Backwards walking am I now

I've played through Prophecies with three characters and Factions with four, but don't remember getting this particular glitch there. In Nightfall, I'm still working my second character through, and it's already happening all too frequently.

What I'm talking about is a particular glitch when, after trying to approach a target (usually an object or an NPC), my character starts walking backwards instead of running. Swiveling the camera or pressing the direction keys makes the character walk normally again, but this glitch is very annoying because it happens so frequently. I've had it happen on all sorts of maps with my Dervish and all too often on my Elementalist while farming Lightbringer points outside Yohlon Haven. It happens most frequently with my Elementalist when I try to approach a drop by pressing the "select closest item" and spacebar keys, after which my character gets turned around and starts walking towards the drop.

What I'd like to know is whether it's just me, or have other people experienced the same? I do not remember this problem in either Prophecies or Factions. The closest case that I remember in either campaign was my character getting turned around in some cutscenes while getting guildies through missions a while after I had already completed the storyline. But even in those, I didn't walk backwards as I do now.

Has anyone else had this happen to their characters?

My characters are often pointing the wrong direction when I am moving. Sometimes I get the backwards bug, other times my character will be facing about 45 degrees to the left or right when I am running straight ahead.

I've had it too but it's no biggy. I put it down the server needing to catch up. It usually sorts itself after a few seconds. Love it when they move without moving, if you know what I mean. Like they're sliding on ice. Class.

(Yes, I am easily pleased).

I like it personally, looks like their moonwalking, but i figured out how to intentionally do this, it has to do with clicking the auto-run key and hitting spacebar while targeting an NPC. but yeah some other bugs I've had while running is when my char just Isn't straight like fungus said. but really all that i know is the game is badly out of sync with alot of things, like for instance when I'm in my guild hall with guildies, we'll try and cordinate a char sync lets say, but when we go to line up and stuff, people are way off on my screen, but on their screens everything is supposedly fine, and when i ''hug'' another player with the /rock command they will say I'm facing the other direction of them, or I'm far away from them, but on my screen everything is fine, or It's vice versa.. but yeah. this all has been around for along time, even the char sync thing, but since nightfall was released it has gotten 20x worse then it ever was. hopefully they'll fix it someday.

There's also the permanent turning round bug, that one's my favourite. Your character turns 360 degrees slowly, while moving and while casting too.

This only happens when your character is moving through mud. Trust me. I never lie.

Happened to me to. I just stopped and use mouse movement to correct the position I was facing. Thought it a bit amusing actually.

Yeah, me too.....I'm also easily amused, so I have more fun than most folks.

I love the one where the foes are right in front of me and my ranger shoots to the right and the arrow curves around and hits them. See? Easily amused. It's a lot better then being pissed off all the time.

I've slowly backed away a few times. Not too big of an issue, I usually get to where I'm supposed to go. I remember while jogging to Shiro in Imperial Sanctum, I looked over at my cousin's screen and our characters were right next to each other. On my screen, he was about an aggro circle behind me. Or the many times my view was obstructed while standing right in front of the enemy. Maybe lag?

Yeah..its no biggey!! I've had the same problem

If you really want to have some fun. Press ALT+CTRL+plus the UP narrow on the keyboard. (I hope that is the right combo...if I can remember it on the top of my head since its been months since I've done it). It will invert your screen and you can play GW upside down.

Yeah, me too.....I'm also easily amused, so I have more fun than most folks.

I love the one where the foes are right in front of me and my ranger shoots to the right and the arrow curves around and hits them. See? Easily amused. It's a lot better then being pissed off all the time.

Mine sometimes do full 360s while running, I find it rather amusing. >.>

It has happened to me too. I think it has to do with the information your computer is sending and receiving?
In Everquest 2 I experienced a bug where I'd get resureccted, but my man would still be lying down on the floor and when I'd move he'd slide around and spin on the spot.

I've this bug. I've been stuck walking backwards.

more often though, I get the spinning buck, where you start spinning as you move forward..... it's really funny, my friends and I have contests to see how long we can keep it going.

What I really like is when my character gets knocked down while moving and she goes flying across the screen.

They should turn that into a real effect, it's pretty kickass.

If you're spinning in any direction and cast a spell / use a skill, you'll continue to spin.

I had a video of my E/Mo farming Trolls a while ago, spinning in circles almost the whole time. It was awesome.

Have you tried casting Apply Poison while running to your opponent? That is magical.

Why does everyone act as if this is amusing? This is clearly a bug that's being experienced by plenty of people, a bug that did not occur anywhere as often in the first two chapters of Guild Wars, a bug that is effectively being ignored the way the 360 one is. But where the 360 turning bug and the mission cutscene turnaround bugs don't necessarily interfere with gameplay, the backwards walking bug does. It slows your character down because walking backwards and strafing is not done at full speed and occurs much more frequently. Heck, with the help of this thread I've been able to purposely recreate it multiple times since yesterday, where the others are occasional slips for which I've never been able to do the same. Or are people so bothered by other things in Nightfall (AI, missing titles, etc.) that this is just too small a problem?

But it doesn't slow your speed... it's just a client error that displays your character incorrectly... it doesn't effect your character on the server's end.

I'm sure that's it - it couldn't be that other people do not care that their character is facing the wrong way as much as you do and find the action amusing looking. Of course not, it must be that the rest of the game sucks so much.

Personally, I find I do it less often in nightfall. However, I also move using a combination of the keyboard and mouse and it seems most use one or the other. I tend to somewhat role play and it can be funny thinking about what the characters are doing/thinking.

In Everquest 2 they had a bug where for a little while shield's would appear backwards on people's hands.
We called them newbie shields.
We all made fun of the bugs and stuff in this fun topic.
This bug really isn't so bad. Let's have fun with it!

My char runs sideways a lot. -.-

Alright, maybe I wasn't clear. When my character walks backwards as a result of this particular bug, I'm not doing so at running speed, but at walking speed, as if I am actually directing my character to walk backwards by pressing the appropriate keyboard button! It's not just a cosmetic effect.

And yes, I know this seems minor to some, and I know there are plenty of other things that need tweaking, but I love this game and hate imperfection

Usually if I have a bug to report I go to http://help.plaync.com

I once found something I thought was a bug and went there. When I didn't find an answer I clicked on the Ask A Question tab and sent a bug report to the appropriate department. You'll need to fill in your account info and email address to send a bug report though.
You will get an email shortly after thanking you for bringing this to the developer's attention and that you may not receive a reply, but they will look into it if they already don't know about it.
Any information you can send to help pinpoint where the problem may lie will help them a lot in figuring out what is causing it and how to correct that part of the game code.