TOS Tutorial - Bull by the horns - equip rifle bug

starrfred · July 2016

hello

so i heard this bug is no more, but this is my 3rd toon now, i'm at the stage where you get to equip the rifle... and doing so, nothing updates, i'm stuck.

provided this is the 3rd time i'm still getting the problem, and others don't (i asked some people out of a community chat already) will it be fixed for me or should i just roll a non-tactical ? or just skip the whole new content ?

hotelkatz · July 2016

I have it as well on my Servok toon. The mission won't progress pass the Distribute rifles part. They are a tactical character and my ticket id is 4,018,606

keelindsey · July 2016

I am getting this bug as well. Brand new account/player, first character, can't even progress through the first mission without a game-breaking bug. Stuck on "Distribute Rifles" during "Bull By The Horns". My character is tactical, like Hotelkatz's.

At this point, I'm hoping the shard maintenance tomorrow has a fix in it and very glad I haven't put any money into the game yet. I've spent more time downloading and troubleshooting this bug than I have actually playing.

madturnip · August 2016

I have spent nearly 4 hours trying different characters, all the different ways of getting past the bug, and nothing --- NOTHING --- gets past the bug. One of the AI characters grabs the rifle, but the other one just stands there looking all herp a derp. This is a great way to turn off new players to this game. I can't get 10 minutes into the first mission before there is a bug. If it can't be fixed then why no add the DROP MISSION button so we can do something else.

Bad thing is I did buy a DLC... Can't even play to be able to use it.

Any ETA from someone in power as to why this has been broken for so many people for so long?

dayzmist · August 2016

I am getting the same error. Only one of the AI characters grabs the rifle and the other Muller just stands there and does nothing. Tried five times with new characters and nothing works! Doesn't look like this is a new problem, but have not seen any official replies from ARC on what to do if you have this issue. Just started yesterday and can't even make it out of the first tutorial. Was going to put on the 15.00 a month for this game, but not if it is broken.

jonbotone · August 2016

same problem

kainor1 · August 2016

So it's now August, so that's got to be what, two and a half to three months or so this bug has been a thing? I get that bugs happen but if I were a new player wanting to try STO for the first time this would probably put me right off.
Luckily I'm a returning player (after 1.5 years out) who wanted to start a new character to get back into the game, and, this is putting me right off...

I'm not going to ragequit over this or anything but chances are if it I can't get it to work in the next 30 mins (I'm on my third character now and making a new one each time and going through theprocess of getting the look for each character just right is time consuming) I will probably just leave it and come back to the game when it releases something new and exciting.
Sounds a bit harsh but when you get two to three hours a night to play games you want to make them count

I doubt I'm the only person in this position.

trbovlje · August 2016

Hi, I jus started today and got stuck on teh same bug. :(

montanaprussian · August 2016

Same here,4th try,very annoying.

richardcranium63 · August 2016

Same here on my very first attempt on a brand new AoY toon. Cryptic you suck balls! EPIC FAIL!
I highly suggest that you extend the AoY event if you want to keep players happy.
And for f*** sake, fix the damn bugs!

cynawolfe · August 2016

This is still happening. Submitted ticket #4,045,454.

rojin · August 2016

Thought this had gone away...and I wanted to create a TOS Vulcan. Originally it seemed to me that if you went ahead and grabbed your rifle before the second security guard did (immediately after dropping the crate) , then the bug would occur, but if you waited a few seconds, the guard would grab his rifle and then you could get yours. I always assumed there was some sort of trigger when you picked up your rifle to say that everyone has a rife and the game can move on, but because the second guard hadn't got his yet, the game sort of got stuck. Completely logging out (not just to the character select screen) and then back in seems get that lazy guard to grab his rifle.

When it's time for crew evaluations, that guard is gonna be told he needs to make some serious improvements.

trbovlje · August 2016

Nope, restarting teh game doesn't help.

dracathio · August 2016

Well since I am not the only person with this issue, I'm sort of glad. It's too bad though because I was going to spend some more money on this for the nice new ships, but guess they can kindly shove a cactus up their butts for being idiot developers xD. Maybe we'll end up with everything just being unlocked for us by just making the new character.... it would be the only way to quell all the ticked off people who haven't been able to run through their 23rd Century characters to unlock the unlockables for the Temporal Agent event.

