Game updates/April 2023

April 2023 updates
Thursday, 20 April 2023 Wednesday, 19 April 2023 Tuesday, 18 April 2023 Monday, 3 April 2023
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Update - April 20, 2023

Bug Fix

• Fixed a rare crash that primarily affected Windows 7 systems.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 144,604

Update - April 19, 2023

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Shimmerwing Skyscale’s shaders from displaying properly.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 144,539

Update 2 - April 18, 2023

Bug Fix

• Weaver: Fixed an issue that caused certain aspects of dual attunements to persist when changing elite specializations.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 144,476

Update - April 18, 2023

Megaserver Map Queue Beta

• Players can now add themselves to a queue to join party members in open-world maps that are currently at their maximum player capacity.
• The queue can be reached through the party and squad UI by right-clicking on a player in your party that is within the instance you wish to join and selecting "Join Instance."
• If that map instance is full, you will receive a new pop-up that will ask if you’d like to enter a queue for the same instance as your existing party members. Accepting this pop-up will put you into a queue, which will give you the option to travel to that map instance as soon as capacity allows. Refusing the queue will result in the same behavior as before this update.
• This feature is an upgrade to the megaserver system, which was first introduced in April 2014. We are introducing it as a beta while we keep a close eye on live issues and monitor your feedback.

General

• All players have been migrated to using DirectX 11 rendering. The DirectX 9 rendering option has been removed from the Options menu.
• Chromium Embedded Framework has been re-enabled as a replacement to Coherent UI. This technology powers web-based UIs like the launcher and Trading Post.
  • Please report any potential issues on the Guild Wars 2 forums.

World Polish

• Harvest Temple Strike Mission: Fixed an issue that could cause the defiance bar for some dragon hearts to be enabled after the heart was pushed to the edge of the platform.
• The fishing nodes at the Celestial Pool in Gyala Delve will now appear after defeating the ravenous wanderer.

Profession Skills

Engineer

•  Sneak Gyro: Reduced stealth duration from 1.5 seconds to 1 second in PvP only. Reduced number of pulses from 6 to 5 in PvP only.
•  Function Gyro: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
•  Gyroscopic Acceleration: Reduced superspeed duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.

Ranger

•  Signet of the Hunt: Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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• Two stones in the Super Adventure Box Sunny Glade were removed to prevent players from escaping the usual level bounds and skipping large parts of the zone.
• Group wiping at the end of the Harvest Temple strike mission no longer gives extra Green Prophet Shards.

Update - April 3, 2023

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the story from progressing during the An Air of Mystery story step of "What Lies Beneath" due to dialogue timing and interruptions from other dialogue. Subsequent steps will appear independently of whether story dialogue can complete, and story dialogue will also always take priority over other dialogue in the map.

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• Build: 143,777