Guild Wars 2

I had the weirdest out of sync glitch last night. Entered SFR BL and immediately noticed something weird when I started moving out of our base with greatsword 3 + 5. Skills ended prematurely and I only moved half the distance I did normally.

As I am slowly collecting stuff for Ascended weapon, I stopped to harvest a tree near our base. After the animation had only swinged once, the tree fell and I had harvested 4 logs. Yeah this keeps getting better…

Then I went to attack a couple ER wandering around the southern camp. Animations played normally, but I noticed I was attacking the enemy like crazy! Twice the normal attack speed. It was getting scary. I asked on the map chat if anyone else was out of sync, they weren’t.

I proceeded past bluelake and came into the sentry, killed the guard in literally 3 seconds with autoattack. He didn’t even have time to pop his heal. Couple seconds later I had captured the sentry point! I was even capturing at accelerated speed!

At that point I logged off and relogged back and reported the bug. Luckily it didn’t repeat itself, or maybe unlucky because I had no idea how to reproduce it.

Two points of this thread:

1. Sorry to the ER players I killed with this glitch!

2. There is an out of sync glitch in the game that allows “speedhacking”. Hopefully they find the cause and plug it.

Anyone else ever encountered this?

It’s been happening since the beggining. It’s directly related to “skill lag”. When very large engagements happen, the server starts to slow down. All skills take longer to cast because their ACTUAL cooldown timer is extended much longer.

After the engagement is over, the server catches up, and when it does, it puts everything in a super high-speed mode where all durations are much shorter. This means that your buffs last less time, movement skills like a leap will be shorter, auto attacks will fire extremely quickly, etc. Also NPCs will attack very quickly and if you’re not careful, 1 or 2 guards can kill you extremely fast. Dolyaks will also out-run their bodies (run ahead of their graphic) and I think workers will work faster. Everything is affected by it.

Yeah I’ve been hit by skill lag, but this was different. All my skills were executing right when I pressed them, not with a delay. Also, I don’t think skill lag lets you capture points 2x faster than normally.

Also, I wasn’t taking any more damage from guards.

Were you off your meds though, OP?

Hehe. I guess I was, because I haven’t been prescribed any.

Will have to capture a video if it happens again.

Tom Gore.4035:

Yeah I’ve been hit by skill lag, but this was different. All my skills were executing right when I pressed them, not with a delay. Also, I don’t think skill lag lets you capture points 2x faster than normally.

Also, I wasn’t taking any more damage from guards.

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

After the engagement is over, the server catches up, and when it does, it puts everything in a super high-speed mode where all durations are much shorter. This means that your buffs last less time, movement skills like a leap will be shorter, auto attacks will fire extremely quickly, etc.

Read my whole post before responding. And yes, it lets you capture things faster, because all durations are condensed, as I said…

Think of it like a clock. When skill lag happens the server slows down and the clock runs slowly. When the server catches up, the clock runs very fast until it’s back to normal.