Guild Wars 2

Nope! Sorry

There’s no ETA on either yet.

Do you know what boot skin you were using before this happened?

Yes, that angle sounds about right. You could also do 62° Diagonal.

Yes each tick is 1 degree. If you click the reset to defaults button it will put the Fov slider to 50°. Hope that helps somewhat! I know it’s not ideal, hopefully one day we can get actual values on that menu.

Hi!

Guild Wars 2 by default uses a Vertical Fov, by using the -useOldFov command line parameter you can switch it to a Diagonal Fov.

Now to get a 90° Horizontal Fov you are going to have to do some math.
It’s a little early and I worked this out by hand so it might be wrong.

tan^(-1)((sqrt((AspectRatio)^2+1) tan(90/2))/(AspectRatio))

So to get a Horizontal Fov you’re first going to need to use the -useOldFov command line parameter, then you are going to need to adjust your Fov Slider to whatever that formula spits out. (If you know your aspect ratio I can help you calculate it.) A quick note the minimum Fov angle is 20° and the max is 70°, that should help you figure out where to move the slider.

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AXEL.8362:

So I guess its fair to expect this event to be another rehash right? I mean, since they are clearly ignoring people asking about it. I hope they put the expensive expansion money to good use and next halloween we can have new content because last year’s was sad.

That’s not really true. On the first page of this very thread Gaile said “There will be a blog and an event page soon. You’ll have a whole bunch of details then.”

To add a note to what she said, when these details go out the way she explained, they will go out in all four languages we support. Then all of our players get the details at the same time, not just the ones who happen to speak English.

No matter what the events contain, you can decide ahead of time that the Halloween events are going to be bad and that you won’t enjoy them, but it seems like it would be more fun to join the party that only rolls around once a year and have a good time along with the rest of us.

Your account is not compromised, almost all of your activity is in the trading post. I would suggest looking there and in your history.

This sounds like a cpu overheat? Support might be able to work with you on this. Does it happen in any other games?

nightzirch.3126:

Lawton Campbell.8517:

It’ll just be access to guild chat. Not sure what transport we’ll use or any of the other details. Literally all I’ve done so far is sit down and say “I should be able to use guild chat while not logged into the game”.

Hehe, what I thought and I fully agree.

I also noticed mailing and friendslist were mentioned before edited away in the before-mentioned thread. Are those still on the table we all love so much?

Mail, if we had an endpoint, could ever only be read-only. And you can’t see mails you’ve sent. It’d be a lot of work for a fairly low-value endpoint, IMO.

Friend/block lists might make it though I don’t have plans in the near future for ‘em. There’s a bunch of small fires to put out now and a bunch of other endpoints/improvements ahead of it in line.

MusicJunkie.7490:

will it only be for “items” like banners? or also for MF buffs and stuff? :o

Anything that appears in the upgrade queue on the guild panel. So banners, MF buffs, unlocks, research levels, etc.

It’s not up to me on whether there will be more videos. Having said that, feedback about how you feel about what you’ve seen is helpful to us.

Nabrok.9023:

/v1/wvw/matches without any id passed in gives me the world ids of the worlds involved in the match, whereas /v2/wvw/matches just gives the ids.

Should I just continue to use v1 to find the match that my world is in, or will that also be added to v2?

That functionality should still work in v1. I’ll probably add similar functionality to v2 (as a separate endpoint), though it isn’t there yet.

Amelia Brigita.3940:

Over on the GW2 Fashion subreddit (/r/GuildWarsDyeJob/) we are hosting a costume contest and we would sure love to see as many spooky and creative entries as possible…come see ;p It’s not an in-game event, exactly, but I KNOW many of us will be showing off our creations in Lions Arch.

The Mad King’s Masquerade:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWarsDyeJob/comments/3ngzed/the_mad_kings_masquerade_costume_contest/

That sounds like a ton of fun, Amelia Brigita — we love seeing all those creative outfits!

Blaeys.3102:

Awesome.

My guild is planning our annual Halloween party and in game costume contest on the night of Monday the 26th, but I will talk to them during missions next week and see if they want to move it to the 30th.

It’ll be up to them though. I suspect many will have real world plans on a Friday night just before Halloween.

If you’re planning, I probably should mention that we’ll have some team members active during EU daytime hours, and the studio will have some reps active during daytime NA hours, with the primary hours being 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Friday, October 30.

Mightybird.6034:

Thanks Gaile, I agree some of this negativity is completely uncalled for.

