Seriously, instead of doing a testing season for months at something when everyone is telling you that doesn’t work a week after, you should use the remaining time to make changes to the system and try to fix it accordingly. What it looks to me and all the other players is plain lazyness as this game and this pvp mode has existed for 3 years – still doesn’t have a working leaderboard/matchmaking.
The design looks too much like an sPvP map rather than a WvW map where 200+ people can be in one place. Sorry but I can’t hold my laugh at some of the dumb comments above like the one promoting “creativity in approaching fights” where you can clearly see a 1KM long bridge and endless stairs. The whole verticality is stupid. Just because it’s fun in PvE, it doesn’t mean that it suits WvW where hundreds of players are fighting.
What needs to be changed imo is the damage/sustain ratio that celestial provides for some classes. That is not as simple as “nerf cele or buff the other professions”. Certain skills/traits need to be adjusted. Berserker amulet should equal low sustain/high damage and high sustain should go along with more survival and very low damage obviously. Celestial warriors/engies/eles can get like 75% survival and damage when they should be at 50% if the scaling was done proper. The expansion adding the new boons/condies/specialization will definitely change things and hopefully switch the focus from might stacking bunkers to more defined roles where you get punished for investing more into damage or survival.
I can only speak for myself – I haven’t had more than 2 matches I thought were fun in the new system. (it’s either my team gets steamrolled or we destroy the enemy team, no close games whatsoever). On the other hand 80% of my matches during the old lb were very competitive, being matched with and against people on my skill level all the time. I don’t have intentions to play much from now on untill they either revert the system or make some improvements, because the current state is clear to everyone – broken.
Solo queue actually worked fine when there was a separate leaderboard for it, now you get matched against premades all the time, even though the devs still think the system magically matches teams against teams which in reality is completely random. Out of the 50 ranked games I’ve played so far (both with friends and solo) I had fun and interesting matches maybe 2-3 times. I didn’t think it’s possible to create a system that’s 10 times worse than the previous one, but here we are years after the game released and we keep getting downgrates on content.
A lot of decent players getting matched with complete beginners again today. There is absolutely NO FUN in queuing solo anymore. You either have a team or you simply don’t play pvp.
lol when SoloQ existed people kept QQing until they got rid of it and now that it’s finally gone you want it back? pff If I were Anet I’d stop listening to the forums at all….
So a couple days before I played a ranked solo game where we dominated the enemy team and the client decided to disconnect me (NOT an issue on my part). I logged back into the game in 5 SECONDS and we won the match of course, BUT the system decided to remove 2 or 3 points instead which made me drop in rank. Today I played with a full party of friends and the same thing happened. Who the heck thought that this was a good idea? It doesn’t punish leavers, it punishes players that actually try to win (and actually win) games. I really had a bit of faith left for this game mode, but absurd things like this make me wonder how someone in your office thought “yes, this is actually a good idea!” with a straight face.
Since playing with your friends gives you an advantage, we’ll try to keep things fair by matching you with other parties of the same size. Playing with a full team? We’ll prefer matches with other full teams. Playing alone? We’ll prefer to match you with other lone wolves. Even if we can’t find another party of the same size within your skill level, we’ll work to get it as close as possible..
This was taken out of one of the site news regarding the new system. Why am I not seeing it in-game?
It’s the same as if I queued alone for the team ladder during the “previous” system.
First of all – this change wasn’t revealed before the patch hit. If you really wanted feedback, you would’ve suggested this at least a month before releasing it.
Changing something that has worked perfectly fine for 2 years with the excuse of the new system “being more convenient” is not something many people will take lightly and without any doubts. Let me give a fast example: I go to the gem store and want to buy a single Bank Access Express which costs 35 gems. The lowest amount of gems I can buy is 400. I’m paying 11 times more than what I should have payed. Can you explain in what way this is convenient? The only fixed model pricing that will be acceptable is the one that has the same prices as every individual product in the store to buy directly. Like – 35 for Bank Access Express, 125 for Black Lion Chest Key etc.
