FIX dc/rejoin feature in FRACTALS
No explanation needed, this MUST be fixed, come on, how hard could it be? You have no idea how annoying it is to get dc before the 3rd final boss about to get the next level. And by the way…..why do I keep getting dc every 1:30-2 hours? google authenticator messed up again? Seriously…
agreed im sick of posting nearly as much as playing the game atm i have done over 15 runs in fotm and still yet to achieve lvl 2 most of these failed runs are due to you arenanet with failed and adequate server testing during these one time events with myself and others disconnecting due to server overload which still needs to be adressed if you havent noticed,
people are compaining and anet are ignoring at this current time,
Arenanet you want this game to be a success then please start listening to people that bought your game.
This killed a run for our group again tonight. This has happened about 4 times now.
There really needs to be a way to rejoin if you DC. People playing on less stable connections (and those who run with those people) are really penalized by this.
Just happened to me right now, just beat the level 10 dredge level, almost finished with the Grawl level, then I DC’d and can’t rejoin.
Just fix it. I can’t believe this is the first thing I publicly complained about on here.
Lynsey – 80 Human Mesmer
Perky – 80 Norn Guardian
Soapie – 80 Human Ranger
Perky – 80 Norn Guardian
Soapie – 80 Human Ranger
it’s actually harder than it seems, because they have to come up with a system where you can’t exploit it to access vendors and repairs mid-run. not much harder, but harder (just ask the player if he logs in with the right character if he wants to rejoin his group, before he is given control over the character).
but agreed, this needs to be fixed ASAP. especially because the game’s been DCing people and randomly crashing very often lately. every fractals run i do ends up a 4-man challenge.
LegendaryMythril/Zihark Darshell
a fix is to place the character back in the fractal and not allow him to repair/etc without quitting the party and not being able to come back at all with a warning dialogue of ‘do you really want to quit?’
this will make the other party members know this player’s true nature. it will also allow dedicated players to reconnect back into the fractal.
Have only done about half a dozen fractal runs, but in all of them at least one party member has been disconnected at some part. Real fun trying to do 3rd phase end boss with only three members active and two sitting and waiting us at vendors.
Other than ‘just’ eliminating dc issues in the first place, which also lie on the client-side and ANet can’t do anything about those, there’s really no mechanic that would work with FotM yet. Currently it’s based on the grouping for personal story (that’s why you have to be on the same overflow to enter, unlike for dungeons), what already shows that there’s no third mechanic in place, and the dungeon-joining mechanic is just too exploitable.
I am sure ANet is working on a viable solution, but it will take them a while to get it up and running – it’s not just ‘fixing’ stuff, it’s figuring out and implementing a completely new mechanic in the game’s engine, which might also be used to update grouping for dungeons later on.
For now just do whatever you can to ensure that your connection on your end is as stable as possible, and just enjoy the content you can.
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