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hey imp,
If you feel like taking a look at other races’ capital cities you can use the Asura gate (teleportation gate) in the center of Divinity’s Reach to get to Lion’s Arch, which is/used to be a central hub for all races.
From there you can reach all other cities with ease and explore. Don’t worry about “wasting time” as you will gain experience exploring as well
here some pictures, you really can’t miss the portals
make sure to check out Rata Sum, it’s home to the Asura who will rule Tyria one day
Hoelbrak is the home to the tall humans if you want to see more of them
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Interesting read and together with the current quality and quantity of the Living Story, which I can enjoy at my leisure, I’m looking forward to seeing more.
The silverwastes are huge with more than just one layer, be it the mechanics or the geography.
Adding and opening new areas while being played in creates a very natural feeling of growth for the story while offering the option to explore and discover new things.
It’s not just popping a mega boss here and there without warning and so far I haven’t perceived anything as a “because reasons” like I did during LS1.
I would love to see a “lore dump” summarizing LS1 via those beautiful art pieces similar to the “this is my story” start of GW2.
Make it a “And this was her (Scarlet) story” and place it in the priory library as one book per chapter. Have us watch a cut-scene instead of reading it (just like losing oneself in a great book) and I can wait for another year or two to replay the LS1 parts that I missed.
If speculations are true about replaying Caith’s past, I’m also confident that a re-release of LS1 will work just fine without making me feel you’re using the players as beta testers.
Overall, things that are being experimented on seem to work really nice. The option to do open world PvP, really dynamic events with actual pushing back of player efforts, a reward structure that fits different play styles, giving players “roles” such as being a defender, escorting supply or calling in air support, the necessity to work together to get chests and of course preventing the strange situation where one fails an event because it is more rewarding than having it succeed.
Any play style seems to work and so far I have yet to read a single chat message where somebody complains about player x participating too much/little.
Oh and I’ll never ask for henchmen again since I can now fight along side main characters I know and even starting to like. Best thing, you can still bring friends, where you guys could consider upping the difficulty and rewards with more players involved.
Feels great, thank you!
Any chance we could dig for chests in dry top as well? I never quite understood why chests are only visible during a sandstorm when you can’t see much.
Again, the entire team has done a great job so far. I’m sure it’s going to reflect in more gem sales apart from the purchases wales did.
Love Taimi’s new mentor
And thank you, thank you, thank you for making Kas and Jory finally stop the lovey dovey and take the whole thing more serious.
On a side note, perhaps somebody actually reads this, have you guys ever considered selling a head start to the new areas/story? To see how popular paying for content would be? To ease some of the every-week-10$-new-skin thing…
gobble gobble
@marge
great…now I want the explorer outfit
@zoid
where did you take the first picture?
4th is sanctum sprint?
something I haven’t seen in first person yet, gonna check it out later
@Hoaxintelligence
http://assets.enjin.com.s3.amazonaws.com/users/1681238/pics/full/2977678.jpg
really nice skybox, where was this if you could share?
Love the vista from DR, some really nice fellow showed me the breakout for LA and DR but I haven’t found real spectacular vistas yet, any hints?
- bloody prince coffin
- View of Divinity’s Reach
- Black Citadel from the hills surrounding it
- even throne rooms have to be cleaned at one point
- Growing a Trahearne
and some more
https://plus.google.com/photos/114785648822963589773/albums/6085259326608227425?authkey=CLTTy8mErIT6Cw
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tl;dr
The potential benefits of transparency outweigh the potential disadvantages as you can always create something but only destroy(critique) what already exists.
Gaile, could you ask the team if they’d be willing to share what did not work and why they think so?
Start with some very small feature that did not make it into the game or the earlier iterations of a feature that did make it and ask for opinions on the concept itself as well as the issues which came up and led to dropping/implementing said feature.
The entertainment business is not an uncertain business by default (that’s why you’ve gotten yourself somebody from Disney), Anet’s approach of trying to revolutionize anyfreakingthing makes it an uncertain business for you because you guys love to try new things where others in the industry – rightfully so – are less inclined to do leaps of faith again and again.
And this is exactly the reason why more transparency on how the drawing board looked like, before certain decisions were made, could improve the understanding and acceptance of Anets decisions.
You guys do great work in being the first but I also believe that you are not getting the return you’d like to have.
Looking at other, more eclectic games must be somewhat painful as they can just look at what you and other pioneers are doing right or wrong and then use this free research to then implement it almost flawlessly.
Gamers just want great games, Anet used to show that they are a innovative, creative and communicative studio but this perception has changed for many, including me. There were some decision made that feel like it was one person/train conductor pushing for it while ignoring any concerns “because players wouldn’t be able to grasp the big picture”.
Like expecting 2 million people to please change their gaming habits because temporary content is somehow better (wtf?).
“People won’t be on vacation, I’m sure”? (2 more months of me beating that dead horse is not really dead yet)
Players do understand that you can’t introduce feature X because it would crash the economy for instance. What players cannot understand is why you didn’t…if you don’t tell us why.
What’s left is a “we dropped the feature because reasons” as well as “hey here’s x, I know you never mentioned x and always asked for y but we thought y can’t work so here’s x”.
One example is the trait system. Players felt like it was lacking and they’d also love to be able to acquire new skills via trainers out there in Tyria because it was such a great experience in GW1, tested
What does Anet do? Well, since you can’t have anything like in GW1 you go not implementing new skills but locking old traits.
Players want to be able to distinguish between commander tags, you triple the price.
Or downright offending things like selling the SOB coin.
And all of this happens somewhere in the design limbo without any knowledge of the development processes and quality assurance.
