i was a lost shipment voyage but there was no ship at the end just the merchant manifest
merchant lost shipment bug
@tim-thetiger717 This is a bug that has been in the game since the launch of this quest. They aren't going to fix it. It's very clear. They fix maybe 5% of bugs in this game. They're too busy rushing content.
@pithyrumble Is that confirmed behavior? Wouldn’t think the wreck would despawn as soon as it was looted, especially if the captain’s quarters were still locked (or are you thinking someone found the key too?).
Just wondering as I’ve had this happen a couple of times and I typically get to the wreck pretty darn quick, so an interloper would have to be lucky and fast to find the key, loot the wreck, and clear out without me at least catching them sailing away.
It's my working theory. I'm not thinking they found the key, just the wreck. I do know that the Manifest doesn't spawn without the crew It's for being there. That's why the manifests will still be there, but not the wreck.
@pithyrumble I'm 99% sure that in the instances of this "bug", the shipwreck for the voyage never even spawns. I distinctly remember them saying something along the lines of "causes the shipwreck to not spawn" and then instead it just spawns the manifest as your "consolation prize" of sorts. I'll see if I can find the verbiage. Shame this problem is still in the game this long after these voyages came out.
EDIT: Found the verbiage from the patch notes..."When progressing through a Lost Shipments Voyage, if a shipwreck is unable to be created for any reason, Merchant Cargo will be surfaced alongside the Manifest out at sea to reward crews for their efforts."
Funny...even their "fix" for it doesn't work right...in instances where I've encountered this, I've never seen the Merchant Cargo alongside the manifest...
@sweetsandman me neither; somehow they managed to get it wrong for both Lost Shipments and Veil Shipwreck Graveyards; the bug for each is the fix for the other. Too bad they can’t just swap bugs…
@sn0kanon what @PithyRumble said is not why there is no shipwreck.
What Rare stated about this bug is the following.
There are cases where the final shipwreck fails to spawn, this can happen due to a number of factors. When the shipwreck fails to spawn there is an insurance implemented that makes sure the manifest spawns so the voyage can be completed at leasr
For those experiencing this bug, do you happen to be doing "reverse voyages?" For example, you do one voyage from Ancient Spire to Galleon's Grave that works fine. Then you drop another and you get Galleon's Grave to Ancient Spire? So same voyage, but reversed? In the past these are the voyages that would bug out and not spawn the shipwrecks. But that was a while ago and I'm not sure if the issue y'all are experiencing is the same one or not.
I don't run shipwreck voyages often, but when I do I always cancel any reverse voyage due to how buggy they were in the past. Don't know if it will help you or not, but figured I would throw it out there.
@sweetsandman said in merchant lost shipment bug:
Funny...even their "fix" for it doesn't work right...in instances where I've encountered this, I've never seen the Merchant Cargo alongside the manifest...
If the loot gets spawned at the moment the voyage is started, you'd need to find the 'missing' shipwreck before the loot sinks to confirm it. What is the timer for crates - 10 minutes? You could easily spend most of that time sailing and/or stopping for the key before realizing the shipwreck didn't spawn. I don't know if I've done one fast enough to be sure that it isn't spawning loot though, so who knows.
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