Guild Wars 2

Shame I can’t do the stories under the recommended levels now, they were a real challenge that way! Tried changing through the hero screen, no joy. 7.03 lvs isn’t too much work though to ‘fix’ slot 9.

Can’t see the feet of my Norn

It shouldn’t take more than a day to download, took me 5 or so hrs, my download then ran at a consistent 1mb+.

We’re not only unpaid testers we’ve paid to test it, one can get very disgruntled with that fact. Partly rather I didn’t but I’ve looked at the threads that mainly the windows users post in regarding problems triggered by this feature pack and it’s very tragic how much more communication they get than what we get here. At the very least from that thread I learned the cause relates to Coherent.exe, which has replaced awesomnium or whatever it’s called. The staff there replied with tips and also explained a bit on how the tp runs or is meant to in this case… Also they are trying to get in touch with the Coherent staff for help…. So much more info even if it hasn’t helped me to get my tp to work than what we’ve had, everything we need to know should be provided equally here!

20 yrs of mmos? Can’t think of any mmos that far back, that had any graphics anyway. (Yahoo pool doesn’t count ^^) The internet wasn’t even that big till late 90s. I am getting nearly guaranteed crashes from trying to use the tp however, if the game is fullscreen and an error message doesn’t process after a crash then I also have to power down, very annoying. The force quit commands and screen minimise won’t work there after.

Buga I think it might be deliberate, none of the abilities work without attacking a target and being within range either. I like the summoned elementals being able to fight for themselves, now I need to worry about finding a target bah….

Is a downer as I thought it could be another skill to use for fast movement, the healing glyph with air, dagger skill 5 with air and now the elite elemental so we’d never be without the 33% increased speed, oh well.

Same problem, am on a much lower res than 1920×1080 even so makes sense to just display the current attunement’s elemental anyway. Even if it’s a few kb saved collectively thousands of elementalists having redundant data does cause problems over time. The game display should be operable on all resolutions if our machines meet the requirements.

Also depends how long you’ve been logged in, certainly crashes less if you haven’t been on long even with big zergs so may be useful to take a few breaks here and there.

Agreed it’s not good and I’ve rarely needed to reboot from a gw2 crash before this update. I thought changing character or going to the character select and reloading the character will bypass the crash but no, as soon as you try to open the tp it will crash the game.

Have you been getting game crashes from the tp? That’s the single major issue I have, their tp has always been bad except after April’s feature pack, that actually gave a stable fast tp, now they take it away for a ‘new improved’ tp, hahaha. Right now I don’t feel like recommending the game to anyone either, till this fiasco I called this game the best mmorpg I’ve played… (TP being the worst however) I still suspect they never adequately test the game as every patch has needed hot fixes of some kind worst cases several in the 1st night of the patch release…. Perhaps I should save myself from disappointment and assume an announced new patch and even worse feature packs equates to several days of something broken & learning more useful info about the problem from the players than the staff who are paid to help us!

The tp’s still crashing me most times. Why it’s not loading for me is the processes for it keep killing themselves for some unknown reason.

It has been fixed for me though I have to wait 4secs after I hit the enter key rather than it being instant, the tp’s still crashing my game constantly, which is a much more serious problem.

Well this has easily been the most buggy feature pack by far, my client has never crashed so much. Downloading it was fine, you mean 250mb, not 25?

The % of download progress is number of files downloaded rather than total memory btw

No haven’t the patience to wait for a 30gb download, having said that it’s taking the staff much longer than the 5-7 hrs I’d need to redownload the whole game… Just to clarify step 2 has actually made my game worse, I didn’t crash before even getting the game up, only the crashing tp is my problem and that’s a big problem of course, so beware anyone else that tries step 2, nevertheless sounded like a good suggestion and as Squirty says it has worked for some… (And that’s a lot more help than what I’ve gotten from any Anet staff)

Deleting the bin folder is far from a technical procedure anyway, plenty have tried to redownload the game and all it did was give a game that won’t start or even complete the download so that puts me off for sure. There was a workaround in April where you rename the game and start to download a new client, stop and then name back the original client, not sure why but that did allow a non loading tp to work (Until Anet did a weekend patch that failed to solve the problem…)

That hot fix has not alleviated the tp problems for me, it loaded once and crashed twice since I tried…. If possible build a tp that doesn’t need browsers as that’s clearly a big problem that I’ve never seen exist in other mmorpgs. At the very least at least the staff here are giving info, why aren’t we getting such a service with the mac support threads?!

