Guild Wars 2

every time i try to rocket boots off of a borderland garrison, i turn around in mid flight and faceplant on one of the cliffs many ledges.

if there is no ledge underneath me, i go to the edge and turn around in mid flight

i can only fly off the edge when i am still over solid ground when the 2nd half of the animation begins execution (for norn its when the air lines appear and you start a forward somersault)

before this patch i would only occasionally be forced to say “WTF rocket boots!!!”, but now i cant get reliable execution off cliffs.

we need a thorough bugfixing pass on this skill. the occasional unintentional backtracking is now reliably reproducible. go rocket boots off the garrison cliff face about 1-500 times, youll get the picture.

could be fun if your garrison just flipped and people are chasing you.

no you just killed doing that, garri is pretty tall and its a lot of fall damage. like maybe but theyll fall into the water and just come back for you while you take 50%+ hp in fall damage.

The same thing happened to me twice on land. RB seem to have some new glitch.

Rocket boots are glitched at the moment. Sometimes it even starts to go backwards in the middle of an animation. Then you better hope enemy zerg is not following you. ;-)

Maybe the bug is due the lag? The game might have counted your coordinates wrong and thus the sudden change of direction?

It’s certainly nothing new.

If you hit anything on the flight path, it will deflect you. Sometimes it’s really really hard to see the object(s) you’ve struck.

I still vastly prefer this to other movement/teleport type skills that simply do not function over uneven terrain.

Halcyon.7352:

It’s certainly nothing new.

If you hit anything on the flight path, it will deflect you. Sometimes it’s really really hard to see the object(s) you’ve struck.

I still vastly prefer this to other movement/teleport type skills that simply do not function over uneven terrain.

no it isnt.. the difference now is reliable repros. before 9/9 it only kittened you when you needed it most. now you can just cliffdive to make it happen.

I haven’t been noticing an increase in the frequency of these sudden trajectory alterations in rocket boots, but I guess I’ll keep an eye on it.

I’m fairly certain such things are linked to terrain interactions, but I’ve found it’s a hard thing to reproduce. If it’s happening very consistently off cliff dives, then that could be a sign that something got changed under the hood.

Yamsandjams.3267:

I haven’t been noticing an increase in the frequency of these sudden trajectory alterations in rocket boots, but I guess I’ll keep an eye on it.

I’m fairly certain such things are linked to terrain interactions, but I’ve found it’s a hard thing to reproduce. If it’s happening very consistently off cliff dives, then that could be a sign that something got changed under the hood.

do you primarily use speedy kits? it feels like i have less trouble with swiftness than with power shoes. but i definitely havent noticed an increase on flat terrain. only when jumping off something, usually something high enough to give fall damage.