Guild Wars 2

errr

identifying what the immobilize bug IS might help

Welcome to Arena, they won’t care because spvp is still broken and they know it. 3 vs 5 + the slow autobalancing = I’d rather not play due to the aggravation

This bug I believe has killed me for about 50% of my deaths. I now have to pretype /sit every time I go in before a fight. Its also REALLY fun playing Mesmer having to deal with this dumb bug that should have fixed in beta in addition to all the fun Mesmer bugs I have now :/

Lopez.7369:

Here you go: For those who don’t know, the immobilize bug is when your character is permanently immobilized after an instant stun break or condition cleanse. The only way to break out of the immobilize is to use an emote, like dance, which is obviously detrimental in the middle of a PvP fight.

Eww, that’s no good.

I don’t get that. I get the delicious “constantly rubberbanding 1 ft off the ground while immobilised” bug. I don’t know whether it’s the same one as yours, but it’s still not very fun.

if its been 2yrs then its no longer a bug, but a feature.

working as intended

I never had that bug in 2 years of playing gw2

Never had that bug, but the warrior 5s immonbilize is anyoing enough. The cc in this game is just out of hand.

It is not a bug it is a feature it is called hardcore tribulation mode and it is a special feature of mesmers and thieves.

Basically 1/10 free win for proffessions with aoe stuns or knockbacks. And if you think you got it bad as a mesmer try thief it happens with evades on shortbow, withdraw and roll for inititive aswell.

Lopez.7369:

What do you guys think about this anniversary?

For those who don’t know, the immobilize bug is when your character is permanently immobilized after an instant stun break or condition cleanse. The only way to break out of the immobilize is to use an emote, like dance, which is obviously detrimental in the middle of a PvP fight.

I know Blizzard or Riot would have fixed it within a couple hours or days. ArenaNet is about to hit the two-year mark.

Use da /dance……get the blood running through your data based feet.

;P

Mayama.1854:

I never had that bug in 2 years of playing gw2

Then you don’t PvP or Wv3 much. It happens constantly for myself and members of our pvp guild and has been a regular occurrence for as long as I can remember playing this game.

Usually a movement skill will also break a player out of being “petrified”.

It’s not just mesmers and theives necros get it with staff 4, dagger 4, plague signet. And then even some of the stunbreaks.

Static.9841:

Mayama.1854:

I never had that bug in 2 years of playing gw2

Then you don’t PvP or Wv3 much. It happens constantly for myself and members of our pvp guild and has been a regular occurrence for as long as I can remember playing this game.

I almost only WvW and PvP on engi, mesmer and ele and honestly never had that bug.

I’ve also been trapped into the scenery from a knockback. I think they are related.

Blizzard would certainly not have fixed it within 2 hours. If you got stuck in WoW, best you could hope for is to get a GM to manually teleport you somewhere else within 2 hours!

Still annoying of course, and I’ve been getting a lot more of it since the Feature Patch in April. Please fix!

SlimChance.6593:

I’ve also been trapped into the scenery from a knockback. I think they are related.

I think this is more related to the same issue that can have you teleport/blink/shadowstep somewhere but push you into the scenery or even through the floor of the map.

Lopez.7369:

Sarrs.4831:

errr

identifying what the immobilize bug IS might help

Here you go: For those who don’t know, the immobilize bug is when your character is permanently immobilized after an instant stun break or condition cleanse. The only way to break out of the immobilize is to use an emote, like dance, which is obviously detrimental in the middle of a PvP fight.

so if my warrior with “shrug it off” gets hit by a pin down, and “shrug it off” activates “shake it off” there is a chance this bug may occur?

and when it does, my warrior will be rooted in place, despite not having the immobilized condition on him?

Some teleport skills also do it. I’ve had it happen from Dark Path, Phase Retreat, and (much more rarely)Flesh Wurm.

It would be nice to have confirmation that the devs are at least aware of it! I know it’s probably something extremely difficult to pin down that’s causing it so I’m not angry that it’s not fixed, but please let us know you’re listening!

I think I had it sometimes using lightning flash with my ele

Lopez, it took them about a year and a half to get halfway decent descriptions on the traits in the game. Don’t hold your breath.

On a serious note, clearly they have much of the development team working on the living story over anything else in the game. Maybe this is the problem with the concept of a “living story”. It slows down production on the rest of a game.

