PSA: Boreal Archon Hunt Switched to Nira this Week to avoid Crashes & Next Steps

Hey Tenno! 

We have swapped this week’s Boreal Archon Hunt to Nira as a temporary means to prevent Clients from crashing during the fight. 

We want to honor this week’s Azure Shard reward, so while the UI now shows the Amber Archon Shard, the Azure Shard will still be rewarded upon completing this week’s Archon Hunt. 

Why the Switch? 
We noticed a big influx of Client crashes once the Archon Hunt reset occurred this week. Upon investigating we discovered that this was due to the Aerolyst enemies that spawn in the Boreal fight. Unfortunately, we are only able to fully resolve these crashes via code which requires a Cert update (meaning we cannot Hotfix this issue). So for the time being, Boreal will not be making a re-appearance until we can get the crash fixed. 

This Client crash also impacts Orphix missions, as Aerolysts spawn there as well. There is no similar workaround at this time, but seeing as it does not impact Hosts you are able to run the mission solo without risk of hitting this crash. 

Next Steps:
Since we’ll be unable to fix the crashes before Boreal’s next scheduled return on the week of July 14th, Amar will be subbed in instead with its expected Crimson Archon Shard reward. 

In addition, we will also have an Azure Archon Shard alert live on all platforms that week in light of Boreal’s absence. This alert will require you to have the Veilbreaker Quest completed, as is the requirement to access Archon Hunts! 

We will share exact dates and times of when you can expect that alert closer to that week. 

Thank you, Tenno! Happy Archon hunting! 
 

3 hours ago, Sibblet said:

Thank you so much! My console friends are also struggling with the particles that Jade leaves behind (why they are there i have no idea or what they do) if there could be a fix for this, such as: remove the left over particle that jade leaves behind as it doesnt seem to mean anything that would be ideal!

Great job, love the game!

If this is what I think it is, we have a fix coming tomorrow to address the VFX lingering and causing performance issues :)  it was caused by the VFX from Ophanim Eyes lingering and not despawning. 

18 hours ago, Alexis00712 said:

will the percentage pity of Boreal be used, or the one for Nira? because it's saying 80% on my nira right now, is that from Boreal or from Nira? and if I get a tauforfed now, will that reset Boreal's or Nira's percentage back to 20%?

Hiya! So the percentage used is still Boreal :) Which means that if you get a Tauforged Azure Shard it will reset for Boreal. 

2 minutes ago, alcxmeteor said:

你好，设计师，我是一名忠实的WF玩家，我们氏族今天很多人发现钓鱼不可以瞄准，鼠标右键无效。我英语不好，在使用翻译器回复在这里，希望你能看到。

Hello designer, I am a loyal WF player, many of our clans today find that fishing can not be aimed, and the right mouse button is invalid. I don't speak English well, reply here using the translator, hope you can see it.

Hello! This is intended :) We temporarily disabled aiming with fishing spears in the last Hotfix: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1401748-jade-shadows-hotfix-3603/

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• Temporarily disabled Aiming Down Sights on fishing spears to prevent a soft-lock issue. 
  • The full fix for this issue requires Code for a future update, so for the time being we have done the above to ensure that players going through Quests with fishing stages are able to complete them without getting stuck. 

 

Re-posting the OP update here so that it doesn't get missed :) 

The aforementioned Azure Archon Shard alert will be available from this upcoming Weekly Reset (Occurring on July 14th, 8pm E.T.) until July 23rd at 6pm E.T.

As previously mentioned, it will be available to all players who have completed the Veilbreaker quest.