Guild Wars 2

While trying to land on a tree and failing, I have noticed that my glidder bar was stuck to 100% allowing me to fly indefinitively as pointed out in this video I took :
https://vimeo.com/152343536

After that I also captured a video in wich I was able to recreate the steps leading to the bug : https://vimeo.com/152347970

My guess is that it is caused when, right after opening your glidder you get stuck or take damage.

I could see opening and closing it rapidly glitching it out. It’s funny because they had changed one way gliding works that was supposed to prevent things like this (which, that fix affects even those with Advanced Gliding, in that if endurance bar is emptied and then you fall, you can’t reopen glider until endurance regenerates some)

Well… despite having advanced gliding, I managed to also recreate this bug. Interesting aspect is, I become unable to use Lean techniques, and when I finally land, I am dropping dead from fall damage. Recreating it was unintended, but only takes a few tries. Fall damage can be avoided by just closing the glider and reopening before landing (if you don’t reopen it, even a fall of only your character’s height will still kill you if you have glided for any length of time). Essentially, potential fall damage keeps adding up even though glider is open. I wonder if client side will fix this, which we’ll have soon, or if it will make it worse. I’m assuming it will correct it but we’ll see. Might be funny if people just drop dead (although only the first time, then it gets annoying, as we’ve had happen before)

Seems like the bug is gone after the 26/01 patch, even though it is not mentionned anywhere in the patch notes.

It would have felt like a little accomplishment but nope…

Shal.1786:

Seems like the bug is gone after the 26/01 patch, even though it is not mentionned anywhere in the patch notes.

It would have felt like a little accomplishment but nope…

I suspect the bug was caused more by server/client desync than anything. It was also possible before patch to die and be gliding. I was told about this, and was able to recreate it as well in guild hall.

Another thing fixed by patch is someone with Advanced Gliding being able to lean and drain endurance, close glider, and immediately reopen it. After the ‘fix’ Anet did to require endurance to start gliding, this was an issue, albeit a small one.

It seems like slight slopes and just any rough spots in general that you brush against can now easily knock you out of gliding, but it’s also easier to get into gliding with the client telling the server it’s gliding as opposed to the server giving permission to glide.