Been playing GW2 since the BWE’s here.
Had no trouble with lag besides the huge lag we had on the first day of BWE1 until about a week ago.
Headstart was fine, nothing out of the ordinary, but as each game update has come out and as more players have joined the lag has been getting worse and worse, mine isn’t as bad as some people’s esperiences, but it is ruining the game to a degree.
Skill lag: – Only minor for me, but skills and dodges are taking at least 3 seconds now to happen, i can input a skill combo only for the enemy to already be dead by the time it gets about half way through, dodging is terrible at the moment because i’m taking alot of damage before i move, even though i pressed dodge in plenty of time.
Enemy phasing: A really annoying one is enemys seeiming to “Phase in” right ontop of me. this was particularly noticeable on the Charr scrapyard DE in Plains of Ashford, where the enemys would be running in and attacking, but i wouldn’t actually get to see them nor be able to attack them until they phased in properly, in the meanwhile i was taking damage from them as they attacked me.
Stuck in one spot: This one happens rarely, but my character becomes stuck in place, they can still use skills, talk and see other players moving, but i am unable to move, then about 2 mins after the DE has ended i will teleport to another part of the map, presumably where all my button presses during the DE eventually led to with me being unable to see the movement.
Mail sending lag: This is another rare one, but usually mail goes through in an instant, sometimes though, and it’s happened on more than one occasion, i will press “Send” and it will hang for about 40 seconds before finally going through.
Rubberbanding: This happens more to my friend than it does to me, but on occasion i’ve had sever rubberbanding, and quite often spend time chasing my friends “Ghost” as he will run to one place, but i will end up following a version of him that is responding to his input commands, so i will follow him in a certain direction only to then see him instantly appear somewhere else in the area, as his character that i could see wasn’t following the same path as he himself was taking, i’ve seen him run off a cliff and agro monsters, jumped down to save him, only for him to appear back up on the hill running in the opposite direction.
Random Disconnects: Occasionally i’ll be in the middle of a DE or just standing in town, when i will get kicked from the game and be unable to reconnect to the login server, or i will be in a DE and everything will stop, but i will still be able to move around, then after about a minute i will be booted from the game and again struggle to reconnect.
These issues have started becoming more and more common / severe as the days go by, i know Euro servers had alot of problems at the start, and i believe they are still having issues now, i know hacked player accounts are the top priority right now, but i’d like to see a statement from Arenanet that they are aware of the EU lag issues, because i’ve tried downloading things and also playing other games online and i am having none of these problems in any other game or with anything i download from other sites, which seems to suggest that the problem is somewhere on Arenanets end or in their server datacenters for Europe.
I am on Whiteside Ridge (EU) and play the game from the UK, I run the game on max settings, but even turning everything down to absolute lowest changes nothing.
I know and understand that Hacked players have priority, but even some kind of acknowledgement that your working on this would be a huge relief for us right now, because for a high action / reaction / skill based game like Guild Wars 2, it becomes very hard to play and have fun when you have a 3 second delay or late enemy phase in that gets you killed =/
I’ll be happy to provide any additional details you require to help resolve this matter for everyone so please Arenanet, help us to help you!
- Tsukasa