Guild Wars 2

I experienced very insane behavior in my game on saturday which didn’t go away until I restarted it. I wanted to file an in-game report, but didn’t know how to describe it with just text, so here goes my post.

Basically, through jumping in a specific way with space bar held down, my character got teleported into the sky for only a few frames and then teleported back alive, or teleported to the maps “origin” with being killed.

Detailled description:

I previously waypointed to Blazeridges Steppes > Tumok’s Waypoint and headed directly east. There is a small upwards-slope to its right. I ran over it, jumping like a Grawl (as I’m used to do that). I also held space bar down to activate my glider at all jumps which I think was a requirement to trigger the bug.

Right when I passed the tree east to the WP, my screen flickered as I saw my character right up in the sky, gliding for just 3 or 4 frames, then I was reset back on the floor. S. this image for the exact place and where I jumped over that small hill.

I was able to reproduce this by jumping over the hill again, but it worked at random times and not in a way I can give exact instructions. It had to do with jumping right over that hill’s ledge right near the tree.

I walked further east and experienced a more serious problem with another ledge. This time I not only saw my character appear in the sky for a few frames, I also did not get teleported back on the floor. Instead, I got killed and teleported to what seems to me the bottom-left most, down-most position of the map (probably its origin coordinate). It just looked like this in the end.

Here’s an image of the path I took with the spots marked.

Later on, this also happened to me in Malchor’s Leap. I sadly did not make screenshots, but I can try to find the exact spots again if required (one was at the exit after the Jinx Island event happened, when I tried to jump into water – I got killed and teleported right when touching the waters surface).

After I restarted my game, I could never reproduce this bug. My game previously ran for around 4 hours I guess, but I am not aware of anything which might have caused this as .

Further info about the bug and my character (if you need any more details, please contact me):

• American PvE megaserver (my characters are in Blackgate)
• Time of bug in Blazeridge: 26.03.2016, at 18:55 server time (shatterer was about to spawn).
• Time of bug in Malchor’s Leap: 26.03.2016, at 20:04 server time.
• Level 80 Charr Berserker, Ironclad Glider
• Had 25% swiftness due to Warrior’s Sprint specialization and wielding a sword.

I experienced similar behavior in the SAB Worlds. It happens at almost every ledge, though it doesn’t teleport me into the sky and I couldn’t reproduce a kill yet.

Maybe it’s related. Here’s a video, happens twice in it.
https://youtu.be/a4H-Kr2IYlA

PS: This also didn’t happen anymore after a restart… coincidence or related?

This is a feature of anets spaghetti code mapping system which is also the cause of broken teleport skills and all the dungeon skips in old times. They basically just patch over a broken engine. You can do this and be teleported onto an untapped but solid segment of sky in lionsarch lol.

Just wanna give an update on this. I didn’t have this bug anymore since I reported this the second time.

Though it still makes me wonder: Why did it happen only at very random times until I restarted the game?

I can personally tell my weird collision detections back in the days when I wrote indie games were much worse, but this bug reminded me of them xD

Since I never had it anymore… priority drops beyond low I guess.

Okay, another time me.
It happened all over again in the recent 2 weeks. As if saying it doesn’t happen again made it come out again.

Now I decided to film it once more, as it got ridiculous in the today’s JP task.

- Have a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZXxVsDyCk
- Have a lol.
No, the lags in between were not caused by my computer. They happen when the game is about to vomit. You can see worse hickups midway through. Until I finally get teleported to a completely random position.
If you think I did the JP badly, yes I did, I was slightly annoyed =’}