Rubber-Banding

Rubber Banding pushed me beyond the limit tonight. I was playing in halls, and our group came up to a relic run. I was the only one with a run skill, so naturally i was the runner. Now, it appeared as though i got out and ran all of the way back to our ghostly. About 10 feet before i reached him, Guild Wars FINALLY realized that I was not actually free of the initial body block. I think that rubber-banding is probably the number one biggest issue in guild wars right now, and definetly needs to be fixed.

As of right now, does anybody know any ways to avoid being rubber-banded?

Yeah... dont get bodyblocked or hit a wall...

I get the same thing all the time, very annoying. Once I was soloing the troll cave for old time's sake and I cleared the iniatial mobs of trolls, but decided to run past the warrior bosses mob and look for a chest on the outside. I appeared to get through but was still getting hit by a lot of attacks, I look at my mini-map...It shows me outside but the troll mob in one tight group inside the cave, but I still persisted in taking damage. I knew what had happened but GW never realized this, I (appeared to) die outside the cave and lye there until rezzed at the shrine. This is a very annoying problem but I'm afraid I don't have any tips for you as I'm in the same boat, problem seems to be server-side. Peace.

that rubberband crap is BS. happens to me all the time. they do need to fix that. it never happened to me prior to NF release. i dont even try running people anymore cuase i get too pissed off.

happened all time before nf, before factions even. its been around since day 1

If you stop using WASD, and click to move, then the rubber banding will stop. WASD is client side so you can run into the problem of the things that happened to you guys happening. But if you click to move, that movement is server side, and the server knows everything going on,every single body block and such. Hope that helps.

Um, I don't think so, Tendaran. I've rubber banded across all of Lion's Arch after mouse clicking.

I only rubber band when my isp or router is screwing up.

Try looking there first I say.

i didnt say it didnt happen before, just that it never happened to me before. in 6 months it never happened to me till NF release.

I've personally never had much trouble with "rubber-banding". It happens once in a rare while, and never more than the distance of a few seconds of running. Your internet connection can greatly influence this, and a friend of mine who has a below-average connection does indeed have frequent problems. I suppose there's nothing to do but shell out the extra bucks for a faster conn, or hope that ANet is willing/capable of improving the way it works.

Yes, 5 minutes ago i lost in Sacred Temples because of rubber-banding and lag. I was running relic...then lost connection, regained connection and the relic just dropped by itself lol. oh well, I doubt this is arena net's issue/problem, but it has been happening a lot more frequently these days

Try the /stuck comand. It's supposed to try and resync you to the servers. It's worked a few times for me, but not always.

Man, I am so glad I am not the only one. I hadn't seen many topics on it, so I figured it could be my connection. But anyways, yeah I've been having this issue a lot as of late. I just rage quit during a solo farm because of it. It's getting worse and worse for me, I feel like throwing y tower against the wal or something.

This ALWAYS happens in Unholy Temples to at least 1 of my guildies when we HA. It's a big problem, because there's a 100% guarantee that you'll rubber band on that map, regardless of internet connection/mouse clicking, etc etc. It happens to a lesser extent on other maps and in PvE, but it's still a wide-spread problem that needs addressing.

One thing that helps when you are in a laggy situation and rubber banding is to watch the way you move, in that you should take long ways around corners and stuff.. cutting corners too quick and trying to take the shortest route through turns is the place where I usually end up rubber banding back to the obstacle I was moving around.

I'm not convinced this is entirely a lag issue. Sometimes I'll rubberband back to a res shrine priest I was actually stuck behind. No fighting was going on and the area I walked while actually stuck is dotted on the mini map. I think it's a pathing issue. But whatever it is it is very, very annoying.

The same thing happened to me steel I wasnt lagging at all, usually I get this when turning around a corner while running. At first I thought it was just me lagging until I took some guildies along for them to run around the corner and the same thing happened to them.

bind /stuck to a key using a third party program, then just mash it on relic runs, euro servers have been extra bad with rubber banding recently.

In regards to people rubber banding in HA
Its cause your bodyblocked.....dont get bodyblocked wont have this problem.
You can also use this against the other team ya know.
In saying that I would love for it to stop, its only been a huge problem since they introduced the /stuck command IMO now cause I always get stuck going for the boat

Finally I can put a term to that annoying condition. It happens to me all the time, and personally I cannot remember it happening before NF's release, but that could be just me.