Guild Wars 2

Today I was at Hoelbrak getting a vista daily when I noticed a player in red as if they were hostile.

Out of curiosity, I tried shooting at them, which immediately caused the game to freeze and then I heard the USB disconnect sound. Had to end task, and there’s no log of the crash either. When I came back in the game, my character was moved to a different location in Hoelbrak as happens when the map crashes typically.

Sounds as if your game was already disconnecting, it just hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Seeing a hostile player in a city was a symptom, not a cause. For example, when you haven’t fully loaded into a zone, you’ll sometimes see ‘ghosts’ or various ‘artifacts’ of the designs as you complete loading.

In your shoes, I wouldn’t worry about it. If it happens again, I’d file a support ticket and (if possible) start running pingplotter (or something similar) to see how stable my connection to ANet is.