Solo Revan Fight Quite Buggy

[arunav]

A lot of folks are having trouble with the Solo version of the Revan fight. Please look into this for a future patch.

 

It doesn't seem to be mechanics we are not understanding. The consensus on Yavin IV currently is to beat him, you "get lucky" and he doesn't bug out.

[Essence_of_Light]

The final fight is bugged, sadly. I got lucky and it worked correctly on my 3rd attempt.

 

I'm certain Bioware knows about this and is looking into it.

[BlackEyeArtistry]

A lot of folks are having trouble with the Solo version of the Revan fight. Please look into this for a future patch.

 

It doesn't seem to be mechanics we are not understanding. The consensus on Yavin IV currently is to beat him, you "get lucky" and he doesn't bug out.

 

Welcome to the party

[JamieKirby]

I have tried it 3 times and died each time, i am certain bioware didn't even bother testing anything before releasing it, or bugs like this wouldn't occur at all, minor bugs sure, but game breaking? no...shouldn't happen if properly tested.

 

EDIT: I tried and died yet again, its just impossible, the increased cooldown of the interrupt is what is fracking everything up......you need to either lower the cooldown by 50% or increase the lockout of AI abilities when interrupted by 100%.

Edited December 5, 2014 by JamieKirby

[CelCawdro]

The bugginess in tandem with the odd leveling curve that left me at 58 for the finale (as I already did the Forged Alliances story) has put a damper on what has otherwise been an absolutely stellar experience.

[JamieKirby]

The bugginess in tandem with the odd leveling curve that left me at 58 for the finale (as I already did the Forged Alliances story) has put a damper on what has otherwise been an absolutely stellar experience.

 

I agree, while i had to do the solo forged alliances story, i had to do makeb with my character, so i was level 60 for a while before facing revan, but i just can't win, he keeps killing me with ease....i don't think bioware tested this expansion much, if at all.

[jardars]

If you don't get the orbs when he traps your team you're pretty much screwed. You can get him if you manage to LOS his casts at the right time, but I found it pretty hard.

 

Spent 2 hours on this last night, he's still alive ><

[Karkais]

The bugginess in tandem with the odd leveling curve that left me at 58 for the finale (as I already did the Forged Alliances story) has put a damper on what has otherwise been an absolutely stellar experience.

 

I don't think its much of a problem really. You can do Rishi and Yavin dailies coupled with older dailies like Oricon to reach 60 relatively comfortably, in my opinion. Thats what I did.

 

Just pointing out that the operation version of enemy within is lvl 60 minimum. You can try the solo version earlier. Bit weird.

 

I am waiting for bioware to make a big "known issues" post including enemy within, since the bug seems really widespread. Its definitely a major issue, and in a mission thats supposed to be the culmination of this new expansion? Professional job, I'd say.

Edited December 5, 2014 by Karkais

[JamieKirby]

If you don't get the orbs when he traps your team you're pretty much screwed. You can get him if you manage to LOS his casts at the right time, but I found it pretty hard.

 

Spent 2 hours on this last night, he's still alive ><

 

No orbs spawn at all...thats the problem....if they spawn, they are invisible, which means its bugged.

[arunav]

No orbs spawn at all...thats the problem....if they spawn, they are invisible, which means its bugged.

 

On the 4th try, I was able to complete the quest.

 

I think it's important to use a tank companion (used Treek). Simply keep aggro yourself or with your tank companion, and, if the fight doesn't bug out, it can be completed. I did not use any orbs, so completely ignored the mechanics.

 

And it's worth the wipes: the ending is very nicely done.

 

Thanks BW for a very good story. I am looking forward to what you do with it going forward.

Edited December 5, 2014 by arunav

[Halinalle]

On the 4th try, I was able to complete the quest.

 

I think it's important to use a tank companion (used Treek). Simply keep aggro yourself or with your tank companion, and, if the fight doesn't bug out, it can be completed. I did not use any orbs, so completely ignored the mechanics.

 

And it's worth the wipes: the ending is very nicely done.

 

Thanks BW for a very good story. I am looking forward to what you do with it going forward.

 

His bubble absorbs all damage if you don't use the orbs + slowly kills all NPCs. Or I had to use the orbs to get him out of the bubble. Next mechanic... no orbs and everyone dies except

 

 

Shae and someone else

 

(spoiler tag just in case)

[Billupsat]

Now. I was with a group of four night before last and we managed to beat him four times... out of thirty one plus. I know I won on the twenty seven round. I was the third one up. However, the fight never worked correctly for us. Basically, sometimes Revan's bugs are so bad they end up helping us. For instance, there is one bug where he pulls everyone in and the orbs show up, but none of the NPC's are trapped. Then there is a bug where no orbs show, but somehow Satele's Battle Meditation is still in effect. When the Satele bug occurs though, heal her or she will die and you've lost a perfectly good bug. And lastly, he traps them, and there are no orbs. But, instead of rage swatting you he is in his orb and casting orbs at everyone. the trick here is to heal yourself, Satele, and a couple other NPC's of your choice. We tried to save Shae, Lana, Theron and Marr or Jakarro. Pick one of the tanks if you feel you need them though. This can still work if you have only saved Satele. Basically, to win you either need it to work properly both times, hope it works one time and one of the listed bugs happens the other time, Or lastly, hope its really bugged and you get two of the listed bugs. However, I will note, we only won when it super bugged twice. So really, it comes down to hoping it messes up even worse than it already does.

[LilyJedi]

The final fight is bugged, sadly. I got lucky and it worked correctly on my 3rd attempt.

 

I'm certain Bioware knows about this and is looking into it.

