Guild Wars 2

Doesn’t really bother me too much. Yeah, I was a little bummed out when I couldn’t get a raid party going because of the things with the squad UI but, this is what beta tests are for. I rather have all this now than when it is live on the 23rd of October.

Paul Ella.2037:

ok for anyone having issues checking back in – please wait 10 minutes and then try again. It is because you were probably tagged up when you patched.

We have disabled Squad UI again so you wont see that until we reactivate again. I will update once we know more.

I just changed maps while tagged up (JQBL → BGBL) and got kicked from the game with the “Network error” message and cannot log back in. Something is still screwed up.

Headups: I deleted one of my beta chars to test if I could log in and I did, try deleteing one of ur beta chars and recreate. You be able to get back in but do not use a commander tag.

still the old UI with me

Go grab that sleep, you’ve earned it.

Whoever else is still up there working, you’re kitten soldiers.

Inbetween my last response and now, I’ve managed to get a raid open and now the UI option has vanished once again.

Oops?

Hate to be that guy, but i was just testing it out: Created a squad, got hyped about the raid option, travelled to verdant brink, am now back to the old squad ui.

Branden Gee.2150:

Cyrus.4105:

Inbetween my last response and now, I’ve managed to get a raid open and now the UI option has vanished once again.

Oops?

We’re doing some last minute configurations. Give it a few minutes and it will come back. I’ll post here when the dust settles.

Gotcha, thanks.

Was worried you’d flipped the lever back off on your way to bed!

I’m experiencing a bug where I cannot leave my squad, if that helps.

Trevor Bennett.3691:

/cheer
/wave
/sleep

not so hasty, Trevor… not so hasty

It’s not working yet!!!

Props to the ArenaNet devs for being up so late working on this still!

Indeed.Good job guys and thanks for staying up so late and kept working just to get this fixed.best devs ever!

Nah..it’s broken again….

WARSaints.1502:

Nah..it’s broken again….

Yea its broken… please fix that :-(

still not working guys, i know you are probally working kitten it, but plz realise it’s not fixed…

Regardless of the status on the fix, I just wanted to say thanks alot for putting in all that work.

hey,
since the squad UI and raids are more or less broken – are you sure this is the last BWE ? Don’t get me wrong i appreciate that you guys pulling a weekend job, but with the release on a FRIDAY and that many bugs atm. this can’t be good.

So please, there are two weekends now until release – do a BWE 4.

Branden Gee.2150:

Sorry all, dust settled. Unfortunately not in the way we hoped. We’re calling it a night. Look towards Guild Wars 2 social media for updates. Thanks for sticking with us!

Thanks for all your hard work!

Just tried getting a squad together for raids. Ui still not working and cant enter raid. Is anyone else getting this?

Next thing we know, we need to an Anet office and to be able to make coffee in-game. Have people be able to drop off coffee in the in-game Anet office.

Hope someone has an Eureka moment after waking up >.<

I cry tears! :’C

What time do they wake up?

Thank you for your dedication

Honestly I’m absolute fine if we cannot try out raids this beta and they spend time to fix everything perfectly until release.
I trust in you guys!

SpecterMAT.7306:

Honestly I’m absolute fine if we cannot try out raids this beta and they spend time to fix everything perfectly until release.
I trust in you guys!

Agreed! This was a huge Beta in terms of features being added. Working in the gaming industry myself, these crunch times are some of the hardest times in life. Cut the devs some slack because I’ve never heard of a company that does so much at players request.

Thank you all for staying up late trying to fix the bug, but don’t’ feel bad about it! Make sure to get some rest and drink extra coffee in the morning!

Thank you to all of the hard working Arenanet employees who have been dealing with this situation.

Here is the way I – and many who were in teamspeak with me last night – think about it. This is a beta test. The point of a beta test is to identify issues to fix. In that regard, even if we do not see raiding today or tomorrow, this weekend has already been a success. It may seem frustrating (Im sure to Anet as much as it is to players), but it is now an issue they are aware of and can address in a real game situation. What happened last night will help them make the game coming later this year that much better.

What we have been able to test feels polished and there are definite improvements since the last BWE.

Thanks again. Keep up the hard work.

Blaeys.3102:

Thank you to all of the hard working Arenanet employees who have been dealing with this situation.

Here is the way I – and many who were in teamspeak with me last night – think about it. This is a beta test. The point of a beta test is to identify issues to fix. In that regard, even if we do not see raiding today or tomorrow, this weekend has already been a success. It may seem frustrating (Im sure to Anet as much as it is to players), but it is now an issue they are aware of and can address in a real game situation. What happened last night will help them make the game coming later this year that much better.

