Guild Wars 2

Today in developer steam, they talked about the future and new game modes, and showed off some of the new maps. From these maps u can assume the new game modes will be arenas (deathmatch) and gw1 style gvg (more complex version of foefire, kill the guild lord, with no cap points). if what we assume is true, anet is taking a huge step in the right direction with pvp, and this with new pvp rewards might bring this game to its true potential.

1st map: Arena
very basic map.named arena so one might guess it will be fore 2v2/3v3 arenas, maybe 5v5. Los, no places to run, no room for secondary objective. just even teams fighting to the death. looks great.

2nd map: concave
you can see some type of castle, two differ gates to get in, like foefire. the blue pin is probably where guild lord will be? see treb as well

3rd map: encampment
cant see much. looks like two passways, so team can split and go for flank on lord. looks like castle in background. maybe area in middle to fight.

4th map: stronghold
once again another castle. looks like another gvg map?

5th map: castle
cant really see anything from this picture. most likely a castle to break into for lord? it is named castle.

one thing all last four maps have in common, is the theme to break into castle. though, you cannot see two castles (one for each side) in any of the pics. Encampment as an example, it looks as there is one side attacking the castle, so either this could suggest guild halls(please!) where one guild attacks another guilds guild hall (gvg) or maybe some type of fort aspenwood style map? hopefully more is revealed soon.

The arena map is sexy, and gives me hope for the future of gw2 pvp.

We shall see. Wildstar may be out before we see these new modes, and if that happens I am probably moving on.

Ashanor.5319:

We shall see. Wildstar may be out before we see these new modes, and if that happens I am probably moving on.

^This.

Ashanor.5319:

We shall see. Wildstar may be out before we see these new modes, and if that happens I am probably moving on.

Why on earth would you go to wildstar when the next expansion of Hello Kitty Island Adventures EXTREME is coming out?

jkjk back on topic, I really look forward to the arena map. Looks like a straight-up death match arena.

The other maps concern me since it doesn’t look like both sides have the same objectives… I’m not sure with what little information we have available to us, but if they give the two teams different objectives it’s very hard to balance the winning objectives…

Ashanor.5319:

We shall see. Wildstar may be out before we see these new modes, and if that happens I am probably moving on.

I don’t see Wildstar being much direct competition with GW2. They are both MMOs, but with very different philosophies, different economic models, etc. Its like the old GW1 vs WoW, they were both MMOs, but tended to appeal to different people.

yeah prolly moving over to wildstar. gw2 pvp is trash as this is a PVE game

Lux.7169:

jkjk back on topic, I really look forward to the arena map. Looks like a straight-up death match arena.

The other maps concern me since it doesn’t look like both sides have the same objectives… I’m not sure with what little information we have available to us, but if they give the two teams different objectives it’s very hard to balance the winning objectives…

hoping the other maps wont b like one side always attacks one side always defends

hopin it will b more like gvg where attacking guild still has guild lord and gates to guard etc. they jus dont have a fancy castle more jus like a camp.

I think arena and encampment are king of the hill

Peow peow.2189:

yeah prolly moving over to wildstar. gw2 pvp is trash as this is a PVE game

I anxiously await similar comments about Wildstar.

Ashanor.5319:

We shall see. Wildstar may be out before we see these new modes, and if that happens I am probably moving on.

When people say stuff like this it is always funny, because the future is always brighter than the present. Also it shows either you are haven’t played the game or are in denial about the mechanics. In any case, unless the only thing you care about is TDM, everything about wildstar is below way gw2. From the combat to the way pvp is set up.

>Wildstar
Lol. Just lol.
I can understand new WoW expansion. I can understand EQN (or BDO in Asia and Europe) hype growing. Even desire to play TESO with its awful combat system can be explained. But maimed WoW clone with 0\10 setting and combat? Hell no.

Katran.9186:

>Wildstar
Lol. Just lol.
I can understand new WoW expansion. I can understand EQN (or BDO in Asia and Europe) hype growing. Even desire to play TESO with its awful combat system can be explained. But maimed WoW clone with 0\10 setting and combat? Hell no.

After writing my above comment went and played ESO. Personally, after forcing myself to go through the intro with the horrible combat, kittenty animations, bad graphics makes me glad I never had any expectations.

Lol Wildstar just seems like wow in space and the combat looks terrible. Ill withhold ESO comments til Im done testing.

For me it seems like there is hope. For a year I have been wating for arenas or any other gametype than capping points ( I really hope it’s not KOTH mode O.o)

GW2 has by far the best combat of mmos that I have played and I have been so sad and frustrated with the lack of proper pvp.

What comes to wild star and WoW, I bet they do differ quite a bit (every new mmo gets called a wow clone, that just means ppl recognize it as an mmo since WoW sets the standards) but as for now I’m sticking with WoW just because of the amount of content.

I really hope these new gamemodes will be interesting to me. It would be unfair to waste a combat system like they have with the lack of proper pvp.

eh the original post is made 29 days ago?

The Pvp in wildstar doesn’t seem very impressive. From the skills I have seen they seem pretty bland, visibility also is very poor. Also Pvp seems to be one of their lower priorities.

Only thing I would say wildstar has over Gw2 is a more functional reward system in place but definitely not a game for pvp players.

Yeh 2017 is going to be amazing. The 3 people left in the game will LOVE it when these game modes move into tournaments.

Wait what? New game modes announced in a stream that wasn’t PvP livestream? Where can I see this?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

eh the original post is made 29 days ago?

huh? don’t understand why this hasn’t been a big topic and nobody really noticed it, lol. thought this was a current thread. oh well.

let the players beta test them!!!

If this is proper gvg I may reinstall. However I will wait for GW1 GVG players to comment on it before I waste my time.

Arena looks cool and nicely designed. Just hope thatmid point won’t be a cap point and king of the hill. It should be just proper deathmatch. However, pillars on both sides should provide a little but more cover and platform could be lower. But overall, very good start

please keep up the good work. I really like guildwars since gw1, please please please make it just as good as gw1.

keep it up anet.

Anet should remember that PvP is the thing where they can compete against other games. PvE is lost cause because people wanna raid and grind stronger gear whole time. Gathering mats and craft some gear doesn’t really give you same feeling.

As long as the balance won’t get on an acceptable level, more game-modes won’t change anything.

Maps looks good i like first most. And the design is again more like human starter zone – i like. Maby some winter from norn zone could do it too^^

But how Empa said before they dont fix the balance this will go nowhere. They have to bring down EHP from Warrior and have to remove AI mobs from ranger(not main pet, only spirits) and necro for the start

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/3283865
there you go

Wooo this is probably the most exciting news for pvp this year if it is true. Finally some new game modes and new maps is always nice (as long as it does not resemble skyhammer).

Hope they give us more info and let people test it out. All in all, this is real progress even if its like 6 months overdue lol.