Guild Wars 2

The character is still. I press the button to move, it does a quarter of animation (to start moving) and it is frozen without moving.
To solve the problem, I need to press the button 2 times.

It is so common that I always press the button 2 times to initiate a movement now…
It is really a problem when you need to jump (jumping puzzles, fractals …).

Agreed, this is yet another very annoying issue that is encountered several times a minute during gameplay. I don’t know if it is tied to graphical lag, game lag, server lag, skill lag, or any other lag that this game is suffering from, but not being able to move forward when you intend to move forward really is horrible.

I’ve also noticed on my ranger that when using Skill #3 with the shortbow (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quick_Shot), it is supposed to launch you backward a medium distance to escape from your enemy that’s in your face, but many times it does the animation partway (similar to the stuck movement animation) and I end up in the same spot as I started without moving backward at all. It’s like a slight lag spike or lagged animation so it breaks the movement intended by the skill.

Though it could also be tied to the same ongoing and serious issue of the mouse button no longer registering as being pressed for turning the character/camera despite never releasing the mouse button. Perhaps there is a glitch in coding to where, even though we are holding forward, it forgets that we are still holding the forward key and releases it due to some kind of lag/shoddy coding…though that wouldn’t explain the frozen in the first step of the forward movement animation seen with the issue you’ve raised.

Short answer is to not expect one. Serious and persistent issues tend to not be addressed or even acknowledged around here

I’ve experienced it more often when doing several actions one after the other. When trying to move during those series of actions, the pj will freeze in the middle of the step movement, like if the feet were glued to the ground. It’s funny, because you’ll just stand there caught in the middle of an animation, standing in a position you should not be static on.
This bug has been since the beggining of the game, doesn’t look likely it’s going to get fixed now…

Yep, I experience this too. When attempting to do jp’s, it’s the worst, it’s like tripping when you attempt to jump forward, nothing happens, then a half-jump-trip off an edge.

The needing to button presses just to start running forward has only gotten worse for me. But, at least my graphics are getting better ;p

But really, I waste a ton of endurance because of this bug and then I can’t dodge when I need to because I already did twice due to some random I didn’t dodge, then suddenly dodged twice… Or didn’t dodge at all, but the endurance was used anyway o.O