I have been playing with the slider one notch or TWO notches down from high for a month or more and it’s still happening. I just experienced it again upon coming out of a portal bomb right next to north supply camp in BL map with a large group, killing siege. I didn’t get a chance to land a hit. This time it beeped for a bit and then speed up about about 10 times faster and then it froze the game entirely. CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart.
This NEEDS FIXING.
I’d like to add a request to the developers that this meta event chain not be dependent on the Risen Captain being killed. I’m finding it very difficult on my server, in my guild or on the map, to get people who are willing to do one group event and then wait around indefinitely for another, even if there is an achievement associated with it. It is the last boss achievement I have left and spending all this time recruiting and/or standing around and waiting is tedious and boring, not fun.
This is continuing to be a problem. I had the same issue today while fighting on the karka island during a large group fight, which is always the case. I had turned my quality slider down a notch from max because it was happening all the time about a month ago, and the other day I turned it back up just to see if I would continue to have the problem. And I did. Today the sound bug was quickly followed by a client crash which froze my whole system and required a hard reboot.
I have had music on full and all the other sliders on 50% except VOIP, which is at 67%. Mixing buffer is at lowest latency. Don’t know if that information is useful at all, but thought I’d add it.
I had this as a bug after completing Claw of Jormag a couple weeks ago. I’m pretty sure it’s not intended.
I love it too!
What a lot of people don’t understand is that Norn and Charr aren’t the problem.
If you aren’t ahead of 90% of the people after the first spawned part, you aren’t gonna make it in time. You have to be one of the first few people to make it.
Actually I brought up the rear quite a number of times and still made it through. You do have to know what you’re doing and where you can shave off time though.
This is a whole lot of QQ for a total non-issue.
I noticed that the mad rush is where I was getting lost in view, but if you hold back half a second or so, you can still make the run behind everyone without a problem.
Or jump in front of them all.
Seriously though, while I agree that it becomes a non-issue after enough practice, it is discouraging for the “little people” just starting out. And the suggestion to find a way to make it so you can see your character regardless is not a bad one. If it were possible to target ourselves, we could at least see the outline of our own characters (plus I want to see my 100% completion star). I don’t see what problems this would cause any more than targeting any other allied character, as there are no skills that target self or allies, just the ground or enemies. I think it’s worth a look into.
Personally, I liked having people to chat with and time to chat with them, and the cutscene was nice.
It’s against human nature to give up that which you worked hard to win. And this has been a hard fight for Yaks—Friday was tightly matched all night, and both teams, but especially GoM, gave a really good showing on Saturday as well. Kudos to all. It’s impossible to tell when a splash of the enemy’s color on the map will become an overwhelming tide, as it did last week with SoR. So people are going to be fighting to keep the map all green. Asking them to back off deliberately so there can be more fights is just not within most people’s psychology.
And even if it was, I don’t think I’d want to be on another server that won or made points back because Yaks or anyone else “let” that server win. I wouldn’t have liked it last week against SoR, so believe me I can see it from both sides. People want to win legitimately—that’s why the orb hackers are so unpopular even with their own servers. Anyway, for that reason, trying to get people on any winning side to back off for a while for the sake of better fights is not just unreasonable, it’s kind of disrespectful to the losing teams.
Spawn camping excluded, of course, which is just not dignified play. However, I dare any server to prevent random people camping spawn points when they own the map. It’s not my idea of fun, but it always will be some people’s, and it’s ridiculous to act like it wouldn’t go on in every single server, given the chance. Don’t even pretend.
I have gotten a crash right after receiving that same sound bug twice today. I haven’t gotten a blue screen but did have to return to Windows and close the program from there. In WvW I get the bug all the time, even when I am not engaged in fighting.
I am going to add that I am still getting this bug. 3 times last night, during Shatterer, Claw of Jormag and WvW.
Note: I have deliberately NOT changed my audio slider settings off of highest so I can continue to check and see if this issue has received a fix. I do not intend to use a workaround, as I appreciate the sound quality of both the game and my computer system. (My husband often tells me to turn it down.)
Please continue to work on this. Thank you.
I just had this same sound bug while fighting Tequatl. Reported with details via in-game bug submitter. Just wanted to let you know it’s still ongoing.