Guild Wars 2

Keg Brawl has received some updates:
Lob: This skill is now ground-targeted.
Throw: This skill now has the range of the old Lob but with a casting time.

This is worse than before…

Throw’s range is only determined by camera angle. If you look up you can throw it the whole map, and many can easily score every time from midfield even with the short cast time as its easy to evade enemies long enough for it.

Lob now is ground-targeted and instant. Not only can you throw behind you, you can instantly throw behind you while knocked down even.

Honestly this only made Keg Brawl worse.

As a suggestion, why not add a cast time to the first ground-targeted throw and remove the second altogether. You obviously can’t fix the camera angle far-throwing, and this would also solve the issue of being able to throw while knocked down. Because as is the instant passing and full map keg tossing are still ruining the game. Have any developers actually played a game of keg brawl since the game has been live? I know you must be busy but….

Eh, I completely forgot about this feature.

Quick tip to Arenanet, add this along with other minigames to an easily visible NPC in Lions Arch so people don’t have to go to far off places just to do one minigame.

Raap.9065:

Eh, I completely forgot about this feature.

Quick tip to Arenanet, add this along with other minigames to an easily visible NPC in Lions Arch so people don’t have to go to far off places just to do one minigame.

That to ^. Or even, Heart of the Mists, as it is a PvP mini-game.

Adding a minigame NPC to the mists would be nice fluff for dedicated sPvPers aswell, sure.

They really do need to add a way to access this easier because honestly I haven’t even played one single game of keg brawl yet because I forget it exists when I’m out in the world doing PvE and WvW.

EATtheDEAD.4768:

They really do need to add a way to access this easier because honestly I haven’t even played one single game of keg brawl yet because I forget it exists when I’m out in the world doing PvE and WvW.

Let’s not forget it exist, I enjoy it! Or want to, if they’d fix it.

This is definitely worse then before as Ive been witness to several players throwing the keg the full length of the battlefield… from the opposing NPC to their own… So I tell my team to target them and keep them bottoms up the whole round… but still this should probably be fixed

Also, when you select the practice option, the skills outside the brawl still function the same as before the update

Frost.2908:

This is definitely worse then before as Ive been witness to several players throwing the keg the full length of the battlefield… from the opposing NPC to their own… So I tell my team to target them and keep them bottoms up the whole round… but still this should probably be fixed

Also, when you select the practice option, the skills outside the brawl still function the same as before the update

I really think it would be a simple fix. Just remove the 2nd pass skill and add the short cast time to the first. Has a developer even played a match of Keg Brawl since it’s been live?

Would really love to get this mini-game, the only one in the game, fixed.

I have not even found any mini games at all yet. How do I find them?

Creature.4038:

I have not even found any mini games at all yet. How do I find them?

Keg Brawl is currently the only mini-game in the game actually. It is located in Hoelbrack, the capital city of the Norn. To reach it you can travel there through Lion Arch’s Asuran Portals, then it’s in the Northwest back of the city.

If this is the state any other mini-game they release though will be in I don’t see the point of adding anymore yet. They appear to have much more important things to do. As I will say again pretty confidently, I’m pretty sure no Developer has played Keg Brawl since live cause the problems are very obvious.

I tried the keg brawl for the first time today, and was instantly hooked.. It’s sooooo fun! But yes, for the life of me I couldn’t figgure out how other people were tossing the keg so far.. very frustrating. Nothing I did on the practice field accomplished it, so I resorted to looking it up. Yuck. Please fix this issue, it makes it not so fun. Next to impossible to stop the guys who do it once they have the keg, and intercepting/causing fumbles is where the fun is at!

Plus, I use a laptop with touchpad, and moving the camera at will is pretty darn tough. Maybe if I had a chance to stand there for 5 seconds to move it up… But seriously, it’s much funner using the skills as they were intended.

Zionka.6897:

I tried the keg brawl for the first time today, and was instantly hooked.. It’s sooooo fun! But yes, for the life of me I couldn’t figgure out how other people were tossing the keg so far.. very frustrating. Nothing I did on the practice field accomplished it, so I resorted to looking it up. Yuck. Please fix this issue, it makes it not so fun. Next to impossible to stop the guys who do it once they have the keg, and intercepting/causing fumbles is where the fun is at!

Plus, I use a laptop with touchpad, and moving the camera at will is pretty darn tough. Maybe if I had a chance to stand there for 5 seconds to move it up… But seriously, it’s much funner using the skills as they were intended.

I keep replying every other day or so to keep this up there but sadly it doesn’t seem many have even tried Keg Brawl. I’m about 20 wins away from the Keg Master title so that tells you how much I’ve played Keg Brawl…too much.

Before this game shipped I remember reading about all the mini-games they planned to have, bar brawling as well, etc. Now it’s over a month released and the one they do have is still ruined by a few mechanics that they could easily fix. Which their 10/1 changes only made worse by still allowing far throwing but also giving everyone an instant pass that you can even use when knocked down. Basically if you have a couple decent players who know how to use the pass it’s game over and you’ll never get any fumbles/recoveries/interceptions.

You might say they “fumbled” on these changes Meh.hehe..heh…ugh.

Zinwrath.2049:

You might say they “fumbled” on these changes Meh.hehe..heh…ugh.

Haha…

:(

Raap.9065:

Eh, I completely forgot about this feature.

Quick tip to Arenanet, add this along with other minigames to an easily visible NPC in Lions Arch so people don’t have to go to far off places just to do one minigame.

I disagree. ALL cities are beautiful and the game is a lot about exploration. Making all services / content accesible from only 1 of the towns, or for example creating a dungeon finder or dungeon npc in 1 town would make the others ghost towns and the game would just end up like a lot of other themeparks where everybody is camping next to the trading post waiting for some queue to pop.
There need to be incentives to visit more places, like for example these mini games, and not reduce the game to become a lobby game. And besides that it’s clearly designed to be a norn cultural thing.
To make them easier to find there are other ways to direct you to Hoelbrak, this could still be some NPC in LA telling you about it but I would appreciate if you still need to head to Hoelbrak yourself and join the game from the setting where it best fits.