Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen people bring up issues about being locked out of adventures because the meta progressed or that they have to complete a sometimes long event chain to gain access. There are already some adventures in HoT that are instanced such as the rifle and golem ones in TD.

From a technical standpoint, is there any reason that these all cannot be instanced and made available all the time or is it simply a design choice?

There is the question of should it be a complete solo instance or just a small population shard of its own. On the one hand, seeing other players can help with pathing or technique, but they can also interfere, like in the Salvage adventure.

Still, instancing would have the benefit of removing players who might be too close to meta-events without participating, and it would make them available.

I was always under the impression that all adventures were supposed to be instanced. I mean, considering what they are, what you’re doing, and that it has a modicum of competition to it (with the leader boards). The fact that they aren’t…its not right. Unless they somehow require team interaction (which, again, under the impression this is all intended more for soloing), not instancing these things leaves too many griefing options available to both type of players involved (open world, and adventure).

One argument against instancing is that entering an instance wipes out your map progress. So doing an instanced adventure on a map where you have a non-zero contribution is going to reset your contribution to zero.

Ideally the contribution reset on entering adventure, as well as that due to disconnect/crash would be fixed, after which I’d fully agree with the notion of instanced adventures.

I like how the Rifle and Golem ones are. I’m fine with having to go through PvE-land to access them.

Locking behind the meta is unnecessary though, the Adventures should be accessible as a quick/short-play time experience for those without the time for chains.

They have nothing to do with the meta or anything else on the maps so making player wade through event chains for these 2- and 3-minute mini games doesn’t make a lot of sense.

If the Adventure doesn’t use a shared resource (be it a picked up item or a creature to kill) then I’m fine with others being there too. I’ve learned a few things on the Sanctum Scramble and Fungus Among Us this way. That also allows people to ‘guide’ friends or guildies through the races.

Yes, please a solution about thoses adventures is needed.
Many of them are tight to the second so it is getting very annoying to spam “space” and “f” keys in “Is the floor lava?” for instance and nothing happens … on a brand new Logitech G710+… a mechanical keyboard (!!!???!!!)… and before asking childish questions, I don’t have any problems with “space” and “f” in any other game I play, and there’s a lot, so obviously the problem comes from Guild Wars 2.
As many other players, my wings don’t open when I order it quite often. Obviously this is a connection issue, it is a big problem that you don’t have the ressources to sustain your very game … and yes I already verified (traceroute and so on …) that the problem doesn’t come from my end.
So rent servers in Europe, or make adventures instanced, or buy some servers in Europe !