Guild Wars 2

BrunoBRS.5178:

Hel.6340:

BrunoBRS.5178:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Aevin.2391:

You can climb and jump over the walls that appear.

We’re well aware of it, and I feel fine with it. The walls that appear can be random, and I’m always in favor of player ingenuity to solve time sensitive problems.

“time sensitive” is an understatement.

i was doing the swamp one just now, and after an hour and a half, we gave up. the reason? as soon as we got close to any of the potential tree walls, they’d rise. all of them, with no exception, to the point where the entire area surrounding the altar was impossible to go through.

and that’s not even talking about all the zig-zagging that has to be done, encouraging players to just keep resetting the wisps until they get a somewhat favorable layout.

seriously. permanent swiftness, movement speed signets (the thief one), 1200 range shadowstep (when the game didn’t outright deny me my shadowstep and teleported me to where i was instead of where i was aiming at) and avoiding all traps, and we still couldn’t get within 20ft of the area because of all the walls raising.

please tell me it’s not intentional, because it makes no sense. there’s no pattern, they just raise all at once and won’t go down until minutes after we’ve failed.

Did you actually read the post you quoted? Because if you had you’d realise everything you just said is a moot point.

yes i have, and no it’s not moot, when you consider that the whole “jumping over” thing was not originally intended, and that it can often lead to players getting stuck in the geometry, due to its unplanned nature.

Maybe it was planned? Who knows! All I can say is that I haven’t once gotten stuck, and neither has anyone else I know who’s being doing it that way.

The ‘jumping points’ seem to be too well placed for this to be an unplanned coincidence.

As I said it my first post, I’ve had entire sections cut off before, leaving jumping as the only option. And when was the last time ANet (or any other game dev) were ‘fine’ with people jumping over/through stuff they shouldn’t have been?

BrunoBRS.5178:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Aevin.2391:

You can climb and jump over the walls that appear.

We’re well aware of it, and I feel fine with it. The walls that appear can be random, and I’m always in favor of player ingenuity to solve time sensitive problems.

“time sensitive” is an understatement.

i was doing the swamp one just now, and after an hour and a half, we gave up. the reason? as soon as we got close to any of the potential tree walls, they’d rise. all of them, with no exception, to the point where the entire area surrounding the altar was impossible to go through.

and that’s not even talking about all the zig-zagging that has to be done, encouraging players to just keep resetting the wisps until they get a somewhat favorable layout.

seriously. permanent swiftness, movement speed signets (the thief one), 1200 range shadowstep (when the game didn’t outright deny me my shadowstep and teleported me to where i was instead of where i was aiming at) and avoiding all traps, and we still couldn’t get within 20ft of the area because of all the walls raising.

please tell me it’s not intentional, because it makes no sense. there’s no pattern, they just raise all at once and won’t go down until minutes after we’ve failed.

Did you actually read the post you quoted? Because if you had you’d realise everything you just said is a moot point.

Uloi.8593:

I second or third the comments on the jellyfish boss. I haven’t tried it, but I am quite sure you could set the whole party to auto attack and AFK.

Dolphins are ok, the lights I can’t do at all.

On the swamp thing, that’s been a killer for my parties. I guess we need to recruit more mesmers – thieves.

No you can’t, we tried it

Whilst I agree that ANet should probably implement some sort of ‘keep alive’ system so that dc’s from events/dungeons doesn’t have such an impact, ask yourself why you disconnected but thousands of others didn’t? The only people that I know who had lag or dc’s were people with sub par Internet. I’m in the UK so only get 10mb and I had no problems. You can’t blame all your dc issues on ANet or their servers.

The swamp is actually fairly easy, but I’m not sure if we’ve been doing it the intended way.

If not, it’s down-right impossible without a very specific group set up, even if you dodge every trap. We’ve had times when the entire top bit get’s closed off, or you have to run in a Z shape to get to the wisps (which isn’t possible even with swiftness up 100% of the time, and no mobs putting you in combat), which is why I’m 90% sure we’re doing it correctly, even if it isn’t obvious…

fizzypop.6458:

AcidicVision.5498:

You weren’t around for Halloween were you? See, they did this same thing with BLC and keys. And people were really mad. Players pretty much declared en masse that they were done buying keys.

