Eastern Solstice Overland Feedback

Gabriel_H · November 15

Having the Writhing Fortress done (twice so I could see both sides) and a break for food. I started in on the new overland content last night around 22:00 UTC and finished this morning around 05:00 UTC - and I do mean finished: Every quest, delve, WBs (Solo'd humble brag), PD (Solo'd humble brag), discoveries, side achievements, lorebooks (90% on a 1st pass), the lot*. For you see, I am a content ... shall we say fiend. I devour it voraciously.

It was a little slower than my usual standard, not because there was more of it, in fact it did feel a touch light on POI and Wilderness quests - something you need to seriously re-think going forward. No, what took me longer ... all the damn bugs! *Well, I say everything but I am still missing 9 Skyshards because, you know, bugged.

Having to abandon quests and re-start them, or hunt down an NPC who wasn't where the quest marker said, or hunting down a set craft station that didn't appear on compass until I literally ran into it, or just taking the time to post the bigger bugs that affect gameplay on the Bug Forums. We won't even get into the typos, or the minor visual effects, or the suddenly jumping around NPCs.

It is such a shame, because the conrent itself was solid. The quests were fun and interesting, you added some different gameplay, some big non-linear delves. PD was a hoot. Silly side achievements were well done. My only complaint about the content itself: World Bosses. There was an interesting WB, a moving of the Phase 2 WB, and a re-hash of previous Voidmother WBs - and all 3 were wayyyy too weak. [snip]

Despite the WBs, the overall content was as I said, solid - Which is why it is so sad to see that experience ruined by bug after bug after bug.

You have to do better!

Edit: Typos
[edited for bashing]

SkaiFaith · November 15

Only played WBs, PD, and unlocked stuff on the map for now.
The Public Dungeon group event was cool, and right now what I'm appreciating the most is the job done by art team: the aesthetic is phenomenal and music is good too.

SummersetCitizen · November 15

I have already had to drop quests due to bugs.

Many others in zone report the same.

They really should ashamed of what they have (or I guess have not) done this year.

fall0athboy · November 15

I just entered Eastern Solstice today.

The game seems to think that I've already obtained all the skyshards. Notably, I do not have the achievement for the Skyshards.

This is a very buggy release.

Necrotech_Master · November 15

aside from the bugged skyshards i was able to do everything without too much issue

i did have one part in the final boss fight where it bugged on me and didnt trigger phases properly so i had to kill the game and log back in for it to fix itself

the only other bugged quest i have is unrelated to east solstice, more the writhing wall event where skordo is just missing, and i cant drop the main quests since i already finished them all, so going to have to try again on another toon unless they fix these issues next week

i think my biggest overall issue with it is that we had to wait through almost 3 weeks after the content released to actually be able to do it because of this 6 week long event