Guild Wars 2

During a run though I get on average 3 crashes.

One will happen when fighting the last Assault Knight which is below half HP (Any Attunement causes crash)

One will happen whilst fighting one of the Holograms (Any Attunement causes crash)

These crash forces game to close and upon rejoining I am in overflow so cant progress.

Making

In Tune
Six Minutes to Knightfall
One Step Closer

Impossible for me.

Now before people rant saying GET A NEW PC I have a High End gaming rig;

i7 3930k 3.3GHz Hex Core OC @ 4.6GHz
16GB Corsair Vengence Ram
2 × 4GB EVGA GTX 680 (SLI)

and these crashes have never happened before this Battle for Lion’s Arch

Many of us are. Too much is going on and it breaks the game. I would suggest lowering all settings to minimum.

I’m glad its not just me.

Its not the settings tho, the game runs perfectly fine without any lag or issues, It just closes like clicking X on a webpage.

I didn’t build a High end PC to run the game on low settings.

This has happened again on the Green Boss.

How can we get the achievements when the game doesn’t even function.

OMG – I am f-ing furious. I have killed these freaking knights several times now. This most recent time, the server dc’ed me after the blue boss, again after the green boss and we were halfway through the red boss when I was dc’ed again two more times before landing in some other overflow were NOTHING WAS EVEN DONE!!!!! NO LOOT. No moving on! Nothing!

I am seriously furious and normally, since I work in IT and know how hard it can be to test something thoroughly before a release, I give you guys the benefit of the doubt, but what did you expect? It’s the final part of the story line. Everyone wants to go kick Scarlett’s butt. The mere fact that the load on the server was too high – give me a break. You can attempt to blame it on my PC, but I have a T1 line to my home because of my work, traffic speed tests fine, all my clients are still up and running, and I even put my freaking PC to high performance to make sure no graphic glitches. 2 FPS at times before DC’s.

Absolutely ridiculous.

I agree, I wouldn’t be as annoyed if the Achievements are not only for a limited period, however they are only accessible via a short time (Until The Event ends Forever).

I have decided to take a break for the night and come back tomorrow to see what happens.

Same here, got crash at Knight fights. With bug report window… 2 event was normal i killed all 3 knights, next time i crashed at green, next event i crashed at blue. Never got crashes for year of gw2 play.

I get the same error over and over again and each patch its getting worse, i have this issue since Edge of the Mists update but it happened only when traveling in or out a zone.

Now however i have this issue much more often and can’t even finish the event. And also almost no loot for killing the knights (in party and solo) so i think its time for a 2 week break from LS hope next update will be better.

I’ve only attempted the event chain once, but I crashed at the same exact time you described TC. The 3rd assault knight (the overflow I was in did Blue > Green > Red, so it was the Red knight) was at roughly half HP, crash to desktop.

Glad it’s not just me.

Me also. Second night, second set of bugs, still never seen Scarlet. I gave up doing other things this week so I could actually try and do this event.

It would be useful to get some feedback from ArenaNet to at least know they are looking at this bugs and how they are going to address these issues.

Just dc’d with a “network error” message on the mini-holograms. I can’t even get back into the game…

This is my fourth attempt at beating this friggin thing. It’s something every time. Hella frustrated right now.

There has been an update (6 hours ago)

• Fixed a server crash.
• All overflow maps that begin up to 10 minutes after the hour will run their own version of the Battle for Lion’s Arch event.
• Fixed the description on the Assault Knight Power Cores to correctly reference Crystalline Dust instead of Incandescent Dust.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-March-4-2014

Wonder if these fix the crash

sadatoni.6524:

Glad it’s not just me.

Oh wow, now I know what happened to our 1 other guildmate all night tonight. He kept getting slammed by dc’s during these encounters. Now it makes sense in reading this thread.

Thanks, people. I can call him tomorrow and tell him not to kick the beans outta his system.

People, it is not just this event causing crashes.

I have a high-end desktop, similar to the OP, good bandwidth, and I have been crashing around once per day for well over a month now. Before that, I went months between crashes, and nothing has changed in my settings.

Now, I can crash while doing dailies in empty mid-level maps. This has nothing to do with graphics settings, it is something Anet introduced with an update weeks ago, and they do not want to admit it and/or cannot find the problem. All these hotfixes for ‘fixing server crashes’ are only making things worse.

Anet needs to take down the entire server fleet and do a system-wide cold re-boot, then test to figure out what/where the problem is. However, this would be disruptive ( game would be down for many hours) and very embarrassing for them.

Since owning the game upon release I have only ever had 1-3 crashes throughout.

But since the events I crash 1-10 times a day and this only happens during the LA events.

I have the same problems.
I am not sure since when it started but I am pretty sure since this year. Had several crashes in Lion’s Arch last one just after the hologram so I didn’t get credit for it.

I have had the same problems. Although my client usually crashes when fighting the hologram. Usually right before it is defeated.

My boyfriend however, uses the same computer and his account did not crash and was able to complete that event.

Well i know my pc is not high end or my laptop either and before everybody starts to shout they intended it to be playble on average machines. I had never any problems but it seems with every update the chrashes are getting worse. And now with the events its even worse..finally made it until the battle on the ship almost done and than chrash u reconnect and ur are on overflow sigh.. so no chest or anything…one time i was lucky because i was in overflow and i could reconnect to the right overflow..but it should be just possible when u dc u get a least a bit of time when u recconnect to be on ur last overflow or homeworld again?.
I hope they will look into these chrashes it takes the fun away from trying i dont have much time as it is to play and would be nice to be able to play

Crashes for me too. Almost always on the green knight but once it also crashed on the red one. The first crashes were funny because I could still run around for a while (although entering the portal to Scarlet resulted in an infinite loading screen), but now it just crashes completely. I have managed to finish the event exactly once because of that, and I’ve been trying a dozen times already. This is soooooo annoying

Same problem. Got kicked three times while doing the knight event and didn’t get anything from any of them. And I also know it’s not my computer.

I’ve now done 3 more Knight encounters. Crashed 3 more times halfway-through fighting the last (Red) knight. I seriously have never made it through that encounter with the Red Knight without crashing.

Well, no matter where I am in Lions arch I am crashing on average 4.5 times in 5 minutes. Unplayable, boring.

I’m software QA and this is an awfully badly tested pile of rubbish.