So…Anet introduces a new chest for an event that doesn’t require keys.

Their solution to people raging over spending money to unlock chests on a gamble was to sell unlocked chests instead.

I think Crystin may have totally missed the point somewhere…but this still amused me and had me laughing out loud for a good few minutes. It just didn’t amuse me enough to make me want to spend money on a slot machine again.

Lol seriously. It’s like anet is out of touch with its player base, but then again they’ve been showing that since launch.

Actually considering that posts like this are still cropping up, I think they’re borderline genius.

That sounds about normal to me? Obviously varies but not unusual to get one white item from a pack of 6.

They actually said they’d buffed dungeon drops.

It’s a misunderstanding, not a scam.

I read it first time as blue and yellow colored dyes.

Caz.8017:

My biggest problem with this WHOLE dungeon scaling and stuff.
Most players cant even complete a dungeon on explore mode. Let alone communicate in a civil manner. And no offence ArenaNet but this is going to exclude allot of players that are not, up to this task. I through you aim was for everyone to enjoy the game and get to see the high end content? This pretty much gives them the finger, that they cant get the better drops. Its being very exclusive… Which is making me worry about, when you add new content. Aka new dungeons to the game that are permanent in the future.

To be brutally honest, if “most” players can’t complete dungeons in a civil manner, this is not ANet’s fault.

Why should they have to design content around rude and obnoxious people? They have it right to be honest, if people can’t get a long with each other and be civil, then they can’t do the content. Those players have no one but themselves to blame.

It’s common knowledge that new content and bug fixing old content is done by separate teams.

Colin Johanson Outlines Guild Wars 2 Live Game Development

Live Security—You’ve heard from this team’s coordinator, Mike Lewis, already on our forums, so you’ve seen some of their early work and long-term plans already. Our security team is focused on fighting bots, spammers, and account thieves. They work closely with customer service in those areas.

Live Response—The Live Response team is focused on fixing bugs, addressing game feedback, and balancing the game. You’ve seen a lot of their work already in the update notes.

Living World—The Living World team is focused on adding new content to the game world. This team will be adding and refining the types of content you already know in PvE and WvW, as well as developing new features and rewards.

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On top of holidays, this team will also be creating in-game one-time events that occur and can change the world or drive narratives that come to a finite conclusion across the world.

Mac & Performance—This team is focused on development for Guild Wars 2 for the Mac. You’ve seen them recently release the Mac Beta Client as their first major project. They’ll also be focusing on client performance, helping ensure the game runs well on the widest range of hardware going forward.

Bonus teams—We will sometimes be creating additional teams not listed above. These teams will build specific cool features or events we decide we want to do outside of the scope of the other live teams. (Spoiler: We have some of these teams hard at work right now, and you’ll be seeing the first results of their efforts in November.)

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MithranArkanere.8957:

I got Ascalon completion before exploring all of Ascalon, after they added a few extra areas to some of the maps of the region.

I’m assuming it’ll be the same. If you have 100%, you won’t lose it. If you don’t, you will now have a ‘leeway’, so you won’t need to explore everything for 100%.

The other possibility is another extra reward for 100% every time a new map gets added, and those who already have 100% get it after they explore the new areas.

I really hope this is not how it works, because if ANet keep adding new zones, eventually you’ll only need to explore say 20% of the world, for 100% completion.

I know that’s a long way off, but that would be a bit naff.

If they take away 100% for those that already have it, it gives more incentive for people to stay up to date with the game.

Yeh I actually set it to Native shortly after posting. Considering how small the screen is it makes no difference visually, but does help with performance.

Had subsample enabled. Changed to supersample, and looks great! Thanks a lot! Bye bootcamp!

