Guild Wars 2

I’m not posting this in the bug forum since I have no idea if this really represents a bug or not.

In the last few weeks I’ve been hearing a noise that to me sounds like a cowboy posse running by (minus the `ye-haw!`s). There are several loud pops that sound like gunfire mixed with a low rumble that to me sounds like hoofbeats- the sound is very similar to the trampling noise made by the centaur mobs during the Crown Pavilion boss blitz.

Somebody in the map chat suggested that a player was setting off fireworks, but the rumble does not sound like a firework to me, and I can hear this noise even when no other players are anywhere near me. I first started hearing this in Timberline Falls and it was happening every few minutes. Then I had a period where several days went by and I didn’t hear it at all, but now it is making a resurgence on multiple maps, albeit with a smaller frequency.

Can anyone else confirm hearing this noise, and can you identify the source? The wiseacre answer people get when they complain about an ambient noise is usually to simply turn it off, but I don’t think having to lose all audio just because one sound in particular annoys me is a real answer.

I’m not sure why you’d be hearing it in Timberline Falls, but if you’re in a map with a Guild Rush (e.g. Diessa Plateau, Lornar’s Pass, Southsun Cove), every time a player crosses the finish line, fireworks go off which can be heard across the entire map.

Zaxares.5419:

I’m not sure why you’d be hearing it in Timberline Falls, but if you’re in a map with a Guild Rush (e.g. Diessa Plateau, Lornar’s Pass, Southsun Cove), every time a player crosses the finish line, fireworks go off which can be heard across the entire map.

I may have been mistaken and I was in Lornar’s Pass, not Timberline Falls. Next time I hear this noise I’ll ask if somebody is doing a Guild Rush. The `pop pop pop` could be fireworks, but the low rumble sounds far too much like hoofbeats to me to pass for fireworks.