Guild Wars 2

In the Thaumanova Reactor Fractal the shields in the maze collider should respawn at their original location when a player dies. This would allow them to pick up the shield again if they make a mistake while trying to disable the security system.

Currently the shields stay where the player was downed.
This is an issue because after enough failed attempts you no longer have any shields to run into the maze with. Thus making it impossible to complete the fractals.

This would force the party to reset the fractal, which is bad mechanics.
Instead simply respawn the shields so the party can try again.

Icethorn.6570:

Thus making it impossible to complete the fractals.

No, it’s not impossible; the maze can be completed without touching the shields. It’s arguably easier to do that now, by paying careful attention to the golems’ pathing and the laser pew pew.

I’d support changing the mechanic so the shield was enabled via the special action key instead — that way, you wouldn’t have to worry about weapon swaps etc. However, I think it’s a low priority issue, since there’s a solid work-around already.

Binding the shield to a special action is much more coding. It would be way easier to reset the location of the shield during the player’s death. It’s just a matter of what objects are instantiated when the game loop checks for the player being completely down. It’s actually a very simple fix if you understand programming. I’d love to fix it for them if I didn’t have my own $200k project to work on

I thought it was updated a while ago to reset to the spawn point when a character holding 1 died?

OriOri.8724:

I thought it was updated a while ago to reset to the spawn point when a character holding 1 died?

I think it worked like that for a while, but apparently that got reverted later on (possibly by a mistake).