Guild Wars 2

O.o weird. I’m even used to accidentally hit more than one shatter skill at once and I never noticed it happening. Gotta check if I can reproduce that as I also have the traits which gives additional boons on shattering.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Female-human-only-has-1-animation-now/4686023

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Royal-Outfit-Bug/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Nameplate-Bug-Royal-Guard-Outfit/

Edit: mind this post, threads were merged :P

As far as I know this bug occurs with charr and norn. I have a sylvari and my friend told me I was fine.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Royal-Outfit-Bug/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Nameplate-Bug-Royal-Guard-Outfit/

Edit: mind this post, threads were merged :P

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I thought it weird it was showing 0 but as you can see it was “after” the disconnect (that caused the black screen) so not so surprised there. My latency isn’t great as you even said but that’s what has been the normal for me and it never caused too much trouble before, usually it would become unplayable if it exceeds 400 or more for me.

About Windows Firewall, yes it must be enabled but again it was never an issue before, it hardly bothers me with anything.

I haven’t changed the game client port so I don’t think any web filter could be playing a role here. My AV settings is usually the same as before, I haven’t changed anything in it so unless they (AV manufacturer) changed something in it it shouldn’t be causing trobles like you explained.

About my router, its firmware is up-to-date but it doesn’t have an auto-update. Also, the firmware is exactly the same from months before the issue started and I haven’t messed with it in a while, then not sure if it could have any part in the issue either. By the way, it’s a wired connection between router and my computer.

Lastly, I have done a traceroute test to the IP showed in my screenshot and here is how it went (I have masked a few address related to my ISP connection):

>tracert 206.127.159.201

Tracing route to 206-127-159-201.ncsoft.com [206.127.159.201]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  (*My router address*)
  2     3 ms     2 ms     2 ms  (*My local ISP node 1*)
  3    13 ms     4 ms     3 ms  (*My local ISP node 2*)
  4     6 ms     7 ms    41 ms  (*My local ISP node 3*)
  5    15 ms     8 ms     8 ms  (*My local ISP node 4*)
  6    27 ms    21 ms    26 ms  (*My local ISP partner provider node 1*)
  7    45 ms    25 ms    31 ms  (*My local ISP partner provider node 2*)
  8    23 ms    70 ms    24 ms  embratel-G4-3-gacc01.rpo.embratel.net.br [200.245.157.5]
  9    23 ms    16 ms    27 ms  ebt-G1-0-0-dist04.rpo.embratel.net.br [200.230.245.193]
 10    38 ms    44 ms    39 ms  ebt-T0-5-2-0-tcore02.bhe.embratel.net.br [200.244.160.50]
 11   173 ms   166 ms   163 ms  ebt-P0-3-0-0-intl02.nyk.embratel.net.br [200.230.220.98]
 12   177 ms   172 ms   177 ms  ae1.nyc24.ip4.gtt.net [216.221.156.77]
 13   263 ms   252 ms   287 ms  xe-4-1-5.fra23.ip4.gtt.net [89.149.129.57]
 14   255 ms   276 ms   275 ms  89.149.164.42
 15   274 ms   256 ms   245 ms  206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.86]
 16   429 ms   259 ms   261 ms  206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.102]
 17   272 ms   266 ms   250 ms  206-127-159-201.ncsoft.com [206.127.159.201]

Trace complete.

As you can see, nothing so different for what would be normal for me. I have seen this test to be even worse on past. I really don’t know what could it be and I believe the problem lies on something far from my reach :S Btw, thanks for your help so far.

Ah I thought so, thanks.

Next week? Weird, I just saw a pic of someone wearing it in another thread.

Yup, but they have stopped supporting it if I recall right.

Devildoc.6721:

BR’s incoming, prepare for the HUE’s, gib moni, and i report u

No, don’t remind me about that… I feel ashamed to be from the same place like those… :/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Confirming-with-SPACE/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/F12-space-not-working-anymore/

They are very aware about the issue and even made a sticky thread with suggestions for searching: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Searching-the-Forums

Once they explained why it hasn’t been fixed so far and, ironically, I can’t find that post now :P But to summarize the thing is the software used is no longer supported as the creator stopped supporting it, and nobody at Anet has been able to fix it as it’s a completely different framework that nobody at Anet knows about. They have said they are looking for an alternative.

Hehe no problem. Glad you got it fixed. Possibly you accidentally hit that skill while holding down that key (still can’t recall if Shift or Ctrl lol). But good it’s solved.

