Curse

Patrograd · Sep 14, 2006, 11:57 PM // 23:57

I wanted to congratulate the bright spark at Anet who decided that the opening night of the GvG season was the best time to stream a huge volume of content to a huge quantity of users all trying to log on at the same time.

Having spent 90 mins downloading content, our team finally arrives in the guild hall and spends a GvG battle rubber banding all over the map and lagging out for 2 or 3 seconds at a time as the servers struggled to cope. Great. Then there's a new build. Hooray, they've fixed it. Log off, log on. Code 5 for over an hour. Everyone gives in, opening night over.

Thanks for a really entertaining evening of watching loading screens. If this was PVE content being streamed (and I'd like to bet it was related to the Nightfall event) I might just shoot someone.

Shrouded Waffle · Sep 15, 2006, 12:38 AM // 00:38

Yup, been getting lots of rubber banding tonight.

Definately not the best day for the update. x_x

Dodo The Extinct · Sep 15, 2006, 01:16 AM // 01:16

Yea, it took me an hour and 45 mins just to load RA >_>

LightningHell · Sep 15, 2006, 02:54 AM // 02:54

It took me 45 mins to load my Guild Hall. -_-

sir lockt · Sep 15, 2006, 07:17 AM // 07:17

It took me less then 5 mins of which a few seconds was download

but i was lucky being on the uni and having an download speed of 13 MB/sec

I doubt that 300 mb is solely for some skill balancing, NPCs addition and a new animation for a minion... I think you will be glad you have this 300 mb before the preview weekend hits... I believe it will be though downloading then...

Of course this explains why my friendslist was so empty...everybody was loading. NIce fill in of an evening

CAT · Sep 15, 2006, 10:49 AM // 10:49

Remember that GW is automatically set on low priority, and chances are you were doing other stuff while you waited. It was going slow for me but you ctrl+Alt+Del it and up the process priority and it dled in like a minute

damocles · Sep 15, 2006, 02:50 PM // 14:50

We heard people were erroring a lot, so we played a few rounds of HA first to see how big the lag and error was. After 3 runs with 6 ppl error7 in those runs, we just decided to cancel our GvGs for that day. So we didn't lose due to errors

Helll is for Heroes · Sep 15, 2006, 08:30 PM // 20:30

its hard trying to interrupt with disshot/savageshot when the delay between them casting and me interrupting is about 8-10 secs.

:/

LightningHell · Sep 16, 2006, 12:37 AM // 00:37

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Originally Posted by Helll is for Heroes

its hard trying to interrupt with disshot/savageshot when the delay between them casting and me interrupting is about 8-10 secs.

:/

Ditto. Except mine wasn't 8-10 secs, it was more like 1.5-2 secs.

Shen Xi · Sep 16, 2006, 12:51 AM // 00:51

Well out of the losses for my guild we've lost about 4 matches due to err=7 or lag =/

Loch · Sep 16, 2006, 03:02 AM // 03:02

Shut off your torrents ffs, the pr0n can wait 'till after GvG.

Legendary Shiz · Sep 16, 2006, 03:33 AM // 03:33

We lost two because of err7 and one because we faced [cow] hehe

leeky baby · Sep 16, 2006, 09:54 PM // 21:54

who cares everybody apart from l33t people with super computers and internet lagged so it was stil rather even =/ we gvged 4 matchs and lost 1 cause of 2 err7s but we dotn moan about it...just wait till they come bk in and go in.

Stop your moanign if you dont like Anets work maybe you should play a differnt game

Patrograd · Sep 16, 2006, 10:12 PM // 22:12

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Originally Posted by leeky baby

Stop your moanign if you dont like Anets work maybe you should play a differnt game

The moaning was to do with it taking 90 minutes to dl a "balance patch", and then getting code 05 for over an hour, meaning we could only play one match on the opening night of the season which is traditionally ripe pickings points wise.

And if no-one moans, then no-one knows there's a problem, right?

shardfenix · Sep 16, 2006, 11:56 PM // 23:56

It took me 2 seconds to decide not to brag about how long it takes to load my guild hall. (it took about 30 minutes to load RA though ^^)

I personally think that arenanet put out a patch that size on the busiest day of the season in order to introduce more bugs in the game servers, like instakilling flag runners when you hit VoD.

If you think you have a better reason why Anet would release a gigantic patch on the busiest day of the season, email me at

[email protected] .com

sno · Sep 17, 2006, 01:29 PM // 13:29

We had a monk err7 on load last night, luckily for us the other team had 4 err7's on load, so we clearly came out on top. Not prime conditions to be gvging in imo.

Cracko · Sep 17, 2006, 02:25 PM // 14:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by sno

We had a monk err7 on load last night, luckily for us the other team had 4 err7's on load, so we clearly came out on top. Not prime conditions to be gvging in imo.

FOUR!?? LOL!

Nadine · Sep 18, 2006, 08:38 PM // 20:38

That night we had also some huge laggs. Best was when our another monk and hp emo errored straigth at the loading. Luckily the enemy was SO noob that i think they even didnt realezi we were running 1 monk

.... Still we got like 10 deaths but enemy didnt run the flag so GG

El Panty Bandito · Sep 18, 2006, 09:00 PM // 21:00

Sounds like ANET needs a Planner. HIRE ME ANET, I will be there to tell you, "Hey *scratch head* why are you about to load an update....isn't it GvG opening season?"

I think that would be a great job for me and a few others. We can be your think tank.

timmyw29 · Sep 18, 2006, 11:18 PM // 23:18

Leave GW open at the login screen imo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wasteland Squidget

Objection!