Guild Wars 2

It may be a case of better late then never but well done Arena Net.

You have another returning player in myself at least, it was all I was really waiting on (and random map rotation for tournaments).

Question though, is the data mined deserter penalty also coming on August 6th? They need to go hand in hand IMO.

Any other forum lurkers plan on coming back now that YOLO que will be in? All I need to do now is sort out a build or 2 for my classes, they are bound to be out of date. I might even consider streaming again.

Note…… I would love those touted templates to make an appearance aswell. Changing builds on the fly in YOLO matches would be handy.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Solo Arena, map randomization and the leaver penalty are all coming at the same time.

Oh my, details in pvp blog thursday? Or can you share info about the penalty?

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Solo Arena, map randomization and the leaver penalty are all coming at the same time.

Tyler……… I think you might be my favorite person in the whole world right now.

That. Is. Amazing.

Random maps. This will only make me happy if the builds could be locked in and player characters as well.

Character locking at the start of a match is a definite must. Once you press GO, no more changing characters. Changing builds however should be allowed with the templates in the Get Ready phase as you and the other solo players sort out team roles.

Tyler. Man. You guys are awesome. Map randomisation = awesome. Character locking is better news. Solo q is nice too.

Finally. No same map 4 days in a row. Very well done

great job, really great job!

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Solo Arena, map randomization and the leaver penalty are all coming at the same time.

Made me reinstall

Update from another thread: all maps bar Capricorn will be In the pool for solo que.

Outstanding work Arena Net.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Solo Arena, map randomization and the leaver penalty are all coming at the same time.

This game is about to get much more popular.
So kittening stoked.

Very well done!

Good job, Anet!
+78

Rerroll.9083:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Solo Arena, map randomization and the leaver penalty are all coming at the same time.

Made me reinstall

Then log in and promptly uninstall, isnt that how it works with you?

a serious step forward, cool

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! s p e e c h l e s s

August 6…. Best patch ever?

Best pvp announcement of the year right here, easily. Thanks for the hard work devs, you’re about to make a ton of pvpers very very happy!

Better late than never. This just might rekindle some interest in the games PvP

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Character locking is also coming at the same time.

but when will be locked? cause should be a nice idea to have the possibility at beginning to switch character… for example if we r 3 bunker guardians what we gonna do? is not fun begin with this kind party…. i’d like to switch character at beginning for made a proper team…

ton of great news here. really excited for all of this!D

looking forward to learn more about character looking as well.

Lian Olsam.9541:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Character locking is also coming at the same time.

but when will be locked? cause should be a nice idea to have the possibility at beginning to switch character… for example if we r 3 bunker guardians what we gonna do? is not fun begin with this kind party…. i’d like to switch character at beginning for made a proper team…

I guess it will be locked when the match starts.

So much enthusiasm for a patch what they even haven’t implemented yet. Just saying, be careful…

Regarding the character lock, is it only during the match or does it include the pre-match phase too ?
If the latter, I am worried.

Credit where credit is due. I wish we got a PvP-affectionate update like this once per month or so.

well done guys. Waiting for this update!

I never playied a game for a whole year in a row… well, this was true before GW2, and now with this patch, i think i could touch 2 years in a row…
This is by far my favorite videogame ever and it’s awesome that every 2 weeks it get better, you guys are doin such a great work!

It is still incomplete.

Before the match starts you should be able to

Change class as requested.
Change build as requested.
Save builds for each class.
Being matched with soloquers – enemies of similar leaderboad positioning
Have a website to know that a player with X class has got % of win/loss rate.
Have a website with the MOST viable builds according to each patch changes.

There is no other game that provides solo-duo que experience as good as League of Legends right now.

People enter and chose a class and talk about their role.
Before the match begins people adjust their build and are able to save them.
If two people want to pick the same class/role there is a website to compare win/loss ration – lolking
If people are not aware of the latest builds of that class there is a website to get familiarized with them – mobafire.

And they REALLY need to implement duo with solo. Everything above should be requested to have a full group until we are able to have some other types of game mode for 2v2/3v3/4v4.

The soloQ is cool but… Don’t reset the ladder, just create a new ladder team :

A reset for those who are in the top 200-100 like me without team (which is seen as the top 100 to 1, are teams) will be incorrect.
I get my rank solo or pug and not fixed and driven team (although I intend to join a top Eu). I think that this classification should be the solo ranking. Those who are team will no longer play solo and will gradually from the ladder (at ArenaNet said that those who no longer played down the ladder … Those who will play in that team disappear gradually from the ladder solo).
A new ranking team is required, but not reset the current standings.

