Gliding Deployment with High Ping
I’ve had this issue a couple times, usually not my internet though. There’s been some weird high ping issues and I’ve seen other users report the same.
If you’re looking for a faster response(or at all), I’d submit a ticket regarding your question.
Unfortunately this is a consistent thing for me not intermittent and is due to my ping being average over 400.
I don’t want to waste the time of a community response representative via a ticket who has no insight or ability to answer about game mechanic decisions.
This post is here to be answered if possible without impacting on someones working day.
Good solution would be ‘queuing’ glider deployment, double press button for jump fast and as soon as glider becomes deployable it will deploy.
I feel your pain. My ping is usually 100-120 (current average is 175 to 200 according to options menu) but spikes if I’m trying to do much of anything else. Some of the hero points were pretty awful to try and get to, a lot of falling to my death cause my glider opened too late.
I like the ‘queue’ glider deployment idea.
edit: I found that double tapping space makes the glider pop a lot faster than holding it down, for me anyway. Is that supposed to be a thing?
Reverse for me Blau, but glad you found a way to speed up your deployment.
If queuing would fix it and technically possible i hope they adopt it.
A high ping time is going to affect other aspects of the game too. Try checking your Internet connection to ensure nothing else is using it. Netflix is the first thing that comes to mind. I don’t have great ping times, usually over 100 and as much as 500+ (I’ve seen over 2s ping time in WvW), but if anything else is using the network such as netflix or if something is trying to download updates, gliding is just useless.
sometimes there is no way but to play with lag, and gw2 for the most part is a forgiving game regarding lag, but recently I had some lag spikes and noticed the same problem with gliding, the point I start gliding is not told by my client, but it requires a communication with the server, which is weird and causes these issues, sometimes the lag may spike and you just fall down from a jumping puzzle because it required precision gliding and stuff like that. Ley-line gliding is particularly upsetting as it is really hard to get to work right even with normal ping, if you have a bit of lag all of a sudden, you will just fall through. Please fix this Anet!
(sidenote, since op brought up the subject, bring Super Adventure Box back too XD)
Adding my voice to this. I posted on this topic during the betas, I posted after launch and am posting again, as I have been advised to do by support on the basis that the devs periodically check the forums. This despite not much evidence.
Interestingly though, I have also been assured by support that the glider deployment is entirely client based and not affected by ping/latency/lag. I am trying to find an appropriate response to this kind of assertion that remains reasonably civil.
Yep i got the same issue. my ping used be on average 240-275 prior to HoT release, since then its gone up to consistent 400+ and makes gliding a pain where it requires short jumps, especially when u are trying to reach an updraft that starts just below ur launching spot.
Lay line gliding is completely useless to me and i’m really regretting placing my points into this mastery, since i’m having to get mesmer ports to get those places anyway. 12 MP’s completely wasted. Just today, I had a most frustrating half hour trying to use my lay line gliding to get to a golem HP in Auric Basin and no matter what i did i kept falling through and finally my memser friend ported me there.
Spoiler Alert!
On somewhat related issue, 2 days ago, i tried to finish the story and the part where modrem does a killer AoE and u have to use updrafts to get of the floor, my glider just wouldn’t work and i kept dying to it over and over and having to redo the whole thing. It was mind numbing boring and frustrating. i finally quit the story and removed if from my UI. I don’t think i’ll be doing it ever again and this will be the first time i’ve not completed a story in this game on all my alts.
At least I managed to finish the story once on my necro when HoT first launched and I didn’t use the updraft as i didn’t even see them until it was too late. It’s actually hard to see the updrafts with all the effects on the floor that makes the whole place look misty. So i hid in the dome Braham created, didn’t really protect ME much, but she got downed and Braham rezzed her. Perhaps b/c my necro has a large health pool she managed to survive but with my ranger, i tried the updrafts but they didn’t work, so then i tried the Braham’s dome with her as well and got killed very quickly and this time, Braham didn’t lift a finger to rez me.
I will continue to bump until the devs please respond and explain how exactly they advise us to obtain proper functionality from this design.
Support have suggested continued lobbying in the forums since the devs do not take input from them, they have further suggested lobbying for an Asia Pacific server, would be nice but I am also not sure that solves the problem necessarily for all people. Funny how the rest of the world seems not to matter much.
Though I want the discussion to remain civil, If I did submit a ticket and was told that gliding is not affected by ping/lag/latency it would be very beneficial that the communication was not on a phone because I think my laugh would be deafening.
Still patiently and respectfully looking for a response/acknowledgment so I can decide if i want to continue to invest time for a game I love that is now bringing me occasionally to tears out of frustration.
Not exaggerating there unfortunately.
I have the same issue.
Sometimes the delay will mean I’ve hit ‘Deploy’ a second time only to watch the glider belatedly pop out & then disappear again.
Just logged in to see what my Ping is, usually to USA/Europe it’s around 300-350+, at the moment it is 0 and not moving.
Curious…
So was attempting the Migraine achievement with party today, and without being able to use braham’s shield I had to rely on gliding….my glider of course does not deploy in time, I will fall to the ground before its animation to deploy 70% of the time.
Going for Flights of Fancy Today, Glider does not always deploy, and having to completely restart every time for this…
Can this achievement be removed from the overall meta please?
Having an average of 300 ping whether I’m in Singapore or Perth my glider deployment times have also been adversely affected, Some areas a creative solution allows me to still land on the ley lines in time to hitch the ride however for quick response ley lines (like the one in Auric Basin going into Burnisher’s Quarry) no matter how I try there’s no alternate method to hopping onto that leyline. Thankfully there are alternative methods to everything and I managed to finish mapping all HoT maps but the problem still remains especially in gliding heavy adventures. The optimist in me would like a fix but with Anet constantly working on other projects my inner realist doesn’t expect one very soon what with the legendary collection bugs, pvp match throwing etc.
PS: Watching Martyrr fall out of the sky for no reason was funny the first few times.
Don’t know if this is related as I don’t notice my ping. But the updrafts in the game don’t send me as high as other players. Most of the time this isn’t an issue. But in Dragon Stand it’s very frustrating. I can barely make it to the islands from the first updrafts. Usually I have to turn around and re-hit the updraft in order to get a little more height and then lean glide toward the island and I barely touch down on it. Looks like I’m about to crash into the side of it.
Seems a lot of times in game I can’t hit the sweet spot of the updrafts.
Still a issue, now a problem in the raid. Support promise the developers will post here, can they please do so.
Thankyou for the Changes to Glider Deployment. Much Appreciated and unexpected.