Guild Wars 2 PVP

Where the /dance emote is actually a viable skill to use in the middle of battle.

Am about to make a dance macro just to fight this bug. Btw as a necro who uses Spectral Armor / Spectral Walk / And WOP, this bug trolls me to no end.

Wow that explains a lot actually lol for a while I was using generosity plague signet staff scepter dagger….

Lopez.7369:

Login.5102:

Guild Wars 2 PVP

Where the /dance emote is actually a viable skill to use in the middle of battle.

Am about to make a dance macro just to fight this bug. Btw as a necro who uses Spectral Armor / Spectral Walk / And WOP, this bug trolls me to no end.

It’s even worse if you use Sigil of Generosity.

Yes, passives can proc the bug.

LOL really? OK this one I didn’t know. I always get it from shadowstep or infiltrator’s strike/return or from sometimes even cleansing an immob with a stun break.

Lopez.7369:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

so if my warrior with “shrug it off” gets hit by a pin down, and “shrug it off” activates “shake it off” there is a chance this bug may occur?

and when it does, my warrior will be rooted in place, despite not having the immobilized condition on him?

Yes.

ouch. thanks for confirming that.
eh, the chance that it occurs, is it 100% confirmed will occur or just sometimes or very high chance it will occur?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Lopez.7369:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

so if my warrior with “shrug it off” gets hit by a pin down, and “shrug it off” activates “shake it off” there is a chance this bug may occur?

and when it does, my warrior will be rooted in place, despite not having the immobilized condition on him?

Yes.

ouch. thanks for confirming that.
eh, the chance that it occurs, is it 100% confirmed will occur or just sometimes or very high chance it will occur?

Pretty much when it feels like it. It’s not 100% that it will happen.

Chicago Jack.5647:

It slows down production on the rest of a game.

I don’t think there is production on the rest of the game at all.

As for the stuck bug: if you WvW, it happens all the time when you build siege.

The only way I know how to produce it 100% is using generosity to transfer a fear

Lopez.7369:

Chicago Jack.5647:

Lopez, it took them about a year and a half to get halfway decent descriptions on the traits in the game. Don’t hold your breath.

On a serious note, clearly they have much of the development team working on the living story over anything else in the game. Maybe this is the problem with the concept of a “living story”. It slows down production on the rest of a game.

From what I’ve heard from ArenaNet and people who worked with them, they have about 150-200 people on Living Story and a similar amount on everything else. It seems more like they just don’t have any internal reviews, so people just play video games and get no work done throughout the day.

No way in hell do they have 150 people in the whole studio.

If they do the amount of slacking must be truly staggering and that’s at minimum a 1M funding in salary each month.

ITS INTOLERABLE FIX THIS NOW YOU INCOMPETENT kittenS

kirito.4138:

if its been 2yrs then its no longer a bug, but a feature.

working as intended

Yes, after two years it is what is commonly known as an “Undocumented feature” in software. That usually means the programmers have no idea how to actually fix it or fixing it would break other things.

Maybe time to sing “Happy Birthday” to it?

Thanks.

Kiriakulos.1690:

Lopez.7369:

Chicago Jack.5647:

Lopez, it took them about a year and a half to get halfway decent descriptions on the traits in the game. Don’t hold your breath.

On a serious note, clearly they have much of the development team working on the living story over anything else in the game. Maybe this is the problem with the concept of a “living story”. It slows down production on the rest of a game.

From what I’ve heard from ArenaNet and people who worked with them, they have about 150-200 people on Living Story and a similar amount on everything else. It seems more like they just don’t have any internal reviews, so people just play video games and get no work done throughout the day.

No way in hell do they have 150 people in the whole studio.

If they do the amount of slacking must be truly staggering and that’s at minimum a 1M funding in salary each month.

I think the work environment they made has some fault to how this game has turned out. Go look at the studios page it’s a day care for adults who love dragons more then we the community do.

Lopez.7369:

The big day is almost here! How is everyone celebrating?

Getting stuck in the ground and trying to type /sleep as fast as possible. You?

Thief here and not 1 day goes by without getting this bug at least once…

maybe we should help anet by reporting the bug and identifying the source, since they are obviously not able to do that themselves.

i noticed, it’s heavily related to blinks. not shadowsteps tho, since they just move you really fast, not simply relocate your character. if you have immo condition on you and instantly blink, you’re pretty sure to be stuck in the map.

