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OP, this partying feature isn’t that much of a big deal.
I’ve experienced it once before, and had a great deal of fun with that Kaineng Invader /wave.Previously we could whisper other invaders by clicking the report button and viewing their names, then whispering them. After that Anet decided to remove it, cutting off connection between the fellow servers. Now we can only communicate with them in limited ways, either by giving a shout out on the Forums, or partying them to talk, perhaps just to give them a clap on the back for a great battle fought, or even just to hang around together role-playing as animals.
Furthermore, i really don’t see how this is an exploit by far. You have mentioned that they party you to spy on your server and give their own server information. If you really feel that way, just reject their party invitation, there’s always that option to do so. Also as to the fact that people come over to your server and party with their friends back at their original server to send them information, you don’t have to party with someone for that. VOIP and guild chat would work as well, and party chat would hardly make it extra convenient, considering the player has come all the way to the other server to spy.
However, back to the original party issue, i hardly think they want to party you to spy on your server. People just want to have fun, its a game after all, and i feel that most people would like to interact with the people they fight with. (Lets us see their names Anet!)
So yea, this is just an in game mechanic allowing you to party with a player from an opposite server, it certainly isn’t an exploit that gives the opposing play a huge incredible advantage.
Perhaps Anet might remove it in the future. I would rather they not of course, our only source of communication in game would then be limited to the few awkward emotes that we currently have.
Just my opinion on this matter.
First I want to thank you for your well thought out and written reply. I already mentioned in my post that I understood other methods of spying and things and that I only thought this made the task easier. At this point though many seem to be in agreement that this isn’t a big deal and don’t ruin our fun, etc. It’s probably not a big deal, you’re right, but why have not one of you explained to me how this “feature” works. Until someone explains to me step by step how I can attempt to join the party of an enemy player I see on the battlefield, I will keep calling this an exploit. If its a function of the game, it shouldn’t be a secret or defended like one.
Omg 75% of the population that play this game cry about nothing or the smallest things.
How am I crying? I’m voicing my concern over a part of the game mechanics that I don’t understand. You haven’t done anything to explain it yourself.
I’ve been partied by the enemy servers, mostly for duels and stuff. And just players voicing their opinion of mine and my server’s actions. I don’t think it’s a big deal, especially since your stats in WvW cannot always be duplicated in sPvP.
I personally would want to see /say and names be visible by the enemy. I don’t like this language/name barrier thing, it dampens the ‘thrill of the kill’.
Well that’s fine, your opinion is valid, I just dont think it’s something that only a few people should have knowledge of how it works, thats an exploit. Either remove it or make it known how this “feature” works.
That would be all fine and dandy, except that these players are ones that i’ve come into direct contact with in wvw meaning that they saw me, engaged me in combat or otherwise, then somehow got my ID still. I want to know if anyone knows what this exploit is.
So this happened to me a few weeks ago and I figured it had to do with account ID being visible under the report function in wvw. One of the recent patches removed the ability to see the account ID so I thought problem solved. Just this week I was again requested by an enemy player to join my party. What is this exploit or feature? Funnily enough I was sort of voicing my opinion on it in wvw map chat against it and a lot of people on my server were very nonchalant about it and were actually saying its not a big deal and sorta made me feel like my server was just full of “spies” partying up with the enemy and just giving a play by play of locations and tactics. I understand that this can happen regardless, but this exploit sure does make that task easy.
Okay so maybe it was bugged previously and now working as intended. Nothing in the tooltip indicates that this is how its supposed to work. No other method of stealth breaks the stealth timer without using some sort of combat action or skill.
I used to be able to activate SR and enter the active circle and depending on how long I remained I would get anywhere from 3 to 10 sec of stealth. I could leave the circle at any time and use up the stealth time that I had accumulated. Now shadow refuge only allows me to keep stealth if i stay in for the full duration of the effect circle. If I attempt to leave early then i instantly get revealed. This is a huge change because sometimes being chased by a large group all you need is a few seconds of stealth to turn a corner but since you have to remain in the circle now the large group just spams aoe and attack in the circle and I die. When did we get nerfed yet again or is this a new bug?
The glow from your backpack is only visible to you.
If I enable supersample my frame rate begins to degrade over time and eventually causes a very noticeable input lag from my mouse. Alt-tabbing actually temporarily remedies the situation but then again the degradation begins to occur. I have no such issue when render sampling is set to native.