Guild Wars 2

Creasul Helmgart.6103:

so has anyone actually submitted a support ticket or is this only for full on crashes etc?

Yes – Had a support call logged since the day of the patch .. no updates from ArenaNet

Sparky.7851:

Same problem here. Was fine up to the patch then changed to an all black face. It appears to be linked to the hair colour as I went into the character creation screen to see if I could reproduce it. I used the default middle head for male asura on my engineer and that appears to be the only one affected.

I changed the hair colour to yellow (see screenshot) and the face changed to yellow.

I have a bug report logged with the following screenshots so hopefully someone will fix it.

I have chased several times but it would be nice to at least get this acknowledged – I havent even had the standard “have you tried turning it off and on?” reply yet!

Same problem here. Was fine up to the patch then changed to an all black face. It appears to be linked to the hair colour as I went into the character creation screen to see if I could reproduce it. I used the default middle head for male asura on my engineer and that appears to be the only one affected.

I changed the hair colour to yellow (see screenshot) and the face changed to yellow.

I have a bug report logged with the following screenshots so hopefully someone will fix it.

They are probably waiting for the rest of their friends and guildies to get through the queue.

I am getting a lot of client crashes to desktop and sending reports into ArenaNet each time. I also have a Support Incident raised with them and am adding crashlogs to that as they happen in the hope that they can actually figure out what is happening.

but what are these “Bones” that keep having problems ???

“—> Error Logs <—
unlink child ‘0×00df47’ from parent bone ‘aura’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×00d766’: Missing anim or fallbacks: castc
Model ‘0×0059a8’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×005e0f’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×015f5c’: Can’t link child ‘0×00ce57’ to parent bone ‘aura’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Model ‘0×015f5c’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00ce57’ from parent bone ‘aura’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×0066f4’: Can’t link child ‘0×00d07b’ to parent bone ‘aura’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Model ‘0×00d766’: Missing anim or fallbacks: castc
Model ‘0×014588’: Can’t link child ‘0×00df41’ to parent bone ‘aura’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Model ‘0×014588’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00df41’ from parent bone ‘aura’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×005790’: Can’t link child ‘0×00ced3’ to parent bone ‘mouth’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Model ‘0×005790’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00ced3’ from parent bone ‘mouth’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×005790’: Can’t link child ‘0×00ced3’ to parent bone ‘mouth’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Model ‘0×005790’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00ced3’ from parent bone ‘mouth’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×006a8f’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×00d766’: Missing anim or fallbacks: castc
Model ‘0×0066f4’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtrunfidl
Model ‘0×005790’: Can’t link child ‘0×00ced3’ to parent bone ‘mouth’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Model ‘0×006a8f’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×006e1b’: Missing anim or fallbacks: wgtidlesprf
Model ‘0×0066f4’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00d07b’ from parent bone ‘aura’, there’s no bone with that name.
File 0×53ea stream 0×0 is corrupt
Raw file 0×000053ea:0×000053ea has CRC 0xb27d1011.
Deleting file 0×000053ea”

Have rebuilt the PC, run diagnostics on the hardware, Reinstalled the OS, Patched it up to the hilt and reloaded all the latest drivers I can think of. still get these fairly regularly. (extremely annoying when in WvW after a 4hr queue)

I know what it does… (or at least what the Wiki says it does – it’s anyones guess if it will actually work the way it is supposed to) I just don’t understand why its 100g

Guilds like ours will play for so long without it that the point will be lost and we probably won’t bother with it at all. Just seems such a large price for something that should be a fundamental part of the grouping system in the first place. Especially in a game that is supposed to be all about large scale Guild combat.

It would be nice to get something from ArenaNet explaining exactly how it is ‘supposed’ to work… or at least get this issue added to their updates page as it is clearly causing a lot of frustration.

Until the queue is fixed and working like a queue should (with some visibility please) then it’s impossible to address any of the other server or queue balancing issues.

This game is called “Guild Wars”… feels more like “Queue Wars”. Our Guild tries every night and we have yet to actually get a decent force together to be able to actually do anything strategic.

Queues are most definitely not ‘queues’ and are seriously bugged.

It’s impossible to try to get a guild event going as even if you all queue at the same time there is no guarantee that you will all get in. some will get in in 10 mins, others will queue for 4hrs whilst people turn up, queue and get in ahead of them.

Its a fundamental flaw and should be right at the top of the list of things that ArenaNet need to fix.

There definitely needs to be a grace period not only for WvWvW, but also for anything you are doing be it a Dungeon or just in a group with friends.

It would be useful to know exactly how the capping and queuing works. There are a lot of speculative posts about it but only ArenaNet knows for sure.

If could be a flat cap of 500 per server and when that is full a queue forms, but it could be something a bit more intelligent that tries to maintain a balance even when there are fewer players… that may well lead to a situation though where it’s always the server with the fewest players in WvWvW that dictates the numbers before other servers are queued.

If it has been priced correctly, it costs 100g to buy the “Commander” skill and one assumes that only applies to the person who actually purchases it?

By the time any guilds actually get enough funds together to be able to spare 100g for it, why will anyone actually want to buy it? By then we will all have likely found other ways to communicate or gotten used to life without it so any benefit to be gained by it will have been lost.

Make it a guild upgrade, or at least make it something that is affordable before people no longer have the need for it.

This game so needs…

/o (Officer chat in guild)
/a (Alliance Chat? .. that would imply of course that Alliances can be formed
/v WvWvW chat?

or at the very least the ability to form a WvWvW chat group.

Totally impossible to form any sort of Guild WvWvW event when you can’t reliably all get in at the same time. Queue’s are clearly broken and without any indication of where you are in the queue (doesn’t need to be time based, but just an indication of where you are in that queue) how are any Guilds supposed to put together any kind of strategy.

Add to that the fact that the queues don’t even let people in in order…..

This clearly need to be higher up on the “To Fix” list.

This is an all too regular occurence and proof that the queues are neither ‘fair’ or queues at all.

I queued myself at 6pm (UK)
I then fired up my Wife’s PC and queue her at approx 6:15pm (UK)
We wait..and wait..and at around 7:45pm(UK) my Wife gets in.
I am still queuing .. waiting..waiting.. (she is waiting too even though shes already in)
I finally get an invite at 8:55pm

What makes it even more annoying is the number of other guildies that queued after we did and got in ahead of us. A couple were only queued for 15mins before getting in.

How does the queue work? or rather.. how do you ‘think’ it works?? clearly it doesn’t work the way any ‘normal’ queue would work!!

What’s more annoying as well are the times when you have queued for over 3hrs to get into WvW and the client drops you out for no apparent reason and you are back in the queue again. You need to hold the connection for at least a few minutes to allow people to regain their slot … other MMOs do this, it can’t be that hard to do. (can it?)

What would be really useful is an indication of your position in the queue. so you can at least see that number decreasing as an indication of when you might get in. If I know I am sitting in a queue of thousands… I’ll go do something else, but the way it is at the moment people are sat staring at the screen wondering if they are queued at all and preying that the game doesn’t disconnect before they get in and they have to queue up all over again.

we can’t even switch to alts whilst queuing…