Wing of the Crow game breaking bug (workaround inside)

RicAlmighty · June 3

During the Fox Path part, after you dispel the first ward and walk the path no wards show up and the fox stops walking and you are stuck on the path with no way forward. This breaks the entire quest and you cannot progress. I am not the only one experiencing this.

@ZOS_Kevin can you please have someone look into this?

EDIT: Kevin provided a workaround for this in case anyone else experiences this issue.

ZOS_Kevin · June 3

Thanks for the follow up. We do have this noted from another report for the team and they are investigating.

RicAlmighty · June 3

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Thanks for the follow up. We do have this noted from another report for the team and they are investigating.

Thank you but at this point, I am literally unable to progress the quest on this character.

Tommy_The_Gun · June 3

RicAlmighty wrote: »

During the Fox Path part, after you dispel the first ward and walk the path the fox stops walking and you are stuck on the path with no way forward. This breaks the entire quest and you cannot progress. I am not the only one experiencing this.

@ZOS_Kevin can you please have someone look into this?

I had this too, but I just jumped down and it teleported me back to the start of the "invisible path". Then you have to re-activate the Focal Point & start again. I did not had to restart the entire quest - it puts you back so you only have to do the part when The Fox is guiding you though the invisible path.

The problem here is, that for some reason Focal Point is on a timer, so you can only dispel the ward for the duration of that timer. Once it is over and you did not noticed the Ward you had to dispel - you are basically stranded as fox stops, wating for you to dispel a ward, but you can't since "Focal Point effect/buff" is over. It is best to go to option (Settings -> Combat) and activate buff timers so you can see how much time you have left.

It is a mixture of time-based puzzle & dexterity as you move around & try to find wards while also looking not to fall down.

RicAlmighty · June 3

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

RicAlmighty wrote: »

During the Fox Path part, after you dispel the first ward and walk the path the fox stops walking and you are stuck on the path with no way forward. This breaks the entire quest and you cannot progress. I am not the only one experiencing this.

@ZOS_Kevin can you please have someone look into this?

I had this too, but I just jumped down and it teleported me back to the start of the "invisible path". Then you have to re-activate the Focal Point & start again. I did not had to restart the entire quest - it puts you back so you only have to do the part when The Fox is guiding you though the invisible path.

The problem here is, that for some reason Focal Point is on a timer, so you can only dispel the ward for the duration of that timer. Once it is over and you did not noticed the Ward you had to dispel - you are basically stranded as fox stops, wating for you to dispel a ward, but you can't since "Focal Point effect/buff" is over. It is best to go to option (Settings -> Combat) and activate buff timers so you can see how much time you have left.

It is a mixture of time-based puzzle & dexterity as you move around & try to find wards while also looking not to fall down.

Does not work. Fox gets stuck in the same place every time. This has nothing to do with not dispelling a ward, they don’t even show up. I’ve redone the Focal Point 50 times at this point. It’s broken

ZOS_Kevin · June 3

@RicAlmighty In chatting with the dev team, they have this potential workaround. If you become blocked from progressing down the path, we suggest abandoning the quest and leaving the instance for 15 minutes. On return, the issue should be resolved.

Let us know if this works for you.

Lexalious · June 3

this is such a sad bug. fox just stops moving and you have no way to reach any of the tasks.

RicAlmighty · June 3

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@RicAlmighty In chatting with the dev team, they have this potential workaround. If you become blocked from progressing down the path, we suggest abandoning the quest and leaving the instance for 15 minutes. On return, the issue should be resolved.

Let us know if this works for you.

I will try this Kevin, thank you. I’ll let you know.

Auora · June 3

RicAlmighty wrote: »

I will try this Kevin, thank you. I’ll let you know.

There is a way to cheese it. If you have a ground AOE like wall of the elements, you can use it to see where the path is to continue forward until you can reach the symbols in the sky. I had to do this after I fell, and after I used one of the ward symbols farther on the path the fox started moving again.

Cobble123 · June 3

Yip stuck here too

Cobble123 · June 3

Auora wrote: »

RicAlmighty wrote: »

I will try this Kevin, thank you. I’ll let you know.

There is a way to cheese it. If you have a ground AOE like wall of the elements, you can use it to see where the path is to continue forward until you can reach the symbols in the sky. I had to do this after I fell, and after I used one of the ward symbols farther on the path the fox started moving again.

OK this worked.

RicAlmighty · June 3

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@RicAlmighty In chatting with the dev team, they have this potential workaround. If you become blocked from progressing down the path, we suggest abandoning the quest and leaving the instance for 15 minutes. On return, the issue should be resolved.

Let us know if this works for you.

Hey @ZOS_Kevin , this worked! The wards actually showed up this time so I was able to break them and the fox kept walking. Thanks a lot for the quick advice on this one, I really appreciate it.

ZOS_Kevin · June 3

@RicAlmighty Nice! Glad it worked out! Again, sorry about the inconvenience earlier.

The team has this bugged and will work for a solution overall.

Lexalious · June 3

Auora wrote: »

RicAlmighty wrote: »

I will try this Kevin, thank you. I’ll let you know.

There is a way to cheese it. If you have a ground AOE like wall of the elements, you can use it to see where the path is to continue forward until you can reach the symbols in the sky. I had to do this after I fell, and after I used one of the ward symbols farther on the path the fox started moving again.

wish i had thought of that before restarting the whole quest.

Jack-0 · June 3

Auora wrote: »

RicAlmighty wrote: »

I will try this Kevin, thank you. I’ll let you know.

There is a way to cheese it. If you have a ground AOE like wall of the elements, you can use it to see where the path is to continue forward until you can reach the symbols in the sky. I had to do this after I fell, and after I used one of the ward symbols farther on the path the fox started moving again.

