Guild Wars 2

In LA when attempting to enter the Jumping puzzle by sliding down the “throat” I now always seem to hit an invisible instant death ledge/wall before I hit the water. Every. Fricken. Time.

I have attempted this with sylvari, human, norn and asura and character size doesn’t matter. I’ve attempted sliding on one side another or straight down the middle – still dead. It seems that when the Mad King arrived, he booby trapped the puzzle.

Anyone else getting this?

If necessary, I’ll boot up fraps and make a movie of my deaths…

when facin the hole, try sliding down the complete left hand side. that seems the safest in my experience.

i know you said you tried on the sides, but, maybe try going even mooore left.

I’ve noticed this too. Suddenly it seems to happen almost every single time whereas before I never had any trouble with it at all. I did finally get in today though. The method I used was to try as much as possible to only just barely scoot off the edge of the little platform leading in (on your right side while facing the cave). If you do it right, there’s some uneven bits of ground that you can catch which will break your fall a bit before you start falling super fast and you should also catch on a stalagmite about halfway down (you’ll take a bunch of falling damage but you won’t die). Then you just edge off of it until you start sliding the rest of the way down and this shorter fall seems to make it succeed. Hope that helps!

I just jump down it. My friend died when I was showing him it, but I jumped down the middle and hit something but didn’t die.

I actually had the same issue as you, no longer than yesterday. The few times I did that puzzle, I had no problem at all, and went through that part without any problem. Then all of a sudden, I can’t manage to handle that part !
And that day, for the very first time, I discovered something I had never seen before :

There actually is a stalagmite (you know, a rocky formation that starts on the ground and progressively grow up, creating a pillar of stone) a little on the center left, at the very end of the tunnel where you slide down.

Each time I would die, I did not understood why, since my character just instantly died and fell in the pool beneath. I thought that if I had hit an obstacle, I would be stuck to it. But game doesn’t work like that.

So, next time you try it, start well at the center, let you character slides down, and when you’re halfway through, start going on the right to avoid that deathly trap waiting for you. Once you’re down there, try to get a look and you’ll probably notice the thing for the first time, as I did yesterday. ^^

Good luck to you !

The bug is that there is a jumping puzzle in a PC game.

I do that puzzle almost daily, some days, I can try the jump for 20 times and I never make it. other days the first attempt is bingo. All I can say is that it isn’t a bug, but it is very difficult to take a path down that gets you there 100% alive all the time.

Aiming for the middle (between the water jets) is the safest bet.

GW2’s “fall damage” code is strange to say the least. I once died from falling damage after going down a 4" step, and several times I take falling damage 2x when I land (each corresponding to the full amount of damage of one fall).