Hmm, dumb question but worth asking… by change didn’t you assign auto-attack to that skill? Auto-attack is done by holding CTRL and clicking a skill (or was it Shift?). Anyhow, auto-attack skills has two arrows circling it, check to see if you haven’t assigned to it accidentally.

Devildoc.6721:

It was really bad when TERA first went F2P. I picked up the game for $10 the week before it went F2P just to check it out, that first week, it wasn’t all that bad. But THE DAY it went F2P it became flooded with BR’s, flooding chat, harassing anyone speaking in a language other than Portuguese, sending you whispers about how this was “their server now” and you’d find gangs of people with brazilian flags as their guild logo running around kill stealing from anyone NOT using a Brazilian flag guild or with .Br in their name, or all flagging and gang pk’ing people (until level capped non BR’s came by and slaughtered them all (and then they got harassed in tells)). It was a terrible community and made me uninstall. I recently reinstalled and am playing again on a different server and it’s not quite as bad so you might be right about it not being a lasting deterioration of community.

But I for one dread that first month or so of F2P players.

Yeah, it makes me ashamed to see how a few groups of stupid ppl can cause shaming to a whole country :S kitten Counter-Strike (long story…). Ok, let’s not derail the subject…

MashMash.1645:

As for laurels and such, well you’ll have to pay for all those accounts – like you do right now anyway – and F2P accounts will have no mail or tp and all sorts of other restrictions – their is a post on reddit where someone has data mined all the restrictions they are going to put in place. Even if they get free login stuff, they won’t be able to do anything with it. I suspect free accounts will have no logins or different items maybe. I think they realize a flood of free accounts dumping gold into the economy would be bad.

If you meant a post from That_shaman that one is from one year ago and there are controversies if it applies or not, but it most clearly doesn’t.

Devildoc.6721:

shadow.6174:

Devildoc.6721:

The price tag is the reason why channels aren’t a mess of Cyrillic and Portuguese though.

Huh? What’s your point?

In subscription games and B2P games the only Brazilians and Russians who play are those who can afford to, and are generally better behaved and speak English.

Once the F2P floodgates open you will see the quality of players from those countries who can’t even afford to pay $10. They don’t speak English, they’re extremely rude players that harass people because they feel their country should ‘take over’ the server.

When LotRO closed its Russian server and they migrated to a North American server they announced they were taking over the server and started harassing people and kill stealing and flooding world chat with Cyrillic and the only times they ever spoke English was to insult the US.

same thing happened in TERA the DAY it went F2P.

Meanwhile TESO went B2P and chat in that game is still English.

F2P opens the doors for the worst grade of players. if they can’t even afford $10, they will never invest in the game and will therefore have 0 motivation to behave.

Thankfully there’s no kill stealing in GW2, so hopefully the F2P accounts will have extreme chat restrictions, only able to whisper those who whisper them first, not able to use map chat. That’ll at least mitigate the worst consequences of taking in the hobos of the internet.

Well, I tend to agree and after that I even feel ashamed to tell I’m brazilian, hence my question. But yes, I know the bad name that some players from my country have caused us to get and I see your point. Honestly, I play GW2 in an European server and at times I feel glad to not see those type of ppl from my country around there, hehe :P Also, rest assured I’m not like those and I don’t even support that type of behavior either.

IronPhoenix.2045:

Guys That Shaman already said in July that Trail Versions are coming so its not get F2P its just a trial account. http://thatshaman.blogspot.de/2014/07/upcoming-features-from-entanglement.html
“You have reached the trial limit, but you can do much more by upgrading to a full account. Click the “Upgrade” button on your screen to upgrade now!"

Yeah, that post is 1 year old.

Wildkitten.3872:

Agent Noun.7350:

Dhorghar.5249:

The restrictions were datamined by the almighty that_shaman long ago.

Only one or two character slots

Limit of level 15

Seems like a limit on how high a “rank” you can get (specific to trial or possibly PvP related)

Only able to send mail to friends.

Can’t send items or gold through mail

Can’t speak in map chat

Can’t access Team Arenas

Can’t access main WvW maps (EB and Borderlands)

Can’t sell items on TP.

http://thatshaman.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/upcoming-features-from-entanglement.html

Like we’ve said a lot in this thread, these do not gel with what’s said in the leaked trailer, and that datamine is from over a year ago. It’s not necessarily relevant.

It does, however, show that ArenaNet is aware that restrictions need to exist to protect the game’s economy.