Thank you! How very Elden Ring!

shadyjane62 · June 3

Just tried again waited 15 mins abandoned quest redid quest and I still glitched in middle of chasm, tried caltrops but couldn't see any path.

What now?

shadyjane62 · June 3

Tried again managed to make it across but the second path is glitched also, the wards showed up once in 8 tries I almost made it but fell before I could jump. after that that the wards don't show up.

shadyjane62 · June 4

Put in a ticket 240603=006738

Please someone help me. I have spent 8 straight hrs doing scribing quest only to get to end and cannot finish.

I guess threatening the crow worked last time I tried I got across but it is two hrs of my life I will never get back to do a one minute walk.

Edit:
I got this done, but I have never been so close to despair. After working all day on scribing to come so close to quitting over a bug. Kevin helped with advice and I so appreciate it.

ZOS_Icy · June 4

Greetings,

This thread has been moved to the Bug Reports section, as it is better suited there.

Thank you for your understanding.

Jack-0 · June 4

@shadyjane62 if you’re still stuck, the thing to do is use an aoe like auora described above, what you want to watch out for is where that aoe is actually visible - that means you can walk on it. If you cast it and don’t see it, that means there’s no invisible platform on the area you cast it on, so try turning a few degrees to the left or right and cast again. I did it with wall of elements and had to put balance on to keep topping up my magicka so I could cast it often enough to actually find the path. Hope this helps.

Quackery · June 4

Auora wrote: »

RicAlmighty wrote: »

I will try this Kevin, thank you. I’ll let you know.

There is a way to cheese it. If you have a ground AOE like wall of the elements, you can use it to see where the path is to continue forward until you can reach the symbols in the sky. I had to do this after I fell, and after I used one of the ward symbols farther on the path the fox started moving again.

I've tried this, but nothing is lighting up the path. It's just a guessing game.

NyassaV · June 4

I figured out a way around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iwmPGAHd2w&t=1s&ab_channel=NyassaV

IrisDupree · June 4

For me, its just the symbols not appearing or not appearing fast enough to not lose the buff and end up falling. First time I fall, its game over and the symbols no longer appear at all.
I can leave and retry , but then I have to do the entire quest section over again. Given this is tied to a timed mount to collect it is very frustrating to be limited by how fast my older computer renders tiny little symbols that I have to be precisely place to click.

shadyjane62 · June 4

To Jacko ty for trying to help. I am glad it finally worked and I know first day is hard but it was a heart breaking bug after 8 hrs of of work.

I tried caltrops and aoe but those didn't work. What finally did was dropping the quest waiting 15 mins and trying again, and even then it took dropping the quest 4 times before I got to a place where the wards finally showed.

Next chapter I am going to do nothing but pick flowers till all the bugs have been ironed out.

On a side note I saw people were upset about the drop rate of ink. I tried a newbie are and wrothgar and between them spend two hrs gathering and got 6 ink.

That was an acceptable rate of them dropping.I didn't always see them go in so I can't tell what dropped them the most but it seemed to be the mushrooms.

Quackery · June 5

NyassaV wrote: »

I figured out a way around it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iwmPGAHd2w&t=1s&ab_channel=NyassaV

How did you make the way show up as black? I used the same skill with flame staff but nothing came up, just glitter all over.

Margravigne · June 5

For me it wasn't so much running out of time, as the sigils didn't work if I mistimed using them, then just weren't there to be used on the reruns (apart from the first one) if I guessed wrong and fell.

I abandoned and restarted three times after being stuck during the second path before checking this and seeing people were using AOE effects to reveal the safe path.

Playing a Nightblade, using "Path of Darkness" gives a faint AOE smoke/overlay to follow. Not sure what's going to work on each of the different character classes, so check your skills for visible AOE effects, and best of luck!

Adaarye · June 6

IrisDupree wrote: »

For me, its just the symbols not appearing or not appearing fast enough to not lose the buff and end up falling. First time I fall, its game over and the symbols no longer appear at all.
I can leave and retry , but then I have to do the entire quest section over again. Given this is tied to a timed mount to collect it is very frustrating to be limited by how fast my older computer renders tiny little symbols that I have to be precisely place to click.

My computer is not old and I have the same issues. After I fell the first time the bugs just get worse each attempt. The fox doesn't even start at the beginning when I dispel the first ward. I keep ending up here (pic) with no path at all. Wall is not helping me in the least.

I'd like the achievement but I lack patience with things like this. I'll just wait until the bugs are fixed to attempt it again. I have two dual mounts that I purchased.

Gyazo Video https://i.gyazo.com/ac88d2c7df2b49eb97ffea4b71321950.mp4

Big Sad

MasterSpatula · June 6

Auora wrote: »

RicAlmighty wrote: »

I will try this Kevin, thank you. I’ll let you know.

There is a way to cheese it. If you have a ground AOE like wall of the elements, you can use it to see where the path is to continue forward until you can reach the symbols in the sky. I had to do this after I fell, and after I used one of the ward symbols farther on the path the fox started moving again.

Thank you SO MUCH for this workaround. So much better than tossing out all the time I'd already put into this quest.

Adaarye · June 7

My second night of trying to make this work. I used the work around and ended up at the second part of this with no way forward cause the fox is back there ...

What I really don't understand why a game breaking bug is still here and not fixed. Reminds me of the anniversary event when so many could not and did not get drops.

I am so disappointed.

Adaarye · June 7

Wards are not there to the right. There should be one right there where my camera is facing. I've seen it once.

There are sooooo many to the left. Too bad the one on the right is NOT there.

This is beyond frustrating. I think I'll go play something else for a while.

alenae1b14_ESO · June 7

This bugged for me as well, stranded with unmoving fox. I've abandonned the quest and will try again.