Guild Wars 2

The last 2-3 weeks I’ve been experiencing very strong rubber banding in the wvw zones. I’ll be running with my guild and everyone will be jumping about, and some times the lag will cause up to a 8-10 second static in which time I lose sight of everyone.

When it does happen, which is pretty frequently, everyone will be running in a set direction, then they would all just vanish from my screen and be somewhere a little way off.

My frames per second never drops below 40 or so, so it shouldn’t be a performance issue and everything looks like communication lag.

It seems to be amplified after changing map. Yesterday we changed from a borderland to EB, where the lag went from minor rubberbanding to hanging 8 seconds of every 10. I seemed to be one of 2-3 people experiencing this out of the 30 we had. After changing from EB back to a borderland, it wasn’t so bad, but worse than when we were in the borderland prior.

The connection is a 70mb connection and my ISP reports that everything is running fine after various diagnostics. Furthermore, the minute I went back to lions arch, there was absolutely no lag or rubberbanding. Large world events also seem to be fine.

Thanks for your help.

This seems to be a problem for many people since the southsun updates. There are numerous threads on this rubberbanding effect. Some often notice it occurring after a specific time of the day.

One question- do you happen to be playing on a US server, and are from a different country? I’ve noticed that the great majority of players who are reporting this problem tend to be in this situation, more specifically from Europe.

Edit- I notice that you are playing on an EU server. Nevertheless, the above observation still stands.

Aye, I play on an EU server and am from London, so I doubt the proximity can be causing anything particularly radical.

As it is a recent thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was due to an update. Thanks for the reply!

I am from straya, afternoons have been pretty bad for lag lately.