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shantavi
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How long has the Dominion feature series been over with?
Second Wave *still* has a bug that makes it fail to complete, resetting it to the very beginning ("Go to Deep Space Nine") after playing through the *whole* mission.
I've had to repeat the mission *THREE* times so far, and it's reset every time. This is ridiculous. I'd skip the mission but it's a necessity for the ground set.
Second Wave *still* has a bug that makes it fail to complete, resetting it to the very beginning ("Go to Deep Space Nine") after playing through the *whole* mission.
I've had to repeat the mission *THREE* times so far, and it's reset every time. This is ridiculous. I'd skip the mission but it's a necessity for the ground set.
"Back on topic. Destinii is correct."
(Formerly Destinii until the 'Great PWE Forum Shakeup of 2012')
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Real Join Date: Monday, 17 May 2010
I've re-run it without dropping the mission and with dropping the mission. Prior to this I had completed it I'd guess about 15 times across various characters. This is the first time I've gotten this bug. If it's of any help the character in question is KDF, Ferasan to be specific.
While writing this I came up with a question. Can this be completed in the DS9 system BEFORE it makes you warp out?
I'm going to re-run it once more to find out. If that works I'll let everyone know. Still this needs fixed ASAP, this mission is months old now, and I recall seeing multiple threads back when it was released about this bug. It's completely unacceptable for a mission this old to still have a mission breaking bug this bad.
Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
-Captain James T. Kirk
The mission tracker shows the mission moving to the next stages and giving the current stage's goals, but if I open my log, it *never* changes from the "Go to DS9" stage of the mission. So, it appears the Mission Tracker updates but the mission in the Log doesn't.
Perhaps that knowledge may help the Devs isolate where the bug is.
"Back on topic. Destinii is correct."
(Formerly Destinii until the 'Great PWE Forum Shakeup of 2012')
I noticed the same thing, the in-mission tracker updates, but the main log tracker doesnt update once arriving at ds9 to sync with the mission progress. Im playing as Human Fed so if KDF are experiencing the same issues it may not be faction specific and more down to a signal code for arriving at ds9. Maybe a quick check by a dev into that might solve the issue of mission progression?
Oh well, I hear that an MMO based on another popular science fiction franchise is now free to play to a particular level. Might have to give it a shot.
and sounds like it's been a large scale problem for awhile - theres also a thread in the missions forum for this as well
so yes, add me to the list of bugged and annoyed about it
James T. Kirk
This is annoying..
At first I though it was because I was unable to save all the federation ships, but it seems to be a general bug as far as I can tell from here.
I finished it for the third time, and while the mission tracker tells me to "Flee Circus - Warp to Bajor", the questlog actually tells me I am at "Second Wave - Disarming Diplomats - Go to Deep Space 9".
I read on some other thread I should not "warp out", but instead "hail the quest npc from the log" as a bandaid - I do not know if this is actually working for someone else, but since my questlog is stuck at the beginning there is no one I could hail.
I assmune most people here would be pretty happy if we got some kind of workaround or at least a eta on when it will be possible to play through the whole story again?
EDIT:
I don't know if this is of relevance for finding the error responsible, but the quest does not seem to "save".
Usuall after I pass a save point I get to "continue Mission AB" if I fly out of the sector, do pvp in betwenn, etc... but in this case I always only get the option to "Begin: Second Wave" - even though I definetly passed savepoints.
The mission *does* complete in a group for the character it would not work with solo.
So, until an actual fix comes around, the workaround seems to be 'do it in a group'.
"Back on topic. Destinii is correct."
(Formerly Destinii until the 'Great PWE Forum Shakeup of 2012')
I have the same problem with my federation character, but not with my klingon toon.
The problem I've noticed is that all the way through the beginning, until right before taking the turbolift to the conference room, the mission status says: Second Wave: "disarming diplomats" and the flee circus mentions the same: "disarming diplomats".
If you then take the turbolift, the mission status should mention "conference conflicts" but it doesn't. The mission status still mentions "disarming diplomats" but it should mention "conference conflicts" as in the flee circus. As long as this doens't change, you cannot continue the mission. So don't convince the diplomats, don't fight your way through to the dock and don't battle outside. It won't change a thing. You keep wasting your time.
Once you see that the mission status doesn't change into "conference conflicts", restart or give up.
Why my klingon toon did the job from the first try, I can't tell.
It's sad to see that Second Wave and Cryptic don't even try to solve it, nor do they answer my hails.
This is a link to the walkthrough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v42PutGpUmQ
Not for me. The other two team members got a complete (both of em for a second+ time) but not I. Hasn't worked solo for 3 other tries either.
If you fly back to the station before warping out, the station is friendly with all turrets intact....
And a diplomacy-heavy mission, something the players have wanted for awhile, is not a joke. Plus, the voices were interesting.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
Even tried killing the dominion fleet by the wormhole (after completing mission objectives).. that didn't help.. but it was a laugh!
I too ran into the same issue that everyone else had during my first run. The one thing I remembered clearly was that the initial "report to captain Andrews" Ops message had never cleared thru the entire episode.
I decided to try a flow chart method to the mission. I will not go into great detail now as I want to complete the mission first but.... my initial findings suggest that you should not start the mission from sector space.
When given the choice, DO NOT select "Begin Second Wave", instead SELECT "Approach Deep Space 9".
When the DS 9 Space map loads, dock at the station as usual.
When you beam onto the station the OPs message asking you to report to Andrews will appear, at this time DO SELECT "Begin Second Wave".
ILYK how it turns out....
I remember the issue when the mission first went live when it was part of an episode and I was able to resolve at that time.
I'm not going to even try again...
Am I missing a trigger point somehow?
However in my about 7 tries yesterday, my first attempt was done like your final attempt.
I approached DS9, got some stuff from vault, put some stuff on exchange then started the mission. I guess you lucked out somehow
I tried this and unfortunately, it did not work. Once I went up to the conference room, Disarming Diplomats should have ended and Engaging Envoys should have started. Good thought though.
I issued a GM ticket (since they tend to reply to those), but the number disappeared and my chat got cleared, so sadly I did not get the ticket number for anyone to refer to.
@trek21: It is a joke. True a 'heavily diplomatic mission' was needed but it surely didn't need the poor voice acting. Seriously. If they're going to do voice acting, get REAL voice actors and get an expert to write the script better. Otherwise, don't do it at all. Part where Kurland goes "Andrews? Andrews!" and then "Someone answer me? What's going on?" who ever did his voice fails. First Andrews is concern, then the second is more 'demanding' like, 'I gave you an order!' than 'Please say something!'. Honestly, Sisko would done the job 10xs better than Kurland.
Anyways, @wilsoncutter001: I am going to try what you suggest but I am going to spam the TRIBBLE out of 'report to Commander Andrews' until the dam Initial message finally clears.