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How to find WildStar Boom Boxes and Bonuses

wildstar boom boxWildStar fans who bought Deluxe Edition, and those who logged into the game every day during pre-order weekends as well as Open Beta, can collect bonuses and Boom Boxes from account bag, located in the bottom left corner of your screen. It’s a little present icon with a number on it. The number represents the quantity of Boom Boxes.

Boom boxes are account bound. When you click on the box, a pop up window will ask you are you sure you want to bind this to your character. After confirmation, a boom box will appear in your inventory. Just right-click on it and take your reward. You can open one box per day because there is a cool down of 21 hours. Rewards are random, and the first reward for my character was Pink Fury Dye.

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WildStar Known Headstart Issues

Carbine team is currently investigating and tracking the following issues:

  • Players are unable to view Realm List/Enter Realms
  • Players are seeing extremely long queue times
  • Players cannot speak/do not have permissions to use chat channels
  • Players are missing their entitlement items (Boom Boxes, Pre-Order bonuses etc)
  • Players cannot create characters/have less character slots than intended
  • Players unable to create characters due to no UI being loaded after entering a Realm.
  • Some users are seeing an Error 15 message preventing login.
    POSSIBLE FIX: We recommend using a hard line into your Router (if possible) rather than a WiFi connection to see if this resolves the issue
  • A new EN-PvP Realm (Ravenous) has been opened to help alleviate traffic
  • Users are reporting their Reserved names are not available.
  • Some users are reporting they are being bounced between NA and EU, receiving a “No Valid Game Account” message.
    Update: We’re still investigating the issue with “No Valid Game Account”.

More info as we have it.

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Lore Collectibles Database

datacube journal tales map We are proud to announce that we have made available our Wildstar Datacrons, Journals and Tales database. Wildstar is part of a newly created universe and there are several ways that developers at Carbine decided to tell us their story of Nexus. Among others there is a lore library whose sections you unlock by gathering three types of collectibles – Datacrons, Journals and Tales from Beyond the Fringe. Datacrons are audio logs that give a lot of background information from the Elden, Journals are written records from various sources and Tales (or TFBTF) are comic books that you need to collect all pages of to unlock a single Tale comic.

All these collectibles are scattered around each of the zones in Wildstar. They are not marked on the map, but once you get close to them you will probably be able to see them marked on the ground.

For those collectionists and lore buffs among you this will be one of the aspects of Wildstar you will surely want to explore. To help you in your exploration we have created a database of all collectibles in all zones. We listed all the zones we have information for on this page. If you click on most of the zones listed there you will see a page with a map and all collectibles we have locations for marked on that map (like on this page for example). You can filter the markers by type and if you click on the map marker you will be taken to a screenshot guide page for that particular collectible. Bellow the map you will find a list of all collectibles that can be found on that map. You can click on the Show on Map link to mark that particular collectible on the map above. Our single collectible guides include written walkthroughs for collectible locations and in most cases screenshots to help you pinpoint exact locations of each datacube, journal or tale (you can check out one such page here). You can also read the Lore text that is shown in the game once you find that lore piece. This can prove helpful for lore buffs that want to read up on different aspects of the back story of Nexus while not in the game.

We hope you find our Lore database and map tools useful and we will strive to enter every single collectible that we are missing right now.

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WildStar Post Launch Summary

wildstar launch summary

During the yesterday’s Nexus report and some interviews after Nordic Game event numerous post launch questions popped up, and we decided to make a summary and give you a brief report about what you can expect once the game launches.

  • Monthly updates – over 200 people are working on post launch content, and another team is working on the live game.
  • Monthly game updates can be described as combination of different content styles. One month it will be a new zone with casual zone content and quests, another month might be PvP month, and the next one might be dungeon month.
  • Guild Player housing it’s currently in development
  • There will be something similar to Google Authenticator for launch, but there will be no physical devices.
  • Head start has a weird time because it will be timezone neutral as much as possible.
  • Servers will be pretty large, much larger than those we used to see in other games, but smaller than a megaserver. It will be busy, healthy servers with enough space for everyone.
  • If a server crashes, 95% of the time they don’t need human interaction to come back up. They’re built to do it themselves very quickly.
  • Probably no server statistics pages for a while, but they would like to do them eventually.
  • Game Surveillance Unit will be using active and passive spam/bot detection for Cheat detection logs called JRK logs.
  • About Multiboxing: if you’re doing it yourself without the use of 3rd party programs/bots/macros, it’s allowed. One keypress for multiple characters is not allowed.
  • No set downtime for maintenance (i.e. weekly etc). Prefer to deploy patches on Thursday or Tuesday. Probably higher concentration of patches during launch month.
  • Raids reset 10AM UTC Tuesday.
  • They have the tech for realm transfers, but they don’t know when they’ll be available.
  • Preorder keys have a grace period after head start of three days (ends June 5th 23:59) to enter full game key if you’re getting a physical copy.
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WildStar Quests Database

wildstar quests database

We are proud to announce that we have launched our WildStar quests database, in a form of searchable list of all quests found in WildStar. Each quest contains basic information, like quest level, zone, category and objectives. We went one step further and provided screenshots for each quest objective, which main goal is to help you resolve given tasks much easier.

Our idea is to provide screenshots for as many quests as we can, and you can be sure that we will provide full screenshot walkthrough for the toughest ones to complete. Since this is all manual work it might take a few weeks to enter all the information we collected during the beta period. Any suggestions and feedback are welcome, but in the meantime feel free to browse our Quests Database.

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Failed to connect to patch server issue

If you’re having the issue “Failed to connect to patch server” when you start the game, it means that your firewall or security applications may be blocking your ability to connect to the WildStar servers. You can try the following solutions listed below:

  1. Run the game as admin
    Right click on the Wildstar program icon – Run as Administrator
  2. In Command Prompt type ipconfig/flushdns, then hit Enter
  3. Add the following wildstar patcher URL lines to hosts file:

    174.35.37.197 wildstar.patcher.ncsoft.com.cdngc.net
    174.35.37.197 wildstar.patcher.ncsoft.com

    If you don’t know how to find hosts file directory location, you can type the following address into File Explorer: %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc

    • Right click hosts file and open it with notebook
    • Add two lines listed above and save

     

    host file location

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Logging Error Codes, Tech Issues and Solutions

This list consists of descriptions and solutions for WildStar error codes you might encounter while jumping into Nexus world. Most of the problems can be resolved by disabling your firewall, running the WildStar as an Admin or updating computer drivers. The list will be updated regularly as new information are added.
 

Access violation writing location 0x00000000 error

The issue seems to be caused by bad graphics card drivers, the first thing you can do is re-install or update your own graphics card drivers.

AMD autodetect: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx
Nvidia Autodetect: http://www.geforce.com/drivers (Click “Auto-Detect your GPU”)
Intel Autodetect: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect?iid=dc_iduu
 
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