Guild Wars 2

The close of Guild Chat just had Rubi demonstrate a glide off the cliffs of Orr.

More info Tuesday??

Ohdearohdearohdear all. The. Yes.

But wouldn’t that mess up the JP’s?

OMG I hope so! Gliding in central Tyria would be amazing!

I’d be surprised because I genuinely didn’t expect it to happen, but if it does I may not get around to doing anything else for a week or so.

jarieleledan.8249:

Ohdearohdearohdear all. The. Yes.

But wouldn’t that mess up the JP’s?

Considering you’re constantly dropping while gliding (I assume they won’t put updrafts near puzzles) and the turning circle is fairly large compared to walking I think the impact will be minimal.

A lot of puzzles take place mainly/exclusively in confined spaces and a lot focus on going upwards or horizontally. It will make some parts of some puzzles easier, but I don’t think the overall effect will be massive.

Also they might add a bunch of invisible walls or other barriers to stop you gliding in and around puzzles.

Well I genuinely didn’t expect it to happen, but if it is true and the hard work has been put in to prevent trivialisation of content, then it’s exciting news. Might even keep the mount advocates happy.

And keep my death toll down when I forget I can’t glide everywhere…

And keep my death toll down when I forget I can’t glide everywhere…[/quote]

THIS

IMO HoT stuff doesn’t belong in pre-HoT zones unless it’s also available in those zones, especially when as is clear in this thread it trivialises some pre-HoT content.

anything else interesting today?

YAY GLIDING
NO MORE JUMPING TO MY DOOM BECAUSE I FORGET I’M IN TYRIA FOR ME YAY!

I really hope ANet will enable gliding in all of Tyria.

ps. But I’m not going to pay another $60-$100 for it though so don’t get any funny cashgrab ideas ANet.

Gliding could trivialize things like the “not so secret” diving goggles achievement (if you could glide while transformed), maybe a few others but should’t change many

Fenom.9457:

anything else interesting today?

As I alluded to but didn’t clearly say in my OP, Colin was on at the start of the chat. He didn’t say anything specific but he spoke about the intent to stop creating new systems and work on polishing and deepening the ones we have, adding content to them. He mentioned something we’d see in the next few months, something else later in the year (sorry, I don’t recall what he was talking about, but it wasn’t a definite detail).

But he and Rubi said that some of the Legendary Precursor fixes will be in this Tuesday’s patch, and that Colin’s blog on the State of the Game and the path ahead for 2016 will also be published on Tuesday. The balance patch won’t be Tuesday since next Friday’s Guild Chat will be looking ahead to the balance changes. The intent is to shake up the meta every 3 months or so. By my reckoning, that puts the balance patch in the last week of January, 3 months after HoT’s launch.

Then there was a long segment with Maclain and Lena talking about the evolution of the HoT music. Totally worth watching but if you only want the forward-looking info from the stream then when you view the recording you can watch 10 minutes of Colin and fast forward to the very end for Rubi’s surprise teaser showing gliding off of Malchior’s Leap.

My hope is that Tuesday’s info dump will include an explanation of what that was about.

Dulfy’s summary: http://dulfy.net/2016/01/08/gw2-jan-8-guild-chat-livestream-notes/

dbill.7483:

Gliding could trivialize things like the “not so secret” diving goggles achievement (if you could glide while transformed), maybe a few others but should’t change many

It won’t. There is a similar achievement in Verdant Brink and you can’t glide while using the goggles. And since most JP’s go up it’ll probably be fine.

Aguri.2896:

dbill.7483:

Gliding could trivialize things like the “not so secret” diving goggles achievement (if you could glide while transformed), maybe a few others but should’t change many

It won’t. There is a similar achievement in Verdant Brink and you can’t glide while using the goggles. And since most JP’s go up it’ll probably be fine.

Confirmed. I tried everything I could to break the goggles mode and couldn’t. The splat at the end would have been funny if not for me being really torqued about the setback.

Meanwhile, trying not to be optimistic, but ..too late. This sounds awesome.

Haha, mastery track grind again probably for core tyria…

Then wvw mastery track grind…

Swagger.1459:

Haha, mastery track grind again probably for core tyria…

Then wvw mastery track grind…

Hm, hang gliding in wvw and pvp (with enough verticality to make it worth while) would be awesome.

note however all we know from the video is that it will apparently work in machor’s leap. that doesnt mean it will work in wvw, pvp, or even all of core tyria. Heck maybe they will even have zones within maps where it works or doesn’t, though I doubt that.

I’ll cross my fingers though and hope it becomes universal?

Wellallrightythen!

~rushes off to get the bat wings in tip-top shape~

Good way to advertise HoT for core/free player that do not have it. See other player glide around core map probably make them want HoT more that way.

Morfedel.4165:

Swagger.1459:

Haha, mastery track grind again probably for core tyria…

Then wvw mastery track grind…

Hm, hang gliding in wvw and pvp (with enough verticality to make it worth while) would be awesome.

note however all we know from the video is that it will apparently work in machor’s leap. that doesnt mean it will work in wvw, pvp, or even all of core tyria. Heck maybe they will even have zones within maps where it works or doesn’t, though I doubt that.