Confused though, is this post saying that the decorations and such are going up today/soon? As I thought we already knew Halloween was coming (was I assuming that?)

Oh sorry for any confusion! No, the decorations and such do not go up today. I’m simply playing Herald. Well, not really — I’m playing Ranger, but you know what I mean.

The blog comes next week, and it’ll have dates and details. This post was just to get the word out that we’ll try to participate in some player-hosted in-game events, in addition to doing some of our own. In other words, to invite guilds and groups and individuals to let us know what they have planned so we can try to stop by.

Hidori.3472:

Oh boy… HoT and Halloween at the same time.
ANet, you’re killing me!

Glad I have a 3 weeks vacation to nolife the kitten out of it XD

You are a wise person, Hidori.

Ayrilana.1396:

Any plans to do a blog in the very near future so we know what to expect for the Haloween release?

Yes. There will be a blog and an event page soon. You’ll have a whole bunch of details then.

Firelysm.4967:

I hope you guys will join EU as well, and not leave us out like every year :S Come visit us!

BrotherBelial.3094:

See you ANet guys in LA, if you come to the EU servers. I’ll be the guy throwing eggs and TPing(I have 2 stacks of each from last Halloween ^^)

That’s definitely the plan! I mean coming to LA on the EU servers — not getting pelted with eggs.

draos.9574:

Maybe I asked wrong because I know how the layered maps are working.
Let me reword my question. Here is an older example of my overlay. It projects the self-tracked 3D coordinates of the objectives, in the same way the gw2 graphic engine would do, into the field of view of the users. As coordinates I use the center of the flipping areas of each objectiv.

Would it be possible to give us such 3D coordinates too?

You’re looking at the capture gadget location (which is a 3D point). The capture gadget is only casually related to the objective, so pulling them out is going to be a doozie. It’s something I can look into doing, but I can’t make any guarentees.

The marker and label coordinates are only 2D points because they’re currently only used to render the map. I found out where the marker coordinates are stored so I’ll work on having those piped through (maybe before HoT ships, I dunno).

I’ll be looking into map tiles today.

It’s something I can add in, but it’s not going to be available before HoT ships, unfortunately.

It’ll just be access to guild chat. Not sure what transport we’ll use or any of the other details. Literally all I’ve done so far is sit down and say “I should be able to use guild chat while not logged into the game”.

fro.8967:

Hi Lawton,

FYI, kills/deaths seem to be broken for EU matchups. The overall kill/death stats are not present at all, and the per-map stats all report as “0”.

Ick, I think I know why that is but fixing it is actually going to be really difficult. Thanks for the bug report!

Hofulu.7325:

I’m starting my compsci major in college, and looking through all the different languages and stuff, I was randomly curious, what language was GW2 written in? Or is it a collection of different languages for different parts of the game, held together though proprietary stuff?

As others have said the primary language used for the game is C/C++. There’s a bit of custom language thrown in there, but that boils down to C/C++ too. The trading post runs through web servers, so there’s some Javascript/HTML stuff thrown in there as well.

Our in-house tools are written in a variety of languages such as C/C++, C#, Python, Ruby, Javascript.

All of these languages are fairly common in game development these days.

Brave Mallyki.1563:

Seth Chadwick.5317:

Items currently in your queue when HoT launches will be auto-completed.

Will it cost any influence for the queue to be auto-complete?

Nope, the auto-completion will be free.

MercenaryNote.8506:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

it will become a normal melee attack which applies vulnerability.

2 stacks of Vulnerability I hope!

Yup 2 stacks for 6 seconds.

Hey all,

Just heard from the team and wanted to give you an update:

At this time, we expect there will be no changes to the guild mission reset time before launch of Heart of Thorns. We’re investigating the connection between guild mission reset times and raids reset times, and we will know more in the upcoming weeks.

For now, count on the guild reset to take place as normal on Saturday evening Pacific time. We apologize for any inconvenience that our previous message may have caused.

Back at you when we have any further info on this in the future.

docMed.7692:

Karl, the fragments (aegis on pickup) also seem to have some kind of delay – is that intended? I’ve popped the trap multiple times and I would follow fragments around attempting to essentially spam aegis on myself during fights and there seems to be some kind of ICD (~1sec).

The fragments themselves won’t pop if you have Aegis on when you enter them. They don’t have an ICD though or anything like that. If you lose aegis while standing on top of them, though, they probably won’t re-apply the boon until you move into it again.

