This needs to be quoted.
I'm just satisfied with the fact we got more media to drool at, press people sucking it up won't drain my hype.
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Guild Wars 2 Press Beta [Prepurchase Is Live]
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This needs to be quoted.
I'm just satisfied with the fact we got more media to drool at, press people sucking it up won't drain my hype.
DAoC was never like that, the skilled groups could take out huge zergs with ease.
game looks awesome, it's funny to see all of the mesmer complaints on here and guru and stuff. It's been apparant since the reveal exactly how the class was going to work. There's no energy so you can't sit there stealing it and doing stuff based on it, there's no hard CC...The mesmer is going to definitely be a class for a skilled player using the illusions to actually have to feint and mislead your opponents, mind games for real. Or just go with the staff and throw conditions around like nobody's business. Seems like a cool class.
El Mundo contra Mundo video is so hype.
The rest is either old, uninteresting, or Mesmer bulltshit. Shame there are no Elementalist focused videos.
The emote and character creation videos are appreciated, as well.
I saw some attacks that bound players in purple chains. I think that counts.
The rest is either old, uninteresting, or Mesmer bulltshit. Shame there are no Elementalist focused videos.
The emote and character creation videos are appreciated, as well.
I saw some attacks that bound players in purple chains. I think that counts.
Yeah >:[, damm press not playing Elementalist. Tho i saw the new elite skill of elementalist in the IGN WvW video, the fire elemental <3, so nice.
â Narayan
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I can't wait to play this!
LossLess009
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yeah, and considering they also got rid of active interrupts, and hexes entirely... another 40% goes down the sink.
Really don't liking the mesmer so far, it was so unique and fun to use in GW1, now the only cool and interesting mechanic I see is the "portal" one (which has nothing mesmerish btw)
Fact: IGN is terrible.
From what I've seen, the skills that can actually immobilize are very short duration. The Guardian skill that sounds similar to that only lasts for 4 seconds. There's CC in there (after all, that's what they've renamed tanking; "Control"), but none of it looks to be the kind of fire-and-forget stuff that WoW had (keeping adds and such locked down for the entire fight, etc.). Gonna need to be mobile, alert and quick on the draw with CC in GW2, from the looks of things.
Don't see why they had to do that. I think it could have been adapted to suit the much more active gameplay of GW2.
Very true but I have not seen a WvW without significant FPS drops. Just watch the 45min WvW video. During the large scale fights, the frame-rate looks to be in the 20s at best.
I don't know why more server based MMOs don't do this.
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1128627&postcount=346
Martin Kerstein said:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1128627&postcount=346
Yeah, it wasn't unplayable, but not optimal either. They know they need to optimize as much as possible and it doesn't help that there's no drivers made for the game yet. We're probably 4 months from launch so I'd expect a big optimization push within 1-2 months as things are finalized.
Oh wow....that is amazing....
Oh and they did say that they're not done with character creation or anything and at the last convention Humans were the most fleshed out so it's likely that's still the case.
FutureZombie
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Do we have any idea how many players will be on each server? I hope there won't be huge queues to get into a WvW.
Also, are you only allowed to participate in one of the four WvW maps during each two week period?
Also, are you only allowed to participate in one of the four WvW maps during each two week period?
If there's face selection, it definitely isn't the final version. We saw a demo with sliders that lets you fine tune the face and body.
The sliders are in there in a lot of videos, but I haven't seen eye color yet. Doesn't bother much very much; people either choose all black, all red, all blue, all green or all white. Maybe a couple pick brown. This way, the facial features can at least compliment the eye color somewhat.
Not a gamebreaker, but definitely something I noticed.
Not a gamebreaker, but definitely something I noticed.
LossLess009
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Supposedly, to take out of the game those aspects that would hinder speed and flow of combats (and frustrate players).
Downside, for what I see, is button smashing and zerging, and I don't feel like it's an improvement really
Ya i know, i honestly don't care but i found funny the passion that he used in the post about that topic.
No idea on overall server size, we do know that from an individual zone perspective ANet said that the amount of people that can fit into a single zone is large enough to the point where it won't reach the cap.
