Guild Wars 2

I was hoping that this was a one time occurrence, but it seems to have happened again.

In Queensdale, there’s a bandit cave south of the moa ranch. In the cave are bombs you can pick up for all sorts of explody fun times. Whee.

Out in the rest of the world, my machine gives me 80-90 FPS without issue. I don’t keep track of it at all times, but even in heavy combat situations I don’t notice a lag. I walk into the bandit caves, and my FPS drops to 20-25. Why? Stacks of bombs. Stacks and stacks and stacks of bombs, all with their own shiny particle effects.

I don’t know if the game is respawning these and massively duplicating them. Or maybe someone thinks it’s hilarious to dupe the bombs somehow.

Whatever the cause, however, the bomb stacking kills game performance (and if there’s someone on a machine that’s near minimum specs, this issue is going to change their FPS to SPF… as in, seconds per frame). Please correct the duping. It’s not really a game exploit, but definitely kills performance. Just in that area, though it wouldn’t surprise me to see this issue in other places with items that can be picked up.

Just want to mention I witnessed this today – my friend and I were both affected by lower FPS in Bandithaunt Caverns.

Every time I walk into Queensdale, I take a quick peek through the caves. Some days it’s better than others, but I always have a frame rate reduction when going in there.

And almost every time, I see someone else mention “what the heck is up with my frame rate in the bandit caves?” Without me mentioning it, other people say the same thing I’ve said here — bomb stacking and particle effects and yay it’s laggy for all.