Guild Wars 2

Oh c’mon Arena, do this for us It is purely cosmetic after all and you could still fit the news window over/under the login/password lines.

Please accept this Norwegian-studying Kirby as a tribute for the loading screen.

Found a screen of it for those on the forums who could not see it during beta

Hi guys!

I have a question – would it be possible to reintroduce the “old” log-in screen, the full screen one with the dragon and white background? I stumbled upon it during one of the beta weekends and liked it much better than the current one, as it was more GW1 like (in being full screen mainly, I do not like the idea of coming from a little window straight to the char selection).

Thanks, hope you will find time to answer ^^

First of all, thank you very much for the event. It was nicely planned, greatly implemented (except the lagging issues in the first phases, but those were dealt with quite fast) and rewarding. The idea of one-time events changing the game is great and quite unique I think.

But. Yeah, there is always a but.

First, the reward chest drops. I think it is alright there were precursors. Getting them is based on luck anyway, so there is no point crying about not getting one while your gildie did. I understand such feelings, but you should not really be concerned with them. Every game is a game of chance and if you are not lucky this time, you can try next time.
The real problem is the fact that some players did not get their chance to open the chest due to disconnects or crushes. You promised to deal with it and I believe you will, but a little suggestion there – maybe think about a different way of distributing the rewards than player-opened chest?
With the mail system being used for distributing the heart-quest rewards and the fact that the campaign token was distributed through mail way after some players got their story finished I beliefe it is possible, but will require some thinking, at which you guys are good

Second, the one-timeness of the event. Well, the idea is great, as I said, but the manner of realisation is flawed. GW1 offered the ultimate way of realising the event finale – it took place every few hours, so any player anywhere on the globe could take part if they decided to spend some time.
With the Lost Shores it was not that easy – people in some parts of the world simply could not participate, due to work or school taking place at the same time. Why not change the idea of one-time event a bit? After all, the events in GW1 were also annualy one-time, but they allowed a fair chance of participation.
I think that instead of focusing on making the event literally one-time, you should focus on making the reward one-time (I am not a programmer of your caliber, but I believe myself to be good enough to know that it would require little more than adding a single variable to the account/character ). Lets be honest – the finale was not really one time, with people jumping between overflows and getting multiple chests.

This is basically all I wanted to say. I believe and know that I have voiced the thoughts of the mahority of the players, even the ones unsatisfied with the chest drops. We are all players and sooner or later all will realise that, as long as the chances were fair, thats just how the game is.
Just one, last word of advice, and, a request of a loyal player – think really hard what you do concerning the problems with this event so that you do not destroy my beloved game

Thank you, Arena Net, once again for the job well done!

Ok, here is the idea – ANet re-runs the event and lets the ppl get their lost chests. But lets give them time, say, a week, so the event could be re-run the next weekend. That way they will be able to ensure noone gets more chests then intended (thus preserving the game economy) and, hopefully, tackle the time-zone issues.

Sounds fine?

And yes, this is serious. As you can see on the desktop screenshot, a rival is winning ground from you ^^

Since the yesterday’s build I have been having the weirdest graphic glitch. As seen on the attachement, there are some kind of artifacts, but they cover the whole screen and move rapidly when I rotate in-game camera. The UI is fully visible. The character selection screen in unaffected.

As I said, it started after the last build, I have been playing GW earlier yesterday (I live in Europe, it is 9am now, the glitch was spotted at around 9pm yesterday) and it was fine. Once, around midnight yesterday I managed to get the game working fine, but I have no idea how (I reinstalled the drivers, experimented with CCC options) and today the glitch is back.

Also, I can tell if the glitch will or will not be present by looking at the login window. When the weird “V” thing is there (screen below) the glitch ia present in-game as well.

Any ideas what could be causing it? The game was working perfectly (well, a bit slow, but my hardware is not the best) during beta and since headstart and now this.

There are more and more posts about graphics bugs. Arena Net – did you change anything related to graphics in the last build? If you did, please say what and if it is possible to undo it, as it made the game unplayable for many people.

Thanks!

Arena, did you change anything connected with graphics in the last build?

chuthulu.7984:

I’m at work so i cant remember the exact setting but under your graphic options there is an option to change how the game is rendered and if you change it to render at a higher resolution than your screen setting it will fix this. I’ve had this work for myself and several friends. If you cant find the option im talking about ill find the exact setting in a couple hours when i get home.

He is talking about sampling and it does not work for me

I have got the same and it is quite weird, as I have been playing the game just a few hours ago and everything was all right, now I turn it on and my screen is all in blue triangles which meet in a spot in the center of the screen (like spiderweb or sth). I have also spotted that the game client, precisely on the second step (after updating the client, before login) has a similiar issue – the top left corner looks like if someone dragged it, leaving a “V” mark, like the thing that happens when you drag a window on a slowed down Windows.