Guild Wars 2

Was going into a orb room to fight the boss and everyone but one guy went invisible, my team and the other team. So I end up dying, and warped back to my spawn point and still everyone was invisible. I had to log out and back in to fix it. Never had this happen before until this last patch.

This just happened to me as well, players at any range become invisible randomly in WvW. Also, strange lines shot through the screen. I’ve never seen either before the most recent patch.

Definitely something wrong…every one on my current map says they cannot see the enemies….people are running around blind. Worse than it’s ever been, fix needed asap!!

Same happened to me. I have never suffered from invisible anything before. I tried various graphics adjustments trying to get people to show but nothing worked. The shopkeepers etc. (wvw) I could see nameplates only. I could see the person I was in party with just fine but I could not see enemies or other teammates. I could see all pets.

Same happens to me, right after the new patch.. -.- So annoying, invisible ppl killing me..

Yeah, there are a lot of invisible people in WvW right now.

Textures not loading as before.. =S

Rendering has always been a problem in WvW, but post patch it’s honestly unplayable. It’s not even rendering 1 person standing 10 feet away right now.

Yap, oh well, no WvW for me until they fix this..
Incase its of any help, since some players seems to play just fine.
I run on a HD RADEON 6850, with drivers up to date.

It happened about an hour ago, but same thing. After the patch, literally no one on my screen was around. Using waypoints didn’t fix it, but swapping to a different borderlands in WvW via asura gate seemed to fix it.

Happened to myself and 10 other people in vent with me tonight…

Yep, my entire guild was suffering from the same issue. A few more details, some of us experienced our own characters going invisible and wouldn’t fix until relogging. While character rendering has always been slow, this is definitely a new issue. Where as in the past the opponents would be slow to load, now they just aren’t loading. Period.

Another symptom of the issue was severe ability lag. I also noticed that the memory space allocated to gw2 nearly doubled in size (from about 1.5gigs to almost 3gigs of memory) during these big wvw events.

Hopefully it won’t take long to at least get things back to how they were prior to the patch.

I just posted in the WvW forum, but the topic they had there was pretty old and this invisible player issue just crept up on me after the patch today.

Players would just eventually become invisible. Can’t tell if it was over time, but when 30+ players started consolidating at 1 place I was starting to notice I was targeting nothing but able to still attack (with the damage numbers popping up). I had to stop playing since this is quite game breaking when I can’t see the enemy who is close enough for me to attack.

Using an ATI 6990M.

Where did the threads ago about rendering? We need a sticky because it is worse now then ever. Fighting invisible enemies is going to quickly destroy this game. There is literally no point for many of us to even play it right now. I’m even getting clipping of NPCs in the PVE world now via NPCs.

This happened for me directly after last night’s patch. Everyone was entirely invisible, opposing players, my team mates, npc’s, pets the lot. Also when I left WvW I was unable to see Karma Vendors in Orr until I logged out and back in, so I’m not sure the problem is specific to WvW.
Just to add, I never had any problem with rendering whatsoever pre-patch (Win7 Nvidia GTX 560ti)

ok just called off the guild event because we are getting attacked by armies we can’t even see.

i have a guardian with 13400 hit points at lvl 80 and trying to melee is plain suicidal.

Same here. Post-patch is the first time I’ve ever seen invisible players and NPCs. I never had any rendering issues until last night.

Hehe yeah same thing started happening to me but it’s a bit random. Sometimes I see them, sometimes I don’t. Fighting ghosts. Have to watch where my bullets are flying and guess from them where the enemy is

Never happened to me before so it’s all new experience :P

Got into WvW tonight after the patch today and the rendering for WvW was ridiculous. I could honestly see 1 person who was in my party. I couldn’t see ANYONE on my server and I couldn’t see ANYONE on their server. I turned graphics down to the lowest possible, no change. Apparently there were about 30 SBI players in front of the gate, and you can see the amount of IoJ players on the minimap.

I have an i7 930 @ 2.80GHz, GTX 560 and 6GB DDR3 RAM

I encounter the same issue in WvW (never in PvE).
Everything goes well for a moment and suddenly for no reason I cannot see any other PC even if I still can select/target them though sometimes they suddenly appear in front of me. Very annoying and frustrating. I have been killed two times this morning this way and it got me mad.
I have never encountered such a problem before this morning and the latest update.

I play on a GTX560Ti with latest NVidia drivers if it can help.
Thank you.

GW2 lives or dies with WvW combat, it is The Main Reason to play this game. Unfortunately there is MAJOR issue that prevents it from working. This has to be addressed As Soon As Possible.

ISSUE: Limited number of characters visible on the screen makes entire armies invisible in a large-scale combat. 50 vs. 50 people – you cannot see your opponents because they don’t load. This creates huge issues of invisible armies and makes large-scale combat experience unenjoyable.

Solution:

a. Prioritize loading. Opponents that deal damage to you should be loaded ASAP. Not seeing your allies is a lot less problematic, so if you have to unload something, unload friendlies.

c. Use “generic invader” model as a placeholder until you can load full model. Seeing something is a lot better than nothing.

d. Increase AOE target cap to 10, so there are more incentives to spread out.

Bump. This is getting ridiculous, entire armies of invisible people sieging a tower is just laughably bad. This needs to be a top priority as it is making WvWvW essentially unplayable.

