Guild Wars 2

I went to do Grenth the other day, walked into the temple and all I could see were skill effects going off like fireworks and portals appearing on the ground. Move in closer and immediately get downed.. then the mass of shades that were attacking me materialized out of thin air. Whoops.

And Tequatl, possibly the oddest case of culling I’ve seen yet. None of his minions would show up even though I knew they were there, and then suddenly, all the players and Tequatl himself disappeared after I took a few steps back to use my pistol from a distance. IT CULLED THE DRAGON.
He appeared a few minutes later, as did all the players, and my game promptly crashed. When I logged back in, the dragon was gone (for real this time) and there was no chest.

I’m not even going to talk about the problems I have in wvw. Ugh.

If you’re going to make vista, JP, or dungeon videos, please, please keep your mouth shut unless the visuals for some reason cannot convey the information you need to get across.

I’m sorry for that, but it seems like 99% of the GW2 players who make videos have the most grating, irritating voices to ever grace humanity.
And if you think you’re funny, there’s a good chance you’re actually the opposite. The last thing I want to hear when I’m watching a vista video is someone nasally making “all your base” jokes.

If things have been changed enough that they’re easily noticed, it’d probably be a really good idea for them to let people know. But communication regarding patches has been a problem for quite a while.

quickthorn.4918:

Egon Vidar.9125:

I played GW1 for seven years. I really want to love the story/writing/voice acting for GW2, but the vast majority of the time, I just can’t.

As for accents I’d like to see, if Elona is ever released in an expansion or campaign, I’d really love to hear African and Middle East type accents. It greatly helps with immersion. Ditto with Cantha, I’ve noticed that Tengu have accents and it sounds wonderful.

I loved GW1 but some of the voice acting was pretty terrible, particularly Prophecies. I can’t recall specific examples but it seemed to improve gradually with each expansion. Nightfall wasn’t too bad (with the exception of Varesh) and EOTN was fairly natural. I preferred the in-game cutscenes.

Yeah, Prophecies itself had a lot of VA and timing issues. I particularly remember a lot of scenes with Prince Rurik that were just horrendous. Really cheesy and amateur sounding. It vastly improved with each campaign/expansion, and the in-game cut scenes made everything feel much more natural even when the voice acting was really off.
The story writing for GW1 was vastly superior imo, though, even if the dialogue writing was sometimes pretty wonky.

To answer several questions at once: the reason why I don’t WP to the Mists or HoM is because my client crashes over fifty percent of the time I hit a load screen for some god forsaken reason, and I was both checking for events and going back and forth between the game and an IM window. I wasn’t sitting there with the game minimized for long stretches of time (I play windowed so I can switch back and forth frequently) I just needed to park my butt for a few in a spot that (normally) had no mobs. That, and I was enjoying looking at the Dominion of Winds wall.

Plus, idling for a few in a spot that’s usually safe is not something that makes me think that my character could potentially die. I was not expecting players to pull mobs into me, it never happened before. Call me optimistic, but from this community, I don’t usually expect the worst of people. This is a community that I’m usually proud of. The dailies are beginning to change that, though.

I should not have to fret about players pulling crap into me for their benefit when I’m standing somewhere safe, in a spot where mobs have to be deliberately aggroed in. It is not on me to shield myself from their horrendous behavior. It’s on them not to act so shamefully.

I am absolutely certain that’s Zhaitan, and I’m really curious about that scene. Is something going to be done with it? If not, can we get some sort of information on what the intent was and why it was cut from the game?

I’ve been intensely curious about those few seconds of footage for a long, long time and I’d really love for someone to give me some info so I can stop wondering about it, heh

I saw these and I was about to buy them for my wife for laughs (our anniversary is also Valentines Day) and then I saw they were account bound.. and also 400 gems.
How incredibly disappointing. I’d buy them for myself, again for laughs, if they were cheaper. As it is, they’re half the price of a character slot! I can buy my wife (or myself..) a real bouquet of flowers for that price.

