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Constant crashing if graphical settings are maxed out. In order not to crash in HoT content I have to reduce my settings to lowest.
This is easy to reproduce as it will ALWAYS crash if settings are maxed out. This only happens in HoT content as I have been running maxed settings for months in normal content and can still do it today. As soon as I got to HoT content with maxed settings I can expect it to crash within 30-60 min tops.
This needs to be fixed! I do not want to play this game on ugly mode low settings. It’s common knowledge now that when doing HoT content you have to lower your settings in order not to crash.
I was able to finally complete DS last night due to low settings. I maxed them back out and crashed on the next attempt.
I was just doing VB with maxed settings and crashed yet again.
This ONLY happens in HoT content.
I haven’t seen any dev posts, dev responses, community managers, or otherwise commenting on this at all. Does ANet not interact with their community?
The “fix” seems to be to drop your game settings to their lowest possible. I generally run on Maxed out settings and get high FPS at all times.
It’s pretty sad when I have to play the game on ugly mode in order to complete anything.
I would like to get credited for all the issues I (we) have been having with this expand.
I have yet to successfully complete Dragon’s Stand because it crashes during the last fight every single time.
I have yet to complete Tarir as it crashes during the last fight every time (one time I completed it, it crashed right after).
Basically I have yet to do any of the open-world content successfully and fully experience/enjoy it due to the crashing.
I have never once in memory crashed in the old-world areas, WvW, or PvP. The only crashing issues are in the new HoT content and it seems to always be during the major zone events. Almost never during the initial phases, always during the last or major phases.
Again, I paid $100 for this expansion and I continue to be unable to enjoy a large portion of it.
YET AGAIN, I crashed out during the last phase on Dragon Stand. I have yet to complete this encounter chain because of the crashing.
I can go * mindlessly grind by myself for no reason sure. But if I want to take part in the zone events such as Dragon’s Stand… CRASH. My computer is this games wet dream. WAY beyond the specs it could ever have hoped to work on.
I’m getting sick of this if you haven’t already figured out.
Top it off, when you crash out you get kicked from that map. You cannot rejoin because it’s full…. And you get screwed out of hours of work for something that requires 100’s of organized players to accomplish.
Solutions as I see it currently?
1) You should load back into your previous instance/map if done withing X amount of time. I have kitten with GW2 installed and the game loads in seconds. I still end up in different/failed instances every single time (almost).
2) You should not be removed/kicked from group while disconnected.
3) You should have a way to rejoin previous maps/instance within a period of time. UI option somewhere or pop-up message when loading back in offering to port you back
4) Public notices and information should be given as to why crashes are happening and how to potentially avoid them (if possible). Currently it seems like there are almost no notices given to community so we have no idea if anything is being fixed or even acknowledged in the first place.
Hours upon hours of failed public zone events, finally get into a zone that has a chance and CRASH. Even if grouped, half the time you’ll load back in ungrouped and in a different zone.
I FINALLY got the last stage of the Dragon event and crashed out while in a group. Loaded back in standing alone in a failed map.
I FINALLY got the Tarir event completed, which is pretty rare, only to crash RIGHT AFTER competion. Again, I was in a group, loaded back in w/o a group.
This is getting to be unacceptable. Constant crashing in a game that has been out for a long time and an expansion that was in countless open and closed betas?
Yes, this is an angry post from an extremely unhappy customer.
And this is a prime example of fail design. Yes, it’s cool to require players to do combinations of abilities like this to get around… The problem is they are not consistent about it. IE, most places in the game if you have a movement item/ability and you try to use it while gliding it simply won’t work. You’ll often fall to your death….
Game design where they randomly allow you to do kitten for a special mission but not allow you to do it elsewhere is bad. That, or they need to give you strong hints and pointers making it obvious that this is a super special situation where you can do something you normally can’t.
This probably one of my top two complaints about GW2. They FORCE skills into specific interface slots. IE, weapon skills can only ever be 1-5 and cannot be moved around. Class specific stuff (F1, F2, F4, etc) and such are also hard-coded per class. The only customization you can do really are the utility skills.
In just about EVERY other MMO, I have specific keys I use for specific things. For example, the “X” key is always my escape/interrupt/stunbreak type ability no matter which MMO i’m playing. My “E” key is usually my spam AOE style ability. My “mouse 4” is usually some for of instant single target attack.
