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So does any one have any ideas/solutions? I was posting in another thread that I cannot find anymore but I have had this problem many times as well for weeks. After going through Anets suggestion of running GameAdvisor, then running PingPlotter we are no closer to a solution. Their explanation is I have packet loss despite Trace Routes and Ping Plotters (which basically IS just a trace route) report showing none. So they have either given up because they are stumped or are just told to tell us that when they dont care anymore.
It is completely random for me personally, its fine one hour then suddenly all hell breaks loose and Im either lagging incredibly bad or cant connect or even login sometimes. I have an excellent ping to the servers, even during times I cant connect to the game. The frustrating thing is not knowing when it will strike as I cant be counted on to make any contributions to my guild when ‘ToKev might DC at any time’ as happened last sunday for guild missions and I couldnt connect for at least 8 hours. wake up net morning, do nothing to my computer at all and boom I can connect and play…
Well I hate to bust some momentum here but I have never used the LFG tool and have had all of these errors.
I will say though that last night for the first time in well over a week I was able to play and didnt get DCed once. For the first 30 minutes or so of playtime I had about a 3 second ability delay but was clearing some low level zones on my 80 for world completion so it wasnt that big of a deal. But after the 30 minutes I could play, enter events, enter story missions, etc and no lag or DC. Maybe they are making some headway though I havent tried anything in game yet today.
Im definitely not holding my breath for another good connection day today though and was too scared to try WvW yesterday as the last 3 times I tried doing that I got DCed. Fingers crossed for a fix
Hadnt noticed this thread before, I was trying to get some commonalities for all of us having problems in another thread. I hadnt heard the account issue thing before. Nice to see Tech responded in this thread at least.
Yes yes I get all that about lag. Im betting at least 50% of that is BS. Watch any gaming video and when someone dies, “Oh look at the lag, thats why I died”. This is real lag. Many of us simply almost cannot play the game because of anywhere from 5-30 second ability delay, DCs, etc.
Yes I can go play those other games, do I want to? Not really. I have played them out. The reason I stopped playing before was my old computer didnt seem to like some effect that GW2 had and I would blackscreen every 5-10 seconds. That was my machine, I accepted that I couldnt play and left for another game. Now I have a new machine that has no performance issues with GW2 and I want to play -this game-. Its fun, I have a good friend playing it and a new guild that seem pretty cool from what little I have been able to play with them.
If every player in the game had the kind of issues we have experienced, GW2 would not be online, there might be select few players that put up with it but that is all so I refuse to believe that it is some playerbase-wide problem, it is local to specific players and I am trying to find out a commonality that we can pinpoint.
So again, can some of us who are having the problem please get together on here and figure out a solution? I will admit to not being nearly as tech savvy as others on here but would help in any way I can.
EDIT: So I was following this thread and one other but had overlooked this one
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Cannot-log-in-6/first#post4820022
People there are saying they could sign in and play fine on one account (friends, relatives) but not play their account on the same exact computer. Its an account issue…dont think anything we are doing will help.
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All I know is I am ready for something to get done about this. I started a guild trek today and got DCed right after start. Its darn near unplayable…
So since Anet is doing nothing about this, or at least not posting any kind of update, try this, updating this thread, lets try to figure this out ourselves. What do we all have in common? East coast is about it? I know a lot of you have Verizon but I and a few others have AT&T and it is just as bad. Im assuming we arent all playing on the same server, I know I am playing on a EU server, Far Shiverpeaks. From what I can tell it is all different times of the day, no particular map (as in populated, non populated). Some are blaming the storms in Eastern US but these problems started before the storms did. If it is ‘gaming over international lines’ then why is it seemingly mostly East Coast?
I know I am pretty much only playing now because a friend gave me some gold to transfer servers so I could play with him and I dont feel right about taking his gold then leaving but I am srsly considering going back to a game that doesnt DC me every 20 minutes (which is basically any other game out there).
Its not just Verizon, I have AT&T and Im betting that my friend in the Netherlands has a different ISP as well and he has been getting DCed a lot lately as well. Its definitely GW2, I cant get any site on the internet to load slowly/refuse to load, any other MMO runs smooth and my router is used only by myself and one other computer and most of the time the other computer is loading a webpage if that. Beyond my 4 walls I cant say how clogged my route to the server gets but it seems to be only that particular route to the GW2 servers that is borked. The rest of the internet roads are fine, only GW2 uses the perma-jammed route that causes chaos.
I hate to say but its getting worse at least for me. Before when the game was good, it was good – no lag, ability delay anything. When it was bad, then it was really bad with lag, DCs, etc. Now there is no ‘good’. There is ALWAYS lag, DC, cant login. At this rate the game will be completely unplayable soon. No way Im buying HoT until this gets fixed (if I dont quit completely and go back to another MMO before then).
Its not just Verizon, Im AT&T (US EST) and having the same thing. A friend of mine who lives in the Netherlands is having issues as well though it appears not nearly as bad. Im currently playing on Far Shiverpeaks server (EU server) and a lot of times I play at waaaay off-peak times for them, still have major issues, maps not loading, freezing in game for minutes at a time.
Nothing much to add but another “me too.” Skills don’t work about 75% of the time in PvP but movement, chat and everything else is fine. Either skills behave like the key wasn’t even pressed or they go on full CD without actually launching the skill. Occasionally I’ll get the pulsing skill icon bug too, where a skill looks like it’s trying to do something but actually does nothing.
This is game-breaking, Anet. If you want PvP to ever be an esport, maybe you should make sure the game works right first. I won’t even consider buying HoT unless you start a major (and public) seek-and-destroy Bug Hunt in the core game first, and I doubt I’m the only one.
Its game breaking for pve, cant imagine for those who pvp a lot. But yea same boat, I came back to this game after getting a new PC that could handle it better and was looking to get the new expansion but…if I cant play it why waste the money on it?
Im having the same exact issue. Now I will say that part of my problem might be playing on a EU server while I am physically in NA but if I recall I had this issue playing on a NA server years ago as well. Have never had issues with any other MMOs I have played, only GW2. Plus this is now the second location and ISP I have played GW2 with here in NA. Same thing, delay of 5-15 then I get disconnected. Kinda sucks when you have to replay the same story mission 3-5 times because you DC at the end of it…