Guild Wars 2

I really enjoyed playing the new stronghold game mode. It’s refreshing and more tactical than conquest. How many stronghold maps will be released with the expansion?

I’m pretty sure there’s only going to be one. Gotta wait until a year after the expansion they might release another one lol.

Elitist.8701:

I’m pretty sure there’s only going to be one. Gotta wait until a year after the expansion they might release another one lol.

You seem to be optimistic.

Elitist.8701:

I’m pretty sure there’s only going to be one. Gotta wait until a year after the expansion they might release another one lol.

You must be joking.

It shouldn’t get another map before TDM.

Sagat.3285:

It shouldn’t get another map before TDM.

And nor conquest. After all, I would still prefer playing conquest over tdm or Stronghold and we’ve had the same old maps since launch. It would be great if they actually added new maps for all modes in the future but I doubt that will happen.

TDM in this game is bleh. Look at CY. Even if there was a nice map for TDM it would be bleh.

I could see 2v2 or 3v3 arenas being fun, but not TDM. In fact I would greatly prefer if ANET works on anything besides new conquest and stronghold maps to add arenas, not TDM maps.

SobeSoul.6910:

TDM in this game is bleh. Look at CY. Even if there was a nice map for TDM it would be bleh.

I could see 2v2 or 3v3 arenas being fun, but not TDM. In fact I would greatly prefer if ANET works on anything besides new conquest and stronghold maps to add arenas, not TDM maps.

It should not be ignored, many actually like it,requested it’s own queue and more maps, gave strategies but nothing and also unlike SH they introduced its badly. TDM should get those first and SH before another mode.

First of all, IIRC, Stronghold isn’t a expansion map/mode. It is a new pvp mode but it will release at the same time with expansion. You don’t need to buy expansion to play one but you won’t have access to new skills unless you buy expansion. As for how many map will there be for Stonghold, at the initial release there will be only one map of Stronghold.

IMO, it is better to have one good map than 2 average maps. But there will be more as time go on.

Only one. Which makes sense. They are releasing it to see if people like the mode. If they do, they can develop more maps, if they don’t, they won’t have wasted months upon months creating 4 maps that are basically abandoned after a month.

Anet? New maps? lol

1 map for a whole expansion is a big joke.

HoT is going to be a scam for pvp players

Marcos.3690:

1 map for a whole expansion is a big joke.

HoT is going to be a scam for pvp players

You clearly don’t know what a scam is.
You also seem to disregard the fact that you don’t even need to buy the expansion in order to play on the map.

lordkrall.7241:

Marcos.3690:

1 map for a whole expansion is a big joke.

HoT is going to be a scam for pvp players

You clearly don’t know what a scam is.
You also seem to disregard the fact that you don’t even need to buy the expansion in order to play on the map.

Then the expansion includes literally no content for PvP players. That’s even worse…

Best case scenario: The new specializations are so bad that they are not relevant
Worst case scenario: The new specializations are so good that game is now P2W

Marcos.3690:

Then the expansion includes literally no content for PvP players. That’s even worse…

Best case scenario: The new specializations are so bad that they are not relevant
Worst case scenario: The new specializations are so good that game is now P2W

The best-case is that they are balanced and diversifying, enabling new builds for different roles to emerge fluidly. Additionally, don’t forget that HoT will be bringing a brand new class to PvP, which in itself is pretty exciting.

Marcos.3690:

lordkrall.7241:

Marcos.3690:

1 map for a whole expansion is a big joke.

HoT is going to be a scam for pvp players

You clearly don’t know what a scam is.
You also seem to disregard the fact that you don’t even need to buy the expansion in order to play on the map.

Then the expansion includes literally no content for PvP players. That’s even worse…

Best case scenario: The new specializations are so bad that they are not relevant
Worst case scenario: The new specializations are so good that game is now P2W

I seriously don’t understand why people are bothered about bying the expansion as pvp players. Everyone is crying about pvp being stale but when they announce new specializations and proffesions, people are crying about having to spend money. GW2 is already b2p, they sure as hell shouldn’t be giving out xpack for free. Having 9 new specs and one new class to play in pvp is far from having no content for pvp players.

I don’t understand how Anet thinks it can compete with only 1 map.

You can get a Call of Duty map pack for 4.99 and it usually includes 3 to 5 maps, and they make 3-4 of those per year. It’s 2015, we are used to getting a lot of content. Other companies that cannot produce enough content release modding tools for the community, so games like Team Fortress 2, Unreal tournament, Starcraft, all have hundreds of maps.

I don’t see how Anet can keep up with a single pvp map when so many good competitive games will get released in fall 2015.

Xillllix.3485:

You can get a Call of Duty map pack for 4.99 and it usually includes 3 to 5 maps, and they make 3-4 of those per year.

And how much of a PvE playerbase does Call of Duty have and therefore how much of its resources can it dedicate to PvP content?