aramanKain
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Man alive, I feel like the mini market ballooned to high hell just overnight. I'm 5 common minis +1 unique mini away from hitting my HoM goal of 20 and not sure I have the cash now...
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Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012
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theMrCravens
Member
Welp. just posted how I needed a fifth stress test to figure out race/class.
Bring it on.
LumpOfCole
Member
I put together a video you guys might want to see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbUAhk2QQ9Q
I had such a great time in WvW tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbUAhk2QQ9Q
I had such a great time in WvW tonight.
Knew they'd have another one after today's "experience" - wonder if that means they're trying to avoid one next week by having it on Friday, or seeing how it'll go in another time slot.
Goodacre0081
Member
that's pretty sweet. I was kinda hoping for a full weekend seeing as i missed all the others
totally hyped for the game now after two short hours. Has GAF decided on a server yet?
aramanKain
Member
In my experience with a lot of games turning off vsync can help that.
This is what a ArenaNet guy said about it:
I'm happy that now the game runs at 60fps * -* They have done a good job.
goddam, that was a long duel.
I'd rather wait two weeks and have it be flawless. It's much easier for them to dedicate time in development and debugging if they also don't need to worry about putting out fires caused by a premature release.
Nope, they will be still alive for tomorrow.
Goodacre0081
Member
i noticed movement had a sluggish feeling but just thought it was designed that way. it was my first time playing so i can't compare it to earlier builds.
Dang. We had some miscommunication on which server we were going to and some people picked the wrong ones.
lol.
stormbluff isle
FunkyMunkey
Banned
Really irritated I still can't choose high-res textures. I can play with high-res character textures(only if I let it default my settings in the options and then max them out from there), but still only medium textures for everything else.
Reading up on this, it's locked to 64-bit OS apparently. This will most definitely NOT be the case for retail, right? It's very boggling to be able to run this game at over 60 fps with everything maxed, and have this locked out for no reason at all.
Reading up on this, it's locked to 64-bit OS apparently. This will most definitely NOT be the case for retail, right? It's very boggling to be able to run this game at over 60 fps with everything maxed, and have this locked out for no reason at all.
LumpOfCole
Member
Maybe it's limiting you based on not having enough VRAM?
aramanKain
Member
I didn't get a chance to play the stress test today - is the UI scaling fixed yet? That's a big deal for a 1440p monitor guy like me that I'm surprised hasn't been fixed yet.
You could download the client right now if you wanted to even without an account. Amazon sends out a code with your order to get access to the head start. Some people report not getting these codes though, so buyer beware.
At this point, there's not much reason to join in the very short tests. You'll be better off waiting the two weeks for the retail release.
GhostRidah
Member
rofl, longest chase ever.
cool, thanks for the answer.
LumpOfCole
Member
My Asura Mesmer, Mindgaze:
I don't have FB and can't view it... what time does it start?
4-8PM PST
4 pacific
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I made a Norn Warrior really fast just for the stress test and her boobs are massive because I made her too fast
They're like spoilers?
My man.
If you try it and get a code, let us know. Friend of mine is interested somewhat too.
I feel sorry for that poor guy playing necro. He was obviously just getting used to the class judging by how badly you stomped him and how he was using Scepter/Axe. I will say you have mad tailing skills. I can't believe the number of times you got hit with cc and kept on top of him.
The double stress test is great. I just can't say no to more GW2. I think this time around I'm going to screw around with tailoring instead of wandering around grabbing vistas.
Nah, big boobs = extra armour.
no code yet, but amazon says they'll send the code sometime before the 25th for the head start. i just purchased from amazon and registered the key that gave me on arenanet. after creating my account and logging in i was able to download the set up.
Nope. None of the ui settings change the size.
LumpOfCole
Member
In the land of WvW, the unprepared Necro picked a bone with the wrong server
even though I was the one invading her server
Some other Engineer changes I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Racial utility skills now give a Fkey ability, which seems to be a default ability. Previously, equipping the sylvari root racial would leave a blank toolkit spell on your fkeys. It now gives Gear Shield, a 2 second block skill. Also, the sylvari root was nerfed to single target.
