Guild Wars 2

Heya,

So I was in an overflow server today(lane3) and it seemed that we were doing well when we all noticed that one pad(pad1) had noone on it besides the NPC.

How is this fair? The NPC died and we failed our chain. I have a screen but it isn’t of the best quality

Has this happened to anyone else as well?

it means people dced in loading screen

This is one of the little issues that they are going to need to investigate. The dealing out of players to platforms can be uneven it seems, and same with the load time.

Plus whatever problems the NPCs may cause. I’m always on lane 4 and nearly every time we have to do warden 3 and get a fail by one platform, that platform is short players and has Braham. I don’t know what that problem is (if there even is one) but its a little odd.

The platforms are provided with players in a poker style. So… there were players in that platform, they just probably died and went to the Waypoint nearby in the first 30 seconds. Result: when you look in the second 31, you think there was nobody there.

Elrey.5472:

The platforms are provided with players in a poker style. So… there were players in that platform, they just probably died and went to the Waypoint nearby in the first 30 seconds. Result: when you look in the second 31, you think there was nobody there.

I sincerely hope that is the case.

It happens a lot ( I mean empty platform) sometimes people dont spawn at platform and I have no idea why it happens. Once at start I did look all platforms 5+ people and one empty … Automatic fail

Or they could be dead. That happened to my group today and I looked over and just managed to make out 3-4 bodies lying around the champ (chain 4).

One reason I think is part of the problem is the loading screen for going to the platforms. From my experience I have only rarely entered a platform without having a loading screen, usually when I am in lane 1 (bottom lane) or lane 5 (top lane) and I get put on the platform closest to me. Meaning that those platforms are close enough to the force-field/gates of those 2 lanes to not have to go to a loading screen.
Perhaps in the future the solution could be having the platforms slightly closer to the gates so people don’t have to go to a loading screen when they enter. In addition I think it would help a lot for players who enter a platform to have like 4 or 5 seconds of invulnerability.

I think its the lack of coordination that causes uneven numbers and slow loads also. If you rush to the energy gate first, alot of people are at the bottom of the hill and can take up to 30 seconds to realize and run through the energy gate. This staggered loading for people just means you need to enter as a group, as many people at a time as possible in the lane. Dont let them champ farm when timer is up, herd them to gate