Guild Wars 2

Played four games so far. Good diversity in the team comp, never ran into a team with three rangers, for example.

Three of the matches were close, so it was fun :-)

Niz.9235:

Keeps giving me the “unable to access log-in server” when i try to do ranked or unranked pvp its only been doing it since the patch dropped.

Yep… same here.

I click to join the queue, and 10 – 20 secs later this kitten message pops up… -_- I have no other accounts.

I seriously miss Raid of the Capricorn.. and these few modifications suggested by OP eliminates the underwater combat issue.
Let’s hope this topic gets Anet’s attention!

Volrath.1473:

These servers are for ppl that don’t know how to play and rely on numbers to win, not on skill.

Yes, because when a team of 5 wins against a team of 4 its not the numbers game, its the mad skillz and strategiez. I’m not saying make all the servers 8v8s, but to make that option available in the game browser for people who want it.

Liewec.2896:

my 2 cents.
it is because of 5v5, it places greater responsibility on each of the players,
with 8v8 you could generally assume that there was enough people on each team who knew what to do, so the games ended up fairly close.

with 5v5 you might end up being the only person on your team who knows what to do, and if the enemy has 2 people who know what to do then the game goes one-sided since you can’t capture everything alone.

solution, bring back 8v8.

This.

I have not been having fun at hotjoin ever since they removed the 8v8 servers. Yes, they were messy and zergy, but some of them were really FUN. Nowadays I VERY often run into games in which there is a HUGE gap in the score (the 400 to 20 kind)

I honestly don’t understand the LOGIC behind removing 8v8. Moreover, its not like spvp is even safe from the 4v5, now you have to suffer it in hotjoin too. In an 8v8, a team with 7 players can still win the game. Its not like this huge gap in scores never occured back then, but they were much rarer. And if you really loved 5v5s, you still had that option…

I seriously miss 8v8.. At least there were hotjoin servers that gave you the option of 5v5 if you were into it (or spvp and tpvp). I love 5v5 on spvp and tpvp, but 8v8 was also fun. Games were hardly as unbalanced as they are now. I seriously lost count of how many times I joined a server to find one team whooping the other by at least 350 points

For me, this bug has been happening quite often following the April features patch.. Its especially annoying during tPVP, when I’m stuck out of a point and standing there like a free kill for the enemy. Happened to me three times in a single day.

Please fix it , Anet! :-(

Emapudapus.1307:

My is similar :p. I tried to comunicate tactics at start of the game and coordinate while the game was runing and only 1 guy did respond back/wrote in chat. Than we lost and at the end one guy, who didnt say anything whole match, said in map chat: “This team…”.

Hahahaha! That sounds just like me! I always say it on team chat though… I also noticed that people do stay silent during the pre-match period. I always ask “strategy?” and only one person would reply (and sometimes you get the stale “win!” joke..)

Somehow, when the game is over and our team loses the members magically learn about the art of using your keyboard to communicate, and they begin to insult one another or try to pin the blame on someone.

I have already created a thread on this bug in the Game Bugs forum. Obviously, I didn’t get a reply. So I’m posting about this weird issue here just to get some of your thoughts on this. Also, I’m seriously curious as to whether any of you ever experienced this in Skyhammer.

This is not the first time this has happened to me. Luckily, this time, I have screenshots to prove it :P

I die, my toon spawns (half his body is IN the floor) starts to scream like he is falling from a cliff, and suddenly, I’m in this pool of water and everything is.. distorted. Nothing can be done except waiting till the match ends (or if you are in hot-join, go to spectator mode and pick a team again)

Here are the screenshots:

Okay, so this is not the first time this has happened to me. Luckily, this time, I have screenshots to prove it :P

I die, my toon spawns (half his body is IN the floor) starts to scream like he is falling from a cliff, and suddenly, I’m in this pool of water and everything is.. distorted. Nothing can be done except waiting till the match ends (or if you are in hot-join, go to spectator mode and pick a team again)

Here are the screenshots:

Hello,

For some reason, Signet of Shadows’ passive effect (25% movement speed) is never activated when I join a pvp match. In order for the passive effect to activate, I always have to replace the signet with another skill and re-select the signet for it to work. The passive effect remains for the next match, this bug only seems to occur when I enter a new match from the mists.

Moreover, the runes of lyssa no. 6 seem to bugged too. Sometimes the elite skill effect is greyed out, like I only have 5 runes equipped. This seems to be random, but its occurring often enough for me notice.

Would love some feedback on this..

Thanks.

