Guild Wars 2

Playing WvW in EB, and after a long while NPC’s turn invisible you only see their tags. When you use a way point loading takes 100x more time than usual.
This happens to me quite often.

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4gwha0/npcs_turn_invisible/

I’ve been having this issue multiple times every day. Npcs will disappear, character models all go to the lowest possible for no reason, party portraits will not show characters, and everytime I try to wp it’s easily 5mins+ instead of a couple seconds like usual. It really is making wvw unplayable for me especially after waiting hours into a queue then I randomly get this bug where I either stay in the map but can’t die/wp, or I requeue and it takes 1hour+ to get back in.

The bug goes away when you go to a new map.

I notice this also on random mobs,but at first i thought anet just added culling to happen early on mobs and npc’s to reduce lag maybe ?

Caedmon.6798:

I notice this also on random mobs,but at first i thought anet just added culling to happen early on mobs and npc’s to reduce lag maybe ?

It’s not culling, the NPC’s never renderer after the bug happens unless you swich map.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvH0pYaw-uI

My PC is suffering the same problem, and i think i have at least found a workaround. Before you waypoint, set your graphics to the lowest possible, and then turn them back up when you have reloaded. It’s a pain, but better than the WP wait i think