Guild Wars 2

This is more of a query than a QQ, but were the completely random deaths in trib mode intended? I mean the times where you just jumped to somewhere you’ve stood 100 times and for some unknown reason you get killed. I’m trying to get through zone 1 of world 1 and there have been countless deaths to things I cannot identify the reason for. Not exploding flowers, lava pits, spikes or enemies, or pointy fingers or the jumpy stones that sometimes kill you but mostly just knockdown – just random death…

Intended? Seems a bit strange.

I had a few random deaths yesterday mid-jump. It was so very strange o.o

Yeah, I’ve had that too. But in my case it’s been a lot more than a few. Even just standing chilling where you are safe and Bam! Dead…

Josh has mentioned before that it could be lag related. I’ve also had these random deaths. Sometimes even several times after respawning.

Pretty sure it’s lag. looking at the damage-numbers you can usually tell that while on your screen your character is on top of something, on the server it apparently fell into some trap instead by the position being incorrect (due to lag).

I had usually when i used auto-run to move forward (i often use autorun during jumping puzzles and similar)

most of those deaths are lag. if you play with a friend they will tell you they saw you walk off something into a spike while you see yourself jumping. but I have seen one completely random death… a friend and I were waiting near a checkpoint standing perfectly still waiting for another friend to catch up. we decided to pass the time by digging up baubles then almost being pushed into spikes by a bunny… at one point my friend just dropped dead. no spikes and no bunny. was a good laugh =)

I had some weird flower related deaths I noticed. I would die seemingly randomly until I noticed that a flower in the far corner of my screen would go poof occasionally. I’m not sure if it is a lag thing or a positioning thing or what. But these were flowers I was no where near, and ones I was standing closer to didn’t go poof and kill me.

Funny how standing still or jumping from a platform to another has never had such severe consequences in LAGGY situations such as WvW…

Are those infinite coins sold in the gem store looking more appealing all the sudden?

It probably is lag like you say, but I don’t really get why this is the case. It’s not like my game is stuttering about or visibly lagging… it shows me as having made the jump or whatever and then you’re just dead. I honestly have had about 50 of these “unexplained” lag deaths so far, in zone 1 alone. Anyway I’ll struggle on regardless!