Kos Luftar
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Wow. I can't believe I'm missing two stress tests in a row!
Boo, life, you suck sometimes!
Boo, life, you suck sometimes!
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Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012
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All skills are "regular skills", there's no actual auto attack. As etio said, most players just use Skill 1 for autoattacking, but you can assign every skill as auto attack equivalent. All skills have their perks and uses, there's no "just to 10 damage over and over" skill that I know of.
1 often is a combo skill, that grows stronger (or does different things) with each hit, but that can happen with other skills, too. And it has no cooldown usually.
someone mentioned earlier that you can link the game to your Steam account and use F12 for the high-res screenshot function
someone mentioned earlier that you can link the game to your Steam account and use F12 for the high-res screenshot function
Steam screenshots are terribly compressed and it's horrible. If you want to take the best screenshots possible, fraps or any other similar program will be best.
flyinpiranha
Member
It's easier to stay up late than skip work. At least there is the option to play if you want to. Almost all the past ones I've been at work, I'd have gladly lost a couple hours sleep though!
And all these screenshots of locations that are so unique are amazing. It really is a diverse world and I've barely scratched the surface. Man, I wish I could build a second PC for the girl to play alongside with me but the weekend after headstart (25th) we're leaving the country on vacation and money is kind of tight. She actually played more of the first BWE than I did.
Forgot to mention, for the first time in any of the stress tests BWE I was having quite large graphical issues. periodically everything in the horizon (say 10ft from my toon) would turn into a pure grey screen and when I was trying to do the platforming jumps in the Asura starter zone all of the platforms went invisible.
Nvidia GTX-260, never had a single graphical issue before (outside of weapon clipping on character models)...I hope this is not gong to the the case on the final version ; (
Nvidia GTX-260, never had a single graphical issue before (outside of weapon clipping on character models)...I hope this is not gong to the the case on the final version ; (
ComputerMKII
Banned
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/xzi4y/i_printed_the_world_map/
My workplace has a large scale printer that I decided to take advantage of. Scale is 1300mm x 1300mm and is a LOT better quality than an iPhone can capture.
Next stop, my wall
EDIT: I have a lot of people asking if I could make them one and send it via the post. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen. I don't want to get into hot water with Anet regarding the resale of their IP, and also the cost of postage just wouldn't be worth it (being over 1000mm in length). The best I can do is link to the image I used which I shall upload and link to tomorrow. In regards to the quality of the print, the image I used was a 72dpi image at 4800mm x 4800mm. I then re-sized the image to be 320dpi which knocks the size of it down to roughly 1300mm x 1300mm. The final product was saved as an uncompressed TIF (roughly 1gb in size) and printed directly from that. There are no artifacts, or 'fuzziness' at all. Please let me know if there is anything else I can clarify/help with in regards to this. Cheers.
This is why I've only done WvW for the past two Stress Tests. The more practice I get with laying down siege equipment and upgrading/defending supply camps/towers, the better I'll be when I'm spending silver that won't be reset.
Oh snap, Forkball? This will be messy.
Escape Goat
Member
Have there been any professional previews that aren't total fluff pieces?
Gunbo's posts.
Escape Goat
Member
In English if at all possible.
Woot. 7-11pm EST is amazing. Enough time to run back from work, exercise, shower, then get into sloth mode on my couch. What a wonderfully normal way to spend a Friday night!
Gonna try out Thief for myself to see if I can emulate the Batman experience.
Well, Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb said he played 10 minutes of the first beta, and it didn't grab him so he quit, and he hasn't said another word about the game since.
But in all seriousness, if there's two genres that mainstream gaming media is useless for its fighting games and MMOs. Its just not something that they really ever get. So generally, you get a lot of yawns about how boring MMOs are, then a new MMO comes out with a single new feature, and everyone in the media falls all over themselves to congratulate the game for "fixing" the genre, without any concept of what the genre is even missing. And then the game comes out, and predictably fails, and everyone pretends that they didn't proclaim it to be the best thing ever a few months prior.
That being said, I don't think Guild Wars 2 is another generic MMO, but I'm not going to trust some editor at IGN to know the difference.
(Disclaimer: I'm not calling out all gaming media, so don't get mad Kayos. I'm specifically referring to the large media outlets that are expected to cover all games.)
It fucking kills me when i hear many of my favourite gaming podcast talking about mmos and how annoyed that you cant pay once with no sub, explore the game, great combat, no super hardcore end game, and never once fucking mention guild wars 2...ugh! It happens a lot
For stress test today i will be pvping only can't waste more time with pve. Im thinking of trying out engineer and mesmer or maybe even thief or warrior or.....
For stress test today i will be pvping only can't waste more time with pve. Im thinking of trying out engineer and mesmer or maybe even thief or warrior or.....
Thinking about playing Guardian but I fear it's going to be pretty slow to solo with... Friends bugging me to play one though but I don't have that much time left anymore... Man, years ago I'd make no issue of playing a support class but these days I have to be able to make progress every spare minute I've got.
In solo PvE they are up there with Elementalist and Warrior in regards to kill speed. The class doesn't feel like support when you're wacking things with a great sword.
Yeah...I made a guardian and warrior and at least at low levels I didn't exactly feel weaker on my guardian at all. In fact I think I may have felt a bit stronger overall...
Today will be the first time I finally get to play Guild Wars 2 (wasn't able to participate in the last two stress tests because of the early im-at-work hours). I expect random disconnects, but hopefully the experience is better than yesterday.
I feel sorry for my euro bros, but the last two tests had nice hours for you guys.
I feel sorry for my euro bros, but the last two tests had nice hours for you guys.
