Official Bug Report Thread - Final (April) BWE

We do want your help with polish and bug reports, this BWE. So please, let us hear about any problems that you've experienced, so we can spruce things up before release. (Please, only issues from the current BWE, so we can focus on the essentials and not dig through already-reported matters.)

Oh, and please use the Official Suggestions Thread to share your ideas about things that would be great inclusions in Guild Wars. The release is fast approaching, but we will be doing streaming updates and there is a new chapter upon which we'll be starting immediately after April 28th.

So share your reports, and thank you, as always, for your support of Guild Wars!

Awsome, but why two threads?


Edit: doh didnt read the title of the other one got it now.

went to get the new build after playing a bit and now the two of us here playing can't log on. getting Err=4 error.

edit: i hit "post" and it then lets me in....

I also am getting that Err=4 error when trying to log in. I had logged out to switch characters and keep getting that error.

One of my characters got corrupted its wierd when i play the game with him the graphics are screwed up but not with any of my other characters he is a RP character from way back. Ill try to get a video of it but the jist is my screen turns one color and i cant see anthing and if i can see people have bushes or trees on them ect.. It definatly doesnt happen with any of my other characters/

the character name is Draken Soulblighter

*shrug* the fact that i cant play him is meh i really liked him but its beta and i just dont want this happening in retail .

I want to delete him since i cant play him or if you guys can fix him *shrug* that would be swell but can you pm me on the boards eitehr way so i can free up a character slot if you get this befor the BWE is done.

Edit:It may only be in windowed mode i avoided the problems once by going full screen.

Area Downloading on Dial up is horrible can u fix this??? takes from 30 secs to 40 min... 10 files = 30 secs/600 files = 40 min



or will the game have it fixed when it comes to stores so u dont load as much?

P.S and can u plz make it were everyone can see each other in battle areas later in time cuzz it dont feel rpg'ish this way, only able to see others in town(s)...

we dial up peeps cant take this... cant even party up.

I am not one hundred percent sure this is a bug, but I believe it is. I have been trying to do the Althea's Ashes quest for quite some time, it says to go to the Flame Temple Corridor and look for them, and the arrow politely points the way, but as soon as I enter that map the arrow dissapears. I've completely covered the map, as far as I can tell, and have yet to find them.

Has anyone completed this quest?

EDIT: I finally finished this quest, but only because someone had accidentally stumbled across them in the wrong location. They are not in the Flame Temple Corridor as the quest log states. They were in a Charr Altar slightly Northeast of Nolani Academy in that valley with the small steppe pyramids and the three or four Charr bosses, two of which are standing close to the altar together.

Unfortunately, this quest was one of several that had some sort of bug making them impossible to complete for some people. I managed to complete it, but when I took a couple of people there so another person could complete it, she got the confirmation that she needed to report back to Duke Barradin, but when she did, she could click the accept reward button as many times as she wanted and never got the reward.

I had the same problem on a quest given by a dwarf next to the portal to the Iron Horse Mine. I don't remember the name, but I bug reported it in game at the time, so the dev team knows about it.

Also, I still have quests from Pre-War ascalon that have been there since they were introduced, and there's no way to remove them. I know the characters will all be reset, but the quests should either not be there after leaving Pre-War Ascalon, or there should be a way to remove quests you no longer want in your quest log.

The crystal walkway in the Catacombs where you fight those traitors sometimes doesn't work. When you are supposed to walk onto it, you continue to run downhill, then get caught on something.

The Guild Cape Creation Screen is awfully buggy. I can barely see the cape sample, only half the colors, and it all looks shoddy.

This is very common bug but it would be good that it would be fixed. http://koti.mbnet.fi/del1987/GuildWars/bughead.jpg and other i noticed was a little codeline in some speach http://koti.mbnet.fi/del1987/GuildWars/bugtext.jpg

Here is the bug I have encountered. Only thing is it returns after doing a full re-install of GW again.

Last month's BWE I had no problems playing at all.

This time, I have had it happen 15-20 times, where in game (cities, outposts, missions, etc) actions will stop, and then I'll end up at the log-in screen with an Err=7. I can log right back in without delay, but it proves to be a very annoying problem when it happens during a mission. I started a new character and had it happen right outside the gates of Ascalon City, so it isn't something to do with a particular character. Nothing has changed on my end since last month's BWE, so I am reporting this as a bug. I hope it can be fixed by release. Thanks.