The bug has to do with being CCd and blinking. Theres a kinda.different one with dodging that doesnt go away with emotes, but its much rarer.

I usually get the normal one if I try to Blink out of an unfinished CC (like in the air after a knockback)

tanztante.6532:

i noticed, it’s heavily related to blinks. not shadowsteps tho, since they just move you really fast, not simply relocate your character. if you have immo condition on you and instantly blink, you’re pretty sure to be stuck in the map.

If you shadowstep to a sweet spot, you can teleport into the map. It’s happened to me at henge and porting up to the cliff from graveyard going to waterfall. Though I’m almost certain they know about this issue.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Lopez.7369:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

so if my warrior with “shrug it off” gets hit by a pin down, and “shrug it off” activates “shake it off” there is a chance this bug may occur?

and when it does, my warrior will be rooted in place, despite not having the immobilized condition on him?

Yes.

ouch. thanks for confirming that.
eh, the chance that it occurs, is it 100% confirmed will occur or just sometimes or very high chance it will occur?

It’s not even very high chance really. It happens often enough to be noticed and absolutely horrid, but infrequent enough to make reproducing it an enormous pain.

Volrath.1473:

Thief here and not 1 day goes by without getting this bug at least once…

so much this^^

probably 30% of my deathes in pvp come either from that bug or the uneven terrain port bug

usually happens when you get CCd (immobs trigger that bug for me almost every time, stuns are second on the list) and use some kind of teleport (be it shadowstep to break stun or steal), can’t move untill you type /dance or die :/

Chicago Jack.5647:

tanztante.6532:

i noticed, it’s heavily related to blinks. not shadowsteps tho, since they just move you really fast, not simply relocate your character. if you have immo condition on you and instantly blink, you’re pretty sure to be stuck in the map.

If you shadowstep to a sweet spot, you can teleport into the map. It’s happened to me at henge and porting up to the cliff from graveyard going to waterfall. Though I’m almost certain they know about this issue.

Its funny because this happened in the ToL tournament where supcutie got stuck in the map. Later, someone else got the perma immbo bug and was insta gibbed because of it. Meanwhile the devs were laughing about it…..

I remember one time in WvW when a zerg was attacking Bravost in EBG, I rushed to the portal trying to get in, hopped in to Plague which I had to be in for the full duration, then immediately hopped in to Death Shroud which I also had to be in for the full duration, I was then CC’d out of Death Shroud left with no other defenses, I popped Spectral Armor immediately after being CC’d again and then was left immobilized and wasn’t able to type /sit fast enough before the zerg swallowed me alive. I was not happy… Survived the entire zerg dog piling me for almost a full minute only to die because I couldn’t emote fast enough.

Made several threads like these, they will simply die over time…

Anet has confirmed to know about this problem I believe.

happy birthday, buggy! who’s a big boy now? huh? yeeees you are!!!!

I’ve never seen a bug like this last so long in any videogame I’ve ever played. From EQ to AA only in gw2

Pretty sure stealth bug in WoW (when stealth randomly won’t work and people see you across the map) been there for years as well. Seems like one of those not easily reproductable bugs.

What annoys me more is that another teleport bug that doesn’t actually teleport you anywhere due to some uneven ground or stairs/bridges is still not fixed even though it is easy to reproduce. I know pathing programming isn’t exactly cake but GW2 gotta be only game i ever played suffering from this bug so really i think there is solution to it just not on priority list :/

WoW had a bug for years where using the warrior Charge skill over uneven terrain would sometimes instantly kill you.

The best way to help developers fix a bug is to find a way to reliably reproduce it. Pictures and video help.

Exedore.6320:

WoW had a bug for years where using the warrior Charge skill over uneven terrain would sometimes instantly kill you.

The best way to help developers fix a bug is to find a way to reliably reproduce it. Pictures and video help.

i would love to see something like this implemented if a warrior uses his charge to disengage from a fight.

oh the lulz to be had…

kirito.4138:

if its been 2yrs then its no longer a bug, but a feature.

working as intended

This made me laugh and cry at the same time. I am not sure how I feel….

Sooo, ETA on fix pls? ;_;

Happy birthday!!!!
There’s no need to fix this really.
Just spend more money on PvP tournament prizes.

Lethal Stranger.5093:

Sooo, ETA on fix pls? ;_;

This is definitely on their table and will be fixed when it’s ready.