I’ll cross my fingers though and hope it becomes universal?

Who knows, but this game is all about the tracks now

This is a good move, I hope they eventually roll out more regions and not just Orr.

The place I desperately want to try my glider at is Labyrinthine Cliffs, my fingers are crossed we somehow make our way back to it some time.

The hype is real.

I thought from this thread that it was all just a big joke.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4033fw/gliding_coming_to_central_tyria/

ANet Rubi

XephyrGW2Xephyr

how does it feel to troll more than 2k people? :p

I WAS SO NERVOUS.
But it was gratifying as hell. <3
I’m so, so, so glad y’all liked it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought from this thread that it was all just a big joke.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4033fw/gliding_coming_to_central_tyria/

ANet Rubi

XephyrGW2Xephyr

how does it feel to troll more than 2k people? :p

I WAS SO NERVOUS.
But it was gratifying as hell. <3
I’m so, so, so glad y’all liked it.

Guessed you missed the quote from her right under it…

jarieleledan.8249:

Ohdearohdearohdear all. The. Yes.

But wouldn’t that mess up the JP’s?

Well, you can’t glide UP. The only impact I can really think of is being able to recover more easily if you fall in certain puzzles.

Swagger.1459:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought from this thread that it was all just a big joke.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4033fw/gliding_coming_to_central_tyria/

ANet Rubi

XephyrGW2Xephyr

how does it feel to troll more than 2k people? :p

I WAS SO NERVOUS.
But it was gratifying as hell. <3
I’m so, so, so glad y’all liked it.

Guessed you missed the quote from her right under it…

Nope. All it says is that she practiced beforehand. Not that it wasn’t a big joke. Now, I would love to have gliding in Tyria. I’m just saying she admitted on this thread it was a joke and not real.

ANet Rubi

Haha, thanks you guys. <3 So funny behind-the-scenes thing: In the planning and practice of this, my character swooped around, landed, turned to the camera, and then did the point/wink at the viewers. But I wound up overshooting the ledge, Mark saw that it was going to be a potentially ugly landing, so he showed mercy on me by cutting away early.

It’ll make map completion faster, awesome

Kraggy.4169:

IMO HoT stuff doesn’t belong in pre-HoT zones unless it’s also available in those zones, especially when as is clear in this thread it trivialises some pre-HoT content.

I really don’t get this argument at all…gliding in Tyria doesn’t trivialize anything. Nobody is forcing a player to use a glider in Tyria for any already available content. Players can make a choice, the glider option doesn’t choose for you.

Great news imo, looking forward to this Anet thanks.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought from this thread that it was all just a big joke.

It was in the Twitch stream, it is 100% real.

Aedelric.1287:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought from this thread that it was all just a big joke.

It was in the Twitch stream, it is 100% real.

Ok. I guess the part in that thread where he asked her how if felt to troll 2k people and she said it felt good, was just trolling the people who think she was trolling the people.

I wonder what this meant though?

Gaile Gray.6029:

She did what?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ok. I guess the part in that thread where he asked her how if felt to troll 2k people and she said it felt good, was just trolling the people who think she was trolling the people.

I never read Reddit but it is in the stream, skip to the last two minutes.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Swagger.1459:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought from this thread that it was all just a big joke.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4033fw/gliding_coming_to_central_tyria/

ANet Rubi

XephyrGW2Xephyr

how does it feel to troll more than 2k people? :p

I WAS SO NERVOUS.
But it was gratifying as hell. <3
I’m so, so, so glad y’all liked it.

Guessed you missed the quote from her right under it…

Nope. All it says is that she practiced beforehand. Not that it wasn’t a big joke. Now, I would love to have gliding in Tyria. I’m just saying she admitted on this thread it was a joke and not real.

ANet Rubi

Haha, thanks you guys. <3 So funny behind-the-scenes thing: In the planning and practice of this, my character swooped around, landed, turned to the camera, and then did the point/wink at the viewers. But I wound up overshooting the ledge, Mark saw that it was going to be a potentially ugly landing, so he showed mercy on me by cutting away early.

Oh hey just <3, I just quote and don’t look at names much anymore.

She was practicing for a reason, think about it…

Edit- Gaile confirmation Just… There is your second form of proof

Swagger.1459:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Swagger.1459:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought from this thread that it was all just a big joke.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4033fw/gliding_coming_to_central_tyria/

ANet Rubi

XephyrGW2Xephyr

how does it feel to troll more than 2k people? :p

I WAS SO NERVOUS.
But it was gratifying as hell. <3
I’m so, so, so glad y’all liked it.

Guessed you missed the quote from her right under it…

Nope. All it says is that she practiced beforehand. Not that it wasn’t a big joke. Now, I would love to have gliding in Tyria. I’m just saying she admitted on this thread it was a joke and not real.