Known issue that doesn't seem to apply to any specific card. It's an occlusion issue within the engine and is fairly widespread(myself included).
Yeah once things got going it was fine, just the initial server issues. My guess is they're running this test again for two reasons:
1. Because they have more people on at the time they're running it.
2. To test the changes they made yesterday to get things running and see if what they did holds up to a lot more people coming in at once.
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.
Does that lag exist for movement as well?
thanks for the info, good news (for me at least). I've jumped over the exact same spot before and did not have the issue so I assumed it was a larger change
aramanKain
Member
20/50 goal on HoM success! And in about a month too. Those of you still considering this, here's the route that I took:
http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=...AA&todo=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Note that it took a lot of funds to accomplish this in such a short amount of time, somewhere in the realm of 600k, that I was able to get from a combination of some generous GAFfers (thanks again guys) and a friend's quitting inheritance, and plenty of time sitting around trading in EotN (thank God GW2 will have a trading post).
I thought about it this way: I'm going to spend money on gems in the game anyway, so spending money on GW1 now (by buying factions and EotN) is basically an investment in the same direction. Also got a taste of the base lore along the way too, which I enjoyed, even if some of the cutscenes were EXTREMELY cheeseballs.
Edit: Just for the record, say I wanted to add a few more points to this since there's time until release and go for the "1PvP Statue" reward since that is the one achievement that grants the most at once, how much work would that be?
http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=...AA&todo=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Note that it took a lot of funds to accomplish this in such a short amount of time, somewhere in the realm of 600k, that I was able to get from a combination of some generous GAFfers (thanks again guys) and a friend's quitting inheritance, and plenty of time sitting around trading in EotN (thank God GW2 will have a trading post).
I thought about it this way: I'm going to spend money on gems in the game anyway, so spending money on GW1 now (by buying factions and EotN) is basically an investment in the same direction. Also got a taste of the base lore along the way too, which I enjoyed, even if some of the cutscenes were EXTREMELY cheeseballs.
Edit: Just for the record, say I wanted to add a few more points to this since there's time until release and go for the "1PvP Statue" reward since that is the one achievement that grants the most at once, how much work would that be?
Only 1-day headstart (August 27th, a Monday) is still available, I believe.
ComputerMKII
Banned
Pre-purchase.
The retailer should say. I'm presuming you can pre-purchase up until the 25th.
More then it's worth. It's probably easier going for two more armour sets. Go for Ancients and find out if any of the others are cheapf or your class. Then finish EoTN, go for a few more titles. That would be my strategy at this point. Good work by the way. I'm pretty much stuck at 10.
You just answered my questions. I typically go with the boring warrior archetype, but thief looks really interesting so I might try it out first.
In a good way though. Like when you get ice cream and it gets all over your shirt because you ate it so quickly since it was so delicious.
aramanKain
Member
So... just farming zkeys/z-faction? I've got like 36k to my name after all this, so buying zkeys is out of the question.
razgriz417
Member
So I was digging through my old pictures and found this...
Talk about a blast from the past
Anyone else got GW comics? Time for an art dump while we wait for the next stress test?
Talk about a blast from the past
Anyone else got GW comics? Time for an art dump while we wait for the next stress test?
Weltall Zero
Member
Wow those are awesome picks. Now I want to play everything.
My favorite X-man as my class of choice
We aim to please.
I've always loved Nightcrawler as well, and felt he was a very underused character. On the other hand, I guess not many writers know what to do with a character that has no obvious straightaway pew pew abilities. I'd also wish they kept him fuzzy for X2.
That is pretty much the heart of the problem, masterfully synthesised in a single paragraph. If it hadn't been obvious before, The Old Republic was perhaps the best evidence that none of them know what they're talking about regarding this genre.
To be fair, very few people know what they're talking about Re: MMOs. It's certainly not helped by the fact that they're among the most complex pieces of entertainment ever devised.
If any Euro actually complains about that, he deserves to be slapped; we've had the two past stress tests all for ourselves, as you said. I'm glad for you guys, although be advised that it might be a rougher ride than you expect! These REALLY are stress tests and many people have /ragequitted among the multiple disconnects, missing geometry, lag, etc.
Also, if any Euro REALLY wants to play, they can. I often go to bed at 2AM having to wake up for work at 6:30AM; nobody's going to die by going to sleep a bit later on a Friday.
LumpOfCole
Member
The Oceanic players get up at 4am to play a four hour stress test that will be wiped, what does that tell you?
Whenever they pull the servers down it feels like "NOOOOOOOOOOOO my heroin has been taken away!" and then you don't know what to do to pass the time until you can play again.
Complistic
Member
So I was digging through my old pictures and found this...
Talk about a blast from the past
Anyone else got GW comics? Time for an art dump while we wait for the next stress test?
The thing that really dates that comic and is kind of amusing is that in later expansions it is revealed that Mhenlo is chased by every woman, has possibly messed around with a couple of them and ends up with Cynn.
razgriz417
Member
wow did not know that, I played the prophecies a ton with my brother and friends but none of them got any of the expansions, I may have to go back to the wiki to brush up on all that I missed...
God I still remember the Monk strike a few months after launch, so much rage that day
I've read that guesting worked in BWE3, though I've never tried it myself. If the guesting button doesn't work on the world select I've also seen people talk about making a party with people on another server and simply right clicking their portrait and then clicking 'Join In' and it will take you to the zone their in on their server. You might need to be in that zone on your server, but I'm not too sure.
Thank you! Will give it a go today.
Wasn't working yesterday for me but worked in BWE3.
Five hours and 15 minutes.