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All hail to the glitching CEA
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"Raises altar"
Everyone join me in worship of the great glitched Crystaline entity instance who has graced us with its presence this beautiful Monday morning.
Everyone join me in worship of the great glitched Crystaline entity instance who has graced us with its presence this beautiful Monday morning.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
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The problem only seems to affect Advanced instances, and does not set off your timer. I've had it happen a few times now but have been able to come out and go straight into a normal CC instance. A nuisance but all you really lose is the Advanced materials drop.
... Maybe I play at time when more capable groups are on? After all its not hard to learn 'If you have weak hull, hit evasive manoeuvres and run away whilst the entity is absorbing energy'.
The reason its not there, is supposedly because the earlier group failed it. Ergo my reasoning stands.
I have never seen this bug - so apparently does not affect private queues.
DPS Channels FTW.
...#LLAP...
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
My workaround is doing Normal. Spares me the time to wait for DPS channel matches to be set up and is so incredibly easy and fast that I set my teddy bear on spacebar and still get 1st place in every second run.
If I lose 250 Dil in a 5k match that way so be it.
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It only shows that you have been lucky so far. In the previous days i only encountered the phenomenon once or twice within a few dozen runs across 3 characters.
As much as your boast would like us to believe, it is unrelated to PUG or premade.
This morning however CEA has been incredibly bugged.
On another note, the superiority complex displayed by a representative of a DPS channel is exactly why said DPS channels are disliked by so many. However that frequent recurring debate which we will skip in this topic.
It's a "supposedly" with a decent amount of corroborating anecdotes.
Private queues *never* see this bug. The map goes poof when the group is done, one way or another.
Public queues are the ones seeing this bug. Public queues allow new people to fill in. The map does not close upon failing an "optional". New people can be brought into a failed map. The Entity can respawn but since the map failed there is no reward for killing the new one.
Normal, like private, also never sees this bug, since there is no optional to cause a failure.
Best thing to do is when you get into a CCA instance check if the Entity is there, if so, check if you have the "kill the Crystalline Entity" mission goal in your window. If the Entity is missing, or you have no mission objectives, immediately warp out and then wait 30s or so before rejoining the queue. "most" of the time you should enter a fresh instance.
It is an annoying bug for sure, but it's one that you can get around without too many problems
This is what I've seen as well. It's kind of sadly funny to watch someone barely survive the first blast then sit there and get blown up by the second. Einstein's definition...
I got all 5 runs this morning bug free. Overall maybe 20% maybe a little less arrive broken. It's not the worst bug at least as it doesn't hit you with a cooldown. Now that would stink.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I'm imagining a scene in the Dev break room.
#1 "Wait.. wait... you did what? Your RNG'd the CE spawn in advanced?"
#2 Laying on the ground laughing, "It's awesome. You should see them. Everyone is pointing fingers saying it's because some noobs didn't get out of the way in one of the death spams, so it's stuck in a failed instance that keeps letting people in." Curls up in a ball. "It never spawned to begin with! HAHAHA!"
#1 "What?"
#2 "Check the forums, man, it's classic."
#1 "Better than your Argala reward thing that had half the population running the same patrol over and over and over?"
#2 Wiping a tear away, "Nah, nothing will every beat that. But this is pretty close."
Normal is safe, advanced is a gamble.
Until they fix it, advanced is adding new players into failed runs. Even if the CE respawns and you kill it, you get no reward.
If you want 100% success at getting the daily shard, choose normal.
This is what I'm doing atm, not sure if the AP torp is worth it but the shards will be useful for the next event hopefully with a better final mission reward.
I've done so far 45 (9 chars) advanced ones, and I had to queue again after we loose too many when the entity does it's energy thing, or I've jumped to a failed one, and there either the red text telling me it failed or no mission text so it failed earlier and they killed the entity and it reset.
"Use Temporal Skills to NERF EVERYTHING before it happened!" -Unknown source.
As others have said, the bug occurs because the instance does not correctly close down after failure, it stays up even after the entity is killed. This results in players thinking they've entered an empty instance, but it's actually a failure.
I've also seen reports that the entity will eventually respawn, but give no loot or completion, again because it was a failure.
On top of the two you mentioned, I have also had instances not queue the mission up when entering, so you complete it and end up with no reward.
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Sounds like the eventual respawn I've seen reported. That would also be a failed instance, but it was open so long that the entity actually respawned.
Yes every time the Crystal event comes its either broken or glitches in need of repair and when event is gone it finally gets fixed ??
This is like a regular problem last 3 years c'mon guys fix and leave it alone when it works ....
I go into my special projects and previous projects I've had half full for next event following year is all gone as well.
This special project events removal is screwed as well each time they event patch !!!!