We have been acknowledged… which is the reason there are no more posts. Stop posting on it and look around (although im not sure of the integrity of the search function on this forum… never turns up posts i know exist 2-3 pages on -.-)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/356817

That post is made on the 5th. They clearly did something to it which we can all see as it is worst then ever before. Which is the reason for this bug report because they obviously broke something.

At the moment the game seems to be rendering stuff fine until a certain moment which i am not sure what. And then all of a sudden nothing renders anymore. Cant see any players or NPC. The only way to fix it is to restart the client. Ironically, critters like rabbits and rats still renders.

I think anyone who was on SBI v Blackgate v IOJ during the Garrison battle can attest to this. Was worse than ever. Folks just running around aoeing blindly and dying for lack of being able to see any enemies. It’s usually just an annoyance but last night it was a game breaker. Took all the fun out of what would have otherwise been a great fight.

They implemented DR on rendering. You need to stop rendering for a while and experience other parts of the game.

I dont know what you did dear ANet but after patch EVRY SINGLE person on map enemy/ friends are showing with delay 60 SECONDS.. and its not only me but evryone in game have the same issue .

Loadin Map , Features ppl are slower and its MESSED up and even worse….

anyone else ??? im gonna try put screen shot soon

Yes, most enemies appear only with a arrow above them, but no them to see. Our own allies tend to dissapear, only seen on minimap, we can see their effects, but we cant see them. Emergency patch required.

yup that’s what im talkin about ………… idk what is going on but that is not a game now its a big mess

could we get official response ?

3-5 second was OK. But now, it is up 60 to infinity. Now i have both low fps and invisible deaths. Gonna attach SSs later.

At least you guys can play WvW… I crash within 5 minutes of play

This recent patch (10/7) has made things worse.

Before, there was a rendering problem when opponents exited stealth or came in from far away. Either way, they at least showed up after some time. As of 10/7, I had difficulty seeing both allies and enemies and couldn’t see even the commander/partymember that was standing next to me fighting for at least 10min in WvW.

Others in my party were having the same problem.

As I posted on the other WvW thread, this recent 10/7 patch made things worse. Before, you would at least see names above their head. This patch makes it so that I couldn’t even see a friendly partymember and commander for ten minutes despite fighting alongside them.

DiD i mention it crashed half of my alliance during the wvwvw ? seems not.. we was takin supply camp and 20 ppl in the same time got error crash

new patch FTW

I don’t think just WvW is affected after the recent patch, even in PvE NPCs aren’t appearing for ages and its lagging to hell at times.

For some reason group members are usually visible when anything else is just gone after some time in WvWvW. We were attacking only by tabing and if we see numbers there is probably someone.

In case it helps, here are some screen shots from lastnight.
This one is the camp which is actually full of NPC’s only. I see nothing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Ferrydust/gw604_fullcamp_Blind.jpg

This is the same camp with just the supervisor up. I see nothing but the target.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Ferrydust/gw605_blind_OnlySup_left.jpg

And maybe not related.. but earlier I saw 2 blue bubbles that could not be explained.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Ferrydust/gw608_bluebubbles.jpg

Same problem for a lot of French player, please fix-it

Okay this issue as driven me to post here finally. Having an issue like this in PvP is unacceptable. Rendering these player models is left entirely to our machines, the servers aren’t affected at all whether its loading on my screen or not. If you are having this issue in PvE then the underlying problem is even worse than it looks like. I can understand if the client is reluctant to load 100 player models and their information. But if this game has any dreams of having legitimate PvP, it has to load everything accurately 100% of the time. If my actions are decided using faulty information, then I am not in control of the outcome at all. This makes PvP pointless. Please have some faith in my machine, I spent the money on it so I wouldn’t have this issue. Now the issue is being forced on me.

I’m glad ANet is looking into this it really is game breaking

Basically after a long period of time, ( ranging from 30 mins to 2 hours?) characters inside WvW, particularly on Eternal Battlegrounds will stop rendering. This means that NO allies or enemies load no matter how close they are to you, the only thing that will load is siege and other players. Sadly, other players can certainly see you…. This is NOT the same bug as the known render bug. The only fix to this is to relog, which is incredibly frustrating because of having to requeue for an hour or two to get back in.

Edit: the title is supposed to say 10/7 not 107, dont know how to edit that

This is happening to me as well, Sometimes After a very long time like 4 hours, sometimes as short a time as half an hour and it will happen. I can see people that I am in a party with, but I cant see anyone else, enemy or not no matter how close they are. I can always see NPC’s and siege equipment though. I hope this some help on the issue.

WvW is basically unplayable right now, they should roll back the patch immediately until the problem is fixed.

Several of us are running into rendering issues, and it is making it virtually impossible to gain much in WvW. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5m_X11eUsQ

yep, same thing was happening to me. It got worse the longer i played.

yeah its terrible

Agreed….

WvWvW is unplayable right now. It is impossible to tell how many people are outside a keep, or defending a supply location, or running towards you on the road. Many times today I got killed without seeing the enemy, and then watched them fade into view once I was dead.

Truly frustrating!!

Ulari

This is not a bug! It’s a new feature for Halloween! We are fighting ghosts!

Having the same problem here, I used to have this problem pre patch but it wasn’t as bad as it is now.

See this post for the explanation of the problem: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/

And yes, it’s been unbearable since the 10-7 patch. The fix needs to come quickly, or the changes made during the 10-7 patch need to be rolled back until properly optimized.