Guild Wars 2

Lag after cinematic is unbearable, 20 second delay on everything.

Server is about to crash like this.

Yeah this is pretty fail, I don’t know why Arenanet did not instance this.

Now I keep disconnecting and can’t even do the event anymore.

Seems they didn’t learn from the halloween lagfest.

5 minutes into the event. Had more complete-standstill-lag that action, heh.

Lag isn’t always a game issue. Could be system or ISP on your end as well…might be a combo of all 3.

Fundamentally unplayable, on my world it’s simply locked for about three mins at a time.

Trials are going to make everything even worse too.

Well the lag is SO bad that the event is completely unplayable for loads of people, you can’t even auto-attack it’s that bad.

Well done lol

entire patch is turning out to be one massive fail …..

I have no faith in Anet anymore, its shame I was hoping they had learnt from the lag in beta AND during the halloween event but nothing has changed and they just expect people to put up with it? Its sub standard and makes playing the game a chore.

Actually pretty gutted about how this all turned out.

Yeah….nothing is working here. The enitre Server froze.

It was pretty naive to think you could have such a rare and special event in the most populated area of the game.

Raf.1078:

Lag isn’t always a game issue. Could be system or ISP on your end as well…might be a combo of all 3.

40 meg connection here, doubt it’s on my end.

Best event ever! feels like i’m on drugs all the way.

not even able to walk, havent managed to land a single hit on a mob while being killed twice

can’t even auto attack =|

This was loltastic. I had 44+ FPS but skills would activate minutes late, and chat updated sometimes.

This one time event should be over some time next year at this rate.

unplayable in fact over 30 scond delay

Good thing we don’t pay for this level of service. And when you leave, they can still call you a subscriber

I had no problems with halloween event.

This even it’s lag soup. Autoattack doesn’t engage, skills are near unresponsive, massive delays on all actions.

It’s not my ISP. My connection slays universes. I never have any connectivity problems with GW2 from my side – ever – and almost never have connectivity issues in general unless ANet is reporting problems, even when they say there might be problems it’s clear for me usually.

so im at the event but missing it anyway....

this is such a huge fail. one time event unplayable.

do i get an achiev if i somehow actually get to do damage?

Yeah it’s next to impossible where i am, you can’t even res people it’s so laggy.

And this is happening despite an unknown number of players boycotting the event. Just think what it would be like if everyone had shown up.

The lag is so bad, I decided to throw myself off the cliff nearby and teleport back to AFK :-D

BIG LAG on desolation uk server, not very enjoyable

Yeah, isn’t playable.

horrible lag climaxing with a crash and sound bug. If the event was good I wouldn’t even know because of its implementation.

What looks to be a fun even is more frustrating than anything. The lag makes it impossible to do anything. I switched to rifle and auto attack….it goes off every 3-5 seconds. I push an ability it does nothing until 5 seconds or so later. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. And to make things worse we got free trial people adding to the population making the lag more of an issue?

It was pretty naive of ANet to think they could pull this type of Event off in the most populated zone in the game. One loaded with NPCs and all other kinds of stuff for that matter.

This wasn’t ever going to go down well.

It’s increadibly laggy, impossible to do anything…. And now I’ve lost the connection -_-

The whole server seems lagged. I’m not even doing these events and the game’s all but unplayable.

i got a lag of about 2 mins in the chat at least. I’m constantly ported around and can’t use any skills.

Please A-Net for upcoming events: reduce the number of players allowed per overflow server so it does not always lag.
Sometime lag is acceptable but constant lagging is killing all the fun. I can’t see me playing any of the upcoming one time events like this.

At least the people are funny

It’s really sad, that the first two major special events (first being halloween, second one introducing the first major content upgrade) don’t work right off the bat.

Halloween instance was bugged for the first hour or so, blueballing everybody that was excited about it, and now this is a pure lagfest of extremes.

ArenaNet should take a close look at their current direction, and consider being more careful in the future. These exact things is what can cause MMORPGs with high potential such as GW2 iteself to just die off, and be remembered as one of those “MMORPGs showing promise”

The lag is so heavy, the event is unplayable.

Karka Samples – your contribution = ZERO.
Because of lag I can’t move, use skills do anything.

How do I participate in the event ???

Ohh and I die over and over standing in one place …….

What a bummer for the server/app infrastructure guys. I’ve been on the admin side of things like this, it’s heartbreaking.

ive just logged out it may help some i suppose who stay but i cant play like this....

Oh Anet, all you do is fail…

This is so horribly laggy it actually makes me laugh.

This event is unplayable and should simply be cancelled, or postponed until ANet figures how to fix this lag. I’m actually suprised this is happening, because I can’t figure out the point of having overflow areas when you’re not going to distribute their load across servers, which is what is apparently happening.

As everybody’s favorit npc Trahearne would say, “this won’t end well”

Just so Anet can understand just how fail this event is because of lag I thought i’d provide my machine specs:-

DELL T5500 Workstation
2x Xeon X5650 6 core
36gig DDR3 ECC DRAM
Nvidia GeForce 680 GTX
Force Series™ GT 240GB SATA 3 6Gb/s Solid-State Hard Drive
Cintiq 21UX
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (SP1)
Shaw 5mbps cable connection

…. can’t even fire a skill …. brilliant!!

And this is the carrot that is meant to soften the introduced gear treadmill and fail class balance?

Perhaps in retrospect the festival team should have been allocated to the very overworked 2 man team addressing class fixes and balance.

Great job, stop making one time event until you can get this right. – This is just plain stupid!

Event crashed me to desktop twice and when i eventually get back in the lag made the event unplayable.

Gratz Anet

what the heck is going on?

Attack skills flash but do NOT work. Got kicked to character select screen, logged in again. Now I’m dead on the floor and there is so much lag that even waypoint-ressing does not work. So i’m stuck dead on a floor doing sweet F A.

It would be nice if the events were spread to the various cities across the map so everyone wouldn’t crowd LA.

This is a complete fail on Anet’s part. Never should have had this event in such a tiny little area in one spot. Who ever decided to do it this way needs to be fired. Common sense should have popped up at some point and slapped some people around.

Just a showing of how horrible this was.

I died 6 times because I couldn’t use my Stunbreaker. I would hit the button…. click it a thousand times… nope.

I would take this event being postponed until either we get smaller overflows, or this lag is fixed.

BTW, 25-35 FPS for most the time. Just as a comparison.

It’s not your PC. This is back-end server lag. Regardless of your FPS, regardless of your rig – you can’t do anything on your end to improve the experience.

That said, Anvil Rock finished the turn-ins and is now burning down Egg Layers.. though we’re not really sure what’s damaging them, exactly.

I have to say that the epicness of this event has been completely ruined by lag. LA is just full of people standing still auto attacking and slowly watching the Egg layer’s health drop down. I’m actually alt+tabbed out right now because there’s nothing for me to do but stand at max rifle range and AA.

Sorry to say but I don’t think your servers are up to the task of handling an event with this many players ArenaNet

The Lost Shore? The only thing lost is my will to live when attempting to take part.