Reconnects Are The Lamest Thing Ever!

Reconnects are so stupid! Sure they're great when you're doing something like DoA but when you're questing and in the middle of a fight, as a SURVIVOR, and get disconnected it's not a good thing, cause your body stays in the fight so you can die really easy! This just happened to me, I got in a large fight that is an easy win so long as I stayed around since I was a paragon, but then I got disconnected. All I can say is that is really lame, you should not get a death when disconnected.

So it's lame because on the off chance you disconnect while going for survivor, you can die? Forget the fact that teams have a chance to come back after a disconnect in a match, or you don't have half the people leave a game because a monk drops - damn it! it screws up survivors occasionally!

How's about an option in the game menu to enable/disable the reconnect feature. I have no idea how it is setup and if it can be pulled off.

You didn't read the last thing I said, you should not get a DEATH during a reconnect.

That would be abused. People already disconnect when they are about to die in games.
Just a choice to disable or enable it. It won't be abused.

Look at it this way. Survivor title is that much harder to attain now and therefore is more 1337. I have an excellent internet connection and still occasionally get 007ed.

Why don't you complain about something that is truly important like why Thunderhead keep still glitches after almost 2 years in action.

I run that mission for a fee and about 1 out of 4 runs the enemies stop coming all together because they get jammed up. its so sad that A-Net can't even fix that.

so if u manually disconnect [by this im assuming logging out or closing the game], you can join back in where ever you were within the 10 minute window?

hey hey hey wait, I have an idea.. How about we just remove reconnects and never give the players anything they whine about anymore because when ANet finally gives us the thing we have been asking for the most..we call them lame and whine like little children?

I believe the popular way of disconnecting in online games, in order to avoid a death or loss, involves breaking the connection without closing the client.

nope.
you lose the reconnect option that way.
but by manualy disconnecting the internet connection from you pc - you can trigger the reconnect. the game loses connectiont to the server and it kicks you out.

ohh and to the op - if your game freezes while in a fight and youre going for the survivor title - one does not wait to un-freeze. you close the game/shut down the pc FAST. you dont wait. you lost the title because of your re-action to a game problem.
and the problem arent reconnects.

Do you know what it was like without reconnect?

Your character stays in the game while the server is trying to ping your ip. Your screen just freezes there. Then, the server decides to drop you. You get err=7. When you log back in, you discover that your char died while your screen were freezing.

What's the difference?

And I was in such situation back when the titles were firstly introduced, so please, just leave it.

Yeah, the reason you died is not because of the reconnect feature. Think back to the missions you did with people that froze, they just stand there and suddenly disconnect. Rather blame your link, ISP or whatever

I forgot it did that.
That happened to me in a mission in Prophecies. Aurora Glade?
Anyhoo, we teleported to the boss area and everything kinda stopped. I could still move around and click skills, but they didn't do anything.
After a while I was suddenly in Henge of Denravi with a skill point! I guess we did it.

Regardless of reconnects, it may take some time for each side of the server to register an actual lost connection. If that happens, you are entirely vunerable to anything. I've never actually lost my title (thankfully am at tier 3 now), but it's a fact of the internet. Not ArenaNet's fault, not particularly your ISP or computer's fault either. Sometimes a line drops between your comp and their servers, it's unfortunate, but it happens. Get on with it.

Damn those Evil Reconnects,

because in PvE when i have just been on a five hour farming trip and got nothing so far and the final boss has just died and dropped all his greens for ME, i don't want to reconnect after i just E=7'ed, i like wasting time!

In Pvp i don't want to reconnect after my team have surely just won halls, no i want to wait in heros ascent and see the team, that was lead by me win, because thats really fun!

Please get a sense of proportion, In my humble Opinion, reconnects are Probably
one of the best things to happen to game since the removal of refund points...

oh and the option to turn reconnects off?

Anet have bigger problems

I knew this crap would turn up eventually...anet does something good for their players and yet are there always ingrates who manage to find a bad side on it and whine about it! I bet if Anet gave you 100$ you would still complain because its ONLY 100$...

Moral of the story: "Less crying is key, [kThx]"

You just won this thread. The smartest suggestion that can be made from this rant.

Yes, reconnects does make the Survivor title more difficult (i know, i have a survivor myself)... but that gives you no right to call it stupid.

ANet listened to the requests of their community and gave us this new feature... for free. Instead of calling it stupid and lame, give constructive criticism or friendly suggestions.

I for one appreciate this new feature a lot. My pc tend to crash sometimes.. so i feel horrible when im in a mission with a group.

i knew survivor's would whine , but who cares, it's a useless title anyway.

Yeah thanks alot Anet for giving us (players) something we have asked for since a week after chapter 1.


How dare you offer us a useful innovation like re-connects.

I'm sure 30% of the GW fans just like to read there own condemnation of Anet and GW. Don't be a Play hater!