Guild Wars 2

At the end of the Sanctum Sprint there is a wall that you’re able to jump up and over and come behind the finish line and win whatever place that you came in, I doubt I’m the only one who is mad about this. Its really un-fair when someone who isn’t willing to play right steals your spot just because they can’t win without cheating, to me this is a bug and that should be fixed, but I doubt that will happen anything soon. Anyone who fills like this is a “short cut” is ignorant.

Usually they fix exploits quite quickly.
You don’t think it is a reward for players who are observant of their surroundings?

Btw, you don’t auto complete when you land on the plateau. You do have to get close to the finish line before the game recognizes you have placed. I have seen people cross the finish line before I got close enough, so your place in the race is certainly not locked in when you land on the plateau.

Why does the area extending behind the finish line trigger completion? It also extend to either side of the finish line. If you jump over the small barriers on either side of the finish line, you place. They could have made it so that you had to cross the finish line, even if you were coming from the opposite direction, in order to complete the race. Similar to all the curtain effects many classes can cast. As it is, crossing the green ribbon is entirely optional.
Why is the winning zone a radius around the finish line so large? why isn’t it restricted to the finish line?
They also could have made that wall shear. There is exactly one indention and you have to land on it just so, or you slide off. I have seen several people who had been behind me finish the race ahead of me while using the longer route, because I kept falling off the indention. You have to have some skill at landing on, and jumping from, small platforms in order to use this.
The indention requires you to use a two boosted jumps to reach it. Using those skills are the entire point of this instance.

Many sections of the race have multiple routs, and not all routs are marked.
They could have removed the indention, or added an invisible wall. They did not.
You are implying: failure to monitor new content, poor design, and laziness on the part of Anet.

You also have made no observations that support your theory, beyond calling it, “really unfair.” and implying that it allows people to finish the race more quickly, though in my case it actually slows me down…

Does anyone have any facts/ observations that could show that this indention in a wall was placed there accidentally?

for finish u have to cross finish line, not just be near the chest. Btw sometimes it can help u get ahead of one or two players, if u jump the right way, sometimes u can be outrun by another three if u mess it, so it just about another luck (this short cut).

But what is probably bugg or lagg, sometimes when i get out of race path I get automatically to last check point, sometimes i land on some rock under and nothing happens, so i have to jump down, get to check point etc. so after this fall i get to the seventh place from first.

Zebulous.2934:

Why does the area extending behind the finish line trigger completion? It also extend to either side of the finish line. If you jump over the small barriers on either side of the finish line, you place. They could have made it so that you had to cross the finish line, even if you were coming from the opposite direction, in order to complete the race. Similar to all the curtain effects many classes can cast. As it is, crossing the green ribbon is entirely optional.
Why is the winning zone a radius around the finish line so large? why isn’t it restricted to the finish line?

In level design, you usually make the zone as big as possible, so it absolutely triggers no matter what. The fact that people cheat is simply a design oversight. Under normal conditions it shouldn’t make a difference if the trigger is exactly the finish line, or the entire zone behind it as well.

I have seen a few players use this short cut, but so far I’ve been able to win a lot of the races just fine regardless.

You have to try the cliff route, and be uncoordinated, to appreciate how difficult it actually is to use. The ledge is a lot smaller than it looks. I have only placed in the top three when I ignore it and take the longer path.

I don’t know about you guys but in about every racing game I have played there are shortcuts.

Zebulous.2934:

Does anyone have any facts/ observations that could show that this indention in a wall was placed there accidentally?

Just the opposite. The assisted leap power up is right next to it. Exactly where it needs to be to allow this to be used. I see no other use for a powered up assisted leap in the rest.

If we are going to complain about unfair I would say having RNG based victory is even more unfair. I’ve gotten #1 around 3 times but at least one of those was because being lucky with the RNG. Getting a chain of Light Travel provides a huge boost. To a lesser degree getting Aspect Master earlier on can make a huge difference as well.

Khisanth.2948:

Zebulous.2934:

Does anyone have any facts/ observations that could show that this indention in a wall was placed there accidentally?

Just the opposite. The assisted leap power up is right next to it. Exactly where it needs to be to allow this to be used. I see no other use for a powered up assisted leap in the rest.

If we are going to complain about unfair I would say having RNG based victory is even more unfair. I’ve gotten #1 around 3 times but at least one of those was because being lucky with the RNG. Getting a chain of Light Travel provides a huge boost. To a lesser degree getting Aspect Master earlier on can make a huge difference as well.

This isn’t meant to be a super-competitive sport; rather a fun timesink a la Mario Kart. Light Travel only spawns if you’re way back in the pack, so it can’t make a difference between the leading few unless the entire group manages to stay in one massive blob.

As for the topic: I have no idea if this is intended or not. It sounds like it may be an uber-difficult shortcut, but if it isn’t it ought to be fixed.

Atlanis.6597:

This isn’t meant to be a super-competitive sport; rather a fun timesink a la Mario Kart. Light Travel only spawns if you’re way back in the pack, so it can’t make a difference between the leading few unless the entire group manages to stay in one massive blob.

As for the topic: I have no idea if this is intended or not. It sounds like it may be an uber-difficult shortcut, but if it isn’t it ought to be fixed.

Light Travel does seem to have a higher chance when you are behind but that is not the only time. The very last time I got it(all done with sanctum sprint) I couldn’t have been any lower than #3.

The shortcut is a gamble unless you have Grounded. It’s also a great place to put a fake power up. Especially since those fake power up seem to have an extra wide collision radius.

Lol, love using that short-cut, I get from 5th to 1st almost every time. I’m at least nice enough to show people how to do it.