Stress test tomorrow (Wednesday) from 12-4 PST. Why do they always have to schedule them when people are at work!!!
awesome. Might play a couple of PvP games with the Mesmer and Ranger.
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Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012
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awesome. Might play a couple of PvP games with the Mesmer and Ranger.
Complistic
Member
Stress test tomorrow (Wednesday) from 12-4 PST. Why do they always have to schedule them when people are at work
They're scheduling them to coincide with when they're working so they don't have to stay at their office all night.
You're on a PC! Buy a separate mic and buy a proper pair of cans!
That does nothing for me considering I want a quality mic/headset combo to game on 360 as well. Also, my budget cap is a strict 100 dollars. I'd be too tempted to buy some 200 dollar plus thing I would barely use for what my money is actually going towards in that instance: listening to music. Plus, I move around a lot.
I just need a mic/headset combo that gives clear audio I/O, comfortable, affordable and durable. So I can bug you guys with my voice on mumble and hear the complaints. And to communicate during games, I suppose.
LumpOfCole
Member
Strict $100 budget?
My friend, this is your next set of headphones:
BONUS: You have buttons on the side of the cans that can turn your voice into Zordon, Robot, or Asura.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001O5CCQK/?tag=neogaf0e-20
BrettWeir
Member
That's great. I think it's funny how people think they are entitled to everything. Rubi owned that idiot.
Trust me, MVM is going to be late. I'm EDT, so the stress test will be from 3pm-7pm, and I bet that they still won't have the MVM update out until 9pm.
Uh, could one of you download Murmur and host a Mumble server?
That used to be a big deal. But meh. Wow doesn't pack the punch it did in the past. And GW2 is the first big competitor that innovates with an MMO. It will be interesting. Blizzard probably will have to inflate their subs with quite a bit of semi-real Asian accounts to look good.
Maybe to look good but there profit margin will still be very high, WoW is such a massive cash cow it is unreal.
Weltall Zero
Member
Whoa, nice, it even lists Euro times from Stress Test events as well. Just have to add 2 hours (GMT+2
). OK, that was hilarious. Thank you.
Unrelated to all that, I hacked together a little program in Java that takes care of creating and recreating playlists for each of GW2's replaceable categories (ambience, city, battle, etc.). You have to do a bit of housekeeping first (create a directory with subdirectories for each OST you want to include, then directories within each OST for each category, and move each song to each category), but after that, it makes it quite easy to select which OSTs you want to include in your personalized GW2 soundtrack, and change them at any time. It looks like this:
Is anyone interested in this, like, at all?
Whoa, nice, it even lists Euro times from Stress Test events as well. Just have to add 2 hours (GMT+2
OK, that was hilarious. Thank you.
Unrelated to all that, I hacked together a little program in Java that takes care of creating and recreating playlists for each of GW2's replaceable categories (ambience, city, battle, etc.). You have to do a bit of housekeeping first (create a directory with subdirectories for each OST you want to include, then directories within each OST for each category, and move each song to each category), but after that, it makes it quite easy to select which OSTs you want to include in your personalized GW2 soundtrack, and change them at any time. It looks like this:
Is anyone interested in this, like, at all?
i kinda am, i thought anet said they are doing there own version of this correct?
also you forgot ffXI music, that is one of my favorite MMO soundtracks.
LumpOfCole
Member
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-countdown-guild-wars-2-launch-times/
"Pre-Purchase with 3-Day Headstart: Everyone who pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 will enjoy three full days of Headstart Access. The three-day Headstart Access will officially begin at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 25th. However, please note that in order to ensure that were fully prepared for that fateful hour we may bring servers online up to 3 hours prior. If youre a player committed to getting in first to grab that character name of your dreams youll want to be keeping an eye on things during that time period."
Shit just got real.
"Pre-Purchase with 3-Day Headstart: Everyone who pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 will enjoy three full days of Headstart Access. The three-day Headstart Access will officially begin at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 25th. However, please note that in order to ensure that were fully prepared for that fateful hour we may bring servers online up to 3 hours prior. If youre a player committed to getting in first to grab that character name of your dreams youll want to be keeping an eye on things during that time period."
Shit just got real.
theMrCravens
Member
You guys seen this ?
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-countdown-guild-wars-2-launch-times/
Don't tell me I'll have to spam the login button for 3 hrs ?
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-countdown-guild-wars-2-launch-times/
Don't tell me I'll have to spam the login button for 3 hrs ?
Friday Night.
LumpOfCole
Member
Basically. Your best bet is to get into a Mumble server with bros so that login spam can be crowdsourced.
Ah. Even better. No work on Saturday.
I'm sure it's Pacific. Not EDT.
BrettWeir
Member
Looks like it will be a Breaking Bad marathon on the TV while spamming the log in button.
As previously stated.......Challenge accepted!
No, it's midnight EST. 9 pm PST.
As previously stated.......Challenge accepted!
No, it's midnight EST. 9 pm PST.
theMrCravens
Member
For EDT though, we gotta start spamming at midnight.
You PST guys got it easy.
Noisy Ninj4
Member
I believe this is intentional. Anet knows it has a good size player base in europe.
