Guild Wars 2

So, it started happening in Bloodtide Coast, any time I’d jump off of water (when you’re at the surface) I’d be teleported to some random place in the sky, and the minimap would show me at a random place, ranging from Dragon Stand (far south, not even accessible in-game) to metrica province, even though I’m in bloodtide coast.

Once I’m back in the water, game freezes for a split second as everything loads around me (environment, props, creatures)

I noticed sometimes when I’m in the sky and I keep pressing Forward, I’ll stay in the sky as long as the key is pressed.

I screencapped the bug, currently uploaded on YouTube, in the meantime, I tried in other maps…

It happens in EVERY map, any time I jump out of the water (when swimming at the surface)

Video being uploaded, will keep updated

UPDATE

Tried again, with guild mate,

now… he doesn’t have the problem… but whenever HE jumps out of water… in my game client, he disappears for a split second.

Now I tried getting stuck in the sky while pressing forward; and anytime my guildmate would jump out of water, I’d see him appear where I got warped…

But it’s not happening to HIM

UPDATE

Video

Also I keep testing it anywhere in the game, still happening. I got warped in mountains, out of maps, in unreachable zones.

Huh. This was happening to me in Malchor’s Leap, except I was REALLY teleported into the sky…and water wasn’t even involved! I was just running around and harvesting wood, when all of a sudden the whole game would lag-up and then repaint everything just like you had happen in the video. It happened a couple more times, until finally it actually teleported my character to what I can only imagine is max-height in the map. I looked down, and suddenly my character was free-falling…and I wasn’t even within map boundaries. I landed east of the map transition portal (alive, thanks to glider).

I didn’t bother playing in that map much longer. I /bug reported what I thought might’ve been a hacker in the map, and went to Rata Sum and logged off. #NopeNopeNope

From your post here I’m glad to see this is probably a glitch ANet introduced in a recent patch.