Guild Wars 2

Ever since Living Story Season 1 that I noticed that ingame cinematics have their sound extremely low (if any) in comparison with everything else in normal gameplay. If there is a character speaking, like Dessa in Fractals cinematic, only her voice is audible as in normal gameplay, everything else is almost muted. If the cinematic has no voice acting, there’s almost no sound…

I play with sound sliders all on 20%, so i can hear people over TS/Discord, and still hear everything very well in game, except when a cinematic hits… then I can’t hear anything.

Up until now I just thought that the sound team were not adding sound on these cinematics or having it extremely low intentionally, until today that i’ve watched an ingame cinematic on youtube that made me completely stunned at the amazing sound effects on it.
So I went to the forums where there was some conversations about the Environmental slider controlling the cinematic sounds, and so I went to fractals and tested pulling up Environmental slider to 100% and let master at 20%, but still there was no sound on the cinematic. Then I tried Environmental on 100% and Master on 100% and hit the cinematic and it was beautiful!!! That is until the cinematic ended and it got me back to normal gameplay, everything was so loud that it made my hears hurt… I’ve tested this on 2 different computers, both with speakers and headset on each, all creating the same results.

I’m not sure what to suggest to help the developers, but I think that having a dedicated slider to cinematic to control those effects and making sure that the cinematic sounds come off all sound channels either 2.0/2.1/5.1/7.1 would probably fix it.

Thanks for the amazing game and keep up the good work

Been using the 64 bit client for 2 days now, and it has been a great experience. I’ve tested it for continuous 6 hours each day and I’m happy to report that it is extremely stable. Had no crashes nor DCs. Tested tabbing out, and tabbing back in since some windows 7 users reported issues doing so, but i had no issues.

-Specs
OS: Windows 7
Mobo: ASUS M5A99FX
CPU: AMD FX-8350
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X – 16GB
GPU: ASUS GTX 960 – 4GB
SSD: Crucial BX100

Same here. Can confirm it only happens with characters that have 100% central tyria explored, as I was completing VB with a friend that didn’t explored 100% central tyria and he got the rewards.

HoT maps completion not giving rewards to those with 100% central tyria explored. Completed VB to discover tons of people reporting the same problem here on the forums.
Also Elementalist second scepter ability is vanishing when you dodge after casting it. Not sure if it is intended.

1st of all, I want to thank all Anet teams for the brilliant game you created and keep on developing, keep it up

I’m that kind of player that likes to do everything that there is to be done in the game, Living Story, PvE, PvP and WvW. I’m also a daily and living story achi hunter, and here is where my suggestion pops in: On the daily achievements there’s usually 1 killer and 1 event completer for different zones: Kryta, Ascalon, Shiverpeaks, Maguuma… but never Orr? It would be really cool if we had Orr Killer and Orr Event completer rotating with other zones on the daily, so players would go more to Orr. All the zones in the game are beautifully designed and it’s a shame that we only go to Orr nowadays when we are doing temple events. A daily suggesting to go there would be great.

Here’s the list for today dailies for those who can’t see it due to this bug.

Condition Remover – 20
Daily Mists Invasion Defender – 10
Daily Mists Camp Capturer – 3 (duplicated? :S)
Daily Mists Camp Capturer – 3 (duplicated? :S)
Daily Gatherer – 20
Ambient Killer – 30
Daily Activity Participation – 1
Daily Aquatic Slayer – 25
Dungeon Completer – 1
Grim Reaper Of Grunts III (defeat halloween minions) – 40
Here Be Dragons (participate on Tequatl) – 1
Karma Spender – 750
Maguuman Killer – 40
Shiverpeaks Event Completer – 4
Trick-or-Treater III (open trick-or-treat bags) – 10

y it is a problem if u follow a guide to do it in infantile mode (like dulfy’s) while trying it on normal.
But it doesn’t mean it can’t be done, all u have to do is take the shortcut 1st when u have access to it, collect the baubles, then die to go back to prev checkpoint and continue on the regular path from there.

y only 1 player claims to have it done, but no pics, so it didn’t happen.
I don’t think the ticket will make much difference, if Anet wanted to confirm it’s working or bugged someone would have already answered on this post.
IMO i think they are having a blast as we run around looking for baubles like headless chickens :P

got it, it was the one on the log going down the waterfall. guess the 1st time i must have stressed over how to get to the other one across the river and i forgot this one :X
tks again for your help

i’m doing w2z1 again, miss checking both shops at the end, the log going down the waterfall and the other across the river. will let you know how it went after i check. still tks for your tips and help

So i just completed all achievements on tribulation mode except tough costumer, world 2, missing 1 shop. stuck on 11/12.
Now, i was following dulfy’s guide of all the hidden rooms/shop that i also used to “Associate/banchelor/master of secrets” on infantile mode and that one completed perfectly.
As I was going on all the hidden rooms/shops i wasn’t tracking which were counting and which weren’t. Cause I double checked I was going to all locations so there wasn’t a chance of missing.
I don’t know if any of the bug fixes patches fixed any of the shops not counting cause there was some meanwhile, and as i started working on this 2 days ago idk if some zone i already done was fixed. Here’s when what happened: Did “zone 1” 2 days ago (6/09/2013), did “zone 2” yesterday (7/09/2013), did “zone 3” just now (8/09/2013)

Same problem here but i just finished it 1 time. Haven’t check Ayrilana’s references yet, but I’m gonna go for normal mode now, maybe later i’m gonna come back and look for those.

nvm, it is listed now.

So I kept a “Super Staff Skin” since last super adventure box events and I thought it would be a good time to sell it since idk if they’re coming back next patch. So I posted it on TP, the item vanished from my bags but the TP was taking a while to tell it was posted, so I decided to relog. This was during the login issues the servers had 1 hour ago.
When I managed to log back to the game I was going to look for my post on TP but it was nowhere to be seen. It’s not listed nor sold.
I’ve already opened a ticket for costumer support, but I’m curious if it happened only to me or if anyone else is having this issue.

yeah, thanks for the info and quick reply

Hello.
OK, so i’m going to be out during the weekend, and i’m worried i’m gonna miss act 2, cause i’m only coming back when act 3 starts.
Will acts close as next opens? or will them all be available when act 4 starts?