Squirty.9046:

many players are still stuck and i was able to fix this on my own.
technically after the patch it made everybody sad coz of coherent,for others, it fixed it using internet options.
100% fix to all users and there are two ways:
1. if u r not a technical person – uninstall the game and then go to your gw2 folder and delete the coherent file manually. then re-install the game.
2 if u r lazy but too technical – delete the current coherent file and re-install a new one(this one saved my time)

Hasn’t worked for me, prevented the game starting up as well first try after the delete.

Johan Skold.4708:

Udhir.6518:

I have a question about this CoherentUI_Host.exe *32 process. While observing this in my Windows task manger>Process tab, I am finding 2 instances of Coherent running while in game. Is this going to be a normal situation? Should we have both?? As both Instances are~ 39K of Working set (Memory)…

That is correct. You should be seeing one while the trading post is closed, and an additional one when you open the trading post or gem store. The first one is used for communication between the game and the browser, and the second one is used for rendering.

With a failed tp load that extra gw2 process cuts out and tries to get back but again vanishes.

Many questions and very few if any answers… I took a look at the standard threads & was very sad to see the staff actually respond somewhat & with more useful replies than just ‘working on it’. From that thread I learned a bit about how the tp actually (tries to) function & what may be the problems, a lot more info than I’ve got from the mac support side, is very frustrating.

German fellow, a restart fixes that problem for me, if it doesn’t for you then am not sure, that ‘hot fix’ was probably wvw season related, certainly hasn’t fixed my tp problems.

Not sure if it’s related but after doing that it got the tp to load for me and no crash ensued. Then there was an issue with inputting so I had to close it… I tried to reopen the tp from the Black lion agent and got a crashed…

Had hoped I’d not need to post here again but the tp is still abominable, over a week after it was released it still crashes my client nearly every time! Have had no contact directly about this from support either!

Aren’t you lucky, my tp is still crashing me. Maybe we could have an exchange programme lol. As you want to pvp or spvp as u call it and I want a working tp, I probably have a working pvp (wvw seemed to work well enough, eventually crashed after several hrs play with blobs about but that’s not uncommon I don’t think so I presume pvp should be fine)

I would avoid hot join too if they allowed 10v10s in tpvp. Can’t get past being set in my ways but a downed tp as with April’s fiasco is the perfect time to focus on pvp for me as they don’t give too many loots to break the inventory bags…

Haven’t had any problems logging in or ever for installing. The major hurdle now is the ‘new improved’ tp. 95% of my tries to open the piece of junk (That has a badly designed layout to add) has resulted in crashes for me. Sent many crash reports and tickets already… To date in my 10 yrs of mmos this game has hands down the worst trade system in practise. I never experienced a fraction of how many problems this game has given me! Thought April’s tp issue was bad, which took 5 days to resolve for me but I think this will exceed that, at least April’s problems didn’t cause crashes and was actually fixed by the feature pack, not broken!

At the very least though at least this thread has gotten some responses from the staff and I’ve learned at least what may be causing the crashes, the mac support threads have given pretty much 0 intel at all just the ’we’re looking into it!’

If April’s pack did anything well (Trashed the trait UI by removing the drop downs and the Hero tab forced us to do needless clicks as the system cannot default to ‘Equipment’, gone are the days when we could just hit H and change gear…) it was for once giving us a stable and fast tp, am surely mourning it now!

Perhaps she’s been restored with the feature pack but last I checked Seraph Cassidy is nowhere to be seen

The crashing problem persists, am getting tired of filing multiple reports, after submitting a ticket how long are we expected to wait for a response? This is the most common message I get after the tp crash and I can tell you it’s outstayed its welcome! Just having 1 successful or semi successful use of the tp a day is really unacceptable, I fear this problem will take longer than the 5days it took to fix the last big tp issue back in April…

I’d take a crash over smoke and fire any day ^^. Sadly don’t think Anet will feel too obligated to accept any responsibility for such a thing, you’ll get the apologetic platitudes only.