The CDI’s are great to gather ideas and concepts, testing them superficially and getting feedback in general. But since you can’t tell us anything about what is in development, the only thing left for players is to pray that please, please somebody implements the ideas properly and not make another feature which is a vague derivation of “community ideas”.
Even though you guys play the game, it sometimes feels like you base your decisions on the internal knowledge of what could have been, will be or can be, instead of what is in the game.
Gamers, (my apologies for all the assumptions of “player/gamers/people do”) live and play in the here and now, many of us don’t give to much a quaggan for what happens beyond the game, on your website or in the novels.
I don’t know a single game where I had to visit a website to get “in game” information or read novels to fill in the void the stories have created.
On to more important topics, how many showers are there? I found 5 so far
Also, that new effect/condition…. it’s a bit too nauseating for my taste, still fun though…
And thx for the planks there, seeing the silverwastes from below also gave me a lot of hope for the future of GW2, please don’t fix the break outs
(darkest image I had of the showers to prevent spoilers)
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A decent solution would be a toggle option, or at the least to have caps lock toggle instead of having to hold it down. I vote for this
I noticed that sometimes it needs 2 button presses to toggle on and an additional one to turn off, does this work for you?
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“simply” let us board the airships and use the cannons, test performance and see how you like this?
existing mounts in gw2 are fine, love the carpet, maybe change up the way people can directly travel from point A to B?
The airships for example.
the aspect crystals are great too, more of those
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what if you introduce an event based on a combination of n different more likely events in sequence which boosts the chance to get x?
would this benefit player who spend more time or worsen their situation?
the sequence itself is randomized and the drops in sequence could look like: shield (x % chance) → bag of goods (x% chance to drop)→ x-y amount of gold (gold find ) → rare lvl 61 etched shaman spoon → 3 geodes =>
results in an event happening that doubles the drop chance for a precursor for the next drop(s)
targeted farming would be impossible as well, as the sequence is generated randomly from a table. if you then add more “veteran specific” drops like geodes to the prerequisites (while leaving a base of very common items) you could fine tune this according to what part of the game you guys think could be more rewarding when it comes to those rare drops.
the biggest issue is the necessary, extremely low drop rate of some items which require millions of hours of playtime. collectively this works but for an individual player it is impossible to get a sample size large enough for the rng to most likely appear fair.
a player who spends more time in game will most likely trigger more more likely events and using those more likely events as a factor is better than “so sorry here’s a token” I think.
This would require the game to check every drop and compare it to the changing “magic sequence” but I can’t even guess how complicated this would be in execution or how taxing for the servers.
Would a shorter sequence be way less taxing?
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get a box of chocolate
reminds me, do minis have the same amount of polygons than their “real” counterparts?
How about a mini airship?
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1. Large, coherent content such as story driven campaigns split into individual operations/missions.
I think 2-3h+ is an unhealthy raid duration and could be circumvented with saved progress like in the living world journal.
Still 5h but instead of having to sit through the whole thing you could do 5×1h every day or 2×2h +1h
You could also save the most juicy parts for the weekend and difficulty doesn’t have to be created by exhausting players.
2. different roles people can switch in an out, similar to the fragile state, which is kind of “most zerker”.
give some players “runner” roles and help speeding up courier jobs by adding the aspect crystals for faster movement.
I think “great at jumping” could be valued the same as “having the best build & equipment”. and providing players with jobs that might require slightly more defensive armor can improve the zerker meta issue.
More complex movement such as using the dash, jump and leap in combination could provide a different and skill based challenge.
and on to the more crazy, more specific ideas, mostly underwater related:
3. magic carpet combat
over a sea of quick sand
or
4. climbing onto or chasing down a boss with the help of aspects could be fun.
first one/two/three in the group to catch up/meet requirement-x will stop the boss for everybody to pound on.
Naval and air(ship) combat would be interesting as both offer large enough platforms for large groups to have specific tasks.
I think that the underwater areas are some of the most beautiful in gw2 and should be used more often. Without underwater combat perhaps, have us talk to npcs underwater instead or create “bubbles of air” on the floor to have ground combat.
Doesn’t have to be on the ground either, those air pockets could ascend/descend, think of it as negative floating rocks underwater providing free fall instead of something to stand on.
Or “follow the bubbles” to descend more rapidly, falling most of the time without having falling damage
(ascend maybe as well?)
or maybe you could improve underwater combat in general by using currents to channel players and enemies into a smaller space, restricting/forcing vertical or lateral movement.
Just don’t abandon it, maybe use it for traveling if the ground ever gets too dangerous to walk on.
Oh, and submarine-tanks
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it was very enjoyable, love the new map and the story was great. I think there could be more in engine sequences like the one with belinda.
I kinda missed the aspect crystals so I’m secretly hoping for another crashed airship
was great to be back in the lair, looks fantastic, really love the giant reflections in the crystals.
looking forward to the next part!
command tab, return, brightness is lower
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maybe you’d like to post here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Beauty-of-Guild-Wars-2/page/2#post4401005
you can use /sleep chat command to hide your character, works best on a slope or against a wall because this forces the camera to skip your character.
if you are underwater, simply face a vertical surface like the wall of a quaggan house, slopes or rocks.
For screenshots of your character, use the camera position slider to get the char out of the center
They have also changed the camera slightly in the most recent update
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good to know, thank you, I will just continue then
probably works with any bundle item then.
and mention this here, completely forgot about this email.
Yup I got it. Also, since it could be a exploitable thing maybe you better report it through email too. Report it to exploits@arena.net as it’s the proper way to report exploits.
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