Half of my Guild was there to participate in the LA Event yesterday afternoon. There was a ton of input lag and stress lag, but nonetheless from what I gathered everyone seemed to enjoy it thoroughly. Coming on here and seeing all this kittening about it is incredibly disheartening, and I hope it doesn’t discourage them from doing things like this in the future. I guess I really do have to stay off these Forums.
For what it’s worth though the story-telling with the cinematic sequences is a lot more epic imo (Fractals for example). We are having a blast, thanks for the sweet event ArenaNet.
I was there as well when all started. After the cinematic EVERYTHIGN started to lag. i talked to an npc in the plaza, then went for a swim to the DE, and got the npc dialog pop up AFTER i got on the beach (15-20ish seconds?) just to give an idea.
Then combat. Could not rez. could not attack. ALL my skill were flashing but just not going off. Went from full hp, no monster around to defeated 3 times. Freezed once on the loading screen when i waypointed, had to restart client. somehow i managed to get some hits here and there by spamming axes, but no credit for any kill, and no loot of course as walking to the corpses would have been impossible.
Then i’m like “Screw this, lets try the dungeon”. Found a group, got in. One guy didnt load, we get swamps and another guy gets DC’ed and cant reenter. Then i have fun for 15 min lagging and warping in a place FULL OF TRAPS that were 10 feets away on my screen.
We give up, i find another party, get to the underwater fractal (which is incredibly annoiying btw) and get disconnected. Relog and im not in the fractal, nor i can reenter.
Then decide to go for the quest, seems like fun, right? Only to discover from my guild that its bugged and you cant progress.
I call it a day, and go to sleep frustrated for having taken the evening off just to play the event. And today, after the patch, i’m just sitting on a bugged asura npc for 2 hours, while everyone sprouts different theories on how to make it work.
So no, I’M NOT HAVING FUN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH and sorry for the rant but this helped me pass time with my ol’ friend noll
i would be fine with 1 shots IF YOU COULD SEE IT COMING.
Often there is an animation of some sorts, but due to how many particles this game has even in low settings, you can’t really tell… which is frustrating because not only you get one shotted, but you dont understand WHY unless you already know the fight