Guild Wars 2

I am reporting increased incident of what describe as “sticky movement”. This was not present in the game’s earlier patches and has increased regularity as of late.

Frequently I move my character around in combat for positioning using wasd with right click for camera adjustments.

The bug refers to a change in direction I execute on the keyboard and the character will get “stuck” in the change of direction animation and “stick” to the ground non responsive to the direction I have input frozen in the respective animation. This will last for a few seconds and then the character will unstick and move in the direction I have indicated provided I hold the key down. If I release the movement key or move in another direction the animation resets and I am free to move at will.

Interestingly this behaviour did not exist in the early days since release and only has shown up I would estimate in the last couple months.

I have also seen this odd behaviour. Spamming the movement keys can release it if you notice it in time. It caused a quite entertaining death as I ran off the high edge in the grawl fractal during the boss battle. >.<

It seems to only occur during moments when multiple movement keys are held down and you are moving camera angle with mouse2. And only occasionally.

For me this began two nights ago. Although it occurs rarely in PvE, it mostly happens in WvW and especially if things are zergish. Using movement keys wasd in combination with the number skills and right click camera position, several different things may occur:

• the mouse will disappear and my camera position will swing around widly
• my character will be unable to move in the direction desired, until i start spamming other direction keys
• while running, my character will fail to perform my intended skill or utilities.

I speculate that this may be a result of lag or culling changes that are eating up resources and causing movement all across the board to be misfiring. And also it happens when there’s alot of people around.

It happens alot,i can safely say that i can immobilize myself,by trying to res someone,cancle it by moving in either direction.That will always end up with immobilizing myself,and the only way to get out is by using a movement skill.Painfull and deadly in wvwvwv,very annoying in pve.

I had this problem long before the patch. Still bugging me.

And it’s not only in wvwvw. I experienced it in open world too.

Additional Information:

Yesterday I had an instance of this bug last for greater than 5 seconds, I was with guild members in voice chat and they reported what they saw on their screens whilst I was “frozen” on mine.

On my screen my charr engineer was stuck in the move forward animation as I was attempting to move forward with “W” I could move the camera about whilst W was depressed.

On their screen I was running forward and then collided with a wall and continued to run into the wall.

On my screen I released W and then repressed it and I started moving forward normally.

On their screen I teleported back to my initial position and started moving like normal again.

This is becoming increasingly problematic in a position dominated game, seems to happen quite a lot for me now.