Cannot complete "Forging The Pact" do to disconnection

[lozenge.1548]

So, a few months ago I had stopped playing because I could not complete the second to last My Story mission "Forging The Pact"It would ALWAYS disconnect act some pointFor christmas I got a gift card to which I bought Path Of Fire and decided to finally finish up these last two missions so I can move onto HoT and then PoFWell... sure enough I get disconnected at some point EVERY time I try to play this mission. I have spent a total of about 3.5 hours now trying to finish it!I have solid 100mbps internet...

I am in eastern-time, playing on sactum of rall, and have been playing by myself

[lozenge.1548]

P.S. it seems to happen mostly when there is a cutscene but it has happened other times as well

[Charlie.8734]

This is happening to me too. Can't continue on with this story or the next.

[EnigmaticMadness.6752]

This mission has crashed from me three times after defeating wraith upon leaving tunnels. Very frustrating. I've googled the bug and have seen people complaining about this mission five years ago lol.

[Sajkra.2106]

Hello guys, did u found solution? just got this issue aswell, it making me furious!

[Ianto Pond.3489]

I have had the same problem for the last couple of days also.

[Azzandra.5682]

I've been having it this evening too. Always during the cutscene prior to battling the wraith. Dialogue cuts out, then I get disconnected right after the cutscene ends.

[undouble.1472]

I have the same issue with "The Dragon's Reach Part 2" at the FInal cutscene on killing Balthazar's statue. I get through the mission then when the cutscene "supposedly" begins I'm disconnected and find that I now have to re-start the ENTIRE mission segment again. This issue has happened repeatedly over the past week.

[Sen Stark.9837]

This is a big issue now. Try bringing a friend with you, it might work then

[Lanhelin.3480]

I got several disconnects in Personal Story missions too. It helped to immediately cancel all dialogue cutscenes. I feared to get a dc in the last mission, because after the last fight there is a cutscene one cannot cancel, but fortunately it didn't happen.

I haven't had any disconnects since Steam is running too when playing GW2, what maybe has something to do with sent and received data, maybe also with the warden program ANet uses and such activities from other software keep it busy, while in certain circumstances the warden stops working which usually is an indication that the character has logged out or something like that. I'm not familiar with the server architecture in GW2, but obviously when the dc occurs something happens that tells the "Character Server"/Megaserver that the logged-in character is not online or not permitted to be online, like when going afk for too long, so one becomes kicked to the character selection screen. Due to the fact that one can relog immediately, the Login Server (Launcher) seems to be not affected, only the current character.

[Xander.2031]

I have been playing GW2 for about 2-3 months now...

Let's be brutally honest, the entire story quest line, including LW Seasons, HoT and PoF, are all littered with bugs like this. I have experienced this same issue in probably 6-8 story quests throughout my time playing this game. Sometimes I only had to repeat the mission once and was able to get it to work, sometimes I repeated the mission 4-5 times without success.

Things that helped me progress through these BUGS/GLITCHES are restarting the game client, grouping with others and letting them lead the story mission, or repairing the game client altogether. People will say things like "check your internet connections, don't use Chrome, etc, etc, yada yada yada". Its all BS, this game is clearly littered with bugs and glitches.

Do a single google search for any one of the quests that D/C's you, and you will find many other people had the same problem. It is 100% a problem with GW2/Anet, not any of us. I don't know how a game that has been around for so long could still possibly have these types of glitches in quests that were released 5+ years ago. It's actually pretty sad, and for some reason, the issues are not addressed. It is reasons like this why GW2 will never achieve the level of success of the all-mighty WoW. Never experienced game-breaking glitches like this in WoW over multiple stints of playing. Of course WoW has glitches and bugs too, but they are addressed quickly and efficiently and you would never find a recurring bug in a 5 year old quest there.

/endrant

[SlippyCheeze.5483]

Try hitting your auto-attack button while the cutscene is playing, and see if that helps. If you want to tcpdump or equivalent the connection during the disconnect, and post the packet trace I'm interested to keep looking at them to see if I spot any pattern in them, too.