Crossplay.2067:

All I’m going to say is, if you guys whine enough to get Anet to remove, “by Ogden’s hammer, what savings,” I’m going to spatial surge you all WITH THE HUBBLE!!

I would never. I’ve heard this one a hundred times and it makes me laugh every single time.

“More violets, less violence” just makes me want to go on a rampage, though.

I can’t stand Sieran. But Carys? My lord. I’ve never come across a character in any media before whose voice acting and lines make me want to take a running leap off a cliff. I desperately wish I could put her out of my misery.
I know she’s supposed to be thick, but that’s a little ridiculous. She’s articifically bubbly and sweet and reminds me of a grown woman trying to act (badly and stereotypically) like a five year old child. And, spoilers, but how on earth could someone so empty headed lead the Pale Reavers? I know they’re basically just Trahearne’s cannon fodder for the dragons (that is really how it comes across, making Trahearne look like a jerk exploiting his own people to take down the dragons at ANY cost), but you would think a little bit of brain power would be required.
Trahearne himself is generally terrible but everyone is aware of that. He does not bother me as badly as Carys, but it would be quite a feat if he did.
The pale tree is just as emotionless as he is and inspires nothing in me. Seems like a lot of Sylvari suffer. Shame, as they’re my favorite race.

Personal Story voice acting is definitely the worst. Ambient is generally fine. Asura and Charr have the best voice acting, I’ll agree. Human and Sylvari are mediocre to bad. I don’t know about Norn since I don’t play one, I don’t care for the writing for them compared to GW1. They strike me as just being huge drunk humans this time around.

And back to Sylvari, but I have four males and I’ve had to listen to their lines.. a lot. The accent really frequently slips and you can tell the VA is American or Canadian or something. Normally I like the voice, except in those moments. It’s especially bad with the lines “hit me, I dare you!” and “I can FEEL the adrenaline!” (or something similar). The former sounds more like a weird Boston accent, the latter is snarled, near accentless, and doesn’t sound like the usual voice at all. I thought at first those lines were other characters of another race near me, then I realized the audio was my Sylvari. “Shake it off!” sounds peculiar as well. It seems that it just goes strange whenever the VA needs to shout. The guy is fully capable of emoting, though, so good job there. As a disclaimer, I’m not English, I’m American, and I could still hear things off about his accent.

The worst voice acting scene in the game, however, is during Against The Corruption. After Trahearne tries his ritual and fails, he laments the impossibility of the situation.. in the most dry, emotionless voice possible. The writing for the scene is frankly terrible, too.. sorry if that offends, but I have to be honest. You can look up the scene dialogue on the wiki.

Within just a few lines, he goes from completely hopeless to determined again. I understand that during a scene in writing you need to change the mood from beginning to end to keep the audience’s interest, but this wasn’t over just one scene, this was during one brief exchange within a scene. This is not good writing. TVtropes would call this Mood Whiplash, I’m sure. It makes Trahearne even less realistic than he already is, and those lines are read with all the heartfelt emotion of someone going over their grocery list. That, and the answers are just so easy. Trahearne instantly knows what The Source of Orr is, there’s no real looking for it or trying to figure out what it means. There is no tension or worry about figuring it out. There’s no drama, even thought the game’s writing really tries hard to create it. It just falls flat, I’m sorry to say.

I played GW1 for seven years. I really want to love the story/writing/voice acting for GW2, but the vast majority of the time, I just can’t.

As for accents I’d like to see, if Elona is ever released in an expansion or campaign, I’d really love to hear African and Middle East type accents. It greatly helps with immersion. Ditto with Cantha, I’ve noticed that Tengu have accents and it sounds wonderful.

I can confirm this, I tried to do it yesterday but absolutely nothing was happening there, the Inquest weren’t showing up. I came by again today on my way to do some personal story stuff, and noticed it was still stuck.

Tintaglia.4762:

Along the same lines, the “Juvenile” should be removed from the default pet name once a pet is tamed. It causes a lot of confusion when players see it and try to charm a pet which actually belongs to a ranger already.