Alas, it was indeed a bug and needed to be fixed. A single skill that deals that much damage (from being CC’d, nonetheless) was a bit much. Sleight of hand was your best friend this last weekend in PvP.

With AMR not working on Cleansing Burst it looks like there was more than one bug that was causing this – sigh. I believe I’ve fixed all of them this time. Fingers crossed.

Malthurius.6870:

Also, small suggestion; is there a way you could make the timer circle inside of the marker grow out instead of shrink in. It’s just easier to see when it goes off that way.

We won’t change the animation simply because we’re already using a version of the telegraph that grows outwards later in the release, and that telegraph is definitely something you don’t want to stand in and need to get away from.

In other words… If the telegraph grows inwards, you should stack on it in some form (or maybe it’ll pull you in /plots). If the telegraph grows outwards then you need to get out.

Hmm, adding in the unauthenticated guild bits shouldn’t be a problem — the authenticated ones are fairly bitrotted at this point (been holding off until the expansion dust settles a bit before I fix ‘em up). I’ll look into adding a bulk-expanded unauthenticated /v2/guilds next week.

Probably not gonna provide a comma-separated list of guilds though :P

Ah yeah, crap, I always forget about that.

I’ll add it in tomorrow. I’ve got some mistakes I need to clean up before we can do another API deploy.

The center event status of the desert borderlands map should probably go into the bonuses array, and maybe EB merc camps. I wasn’t able to get that state plumbed through in time for HoT, but want to have that in the future. They’ll go in as objects into the bonuses array.

But yeah, this is using a bunch of new code (the implementation is parallel to the old one) to support a handful of new features. Had a rough time testing it in my dev environment, so I wanted to mess with it a bit more before announcing it. If you’re into early releases, you might also like this. Not sure it behaves correctly at daily reset though.

:3

Burtnik.5218:

Roy for president! I hope guardian sword will see similiar love tho. One question..Do you have any plans to change the animatins on sword auto? You know..the first hit at least as starting with stab feels out of place.

No plans right now.

I’ve gotten lots of feedback, increasingly so with time, about this part of the sword auto-attack chain. I’ll be changing this skill so that it will no longer use a projectile attack and instead it will become a normal melee attack which applies vulnerability.

The trap was bugged. It’s intended to strike enemies only once as it explodes and will be fixed.

The data we’re using for objectives doesn’t have coordinates at all but they’re associated with sectors. Sectors don’t have 3D coordinates — they’re entirely 2D. IIRC the 3D bit comes from which floors the sector belongs to, though I think there’s only 1 floor for the WvW maps.

I’m not sure what I typed makes any sense. :s

Eearslya.6309:

All this data is simply what is used to render the tooltip, not actually what goes in to calculating the skill.

Pretty much this. That’s the closest we have to a normalized form for skill details. Unfortunately it isn’t very normalized at all — in the stun case it does the “right” thing in the primary use-case and displays a stun icon with the text “Stun” and a duration.

It’s not ideal for machine-readability, but it’s the best thing we have at the moment.

Here we go!

Items currently in your queue when HoT launches will be auto-completed.

Shiren.9532:

How large is the radius on the visible gold dots when working as intended? Will I be able to stand at EB spawn and see gold dots in enemy keeps?

Just like with party members you can see the gold dots anywhere in the world. The rate as which the position updates is much lower for players not in the same map as you (which is also how party dots work currently).

GeminiArcher.7809:

Thanks for the response, Seth. I hope this upcoming feature will have a toggle option, as I imagine people in guilds with 500 members might not want their maps to be obliterated by yellow dots.

skullmount.1758:

Is this something that we’ll be able to toggle off?
Being part of a big guild, Teq will look really cluttered with a whole bunch of yellow dot around a commander tag.

Good feedback, thanks.

Just wanted to post and let you guys know the FX artist has been looking into this. For starters we’re going to swap the Distributed Magic orange telegraph to a different colour (since orange usually denotes “GTFO” and not “You should stand here”). Secondly, he’s looking into adding more “height” to the Unstable Magic Spike attack to help give more visual cue that you need to move/dodge. Hopefully some of this will help the messaging!

I personally like using marauder for my glint/shiro pvp build.

It’ll be acquired via a collection.

Glad to hear you all can’t wait until launch, me too. It’ll be here soon™, exciting times!

You likely want the “on demand” setting given in the streaming options.

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