Please fix: The Lost Thread

[Dragnipurake]

Bug Report Number:

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Please fix "The Lost Thread".

It usually is part of my daily questing. But since some weeks it regularly bugs out and can not be finished.

What happens:

1. You get to the room with Ana and kill the drow. You talk to Ana. She throws you of your feed. You talk to her again. And she tries to walk to the barrier but is stuck to her current location.

2. A variant of 1. You talk to her the 2nd time. She is stuck to her location but her dialogue goes on. The barrier is lowered, but you can not proceed either.

Those 2 variants of the (same?) bug happen now 2 out of 3 times I'm in the quest.

3. The rarest variation. You get Ana moving. But at any random location on your way to the final fight she gets stuck.

Could this please be fixed?

Or alternatively let her 3rd dialogue option (that teleports her back to the last shrine) reset her script?

Thank You!

 

[Striga]

So I just experienced #2. Killed boss, freed slaves, let Ana break barrier, and then she refuses to move afterwards. She didn't follow me, only spinning in place. She probably tried to follow, because she did turn towards my position, but never dared to make a step.

I asked her to return to the shrine, she did (few feet away). And then she was stuck there instead.

I did pull some mobs to her, she did take some hits, I also saw her doing some animation (selfheal?) but she still never moved.

I tried logging out and in, did not help.

 

[Tanyajanfel]

#4 The rarest of rare variation. You get Ana moving. but she ?white dots? right after the next door like she is a monster and still staked in place. she returns to first shrine area where you can gather her again, only for her to continue to while dot. telling her to return to shrine works, but doesn't change the white dot.

most likely lag during fight to free her, but... didn't do anything different the next time and she worked. i generally have to replay this quest at least once per life. i like it... but not that much...

 

[Anurakh]

OP, that's a very old bug, and if I'm not mistaken all of those scenarios are related to the same script breaking. In my experience that happens when you fight the slavemaster near the barrier. I used to encounter those bugs frequently, until I noticed that if I fought in the middle of the room farthest from the barrier the script never broke again.

This bug has been there since Menace was released. I've reported it myself several times, but it's never been fixed. It's unlikely they will at this point, so my advice is to always fight far from the barrier. For some reason, fighting near the barrier breaks the script. Since I've been doing it that way I've never seen this bug again (but I did see it in a group that ignored my warning and fought near the barrier, afraid of killing the slaves).

There's another bug in the final fight of the quest. This time, the script breaks if you clear the trash too quickly, and the drider never activates. My advice here is to slow down your dps until the prisoners are out of the cells. Then it's safe to do a quick cleanup.

 

[Anurakh]

Okay, I take that back. A week ago, I encountered another bug with Ana. This time, she removed the barrier from the room where we found her and started following me, but halfway down the exit ramp, she teleported back into the room. I tried everything—repeating the dialogue, sending her to the shrine, restarting the client—and nothing worked. She kept teleporting back. Eventually, I had to restart the quest.

Knowing it was a tricky point, I avoided rushing into this room and did the fight away from the barrier. And yet, it still bugged. Who knows why?

So you can add a 4th bug to Ana.

4- Ana lowers the barrier, starts following you out of the room, but halfway down the ramp she teleports back. And so on.