Rehashed Jibe Tube.7102:

The pale tree is stationary. The sylvari are created as drones to allow the pale tree to interact with the world. It’s not much different than ants or bees. They can’t reproduce on their own either, but the queen keeps churning them out. Workers, soldiers…whatever is needed to reach out and meet the needs of the colony.

What produces the seeds that make the pale trees themselves is the bigger question.

Actually a very good analogy.

No it’s not the retina model, and as mentioned, the resolution is fine because the menu’s and UI are fine (I forget what resolution but its on max).

Edit: spec is same as SpyderBite’s but with 4GB RAM.

Will check the sampling option though and report back. From memory I don’t think I’ve checked that so thank you for the suggestion!

Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think your argument is fundamentally flawed.

After all, humans reproduce, to reproduce, and by the above logic, it is a pointless endeavor. Whether it is or not is an entirely different philosophical discussion.

Sylvari ‘produce’ to increase knowledge, the more sylvari that are knocking around, the more knowledge they attain as a race. You could argue that the sylvari way has more of a point to it. It also ties into the ‘defense mechanism’ theory (which I like btw), knowledge = power.

As for the point that they would be aware of it, that’s not necessarily true. Animals and humans reproduce because that is what they are programmed to do. Yes it may seem like a conscious decision to have kids and it usually is, but at the end of the day, sexual arousal is there for a reason, and that reason is to encourage reproduction. We only know that this because of scientific studies, but I’m willing to bet those dogs going at it in the local park aren’t aware of this fact.

I seem to remember reading something about this but can’t find it now for the life of me.

In the Mac Client, on a late 2012 MBP 13", the graphics look horrible. It looks like I’m running the game at a really low resolution, however the settings are set correctly, and text and menu’s (eg inventory) look perfectly crisp. Everything else is really blurry, with jagged edges. I’ve also tried setting to max allowed settings.

Now, before people say it’s the hardware not being up to scratch, it runs perfectly in Windows 7 and 8 using bootcamp with the same settings.

So is there something I need to change? Or is this not possible to resolve, and I should just keep using bootcamp, or is this something ANet are working on? I assume it’s something to do with Cider?

This isn’t really a massive issue, as I have a gaming rig, but the only thing I use bootcamp for on my MBP is GW2, so would be nice to do away with it :P

(I work in IT, so I’m somewhat of a computer expert, however, I’m no where near an expert with Mac’s from a technical software point of view, so idiot proof instructions/explanations would be appreciated)

Danicco.3568:

They reduced something, that’s for sure.

Either the Ectos you get per salvage was nerfed, or the number of rare items dropping randomly.

You don’t need to do any math specific stuff, just check the TP.
Just like the Dye incident, without ever telling anyone, people noticed the large supply of dyes and the demand wasn’t as high, so prices dropped fast.

If ectos prices raised 5~6s in a couple of days it’s pretty sure something was done. Now’s a good time to sell yours if you had some stocked.

Bots got banned. Less supply, prices go up. Simples.

That alone accounts for the increase in price. Also, if people payed attention, they’d realise that it’s not just ecto prices that have gone up.

That’s like looking on the TP, seeing that all prices have gone up, and saying EVERYTHING has had it’s drop rate reduced.

I guess it’s worth pointing out that everyone is speculating on an entire system, with only a handful of paragraphs.
You’re no better than those donkey’s who keep saying the end of the world is “next month”.
Sit back, chill out, and wait and see.

(You can be pretty certain your argument has already been posted in one of the 50+ pages).

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main character.5460:

This will print money for you Anet. Please implement it sooner than 4 years in like you did with GW.

That’s a bit tight. There’s a lot of things they didn’t do on the release of GW as it just wasn’t the done thing back then.

Besides, from GW2 it’s quite clear they’ve learnt a lot from GW1.

I distinctly remember that this was available in beta. I’m 99.99% sure that it was because it was beta, and because it didn’t matter, I was only buying the good looking gear

I’m not quite sure why it got removed

I definitely prefer the GW2 way rather than the GW1 dye.

Nothing like spending your life savings on black dye in GW1 and then misclicking…

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