What we have been able to test feels polished and there are definite improvements since the last BWE.

Thanks again. Keep up the hard work.

I agree that this is just a beta test so from players perspective not participating in raids is fine, but imho from the devs or health of the game perspective its actually a major thing as it leaves the actual raid content fairly untested and we may expect more bugs to come out later on when more people would try it on. Especially performance and stability problems may arise

any update on wheather we get to play raids this beta ?

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Thank you for your dedication

^ This. Bug testing in the middle of a beta for something like this must be a nightmare. Mega thanks to all the devs putting in the ridiculous hours in attempt to give us happy things.

is just a bit strange they didnt found this bug before… It’s nothing realy hidden if player get into it after 1min of playtime…

SuinegTsol.1729:

is just a bit strange they didnt found this bug before… It’s nothing realy hidden if player get into it after 1min of playtime…

Something like this only happens in a live environment, they can plan for the worst, but it’s hard to know what the worst is until it goes live.

Branden Gee.2150:

Sorry all, dust settled. Unfortunately not in the way we hoped. We’re calling it a night. Look towards Guild Wars 2 social media for updates. Thanks for sticking with us!

I didn’t know you slept Branden I thought you were immortal!

So much for testing the actual content

@Wolf Imagine if they didnt try to test squad UI this weekend dude.

Imagine if they compiled all of the bugs that they released, and patched with ease after the beta was over, instead of rushing out patches that seemingly did nothing.

wolf.1895:

Imagine if they compiled all of the bugs that they released, and patched with ease after the beta was over, instead of rushing out patches that seemingly did nothing.

This works in some cases, but when a bug prevents the players to test a feature you would like them to test for you … it need to be fixed as soon as possible and not just shrug it off like “okay, we’ll fix this after the beta”, because then they won’t get enough feedback

Thank you for the update and good luck with the fix.

Stop being a moron wolf, please.

wolf.1895, you don’t seem to know anything about beta testing and why it happens. This is exactly what beta test are for…

You really should learn more about what you’re talking about instead of spouting your mouth like someone who is an authority.

mikeaw.3846:

Just tried getting a squad together for raids. Ui still not working and cant enter raid. Is anyone else getting this?

You can’t enter raids without the Enhanced squad UI, and they had to keep it disabled (specifically it seems they enabled then disabled again because it wasn’t working). They gave back regular squad ui for now.

Yes this reply is 6 hours later, but the point stands until Anet tries to turn it on again.

does anet work on saturday? or will it be disabled till beta ends? and if so, is another beta planed where u can test raids? i mean they want/need feedback or not?

steffen.4317:

does anet work on saturday? or will it be disabled till beta ends? and if so, is another beta planed where u can test raids? i mean they want/need feedback or not?

You read the topic? They’re working to fix the bug. And it’s obvious they want feedback… NOW they’re trying fix the issue, only then we’ll think about a new beta or more days or whatever.

steffen.4317:

does anet work on saturday? or will it be disabled till beta ends? and if so, is another beta planed where u can test raids? i mean they want/need feedback or not?

Typically, it’s more of a skeleton crew on the weekend. However, it’s ‘crunch time’ with HoT release coming up, they get little time to not work, generally. However, the human body needs rest and sleep. By now they are probably already back in the office, (at least those set to work for this beta weekend) with only I’d guess 5 hours sleep for those that were working last night. If that.

Branden Gee.2150:

Sorry all, dust settled. Unfortunately not in the way we hoped. We’re calling it a night. Look towards Guild Wars 2 social media for updates. Thanks for sticking with us!

I know this isn’t the resolution you had hoped for, but I just want to thank the programmers for staying up SO late at night – must have been 2:00 AM or so on the west coast – trying to work this out. You guys rock, and I really appreciate your hard work! <3

To be fair Anet charged money for the betas, since there hasn’t been many of them and they also had little content to test having bugs that make what little content we have to test unable to be played is quite the stumble. Some people don’t have all weekend to play yet they paid money to play it, so many people have good reason to be annoyed simply passing it off as its a beta these things happen is kinda lacking.

At this rate 23rd – 23rd nov will be a month long beta. That is a standard I will be expecting. (if you fudge up Halloween well….

Faith….

MadOtaku.8532:

To be fair Anet charged money for the betas

You bought the expansion, the beta is just an extra feature.