I am not sure if this is new or not, but Mangetic Inversion is now a blast finisher.
Mesmer had some CDs and number tweaks, but none of the mechanic changes that it direly needs. I didn't notice MindStab hitting multiple targets, though that was claimed to be a change. I'll test it more tomorrow, I suppose. Really disappointed by the lack of progress on Mesmer. Mind Wrack and GS laser beam both feel weaker. Even fully traited, mind wrack's damage was in the 600 range per illusion. They've gone form like 3k damage per in BWE1 to not even 3k damage from all three illusions.
Racial utility skills now give a Fkey ability, which seems to be a default ability. Previously, equipping the sylvari root racial would leave a blank toolkit spell on your fkeys. It now gives Gear Shield, a 2 second block skill. Also, the sylvari root was nerfed to single target.
I am not sure if this is new or not, but Mangetic Inversion is now a blast finisher.
Mesmer had some CDs and number tweaks, but none of the mechanic changes that it direly needs. I didn't notice MindStab hitting multiple targets, though that was claimed to be a change. I'll test it more tomorrow, I suppose. Really disappointed by the lack of progress on Mesmer. Mind Wrack and GS laser beam both feel weaker. Even fully traited, mind wrack's damage was in the 600 range per illusion. They've gone form like 3k damage per in BWE1 to not even 3k damage from all three illusions.
Thanks! I don't know why my mobile browser isnt letting me view the page so thanks again!
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Also, I was getting 50-60 fps on a 5770. It dropped to 35fps in Lions Arch when they kicked everyone out of WvWvW. That was the lowest I saw. I believe my setting were High for textures, High for animations, High for post-processing, High on shaders, with medium shadows, and terrain & sky reflections. Didn't test with supersampling.
I'm on Henge, and it still struggles in WvWvW, but my time there was still fun. We were getting sandwiched at our first keep from both sides in Eternal Battlegrounds. My support Engineer setup felt highly effective. I was running Pistol/Shield, with Med Kit, Grenade Kit, Elixir S or B, and Elixir Gun. I had the bomb on dodge trait and larger explosion radius trait. Elixir Gun skills, dropping heal packs and throwing elixirs gave our side a lot more survival. I was able to routinely cycle through all of these. I also used throw shield to daze multiple enemies, and the Elixir 2 skill to slow foes and speed up allies. It was a real jack of all trades build. Good at assaulting keeps, defending keeps, supporting allies and even provided some burst.
I'm on Henge, and it still struggles in WvWvW, but my time there was still fun. We were getting sandwiched at our first keep from both sides in Eternal Battlegrounds. My support Engineer setup felt highly effective. I was running Pistol/Shield, with Med Kit, Grenade Kit, Elixir S or B, and Elixir Gun. I had the bomb on dodge trait and larger explosion radius trait. Elixir Gun skills, dropping heal packs and throwing elixirs gave our side a lot more survival. I was able to routinely cycle through all of these. I also used throw shield to daze multiple enemies, and the Elixir 2 skill to slow foes and speed up allies. It was a real jack of all trades build. Good at assaulting keeps, defending keeps, supporting allies and even provided some burst.
FunkyMunkey
Banned
Nope, I'm playing on a single 1080p monitor with a gtx670 and it's not getting close to cap when I monitor it. A quick google shows it's because I'm on a 32-bit OS.
Better change this crap by release.Nope, I'm playing on a single 1080p monitor with a gtx670 and it's not getting close to cap when I monitor it. A quick google shows it's because I'm on a 32-bit OS.
I had the same problem in a different game (GTA4), but it was steam and I was able to fix it with setting the startup parameters in steam differently...
http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/topic/20760-how-to-bypass-gta-iv-memory-restrictions/
maybe sth like this will work for GW2 as well??? Worth giving it a try! It works for the non-steam version of GTA4, so might work for GW2 as well:
Yeah these were in the last stress test. Magnetic Inversion I think has always been a blast finisher but it hasn't worked for a while.
Also, fuck yeah more GW2 tomorrow. Will probably do something with a human, maybe Guardian or Necromancer.