Authentication being odd..
I reported pretty much the same issue – since the patch that changed the launcher to the PoF-design, the authenticator is kinda broken and fails quite often even if you enter the right code.
I’m pretty sure that its a problem at ANet’s side and has nothing to do with hacking attempts or stuff like this.
My guess is that they changed (messed up) the time-window in which codes are valid. So if you enter the code a little bit too early/late it gets declined.
One thing that could help is to make sure your the clock of the device you’re using to generate the code is correct. You could take a look at https://time.is and check if your clock is roughly in sync with it (the time they are displaying is synchronized with an atomic clock). This could reduce the number of declined codes.
(edited by Tiscan.8345)
I noticed that immediately as well. The server’s time window is off by 10-15 seconds behind the authenticators….. so you wanna wait until the timer is half way on the code generator’s timer before submitting.
I noticed that immediately as well. The server’s time window is off by 10-15 seconds behind the authenticators….. so you wanna wait until the timer is half way on the code generator’s timer before submitting.
^ This.
I was having similar issues, then noticed it was happening repeatedly if I was entering the code shortly after timer refresh, but was fine if I left it until it was at least a quarter full again before submitting. Something somewhere is not syncing up as it should.