Yes, they do match up with what is in the trailer. The only thing people can point to is WvW, yet the files Thatshaman datamined was restrictions on the borderlands and EB. Guess what, EOTM is still WvW. Not to mention all those things are in the game files still.

A lot of stuff are still in the game files. GW2 was built in a way that content is usually just added over others, nothing or barely nothing is removed. (Yes, you can still find stuff from releases from years ago [like Labyrintine Cliff map assets, per example] in the game files and those aren’t even valid or available anymore). Then, stuff still existing in games files doesn’t really mean they are still valid.

Devildoc.6721:

The price tag is the reason why channels aren’t a mess of Cyrillic and Portuguese though.

Huh? What’s your point?

I haven’t read the whole thread yet but I already want to put my two cents: No F2P pleeeease? :P However, more free weekends on some regular base would be nice.

No, there is not a new keybind for Character Selection screen (actually never had, Log Out dialog was what had it). What happens is the Space key was used to confirm the Log Out dialog and its default was the Log Out button. Now its default is Character Select and it’s the Enter key which triggers it, not Space anymore.

I can imagine how annoying it could be mainly with shatter skills as their tooltips are huge and show up instantly , however I’m wondering… do you really use mouse that much to click on those skills? Or you are just used to randomly release your mouse over the skill bar and then accidentally hovering those skills? My main is a mesmer and I just wonder how someone would be able to play having it click on each and all skills there. Sorry if you have some issue or something that require you to play in a different manner, in this case apologize me for this comment and ignore it.

Weird, for me it’s working normally and I can even salvage several items in a row without having to click the kit again.

Yay for missing a whole post due forum logging me off :S Here we go writing it again…

Yeah, at first I thought it was my connection but it doesn’t give me any signals like lag or skill failure, it just goes black all suddenly. Also it doesn’t happen at events only, I have had it happening even while standing still or just chatting even at low crowded areas. I used that event fact in OP because it was when it drove me nuts and made me very angry and kittened off, I was having these issues even before that. And yeah, it’s weird as it doesn’t give me any popup about connection issues, it just goes black.

Thanks for the instructions about traceroute and stuff. Although I’m very aware about that commands it can be useful to someone else too. When I read your post I recalled that I had recently installed a new firewall (it came shipped with an antivirus) and I went to check it, but it was already disabled then it couldn’t be causing the issue.

I have never had these issues before, even though my connection isn’t that great, but it started after a specific date possibly when that patch I mentioned in OP came out.

I haven’t tried traceroute but I tested ping. I have attached a screenshot just when it happened while doing a ping test. Even though it can look high it’s just the normal for me and I hardly have had issues with that value. I was just standing still while checking inventory when it happened. I also have attached one showing the Log Out panel after it happened too and another about a moment where the game even stopped responding while simply restarting an activity (round had just finished and new one were starting).

Yeah, I have tried to test it by changing the URL and it didn’t work. For me the website shows in English and I tried to access like https://guildwars2.com/de/ but it kept redirecting to https://guildwars2.com/en/. Auto-detecting language based on IP and having it only sux big time, give back options to change it manually too. (here goes the “we decide/think for you” thing again… :/)

No, not much has changed and the issue started even before Windows 10 was officially released. My graphic cards were up-to-date and and have recently updated them again, the issue persists. I don’t think it has anything to do with graphics as it feels more like a disconnect.

The game doesn’t stop responding as you can see I still can open Options and Log Out panel. Just what I can say is that nothing changed between before and after the issue, except a patch for the game. I run Windows 7 64 bits with a GeForce GTX 650.

Erasmus.1624:

• Every class in this game has already either had permanent swiftness since launch or complained enough to get it by now. It’s effortless to maintain.

Excuse me? No, have you even played mesmer? From what I see mesmer is one of the (if not the one) slowest class in the game and has very few sources of swiftness, then no, not all classes has permanent swiftness and the options available are too few and require some trade-off (like replacing sigils or traits) to get some more swiftness.

Erasmus.1624:

• If someone really wants to “move” quickly for whatever reason, that person will use a scripted movement ability or a teleport. Not only are those re-positioning abilities not actually real movement (because the server is doing the vast majority of the work for the player in that case), but it also calls into question the point of swiftness at all if it’s only viable gameplay purpose is making a player move just slightly faster from non-combat point A to non-combat point B.

And if I read it right, any method to move through scripted or automated ways would be looked as exploit then I don’t get this point.

