Guild Wars 2

So, I hope I am putting this in the right forum.

The bug is this: I will be walking around, nobody around and nothing that could damage me is apparent – suddenly I will be insta-killed. No damage numbers, nothing. I am just suddenly dead.

This happens across all my characters too, and at different points. It mostly happens in WvW, but I think this is more of a perception thing since that is where I spend most of my in-game time.

Nobody is able to rez me, they don’t get an error message it just does not allow them to select me. I am always forced to waypoint and run back to where ever I was.

Has this happened to anyone else? It has happened about a dozen times to me.

Curious- have you looked at map chat to see what did the damage to you? It should say you were hit for X damage by whatever did it.

Unable to res is usually caused by a position desync. Everyone will see you at one spot but you are somewhere else.

The desync could also be responsible for the instant death. If it made it seem like your position change was the result of falling. An easy way to check that is to see if any armor piece got broken. If the death is caused by falling damage it won’t cause armor damage.

Khisanth.2948:

The desync could also be responsible for the instant death.

Same thing happened to me but in PvE. I’m not sure about the res thing because where I died no one was around to res me so I just tp’d to the closest wp. Even with desync in PvE where nothing was around me it shouldn’t just kill my character. Desync normally deals with lag which I had some but most games lag and continue on, not just give you instant death.

I posted a pic of where I died for clarification.

I guess the desync/lag can cause you to run off a cliff without you realizing it and that’s what causes the instant death.. I also know that most of the times people have been unable to res me is after death from falls where I’ve hit a wall on the way down, somehow landing my “real” corpse up on the ledge and the one everyone sees and can (attempt to) interact with on the ground.

Sinbold.8723:

Curious- have you looked at map chat to see what did the damage to you? It should say you were hit for X damage by whatever did it.

Nope, no damage whatsoever. I imagine it’s a desync issue , but unsure how to go about checking on why it keeps happening.