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Interestingly, I found that there is at least one checkpoint in the LS4 E3 story, thanks to accidentally double-clicking the wrong thing and teleporting out of the instance.

Yes. For the players who suffer this problem, it happens with a very high probability at any cutscene. Since those only occur during missions... FWIW, I don't think this is the "players fault", but I do think that the likely cause -- which ANet are still trying to find, and have not yet succeeded -- for the small number of players who this hits is going to turn out to be outside their servers. Unfortunately, I had half hoped the migration to AWS would fix it, because that changes many of the potential root causes at their end, but it did not. Anyway, if you don't mind: what model and brand of router are you using, and are you using a wifi connection to play?

Oh, interesting! I hadn't considered that, and that is a useful point. I'll ask about that, too, and see if that turns up a commonality. The time does seem to be ~ 20 seconds idle to a disconnect, pretty consistently from the tcpdump traces, but ... if some do that when the link is idle for a minute, I can imagine someone cutting that down further because power saving reasons or something.

Is this something you might consider extending in the future? I ask, because I'm a pretty casual WvW player, honestly, and I'm currently on a T1 world. Everyone else at that level is way more serious than I ever expect to be, so I'm a bit of both an easy target, and inclined to feel like a bit of a hinderance -- even if I play competently with the groups, I'm likely to make unwise decisions because I just don't have the same commitment they do. From my perspective, the biggest hope is that I end up on a more "casual" sort of WvW environment. I'm not looking to suddenly be great, but I am hoping I might end up being less standard deviations from the usual effort put in by other players in the same grouping. Even just using "number of hours played" as a proxy for how much WvW someone does, and so preferencing groups so they mostly have similar sorts of hours-per-week counts, would be a big improvement to my chances of getting WvW that I enjoy more, I think. Either way, I'm looking forward to the new system - and not just because I'm too cheap to buy the gems and transfer to a less serious WvW world. :)

I'm not at home right now, but I'm with Xfinity. It's just really odd that it happens so often with Guild Wars 2, but doesn't happen in any other online game I play. Drat. That kind of shoots my idea about maybe a router commonality out of the water, because that isn't a VirginMedia Hub of any sort, which the first few were. During the cutscene, there is no network traffic between GW2 client and server, and at about the 20 second mark is where most people who suffer this disconnect see it happen. Most online games never go silent for that long, so that is the single most obvious difference between the two. Don't get me wrong, too: I'm not saying this isn't a GW2 issue or something, and I'm definitely not opposed to things like checkpoints to reduce the pain; I'd even encourage them to add a keepalive message of some sort during that period so the connection isn't completely silence. I'm just hoping that maybe we find a commonality, and then they can fix it right -- because even with checkpoints, if you disconnect seven times in a row it will suck, just suck a little less than it did. Anyway, yeah, GW2 clearly has some sort of issue here, but I couldn't for the life of me tell you what it is, and sadly, ANet have confirmed -- via posts from the developer who is actively working on this -- that they cannot yet determine it either. Kicking through to my next vague idea, do you have any sort of "internet security" software installed? I'm thinking things like the Norton Internet Security system, that sort of thing.

You know they don't actually ignore these, right? They have people actively working on them, they fix issues when they can, they just don't pop in to the forums and comment on every single report of disconnects, high latency, etc. (Not to mention that a bunch of them are beyond the control of ANet, since you get at least a 50 percent hit rate on that when people actually bother to do diagnostics about where on the network the issue is.)

+1 on the "small number of players" having this problem. To anyone reading, don't get me wrong: it super-sucks for the people it happens to, and it is annoyingly frequent for them. ANet have a developer tasked with working on figuring this out, but by their comments, they don't yet have any common pattern in what is going on, so no solution in sight quite yet.

This is a persistent problem for some players, and anet are looking into it. Could I ask, please, what brand and model of router you have?

The design is that you open all ten, completing the Master Diver achievement, and then they all reset so that you can do it again. This may not be what I would have preferred, but it is how it was designed, and that is unlikely to change regardless of the bug.

If you can, immediately after reset is one of the most active times on the US servers for that map; you are most likely to get a "fresh" map instance then. Clearly this is not a solution, but it is a work-around that got me my Subject S and, thus, backpack. Until ANet fix the underlying issue, hopefully this is sufficient. Still bugging (for me, at least) as of today (June 29). Event progressed all the way to the fight with the security golem(s), which were successfully defeated - then just sat there.Dang, you got to trigger the bug, not just run into it. That bites. The good news is every patch brings a new reset, so a new chance. The bad news is, whatever causes these stalls is apparently quite difficult to find and/or fix, so they can persist for vastly longer than I would have expected.

Still have to complete the achievement by opening all ten chests before they reset. Were those ones already completed in Master Diver?

When you dismount there is a little delay as they resummon / respawn automatically. As near as I can tell, if you mount before that has "completed" you lose them, I guess because whatever test says "if minions, despawn them and remember this" looks, and sees "no minions", or something. Pausing just a fraction longer when using a minion build made the issue go away for me, and it has only ever happened when rapidly switching mounts.

Great advice. Like "check the network", this is a very low cost thing to do, and ensures that you have a fully functional and correct client. You pretty much can't lose: it either fixes the issue, or you lost a couple minutes and are no worse off that you were before.

It seems this is purely about like and dislike. I think most comments reflect that. Mostly the reason people use "to give the story impact" or "to really draw us in" are just an attempt to cover it up. If I like (sometimes even hate) a character, I'm more apt to dislike them dying because creating characters I respond to at all is seemingly difficult. Especially if they're given any type of cohesive personality. I can think of some characters that just have no affect on me at all and its difficult to care at all what happens to them. I try. I'd rather have the hatred of a character. This. I don't like Braham much, and while I completely disagree with some of the views folks have of him, and how you should respond to his behaviour, I can understand where they are coming from, and why the would, for example, see his actions as so disrespectful that -- for the murder hobos we are in-game -- we should kill him. (IRL, just ditch him forever would be the equivalent.) That usually ends up in "so just kill him plz" though, because of what thruine says here.

I would love seeing a mix between a Sylvari and an Asura, would be funny to see a little walking cabbage I would play the compost out of that. Just sayin'