This, also. I had someone try to charm my polar bear (in Metrica…) and then get mad at me because “you should name your pet so it’s not so confusing!”
Even though my pets have a visible guild tag. Blugh.

But no. It really drives me nuts that I can’t name my pets and keep their names. Makes it a lot harder for me to get attached to them and care about them, as silly and ridiculous as that sounds. I also loved seeing funny pet names in GW1, but it’s rare in GW2 because people hardly bother to name their pets.

My armour was damaged the time they actually succeeded in killing me. Even if it wasn’t, it’s still a jerk move to pull on someone while they’re looking away for a moment. For one, if you’re a long ways away from a waypoint and need to get back, you could be looking at a several minute long walk.
It’s an inconvenience and it’s incredibly discourteous and selfish either way. And while you might not mind, I do, and I’m sure many other people would as well. My character standing still for a minute or two is not an invitation to kill me for your benefit and my detriment. It costs me to waypoint and repair my armour, after all.

Edit: Especially discourteous when they tried it on my level 80. His armour is partially exotic and the repair cost is staggering since I’m trying to save money.

I wasn’t sure where to post this, I suppose this is as good a place as any.

Yesterday while playing, I had many people talking to me on a messaging program, so I needed to switch back and forth between the game and another window. I parked my character at the heart Tengu that stands beside the Destroyer event area in Kessex Hills. There are no mobs whose AI carries them naturally to where I was standing, but there were warg in the vicinity – just not close enough to naturally aggro into me. Yesterday, one of the dailies was healer, where you get points toward the daily for reviving.

I was talking to a friend, and maximized the game to check in and see if any events were running near me, out of habit. I found myself downed with warg attacking me, and an Asura standing off to the side, watching. I died, and he ran over and began to revive. I used a WP, hopefully denying him of the revive point.

Later, I parked myself again at the same point. Again, later, I maximized the game and found myself being attacked by warg, but I wasn’t downed yet. A human female player character was, again, watching me and letting me get wailed on. I killed the warg and she ran away.

Even later still, I was in a completely different area on my level 80, Bloodcliff Quarry. I was checking something on the TP when I noticed myself taking damage. A charr PC had dragged dredge into me to beat on me. I killed them and, again, the player took off.

I wish I had gotten their names, but my vision is very poor and I was preoccupied in every instance with either keeping myself alive or killing mobs. But this is getting completely ridiculous. It’s really easy to find downed NPCs, or even go into a city map and ask in map chat for someone to suicide jump for you, but now people are intentionally killing other players for the dailies. I’m not sure if it’s maliciousness, laziness, or desperation.
Can something be done about this? I know aggroing mobs into players is against the TOS, but that doesn’t stop them. It might be a good idea to change the daily where only reviving NPCs counts.. but that has potential to mess things up even more. I’ve already seen multiple instances of players ragging on others for helping NPCs instead of letting them die.

About dragon event lag..
I realized, it’s not the large groups causing the lag, at least on Tarnished Coast. I’ve been to dragon events with just a tiny handful of people and it lagged just the same, and I’ve played wvw with larger groups than you ever see at dragon events, usually without even a quarter as much lag.. and wvw is laggy to begin with. At Claw of Jormag, using a skill causes a delay of well over a dozen seconds., and everything grinds down nearly to a halt. Similar with Tequatl and Shatterer, but Claw is the worst. Even Zhaitan induces lag in Arah. And thinking back, in the Sylvari opening with the big nature dragon, the game lags there, too.

I suspect there might be an issue with the dragons themselves. The game only drops down into crushing levels of lag when the dragons land.

STILL broken on Tarnished Coast. 8/9. I crawled all over the place inside and outside of that orange circle, stared at and studied every surface, every nook and cranny.. that urchin just is not there.

The funny thing is, I’m playing on an alt right now. I remember doing this on my main character when the game was first launched and it wasn’t working then, either. That was in early September, 2012.. and this event is still broken? Five months?
I know it’s just one minor event, but come on. I’ve never been able to fight the Shadow Behemoth either because it’s been busted since launch, too, at least on my server.

