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Your location:
Barcelona, Spain
Time and date of incident (plus time zone):
17:20 21/09/2014 CEST (UTC +2)
Game World:
Baruch Bay
Brief description of what you’re seeing:
From time to time the skills i use doesn’t execute. They skills picture blink for a few seconds till they finally execute or the game just sends me to the character screen with an error i cannot remember.
The ip of the server is 206.127.159.231
P.S.: this hasn’t happened to me just now, i’ve also had this issues since you had the DDoS attack to your servers a few weeks ago. It’s like if you implemented some kind of measure to not let DDoS attacks happen again but they’re affecting users too. Just guessing
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Hi, i am a r27 noob, or at least that is what some people tell me when we lose (well just 2 guys till today).
The opinions i’m gonna show here are my opinions, i’m not pretending to have the actual truth about anything, so please discuss what you think about my thoughts, but do it with respect.
My pvp experience begins as an elementalist. I have played ele the 78% of my games. One of the aspects i like about elementalist is that is very powerful in the sense that is very versatile and it is hard, something that i like, but sometimes i just see that it is too hard to master to be a quality player in your team compared to other professions.
So i recently (about 1 or 2 months ago) i gave my guardian a chance with a bunker build. The experience couldn’t be more rewarding. One thing i did not have with my ele, the sense of rewarding. I’ve been joining some solo arenas with a success ratio of 55% (20/36) and team arenas with my guildmates (48%, 16/33). As you can see i’m not a heavy pvp player.
That’s my history. Now the reason i’m writing this xD
Today i was playing some solo arenas and it was very fun, 3 wins in a row, till i joined another solo arena and we lost. I normally hold the center base, and that’s what i was doing, but i failed because i had to complain against someone belonging to the irrespectful people or more commonly known as “trolls”. We were loosing like 125-50 points and this guy began to call me noob because i was killed in the center. He then decided to stand afk in our base because he bet i wasn’t even 20. Another teammate said he was alone with 2 people in our base, but the “irrespectful guy” said we were noobs and all was lost, so he was not going to move.
He was r60 and said “27 haha; kittening noob”. I’d love i could have kicked him before for not moving almost the entire game.
This is just the second time this happens to me with someone, meeting a super Pr0h guy that think all the guys in their team are noobs. I know i shouldn’t bother myself, but it is so irritating that i had to express myself somewhere.
Based in my background my questions and opinions are:
- Am i doom to just play hot join because i’m not +r40? Is this the opinion of the community or just this guy?
- Am i the only one that thinks that solo arenas are like hot join but with just 5 people, and therefore it has nonsense that some people expect super organized groups like team arenas? In my opinion, if you want that, join a team, but don’t expect that in solo arenas.
- Related to the first question, does it has sense to call noob someone with r27 just based on his rank when it is so hard to gather experience today unless you farm it in some arenas? It seems to some people that i cannot play solo arenas because i am a r27 noob, but i cannot gain much experience in hot join, and so on…
- What are your strategies to deal with these “irrespectful guys”? Report him for verbal abuse? Does Anet really look at these reports or just treat them as rage momentums? Am I somewhat naive?, maybe this is just the bread and butter in any competitive game, virtual or real.
- What kind of balance does Anet perform when making up teams? I mean it, right now i think there is just a random boolean decision that decides if you’re going to red or blue team.
- Does Anet treat PvP today like if it was some kind of minigame in GW2? I remember GW1 for having a famous PvP scene. Maybe there are not enough benefits from PvP, so they’re trying to monetize PvP in the future with the next new changes in glory and its deletion, before investing too much efforts in development.
Please discuss.
TL;DR: than you for reading
Please be aware that this method of debugging network issues has major flaws.
The flaws of measuring ICMP Packets (pings) to measure lag – are well known and numerous these are:
1 ISPs (intermediary) – will randomly drop ICMP Packets on a network. This will then report incorrectly in ping plotter or tracerts commands as dropped packets.
We will see randomly high levels of pings or other such items which does not actually reflect the state of the traffic itself.
Level 3 networks are well known for dropping high numbers of ICMP packets especially cross-country this helps prevent DDOS attacks and is often turned on.
2 The actual game traffic does not travel via ICMP ports so we are looking at something else than the actual traffic itself that is being sent.
3 ICMP Packet analysis only works on a network you fully own to give reliable results and is likely to only work for the first few hops of any network traffic. If you are not seeing any packet loss on the first 2-3 hops then it is probably something else that could be causing the issues.
I even have information supporting this from my ISP which I have sent in prior support tickets to ANET and why this method is completely unreliable. We tried to see if level 3 has a problem between Dallas and Washington as a hop- it turned out that Level 3 routinely drop ICMP packets and the other traffic (game traffic is unaffected).
If possible could we migrate to analysing actual traffic (to/from and if the traffic does not reach it’s destination) with a free network traffic capture system: http://www.wireshark.org. TCP traffic which this game uses relys on synchronised Qued in-order communications if one item fails (or the packet is rejected by the destination) we often experience in-game lag.
Why do I suggest this?
This gives every piece of traffic a start time, end time, ISP priority (QoS), duration in transmission (delta time – can be used to measure real lag), acknowledgement of receipt and a much more detailed analysis.
I have numerous pingplotter graphs which look okay (in various areas of the game), but a more detailed analysis of the actual network traffic highlights some major issues are being experienced in the back end (usually packet is rejected from being recieved by server at high load or a desync event has happened).
I know this is more complex than a basic level 1 network diagnosis – but without looking beyond ICMP it is unlikely we will get to the bottom of these lag issues.
Happy to disucss this further.
You’re right. I’ve installed Wireshark now to end with this problem for good. I’m not having problems now, but at least i’d like to know the reasons this happens from time to time.
Do you have some kind of script or filter to use with wireshark so the next time i have a lag problem i can send my GW2 data only? I’m really willing to finish with this
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