Guild Wars 2

My party was just doing a round of fractals when the warning that a new patch would be available soon showed up. We definitely got the “your game will restart in 2 hours and 45 minutes warning” after the patch became available, and then about five minutes ago, without any other warning, boom. We were all kicked out while we were on the third fractal and lost all our progress. We didn’t even have the hour that people in regular PvE get before being forced to get the new patch, let alone the three that instanced content is supposed to have.

I think the issue with that is if you change zones or map somewhere, the game will auto-kick you if there is a new patch. Because finishing one fractal and starting another is considered changing zones, you got the boot. This would need to be addressed by a developer.

We weren’t changing fractals when we were forced out. We were right in the middle of a fight at the seals in Cliffside. We probably moved into that fractal after the patch was out, so if that was the reason we’d have been kicked then, not in the middle of a fight.

Good to know – I thought they’d fixed this so that players in “dungeons” had more time. Most people think of it as more like being in a dungeon than like being out in PvE and crossing zones into another map. I’ll be curious to see dev input on this one to see if it was a bug or if this is something to watch out for on patch days.

Upon further reflection I suppose it’s also possible that this happened because the instance creator left the party- there were only three other people still in the party when I was able to get back into the game. I’m not sure who started the instance, so it might’ve been the person who was no longer there, I’d just figured he got kicked too but got back in earlier and promptly left the party. I have no idea why he would’ve left the party though when we were almost done.

GeminiArcher.7809:

Upon further reflection I suppose it’s also possible that this happened because the instance creator left the party- there were only three other people still in the party when I was able to get back into the game. I’m not sure who started the instance, so it might’ve been the person who was no longer there, I’d just figured he got kicked too but got back in earlier and promptly left the party. I have no idea why he would’ve left the party though when we were almost done.

If he got d/c he would have been forced to patch when relogging which would then prevent him from rejoining the instance.