*shadow.6174 heals Moribund Thread for 22 using Illusion of Life* :P

So, where is the return of the requested "feedback"? Still waiting for some of the promised changes :/

So? Can I have some attention here? The issue is still going on :S

Also to add, when that happens I’m also able to bring up that “Log Out” panel by hitting a hotkey, but the only options are “Log Out” and “Cancel” but “Log Out” does nothing.

Kaous.4869:

That post is 18 days old, shouldn’t we follow that up?

Well, if you want to follow through that thread feel free to do so, it hasn’t gotten any response yet though :S

I don’t know if a mod mistakenly merged threads or if people posted by themselves but it seems the issues that ShadowBumble.3504 and actarus.8319 reported is different from mine and Kaous.4869, unless they meant with “freeze” a different thing than what I read. OP reported a screen blackout, that’s different from a “freeze” which is when you cannot do anything as it becomes unresponsive.

In my case and apparently OP’s it doesn’t “freeze”, the game is still responsive as I can even open Options window by hitting a hotkey, but I’m unable to do anything else than that or close the game via Alt+F4. Oh, I can even bring up Log out panel by hitting Ctrl+F12 but it only gives me “Log Out” and “Cancel” as option and Log Out does nothing. My graphic drives are up-to-date so I don’t think the “solution” for them would apply for me.

By the way, thanks Galie for replying and if it’s not asking much could you or anyone take a look at the thread I linked before? I gave more details about my issue there and it would be appreciated.

ScottAdams.2403:

Thanks since the wintersday daily is no longer in the achievements journal I can’t find the eyeball. I just highlighted a different achievement I want to do and it’s replaced it.

Move your mouse on that list at top right and see if it highlights an invisible item (one with no text) or you can try to check it through Watch List category in the Achievements panel, see if there is any item with no text there. Yes, you wont find Wintersday category.

The pics show what I mean.

Kaous.4869:

Right now I am discouraged from playing because I fear it will just disconnect at important times and just frustrate me. I hope they figure out the problem soon…

That just happened to me. Once I got that during Jormag but luckily I was put back on the same map. Then later I got that after killing a champ, luckily again I was put back on the same map then no reward lost, but that’s annoying.

Actually, I had already reported it here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Wth-Constants-disconnects-and-losing-credit

Yup, if you have had it marked to watch (that eye icon in each achievement) it will still show up in that list. It’s because it seems the achievements aren’t really “removed” but just hidden.

I still have in tracker a Wintersday and a Halloween one, I left it there for whatever reason I don’t recall lol. Also, their name were removed but the item itself wasn’t, then you won’t see any description or name.

Just click it and see if that eye icon is highlighted, if so click it and the item will go away.

Yup, I have been experiencing it too on past weeks. The only thing you could do is forcing close the game via Alt+F4 and opening Options through shortcut key (usually F11). It’s like a disconnect but with no error messages and no previous signals of it happening, like lag or something. Also it happens at very random times, since merely standing still until fighting big bosses.

Oh here we go:

Gaile Gray.6029:

[SNIP] We regret that the search engine is not functioning properly right now…

Gaile Gray.6029:

minbariguy.7504:

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the search engine ever worked? If so, when did it stop working? I’m not sure that I recall that it ever worked, but I could be mistaken.

In any case, I’m having a difficult time understanding why exactly the forum search engine would be broken for so long and/or be so difficult to fix. Nearly every forum on the internet has a working search engine; it’s not brand-new cutting-edge technology. Honestly, is ANet doing so poorly financially that it cannot afford to have forum tools that work?

The problem is deep within the technology behind the forum structure itself. Yes, we had a search engine in the beginning, but it was broken by our forum contractor in the course of working on other things. We no longer have a relationship with that contractor or his company, and someone else is not able to step into the system and fix the search engine because (1) our programmers are tasked with other essential work, (2) the forums run on a web framework with which most of our programmers are not familiar and (3) we’re investigating other options for forums and it would not be prudent to pour money into hiring someone to fix this as a short-term solution.

My team agrees that it would be great to share the system that is outlined in the OP, and we’re going to figure out a way to do that. It won’t be as simple as “plumbing” the current search window to go to Google — each of us still will need to input the search manually, but it’s better than the current “poke and prod” to find a particular post!

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

It isn’t a bug, it’s intentional and has always been this way. You say things a lot while fighting when you get boons as well, but you notice it far less.

It is sometimes a bit over-talkative, but to me not nearly as annoying as ranger dog pets were or having these on auto-cast: ‘for great justice’, ‘locust swarm’, etc.