Tarnished Coast server.

I get both disconnects and crashing to desktop. It happens constantly when I have to travel to an area that has load screens, especially into cities like Lion’s Arch and Divinity’s Reach, but it also almost always happens trying to get into Fractals. I crash during large dragon events, as well. There’s been about four times now within the past week that I’ve been fighting a dragon and, right before it dies, I crash and when I come back on there’s no chest. Big waste of time since I’m trying to save up money for an item, I wish I could actually somehow predict when it’s going to happen.
As for lag, it’s really bad during combat for me. Especially during Fractals. Not constant lag that just slows things down, but just these really horrible lag spikes where I can’t move or attack and I’ll very often come out of it dead. I hate letting down my party but there’s nothing I can do about it, it’s embarrassing because it makes it look like I’m just standing there staring off into space while I get destroyed.
And in WvW, well.. A lag spike like that is a complete disaster. WvW is laggy enough as it is and has culling issues, without several second long spikes on top of it.

I just want to point out that technology does not equal intelligence, necessarily. For example, humans have been as smart as they are currently for the past 30,000 years, at least. Saying tech = intellect implies that, say, modern tribal people aren’t as intelligent as westerners, who rely heavily on technology and invent a lot of it. It’s a bad implication and it’s just plain wrong on top of it.

I really think all the races were designed to be of equal or very near equal intelligence, they’re just smart in different areas. Imagine putting an Asura (with no tech) and a Norn out in the middle of a snowy forest at night that’s full of wurms, and neither has anything but a knife – we’ll ignore body mass and temperature for this. Who would survive the longest? Obviously, the Norn, because they’ve learned to. Their intelligence is geared toward surivival, the lay of the land, how to fight.

And on the reverse, handing a Norn a piece of Asura tech could have some disastrous consequences because they don’t know how to work it – but if you showed them how, they could learn. It just doesn’t interest them.

disclaimer: I don’t really care for Norn, I just think they got the short end of the stick in this thread.

Another 7+ year GW1 vet. The pvp in GW2 just doesn’t compare. I’ll be playing WvW and find myself longing for the days of Alliance Battles.. And I’m casual. I never was very good at making builds, either. But I’d take that any day over boring monotony. When everyone uses the same skills and builds, there are no surprises.
And uh, GW1 never exactly suffered invisible zerg rushes due to culling that was apparently impossible for the dev team to fix, heh.

So much better than it was before. I can go there and not spend an eternity killing excess mobs, getting pulled around, and struggling to find a place to afk just to go grab something in the next room without dying or wasting silver going to a major city.
Also thank you for making some of the mobs larger, now I can see them better and more easily differentiate them from others humanoid mobs.

I’m visually impaired (blind in one eye, poor vision in the other) which makes the game difficult enough for me as it is, I’m already at a disadvantage.. most of it because of how dark a large portion of the game is. Now I can’t even see some of my loot.. seriously. If the chests are sitting on a ground texture that isn’t really brightly or vibrantly colored, they aren’t visible to me at all unless I crank my gamma way up and that makes the rest of the game incredibly ugly. Not to mention, I prefer to play in windowed mode so it isn’t even possible most of the time.

I just can’t see them unless I stand there for a few minutes carefully combing over the ground like I’m looking for a needle in a haystack. It’s barely even worth it because I’ve never had one of the chests contain anything but blues and whites. Could you please change the chest color? Or get rid of them entirely? I’m not even sure why this change was made. I have the same problem with wvw bags, but even those are more visible than the chests.
I really hope this gets fixed and people with below-average vision don’t get shafted the way the color-blind did. They begged for changes, too, just so they could play the game like everyone else. Just a UI color changer, or AOE ground circles in a more visible color. They got nothing.

Also, folks who can see them just fine? Good for you. But not everyone can see so well.

