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[SnakeswithLasers]

Going home soon; anxious to try it out finally.

 

[Varna]

I had thought this beta was the optimization beta, game still runs like crap for what's on screen. Game struggles to hit low 50's with everything on low or off at 1080p. Everything on a mix of high/medium struggles to maintain 40 fps. These fps are literally just standing around outside the Norn hut you log into, with maybe 7 npcs in view and a few players running around. Noticing a lot of pop up, even on the highest settings too, which is disappointing.

It's improved from the first two beta weekends. My dual 580s and 4.6 GHZ 2500k could barely pull 30 FPS in a slightly crowded area and often times much lower. Now I'm doing about 45-60 now with some frame-rate stuttering even with a lot of people on screen. I consider acceptable... But this is still a fairly high end system and nothing on screen really warrants this kind of performance. No real AA either. This game needs at least MSAA x 4.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

What I don't get is....is the start the same as guild wars 1? Where you get to the real world after fighting other players?

And how do you get new skills?

 

[Shakala]

Wow I am impressed with the sylvari creator

 

[nataku]

Asura Defense Force!

Love her already.

Her?

 

[Carm]

It's improved from the first two beta weekends. My dual 580s and 4.6 GHZ 2500k could barely pull 30 FPS in a slightly crowded area and often times much lower. Now I'm doing about 45-60 now with some frame-rate stuttering even with a lot of people on screen. I consider acceptable... But this is still a fairly high end system and nothing on screen really warrants this kind of performance. No real AA either. This game needs at least MSAA x 4.

That's a terrible framerate for that system. After all the mmo betas I've been in, where they always say, it's beta, it will be better at launch and it never has been, at this point I'm not holding out any hope of the game running any better at launch.

Win7 64
AMD 3ghz quad
8g memory
460 GTX SC

Not a top of the line system by any means, but when the game, on a technical level is on the low end, I shouldn't be getting the fps I am.

 

[Varna]

That's a terrible framerate for that system. After all the mmo betas I've been in, where they always say, it's beta, it will be better at launch and it never has been, at this point I'm not holding out any hope of the game running any better at launch.

Win7 64
AMD 3ghz quad
8g memory
460 GTX SE


Not a top of the line system by any means, but when the game, on a technical level is on the low end, I shouldn't be getting the fps I am.

Feel the same way. And I'm really flirting with the idea of canceling payment on my presale. Just seems really ridiculous considering all the "It will be better at launch" talk. I really want this to be my go-to MMORPG though so I am torn.

 

[Panda Rin]

I'm really torn on playing this . I really want to play it, but knowing that the characters will be erased has me skipping the story and not really caring for my character. but I want to playyy itt!

 

[Atrophis]

Any way to join a battleground as a group?

 

[Ferrio]

I'm really torn on playing this . I really want to play it, but knowing that the characters will be erased has me skipping the story and not really caring for my character. but I want to playyy itt!

Then just go PvP, instantly lvl 80 with all skills. You can test out builds and stuff.. no need to touch any story.

 

[BattleMonkey]

The bloom in some of these areas is hideous and straining my eye.

 

[BrettWeir]

Well darn. It's a slideshow on my awesome laptop with:

AMD Turion 64X2 Mobile @ 2Ghz
nVidia GeForce 8400M GS
4 Gig of RAM
Windows Vista

LOL!

Honestly, it's what I expected. But I was very happy to even be able to log in just to test it out.

 

[Violet_0]

I just transfered to Henge, then back to Gates

it can't be that hard to get onto that server

 

[Mechazawa]

Between the graphical corruption that wasn't present in the last betas for me, the weird bugs and the still shitty framerate, I don't know if I can go for another round of this.

 

[flyinpiranha]

I just transfered to Henge, then back to Gates

it can't be that hard to get onto that server

Just noticed it wasn't full so doing the same.

... and stuck at connecting, lol. Serves me right!

 

[gogojira]

What's the primary GAF server. Hate to ask a question that's probably been repeated but a few pages back and all I see are questions about overflow servers. About to make a choice and I'd like to join you guys.

 

[Violet_0]

Just noticed it wasn't full so doing the same.

keep in mind that there's a WvWvW queue which seems to take forever

 

[HarryHengst]

This is a Good Game.

 

[FutureZombie]

Checked a siege merchant and saw a flame ram blueprint. That's new, isn't it?

 

[Orayn]

Can I get a fresh invite for Orayn.5021?

 

[Snapshot King]

They only said that they did some optimization but aren't finished.

Yeah, for me Bwe1 was unplayable and bwe2 was playable at min settings. Now the game runs between 30-60 on max settings. Itll keep being optimized up until launch.

It keeps being said over and over but its not sinking in. Bug fixing and optimization is literally the last thing to be done on a game.

 

[Ferrio]

Yeah, for me Bwe1 was unplayable and bwe2 was playable at min settings. Now the game runs between 30-60 on max settings. Itll keep being optimized up until launch.

It keeps being said over and over but its not sinking in. Bug fixing and optimization is literally the last thing to be done on a game.

And that's been said a thousand times in all MMO beta, and by release it's rarely happens by then.

 

[kagete]

only played for 2 hours... and i'm sold. Now I have to decide whether i'll be playing in EU or US because of friends in either region...

 

[BattleMonkey]

And that's been said a thousand times in all MMO beta, and by release it's rarely happens by then.

