In the time frame that an emergency waypoint is pulled and active, you expect players to be able to port into a map and nearly overload the server to a point where we are stuck on a loading screen for 50% of the WPs active duration.
Most of the time, players end up not getting the WP and getting punted back to spawn because the loading times were too much and therefore cancels the player’s use of the EWP. I know some of it has to do with ISP and local side, but there is also a lot to do with the load on the server. And that is completely unfair to the defenders whose force was just halved because they were stuck in loading screen for too long.
The waypoint system and the load times surrounding the system need to be reworked. Either by giving a minor increase to its active duration or by giving players the benefit of the doubt in terms of porting in on an EWP. Defenders should not be penalized because the server could not handle the amount of players loading into one area.
Still happening and no signs of things getting any better. I am even getting ported to borderlands whose waypoints I did not even click on.
I’ve experienced this and it is frustrating – getting a call for help on home bl and emergency wp is opened, click and waiting for it to load, as it is loading it briefly flashes the screen of the wp and then sends me to a different place. In the end emergency wp was wasted, objective was not able to be reached in time, and people were scattered.
Open a case with GW2 support. You’ll get the run-around, from blaming your graphics card, to your hard drive/ssd, to your network, or perhaps even your ISP, but open a case regardless and most importantly, keep pushing. Ask to escalate. Until this issue gets critical mass with enough people complaining, linking to multiple threads about the same issues, ANet CS will not file a bug with the developers for the developers to take a look at it. Here are a list of reference threads you can include with your ticket. Some of these also reference the ‘disappearing’ NPC/character bug(s), but they usually go hand-in-hand with the long waypointing.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/WvW-Character-Displaying-Load-Bug/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/WvW-Stuck-in-Loading-Screen-Bug
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Loading-Screen-Issues-WvW
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Serious-Problem-Getting-Worse-Spreading
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Character-Model-Disappears-after-Transform
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/NPC-s-turn-invisible
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4gwha0/npcs_turn_invisible/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/WvW-Character-Displaying-Load-Bug
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