Guild Wars 2

So, I’m gonna nit pick here. Since the last patch, when a match transitions from the waiting period to the match start timer, it not longer resets your position if you were already within the starting area.

Was this intentional?

My beef with this is that it makes the start of the match less obvious. Anyone in the same camp or do people prefer this?

It was intentional. It’s in the patch notes. There is a little animation that plays on your character instead. I think it is a nice QoL change. Not to mention, it should be obvious that the match just started cause, you know, the gate opens.

I am not entirely sure why they changed it. It also causes some bugs, and doesn’t always trigger for people outside the spawn area, or fully reset they status.

I had a warrior on my team fighting and use vengeance before match start, and it killed him as the gates opened due to lack of reset. It was on skyhammer, not sure if they are different between maps, but that may have caused the bug, who knows.

My opinion though, they should revert it, to me it feels more natural for all players to reset to the waypoint for the 10 second countdown, it feels a little off now.

I had a problem in Skyhammer. I was right outside the gate before the game started and the reset kept me there. So I could go to the points while others where stuck in countdown…

The bigger problem is that now, if you start on the wrong team, you will not port back to your correct team. You’ll just either get gibbed by the opposing team, or be in their base.

Pyriall.1683:

The bigger problem is that now, if you start on the wrong team, you will not port back to your correct team. You’ll just either get gibbed by the opposing team, or be in their base.

This was actually what happened in my example to the person who used veng.

Evan Lesh.3295:

We’re looking into the wrong base thing, since the spawn detection is not team-specific.

As for noticing the match start, I was thinking about playing the horn sound from match-ready. This would also fix people who minimize waiting for ready ups.

I’d be cool with that compromise.

An audio cue that the match is beginning would be appreciated

Evan Lesh.3295:

We’re looking into the wrong base thing, since the spawn detection is not team-specific.

As for noticing the match start, I was thinking about playing the horn sound from match-ready. This would also fix people who minimize waiting for ready ups.

This would actually be awesome to have.

Evan Lesh.3295:

We’re looking into the wrong base thing, since the spawn detection is not team-specific.

As for noticing the match start, I was thinking about playing the horn sound from match-ready. This would also fix people who minimize waiting for ready ups.

Oh god, add this feature, I lost count of matches I started 2 or 5 min ++ too late.