Guild Wars 2

Today my girlfriend and I decided to get some snacks and play Guild Wars 2 in our underpants for most of the day. Most days, things are pretty normal, but today we ran into some interesting things.

1. Super-Bot

As I rushed over to a dynamic event, I noticed a strange thing. Four characters dressed exactly the same, at the exact same level, doing the exact same thing. They would stand in a group and when the event would start, they would, after a delay, spring into action and swipe wildly at the air. Once the enemies were dead, they would regroup, and do it all over again. Eventually another one showed up to join in the fun.

They did this for the better part of an hour, and I remember seeing two of these, “players” yesterday at another event. It seems odd that these accounts are still allowed to function despite being reported by multiple people, multiple times.

Here are the names of the players, their guild name, and a photo. If you see them, please report them.

Mozne
Weoz
Ksoz
End Play
Swissg

Guild: Playplace

[img]http://mmmyeah.com/GW2/GW2-Bots.jpg[/img]

2. Seizure Wars 2

Later, my girlfriend and I headed to another dynamic event, and as you can see…we weren’t the only ones. As more and more players showed up, the spectacular light/slide show became all the more amazing. Eventually I had no idea where my character was. I assumed he was somewhere in the middle, but who knows if I was actually pointed at, or hitting anything.

I resorted to button mashing and hoped for the best. I think this further illustrates the need for ArenaNet to figure out something in regards to the amount of players in dynamic events. I could barely see the enemy, my computer slowed to a crawl, I had no idea if I was even hitting anything, and all strategy went out the window.

They thought it might get better once everyone spreads out a bit. However in reality, there are hundreds of us on the same server, in the same area, and at the same level.

Unless something is adjusted, these events will just continue being super zergs.

[img]http://mmmyeah.com/GW2/GW2-Seizure-01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://mmmyeah.com/GW2/GW2-Seizure-02.jpg[/img]

3. Burn it with fire?

My girlfriend was trying to destroy some Centaur equipment (she thinks these are barrels, wooden carts, and weapon racks.). Strangely, it doesn’t seem like she can destroy any of them with fire. She has to resort to shooting them with poison.

Either Centaurs have some really clever flame retardant wood sealer, or something isn’t working as intended.

4. I’ll take 20 gold please, wait, that’s HOW MUCH?

If you try and type an amount in the Black Lion Trading Company window, you might just be in for a surprise. There seems to be a bit of an issue with typing in numbers, and today, I bought a very special amount of gold ore…yes, 50 silver worth. Did I mean to, oh, of course not, but because the numbers that get entered, and the calculations that show up aren’t always the same, I often find that what I end up picking up at the BLT isn’t exactly what I ordered.

So that is a little breakdown of my experience today in Guild Wars 2. It’s an awesome game, and I enjoy it very much, but….well, lets just say it needs a bit of love in places.

1. Report them. All of them. They’ll get taken care of eventually.

2. a) Stop playing the game on a toaster.
2. b) There’s no way to infinitely scale dynamic events. If it goes beyond a certain player count, that kind of chaos is unavoidable. This will likely subside for most dynamic events as players spread out.

3. That sounds like a bug. Submit a bug report.

4. This sounds more like user error than anything. You put in how many you want, it gives a price, you click buy. Not that hard. Pay more attention when using the Trading Post.

Dusk,

My girlfriends computer is better than mine by quite a bit and hers was grinding along as well. The amount of particle effects makes GPU’s cry.

And even if the computer could handle it, my brain can’t. In fact I don’t think anyone’s can. It’s just visually overwhelming to the point where even if you wanted to see your character, ou couldn’t. I couldn’t even see the guy we were fighting.

As for the Trading Post, no, it’s not user error. It’s the fact that the numbers are inconsistent and often don’t input correctly. Try it yourself, select some numbers and see if you can notice when it doesn’t accept the numbers you input.

Course, this could be due to the fact I have a wireless keyboard synced to my toaster.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

My girlfriends computer is better than mine by quite a bit and hers was grinding along as well. The amount of particle effects makes GPU’s cry.

Doesn’t even make my GTX 480 break a sweat. Same with my girlfriend’s mobile Radeon HD 6870.

Here’s a list of how GPU’s stack up in GW2. Find yours and your girl’s, it might yield some insight.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

And even if the computer could handle it, my brain can’t. In fact I don’t think anyone’s can. It’s just visually overwhelming to the point where even if you wanted to see your character, ou couldn’t. I couldn’t even see the guy we were fighting.

That’ll happen. It’ll help a bit if you turn off player names; then you only have to look for the boss’s name. I’d imagine your graphic settings are already low, what with the toaster and all.

You can’t just stop players from participating, though. And if there are a lot of those players, it will get a bit messy. If you have some idea on how that could be alleviated, I’m sure ANet would love to hear it.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

As for the Trading Post, no, it’s not user error. It’s the fact that the numbers are inconsistent and often don’t input correctly. Try it yourself, select some numbers and see if you can notice when it doesn’t accept the numbers you input.

I’ve purchased items from the TP countless times since it was brought up. I’ve had very few problems with it, and those problems I did have were notable bugs that got fixed. I have never experienced the issue you’ve noted. If you really feel it’s some sort of bug, feel free to send a bug report.

It is notable and almost hilarious that there are actually botter/gold seller guilds around. I’ve run into them before. You’d think it was going to make it easier for them to get banned, but they’re around everyday.

Dusk, I’m beginning to think you didn’t fully read my post. I don’t have player names turned on, you can see that in the second photos. Secondly, my girlfriend gets on averag3, 50+ FPS, and I get about 30 -40. We both dropped a lot ( I went down to about 4 FPS).

ANet could do two things to start.

1. Down down particle effects.
2. Create dynamic events that force players to spread out. There is a suggestion topic started today that outlines this beautifully.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/We-need-Outward-Scaling-not-just-Upward/first#post125798

Eochaidh,

I’m actually a little surprised at how quick ANet is at banning people who swear, but botters are allowed to run around for days.