ANet Rubi

Haha, thanks you guys. <3 So funny behind-the-scenes thing: In the planning and practice of this, my character swooped around, landed, turned to the camera, and then did the point/wink at the viewers. But I wound up overshooting the ledge, Mark saw that it was going to be a potentially ugly landing, so he showed mercy on me by cutting away early.

Oh hey just <3, I just quote and don’t look at names much anymore.

She was practicing for a reason, think about it…

/shrug. I hope y’all are right but her admitting to trolling/teasing and Gaile’s She did what? means I’m going to wait for written confirmation before I start rejoicing,

Griffonrook Run will be broken, as will the the Orr one where you gather those 12 or so keythings to open the chests, but other than that I can’t think of any JP right now that would suffer very much from gliding unless done something about.

This makes me happier than a bird with a french fry!

As soon as I had my glider I ran to the highest point in Tyria to see if it would work, and of course I fell to my death But alas … I will also not be able to stop gliding for at least the first week LOL Thank you ANET!

Mikuchan.7261:

Griffonrook Run will be broken, as will the the Orr one where you gather those 12 or so keythings to open the chests, but other than that I can’t think of any JP right now that would suffer very much from gliding unless done something about.

They could always add some really aggressive birds that hate anything that invades their airspace. If you glide they knock you out of the sky.
They already have the animation for birds attacking

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Gliding-in-Central-Tyria-confirmed/first#post5905880

RubiBayer.8134:

OK I like teasing content and stuff as much as anyone, but it would be too cruel to just … show that off on the dev client all “Haha look what we can do in the office and you will never have it muahaha!”

I would never, ever do that, I swear.

Well she posted this https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4033fw/gliding_coming_to_central_tyria/cyrekrp

Nah, I’m not the arbiter of that kind of thing. If Colin wants to say stuff I’m gonna let him!

The gliding teaser was my idea, but I had to run it by various people first. Mostly I’m just happy to help the devs tell you what they’re up to.

And someone on Reddit posted this of her https://imgur.com/Hzck0x4 LOL

Yay. Super stoked about this. I can go ahead and invest in different gliders now. I didn’t see much point if they were just confined to HoT lands.

Gliding in Tyria will be a great incentive for people to invest in HoT.

Aedelric.1287:

This is a good move, I hope they eventually roll out more regions and not just Orr.

The place I desperately want to try my glider at is Labyrinthine Cliffs, my fingers are crossed we somehow make our way back to it some time.

I’d just like to glide from the Priory bridge in Lornar’s Pass all the way to the lake. That’s all I need from Core gliding

Nice, you get really used to gliding if you have done it a few times.

On a sidenote:
If this turns out to be true, please remember it when you say the next time that Dev W told case X would be so because Y and it was unshakable firm policy Z.

On the one hand gliding is nice. On the other hand gliding messes with jumping. >_<

Khisanth.2948:

On the other hand gliding messes with jumping. >_<

Yes, I won’t jump to my death anymore….

There’s one map I’d really love to glide: Silverwastes. More specifically, in that Skritt cave… It takes ages to drop dead there, if you fall, it’ll take even longer if you could glide…

I would imagine limitations like only level 80 characters or only in level 80 zones. Neutering the higher glider masteries, hopefully NOT a Core Tyria Glider Mastery track. No updrafts near JPs or even the addition of downdrafts near them to keep gliders out.

Anyways there are only a few tall places in core Tyria where gliding would even be possible/useful since only a few maps have any decent amount of verticality.

Khisanth.2948:

On the one hand gliding is nice. On the other hand gliding messes with jumping. >_<

So people who want to jump can jump. All others will be relieved when they are finally free from the:
Step, step, jump too short, fall, start all over or waypoint routine.

can we also have gliding in wvw? it would make that atrocious desert borderland mildly tolerable.

Glidining in WvW with 2k ping? You mad? Only if they’ll switch it to client side, like jumping.

Torolan.5816:

Khisanth.2948:

On the one hand gliding is nice. On the other hand gliding messes with jumping. >_<

So people who want to jump can jump. All others will be relieved when they are finally free from the:
Step, step, jump too short, fall, start all over or waypoint routine.

I was talking with a guildie, and I came across one JP where gliding would defeat the purpose of the JP: the pirate one in LA. And most specifically, the first part. But I think that could be easily remedied by adding extra rocks on the ceiling so you cannot get airborne. For the rest, yes, it’s mostly an annoyance remover as you don’t have to slug back to the start of the JP anymore if you die…

I wouldn’t even mind if they added an extra mastery track in Tyria for it. For me, once I’ve finished the pact one, there’s nothing I want… (don’t care for Fractals at all, and those legendary weapons will come when they come, which isn’t anywhere near in the future…)

Troll’s revenge will be renamed in “this was once a hard JP now you just need to glide”

Please don’t ruin core Tyria with gliding… it will ruin JPs make things that used to be challenging easy… and I just plain don’t like gliding… it is a horribly overused mechanic in the new maps… doing jumping puzzles in the new maps are painful since you start gliding when you don’t want to. Gliding makes me not want to visit the HoT maps, if you ruin core Tyria with it where will I go?

Please I beg you… don’t add gliding to core Tyria.