Getting the same bug with Daily Matches played.. competed in 8 games or so, achievement is still at 0%

Don’t bother with the suggestion I posted earlier. GW2 lagging again

Strangely, I didn’t face any lag yesterday..

Before even launching the client to see whether game is still lagging, I did the following: Go to GW2.exe, create shortcut. Now go to the shortcut’s properties, and in the target bar, after the quotes " add ‘-repair’

So basically, it should look something like this: “C:/Program Files/GW2.exe” -repair

Open that short-cut and let the client verify the file archive. Dunno if this had anything to do with fixing the lag-issue, but it wont hurt to try.

Its worth noting that my first log-in attempt, whenever I launch GW2, STILL brings up a black window within the client saying that a connection could not be made to the log-in server. Second log-in always works. This leads me to believe that the issue is not yet resolved. Played for 3 hours yesterday and everything was fine, will give it another shot tonight and see how it goes.

Think I’m gonna play some XCOM or Civ V tonight.. :-/

@Zen: Link to these ‘other’ threads, or explain how to regress to previous updates here..

Thanks!

I use it on WvW when defending a keep / tower. Once (yes, only once) I remember firing off the barrage (#5) while defending Bay on our borderland. Three guys flew off the cliff and plunged to their deaths. That was funny xD

Oh, and on WvWvW, its also useful to take out burning oil fast. Try using the #5 skill on it, does 575 damage for every shell that hits.

Still, a useless elite. And I haven’t been silly enough to try it out in PvE or SPvP.. And its fragile as hell!

I would not expect a solution for this today. As I pointed out in the Network Lag thread, GW2’s twitter account hasn’t posted a tweet since Mar. 8, they must be off on their weekend. I “think” we’ll get a fix on Monday.. which completely sucks…

Funny thing is, I haven’t faced this lag until yesterday, past 3 days have been fine for me. I would like to point out that even though I’m located in the ME, I’m playing on a North American server (Crystal Desert)

Don’t think its just limited to Europe. I’m from the Middle East, and the lag reached unplayable levels yesterday. Skills would activate 3-5 seconds later, and crashes caused by loss of connection to the log-in server.

Edit: And yeah, its Error 7

I don’t think we should be expecting this problem to be solved today. Not a single tweet on GW2’s account since Mar. 8, staff must be out for the weekend. I guess we can expect a fix for this issue on Monday ; . ;

Facing same issues as Wolfgang, and I’m from the Middle East. Lag is making the game unplayable. Skills are taking too long to activate if I’m in a battle with 3 or + players in WvWvW (if I run into a zerg, game disconnects). Playing on Crystal Desert, NA server.

And this is not my ISP or firewall’s fault.. lag started around 3 hours ago. Connection is fine on other online games.

Been lagging like crazy for the past 20 minutes.. on both PvE and WvW. Game just disconnected me and said “Game lost connection to log-in server”, or something to that effect..

Lv. 80 Engie on Crystal Desert..

Would honestly LOVE to join this guild, but I can never jump ship to FA (considering our history on WvWvW).

I’d still join dungeon runs and stuff though

Lv. 80 Engie on Crystal Desert..

Would honestly LOVE to join this guild, but I can never jump ship to FA (considering our history on WvWvW).

I’d still join dungeon runs and stuff though

Thanks, guys! Much appreciated

+1 for Wrench..

Too many times have I pressed B in a PVP match and said to myself ‘Oh wow, thats a lot of Engineers!’

Result: 3 Eles, and I’m the only Engineer…

Edit: I really love our current icon, by the way.. And would prefer it if the Ele had their icon changed. Why a flame? Make it a snowflake, a bolt, a… rock?

Greetings, fellow Engineers..

Ok, I’m pretty much a PvE noob. I’ve levelled my Engie up to level 60 in PvE (no dungeon runs either :P), and blitzed through the last 20 levels while playing WvWvW. Since then, all I’ve been doing is pretty much PVP and WvW.

Now I ended up collecting the entire Lv. 80 Pirate armor set. And while it looks cool, I’m growing a bit sick of it. Any alternative armor sets that I could get to now that I’m level 80? I saw some pics of the CoF armor set, but does it’s stats compare to that of the pirate set?

Will appreciate any help on this.
Thanks!

CHIPS.6018:

Those CD BL guys defending their garrison and Crag tonight, I salute you. Some of the best wvw ever.

They better be.. those people are now our server’s foundations, now that the bandwagoners are gone :P

I’m very optimistic that it will one day change for us. The spirit and resilience is there, but sadly our numbers are lacking.