Having said that, I wouldn’t have signet of inspiration on while standing around.

Oh true, speaking of it and now that I stopped to think about I realized that. Usually I have that signet on and yes my char shouts out things like that all time, that signet gives boons each 10 secs then yeah. Just I have never been bothered by that then I hardly saw that as issue.

I believe the main issue with replacing it with a new software is migrating the existent content to the new one. Been there, done that. I know how it can be a pain. And yeah, I agree that it’s achieving its primary objective and at least the forum doesn’t have so much issues atm. Although search could be a major issue, well, it could be a lot worse.

Forum search has been broken for years now and they know it very well, in fact they are also annoyed by it. A while back a dev explained why it hasn’t been fixed so far (yay I can’t search for it now :P) and recently they made a sticky thread with similar tips as Illconceived Was Na.9781 gave: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Searching-the-Forums

To summarize, from what I recall, the reason is they used a third party software that’s no longer maintained and supported, the software’s creator stopped giving support and then nobody at Anet has been able to fix it by themselves or none have had time or chances to work on it. It would require someone to study the whole software in order to find out what’s wrong and they haven’t had such resources to do so. And it was said that they are seeking for a new system to replace it but they haven’t found one yet.

Oh I see, I made a mistake and I was talking about a completely different issue, just this one reminded of that other. Well, I haven’t noticed any issues with my mesmer lately. Maybe it has something to do with race? My mesmer is a sylvari and I see yours is a charr.

StinVec.3621:

Thank you very much.

Also, another thank you very much for all of the assistance you have provided and continue to provide to other players on these forums. I have enjoyed reading your responses on topics and issues these past couple of years.

Off topic but I wanted to take advantage to say the same to Inculpatus. I also have seen how you have been participative and helpful around here, that’s appreciated and nice. Also another compliment won’t hurt :P Same compliments for everyone else that does so too xD.

Where did you report it? If you reported using the in-game tool you won’t get a response, as its own window says. Also, I believe this issue is already acknowledged and they are aware about it.

RubiBayer.8134:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in which the Hero panel alert icon displayed incorrectly for some professions.

Yay! :p

ChasingDreams.3250:

What is this I’m seeing?

I can’t complete the game I have spent my hard earned money on, the game is broken as of this moment.

I don’t see how that relates to map issues?

This is a pretty serious problem, not a minor glitch in a map, it’s a whole part of the storyline of guild wars 2 not functioning.

Huh? It seems a mod mistakenly moved that post here as they aren’t related to this thread, non-functional elements have nothing to do with map art issues, and “stuck” as used here is about being stuck into map geometry or something like. And the game isn’t “completely” broken as you sound, it has issues but overall it’s working normally. Also, that issue with Personal Story has been fixed it seems.

P.S.: If it wasn’t a mod move then someone posted it at the wrong thread.

O.o when did it start? Are those shouting with your char’s voice or some “random” voice? I’m afraid that an old bug has came back. A few months ago there was a bug where our chars would shout stuff from other races and professions. It was scary hearing my female sylvari yelling like a male charr O.o

Yup, I just experienced as #1, after putting code I had to go back to a forum link at a point in my history and it asked for login again, after putting my data again it redirected to my account overview for a few seconds and then redirected to that forum link.

No problem. Good luck and I hope you can find out what is missing.

Well, you can always contact Support for a more individualized help. If you don’t know the way, just click Support at the top of any forum page.

That’s weird, even if a waypoint is contested you still can get XP and get it counted as discovered. Unless the behavior changed and I’m not aware of.

Btw, not sure about Thistleeered but the Concordia WP isn’t going to get uncontested any time soon, that WP is currently broken story-wise (yup you can see it shattered) that’s why it shows as contested. It’s the same as happened to some WPs at Lion’s Arch while it was destroyed.

Incantus.8960:

Update my ticket? I was only told to contact them again, which I have done, but since it took them 3 days to just reply last time… It doesnt exactly fill me with hope, cant they just enter my account and remove the character? Its completely naked and has nothing of value on it…. Since I apparently cant do it.

Yup, reply to that email and update them telling that you are still having issues. Replies to already answered tickets usually are replied faster than new ones. Also, about they entering your account: actually they can’t, in other words, they prefer not do… at least not without your approval and they would only ask for it if really and strictly needed (I’m saying it based on what was said in a red post a while back).

Also, if your ticket is taking to long to get an answer you can post about it in that stick thread Tickets for Review (or something like that), that one is very frequently checked and answered by mods.