No, all 4 maps are part of one WvW battle, you can move between them at will.
Yeah a bit over the top if you ask me.
mysteriousmage09
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Some pretty impressive stuff. The WvW vid was really fun to watch, hectic as hell! Game looks great. Performance will obviously get fixed seeing as pretty much everyone has stated issues. Some of the basic stuff like the Mesmer vid is boring as shit because it's nothing but an individual skill by skill showcase without any real combat. Shame there is no Asura or Sylvari footage but oh well.
Overall, the game shows huge promise, just iron out the performance issues and do a little touch ups here in there and this should be a great game.
Overall, the game shows huge promise, just iron out the performance issues and do a little touch ups here in there and this should be a great game.
don't watch ign stuff. simple
I like how there are only like 5 abilities on these characters and people are still clicking.
All my keys are getting rebound near WASD. I will be a BEAST.
LunaticHigh
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I think it's pretty standard that gaming press don't actually play games on anything other than easy and will usually make even the best pc games look bad, that being said, look forward to Totalbuiscuits videos. That guy knows what he's doing. It's all I'm going to watch.
Yeah the Totalbiscuit videos should be good. We'll actually see something other than a moron trying to fight at range with a greatsword.
The IGN video is pretty good comedy tho, once you get past how horrifyingly bad it is. I mean, you KNOW what's gonna happen the moment he gets near the battle, and yet he's so oblivious. >_>
Pinko Marx
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Have we got concrete info on all the skills and whatnot?
I hope Bethesda sees this. Goddamn.
I'm thinking of going minimalist, I guess. Q, E, R, F, and T or G to replace 1-5, then a shift state for 6-0. Number keys have the privilege of replacing F1-whatever.
We've had nearly a full skill layout for about 1.5 years now, generally all that's changes is a couple skills here and there or some values.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_skills
Hoelbrak tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=G4meuCo7ZvE
Even while talking the IGN player doesn't have much of an excuse for walking up to the enemy and standing there being a target. =p
Well yeah I can't defend that lol im just saying it is a little tough.
Don't forget about that alt key man.
Even though I have long fingers, I don't think I ever used the T key for binds.
AppleSmack
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Can't wait for the videos. I'm quite interested in this game and really want to see some live gameplay.
http://www.youtube.com/user/akamikeb?feature=watch
Mike B has a lot of really good city tour videos that don't have a FPS in the single digits. He also said in the comments of one of his videos that the game runs better without FRAPs recording.
You won't have that many things to hotkey even without the shift modifier.
Read an article earlier today, I think it was Massively. It was mentioned that the press was asked not to use their own screenshots but ones provided by ANet because they didn't want a bunch of low-quality shit giving the haters fuel (like the leaks last night did).
It's not optimized yet, there's still a lot of driver issues and such. As has been mentioned several times, Gaming sites don't always have the best hardware, almost always have the worst players (who are even worse when trying to narrate during play), and are also running capture software which has a negative effect on performance and quality.
Somebody like TotalBiscuit who puts these videos out all the time and knows what he's doing will inevitably show the game off the way it should be.
It's not optimized yet, there's still a lot of driver issues and such. As has been mentioned several times, Gaming sites don't always have the best hardware, almost always have the worst players (who are even worse when trying to narrate during play), and are also running capture software which has a negative effect on performance and quality.
Somebody like TotalBiscuit who puts these videos out all the time and knows what he's doing will inevitably show the game off the way it should be.
Very true. You've got 10 skills, 3-4 extras depending on your profession, and..? Potions and weapon sets, I guess.
Don't forget dodge (though you can double-tap the move buttons for that too, if you want)
I haven't seen anything mentioned about potions, but swapping weapon sets will definitely require a dedicated hotkey. A lot of the class-specific stuff is mapped to the Function keys (Thief's steal and Elementalist's elements are, from what I've seen. Guardian's virtues are probably the same).
If we had a realistic discussion in the last thread about mapping everything to a controller and almost got it to work, then the number of hotkeys you'll need compared to other MMOs is amazingly low (that's a good thing, so sick of "There's a game somewhere under this UI" syndrome)
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