Bananas

All the new contacts in Mercy Island, except for Dr. Graves, are unavailable to Villain Epic Archetypes (VEATs) created prior to Issue #21 as the entire contact chain is completely broken.

Operative Kuzmin, the new starter contact, won't give any missions to VEATs until you've spoken to Alan Desslock, the special VEAT contact, and done his one single mission, which is not a problem if you're on a brand new character.

However, if you've completed Alan Desslock's mission prior to Issue #21 going live, then Operative Kuzmin won't acknowledge it, and sends you back to see Alan Desslock.

But as Alan Desslock's mission can only be done once, you'll be unable do so, thus making it impossible to get any of the new contacts except for Dr. Graves, or experience their story arcs and get the new badges, even through Ouroboros.

Earlier this evening I took part in an Underground Trial on Defiant, and despite Desdemona's health never dropping below 50% no one who took part in the Trial were awarded the Tour Guide badge upon completion.

This has never happened to us before today's patch, and I can't help but wonder if the invincibility fix to Desdemona may have broken the badge.

Yup, I'm having the same issue too.

I wanted to relog so I wouldn't crash out as we were about to do a Master of Keyes Trial attempt, but now the NCsoft Launcher is stuck on "Downloading (??:?? remaining)" until it eventually times out with a "NCsoft Launcher Update Error / Error Code -1" and the following message:

"HTTP-status 500: En uventet tilstand hindret serveren i å fullføre forespørselen."

Or, translated it into english:

"HTTP status 500: An unexpected condition prevented the server from fulfilling the request."

EDIT: Yay, it's working again now!

Happy Cake Day, Noble Savage!

Hi and welcome back!

Quite often when doing a mission in which you need to stop someone from escaping, they'll trigger as you're zoning into the mission, so you may not see them say they're fleeing.

And if the mission is on a multi-level Arachnos map they're also quite likely to reach the nearest elevator before you can get to the same level as them, thus failing the mission, even if you run straight through and ignore all enemies.

The absolutely worst missions in this regard are the "Defeat all Wailers in office: Stop Silvertongue from escaping!" mission from Hardcase, in which the Elite Boss you need to stop often will spawn right next to the elevator on the top floor, and the "Defeat Agent Crimson: Stop Agent Crimson from escaping" from Shadow Spider, in which you need to stop a Hero with Super Speed and seemingly capped Immobilization and Slow Resistrance, who will also flat out ignore all Taunts and attacks while making a beeline for the door. And if there's anything blocking the tunnels, like a horde of Mastermind pets, he may just run straight through the wall and outside of the map.

Thank goodness they added the Autocomplete feature!

Wait, what? I thought the Dev chat was tomorrow! Grrr! Argh! Missed it!

Thanks for posting a transcript though!

Take care and all the best wishes for the little one, EMPulse!

Hi and welcome!

Happy Cake Day, War Witch!

Happy Cake Day, Positron!

Happy 7th Anniversary!

I'm not sure why you're having such trouble accessing the EU Test Server, as I've logged in every now and then since Issue #20 went live to tinker with the various Incarnate powers.

Until today that is ...

Now I can't get past the character select menu as the DB Server isn't responding when attempting to log in with any of my characters.

I'm in the same boat as nearly everyone else here, and can't log in to my own Master Account.

I started playing way back in 2005 and as such was completely stumped as to what I may have typed in as an answer to the security question I got when attempting to log in last night.

So I sent an e-mail to Support explaining my predicament, which of course caused me to remember the answer to the question five seconds later.

I then tried logging in again, giving what I'm fairly certain is the correct answer, but it still won't accept it as being valid.

Grrr!

Hi and welcome, Zwillinger!