Issues with Garuda - Howling Eye (Normal & Hard Modes)

Its happened to me once on normal but now I'm seeing it happened much more during the Gardua Hard.

After she spawn the tornados, she then teleports to spawn her minions and vanishes from my screen. I can see the other players attacking something, I can see the minions; I can't see her or target her but she can hit me. Also the minion's tethers don't show up as well. They show for as split second after spawning and disappear with Garuda.

This has happened about 40% of the runs I've done on Garuda and I always die when this happens because I can't see whats going on. Its rather frustrating.

The biggest issue is that the Garuda hard mode battle is called "The Howing Eye" in the duty finder.

I mean, not to diminish the importance of what you're stating OP, because that is indeed an issue as well, but seriously. I can barely bring my finger to click on "The Howing Eye" because I'm afraid I'll be besieged by a floating, evil eye that keeps asking me how to do things and that, one day, it will drive me insane. HOOOOW?! HOOOOOOOOOOW?!

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Originally Posted by Leash

Its happened to me once on normal but now I'm seeing it happened much more during the Gardua Hard.

After she spawn the tornados, she then teleports to spawn her minions and vanishes from my screen. I can see the other players attacking something, I can see the minions; I can't see her or target her but she can hit me. Also the minion's tethers don't show up as well. They show for as split second after spawning and disappear with Garuda.

This has happened about 40% of the runs I've done on Garuda and I always die when this happens because I can't see whats going on. Its rather frustrating.

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What are your system specs?

I have heard others having similar issues, not necessarily with Garuda, mostly in fates, and it usually turns out to be on a system at or below the recommended system requirements.

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Originally Posted by Will01

What are your system specs?

I have heard others having similar issues, not necessarily with Garuda, mostly in fates, and it usually turns out to be on a system at or below the recommended system requirements.

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My System:
ASUS G750JX
Core i7-4700HQ 2.4 GHz
Windows 8
16 GB DDR3
1024 GB 5400rpm Hard Drive - 256 GB Solid-State Drive
Nvidia GTX770M 3G

The game and OS is installed on the SSD. I don't have any problems with fates. The 'missing' monsters and lag issues seems to occur in Dungeons. I haven't had much issue with the home server side. I've turned down the game graphics since the Oct15 patch (switch off shadows, blur, ect..).

I reported this issue a week back under the bug forum, one day after that it got moved to the "accepted bugs" forum. So SE are aware of it most likely and will hopefully fix it soon.

Thanks Ervin, so I'm not the only one having this issue. I'll make sure to make a post to that thread.

I have been having this issue as well, she disappears at different points in the fight for me, always when she jumps and then she does not display. She shows up on hate list still but I am unable to target her. Many times after she jumps again she will then re-appear on the screen and I can target her again.

This happened with several different party setups over the course of 4-5 hour of trying last night and has happened to me several times previously. While it suxs to see I am not the only one experiencing this issue I am very hopefull there will be a fix for it.

fwiw I haven't had this happen on my pc, but it happens on my ps3 a lot. So ya, may not be comp spec related.

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Originally Posted by Leash

Its happened to me once on normal but now I'm seeing it happened much more during the Gardua Hard.

After she spawn the tornados, she then teleports to spawn her minions and vanishes from my screen. I can see the other players attacking something, I can see the minions; I can't see her or target her but she can hit me. Also the minion's tethers don't show up as well. They show for as split second after spawning and disappear with Garuda.

This has happened about 40% of the runs I've done on Garuda and I always die when this happens because I can't see whats going on. Its rather frustrating.

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This actually happened recently to a FC mate of mine.

It was her story quest we did.

When she jumped tot he North side, she kept asking where Garuda was. We told her she was on the tank.

"She isn't on my screen. Tried targeting her through tank, nothing."

But she kept getting hit through the entire battle.

We wiped because our other DPS, her, could not target Garuda at all.

So yeah. I can confirm this happens.

It happens way too often. You might be able to avoid it if you are looking away from the point where she reappears, that has worked for me a few times. Might just be luck and a invisible-free-garuda fight those times. But we just have to hope it gets fixed asap.

I'm just not sure why SE are so slow with fixing stuff, lag, stuttering etc etc. BF4 got released last week, it was stuttery, laggy and horrible at start for alot of players, including myself. Then some patches and most things are working perfectly when it comes to lag and graphics. And regarding the rest of the small bugs, atleast DICE/EA communicates with their players. They even added more server power to fix the lag issues that occured. It shouldnt be any different in SEs case, infact it should be straight up better since we pay monthly for this. I still suffer from stuttering in certain zones and I doubt something will be done.

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Originally Posted by Ervin

It happens way too often. You might be able to avoid it if you are looking away from the point where she reappears, that has worked for me a few times. Might just be luck and a invisible-free-garuda fight those times. But we just have to hope it gets fixed asap.

I'm just not sure why SE are so slow with fixing stuff, lag, stuttering etc etc. BF4 got released last week, it was stuttery, laggy and horrible at start for alot of players, including myself. Then some patches and most things are working perfectly when it comes to lag and graphics. And regarding the rest of the small bugs, atleast DICE/EA communicates with their players. They even added more server power to fix the lag issues that occured. It shouldnt be any different in SEs case, infact it should be straight up better since we pay monthly for this. I still suffer from stuttering in certain zones and I doubt something will be done.

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BF4 is a poor reference point though really. It only has 64 players on a server, not thousands.

Still a viable reference. They do what is needed to please their playerbase, they do it fast, they communicate, they inform us of whats being done and what needs more work. And most likely, many 64 player servers are hosted by the same server hardware, much like how many BG instances in WoW or any other MMO are hosted on the same hardware. So all in all, you fairly easy get thousands of players trafficing on each server even in BF4, since the servers are hosted by EA now. But all this can be said about many MMO games/companies too.

SE does none of that, they still havent optimized their engine, people still suffer severe lag and so on. And the worst part is, they have close to zero communication with their players. I'm still surprised that we wont get more free time of this beta quality game.

Greetings,

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