Thanks for that, a computer restart would also fix that as well, takes a bit longer than hitting F4 and Utilities of course. Guys, send a support ticket via services here for the grievances this patch has given us.

PvP has been a mess since april anyway, it has descended into rank farms. For a time I put up with it and did the 5v5s for the dailies but got fed up with it, at least prior to april though to find a 10v10 was rare at least 8v8s was very standard. Nowadays only 10v10s I see are rank farms… Think you are too kind to call it sPvP, it’s not called sPvP anywhere in game and it’s very poorly structured as it is, all too common to have uneven teams there as there’s no incentive to balance the teams, autobalance just awards people for joining the smaller team so one may just deliberately unbalance a team so they get volunteer credit later!

Anyway sorry to hear PvP has suffered as well, made a decision to abandon it till they purge the rank farming if ever, (pity as I’ve gotten 3 ascended drops from the dungeon tracks in the few games I did play since April) I’d have thought lag and frame rates were a much smaller problem with the nature of PvP being ‘structured’, especially in a game as small as 5v5 or less but oh well, seems this great september feature has not lived up to the hype. Have you had crashes due to the tp btw? PvP is a very small part of the game whereas the tp is vital…

Here’s a useful question, do you have trouble with WvW since september? If no but you are crashing in the much smaller scale PvP something strange is afoot.

There’s a missing scout in Kessex Hills too, Seraph Cassidy, not sure if she’s been restored since the update, not confident seeing as this update has brought us a very bad tp that crashes the game almost every try.

Been checking many tp issue threads to figure out how big a problem it is, my tp has crashed my game 90+% of the time since the update… Error messages like browser timed out etc pop up, sent multiple crash reports and still no proper fix.

Well to be fair for all parties anyway last year the mac client for me was great, been a rude awakening for me this year… You may not have seen my name ever till this year in the forums as I didn’t need to report any problems on my end, it’s only really the tp that’s let me down severely, it’s not exclusively a mac problem I know…

Thought the problem was the overly frequent living story updates that were the culprit for the many problems that plague or have plagued the game but as that system changed this year we know it may be other reasons. April’s feature pack was a fairly smooth transition, was nice to for several months to have a stable tp that almost always loaded fast and ran well.

Does it also crash the game for you? Has been doing that a lot to others, over 90% of the time for me so far since the new tp was rolled out.

Can’t speak for the wurm event but Bloodtide coast does give me the char matrix crash recently, never get that anyother map. My guess it could be some bug they made when they created the wurms though I’ve never crashed during the actual events. Another thing is that annoying map they use that zooms in and out has crashed my game many times especially when there ISN’T much activity around me so it’s not overheating or the system being pushed too far.

Have used my 2011 mbp for 2yrs now, mostly decent though the o key’s broken, partly my fault and that’s made the u and i keys pretty bad recently as well… Hope my mbp lasts a long time (Have had a better experience with it than any PC or laptop)
no use for this if they keep making lousy patches, so far this update has been the worst ever, tp = crash crash crash. The old tp never crashed my game!

Any tp problems? I’ve been spared your problems for the most part but trying to open the tp has constantly crashed my game. My mbp’s late 2011. Have opened a support ticket here and sent many in game now.

Fix that awful new tp, has crashed my game nearly every time I’ve used it, also selno that ‘overtime’ was due to tp issues as well, left many with at least 5 days of no tp! (If it had been a wide issue for the windows version really doubt they’d taken 5 days to fix it right) The weekend fix they attempted failed anyway! Not only failed, it undid the temporary workaround we were given that actually worked.
Not a single piece of compensation either as usual. Even if they gave 1 gem to all affected I’d have appreciated it. This is the only mmo I’ve played that has never gave some small gesture of good will when there’s been a big problem with the game

skepticck.9714:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I agree. I think it’s a mistake for Anet to assume that people know how to add and subtract properly.

Not really the point is it, it’s a quality of life issue, if i am selling a couple items i have no problems calculating the net profit but if i ‘m selling 10 or more items for example, i will be wasting time calculating every transaction when i could be doing something more interesting, like playing the game, just because they couldn’t be bothered to add the simplest math calculation.
I’m no dev but how difficult can it be to code A-B-C=D and then display the result.

