Guild Wars 2

East coast US. I have on occasion encountered the aptly described “running out of stamina” issue where game steadily degrades until it either forces a logout or hangs forever, forcing an Alt-F4. I don’t remember it being as bad as it has been the past few days.

Something new happened tonight. While fighting the marionette, I “ran out of stamina”, waited around for about two minutes, did the Alt-F4, logged back in and the event was gone. At first I thought I went into a different overflow and somehow the timer was off, but the chat was full of confused people wondering where the event was after being disconnected.

The rubberbanding and teleporting eventually causes desync that cannot be fixed (beyond using waypoints and changing zones, I guess). Symptoms of this are invisible mobs attacking (maybe they are seen 20 feet away) and NPCs that can’t be talked to unless you move around a bit. After inevitably dying, it’s amusing to log out dead, log back in, and see where it was I really died.

Sometimes it takes a very long time for certain game assets to load, like the map (looks like a low resolution preview), NPC and character models, dialog background, and skills (just see the keybinds and box outlines). However, this issue appears to be mutually exclusive from the skill lag and desync issues. It seems like when asset loading is a problem that it’s a caching server that’s fallen behind but the server(s) with the instances and action are behaving properly. Curious that these types of assets are apparently streamed rather than stored locally. Maybe they are stored locally and another issue occasionally prevents them from loading in a timely manner.

My testing hasn’t been exhaustive and some issues may be on my side. On the other hand, I’d be quite impressed if it was me that caused the marionette event to crash and disconnect many/all players from the game.

If a person has red color deficiency, the AoE circles may be invisible. Players may not be aware that there are circles meant to be seen.