Yea, game optimizations are going to be going on probably for months after release.

 

[nataku]

And that's been said a thousand times in all MMO beta, and by release it's rarely happens by then.

Normally I'd agree. I've been in too many MMORPG betas that said the same thing, and none of them delievered. That said, I've seen good improvements from BWE to BWE with GW2, so I have no reason not to expect another boost come release. It's not going to be some massive improvement come launch, but they'll get it worked out.

 

[Snapshot King]

And that's been said a thousand times in all MMO beta, and by release it's rarely happens by then.

Oh by no means will they be completely done a month from now, but its clear there's been a steady rate of improvement.

 

[NeededSleep]

That's a terrible framerate for that system. After all the mmo betas I've been in, where they always say, it's beta, it will be better at launch and it never has been, at this point I'm not holding out any hope of the game running any better at launch.

Win7 64
AMD 3ghz quad
8g memory
460 GTX SC

Not a top of the line system by any means, but when the game, on a technical level is on the low end, I shouldn't be getting the fps I am.

I have a 460gtx se
8GB mem
I5 3.2
Widows 7 64 bit

And last 2 beta weekends ran great. Anywhere from 40 to 60 fps last bwe. On decent settings.

Havnt checked this bwe since im still at work.

 

[etiolate]

I was getting flickering on draw-in and some other weird draw-in graphical glitches. Strangely, I turned on post-processing and everything improved. I don't have anything to count framerats to see how much of a hit I took.

 

[Ferrio]

What I've disliked in previous BWEs, is I pretty much get the same framerate running on low compared to high. Maybe a 5 fps difference.

 

[BattleMonkey]

Normally I'd agree. I've been in too many MMORPG betas that said the same thing, and none of them delievered. That said, I've seen good improvements from BWE to BWE with GW2, so I have no reason not to expect another boost come release. It's not going to be some massive improvement come launch, but they'll get it worked out.

Most betas have shown optimizations and improvements, it's that people always have the expectations that everything is going to be perfect when obviously it wont be. This won't be perfect either at launch and people have to just expect it

 

[Snapshot King]

What I've disliked in previous BWEs, is I pretty much get the same framerate running on low compared to high. Maybe a 5 fps difference.

Same here. Resolution doesnt change it either much. Definitely a videocard optimization issue.

 

[Shakala]

Made a slyvari thief. I needs more abilities!!!

 

[ShaneB]

I just finished naming my character, and the game decides to bail out and update?

edit: all seems fine, but that was odd.

 

[Moaradin]

I have a high end PC. The last beta weekends were terrible. Bad performance all around. This one is a major improvement.

 

[Absinthe]

I just finished naming my character, and the game decides to bail out and update?

Great timing eh?

I have a high end PC. The last beta weekends were terrible. Bad performance all around. This one is a major improvement.

Noticed the same thing on my rig. Much better than before

 

[theMrCravens]

The second Personal Storyline for Sylvari is awesome.

Spoiler

nod to Plants vs Zombies

 

[zulfate]

im in yay!-o god server shut down

this is the second time this has happened to me lol

 

[Fallacy]

How big is this update?

 

[BattleMonkey]

im in yay!-o god server shut down

this is the second time this has happened to me lol

It's back already, just a quick little patch

 

[Kapoios]

Not big at all; i downloaded it in 1-2 minutes and i have a relatively slow connection.

I'm loving my asura engineer so far. Their starting zone is more interesting than the human's, norn and charr if you ask me.

 

[Atrophis]

Yeah I'm struggling with the pvp as an ele. Can't seem to pump out any damage and get killed in a couple of seconds. So hard to learn all those skills at once.

 

[theMrCravens]

I'm loving my asura engineer so far. Their starting zone is more interesting than the human's, norn and charr if you ask me.

It is awesome, but the asuras are so damn small you can barely see what you equip on them. Animation is kinda weird too.

 

[Teknopathetic]

Yak's Bend started showing up in WvW, that was fun.

 

[Kapoios]

Animation is kinda weird too.

No way, their animation is awesome! Especially the dodging and landing from a jump.
,..Not to mention they stumble when you move sideways and stop so if you move and stop repeatedly you can get them to drunken shuffle.

 

[zulfate]

It's back already, just a quick little patch

thanks!

 

[Einbroch]

So I just played Asura. Holy crap they're TINY. They barely go up to Norn's kneecap!

 

[Violet_0]

No way, their animation is awesome! Especially the dodging and landing from a jump.
,..Not to mention they stumble when you move sideways and stop so if you move and stop repeatedly you can get them to drunken shuffle.

exactly, their animations are amazing

 

[JetBlackPanda]

so yeah my account is totally gone. NCsoft sent me a reset password email with my beta key and its linked to a random email of someone else.

god damn this sucks.

my account still shows guild wars 2 on my account but my account is all glitched with no display name.

oh well.

edit:can I purchase a key from a pre-order for my wife and use that to get into this beta while mine is being figured out?

 

[Katoki]

Welp, GameStop seems to have ran out of useful codes down here and are left with the 1 day head start ones. Does anyone know how the character delete system works if I have someone else save character names for me? Like, instant delete after typing in character's name or something like character sits in inactivity for a week before it happens just so you're sure you want to delete it?

 

[XenodudeX]

I can't log in. Are the servers down?