At the end of the day, ANet have acknowledged that a small number of players suffer from this, and that they can't yet identify the pattern related to it. For some people it is network related, for others, it isn't (obviously) caused by that. So, it's being worked on, but when you don't yet know what is broken, it is hard to fix...

[ilonlie.4316]

The game disconnected at the end on Forging The Pact for the umpteenth time. On every alt I own this has happened. I could populate an army with all the times I've had to repeat that horrible ridiculous mission. I hate that evil mission. It's like "time to get screwed again" It always happens after exiting the cave. That mission is garbage since it has evolved into a tension filled chore.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Have you tried playing with a VPN?

[Bariel.3562]

I'm also suffering from this same issue and have tried various workaround, clicking, jumping, minimising game to no avail. I've also searched through the forums, reddit and other sites for this issue and can't see anywhere that ANet have acknowledged the issue at all, it's certainly not on their known bugs page that some players may experience this.I've raised support ticket for it that I've had no response on at all in over a week and from all the posts I've seen not a single comment from a community manager, ANet dev or anything official... do they just not care at all?

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Here's the thread: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/28354/storyline-disconnects#latestYou can use the 'Next ArenaNet Post' to jump to each Dev post.

Good luck.

[SlippyCheeze.5483]

@Bariel.3562 said:I've raised support ticket for it that I've had no response on at all in over a week and from all the posts I've seen not a single comment from a community manager, ANet dev or anything official... do they just not care at all?

In addition to the link that @Inculpatus cedo.9234 provided, I just wanted to check: did you get the automatic confirmation email that your ticket was received?

If you didn't, and you check that it wasn't sent to the spam folder or something, then either your ticket didn't go in successfully, or you can't receive email from ANet, which means you wont get notified when they do respond.

Beyond that, current ticket queue times are on the order of two weeks, I'm afraid, and while ANet are getting more CS staff into place, it'll take some time for you to get through it all.

A word of warning on that: if you do already have a ticket in the queue, and you submit a duplicate ticket for the same issue, that usually bumps you to the back of the queue again, as well as costing a huge amount of CS time to deal with (because lots of people are, unwisely, doing this), so instead, make sure you put any additional comments into the same ticket.

[Game of Bones.8975]

I can finish with all of my characters regardless of race, level (70+), or profession ...except the Revenant. All of my other professions sail right through.I walk out of the cave, go through the cutscene with Dzhudin Strombreak, and on the other side get the message: "The game client lost its connection to the server ...."I keep the experience gained during the "Forging the Pact" storyline.I have tried Charr, Asura, and human Revenants and they all fail at the same place with the same message.

Please help. :'(

[Sneakr.3679]

I didn't disconnect but Traherne abandoned me, at the point where you escort the researchers to the southern exit he was nowhere to be found. I even ran back twice to try to find him - all the way to the start point. I relogged which kicked me out of the story, and then I couldn't restart cause Traherne was not at the waypoint , even outside the instance! I guess he is tired of being a leader?? I logged out.

[GaleWin.4691]

@"lozenge.1548" said:So, a few months ago I had stopped playing because I could not complete the second to last My Story mission "Forging The Pact"It would ALWAYS disconnect act some pointFor christmas I got a gift card to which I bought Path Of Fire and decided to finally finish up these last two missions so I can move onto HoT and then PoFWell... sure enough I get disconnected at some point EVERY time I try to play this mission. I have spent a total of about 3.5 hours now trying to finish it!I have solid 100mbps internet...

I am in eastern-time, playing on sactum of rall, and have been playing by myself

Original bug still occurring. I've "lost connection" 3 times now, each time one cutscene further than the previous attempt. Something is failing to load correctly.

[Stephane Lo Presti.7258]

Sorry that you're experiencing this bug. I'm going to close this thread as it's a duplicate of this pinned thread that I encourage you to read and contribute to: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/28354/storyline-disconnects

Thank you.