Guild Wars 2

Straegen.2938:

Baron Oakley.1539:

Even if Anet were to license technology from TS3 etc. the problem is community voice comms would still have the advantage of being player-moderated instead of Anet moderated. (It’s nice to be able to control who can listen as well as speak.)

Big advantage of baked in comms include the ability to essentially eliminate cross server spying and significantly better accessibility by players. They could also setup squad/guild channel moderation allowing primaries (commander) to have priority speaking automatically. Add in the ability to boot players from a squad by the commander and we have an easy to moderate system.

I do know the downside which to me is moderating foul/abusive language in open channels but many other games already have methods of handling this.

I think you are right about spying and moderating. Again, details that can be worked out, but the advantages are there.

azizul.8469:

no built-in voice comm pls. the servers are already lagging as hell. use 3rd party voice comm for that.

Voice comm built in would not have to increase server lag at all…there are lots of replies to this…

One other note: all this stuff about “private servers being better” misses the point. THOSE SERVERS ARE PRIVATE. Most people in this game do not play 8 hours/day. I play a lot, and my average is 2.5 or so/day and there are lots of folks for whom a bit of assistance through voice chat would be welcome.

Anyway, just thoughts…

Some of these replies are a bit silly.

1) I don’t want to have voice chat in dungeons because I don’t want to talk to other people. Ok…yeah…probably you rage as well when new groups fail. Part of the problem is that people don’t talk and it can be hard for newer folks. Oh yeah, you can also turn off voice chat.

2) “Anet can’t handle it.” They probably can. The server stuff is all an engineering problem, and those can be solved.

I am honestly a little surprised to hear these negative responses, but then I remember how people also whine about everything ANet does.

Crius.5487:

I would much rather stick to using TS3. If there was only a single voice channel per WvW map than trying to run multiple groups would be a pain. It’s not uncommon to see two different groups running hammer/anvil on the same map.

On another note, there’s enough lag when two full map blobs are fighting to add VoIP traffic to the same network.

I do understand, but some responses. First, there would ideally be more than a single voice channel for squads. Second, you could still use TS if you wanted, but the zerg commander could command better with the built-in voice. Third, I am not sure it would make any difference to lag, depending on how it is built-in. You are using TS on your network anyway.

Thanks!

TL/DR: Wardrobe should allow you to “Save” styles in alternative wardrobe tabs so you can switch without having to use quite so many transmutation charges. Also, when a Skin that I like is “locked” I’d love to have a hint on where to find it.

I really like the wardrobe changes recently, but I am still wishing for 2 things.

First, I would like to be able to get or purchase tabs to save my various wardrobe outfits on. That way, I can switch between my armor skins without having to change armors or use a pile of transmutation charges while trying to find a previous outfit. Other games, notably LOTRO, let you do this and I think it is successful and could be great hear…after all, most high-level crafting and such are based on getting specific, rare, looks.

Second, I am excited that I can look at locked skins instead of having to go to the vault when I want to re-outfit my character, but what I really need is info on where those skins come from. A tooltip that says something like “Origin: Personal Story” or “Obtained from: WvW Outfitter” would be very useful so I could go and get the skin.

One other thing, we definitely need a dreadlocks hair style for humans. Everyone else has one, but it is a lot of work and sometimes impossible to make characters of other backgrounds for humans.

Thank you for your consideration.

Derrick the Red, Jade Quarry
Pelaera (PvE Main, Guardian)
Pel Jubylee (WvW Main, Necro)

TL/DR: Live, built-in voice chat would support better team-play, coordination, and community quality in WvW, PvP, and Dungeons/Fractals for people who are “moderates” and for whom TeamSpeak represents a major hurdle to cooperation.

I spoke with the WvW/PvP/Balance community lead from ANet this past Saturday at the GW2 party during PAX. I expressed some of this request there, but wanted to follow up with more detail.

GW2 is an exceptionally cooperative game, and lack of built-in voice chat creates barriers to successful enjoyment of a lot of content. The value of built-in voice chat for “instanced” environments such as dungeons, where there is a large learning curve for speed runs and people tend to be from different guilds, etc., should be self-evident. I think it would be a HUGE improvement to be able to coordinate with voice when running dungeons, especially now that we have a group finder. Given that I hope this is self-evident, I will focus on WvW.

I am a “moderate” WvW player. I love the format. Love my Necro and Engi, and I find that good battles are even great when part of the zerg WHEN ABLE TO LISTEN TO COMMANDER COMMS.

That’s just it. Unless you get TS, login to the right server, get verified, etc., you are sunk. You cannot listen to your commander and are left to chase after PIN. Groups of classes with specific jobs, such as Well Necros, cannot coordinate. It is kind of a mess, really. I’m not saying that mindless zerging can’t be fun, just that it isn’t nearly as rewarding as well-executed WvW.

I propose a WvW voice function that enables anyone in a live server map to participate. Here is how it would work.

A chat function, similar to how the built-in voice chat function worked on LOTRO, would be built into WvW. In that way, anyone would automatically join the channel for listening purposes, but would have to manually enable the speaking function.

Ideally, then, commanders could sort their armies into raid groups (which should be supported along with the tag changes).

Combating Abuse: yes, trolls will be trolls. A “Mute” function would be important so people could mute them.

Benefits:

WvW is great and unique. It has fantastic potential, but full enjoyment feels somewhat inaccessible to a lot of players who aren’t able to participate and build battlefield relationships without an annoying process of logging into TS. I KNOW that some people will say that “anyone who cares will login” or that people just should login anyway, but they clearly don’t. Audit the zerg numbers vs. the TS numbers and you can see that. Plus I have to get re-verified after every TS reset.

I hope that y’all will consider this request. I have lots more ideas on implementation, but this post is long enough! I think it would be great to roll out in WvW, PvP, and Dungeons/Fractals and could help GW2 get even better.

Thanks!

Derrick the Red, Jade Quarry
Pelaera (PvE Main, Guardian)
Pel Jubylee (WvW Main, Necro)

I like the Power, Precision, Vitality idea.

What I really want is the ability to craft armor with custom stat combos.

You were right! It was set to Spanish. Good thinking.

I think English. Everything else seems to be in English. I will confirm when I get home this afternoon.

The story isn’t as fun without the cutscenes

I have no voice sound on story cut scenes. I have tried every setting I can find, but cut scenes still have no sound. Please note, I seem to have no problem with all other game sounds.

Any thoughts?

Thanks