Guild Wars 2

Just had to share this. I was off soloing yesterday in one of those Hylek villages constantly being swarmed by Risen, trying to fight off some advance or another and got myself in over my head and knocked into downed mode.

“Great,” I think “here I go dyin’ again … been a bad luck day all around.”

When all of a sudden two characters labelled “Adventurer” run through the town, kill off the Risen in their way – which let me rally back up – and kept on running. They didn’ talk, they didn’ veer off or act like players would in any way I could tell … so I had to figure them for scripted NPCs. It was both awesome and hilarious to see a couple random adventurers do-gooding through the zone in the nick of time, and being on the receiving end of that.

So, if that’s what they were, I hafta say, Very Cool touch Anet – one ah those things I’ll be chuckling about all week.

The game is full of these things. That’s why I rarely use waypoints, I don’t wanna miss a thing.

I was ressed by a NPC too. Very very awesome.
It makes you feel like NPCs are aware and alive rather than dull things that are completely unaware and careless of everything.

Thumbs up to Anet for this.

With each new MMO, the NPC’s are becoming smarter. (but so are the bots)

One day, you may not be able to tell the NPC’s from the real players.

I had some NPCs help out in a Dredge mine one time – it almost seemed like they were baby-sitting my character. They are a very nice touch.

Alright, I’mma go get myself killed (my character I mean) in front of an NPC and see if he/she tries to ress me.

As long as the NPC doesn’t get killed too, most likely they will rez you.

The NPCs that I’ve seen are usually Rangers and/or Guardians. They seem to be very sturdy.

Not all NPC will rez, only those you see rezing other NPC will also rez you.

Not all NPC will rez, only those you see rezing other NPC will also rez you.

Just want to point, there seems to be a limit to this in their script. These NPC will usually rez one or two other NPC, presumably players too, before either run off to do something else, or just stand around waiting for whatever they normally are there for to continue.

Where the hell are these NPCs when I need them? The ones I see die from 1v1 fights against a mosquito. It takes three lionguard to kill one warg, and even the priory and vigil go down to a friggen skale! then after I res them they run into a fight and get killed by passing wurm in two hits. It’s almost not worth it to res them. -.-

I’ve rezzed many an NPC I’ve come across, so it’s only fair.

;)

Natjur.4017:

With each new MMO, the NPC’s are becoming smarter. (but so are the bots)

One day, you may not be able to tell the NPC’s from the real players.

Sure you will… the NPCs will be the ones that are friendly and talk to you.