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The Official Guild Wars 2 thread

xenios said:
first video of an explorable dungeon. This was run with developers and was quite buggy he says in the video. Pretty interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IM2rAK0Q-8

edit: very cool with the total reliance of dodging and what not to succeed.
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Every new video I see about this game gets me excited. I like the fact that dieing or going in to the "down" state is actually part of whole fight dynamic. In a normal MMO if someone dies like the tank or a healer you are almost guaranteed to wipe, but here people can die and rally multiple times and that's normal.
 
gentoo said:
With that kind of wording does that imply that they will be doing new batches every week until release? It would kind of make sense.
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Sounds plausible. One even every weekend would be great for testing, and give a variety of people to participate.
 
gentoo said:
With that kind of wording does that imply that they will be doing new batches every week until release? It would kind of make sense.
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They've mentioned about one a month starting next month. April 10 pre-purchases open, everyone who pre-purchases gets into the "beta weekend events" from then on. The consensus is the first one will be toward the end of April.

Those events will have no NDA either from what I hear, which means release must be getting pretty close.
 
stiltner said:
Yeah I was playing for about an hour myself. Almost level 3 Nord Necro
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I think what Arean.net wants you to say is:

Yeah I was REDACTED for about an hour myself. Almost REDACTED.
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I don't know how they expect this NDA to last, or why they would even care since we'll all be pre-purchasing for access in two weeks.
 
Katalysis said:
I don't know how they expect this NDA to last, or why they would even care since we'll all be pre-purchasing for access in two weeks.
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For a large scale beta as this appears to be, they know it won't hold up on an individual user, however they can keep game information off major news sites.
 
ocellaris said:
For a large scale beta as this appears to be, they know it won't hold up on an individual user, however they can keep game information off major news sites.
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Except that there is a 30 minute 720P dungeon run on youtube right now from the devs themselves, so I'm not sure what they are trying to control, exactly.

Perhaps my feeling that the game launches in May is just way off and they want to keep things low key for a while.
 
I'm under a strict NDA sure. The fact I can go on Youtube and see about 2000% more content than I just discussed, pretty well tells me that other people aren't abiding by it.

I'm not posting pictures, I'm not discussing the game details. Just saying basically someone screwed up earlier and had the servers up before the apparently official event launch time.

Which by the way there is no posting about, so its anyone's fucking guess what is actually going on.

If you want details, go to Youtube, I got nothing monumental to discuss about the game, nor will I.
 
Servers are back up and the entire screen is now watermarked with your e-mail address. I can understand why but it's pretty obnoxious because goes down diagonally straight through the middle if your screen.
 
I wanted a beta invite :( Oh well I'll be preordering as of April 10th and get in betas from then on so whatevs!
 
Valshistixol said:
Servers are back up and the entire screen is now watermarked with your e-mail address. I can understand why but it's pretty obnoxious because goes down diagonally straight through the middle if your screen.
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lol wow. I really want to see pics of that.
 
Katalysis said:
lol wow. I really want to see pics of that.
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Found this on reddit discussing the topic of watermarks.

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My friend is in beta and I can vouch for it looking exactly like the above screenshot (with better graphics of course).
 
Day seven and i still haven't played 1 second of GW2;

For the first 6 days i could not log in, now that i'm logged in i see only US servers (i'm in europe) and all populations are FULL.

Also, "once a server is selected, you will not be able to change".

Guess i will have to wait a few days more and see what happens :(
 
I'm so butthurt I didn't get into this beta but I've been lucky with past betas all the way down to WOW stage 3. I reckon I'll prebuy a couple copies on the 10th for the 9 year old daughter and myself. I couldn't see killing all those huge dragons without my baby girl beside me :D
 
Liqq said:
I'm so butthurt I didn't get into this beta but I've been lucky with past betas all the way down to WOW stage 3. I reckon I'll prebuy a couple copies on the 10th for the 9 year old daughter and myself. I couldn't see killing all those huge dragons without my baby girl beside me :D
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Don't worry man, only a few weeks to go. (I hope)
 
officer921 said:
Yep, the watermarks are annoying. Particularly if you are in a snowy environment.
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good thing i didn't sign up for beta..had i gotten in and seen this, i would of logged off..sent arenanet a nasty gram, deleted the game and told these fuckers where to shove their precious game


if i ever owned a game company, i would NEVER have a nda..the only stipulation would be 'all this can change'..other than that, stream it, youtube it, screenshot it, talk about it all day long and have fun

one more straw on the camels back imho...jeez, and i thought swtor beta gestapo tactics was bad..lol
 
Mr.Cheap said:
Day seven and i still haven't played 1 second of GW2;

For the first 6 days i could not log in, now that i'm logged in i see only US servers (i'm in europe) and all populations are FULL.

Also, "once a server is selected, you will not be able to change".

Guess i will have to wait a few days more and see what happens :(
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You know the beta is only for the weekend right?
 
Just got a first hand tale from a co worker that was in the beta. He put in prolly 10 hours total. After hearing his report, I'd say it's time to get fucking hyped. He's an mmo vet, and he says this beta easily put any mmo he's played to shame. PM me if you want moar details.;)
 
Fortunately for arenanet, the general condition of PC gaming, especially the state of most games upon release, is so bad that just releasing a truly finished, nevermind polished, fame will put them miles ahead of expectations.

My feeling is that this is the right game, the right business model at the right time to be one of those iconic mega properties.
 
I played WvWvW from 7PM Sat night to 1PM Sunday, that's how much fun it was even with the FPS issues. You guys know me, I hate every game except BF3 RITE?

That being said the FPS was REALLY REALLY BAD. 20fps was considered good. There was like a 3-4fps difference from mix-max settings. There was the occasional bug here and there but the FPS was the real game breaker. If it ships anyway close to this condition, heavily populated areas will be completely unplayable.

The game looks great though, not a graphically intense Crysis way but it's aesthetically pleasing. Even the interface is pretty. BUT there is no MSAA support, only FXAA. I tried forcing it through CCC but it went insane.

I didn't think the questing was revolutionary but it was way more fun and fluid than doing quests is shit like WoW, Aion, or Rift. I loved that I could just run in and start helping instead of talking to some dickwad NPC. I didn't get to do any of the dungeons so I can't comment on that.
 
Valshistixol said:
That being said the FPS was REALLY REALLY BAD. 20fps was considered good. There was like a 3-4fps difference from mix-max settings. There was the occasional bug here and there but the FPS was the real game breaker. If it ships anyway close to this condition, heavily populated areas will be completely unplayable.
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I'm guessing they had a lot of logging going on in the background.
 
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