Seventh Post [06/29/2015] [b][The one with three Baboons and a Mustela][/b] [spoiler]Bungie, Here I am with the seventh edition of this post. The error codes that happen during Prison of Elders only seem to be getting worse. I was booted three times during the 34 run a couple days ago. Beat rounds 1-3 without a problem. Get to round four and my screen goes black, Contacting Destiny Servers appears at the bottom of my screen with Baboon as the error code. This message flashes three or four times and then I get booted due to Weasel. I have to sign out of live, sign in, log on to Destiny, get booted by Caterpillar, lose connection, sign out, sign on, log in, wait... wait... wait... verifying content... Select character and join party, talk my friends in to continuing and pick back up. We end up Urrox, get him to a sliver of health (if he had a 1/16" of health, I would be surprised) when the Thrall stopped moving and my friends seemingly charged the center of the map, as if they were going to melee him for the rest of the DPS. I scope in with Black Hammer and drop 6 rounds in to Urrox's dome and nothing. I sit my character down and wait for it to happen. Baboon, Baboon, Baboon... Weasel. Got kicked and they killed the boss quite literally two seconds later. Then I repeat the sign out, sign in, log on, log off, sign out, sign in... It's about as tiresome to read it as it is to live it. I get back in to the party and my friends are patrolling Venus. "Man, that sucks. Right at the boss" they say. No checkpoint and down a friend, I moved to solo (one friend logged off and the other offered to help, but I didn't want to make him help, not on the 34). Ended on the third round before seeking out help on DestinyLFG.com. No check point, with randoms that acted as bullet sponges as I did all the work. Thanks for that.[/spoiler] Sixth Post [06/25/2015] [b][The one about servers and the third man... rather, lack thereof][/b] [spoiler]Bungie, Last night me and two friends decided to take on Skolas. Well, two of us started it and got to the Pilot Servitor before a third joined us. Everything ran smooth at the beginning of the boss encounter and then one of our teammates ends up with a black screen and disappears, waiting for the recovery system to take affect. Two of us down the Servitor and our friend rejoins after restarting his router. We go on to Skolas, get to the mines and he disappears, again. My other friend dies in transit to the mine and I run to dismantle (it was the last one). I get poisoned. And our other friend returns to the game, but can't get out of the door. I dismantle the mine and proceed to die to poison as I could not revive my downed teammate and our other teammate was locked behind a door. We restart. Now our friend can't even stay in the game and is booted immediately. We die and get him back in. Start it up and same thing happens; we get to mines and he disappears. We quit. Guess what? No checkpoint, so we get to do it all over again.[/spoiler] Fifth Post [06/20/2015] [b][The one about Cloudberry and Bird[/b] [spoiler]Bungie, Me and my buddy decided to take on the 34. I had a cipher that needed points for boss kills and he was bored. We get to Valus Trau'ug and my buddy starts lagging, bad. We drop out of part and go to fireteam chat. He disappears and comes back (your new recovery feature worked!!!). Then it happens again... and again, only this time I get kicked due to [b]bird[/b]. I go to join up on him and actually succeed... (well, that's an over statement), while in transit, I get another black screen and get kicked back to orbit due to [b]cloudberry[/b]. Not cool.[/spoiler] Fourth Post [06/12/2015] [b][caterpillar at loot box][/b] [spoiler]Bungie, Called it a night on the 35 when two of my buddies had to get to bed. We wiped four times at the boss after nearly killing him, twice. Oh well, that's why we have the weekend. I decided to give the 28 a go to do something easy. I did; me and two randoms rushed right through. Got to the treasure room, opened the first chest and... [black screen] CATERPILLAR... You serious?[/spoiler] Third Post [06/11/2015] [b][The one with all: errors and giving up][/b] [spoiler]Bungie, Following up with more stories of being booted and quitting out of fatigue. On reset, me and two buddies went through the 34, beat it and got to the loot chest when GoldenLotus8 left party, then, a player left your fireteam. He missed out on his Etheric Light and Armor Core. We restarted and ran it again to help him. Now we're playing arenas in duplicates as our friends get kicked. That same night, we started up the 35 and get through to round 5 when StoopidSnipez left party. Then, a player left your fireteam... He wasn't able to get back on. We were able to get another friend in and eventually beat it. Our friend that got kicked was able to log back on about 10 minutes later. Last night we started the 35 and got to Skolas. It was about 1AM and we thought we'd get it done quick. Well, we were wrong. Too fatigued to get our timing right, and after getting Skolas to a 1/4" of health and dying to captains blindsiding us for the third time, we gave up. Getting to Skolas isn't difficult, but giving up an hour after attempting just to stare down the same thing... Not fun.[/spoiler] Second Post [06/01/2015] [b][the one where our entire team got kicked][/b] [spoiler]Bungie, I was just playing the Forever Eater at Qodron and my ENTIRE TEAM got Anteater... We all got kicked. Just took out the eye and started dealing DPS at the boss. This is the second time my team has been kicked at the boss. Not having a checkpoint is really becoming a thorn in my side... Yeah, thorn. Nerf the errors, buff your servers and add checkpoints. Please fix.[/spoiler] Original Post: [05/28/2015] [b][the one we gave up on][/b] [spoiler]Bungie, I've seen similar posts like this permeating the forums and thought '[i]man, what noobs.[/i]' Last night I spent two hours on Qodron. After figuring out we needed to kill this silver vex we trucked on, but died when Qodron was at 1/8" health. We gave it a couple more attempts then gave up. I was with two 33's, so it wasn't that big of a surprise that we didn't make it. I eagerly signed on, tonight, anticipating that I would beat the 34, forgetting there wasn't a checkpoint, then realized I'd have to run through the whole thing with no guarantee of success and my friends basically said '[i]... What about the Nightfall?[/i]' To which I replied '[i]to hell with the nightfall, noobs... yeah, you're right.[/i]'. It's 10PM my time and I don't feel like going through that pain of dying to a stupid supression field. I usually stay up until 2 playing, but tonight I logged off (quite literally for the first time since release). I don't expect that I will pick up my controller again until Saturday, when I will have enough time to deal with You can see my stats, I've raided a ton and have been very successful. I almost have two times the gameplay in raids than all other activities and have never given up. Raids have checkpoints which make it easy to quit out on a losing run and call it a night. Prison of Elders does not. Prison of Elders feels more tedious and pressured as you don't want to quit, but can't stand to stay. Wipe after wipe, then you decide to hell with it and give up out of fatigue and frustration. Then, the next day, the wound is reopened and salt poured in on the realization that there is no checkpoint. Then the deflation. I am not asking to make the game easier, just that you add a checkpoint for the final boss, if not at each round. I've seen it suggested that all players in the fireteam must have the same checkpoint (unlike the raids), which makes sense to me. This would mean that me and my two friends (same goes for anyone else this applies to) would be able pick up where we left off, but would not be able to start the activity with a new person that didn't already have the checkpoint. Say two people have a round 6 save and one has a round 5 save, their GT would blink and a notice would display: [i]'not all players have the proper checkpoint for this activity.'[/i] Anyway, that's my opinion on the matter.[/spoiler]