Never seen such domination before.. No offense, but I hope you guys move along quickly! :P

Absolutionis.9427:

Mif.3471:

Why are Engineers penalized for their versatility, while Elementalists, which you called the “kings of versatility”, aren’t penalized?

I’d like to second this question.

This…!! I really would like to what Anet plans to do with the Engie class.. Its super-fun, but no one can deny that its under-powered when compared to other classes..

Tough battles on CD BL yesterday (Sunday). Both IoJ and FA were out in numbers. Overall a good and entertaining day for WvWvW.. Looks like this week’s competition is gonna be a close one!

C’MON CD!

As a player on CD, I have to admit that FA is by far very inconsistent.. A surge in power, then they drift off into a deep slumber.

IoJ on the other hand, is quite formidable. Don’t get me wrong, I think FA is strong too when they actually go for it. All in all, I like the level of competition :-) I remember the FIRST time I ever logged on to WvWvW it was CD vs Sanctum of Rall vs Sea of Sorrows.. Boy was it tough!

Quite sad to see someone from FA asking IoJ to gang up on CD earlier on in this thread :P

Hey Lightstoner,

I think if you’re crashing on low settings, you’ll still crash if you use mine.. But anyway, its worth a shot!

Animation: Low
AA: None
Environment: Medium
LOD Distance: High
Reflections: None
Textures: Low
Render Sampling: Native
Shadows: Low
Shaders: Medium
Post-processing: Low

Best Textures box unticked, and Depth Blur ticked

Just updating everyone, played wvwvw on medium settings, still no crash following the /3 gb fix. My card, GTX 560, peaked at 63 degrees, which is VERY low compared to games such as Dishonoured and Left 4 dead, when it peaks on 73-75, so I know its not hardware related, not that there was any doubt, of course :P Will keep checking back on this thread and I’ll update everyone if GW2 crashes again.

GFX card driver version is 310.70, in case anyone is wondering.

@Lightstoner and Kirito: Okay.. the 3 GB switch worked for me.. played for 6 HOURS on WvWvW yesterday, no crash. Its worth noting that I used the Best Performance settings, and midway through the game I used alt-tab to check GW2 process’s memory usage and it was 1.39 GB.

Once I decided I had enough, I decided to crank up the GFX option to auto-detect, the lag began. However, when I tuned “Audio quality” (or Audio processing, can’t remember which one exactly) from close to ‘fastest’ to the middle of the bar <between quality and fastest>, the PC stopped responding, and GW2 was on 2.3 GB of RAM, and the System widget showed that a total of 95 percent of the RAM was being used!

All in all, can’t complain about this because the solution DID work and I got 6 hours of gaming. My best time on WvWvW before this tweak was 45 minutes at BEST. However, the game has serious memory issues that need to be resolved, considering all the chaos that can occur when overtaking a tower.

Hey Kirito, thanks for the reply.

Not gonna upgrade to 64-bit because I’ve seen posts in which users stated that they’ve made the upgrade and STILL suffered from crashes, even with 8 GB RAM.. I will test the /3 GB switch and report back my results. Thanks!!!

Specs:
Windows 7 32-bit
4 gb ram
GTX 560 (310.70 drivers)
i7 930 2.8 ghz

What I’ve tried:
Running the game on lowest gfx settings
Running the game in Windowed mode
Clean install of Nvidia drivers and resetting 3d settings
Verifying GW2 file archive
Increasing page file size
Decreasing sound quality (<some have claimed this temporarily worked for them or helped increase their play-time, tried it, didn’t work)
Quitting applications before launching GW2 (which didn’t help, because once the game reaches 1.33 GB in memory usage, it will crash. My system would also be using only 70-72 percent of total RAM when it happens)

It is worth noting that the memory crash did not occur during the Krait invasion event, which also had hundreds of players. My game crashed during the event due to severe lag spikes and not being able to connect to the server. Issue seems to occur most often during WvWvW, and when it does happen on rare occasions on PvE, its when I zone.

Tried every possible solution.. GW2 just refuses to stop crashing on WvWvW… I’ve sent so many reports to Anet it must look like a hacking attempt by now. My GFX are set to the lowest possible setting. But no matter what, my WvWvW session would crash in 15-30 mins tops.. This has been happening for the past 3 months for me. I REALLY hope a fix is rolled out soon, because WvWvW is becoming so hard to enjoy, especially when I keep expecting the dreaded crash to happen in the middle of a siege..!!!