Guild Wars 2

I don’t care what the fairies wanted with this etc, but wondering and never had issue with it.

Anyhow, the first day this was up, some idiot in out flats was working downstairs and I got a powercut. I was going out anyway, then 6 hours later i came back, logged on and was face down biting dust in cursed shore with broken gear. At the time of the powercut, i was just with 1 ally capping our godsword with no invader in sight, just npcs. oh well; and thought nothing of it.

Today, I was going for dinner, tyvm, when an enemy zerg came along and I stuck around for one last siege since we were only about 3-4 defenders by then. Anyway, they broke in, I ran to the lords before I bailed, jumped down and out and headed towards our keep with no one after me (from anza to overlook through the water). Just got hit a little at the lords, then by the door guards since the flip and kept running till I broke combat mode and logged off very calmly underwater.

Then I logged on and was face down biting dust in cursed shore with broken gear. Again I thought nothing of it; but later thought could it be the last guy/s that tagged me are getting free loot now?

No biggy, just laughing my * off at this thingy and wondering.

I was stuck in a wall at bravost EB when enemies took it and the wall came up. I can’t port back to the starting way point cuz I was in “combat”. Logged out, logged back in dead and force to pay for waypoint and armor repair. It’s how it works now?

Looks like you have to log off in Lions Arch now…

In my experience you have to be out of combat mode in order to log off without penalties. The trick of it is it’s not always easy to do so, sometimes you’ve gotta got quite a distance for it to work.

Well it’s the price to pay to make sure that the whiners can get their stupid useless honor badges or their WvW kill count point …

Well it’s the price to pay to make sure that the ALT-F4’ers can prevent their stupid useless honor badges or their WvW death count or armour repairs …

See what I did there.

Mumu.6203:

Well it’s the price to pay to make sure that the whiners can get their stupid useless honor badges or their WvW kill count point …

No. It’s not.

Every problem mentioned about the alt-F4 instant death solution is solved by having a 1-2 minute disconnect timer that every other major MMO uses. The DC timer fixes many problems common to all MMO’s, such as getting booted out of a full borderland and fractal disconnects (you have a window to reconnect and not helplessly screw 4 other players) and absolutely solves the original ALT-F4 issue (you have 1-2 minutes to kill the person who killed gw2.exe, if you can’t accomplish that you certainly wouldn’t have killed them if they had stayed connected).

Too many people here are so elated that the handful of ALT-F4’ers they met will now get a death penalty that they dismiss the obvious drawbacks of this second rate solution.

Are you all seriously complaining so much for a damn reapir fee ? Surely casual disconnections in combat doesnt occur so often, or this glitch when you get stuck surely arent every 2 steps…. so damn i bet those that keep whining for this are those who alt-f4 all the time, so i’m really glad they pay.

I don’t think anybody should complain about 1or2 deaths so I believe all these people are alt+F4 ers.

Honestly…

The rare occasion that you lose power or are otherwise forcibly disconnected from the game is completely overshadowed by the extremely frequent occasion that you are trying to kill someone and he Alt+F4’s.

Also…in most other MMORPGs I have played, if you log out, your character stays in the game for a while and can still be killed. Shouldn’t really be anything new.

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Rather the occasional death from random disconnects than the silly people getting owned and leaving so we get nothing for killing them.

I don’t mind paying the repair fee when I am killed or on the verge of being killed but paying because of stupid dc or being punished while I could have afk for hours is bad.

Yeah make a timer but not this …

I heard that one guy on the forum got his golem busted because of this …. lol

Working exactly as expected and all the better for it. Sorry your power went out and you had to go have dinner. Such a strain.

I find it’s a real kick in the teeth to those wanting to queue up for another map whilst you’re playing in another.

Queue pops up in front of you face + random mob hits you when you click accept = instant death with repair bill.

Azure Prower.8701:

I find it’s a real kick in the teeth to those wanting to queue up for another map whilst you’re playing in another.

Queue pops up in front of you face + random mob hits you when you click accept = instant death with repair bill.

I haven’t had queues in a long time, so I’m not really sure…but I know in PvE, if you get a queue pop-up, it won’t let you travel until you are out of combat. Did they change this?

Maybe teleport back to spawn to ensure you’re out of combat before DCing?

I have had this happen for a few crashes and once for a que for another map. I think I am a somewhat casual player and over time it can add up. I’d rather see a short timer with the opportunity for the enemy to kill you than a broken instadeath system. I agree with all that are calling for a 10-20 second timer with the character left in game. I am not an ALT-F4er and I feel this is a poor solution to something with an obvious better solution.

Before you blame my computer for the crashes, this is the only game I have that crashes somewhat often. Before you say “yeah right you are an ALT-F4er!” lets not start that witch hunt. Before you say “it is such a small price to pay to get rid of this problem”, normally the drops are not worth much more if they even are. Before you say “if you crash, disconnect, etc… so much you shouldn’t play an MMO”, you really want less people to play with, less people to support this MMO, less “nonALT-F4ers” to play against and with, less legit players that happen to just not be as lucky as you. Which by the way I think is a poor elitist attitude.

Yes this was a bad solution to a little problem that a very vocal small selection of the community was upset about. Yes it does need a solution but this is not it. I prefer the idea many have said and to make it so in WvW that you stay in world for 10-20 seconds. If the person who logged can’t be killed in that time they don’t deserve that tiny loot bag anyways.

Just because people don’t like the solution doesn’t mean they were part of that problem.

So far I only got Dced once while fighting since the alt f4 patch.
Was a bit irritated about it but well I blame the thunderstorm.lol

Got tagged by a random mob, i believe it was a scale before logging off. Found myself dead with broken armor in Frostgore Sound. This fix to the alt f4 problem was thoughtout very poorly.

Get a stable network circuit and a cheap UPS if you’re that worried about the few silver you’d have to dish out for repairs in the rare case you DC.

I think this is the best way they could’ve possibly fixed the issue (also the most hilarious).

LOL….a bunch of angry Alt-F4’ers. It’s really simple, port to your spawn point, then log out.

PS – Thanks for the badgers! (more like thanks for the spike)

Even in full exotics, with entirely broken gear you can expect to pay a momentous sum of 11 silver.

This is coming from someone who dies, a lot, anywhere and everywhere and somehow, even I manage to save more gold than a lot of people. XD

Just make it a habit to hit the cross swords on your top left before logging out.

Or smack your local landlord, ISP, or power grid.

I for one am glad they implemented this change. I’m not above mist forming over the edge of a cliff to avoid the finisher (it makes me giggle then, and when others do it to me) but alt-f4 was just done in poor form. At least suicide jumping awards goodies!