Guild Wars 2 public Beta is here for pre-purchases! [Stress Test June 27th]
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fluffydelusions
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Better question is when does MoP come out? I don't think they want to release around that date TBH.
Too bad, MoP is probably going to come out around that time frame most likely therefore GW2 will be released some other time. I could be wrong though, but it wouldn't be smart of ANet to go up directly against MoP. Also, unless you're part of Press, please refrain from saying you were part of anything that you signed an NDA form.
Yeah binding blade + whirling wrath is awesome. I wonder if you could binding blade -> switch to hammer and use the sign that prevents others from getting close/running away if you're caught in the effect -> switch to great sword and whirling wrath/other attacks for nice effect?
fluffydelusions
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But they never said when BWE events occur. I mean they could have one every weekend for all we know.
No, everything is getting wiped before launch.
I'm too stubborn and have the thought of a gun not being meant for a warrior in my mind and me not being effective as result. Kinda like a warrior being able to use a bow in GW1 but that not necessarily being a sane combo.
That, coupled with the fact that I find melee far more enjoyable than range in this game, makes me sad that range combat is far superior.
Stop that, please.
fluffydelusions
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FTFY
Why? Because I'm actually following rules and trying to prevent you from getting into trouble? You know you can get banned for that crap, right?
FutureZombie
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Do you have a source/link for this? Are we on the same home server for the other BWEs?
I think if they miss the summer, they would be doing themselves a disservice.
BTW, Arenanet has ponied up a LOT of dough for advertising in Gamestop for the month of May, including front window, outside placed posters (the posters you see on the windows of stores). That space is NOT cheap. Arenanet sure isn't Ubisoft, Activision or any other huge 3rd party that can afford to advertise months and months away from release (like, for example, Ubisoft/Assassin's Creed 3).
If it doesn't launch in June or July, I would be very surprised considering the money being shelled out.
BTW, Arenanet has ponied up a LOT of dough for advertising in Gamestop for the month of May, including front window, outside placed posters (the posters you see on the windows of stores). That space is NOT cheap. Arenanet sure isn't Ubisoft, Activision or any other huge 3rd party that can afford to advertise months and months away from release (like, for example, Ubisoft/Assassin's Creed 3).
If it doesn't launch in June or July, I would be very surprised considering the money being shelled out.
Haha, thank goodness ANet has you to enforce their contracts for them.
99.99999% of MMOs wipe before launch...
You're making assumptions. Please stop.
Yeah. I agree that summer is the best time to release it, however, if things don't go well I can see them delaying their intended plan to release it to Q3/Q4, hence my November argument.
fluffydelusions
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This is pretty much the case with every beta. Everything is always wiped before release.
I'm not making assumptions. I'm saying if you're not part of press and signed an NDA you should not be making mentions. I never said you weren't. If you are please enlighten everyone so I won't have to repeat this for the past X amount of times.
Haha, thank goodness ANet has you to enforce their contracts for them.
I can't tell if you're serious. I'm not under contract or anything. I just don't want people getting banned and destroying themselves because they're saying stupid stuff.
Wait, you're serious about November? This game would get smoked in November.
I had this problem at first, but if you change up your tactics with a warrior to be more of a jump in, get a few hits, jump out style it works well. Especially with the mace in off-hand as your "5" ability is a ranged knockdown attack that hits multiple targets in a line.
The balance still was not ideal, it takes a more action focused approach with warrior. Much more dodging and circle strafing.
Complistic
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You gotta make your fingers dance though if you want to play optimally. reminds me of StarCraft 2 at times. I bet my APM is higher actually.
By what?
No, I'm not being serious. Were you?
By other games? Yes. However, that time frame is the only time where the MMO players wouldn't get eaten by another MMO release. I could be wrong though.
My explanation was serious. I guessed that you weren't, I just thought my actions needed clarification. ^_^
You sound like the ArenaNet policy enforcement police. We're all adults here. We don't need to be talked to like children. You don't know anything about anyone else's situation and whether or not they're bound by NDA. Stop making assumptions, please. If the person signed an NDA, they're well and able to make a decision on what they can and cannot say and be responsible for it. You don't know if they signed and NDA and they don't need to do some super secret handshake with you to keep you from slapping them on the hand. If you have a problem with something someone says, maybe you should PM them.
By the deluge of AAA that bombard gamers in November? One still has to pay $60 for the game. That's $60 competing with a ton of other "must have" games that will be hyped.
No, the argument of "This doesn't compete with other game since its a MMO" doesn't work. All of that money competes against each other. GW2 just wouldn't get off to the best start it could potentially by releasing that late. F2P or not after the initial buy, they still need people to jump in.
I think they could get away with August, but after that won't be ideal. I'm willing to bet Anet will be working their asses off to make summer. =) Especially so they can capitalize on the money being spent on advertising.
Exactly.
fluffydelusions
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Are you referring to MoP? Because I don't think there is a release date?
Did you completely ignored what I said? I never made an assumption. I was notifying you of the situation as is. As for being an enforcement police, I made my intentions quite clear a few posts back. If you ARE under NDA and do not have the ability to speak publicly, then I believe you're being irresponsible, hardly to even call yourself an adult.
EDIT: I'm not talking to you like a child, however, your actions warrant that you apparently be treated like one. If you're not willing to inform the users of the conditions of revealing you were in CBT then I wouldn't say anymore. However, you make the point to say you were in it and have nothing to back it up and spit on ANet's policy, that I have a problem with.
I was referring to MoP yes. I know there isn't a release date but I don't think the game is going to come out in November. Most likely August - October time frame.
