Guild Wars 2

Hi all.

Playing Guild Wars 2 over the last months, I noticed something that intrigued me. About 1 or 2 times in the entire play time, my character randomly performed a dive animation. I’m not talking about jumping from high locations where the character switch animation in mid air (like a free fall), but on a normal dive (1 or 2 meters), where the character starts the animation before jumping and make a head dive animation.

My friend reported the same about 2 times at least, but we both have no idea whether it’s specific to a location, a bug, or requires some key combinations, but we know that such animations exist.

I found no information about this on wiki or over the internet. Anyone have any idea how to trigger the animation?

Are you referring to dodge jump by any chance? The salto when you jump and dodge at the same time?

No, it’s a unique thing.

Happened to me when I surfaced out of the water and turned around and went right back in. Couldn’t get it to happen again.

no, he’s talking about when you are parallel with the water surface sometimes the character performs a dive motion instead of just dropping off into the water
it’s really hard to activate intentionally

i think it’s because the motion gets stuck between above water and submerge animation but conveniently looks like a dive.. maybe someone at arena net really did their homework and tweaked it to look seamless for when it happens, or it was a full animation intended for diving that only occasionally triggers

i’m uploading a video now z_z 33%

oxtred.7658:

Are you referring to dodge jump by any chance? The salto when you jump and dodge at the same time?

No. When pressing jump+dodge the char will make a frontflip.

I tried many times, using jump, dodge, and other keys combinations, checked on config settings, and could not replicate the jump intentionally.

Perhaps a developer could help us to clarify the conditions that trigger the animation, or someone that figured it out.

ok here is a video.. i only got it twice in 3 minutes..
well the last half minute is of me training my fox mini.. couldn’t resist
^_^ dive happens at 1:55

i don’t think there is any ‘certain’ way of activating it

It’s a rare but very cool animation… when entering water instead of just switching animations you get an in-between animation of your character diving in.

cheshirefox.7026:

ok here is a video.. i only got it twice in 3 minutes..
well the last half minute is of me training my fox mini.. couldn’t resist
^_^ dive happens at 1:55

i don’t think there is any ‘certain’ way of activating it

Thanks for the video.

The animation is the same used when you are swimming on surface, and move the camera while holding rmb in order to dive.

I could replicate this animation while I’m half inside the water and using the dive command, however I’m pretty sure it happened once out of the water, jumping from a bridge.

i got bored and went to the hall of monuments
apparently it’s super easy to get the dive going there
video and again it took me 1:35 to get it working

cheshirefox.7026:

i got bored and went to the hall of monuments
apparently it’s super easy to get the dive going there
video and again it took me 1:35 to get it working

As you can see on the video, the animation occured when you were already swimming, and the game tried to dive from surface, resulting in this animation.

Everytime you dive from surface, the char makes this animation. I’m trying to replicate this animation outside the water, like jumping from a bridge or ledge, and the char makes the animation in mid air. I made this once at least, and I’m starting to think it’s a bug, where the game interpreted the character as in water.