Can't complete Storm Tracking

[Daddicus.6128]

I'm trying to complete the Storm Tracking mission at the end of Season 4 Episode 4. But, jumping around on the rocks inevitably leads me to jump to a position which is outside the map, and that kills me. I can see the ball of energy I'm supposed to jump to, but I can't jump to it.

What's the secret? (There's a very poorly worded statement about a bug, but as best as I can tell, it's talking about a different bug.)

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

In which phase are you getting stuck? In the first phase, use a raptor and grab the orbs to restore endurance.In the later phase, use a griffon and you don't have to land at all.

[Daddicus.6128]

I figured it out. Well, not figured it out; I got lucky enough to hit the right spot. I think.

[Donari.5237]

For others who might find this thread: The trick on raptor once in the long floating section is to keep holding your forward key (or if you mouse move, your LMB/RMB) after you jump. Your motion will be eerie and floaty and slow but you'll land on the next island so long as you never let go of that key and steer to the island.

[Daddicus.6128]

Yes, that's correct. But, that's not what I was having problems with. About 2/3 of the way through, you're jumping from island to island, and all of a sudden, you're dead. There's a very brief message about exiting the instance area, but it doesn't kick you like other maps. You're just dead.

I know I was in the right place, because later I made it. I was aiming for the globe, but I had to aim a little to the right of it, and turn after I landed.

[Tanner Blackfeather.6509]

That instance had problems with instance borders in an earlier phase as well, just after launch.

[Daddicus.6128]

Yeah, Tanner. There's a note on the wiki, but I don't think it was describing the problem I had.

It might have been a one-off for me, but it happened 8-10 times before I finally got the right spot.

[Tanner Blackfeather.6509]

Ouch :/I might have been unclear, I didn't mean that your problem was the same - just reflecting that the instance seems a bit plagued with these out-of-bounds issues :)

[Daddicus.6128]

Oh, I wasn't mad or anything. But, I had seen that entry. And, I think you're right: there's more than one thing going on.

[Turkeyspit.3965]

I think I hit the same issue as the OP. I realized after dying a few times that I wasn't getting the achievement so I just wanted to finish it. Oddly enough, at one point I just switched to my griffon and coasted all the way to the end.

[Biff.5312]

This exact thing happened to me when it was released. People didn't believe me I think, but I would go 'outside' of map trying to reach that glowing ball time after time. I died about 2 dozen times before I was able to complete.

I noticed that the first time through as well, I had moved into the area without obstruction. On my eventual successful run, I ran into a blast that knocks you backward before you start. I THINK I was moving into the area faster than intended, and that was somehow disrupting the normal operation of the area.

Either way it was a very unpleasant slog.

[Kal Spiro.9745]

The same thing happened to me the first time I did it. I think the issues is actually if you're too fast you have a chance of "exiting" the map, which kills you. Which isn't exactly great when you're trying to go as fast as possible to beat the clock.

[Daddicus.6128]

I'm going to report my post, since we now have three people who have seen this issue.

[Aaralyna.3104]

In this instance, if you're too fast you will be autostopped by a strong current (wind) blowing you backwards. Sometimes you can see this in advance because rocks didn't appear yet. If you are too slow, the brand (purple fog) will grab you and you will die and set back to last checkpoint. Somewhere in the middle of the rock without gravity jumping you may also end up in this fog if you aren't fast enough (because the path makes a curve back towards the fog area). You basically have to keep move and can't stand still. If you have ping issues (read big lag), its wise to ask someone else along because you will then simply be ported to the last checkpoint they reach (even if they fail). Tho with a companion along that has the story instance lead (read he/she activated the instance), it may occur that the ahead path doesn't update all the time as it seems its somehow in line with the instance owner even if the person is way back... when that person dies you have no issues in the front but you may be out of time at the halfway rocks part described earlier.

[Daddicus.6128]

No, that's not it. The message (which only lasted 1/2 second) said you have left the instance area and will be kicked, just like if you were in an old storyline mission and ran outside the edge of the map.

But, there's no edge of the map showing. It's all just fog. And, I was heading directly towards the next globe. I couldn't get it to work until I headed to just right of the globe. Then, I could turn and get the power-up globe (so it clearly isn't over the edge of the map.)

[Khisanth.2948]

There is most definitely an edge, that is shown by the red area on the mini map

[Daddicus.6128]

There was no edge when I did it. The whole map was the same whitish color all over. Maybe that was the issue.

[Ron Bradach.8479]

I saw someone say use the Griffon in the latter part. What if you don't have a Griffon?  I tried the Skyscale , but it doesn't work for the jumping the little islands towards the end.

[Aulderon.3750]

I've died between 50 and 100 times trying to jump through the puzzle in Storm Tracking.  I can do it if I go a little slower, but that wall of energy kills me every time.  The developers that make these story-line instances must like tormenting players  -- there's a difference  between challenging and next to  impossible.  I've seen videos of people doing the jumping puzzle with no problems, but when I try to imitate their moves, I just can't do it and I haven't even made it to the low gravity part.  I don't know if it's me, my mouse/keyboard, or the size of my Charr character that's the issue -- when I've run into similar situations, I get on my Asuran and can usually complete whatever puzzle I'm working on.  But ALL of the story-line instances are terrible and I die multiple times in each one before completing it, I haven't been able to complete Storm Tracking and I've died the most times in this instance.  I don't understand why developers would make instance so difficult to complete, makes me want to go back to WOW, that's how frustrated I am.

[mythical.6315]

I did it the other day on raptor without any issues.  It’s not anywhere close to what I would call challenging.  That said, I don’t see what your experience has to do with the issue the OP brought up. 

Edited October 13, 2021 by mythical.6315