thomasfn.2701

Just a followup from my previous post, VPN has got me successfully through the personal story. I'm onto Heart of Thorns content now. Tried without VPN thinking maybe it would be OK on DLC content, but nope, same problem. Back to VPN and not a single disconnect since.

Getting this on Ossuary of the Unquiet Dead. Right after the unskippable cutscene after destroying all the urns, I end up with the movie reel over my character's head and then booted to character selection. The first time I actually got past that and defeated the boss but then movie reel disconnected after the end conversation. After a third attempt I'm really sick of doing this mission again (takes about 20-30 minutes every time). I've had it before on some previous missions but got around it by skipping all conversation and basically speedrunning it. Now it's basically ruined the whole game for me since I wanted to complete the personal story before moving on. Definitely not spending another penny until this issue is resolved or a workaround is found. Tried game content streaming to max, tried client port 443, tried spamming character abilities and movement during the cutscene, nada. When I build up the motivation to run this mission a fourth time I'll try a VPN. UK, Virgin Media, 144hz monitor, fullscreen windowed. IP of the instance was 18.196.235.12. Please add checkpoints or keep the instance alive for 5 mins so we can reconnect to it - this would help not only this case but any other case where someone might lose connection! EditTried it again with a VPN setup to an AWS instance in frankfurt, where the game servers seem to be based. The connection was lossy as anything, lots of lag, but that's probably more likely due to the VPN than the game. In any case it seemed to do the trick, got past the cutscenes and completed the mission. Probably what I'll do in the future is play missions without the VPN then switch to it as soon as I get a disconnect issue on one of them. If anyone is desperate and wants to give this a go, hit me up and I'll send the VPN access details.