**EDIT: found out this was a netgear router issue. Went out and bought a different brand of router. Installed, configured, tried to play and had the same problem. After having such an awesome time last beta weekend (and even talking others into getting the game), I am very upset about this and am considering cancelling my preorders. I've been talking to support all weekend with no success.

There seems to be a bug at Tomb of primevail kings with the portal to dragons lair... it does not seem to function... similar to the breach bug from last beta..

thanks...

ingram of haz...

Verata the Necromancer - Bug - Broken quest. When attempting the Verata the Necromancer quest which was assigned in Yak's Bend; I walk through Traveller's Vale till I reach her. I attack her and she will run past the Zone Point for Ascalon Foothills region. This makes the quest impossible to complete as I am unable to give chase (I end up zoned) and unable to reach her by spell or missile weapon.

Very odd bug for me.

If i have winamp playing, and a new area downloads/decompresses, the entire computer pretty much hangs for a good 5+ minutes. It eventually passes, but guild wars is "not responding" and i can barely even move the mouse cause everything is so skippy.

If i go into an area where nothing has to download, theres no problem and it transitions in a few seconds.

Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but, my MP3's are on a seperate harddrive than guild wars is installed.
(Guild Wars is on my WD Raptor, my songs are on my storage drive - seagate 7200rpm)

Hi, i have 2 Major Bugs ingame.

Sound: Sometimes after a while playing the Sound stops, the Fighting sounds for example.
Can hear nothing. Going back to Windows (ALt+Tab) and back to game, in most cases Sound is OK.

(Creative Soundblaster Live 1024 with Win XP SP2 Standard Drivers)


Grafik: When i played a long Time, the Grafik becomes Chaotic, many Textures Flimmer or have a wrong Color. Sometimes the complete Screen gets one Color (Purple) or it becomes Slow and Bad Qualitiy if it where in Compatibility Mode or Something.
After Alt+Tabbing back to Windows, the problem is fixed for some Time. Only a few Times i hang in Windows after Alt+Tab with 4 Bit Color and cant do anything else than Restart.

(Geforce 6800, with Newest Released WHQL Drivers, Windows XP SP2)

Hello,

This weekend I noticed a few annoying glitches...

1) Those close window X in the upper right hand corner is not responding quickly. It took repeatedly clicking it to get windows to close.

2) Objects getting in the way - namely pets and dead bodies. The pets at times would stand right in front of the legs of my husband and my characters and we would have to back up to get away from them. Same with some dead bodies.

It would be nice if the pets responded when the owner moves by moving out of the way. And dead bodies should be walk-overable.

3) Husband accidentally sold a decent bow because he switched weapons then saw an Outfitter and didn't realize that the darned equipped weapons remain in the inventory. This is very annoying.

I still think that there should be slots next to the character where the alternate equipped weapons go to and remain instead of being in the inventory with the chance of them being salvaged or sold by accident.

4) The devs may not see it as a bug, but it's darned irritating and I wish this would change before the final release. I don't like logging out to log in a different character than the one I'm currently playing. If there's a way to do this without logging out of the game completely it wasn't made apparent enough to find it.

That's all for this final BWE. I look forward to playing this game in a more permanent fashion.

Ciarre
P.S. Loved the ending again this time. Shades of Dune, heh

I could not complete the quest "counting the falllen". I think that is what its called. The one where you go into the ruins of old Aschlon to get the census. When I get to the chest that has the census in it, It says "this chest has already been opened". I was so let down, that was a hard quest to.

I dunno if this is a bug or you know its happening and dont see a reason tp fix it... But I noticed that the Guild Capes do not show underwater at least in the D'Alessio Arena...if thats what it was called

Ignite Arrows' description says it lasts for the next 12 seconds but in reality it lasts for about 24-25 seconds.

Stange Graphical Problem - Though I think it's just my machine

In some areas, especially both new and old ascalon, the ground suddenly turns white when I am anything but low detail graphics.

In other area's i can run the High end graphics No problem, no framerate loss nothing, they run fine.

I "fix" this, by sliding the graphics bar to the next option then back again.
Though seeing the white ground is funky, it looks like freshly fallen snow.