I think you're grossly overestimating the overlap of 'November gamers' and MMO players who buy one game (or expansion) per year, if that, and stick to it. And underestimating how much clout an MMO holds versus console games for player dollars.
kayos90, I think I'm speaking for quite a few people when I say your needless confrontations are getting pretty stupid.
I think it's fair to say that a game will have a better chance of success if there are not numerous high profile games released at the same time. For example, if you live, eat and breach COD, you might be willing to play GW2 over the summer, but fuck no you won't play in November.
Excuse me, that's trademark infringement on the Star Wars brand. Please stop doing that.
fluffydelusions
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I asked the very same thing and all responses lead to no. Everything will be wiped with each bwe
I'm mainly concerned with the MMO audience when I talk about November though just to simplify things. If I took almost everything into consideration then meh...
fluffydelusions
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I'm done with COD...for good. Actually pretty tired of FPS shooters all together.
I've been following this game for a bit, but I don't have a computer that can run it at the moment and I was busy this weekend anyway, so I didn't prepurchase.
How was the bow for the Warrior? From what I read I was thinking it'd be really cool to do some AoE stuff in big WvWvW battles, did anyone try that and did it work out well?
How was the bow for the Warrior? From what I read I was thinking it'd be really cool to do some AoE stuff in big WvWvW battles, did anyone try that and did it work out well?
I am, sort of. I think they will want to announce a release date at least 3 months before the game comes out and if they are going to stick to 1 weekend per month for open testing I believe there should be at least 2 more tests before they can realistically say they've taken into account all feedback, fixed all balance issues, replaced placeholders and finished up all the content. A 6 months time frame for all of this doesn't sound too farfetched, so November (which is technically 6 months away) for me is still the worst case scenario, but doesn't seem implausible. June/July for example seem much more out of the question unless they ramp up the beta periods and there is more openness on what needs to be finished.
Hopefully they open up some dungeon instances and high level content. Make sure everything runs tight on those.
Did you try BF3? I thought it was pretty fantastic... but I do wish someone would change it up some and try something new.
Warrior_Keoni
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That sort of gives me a chance to test the waters out for other human character storylines such as deciding if I want to play between a street rat...or a noble.
I've finished the human commoner story and really enjoyed it!
How very pretentious of you.
It's all a conspiracy! The release date will be announced when the CE Rytlock Figures are all done and painted!!!
Honestly, what you've been saying and posting previous to these series of posts in the past threads are much more pretentious and additionally annoying. Also, I'll take your remark as a compliment for trying to actually care about this situation.
Honestly, what you've been saying and posting previous to these series of posts in the past threads are much more pretentious and additionally annoying. Also, I'll take your remark as a compliment for trying to actually care about this situation.
FutureZombie
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The AoE damage on the bow is pretty pathetic.
The bow sucked, I'm sorry to say. The rifle was SO MUCH better. There were some enemies with regenerating health that I could not kill with my bow unless I used my special attacks. They just regened health faster than my autoattack could kill. Had no such problem with the rifle, which was fairly powerful and my weapon of choice most times. Perhaps I just needed a stronger bow or something.
andregnreis
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I really liked this weekends beta. Of course some things still need to change and be tweaked but overall one of the best betas Ive played, way better first impression than SWTOR or Tera. Only things I didnt like:
- Most personal story missions are unfair and need to be balanced. Theyre not hard, theyre just unfair and broken. That was my main and primary issue.
- Better tutorials, specially for professions and WvWvW
- Some dynamic events/WvWvW fights really feel chaotic and sometimes the best thing to do is just get a ranged weapon and spam attacks without thinking about a strategy.
- Id also like to see chat bubbles since I rarely read the chat box when Im not in a group of friends. I must have missed like 10 guys calling for help when they were in a downed state lol
But overall great experience!
- Most personal story missions are unfair and need to be balanced. Theyre not hard, theyre just unfair and broken. That was my main and primary issue.
- Better tutorials, specially for professions and WvWvW
- Some dynamic events/WvWvW fights really feel chaotic and sometimes the best thing to do is just get a ranged weapon and spam attacks without thinking about a strategy.
- Id also like to see chat bubbles since I rarely read the chat box when Im not in a group of friends. I must have missed like 10 guys calling for help when they were in a downed state lol
But overall great experience!
Just a quick question here (actually asking on behalf of a friend) but does anyone thing ANet will take advantage of bit mapping or any advanced texturing methods?
My friend wasn't too impressed with the overall graphics of the game for some messed up reason. I personally LOVE the aesthetics etc but he's in the mindset that Rift looks better.
Edit: Sorry he likes the fact that zones look extremely different from each other, like in WoW, not that the graphics were better, but yeah, thanks KKRT00.
My friend wasn't too impressed with the overall graphics of the game for some messed up reason. I personally LOVE the aesthetics etc but he's in the mindset that Rift looks better.
Edit: Sorry he likes the fact that zones look extremely different from each other, like in WoW, not that the graphics were better, but yeah, thanks KKRT00.
I was going to say that he's a technical graphics preferred user until I read WoW. Now I don't know...
Quadrophenic
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I used the bow on the last day for WvWvW. We were attacking a fort, and it was pretty great. I would build up Rage on the door, or Guards, and then unleash the F1 move on the defenders shooting from the walls.
The 5-skill which pins people was awesome as well for any stragglers would would run from outside. I would pin them, then switch to my melee set (can't remember which i had, i think ax/sword, but it might have been sword/ax with savage leap) and charge at them wrecking thier face lol.
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