I wonder myself if these smug, condescending people are for real or anet employees. See too many in game too in some denial that the game has any faults (MUST be the user not having a good machine or a bad connection etc). Well it’s not an incentive to improve services when people act like such doormats and even mock people that have genuine complaints.

Agreed inefficiency’s no improvement, especially if it’s a compromise to the predecessor. This change is similar though on a bigger scale than how they changed selecting traits, we had a perfectly good drop down at the trait line’s location, instead it’s taken away and we’re forced to click further on the left of the screen… Senseless.
Never pass something off as new and improved when it’s not. Have seen too many snafus claiming as much from websites and other games this year, makes me cringe.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

The patch a few minutes ago was a bunch of bug fixes and this:

Adjusted selling within the Trading Post so that the default is set to match the highest buyer instead of the lowest seller.

Why??? Can we at least get an option to change this. Now listing an item, which is the most frequent action on the TP for most players, requires extra mouse movement and an extra click.

To add, same for the Hero tab, it should default to Equipment has pressing H did pre April’s pack, having to press H & then Equipment amounts to a waste of time day after day.

Another hot fix and still broken, well done (!)

The new tp has crashed many users repeatedly, I’ve only been able to use it twice out of over a dozen tries, every fail also crashed the game! The old tp at least never crashed my game!

As the new tp has crashed my game more than 90% of the time, forgetting that the new layout’s inferior with the extra clicks needed (Same for the Hero UI from April) I am very displeased with the ‘new improved tp’!

Spoke too soon the tp still blows. so two years and only after April’s feature pack did we finally get a long overdue reliable tp, for a few months at best and now the company thinks they can make a better one, instead we get whatever this is, with all its faults the old tp never crashed my game! 9/10 times since yesterday this one has and it seems whatever hot fix was deployed did nothing! 3 attempts, 1 success 3 crashes… 3 strikes you’re out!

Does it crash the game as well?

I play at medium settings roughly so am used to under 20fps, am on a late 2011 mbp myself. Having a better fps is essentially for some jps but the game sure looks ugly at lowest settings… Does anyone still get the gamma problem with the tp? Why can’t they get rid of it, after 2years even?

Just crashed from wvw myself… The TP actually worked though only after 1 crash and mysteriously after I compiled a crash report to support… Hopefully there won’t be anymore crashes… (Nope there still are!)

One hot fix later that was 30mb of whatever junk was sent still crashed my game and worse the gw2 community in the map I was in think I just whine for nothing, that it’s clearly my inept use of computers to blame… Though that same person did ask if I sent a report to support, typically after I did the tp magically works again… Am not jubilant in this but better it works than not even if the new layout needs work… (I considered but thought better of mentioning I’m a mac user, lest I incur more snide comments from PC users that believe their mac user counterparts know nothing about computers)

Only map this has happened to me frequently is Bloodtide coast, this wasn’t during any big fights either was always when I was rather idle.

All good points, firstly April’s feature pack introduced unneeded clicking, whereas before we just hit H to change gear now we must hit H AND then equipment… The client remembers what was last opened but then forgets on shut down… Also what the hell with this trait system, what was wrong with letting us pulldown a list from the trait area rather than having to select them all from the left of the UI?

Anyway back to tp, yes that darn thing has crashed my game consistently all day except on the first few tries it worked very well, granted the layout’s poorly designed and needs more unneeded clicking, as Kitten rightly put it extra clicking’s always bad, as well as data redundancy, if you can fit stuff on one page without it being cluttered, why spread it out to several pages? That means extra loading and processes, for a game with millions of players that’s a big waste… & for sure it displays too few items at once…

Lastly being able to sell or buy multiple items is genius, congrats for that suggestion. Efficiency is key! I’d also like mounts, one decent thing with gw2 characters is vs other mmos we run very fast on foot and even when swimming, I hate the wp costs as well. WvW has no costs but it pretty boring running all the time especially in Borderlands… Some transports would be nice in WvW, golems don’t count as they are super slow.

