Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen this a few times now, beginning with the April 30th patch.

Steps to reproduce: Kill fire elemental. Open the force field for the steam ogre. Jump in.

Expected result: Falling, then warped to the platform with the steam ogre champion.
Actual result: Falling… then landing in water under the reactor with no exit.

Additional (related?) bug: Kill the steam ogre. Jump off the edge of the platform into the permanent portal.

Expected result: Warped to the entrance of the reactor, just west of the CLEAN station.
Actual result: Falling to my death.

I might attribute the latter to missing the portal entirely, but I’ve killed the steam ogre dozens of times and have not once missed the portal on the platform. Also, when the falling to death bug happens, I pass right through the portal on screen.

This afternoon I saw five other people fall to their death at this spot.

Every time the ogre has come up, I’ve seen people complain that the portal is bugged.

However, it appears to me that the numbers of people affected are increasing, including long-time players such as the OP. I’m willing to believe that there’s something new going on that’s causing more people to fall instead of land.

Perhaps this is related to the newly introduced falling damage bug

I fell into that water pit once when I’m supposed to warp on the suspended platform. I swam up to the surface and I finally got teleported to the platform few seconds later.

After taking down the Champion Steam Ogre, don’t “dodge” into the portal exit. From my experience, it makes you fall from the platform after it shows a “loading” screen.