Richy Lao.8346:

well done guys. Waiting for this update!

#2

thank you very much for your work. Well done.

i have to disagree.
would be nice and am pretty sure the ladder will be complete resetted

Update keeps getting better! Thanks guys.

Zarock.8036:

The soloQ is cool but… Don’t reset the ladder, just create a new ladder team :

A reset for those who are in the top 200-100 like me without team (which is seen as the top 100 to 1, are teams) will be incorrect.
I get my rank solo or pug and not fixed and driven team (although I intend to join a top Eu). I think that this classification should be the solo ranking. Those who are team will no longer play solo and will gradually from the ladder (at ArenaNet said that those who no longer played down the ladder … Those who will play in that team disappear gradually from the ladder solo).
A new ranking team is required, but not reset the current standings.

With all due respect, in my opinion your way off….A leaderboard reset is required…theres no way to determine who is higher on the current leaderboards from solo q or premades…or set teams? etc

They already stated there will be 2 seperate leaderboards etc…and I expect others as well as myself should have to prove and work towards a rating not get automatically put there because when the leaderboards first game out I shot to the top and never went down again…see my point?

Also your arguement about those being in a team won’t solo queue….is so far from the truth its painful…I promise you some of the most active solo q’ers will be “pro’s” that are also in teams etc…To keep their skills sharpended and try new builds etc etc.

This update is doing nothing but great things for gw2 pvp….still plenty to go but solid progress!

Just wondering, is this similar in mechanics to the Random Arena from GW1?

Hi guys, i wanted to ask something about the solo Q.
I play with another single person only the most of the time, so we are 2, i assume that to be able to play together we still need to wait for the normal arena as we are doing right now (the one that will became a pre group one) since solo q must be to apply alone. So, the question is, there will be a possibility of get a full group anyway in the “pre made” queue? What we need to do to play together as usual? Will you allow 2/3/4 persons groups to queue in that kind of tourneys, or you need a 5 person group to apply?

Thank you!!!

sakurals.7143:

Hi guys, i wanted to ask something about the solo Q.
I play with another single person only the most of the time, so we are 2, i assume that to be able to play together we still need to wait for the normal arena as we are doing right now (the one that will became a pre group one) since solo q must be to apply alone. So, the question is, there will be a possibility of get a full group anyway in the “pre made” queue? What we need to do to play together as usual? Will you allow 2/3/4 persons groups to queue in that kind of tourneys, or you need a 5 person group to apply?

Thank you!!!

as far as i understood: solo is solo (no need for explanation) and everything else is premade. so you will be able to join the premadeQ/teamQ with your 1-4 friends. if alone soloQ will be your decision.

Alright more tourney play for me then. I’ve only played in tourney a few times and it seemed like I always found the PUG against the pre-made team. Being farmed is just not fun. I would LOVE to get into a regular team but with my work/family/misc RL responsibilities I can’t make any kind of commitment to a team. Anyways great news!

The best part about solo queue will be all the people that finally understand how bad they are now that they can’t blame groups or partial groups for everything. I suspect however that the new complaint will be bad luck and that somehow they are getting the worst solo players on there team every match.

too little too late …. was this so hard to do, i dont know 7months ago? or after countless meeting u guys realiced that this was for the best? or did it take a super programing skill to do this?.

Awesome! Can’t wait!

Wow, kitten versions of features every other game has at release… finally are coming out…
1 year late… Anyways, better late than never?

And I hope you guys at Anet don’t do more harm than good to your game through solo que…
You seriously better pray that there are enough ques for ‘team arena’ that casual duos and groups of friends aren’t thrown up against legitimate premades…
or else que times will tank, people will get bored…

That’s kind of been my issue with just straight up splitting ques from the getgo, it doesn’t actually address the issue at hand… a split between competitive and casual play…
The only way to make solo/team split que work is to have a strong matchmaking system, and a decently large, steady, population…
The very issues (their ‘ehh’ matchmaking system and small population) that put GW2 in this awkward situation where they feel they have to create a larger divide between competitive and casual players…
(see the recursion of a problem, and how this ‘fix’ probly won’t fix anything??)