I saw a group last night farming it, and I wanted the event to progress so I kited more mobs into it than they could possibly handle and also keep Halla safe. I’m not angry at them for farming it, though.. everyone needs money and drops, I understand. The event is just set up badly, they’re doing what they feel they need to.. And so am I. It’s just unfortunate that the game has caused our interests to conflict. I’m not going to go and report them over it because I don’t see how just killing a bunch of mobs is exactly exploiting.
Was this on Tarnished Coast by any chance?
People are a bit too quick to start yelling about exploits. Not everyone is obligated to play the same way.

Sylvari
Engineer
Male

Noble Coat, Whispering karma Leggings, and Heritage Boots preview, all level 80. Noble Coat is from TP, the other two are only available from one place each (Gates of Arah and HoM). The belt from the pants clip through the coat, and the kneepads from the pants clip through the boots. I’ve mentioned previously that the heritage pants belt also clip through the coat’s vest. You need to either enable some sort of transparency maps, or make sure every piece of clothing is compatible with every other piece before releasing them. If you enable mixing sets, some testing is seriously required.
I work in the art field myself, and this just looks silly and very unprofessional.

Broken/weak classes vs. overpowered classes.
My main is an engineer so I’ve got quite a lot I could say about that. I made a warrior for the first time yesterday, I was taken aback. I could play that class in my sleep, and it’s almost impossible for the character to die unless I’m just standing there taking hits and not fighting back. Good grief.

The lag and crashing. I can’t even do dragon events without lagging out and then crashing, and 50% of the time (no exaggeration) I try to travel into a city I crash. 70% if I’m trying to get into a dungeon instance. My fellow guild members have come to expect it every time we do fracs.
The culling. I’m scared to even try to play wvw after this newest patch with those culling issues.
GW2.exe loves to leave its process running after being closed.
Aaand just everything that’s had repeated attempted fixes that have only broken them further.
Lets not mention Lost Shores and just leave that mess in the past, at least we don’t have to play it over and over again.

Kendokarate.5806:

I have the same bug. Does anyone know if playing in windowed fullscreen or fullscreen matters?

I play in just windowed mode, I don’t think it matters.

Maybe this can just be a general thread for strictly aquatic creatures on land, since I know they’re trying to fix the issue. That way many of the problems can be put in one place. I apologize if there’s a thread like this, I couldn’t find one.

Anyway, here are the amazing flying barracuda of the Infinity Coil. This happened on Tarnished Coast.

Same issue here, too.

My gear was level 80.

I got no ectos for the EXOTICS I salvaged today, but I did yesterday. I was using a black lion kit.

I also reported this, and saw many other people report it, too – in game and in the forums. That thread never got a response, either.

DinoDoll.3682:

ya know, compared to humans asura /are/ kid sized (actually they are smaller than human children! – probably human toddler sized). so the fact that their weapons look like “kid’s toys” makes sense, doesn’t it?

how big of a weapon can a human-toddler sized warrior hold??

Smaller than human children and toddler sized, you say? Barely smaller than human children, undoubtedly heavier – at least my asura. Check my attached images.

Anyway, my asura is a ranger so I don’t get hit quite as badly, but the thing is, for their body size, asura have enormous hands, feet, and heads. They’re clunky by design, and that isn’t a bad thing, but it isn’t good when weapons aren’t made clunky to compensate. Weapons close to those big hands need to be made big, such as daggers and pistols. Swords, greatswords, and staves need to be thickened to look correct on them, too. And to avoid length clipping and hilts going through craniums, just tilt them sideways a little. I really don’t know why some of the items haven’t been pulled out from the body to avoid clipping, but a heads up to the art and design team: it looks lazy. I work in the art field too, I wouldn’t ever let something like that slip past me.
My slingshot skinned shortbow is so swallowed up by my big asura paws that it sort of looks ridiculous, even as enormous as my asura is.

I’ve no idea what’s going on here. In the Hero Panel, the blade is missing from my greatsword and it seems part of the panel itself is gone.

