EVENT - Castle Charm Challenge is BUSTED

Betheny · December 2016

jlboozer wrote: »

I figured out how to make it work after many failed attempts.....crouch down and then use kit, it works then for some reason.I hope this alleviates some of your frustration...peace!!

Nope didn't work, able to get dancing with other players (same as I was able to get earlier anyway), but cannot get item to work. If I press E the item doesn't fire off, if I open quest bag and doubleclick item nothing happens, and most of time it just says "item not ready yet" but when I open quest bag the item clearly hasn't been used as it isn't on a cooldown...

It's broken.

Screenshot below - says "item not ready" but you can see the Dazzling Pin isn't on a cooldown.

rootimus · December 2016

Which server(s) are these problems on? I haven't encountered any so far on the US PC server.

Betheny · December 2016

rootimus wrote: »

Which server(s) are these problems on? I haven't encountered any so far on the US PC server.

This is NA PC same as server you're on.

Betheny · December 2016

I give up, it's busted for this character and ZOS doesn't give a crap, not getting any support from them here at all.

rootimus · December 2016

Betheny wrote: »

I give up, it's busted for this character and ZOS doesn't give a crap, not getting any support from them here at all.

You've been here since May. By now, you should know that if they fix this at all, it'll be a few years down the line. After all, there are still bugs from the beta and early access periods that are still present. Now, if they can find a way to package up a fix and sell it to you in the crown store, they'll be right on it.

Pops_ND_Irish · December 2016

I got through it with little effort

Betheny · December 2016

MoTeets wrote: »

I got through it with little effort

So did I on my other two characters - the issue is characters can get bugged so the items just don't work.

Betheny · December 2016

Sent in a ticket, god knows I give them enough money to expect some customer service and a timely fix.

regiss · December 2016

lol I don't even bother with ticket anymore. Enjoy your copy-paste fix of relogging and repairing install.

Betheny · December 2016

regiss wrote: »

lol I don't even bother with ticket anymore. Enjoy your copy-paste fix of relogging and repairing install.

Yeah I'm not exactly looking forward to interacting with them.

magnusthorek · December 2016

It's not "busted" it's just tricky to make it work. It's a L2P (Learn to Party XD) issue

Betheny · December 2016

magnusthorek wrote: »

It's not "busted" it's just tricky to make it work. It's a L2P (Learn to Party XD) issue

No it is NOT a "L2P issue". Only one of my chacters is bugged and I have tried everything to make it work - this is an actual bug. Look at the screenshot.

magnusthorek · December 2016

My guess is all your characters did by accident and you didn't notice how EXACTLY it should be done. I was kidding with "L2P" (so much that I put Leanr to PARTY).

But since you were rude, then go now and really Learn to PLAY the event

Carl-lan · December 2016

magnusthorek wrote: »

It's not "busted" it's just tricky to make it work. It's a L2P (Learn to Party XD) issue

Makes sense. My sorc is an old grumpy ***. It's his own fault really.

Prob why he was so good at the mudball challenge.

Betheny · December 2016

magnusthorek wrote: »

My guess is all your characters did by accident and you didn't notice how EXACTLY it should be done. I was kidding with "L2P" (so much that I put Leanr to PARTY).

But since you were rude, then go now and really Learn to PLAY the event

How are you interpreting that post as rude? Is saying "no" to you rude or something?

Never mind, answering that, not expecting you to get any more polite just going by your last post...leaving it to the support team, would have appreciated some support from the staff in the forum as well but there's noone around.

Carl-lan · December 2016

Betheny wrote: »

jlboozer wrote: »

I figured out how to make it work after many failed attempts.....crouch down and then use kit, it works then for some reason.I hope this alleviates some of your frustration...peace!!

Nope didn't work, able to get dancing with other players (same as I was able to get earlier anyway), but cannot get item to work. If I press E the item doesn't fire off, if I open quest bag and doubleclick item nothing happens, and most of time it just says "item not ready yet" but when I open quest bag the item clearly hasn't been used as it isn't on a cooldown...

It's broken.

Screenshot below - says "item not ready" but you can see the Dazzling Pin isn't on a cooldown.

This is exactly what happened to me. As soon as I walked into the first building it completed the 'dance with other players' part of the quest, but trying to active the performance myself by pressing 'e' simply didn't work. Only on one of my Alts. It worked completely fine on my main, I mean, it's not hard... you walk in and press 'e' and it works... well... should.

I dunno. I posted a ticket. I think it's a bug, tried all the fixes here but nothing works for me.

Katahdin · December 2016

I did it 2x yesterday. No problems

PC NA

Betheny · December 2016

Carl-lan wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

jlboozer wrote: »

I figured out how to make it work after many failed attempts.....crouch down and then use kit, it works then for some reason.I hope this alleviates some of your frustration...peace!!