Whoa, nice, it even lists Euro times from Stress Test events as well. Just have to add 2 hours (GMT+2
OK, that was hilarious. Thank you.
Unrelated to all that, I hacked together a little program in Java that takes care of creating and recreating playlists for each of GW2's replaceable categories (ambience, city, battle, etc.). You have to do a bit of housekeeping first (create a directory with subdirectories for each OST you want to include, then directories within each OST for each category, and move each song to each category), but after that, it makes it quite easy to select which OSTs you want to include in your personalized GW2 soundtrack, and change them at any time. It looks like this:
Is anyone interested in this, like, at all?
Yes. Please. Pleeeease.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
I don't ask this snidely, and only because I haven't had the chance to play the game myself: does GW2 have any strategy-heavy group play?
In the videos I've watched, it looks like everyone just kind of zergs everything in sight, with little regard for any kind of coordination. Again, not asking sarcastically, but would appreciate if someone could point me towards some videos with some truly awesome group content. If people have posted stuff already, sorry; it'd be a pain to sift through 202 pages of posts!
In the videos I've watched, it looks like everyone just kind of zergs everything in sight, with little regard for any kind of coordination. Again, not asking sarcastically, but would appreciate if someone could point me towards some videos with some truly awesome group content. If people have posted stuff already, sorry; it'd be a pain to sift through 202 pages of posts!
Look up some PvP tournament matches between guilds.
From a quick search: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvlQ0qySFBU
Edit: You'll probably want to look for something with match commentary.
They're doing 24 for each in the current betas but will very likely add a few more for sure. They're also able to throw more up as needed without taking anything down. They had 96 in BWE2 just because they could.
Look at these videos, this is one of the best teams in the world currently:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamParadigmNet/videos
Well, I don't have to pay a sub for GW2, so i'll just have to Binge on the early start and then balance both.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Thanks for that. Any stand-out PvE videos that you know of? PvP isn't typically mine or my friends' thing in MMOs.
ComputerMKII
Banned
Goddamnit, people are stupid.
Sometimes people just need to learn the hard way.
Weltall Zero
Member
About the 3 hour thing, I think I'm just going to give up on getting any particularly desirable names...
About the GW2 music thing, ArenaNet said they'll probably NOT make a manager themselves (if any of the guys with the encyclopaedic knowledge can fish the quote, all the better); that's the only reason I'm making one. I see there's some people interested; I'l give it a bit of spit and polish (I'm just now implementing persisting which folders you've enabled between executions) and upload it tomorrow.
Well, considering nobody has ever gone above level 30 (of 80), or if they had, they had this huge NDA preventing them from talking, the answer is "we don't know". We do know that the game doesn't have raids; dungeons are all 5-man (and much harder in Explorable Mode than the equivalent from other games). World events that consist of fights will remain zergy by nature, and that's OK, but there's also insanely epic dragon fights with siege weapons that must be used and protected, and even repaired (escorting the repair team) if they are destroyed.
Also, do not discount WvW as a source of entertainment; I normally dislike PvP but WvW is created to appeal to PvE lovers as well.
About the GW2 music thing, ArenaNet said they'll probably NOT make a manager themselves (if any of the guys with the encyclopaedic knowledge can fish the quote, all the better); that's the only reason I'm making one. I see there's some people interested; I'l give it a bit of spit and polish (I'm just now implementing persisting which folders you've enabled between executions) and upload it tomorrow.
Well, considering nobody has ever gone above level 30 (of 80), or if they had, they had this huge NDA preventing them from talking, the answer is "we don't know". We do know that the game doesn't have raids; dungeons are all 5-man (and much harder in Explorable Mode than the equivalent from other games). World events that consist of fights will remain zergy by nature, and that's OK, but there's also insanely epic dragon fights with siege weapons that must be used and protected, and even repaired (escorting the repair team) if they are destroyed.
Also, do not discount WvW as a source of entertainment; I normally dislike PvP but WvW is created to appeal to PvE lovers as well.
Good riddance.
Weltall Zero
Member
It actually seems like he did it on purpose to force a refund, because, since he uploaded pics, he seems to be bragging about... something.
Which still seems stupid, as he was entitled to a refund anyway, and he took a huge risk to get his account banned with no refund. So... I don't know, I guess.
Either way, I think we can all agree GW2 is a better place without him. I hope he tells his friends the game sucks, too.
Coordination comes from experience, and at this point all the experience is going to come from groups of people that have studied the game before release and are playing together. Most of those people will also be on PvP and WvW. There will be PvE videos, but I can't find any right now, sorry.
Customer service. You can't just take the money in a game that hasn't officially released yet. Sigh.
Nemesis121
Member
I am very surprised, he said yes to the user agreement they should have kept the money, don't need ignorant people like him playing the game...
Weltall Zero
Member
Nice, there's a Spanish server. I have a feeling they, exactly like Blizzard, are grossly underestimating the amount of Spanish players (I mean, just one, when Germany has five?), and will have to open one or two more soon after launch. More so considering the game is supposed to be translated to Spanish at launch, which will remove a quite large barrier for many.
BrettWeir
Member
Exactly. May have made him think twice about having to spend the extra money to buy the game again. With his money back, he'll just buy a new game/code.....unless it soured him. Let's hope that's the case.