Abyssal Monsters Out Before Triggering

When I walked into the Catacombs in Act 3, the Abyssal monsters were already out and attacking. After I killed them all and triggered the portal, the ground did it's "cracking" but nothing came out. The crack was also considerably shorter than usual.

Sorry I did not take a screen shot of it. Kinda caught me off guard a bit and I headed back to town before thinking about it.

Happened to me as well, the whole abyss was somehow bugged and didn't crack, I could although trigger the 'big holes' to spawn monsters while moving to the location where they should've opened.

I triggered the first one before stepping on the portal and I'm confident rest of them would open as well without the portal.

This has happened to me and my friend as well.

We can reliably get this to happen by awakening statues. If there's an abyss node nearby it will always trigger.

Any area with animating statues, at least, seems to be susceptible to this.

Must still be happening after the patch, happened in Solaris Temple here just now, triggered end of the crack before the start and messed up the progression.

Okay, same happended to me on Solaris Temple 1 and 2.
The interesting thing at floor 2 was, that one of the holes did not crack while the other one did. I'll just assume what some poster before me wrote:

The area where the hole did not appear too early was empty while all other holes where near statues which began to move.

Also, as long as there are monsters from the hole still alive you can finish the abyss event. If you kill all monster before activating the event, the "line" will go to the first hole but not progress any further. It will act as if you failed.

Just had this happen three times in a row; Marketplace, The Battlefront and Solaris 1. Tried to run past to activate the abyss and kill the enemies afterwards to see if that would cause it to correct itself but it still just ended up expiring after the time ran out.

Same cata lvl2 abyss rare and normal mobs were already spawn in rooms before I went in. Some areas they were triggering as I walk over them, pits. When I got to the actual abyss beginning I followed it back to where the abyss mobs were, but no new mobs spawn and no chest came up. In these pre-spawn encounters no abyss items dropped. My srs was in room hitting skeletons before I or zombies enter the room and then I noticed the abyss rare mob already out.

Was on a witch with zombies and srs, no totem, no curse, clarity and decipline on. Encounter issue after patch B

Confirmed in Act 3 areas (Solaris Temple and Catacombs). The spawn points trigger before you get to the actual abyss trigger point and then it won't progress with the treasure trove at the end.

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To me happened in both levels of Solaris Temple and in Battlefront. In last hour of play after servers restart I managed to finish only 1 Abyssal breach all rest of them glitched out. Before server restart (or crash I don't know) I had no problems. Also connected to all of this, when server restarted my game crashed to desktop.