 

The only way I finished this is by using a bug to work around a bug.

 

The primary bug is that these "Fissures" that people have mentioned have NEVER appeared for me. The work-around is that "the boss" doesn't reset properly if you die and revive inside the instance.

 

For example, the first time you fight him, he pulled everyone in around 75% and then you died and revived in the instance, the next time he will continue past the 75% mark and continue to about 50% (?). He will then again do the pull in, throw out your allies and kill you. Revive once more, and this time he won't invoke either of those, but he will start casting another ability "Dark Growth" around 30%, interrupt that and he can just be beaten down.

 

So, yes, "third time lucky" happens to work. Great playtesting, Bioware.

[BlownSi]

I have been able to consistently get the fissures to spawn at 65% by pulling Revan to the outside ring of the arena. He leaps to the middle, pulls everyone with him, and then fissures spawn and I can release the NPCs. I have tried three times to use the same tactic at 35% and I have not yet been able to get the fissures to spawn.

 

This bug has really shaken my support of BW. I actually think they did a pretty good job with the expansion overall, but major game breaking bugs like this, on a story line that realistically has been developed over a decade now (beginning with KOTOR), is just disappointing. I have no doubt it will be fixed soon, more than likely on Tuesday, but this kind of issue should not even be put live. QC/QA department management might need to be looked at with some scrutiny.

Edited December 5, 2014 by BlownSi

[CelCawdro]

The annoying part is that Musco is so constrained by EA that he can't even comment on this (or many other) issue(s). SW:TOR's community team is great, but the amount of hoops they have to jump through in order to simply post to the forums is readily apparent. They're not allowed to do their job, essentially - look at how terrified he is of veering off-topic during interviews and streams.

 

But yeah, I'm just going to wait until the issue is fixed outright before troubling myself. Here's hoping the wait isn't too long.

[Darth_Wicked]

The annoying part is that Musco is so constrained by EA that he can't even comment on this (or many other) issue(s). SW:TOR's community team is great, but the amount of hoops they have to jump through in order to simply post to the forums is readily apparent. They're not allowed to do their job, essentially - look at how terrified he is of veering off-topic during interviews and streams.

 

But yeah, I'm just going to wait until the issue is fixed outright before troubling myself. Here's hoping the wait isn't too long.

 

What would you like him to say exactly?

 

As you can see here, issues pertaining this fight have been acknowledged and they're bound to fix them.

 

Other than that, what else is there to comment? Is Eric supposed to get down on the floor and ask forgiveness to the player base or something? Is Eric, not being a developer himself I believe, supposed to elaborate on what is the issue? To bore us to death with technical aspects most of us wouldn't probably even understand?

 

What constraint are you talking about exactly? I don't get it.

Edited December 6, 2014 by Darth_Wicked

[Hikaru_Kuma]

It's buggy but you can still beat it by bringing friends I helped my guidies heal through the buggy fight a couple of time. If you are trying to solo it and it bugs out, switch to a different instance and try again. Some instances on my server works just fine; I told people on chat to switch to it and they were successful.

[Dhregin]

Completed it today, it took four tries.

 

Basically, theres a phase where he CC's errybody and then singles you out and kills you, in solo mode.

 

On the fourth attempt in a row, He simply did not ever enter that phase. No one got cc'd, I was never alone, Beat the boss.

 

I was ranged dps, my companion was melee tank, and every time i died, I revived on the spot, never returning to the medical droid.

[Lendul]

The final fight is bugged, sadly. I got lucky and it worked correctly on my 3rd attempt.

 

I'm certain Bioware knows about this and is looking into it.

You didn't get lucky. You will beat him every time on the third attempt as long as you let him reset before using med probe. Do not release/reset the instance. When he bugs just let him kill you and all the NPCs then med probe. I have beaten Revan 4 times this week already doing this. After the patch on Tuesday this should no longer be an issue.

Edited December 8, 2014 by Lendul

[Lotharofxev]

You are paying to test an Open Beta. Stop complaining.

[mokkh]

You didn't get lucky. You will beat him every time on the third attempt as long as you let him reset before using med probe. Do not release/reset the instance. When he bugs just let him kill you and all the NPCs then med probe. I have beaten Revan 4 times this week already doing this. After the patch on Tuesday this should no longer be an issue.

 

I went 4 times today always letting him reset before med probe, and it didn't work.

 

Fun fight, but it's borked up beyond all recognition at the moment. I'll check it out after the fix.

[Kahiel]

I agree, while i had to do the solo forged alliances story, i had to do makeb with my character, so i was level 60 for a while before facing revan, but i just can't win, he keeps killing me with ease....i don't think bioware tested this expansion much, if at all.

 

Aside from the buggyness, I was able to take the boss at level 59 on my sentinel using the Rishi drop gear.

[Ld-Siris]

I just made this video on how to beat Revan when he gets bugged out. How this helps out.

 

[muttBunchh]

How can anyone solo anything in this game? I have maxed out armor from lvl54 stuff from the GTN. I can't do anything in the beginning for Forged Alliance. I die immediately and that is across my different professions. I like to solo things, I don't like to be in a group unless I'm PvP'ing, do I just suck or is it really about gear?

[Awnay]

Well, i did him solo tonight. I was really tired, but thought what the heck. I died and came here for help. The second time around i tried for the fuzzy colors, still died, the third time, took him down to the 30 percent and the he hung everyone up again. I kept beating on him ignored the fuzzy colors, when everyone was down to his health he released them and they all healed up and we killed him. I really dont think i want to do that again, lol.

 

I only revived inside, not out. I dont know about the green bubble, but it seems it was u p most the time and I stayed away from it.. hope that helps others.