Sylvari, Male, Mesmer, level 10
Weapon: Avenger’s Longsword, level 8, acquired from personal story The Knight’s Duel.
Armour:
Fanged Dread Mask, starter armour.
Velvet Coat, level 5, from personal story A Good Work Spoiled (I think..)
Velvet Hose, level 7, probably also from personal story but I’m not sure which one.
Apprentice Gloves, level 10, from Xee at Kraitbane Haven.
Apprentice Boots, level 10, from Xee at Kraitbane Haven.

Yes to all of the above.
However, I uninstalled and reinstalled my nvidia drivers (a few times..) and finally got it to working smoothly, for now. If any more issues crop up, I’ll update this thread.

I also really don’t consider this resolved since there are many other people having this problem and similar.

This happened to me when I was making my Sylvari Mesmer recently. Took me about six tries before I got all the tweaks memorized to be able to quickly get him made before being kicked.

Never happened when I made my other characters when the game was new.

Uncontrollable crashing since the patch to the point that I can’t even play the game, now. Or repair it. Or.. anything. I’m not the only one.

This needs a hotfix or an emergency rollback due to performance issues and people being entirely locked out of the game.

I tried using an old Nvidia driver (306.97 as mentioned above) and my problem still persists.

Yes, but when I try to run it, it also crashes.

I’m getting this too, except before it can complete, it crashes. I’m just about at the end of my rope..

I’m having this too, and even made a thread about it: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Downloading-Patch-Client-Crash/first#post1212201

At the moment, I can’t even get into the game at all. I could for a while a day or so ago, but it would crash violently every time I entered an instance. Now, I open up the launcher and it instantly crashes. Anet.. please don’t ignore this. We paid for a game we can’t even play.

I, too, have an Nvidia card.

Here you go. Apologies for the size, the forums wouldn’t let me copy and paste the error.

Ah sorry, missed your post there, Kirito. One moment, I have to go in and cap it.

Oh man. Every time I try to open the game now, I get this mess. Please help! I can’t even get into the game! Repairing Data Archive only gets as far as the dragon logo’s wing before it stops and the crash report always pops up over it.

I would really appreciate some help.. I’d like to be able to play the game.

Update: The game likes to crash the most when I enter or am in an instance. Once I bypass the crashes logging in, it typically runs fine when I’m in the open world. The moment I try to do personal story missions with instances or I go into a dungeon is when the crashing gets especially bad.

It will also sometimes crash when I’m in a large group such as a zerg attack in WvW, but not as frequently as with instances.

Finally made it update by running the launcher over and over, forcing it to download the files very, very slowly.
It still keeps crashing when I click Play, but if I keep trying, I can eventually get into the game. Which also crashes at random.

Better than nothing, but not entirely solved.

Nope, client reinstall didn’t work. Looks like I’m SOL and can’t play until I receive some form of help.

I had to stop playing the game for a week or two due to real life stuff. When I came back, I saw there was a new patch. However, I can’t download it at all, every time I try the client crashes.. I’ve tried about a dozen times. At the advice of a guild member, I deleted the temp files, but it didn’t make any difference.

Help? I can’t play the game at all.. I’m going to try to reinstall the client and see if that helps any, but I’m not feeling optimistic.

I tried, but got no error. It just didn’t open paypal, there was no button to open paypal, and my wife and I repeatedly checked the account to see if anything came in. Nothing.

I really would like to get a new character slot..

This was the only thread I found on this topic so if someone could answer or give an idea as to what’s wrong, it would be greatly appreciated.

I’m also having constant crashes and an inability to set my textures above medium. I would like to take hd video and nice screens, but I can’t really do that with my highest texture option medium.

The crashing didn’t start for me until the Karka event.

Is anyone else having these issues? If anyone can duplicate the medkit detachment with tonics, that would be awesome.

I have the same problem, if I try to scroll past Estate of Decay, it goes blank. And now that I look, I have the exact same issue with The Battle of Claw Island, too.

Info:
Engineer. Sylvari, universal multi-tool pack, the white stag, all things have a right to grow, cycle of night, charm. Chose Durmand Priory. I have no idea if any of that is relevant, but I guess it can’t hurt to include it.