[PS4] Research encounters STILL spawning as “abandoned” - VIDEO INCLUDED

Playing on PS4 pro, wired connection.

Video of bug: https://youtu.be/orkdzVc68V4 (first comment below contains an additional video of the same bug happening again shorty after this one)

Jun mission spawned with the awakened sextant mod “area contains Jun” (however this also happens with the prophecy and the normal master mission): “research encounter abandoned” immediately upon entering the map.

Also: fortification encounters spawn empty, and intervention encounters never appear. This has been happening for multiple leagues... almost a full year at this point. I have have seen many posts about this and have posted video proof of it myself several times on this forum.

Why is this bug not on the “known issues” list?

It feels really bad to have Jun missions wasted like this when Betrayal content is some of the most fun and rewarding content in the game. These encounters are very difficult to obtain and since we only get one mission per map, the payoff takes 3 times longer than on PC - it can take weeks to get a certain member into a specific safehouse and run it.

Please, please, PLEASE make fixing this bug a high priority issue!

Perhaps in the meantime you could credit one additional Jun mission to console players each day to account for all of the lost missions to this bug.

Thank you for working to make PoE a fun and functional experience for console players!

It happened again literally 2 maps later....

https://youtu.be/ckHbvMauKK8

This time from a normal master mission.

Bump

Happened again.

Could we please get an acknowledgement that this bug exists?

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Melissa_GGG wrote:

Hello,
Can you also please provide a screenshot of your Betrayal board investigation? We'll be able to narrow this down and investigate the problem at hand.

Thank you!!

Unfortunately I don't have screenshots of my board from those prior occurrences, but here is another one: https://youtu.be/I0jJm8exctg

And here is my betrayal board immediately afterward: https://imgur.com/4ehKXcd

This time I was using the prophecy to proc the Jun mission, however the bug occurs with normal Jun missions spawned from the atlas as well. It happens with all types of encounters: research, fortification, intervention, transportation. In my experience it happens about 5-10% of the time or so.

Thank you very much for looking into this - let me know if there is any other info I can provide to facilitate a quick resolution.

I've been having this problem too. What I don't understand is the problem investigating it. The game/program did not produce the message "encounter abandoned" on its own. It isn't Skynet. Someone at GGG had to put that into the game. Why?

Happened three more times.... 60c worth of Jun prophecies down the drain.

Same issue for me.

3.11 update: still happening.

Another video: https://youtu.be/M3kNcnSw7lg

Another screenshot of Betrayal Board: https://imgur.com/tyhF58b


I understand there are higher priorities at the moment, but just wanted to keep this issue on the radar.


Again, the Betrayal mechanic was designed and balanced to have 3 encounters per mission, but we only get 1 on console - this means it takes 300% more missions to move members to the houses where you want them.

Last league I got to 40/40 challenges and was NEVER able to fully optimize my board due to how rare these missions are... whereas the streamer CuteDog did it in a single day on PC.

Losing missions to this bug is a big deal for console players that engage with this mechanic and it feels very bad.

Thank you for your work on console performance!