So in conclusion, the old tp’s performance stank till April, the darkening screen bug still happened quite often, still exists in this new tp as well grrr, generally however the old tp’s UI was okay, sad to say with all the great things this game has to date it still has the worst trade system in performance I’ve used for any game…
The UI improvements for the game also while not as bad has followed this year’s trend of badly designed UIs… The BBC iplayer website and the space game Star Conflict have made far worse snafus, even so I can never understand why companies wreck stuff and worse still pass them off as new and improved!

For story and dungeons, the parts where enemies keep respawning till you beat the objective often don’t give any loot or exp to stop people farming them…. So it’s not a bug

Yes is crashing mine too, worked well first few tries and since has not failed to crash my game every time.

Well can confirm it hasn’t had a good start, not only not working for many people it even crashes the game without fail…

Don’t like this new tp at all but at least earlier it seemed to run very fast and smoothly so tricked me into thinking we have a truly stable tp now…. Haha first hit me with the darkening screen, irritating after 2yrs since this game launched they still haven’t eliminated this… Nevermind that’s easily fixed by shrinking and full screening the game… Then afterward every time I’ve tried to use the ‘new improved’ tp it has not only failed to operate it crashes my game and spams some error message as you all have said too. Why it worked in the day time for me I don’t know… Big thumbs down here for the tp, better luck next time Anet before mouthing off about making a great improvement to the game…

Whada you know another crash, I give up till they send a hot fix…

Not only does that irritating screen darkening glitch still occur from time to time (2yrs and still you’ve not eliminated it!?) but I frankly don’t like the new tp layout, as with the new hero tab and traits changes requires more unnecessary clicking… That’s okay, earlier in the day the tp was running very smoothly, much faster than the old one so I even praised it and afterwards every time I’ve tried to use it not only doesn’t it work it crashes my client giving error messages such as ‘Exception raised’….

Not a good start to your new and improved (cough) trading post…

Fable.9328:

So this was supposed to bring about new customizing ability to the loyal fanbase of GW2? Think again, Anet.

I know I’m not the only one who feels this way but let’s start off with the fact that as of the moment you do NOT appear to be able to dye your town clothes. Yesterday when I logged out I had a lovely pink and white set up for my little girly Asura in her default town clothes that you get upon starting the game. Today when I logged in, her outfit was turned into a tonic that is PERMANENTLY stuck on black and red! No. I don’t want to be black and red. I want to be pink and white.

One of the things I enjoyed about this game and looked forward to for this coming patch was the ability to play dress up with my characters. I do NOT want to be told “lol, no you can’t dye those clothes anymore because they’re tonics! Trolololo!” This goes for the “retired” clothes as well like the blouses and the hoodies and the short shorts.

Speaking of which, I used to run with a hoodie and shorts on my other Asura and I felt pretty grease monkeyish in it and loved it thoroughly. When I hop onto that character am I going to find out to my horror that I can no longer mix and match these two things because “LOL TONICS!!”?!

You boasted being able to stand out in the crowd, Anet. You said we’d be able to make amazing combinations to suit our cosmetic appetites. You were /wrong/. And after reading a lot of public chat in Divinity’s Reach, a good number of your players are outraged.

Yes, I am angry right now, yes I will calm down, but there’s also talk of people who are going to quit the game because they won’t be getting their gems back for outfits they bought in multiples that now is turning out to be wasted money. How, in the name of all that is holy, could you have ever thought this was a good idea?

I’m sure there are just as many who disagree with me and don’t mind the changes, which is fine. To each their own, right? But the people who care about how their character looks during, oh.. say.. role play? Photo shoots? This is a terrible oversight and feels outright lazy and neglectful. Especially since the town clothing, even if you’re okay with not being able to dye it, has a 15 minute timer. “Whoops, I suddenly appear to be in armor. Let’s break immersion while I quickly reactivate my tonic!”

This rant is done for now. Feel free to agree or disagree, but I primarily hope any responses to this topic will be about your feelings as a player about the change and not about my ranting.

~Fabldabl

I was very disappointed with this too, I liked having my norn in her town garb, or just the top and upper leg showing anyway but thanks to this brilliant new system I can’t pick and choose what appears OR what colours either, was half excited when the npc said you can convert town clothes to something usable but really didn’t want it to be like this either….