won, but DIDN'T get credit for the daily (still told me to play a third game, and the quest circle was still over the Tribute table in Stonefalls). So I played again, and won, BUT:

- my level was immediately maxed out at 8,
- the game immediately rewarded me the "Tribute Veteran", "Tribute Expert", and "Tribute Master" achievements
- I was immediately able to enter the intermediate tournament, and the expert tournament directly after
- I never got credit for the third NPC match; had to end up just taking the silver reward.

This explains why I can't play any of the novice NPCs now! I had the exact same thing, win a challenge in the Rift, it didn't clear and I had to play again then I also got all the achievements. Also I'm talking to NPCs who say that I'm too low level, to come back later etc. but then I can play them anyway??

I'm now playing in the intermediate tournament but the match against Raenobi is bugged, after three or four turns her turn doesn't finish and I have to concede the match. I've tried three times so far but it keeps happening so I can't proceed.

Saucy_Jack

@Ragged_Claw

I never got the "turn not finishing" bug; that's weird. I was able to complete the entire questline.

Regarding players you can't play, there are

Founders who won't play you until you've met certain specific conditions

, but in terms of regular players, if you've beaten the novice tourney you can't play novice NPCs anymore, and if you've beaten the intermediate tourney you can't play proficient NPCs anymore.

Even after beating the entire questline, I can still play expert NPCs though.

Epona222

Saucy_Jack wrote: »

I should mention that previous to this, the other NPC games I played didn't seem to award any xp at all. I checked the xp after the 1st npc match, and after the second, and it was still the same. So it's possible that the game just finally decided to award me withheld xp from previous matches all at once?

I noticed this, BUT I then noticed a bit later that my rank had actually increased - it just wasn't instantaneous. I am unsure whether it is on a particular refresh timer like sometimes AP gain you have to wait for it to be added to your Alliance rank, or whether a zone change will cause it to update - I will try to remember to check tomorrow.

Ragged_Claw

Because I can't progress in the Intermediate tournament, I started over on a new character, but because rank shares across characters I cannot complete the objective to play against a novice player and continue the quest line. Not sure if this is intended or not, I expected it would be the same as scrying where each character levels separately. If it is intended could it please be impossible for another character to pick up the starter quest? Sitting through the unskippable tutorial only to then be locked out of the questline is not much fun

Lauranae

I have those items showned as a reward each time won a match.

Not sur those are really expected here. In fact i receive a bag either purple or green. None of the swords made it in my inventory so its may be just a visual bug.

I dont have any other quests in my tracker.

Dimentiza

Marina

1. I also got that bug
with the sudden max level.
First, I created a level 50 character, went through the tutorial and dailies without any problems.
Then I created a 3600 character, played the first tutorial match, then went to the second floor and couldn't play with anyone. No one had the dialogue line.
I thought maybe I broke the quest. But all the other characters got the same problems when I checked them.

2. With a screen resolution of 1280x1024, the hourglass and the lower patron can hardly be seen.

3. With gamepadUI card textures do not cover them completely. Switching to keyboardUI helps in this case. Happens every game.
Sometimes this problem occurs with one of the cards when using the keyboardUI, in this case switching does not help.
Happens about once every ten games.

skayl

Can confirm several of the above bugs: I've had multiple ToT story quest NPCs stop taking turns mid-match. I've also had expert-level opponents select patrons who then had totally different tooltips than they do at present. The impacted patron for me was Sorceror King Orgnum, whose tooltip indicated he gave 6 power when activated from neutral, or 4 power and a Maormer Boarding Patry when activated from favored position. However, when I used his ability it correctly only awardeded me 2 power per 4 or 6 cards in my deck.

static_recharge

Many of the sound effects for the cards and other board interactions are only being played through the right channel on my headset, where some are played through both.