'nother busted invasion

[Basil Dreadflint]

Ok! I have been in exactly 2 PDF invasions on open. Both of them were total wastes of time.

The first one, we had a nice size crew split between the 3 beaches. The waves started attacking, and I was on the beach nearest to the jail. We were on the 4th wave, and all of a sudden we saw the message that JR was coming ashore. There were still about 15 Skellies on our beach from the 4th wave. We never saw the last 2 waves, and we never saw Jolly. The next thing we did see was a message that we had lost.

The second one was last night. We were between the 5th and 6th wave and it stuck. One skellie per beach would spawn, and that was it. We let them take down barricade after barricade until all the barricades were down, THEN JR showed up. Not until after every single barricade was destroyed.

I've seen the release notes for test for today, but somehow I doubt that this is totally fixed yet. Back to the drawing board, Disney!

[Mark bladeflint]

So JR showed up after all the baricades were down? Thats not right >.<. Every invasion I did on padres was never ending :/. So i'm not going to do any more padres invasions untill they fix it.

[JM Ohara]

It appears that it's also certain servers. From what I've been told Bequermo server invasions have broken 3 of the last 3 times. (This is, when someone I know is fighting them, Saturday and Sunday.) Fragillies also broke twice this weekend. It seems to be some servers are more affected than others. Something in those servers themselves perhaps? Next time they announce invasions, I think I'll put this theory to the test.

[combatlizzy]

The glitch does seem to favor Berquermo & a few other servers. Maybe DW is just tooo scarey for the undead army! lolz
(Sorry, I couldn't resist saying that-I have many friends in DW)
Seriously though, hopefully the fixes on test will work & the PDF invasions will go off as planned when released to open on all servers. I realize every guild has it's favorite server, but maybe until then, y'all could fight on another one? Just an idear....

[JM Ohara]

Ok, so did a little watching this invasion, little learning. I was going to just watch the invasion on Bequermo, see what happened. I was alone on there, so it was gonna be a true test. Just after the first wave destroyed the first barricade it occurred to me that if I didn't fight no new waves would come. So I busted out Kat's staff, and she singly handedly fought off two waves of undead. Third wave, Jolly came. Kat got discoed, but by then there were 2 others fighting besides my second pirate. (I play with 2 pirates almost all the time.) Anywho, they beat Jolly, Kat didn't make it back and so got no rep. Oops. But I learned a few things.

First, a single high level pirate can defend a server IF they stay behind the barricades and use a staff.

Second, when Jolly comes said pirate is outta luck.

Third, The enemies are way way easier for singles.

Fourth, You're only gonna see 2 waves if you're alone.

Fifth, most important, Bequermo server is NOT broken, the invasion did go off fine.

All in all, worth the loss of rep on Kat, cause I know what she did, and what I learned from it. The odds are still low here though, 4 outta 5 Bequermo's didn't work. Just a thought.

[wabba_caa]

I haven't seen this glitch yet but I've noticed the skeletons will keep moving after dying but they can't hit anything I was on blanada there were a few people the first few times I played
but the second to last was just me and a friend and the last was just me we won them all pretty easily but mostly because there were so few waves for me to fight blanada could use some more help though
as long as I fight jolly roger on a quiet or empty server he can't get me

[Capt C Ray]

I attended an invasion Sunday night and 2 yesterday. Believe all were on A oceans and well attended by other pirates. By the fourth wave, there were a lot of undeads pouring out of the water. Did not experience any glitches what so ever. Have to agree with others, it's ocean specific.

And also learned that Jolly does not have to show to win. The Sunday invasion had undead popping out of the ground by the entrance to Beckett's Quarry. The group of pirates there could not hold them off and the undead proceeded to take the city wall down, at which point, the invasion was over and Jolly won.

[combatlizzy]

As I posted in the Helm...attended 2 invasions of PDF on test, yesterday & both went w/o any bugs. Didn't see any Powder Keg Runners, but it was fine. We pirates had our hands full.

[swordshot]

i dont like busted invasions...

[JM Ohara]

Actually Ray, A servers are not immune. I got a whisper from a friend on Saturday that Abassa was running an invasion. Tpd over, and the one from almost an hour before was still going. I just think specific servers are more prone to glitches is all.

[Capt C Ray]

Hawke, good to know. Hopefully live will get the updates shortly from test since I am hearing the main issues are fixed. I have only experienced one glitched invasion on live and since the updates were applied, none on test.

[Capt Seafury]

I, for one, have never experienced a glitched invasion. I've done five Padres invasions in-all.
One on Tortos, and four on Navermo. I don't know what you guys are talking about how all the invasions are glitched, and you think Disney is letting you down by releasing them. You should still give them a try, try them on Navermo where I haven't seen a glitched one, you might change your mind.
All I have to say is, most of the invasions are not glitched.

[JM Ohara]

While I'm sure quite a lot of people have yet to see a glitched invasion, they are a pill when they do happen. That said, some pirates (yours truly for example) just seem to attract glitches at a higher rate. It could also be that some of us tend to frequent certain servers, and my guess is, that a server which has had a glitch, unless it's been removed, will glitch again. After all, the programming is embedded in the servers, no? Just a thought.

[Capt C Ray]

Hawke,

You are correct when you say that the code is embedded in the server. Would you please list a few of the servers where you are experiencing the glitched invasions? Would like to partake in a few. Txs.

Capt C Ray

[JM Ohara]

So far the worst offenders seem to be, as stated before, Bequermo and Fragilles. Camaros broke at least once. I think it's kind of hit and miss, you just have to be there.