Guild Wars 2

This is a very annoying and infuriating bug. Character keeps on moving forward even after I let go of the ‘W’ button and no, I did not hit ‘R’. This has cause me and my team to repeatedly walk off the platform on cliffside fractal. Anet needs to fix this stupid bug ASAP. This is bad programming. Bad quality product.

seems more like a problem with keyboard, or connection lag.

I noticed this usually happens when trying to pick up objects while running. Since then I learned not to and always pick up objects while standing still, and I have never again experienced this bug since then.

Brett.4305:

1) send a bug report in-game. Tell your friends to wait for you until finished.
2) Until its fixed : be prepared to hit the “S” key when approaching a ledge.
Hit the S or just hop “jump” to stop that runaway train.

I had the same problem a few months ago. I changed keyboards soon after so I cant say if it was a bug or my hardware. But this is what worked for me.

Don’t think it’s a hardware issue. I’ve tried swapping keyboards but same thing happened and it happened to 3 of my friends too.

Hitting ‘S’ or ‘Spacebar’ was the first reaction but didn’t helped either. I gotta smash all sorts of keys and hope it stops. Really irritating bug.

now that Doomguard.5094 mentioned the run + pickup bug
and you mentioned cliffside fractal. is it possible, that you lose control and fall off only when you try to pick up hammer without stopping? that would explain it. as it’s known bug – interacting with objects while running. picking weapon/banner, building siege etc… cannot stop for the duration of ‘action’ even if it failed to happen.

Interracting with objects while having your right mouse button pressed is causing problems. This is a very old bug that exists since release (and no fix yet) try to avoid pressing right mouse button when you want to pick up something from the ground.

I often seem to find myself just far enough away from a crystal while fighting Jade Maw that I probably end up trying to pick up the crystal while still moving so I can get it in time. The result is that I run right past it with no control over my character. The good news, getting downed takes care of it!

It happens to me at other times too and the enter key 2x always seems to work.

Saulius.8430:

now that Doomguard.5094 mentioned the run + pickup bug
and you mentioned cliffside fractal. is it possible, that you lose control and fall off only when you try to pick up hammer without stopping? that would explain it. as it’s known bug – interacting with objects while running. picking weapon/banner, building siege etc… cannot stop for the duration of ‘action’ even if it failed to happen.

Yea, it only happens when I run and try to hit ‘F’ to pick up stuff like Hammer or Jade Maw Shards. However, its occurrence isn’t isolated to Fractals only. It happens in PVE and WvW too. As long as I run and try to pick up things, I will not be able to stop.

maddoctor.2738:

Interracting with objects while having your right mouse button pressed is causing problems. This is a very old bug that exists since release (and no fix yet) try to avoid pressing right mouse button when you want to pick up something from the ground.

Thanks for the tips! Hope it helps.