The vast majority of people that MMO do it as a social game, turning ‘group’ que into ‘competitive/dead’ could entirely thrash that aspect of the game… it then would be the final nail in GW2’s coffin. I mean it’d be like paid tournies all over again except it’d end with a situation where you kittening can’t even play the game with friends…

kittening kittened devs.

garethh.3518:

Wow, all the features every other game has at release finally are coming out…
1 year late…

Anyways, better late than never?
Though by how much is debatable.

And hope you don’t suicide your game through solo que…
hope there are enough groups queing that casual duos and groups of friends aren’t thrown up against hardcore premades… that’d tear them away… that’d kill que times for team que… that’d turn team arena into paid tournies all over again… but worse since you kittening can’t even play with friends no matter what…

You seem upset.

When the solo-que comes, I am probably going to wait for threads to kick off regarding that. If I can’t hold my self I am probably going to start up and create a warrior since I always wanted to see that class to the end and now it is just a good excuse to do so.

Also garethh – soloque will definitely attract 80-85% of the TPvP population.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Character locking is also coming at the same time.

All these new implementations are great but i hope to see the new pvp reward system implemented very soon.

I mean, a lot of people want soloqueue because they don’t have party or they want to play in rated match and not hot join when their party is not online, and is a very good thing.

But this game needs to promote team group at max level, so i wouldn’t team queue will be empty or very bad.

In this way people who goes for team queue need better rewards rather then soloqueue reward. Soloqueue is a great way to make other tpvp team in future, but i think team group needs to be always the priority for this game.

I have one question about all of this. If I duo with a friend, will I face other duos, or will I face full premades?

What do we do if you have 2 players? Or 3? Or 4?

Does that go into the team queue or the solo queue? If it’s the team queue, would we have to wait for another group to queue up with exactly the right number to make the difference? How about if there’s 4 of us … there would never be somebody queued solo.

Will this make it impossible for 2-4 players to reliably play tournaments together?

P.S. Something is wrong with creating new topics. It puts a bunch of extra letters in the title as soon as you try to submit.

Nabrok.9023:

What do we do if you have 2 players? Or 3? Or 4?

Pray that Anets matchmaking system scews up and creates a somewhat balanced match out of the, soon to be, mediocre->small ‘team arena’ population.

BTW queing with 4 is going to be a que time based nightmare.

Vena.8436:

garethh.3518:

Wow, kitten versions of features every other game has at release… finally are coming out…
1 year late… Anyways, better late than never?

And I hope you guys at Anet don’t do more harm than good to your game through solo que…
You seriously better pray that there are enough ques for ‘team arena’ that casual duos and groups of friends aren’t thrown up against legitimate premades…
or else que times will tank, people will get bored…

That’s kind of been my issue with just straight up splitting ques from the getgo, it doesn’t actually address the issue at hand… a split between competitive and casual play…
The only way to make solo/team split que work is to have a strong matchmaking system, and a decently large, steady, population…
The very issues (their ‘ehh’ matchmaking system and small population) that put GW2 in this awkward situation where they feel they have to create a larger divide between competitive and casual players…
(see the recursion of a problem, and how this ‘fix’ probly won’t fix anything??)

The vast majority of people that MMO do it as a social game, turning ‘group’ que into ‘competitive/dead’ could entirely thrash that aspect of the game… it then would be the final nail in GW2’s coffin. I mean it’d be like paid tournies all over again except it’d end with a situation where you kittening can’t even play the game with friends…

kittening kittened devs.

You seem upset.

With devs like the ones at Anet, its hard not to be.
This game had kittening leaps and bounds of potential, but they kittened it up in next to every way imaginable.

If u play with a friend, queue at solo queue at the same time, the playerbase is so small that u have a good chance to play with ur friend.

This split is good, well good, it was the only thing they could do, and solo queue is way way more important than this queue team-competitive. Sure it will make teamqueue a nightmare and we will see the end of a lot of average/bad teams, but the teamqueue was there for the bright future of the ezport, and since there is no future, who cares for teamqueue.

Baldric.6781:

This split is good, well good, it was the only thing they could do, and solo queue is way way more important than this queue team-competitive. Sure it will make teamqueue a nightmare and we will see the end of a lot of average/bad teams, but the teamqueue was there for the bright future of the ezport, and since there is no future, who cares for teamqueue.

So your basically saying.. ‘kitten anyone who takes this game seriously or has more than 1 friend they want to play with’…

That sort of deal will kill GW2 within the year.
(not that I haven’t been calling it for the last 5~ months, that Anet kittens up hard enough to drive everyone away within the year)

Hope the new solo-queue system won’t increase team queue too much. I play both and currently it still takes a while for a match.