Edit: It does have seamed to work, the restarting whole entire game. Than again I am playing the game through steam, something I haven't done before so the issue could be with steam. In truth though it's ridicules that you have to completely shut down the game for the stupid mission to work.

roguepa · August 2016

I'm having the same issue...a real pain. I was just logging on to see if they fixed it yet. The game is in limbo for me until then.

claudiusdk · August 2016

Bug is back. What the heck? >_<
Kinda feels like the past patch part that fixed this broken bit, get overwritten with the old broken bit again.

vlar · August 2016

keelindsey#2435 wrote: »

I am getting this bug as well. Brand new account/player, first character, can't even progress through the first mission without a game-breaking bug. Stuck on "Distribute Rifles" during "Bull By The Horns". My character is tactical, like Hotelkatz's.

At this point, I'm hoping the shard maintenance tomorrow has a fix in it and very glad I haven't put any money into the game yet. I've spent more time downloading and troubleshooting this bug than I have actually playing.

Someone should be fired at Cryptic for allowing AoY to be published with so many game-breaking bugs. Impossible they didn't notice they broke all the animations.

montanaprussian · August 2016

6 tries,still cannot continue. Just TRIBBLE.

theotherscotty · August 2016

Same game-breaking bug here. I can take a rifle but can't distribute the rest of the rifles, so I can't progress past this point. And of course I couldn't even restart it or beam out or anything. So I erased that character and started over. Nope, same bug again, and I got stuck in the same place. This is ridiculous. So, I'm done for now.

inferiority · August 2016

Oh, look - this isn't getting fixed today. Looks like nobody gets to make Temporal Agents any more.
(Well, unless you can skip the tutorial.)

rojin · August 2016

Created a new TOS toon this morning just to see and tutorial worked fine. Seems very hit and miss though as I got the bug yesterday. Can't recall doing anything different today as opposed to yesterday. The only thing I noticed was that in the shuttlebay prior to going down to the planet, Tarsi was stood by the shuttle craft waiting for me when I got the bug. Today, no Tarsi in the shuttle bay and no bug (probably coincidence). We're all pointing the finger at the second security guard but my guess is the fault may be with Tarsi, the Andorian security chief. I reckon she's an undercover Romulan agent sent to sabotage the mission.

Seriously though I've been through the TOS tutorial (up to that point at least) more times than I care to admit and the sequence of events seems to be Tarsi sets up the targets while the first guy gets his rifle, Tarsi finishes setting up the targets and moves to the left, the second guy gets his rifle. In the mean time you pick up a rife and equip it allowing you to talk to Tarsi. From observations, Tarsi is not completing her task (she's still setting up the targets), so maybe this is somehow preventing the second guard from getting his rifle, or it may be other way round.

All pretty pointless I admit as there's no work around. Just my observations.

montanaprussian · August 2016

Still cannot complete this. 8 tries......... -_-

theotherscotty · August 2016

I was finally able to get past it last night on my AOY toon. No idea how. I guess the 3rd time was the charm.

All I did was I logged out, left it alone for a day, then logged back in last night and somehow it worked; I just picked up where I left off and was able to finish it. So maybe try logging out and back in again and see if that helps.

montanaprussian · August 2016

Finally got it to work on try #9. Did nothing different than the other times :

danbishop · August 2016

I am also seeing this issue. I have successfully run the tutorial 4 times with no problem. However, every time I try now I am seeing this issue (currently up to 8 attempts). I can't see any commonality between the attempts that have failed, either (different races, professions, etc), except that every attempt following the first failure has also been a failure. I have relogged, restarted, verfied all files, etc.

vkfphoenixlord · August 2016

Just created a new toon tonight and stuck.

miirik · August 2016

CRYPTIC FIX YOUR TRIBBLE, JESUS GOD DAMN CHRIST GET IT TOGETHER
I FINALLY DECIDED TO GIVE YOUR NEW EXPANSION A TRY, NOT 5 MINUTES AFTER MAKING A AOY CHARACTER DO I RUN INTO THIS EXACT BUG.

NICE GAME, WOULD BE NICE TO PLAY IT IF YOU ACTUALLY LET ME PLAY IT!

kelador · August 2016

Just started a TOS character and stuck in the same stage pickup the rifle and nothing happens....

certix18 · August 2016

Srsly guys, I have just returned to this game after nearly a year of being away. And when im returning once again to try the new material i found this game shattering bug. I mean, needing to create 5 characters only to pass up a bug its makes you feel the devs are fooling you around.

fersoltil · August 2016

I gave up after about 10 tries. no Agents of Yesterday for me. this might well put a stop to me playing STO

theotherscotty · August 2016

Wow. I don't blame you guys for wanting to quit the game over this. It is a pretty ridiculous bug. I guess I got lucky 'cause I somehow got it to work on my 3rd re-created toon, but yeah, this sucks and I really hope they'll fix it soon because it's a real game-breaker.

TOS Tutorial - Bull by the horns - equip rifle bug

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