Reactivation of nemesis broke Prison break?

jestersage · October 2012

For some reason, when I reactivated my nemesis, the prison break cannot be proceed, as in cannot damage either nemesis or Vengeance. Is this bug common to everyone or just me?

blasphemouswords · October 2012

Happened to me too.

neuraldamage · October 2012

Yep. Its common, known and unfixed. It has failed to complete for me on several toons, sometimes multiple times.

Try it repeatedly doing different things like sometimes letting Green Dragon attack but make sure to rescue all the injured guards before hitting the end and hopefully one of those times it should complete. But if your neme fails to leave their cell, you are hosed and need to retry it.

serendipitynow · October 2012

This is as said a known issue, but its not limited to reactivating nemesis, the prison break is bugged for first nemesis first time through as well.

Some nemesis/lackys seem to work better as well, heres my tip

change nem to sorcery
minions to burning lackys with dark magic

***spoilers***

clear first room, rescue guards and activate the prison cells before doing next room, disarming bomb, finishing all rest before talking to warden and activating halon system before going into room with nemesis etc...

In the cut scene there, if nemesis doesnt leave cell its bugged so exit and immediately re enter.

Using the above ive never had to repeat more than 3 times, usually 1st or 2nd works (done this on 3 chrs in last few weeks)

beldin · October 2012

I never had problems with that quest, but have played it not very often after On Alert.

My "Alert-friendly" Nemesis is mostly Fire with the Blue Demons that also use Fire.

"Alert-friendly" because no annoying spam of holds, no knocks and no bugged / overpowered passive like Darkness or PFF

lordhavelock · October 2012

This is a known bug which is some how related to the powers you have given to your Nemmy and/or their Minions. As mentioned above, if during the cutscene your Nem doesn't run out of his cell, just leave. You can try it again immediately, but I'd recommend heading back over to the Police Station and changing your Nemmy's powers. Take long enough that the Prison mission instance resets (5mins?) and then try again.

Darkness and Sorcery were bugged when I tried them. I've found that Single Blade, Martial Arts, and Electricity worked so far.

Good luck.

neuraldamage · October 2012

lordhavelock wrote: »

This is a known bug which is some how related to the powers you have given to your Nemmy and/or their Minions. As mentioned above, if during the cutscene your Nem doesn't run out of his cell, just leave. You can try it again immediately, but I'd recommend heading back over to the Police Station and changing your Nemmy's powers. Take long enough that the Prison mission instance resets (5mins?) and then try again.

Darkness and Sorcery were bugged when I tried them. I've found that Single Blade, Martial Arts, and Electricity worked so far.

Good luck.

Going all Martial Arts has worked for me as well. Sometimes on the 1st try and sometimes the 5th. I've also completed it without disarming the bomb tho I usually do just so I don't have to wait for the Green Dragon ambush that occurs when you don't disarm it.

So I'm not quite sure that it has anything with the powers set chosen and you just got lucky after changing your power. Hmm, I think I'll try darkness on the next one simply because its supposed to be "fixed" now. :eek:

In fact the only commonality I have seen is the mission when the neme that won't leave the cell is truly broken and I have even had it leave just to be unable to complete the mission.

Also Bunker Buster has multiple issues that can prevent completion and one time I could not get the Draysha Empowered Minion in Breaking Point to leave the lab and attack until I dropped and retook the mission.

Frankly, I think they should stop using variations of "bust" and "break" in their mission titles.

serendipitynow · October 2012

while im not 100% sure if nemesis set / lackys set etc has anything to do with odds of it bugging or not but i have tried with several sets with 0 success even after 6 or 7 tries, but 5 times now with the sets i listed above ive never had it bug more than twice and usually just once before it works.

sinhani · October 2012

I reported it as a bug when it fritzed on me a few times in a row (yeah, bet the devs *loved* my helpful heads-up about that one :redface:) and then about a week later I got a message saying my ticket had been updated. I went to look for it in my ticket queue... but there was nothing there, even after I pressed the Refresh button. So not only do I have no idea how my ticket was 'updated,' but now I can't access the Prison Break mission at all - Defender doesn't have it anymore, and there's no way to enter the prison to restart it as the door's not there anymore. I have since had the pipeline Nemesis mission when I visited Monster Island though, so does that mean I've been somehow booted past the Prison Break one so that I don't have to complete it? Any advice appreciated.

cyjonpw · October 2012

I almost posted yesterday that I've done this one a dozen times without problem...and then it bugged on me today. I finally got it to work the third time. The only difference I can think of is the first two times I destroyed the bed blocking the door with an AOE and the third time I used a single target attack. I remember reading about some other mission recently where if you use an AOE it breaks the mission so I figured I'd give that a try. No idea if that was the real reason it worked or not. Gotta love voodoo debugging (defined as "try stuff at random until something works and then claim credit").

@sinhani, they probably marked the mission as complete so you could progress with the nemesis arc. Since you've gotten another mission, I'd say ignore it and move on.

serendipitynow · October 2012

I reported it as a bug when it fritzed on me a few times in a row (yeah, bet the devs *loved* my helpful heads-up about that one ) and then about a week later I got a message saying my ticket had been updated. I went to look for it in my ticket queue... but there was nothing there, even after I pressed the Refresh button. So not only do I have no idea how my ticket was 'updated,' but now I can't access the Prison Break mission at all - Defender doesn't have it anymore, and there's no way to enter the prison to restart it as the door's not there anymore. I have since had the pipeline Nemesis mission when I visited Monster Island though, so does that mean I've been somehow booted past the Prison Break one so that I don't have to complete it? Any advice appreciated.

While only a dev could say for sure that does sound like what happened. They set it as complete and moved you on beyond it.

robynportal · January 2014

think I figured out how to get it to run. DON'T open the side doors in the first room and let the prisoners out. if it opens on its own it follows the sequence, if you open it yourself I think it screws up the mission path

Reactivation of nemesis broke Prison break?

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