Guild Wars 2

I love this event, in theory. It’s so badly made though.

Bugged achievements – some balloon towers are bugged – either the chests show as open in zones you haven’t even attempted to do the events in (Maguuma for me), as well as the ones in Queensdale and Wayfairer that are bugged.

Performance. Everyone loses FPS in the cities at normal times (if you’re going to come in here and say your first gen i7 and 6850 gives you 60FPS, don’t even start). Why on earth did they think it would be a good idea to put these massive PvE fights in the city? OC 2600K, OC GTX 770, down to 25FPS (my CPU is at 40% across 4 cores, my GPU load can’t be that high as it hovers around 60°C instead of the max of 65°C I see playing Metro LL, so why is performance not better?) most of the time when killing the champions. That’s worse performance than I get during WvW zergs kitten . Here’s another thing – when I run a blend test on Prime95 and leave it for 4 hours to check for a stable OC – the max temp on my CPU is 62°C. Doing the events in the Pavillion for an hour? 61°C. That is insanely bad optimisation. For those that don’t know, blend tests max your CPU cores out at 100% (or, with an i7, 8 threads) constantly for the duration of the test. It’s normal for stress tests to reach temperatures 8°C hotter than the heaviest of regular load. It is not normal for a game to be within 1°C of this temperature. GW2 keeps 4 cores (doesn’t use hyperthreading, like all games, I believe) at around 40% so how it reaches that temperature I’ve got no idea. There’s something badly wrong there.

The update initially broke a couple of daily achievements as well. Karma spender didn’t work. One of the new runes applies confusion to yourself rather than the enemy.

Anet, I love this game, but if you’re going to rush out updates think them through properly and test them properly or open a public test server. Having flawed updates constantly come out that need hotfixes every evening (kicking you out group events with a minutes warning) is an awful way to go about it.

Slow down and do it properly. Yours sincerely, a Guild Wars player since 2005.

Lol, i texted in /map asking if any I7s were lagging. No one bothered to reply.

& GTX560m, 8GB ram here btw.

And yes, i lost quite abit of FPS. Hovering around 30-40s

Optimization in GW2 has been bad since the beta’s…