This event seemed too rushed in planning, thus poorly executed. allow me to recount the experiences from Day 1.
Day 1: I happily stuck around and risked losing my job to watch the theatrical trailer to introduce the event, then proceeded to the coast to participate. Which lagged so bad, I couldn’t see the other players nor what I was fighting, but hey… I did what I could and turned in some of the items for the event but got d/c’d before completion so missed the Karma.
Later I got on to try and do Fractals. I got level 1 done, but because the floating asuran ruins map kept glitching and crashing the .exe, I could not progress. It didn’t matter if my party waited up either, because once you get kicked from the instance, you can’t rejoin.
Day 2: I’m at work, yet able to play. Miss the theatrical, but no biggie. I got back to be able to hop the boat, participate in some events and explore.
Tried doing Fractals again thinking maybe they got enough feedback about the glitches, but wouldn’t you know it… the same map crashes me out again. Still can’t progress.
Day 3: Day off! So I am online and on time. I login and port over to be d/c’d. I get back in and get into the overflow my pt of friends are on and we do the setting detonation charges event, then rush over to push the Ancient Karka back… all the while fighting lag and trying to realize we got delayed graphical effects for poison and doing our best to avoid some of the mass party wipes. Two of us are lagging so bad that we’re useless fodder, especially when another event collided with the Ancient Karka one which lead to d/c’s and relogs. Since it is so bad and it’s been 2.5hrs by then… I take a small break, leaving my character logged in so that maybe I can get my karma.
Nope, was kicked off and couldn’t get back in (error with login server). Finally get back in and try to rejoin my friends who are in another party in another overflow trying to compete the event (they got d/c’d too). Kept trying, glitched and could no longer even attempt to rejoin them.
Thinking that’s a failure and no way to recover the experience, I decide to try Fractals again…. but by now, much of the ppl are several levels further in progression and no one wants to backtrack. But hell, why should they? Especially if the maps are still glitching and crashing people out.
This whole experience was just so disappointing. PS. You can at least stick an NPC in Lion’s Arch that gives players the option to watch the Theatricals they missed. Not that hard really… setup an NPC, C program it to offer the different theatricals as options, play files.
Even I can write such a simple program within 5 minutes.
Lakota De Ortus – 80 Mes WvW Commander | Kota De Ortus – 80 Guard WvW Commander
Regina De Ortus – 80 Elementalist | Sophia De Ortus – 80 Ranger
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