Guild Wars 2

Attached to this thread is an image of a boat that I never seen before in Pearl Islet that was near a dock on the shoreline where Skelks lurk, yet it is not docked there anymore.

Furthermore, when I tried to walk on the boat itself (because I thought it was cool and added to the atmosphere), I noticed that it had no collision to it which I went through the boat’s floor and plunged into the water.

I know this sounds like a weird thing to talk about, but I really liked this boat in this particular area of the game, and now it is not there anymore…

Maybe you guys can explain what happened.

Maybe thats why they took it away, less work that way than having to add collision detection. Sounds like leftover work from beta times that were downprioritized.

Isnt that the boat that leaves in the cutscene from that one living story episode? i dont think that should be there actually…

nacario.9417:

Maybe thats why they took it away, less work that way than having to add collision detection. Sounds like leftover work from beta times that were downprioritized.

That is hardly ‘work’ at all. With as many decorations, structures and varying types of terrain with collision detection throughout the game already, there is absolutely no reason why this boat I encountered should have no collision detection.

Dante.1763:

Isnt that the boat that leaves in the cutscene from that one living story episode? i dont think that should be there actually…

I have no idea…

Let’s just say I am around Pearl Islet for hours at a time most days, and never have I seen that boat there before. And even if it is related to a Storyline, it isn’t mine, which then would then make this a bug.

All I know is I thought the boat was an interesting touch, and I don’t understand why it’s not there anymore.

A response from Anet would be nice.

That boat was part of the southsun living story episode where we first met Canach. Grande finale of that episode was that boat leaving the dock and going up in fireworks and destroying the Consortium work contracts so the people on the island could be free.

What you are seeing is merely a bug that accidentally was left behind in the code and erroneously becomes visible when it is not suppose to.

There is a ghost ship like that near one of the piers in Cursed Shore as well(I think that one is from the personal story).

Taku.6352:

That boat was part of the southsun living story episode where we first met Canach. Grande finale of that episode was that boat leaving the dock and going up in fireworks and destroying the Consortium work contracts so the people on the island could be free.

What you are seeing is merely a bug that accidentally was left behind in the code and erroneously becomes visible when it is not suppose to.

Then perhaps I should note this in the bug forums since you seem to be certain that this is indeed a bug, to which I would agree.