Nope didn't work, able to get dancing with other players (same as I was able to get earlier anyway), but cannot get item to work. If I press E the item doesn't fire off, if I open quest bag and doubleclick item nothing happens, and most of time it just says "item not ready yet" but when I open quest bag the item clearly hasn't been used as it isn't on a cooldown...

It's broken.

Screenshot below - says "item not ready" but you can see the Dazzling Pin isn't on a cooldown.

This is exactly what happened to me. As soon as I walked into the first building it completed the 'dance with other players' part of the quest, but trying to active the performance myself by pressing 'e' simply didn't work. Only on one of my Alts. It worked completely fine on my main, I mean, it's not hard... you walk in and press 'e' and it works... well... should.

I dunno. I posted a ticket. I think it's a bug, tried all the fixes here but nothing works for me.

Same for me - tried everything and nothing worked (not user error), submitted a ticket, probably won't ever be fixed.

Betheny · December 2016

Katahdin wrote: »

I did it 2x yesterday. No problems

PC NA

I did it two times as well on two of my other characters - but on third character it is straight up bugged.

Carl-lan · December 2016

Also - I'm getting it on both the Nord and Breton quests, where you are required to walk into several buildings and perform... both with just one character. Works fine for others. A bit frustrating.

Betheny · December 2016

Carl-lan wrote: »

Also - I'm getting it on both the Nord and Breton quests, where you are required to walk into several buildings and perform... both with just one character. Works fine for others. A bit frustrating.

So am I - both quests where you need to use an item in quest bag = bugged for that one character of mine, yet my two other characters are able to do the quests with no issues.

This is a bug on the character. And when trying quest again (abandoning quest and retaking quest) the character remains bugged.

Betheny · December 2016

I might have found the solution and reason why only *some* of us are bugged - seems there's a quest that adds effects to your character and if you never died during or after doing that quest, the effect remains on your character until you do die.

TL;DR: go get your character KILLED (let some mob hit you till you die) and this will fix your bugged character and let the character use these kinds of quest items again.

Dying worked for me and fixed the bug, so hopefully it's the same issue as me...apparently the problem is we don't die all the time like everyone else does

malchior wrote: »

I had the same issue until a ZOS Support removed 'effects' on my character. I had the same issue on 2 other quests. My character had an immune to stun effect from previous quests that never got removed. And since my character did not die at all (not even once), it remained. The issue was fixed after it went to 3 different support staff. Apparently when you use E, the game 'stuns' you before initiating a different action, since my character had immunity to stun, it did not do anything.

The support staff, said, should I ever encounter the same issue, I have to kill my character to remove the effect.

Hope this helps you.

Betheny · December 2016

@Carl-lan

@BigBragg

@regiss

Read above post for fix.

Carl-lan · December 2016

Awesome, thanks for posting that.

As soon as I'm back online I'll go jump off a cliff!

Thanks again.

Betheny · December 2016

Carl-lan wrote: »

Awesome, thanks for posting that.

As soon as I'm back online I'll go jump off a cliff!

Thanks again.

np

The wonders of google!

wolfwraith37 · December 2016

Huh. Interesting. I wonder if that explains why the bugged character is also "immune" to the special festival drink while the other quests (and special festival items) have worked on my other two characters. Whelp, looks like it's time to go throw him off a cliff.

UPDATE: Omfg, I can't believe it. IT WORKED. I killed him to a mob and suddenly - ta-da! - he can do the Lava Stomp Dance. @Betheny you are my hero for finding and sharing that post. Thank you so much.

GreenhaloX · December 2016

The place is just so saturated with so many toons/players in one small area causing huge lags and in-op functions. It probably will work better once this initial frenzy dies down and places become more sparse. Happens each time a new DLC/event is installed.

Betheny · December 2016

GreenhaloX wrote: »

The place is just so saturated with so many toons/players in one small area causing huge lags and in-op functions. It probably will work better once this initial frenzy dies down and places become more sparse. Happens each time a new DLC/event is installed.

No it was as above, a quest bug from another quest. Nothing to do with lag. After killing my character everything works again.

Hallothiel · December 2016

On PS4 EU.

I went to the Castle to do the optional bit first & it just didn't work. At all. No matter how much I button mashed or clicked on inventory or whatever. So gave up & exited. Thought I might as well give it a go at the inn just in case as you are actually directed to do - and it worked fine. Directed next to market - worked fine. Went back to Castle - worked perfectly. Many times.

So maybe the order does matter? Just a suggestion in case it helps.....

Betheny · December 2016

Hallothiel wrote: »

So maybe the order does matter? Just a suggestion in case it helps.....

No this is an actual bug caused by a previous quest and not dying. I found the solution to this bug as above, thanks to google.