**CRITICAL/GAME BREAKING** Main quest line bug: the ritual

[ApolloLumen]

• What is your character name in New World: ApolloLumen
• What server/world did you experience your issue on: EDEN
• Describe the issue you are experiencing: Heartforge Guardian for the main questline will not spawn even with heart gem in inventory
• Is this a bug? Yes
• (if a bug) How did the issue affect your gameplay: Can’t progress in the main quest
• (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue: You can’t, I tried leaving the area and and few other simple fixes and nothing works
• please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced: N/A.
• What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced: Get a heart gem and attempt to complete the ritual by defeating the heartforge guardian
• When did this happen? 1:00 PM EST,

[jrushton98]

Critical/game breaking indeed.

[o-o]

Hello! Thank you for your report.

The Development team is aware of this issue and working on a resolution.

Are you able to abandon the quest and pick it back up?

[Kryptique]

its not working for anyone, it’s a boss spawn, not activated by a quest. We keep getting heart gems in our inventory if we keep doing that. I’m on Eden also and many players are just going in and out of that zone constantly.
Another player also posted this Heartforge Guardian Not spawning
no one can progress their main quest because of it.

[ApolloLumen]

Attempted this and the boss still does not spawn.

[Drjunk]

Eden been having the same issue all day there is nothing to interact with to start the ritual

[o-o]

Thank you for letting me know you have tried the workaround. I have passed this information along to the Development team.

[ApolloLumen]

Hey o-o,

I’m not criticizing you directly, I understand you’re just trying to move this along and help new players and I appreciate that, you’re doing your job as a community mod.

I just want to express some frustration. I’m aware maintaining and updating an MMO is very difficult due to the sheer number of active people interacting with the world. After speaking with a number of players in-game at the boss alter this really did turn them off the game. A lot of newer players are going to try and progress to this point and give up and probably not relaunch the game, especially ones that don’t understand that its clearly a bug.

I know this is beyond your control and I’m happy you’re here to ensure that this is going to be addressed. But damage is already been done, I’ve seen older forums addressing this same bug now to me it is somewhat unacceptable that a bug that refuses to let you progress in a 60 CAD triple AAA game had not been hot fixed in over a week.

I’m going to check back in when its fixed, but I know a lot of people wont.