Guild Wars 2

Here is the GW2 wiki page for the Clockwork Chaos release.

Clockwork Chaos

The release begins on August 20th and concludes the Living World content begun in the Queen’s Jubilee release. This release will also include the first anniversary celebration for Guild Wars 2.

This post will be updated as more info and related articles are available. As always, the wiki is updated and populated by players for players, so if you are able to update any of the related pages further with information related to the Clockwork Chaos release content, it would be very much appreciated.

Also, if you need to catch up on what’s happened so far in the Living World:
Living World Summary

Known Content Deadlines:

Ending on August 20th

• Opening Ceremony instance from Queen’s Jubilee content

Ending on September 3rd

• Queen’s Jubilee and Clockwork Chaos story content
• Queen’s Gauntlet
• Crown Pavilion instance
• Hot air balloons
• Beacons of Kryta
• Living World achievement categories, and the special Daily achievements for Queen’s Jubilee

Permanent:

• Account wallet
• PvE Culling removal
• Daily activity rotation

Sources:
GuildWars2.com Clockwork Chaos Release Page
Info on end date
Opening Ceremony Deadline

Thank you.

Thanks Vahkris, the work you and others do on the wiki is appreciated.

Updated post to add info from Anthony Orden as well as add content deadlines.

will PVE culling removal result in lower FPS?

There will be be control settings so that you can customize what you see in accordance to what your PC can handle

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/speech/The-End-of-Culling

Updated original post from Anthony’s post in the Queen’s Jubilee section.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Complete-the-Opening-Ceremony-before-the-20th/first#post2619152

Ragnar Lothbrok.3968:

will PVE culling removal result in lower FPS?

If they would remove it, your FPS will drop. But, they won’t remove it, Anet will simply make it customizable and allow you to choose character render quality and how fast you want to see all characters on your screen

So the Crown Pavilion area will go back to being a giant crater? That seems pretty sad… might as well leave the various levels so you can at least run around it still.

I should be more specific. I mean the Crown Pavilion instance. We have no information on what’s going to happen to the Pavilion in the open world.

Fixed.

It probably will remain there, but simply not accessable. Would be odd if the Great Collapse simply returns no?

Updated to reflect the new release name.

In one event, this game is now ruined for me. I am a PVE player and I love the events and living world (up until now). I have spent an entire day trying out this content and have failed to complete it once due to not being able to get into the event. Due to the fact that I cannot reenter the invasion events if i get disconnected, this content is essentially blocked to me. Game over. Very disappointed. I will watch to see if this gets fixed, but have my doubts since I am but a lonely individual. I am so mad right now.

@Jadebat
Chill. Once the initial wave of ppl calms down, there won’t be so many overflows and I’d be surprised if you managed to join an overflow that was created 10 minutes after the event started. Just give it a day or so.

If they don’t let you re-enter the event, I won’t be able to complete it. I have no trouble getting into an event, but get disconnected after a seemingly random amount of time, and cannot re-enter.

I think it was a bad decision by marketing perspective the timing of the trial and this living content. The lower level areas are totally empty, many of my friends (doing trial) complained and they think the game is abandoned, no people playing it. It would be much better if the living content would be on low level areas and the trial players would meet lot of other players and to do.

They only need come to Lions Arch to realize how many people are still playing…

Some people are saying something like the invasions are going to be permanent, is this true? I sure hope not… they’re fun and you get a lot of stuff, but it’s not something that should be around forever. It empties the other zones.