Funny, I’ve been having 3 games in a row with no issues. Next game everyone besides 3 people disconnects and the game after that I’m having constant lag spikes. When relocated to HotM I had 0 lag whatsoever.
I guess it was a wrong idea to write for support in these forums. Going to make a ticket instead.
Be sure to come back and let us know what the specs of your new PC are after support cannot help you with your hardware fault, if you really do not wish to believe its hardware related, why not go into your local PC shop and tell them exactly what you told us, and im willing to bet they will say do not use the computer its a hardware fault.
Good Luck either way.
Hey, support already helped me out and I’m playing without any problems right now with the exact same rig. Thanks for being so concerned though.
This is absolutely an issue with the game since multiple people have been having the same issue since the patch. I hope they fix it soon before people actually start buying new components thinking that something in their PC is faulty..
As I said I’ve done hours of testing in various other games/troubleshoot programs etc.
Today I played WvW for 6+ hours with no issues whatsoever then I got in an sPvP game and crash after 10 minutes.
Problem occured yesterday while I was playing spvp. My PC would randomly shutdown, then I’d get a 5 short beeps from the mobo being unable to turn it back on for the next 5 minutes. I’ve tried running different kinds of stress test on my CPU and my GPU and everything is in order. The PC only freezes in GW2 and from what I’ve noticed, so far only in Heart of the Mists/sPvP Games. My specs are:
The system with the current OC has been stable for about 3 years and I’ve been playing GW2 since release with no issues. Judging by all the new threads being created it is definitely some sort of code change during the past few days that makes many systems crash. I hope you resolve the issue soon.
Would be a good idea only if it’s instanced like spvp, otherwise you can’t organize nothing due to the massive amount of roamers who will be interrupting.
I don’t know if anyone has experienced this yet but it’s really kittening me off. I’m running double sigil of energy on my weapons and when I swap them while being in combat I don’t get ANY endurance. This happens randomly and needs to be looked at asap.
Clear Intent [INT] is a hardcore WvW guild that currently resides on Gandara EU. We are an experienced squad that has showed great results against some of the best guilds around during the past year. We continue to be competitive and maintain a serious but at the same time positive environment in which our players grow both individually and as a team. We currently raid four times a week during prime time and try to have GvGs when possible.
What we expect from you:
- serious and optimistic attitude
- being able to accept criticism
- active player that will attend most of our raids (20:00-23:00 GMT+1)
- taking part in guild discussions is a big plus
What we can offer:
- an established community consisting of experienced players with over a year of history
- 4 raids a week during prime time and participation in GvGs
- various other activities such as spvp games and roaming with guildies
- friendly people that are ready to help whenever you have an issue
Some videos showing our gameplay during the past year:
Kinda tired of this match already. Tired of endless VS blobs 24/7. Tired of them camping towers and keeps and not going out for fight unless they outnumber you 2:1. Even after league not. Are SFR guilds taking break or aren’t there any left besides [VG] and [IV]?
KoA is still raiding 3-4 times a week but we don’t have much interest in Piken guilds because all you do is blob when we obviously don’t run with more than 20 people against you. (DVG, PG, SFRJ etc.)
Props to War Legend who still rely on skill over quantity. If any guild is willing to do some skirmishes next week feel free to contact me.
If I started the season on one server, moved to another one and then came back to the server I started on will I receive the end season chest based on the first server? Will I be eligible for any reward at all?
A little thing I found about the lag issues that began yesterday for me. I lag on specific overflows – some overflows are completely fine with no lag whatsoever and some are unplayable.
They obviously messed up something with the last hotfix. A lot of people are getting errors and crashes and there’s no response that they’re even aware of the issues. Pretty disappointed..
I’m getting an empty list plus the login error as seen on the screenshot every time I try to browse the game list. Restarting the game doesn’t help. Also since today I’m getting lag all the time in WvW/spvp/pve. It gets worse when there are more people in the same place. Never had such issues since the game’s launch so I’m completely positive that the problem is NOT on my side.
The lag spikes don’t happen all the time, mostly in world boss fights when a lot of people gather in one place. I’ve been completely disconnected once on a tequatl fight.
