Stars of a Thief bugs / issues

  • Vorxian
    Rogue

    Been playing SOT's now for about 2 weeks, picked up when on the recent discount. Purchased with a couple of friends for some sailing fun.

    All was great for a while. However, during our talltales expedition we encountered players that spawn camped us, and appeared to be using some kind of hack to teleport to out boat after we sank it and spawned at a different island. This unfortunately had the effect of causing one of my friends to immediately uninstall and within the limit to get a refund on steam. However, my other friend and I stuck to it and have been playing with sloops.

    We managed to reach the Stars of a Thief Talltale. This is where our problems start. It involves collecting a spyglass and then collecting two star jewels, then proceed to a non mapped island. It appears that if you collect the two gems, you get a save point. However, if you're attacked, and lose your boat / get message Talltale failed Star Jewels lost, the restore point will not give you the items back. 3 times now we have been attacked and sunk getting to this unmarked island, and each time, we have had to start the Talltale from the beginning because of this restore point issue.

    I have tried negotiating with other boats, running, offering bounty, telling them of this bug and to please let me finish the quest but no dice. Its just frustrating.

    Has anyone else encountered this bug or is it just my experience?

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  • abjectarity
    Lord
    Insider

    Just for clarification, when you go to a new boat on a new session, head to the quest table and tab over to your tall tale checkpoints. When you vote down that checkpoint, it gives you nothing? Does the checkpoint have a name? (Like chapter 2 or final chapter)

  • Vorxian
    Rogue

    @abjectarity

    Sure, it says chapter 3, with all the text regarding having found the two Star Jewels, BUT, it doesn't give you the two Jewels. If you go back to where you found them (glide back in the quest journal to re-trace your steps), the jewels are not back in their original location. It's at this point you can quickly get stuck. The only way to pick up the jewels again is to go back to Sudds at the North Star Trading Post, and click the book to re-do the Tall Tale from the start. Including the spyglass.

    I just want to shout out to Captain Flamator flying a high level Reaper flag - for having the compassion to stop to chat and hand back the quest jewels after completely owning me. He ended up getting in a fight with a galleon AND kraken, near where he captured the chest with the jewels. I hang about to see if he would talk. He did, and helped repair my boat, and gave the items back. I can't appreciate the gesture enough. I was able to finally finish Stars of a Thief on the 4th try. There are some genuinely decent players out there that seem to appreciate just how edgy these Tall Tales are to finish off.

  • abjectarity
    Lord
    Insider

    Glad you were able to finish it. It was indeed a bug if you voted for the checkpoint and it gave you nothing. Hopefully it was an isolated bug, but if it happens again on any of your future tall tales, shoot them a support ticket to let them know the bug is happening.

    You can report a variety of topics through the same support link using the drop-down menu to best describe your current need.

  • Azmuel
    Sailor

    Getting pretty much the same issue here. I simply exited the game after getting the second jewel and getting the saved checkpoint. When I come back to the game and resume the checkpoint, the jewels are nowhere to be found.

    Sent a support ticket, so we'll see what happens I guess.

  • abjectarity
    Lord
    Insider

    @azmuel hopefully they get it sorted quickly. Unfortunately in this case I only have the final checkpoint and not chapter 3. And voting the final checkpoint gives me the stone, so final checkpoint is working as intended.

  • Vorxian
    Rogue

    Brilliant. Thanks for the sanity check folks, and for @azmuel for verifying and creating support ticket. be interested to hear if you get any feedback!

  • Azmuel
    Sailor

    Got a reply on the ticket, basically just a somewhat generic sounding message that they're looking into it, and if they find a problem they'll address it in a future update. They closed the ticket, so I won't likely hear anything else personally.

  • heslashthem
    Champion
    Insider

    @azmuel that’s as good as you’ll get then it seems.

  • PaladinJukes
    Rogue

    Im having this exact bug as I work on my completions for the Shores of Gold Curse. Im having to completely restart the quest after being sunk, and like you I told them I had no loot. I dont get why people sink Tall Talers cuz you arent getting anything sellable out of it. But yeah, just like you checkpoint 3 but no quest items handed back to me. No gems, no totems, nothing. I hope Rare fixes this..

  • realRynoxious
    Rogue

    I also have the same issue

  • CroissantCarson
    Seafarer
    Insider

    Started again at checkpoint three, three times. Each time the images on the pillars did not correspond in any combination to those in the book, this making the vault impossible to open.

    Please fix as very frustrating.

  • CroissantCarson
    Seafarer
    Insider

    Apologies ^^ not a bug, I am just a massive idiot

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