In GW2 however, every single class is a clusterkitten of skills randomly placed in different slots with no way to control it outside of remapping keys for each individual class.
I pretty much only play one class because of this.
2nd biggest complaint is no way to save different builds and equipment sets. You have to completely swap gear for different builds PER class and they have no way to save these. You have to completely switch up talents/traits or whatever for every different build.
Dual spec, spec saving, auto spec switching, whatever you want to call it has become a standard feature in most games so not having it in this game is pretty sad. The closest they’ve come is unique PvP spec, though they’ve basically just handled that by reducing PvP to weapon, rune, and an single equipment item to provide all stats/spec.
Thanks for all the responses.
For those who say “get zerker gear” that’s exactly what i’m complaining about. The fact that you’re often forced into it. Yes, you can make your own groups and kitten yourself… But the game is currently designed so that one or so very specific builds and gear sets is the strongest in almost all content. The argument of “3 year old content” doesn’t hold true unless ALL content is 3 years old which is a pretty sad statement. I honestly don’t know what is considered “new” content but so far everything I’ve encountered and a vast majority of LFG groups require zerker and a pretty high number are kicking ranger/necro for one reason or another.
As for Condi being good, I’m not sure how else to respond? It’s pretty obvious playing in larger group content situations that your conditions are constantly removed. In WvW they almost instantly go away. In small PvP matches it’kitten or miss depending on the match-up and the number of people in each fight. This is the entire issue… Purge damage builds are good in all situations as you can’t “clear” them and they take no time to build up. I’m going to switch to Condi build on my necro and do a lot more testing but so far it’s been pretty bad compared to straight damage. Reading on the forum and chatting with various guilds pretty much say the same thing. Condi in 5v5 or larger situations is just bad.
I’d like to start by saying please understand this is the perspective from a returning player and not that of a GW2 lifer (non-stop dedication since beta).
I’ve noticed a number of pretty troubling issues that really detract from the enjoyment and potential this game could have. Hopefully I can keep this simple and to the point:
1) Grouping without a dedicated Guild is a horrible experience all around. Pretty much all groups are “Zerker, exp” or kicked. The simple fact that most groups require 1 specific set of gear is pretty bad. The fact that the game and content is designed around allowing that to even happen is pretty bad.
2) Several classes are frowned upon or outright kicked from a majority of groups (Necro and Ranger are primary two examples). While these classes are capable, they are typically frowned upon or kicked because they are outdone by other classes in MANY ways. It’s pretty bad design and balance if class is considered sub-par compared to all others. You shouldn’t be required to find a guild that will accept you as the “special boy” and allow you to play these classes.
3) Conditions. These are considered (and are) almost completely worthless in WvW and most other places as well. Simply put, it’s too easy to completely negate/remove them constantly and the time it takes to build up damage with them means the fight is already over. Honestly, based on current design, they either need to stack faster or be harder to remove (IE, removing numbers from the stack not the entire stack itself).
4) Many classes have completely useless abilities that no builds anywhere ever utilize. Engineers for example have several kits that simply never show up in community builds because they under perform vs others in every way. Necro has many skills that simply fall behind right from the start. Really, all classes do.
5) Necro Pets are barely useful in very select situations. They make the player a massive aggro magnet and puts the necro in combat (slow run) constantly. In PvP/WvW they generally get instantly killed doing no damage and leaving the necro with only their weapon skills to fight. In PvE they’re only generally useful in Solo content (if that) as again, they get instantly killed. I’m still not sure why Arena Net hasn’t realized that (like every other game) pets cannot take full damage from AOE attacks because they cannot avoid them. It’s even worse considering the player has 0 control over these. I know this is a specific class issue but I have the most experience with Necro and it was pretty sad to realize how useless these were.
6) Limit to no community involvement from Arena Net (developers). While I don’t have a lot of experience on this, it seems like the developers have almost no community involvement and feedback programs. You can see constant complaints and issues posted and no weekly discussion from the devs explaining why they aren’t fixing something… or letting people know it’s on the list and will be fixed. I’m sorry to say this but Blizzard (WoW) does a really good job of staying active with the community. People might not like decisions they make, but at least they’re talking with their players about them.
I want to change my password. I have entered it multiple times. I get error “must be at least 8 characters.” The password is at least 8 characters.