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All precursers were changed to the new skins. Each precurser as far as I know had a look alike, so it should still be obtainable from that other gun, assuming there is one for the Hunter.
The Hunter is one precursor that didn’t have a PvE look-alike. But that makes me wonder, is the Hunter I have unlocked changed a well?
I’m afraid that they might have removed future acquisition of vanilla model. In wardrobe you have both designs but on TP just new one. Am hoping someone will confirm that in a way you can still acquire vanilla design.
The design only if the vanilla precursor still drops. Otherwise, I doubt it. Unless they added a new named rifle in the mix with the same skin…
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That Hunter Experiment looks funny! But I prefer the old Hunter over the new one…
Not talking about experiment one, just the two rifles named “The Hunter”. I really, really hope there is a way to get it. Maybe by making Predator you get the skin unlocked or something…
Yes, I know you’re talking about the normal one, I just hadn’t seen those “experimental” precursors :p They’re funny
You’ll automatically unlock any skins you put in the forge. So, if you put in that new Hunter, you’ll unlock the new Hunter. But didn’t Anet mention somewhere that the old way of making legendaries will still work? If that’s the case, the old precursors should still drop in the same places they did before: with a tiny tiny tiny chance as drop or from the forge.
Agree, the experimental one is hilarious x’D
And I really hope that’s the case with two separate drops. I was looking forward buying one for my charr as I love the design and then all Hunters from TP turned into new one. Part of me died. Let’s wait for Dulfy, thatshaman or ANet to tell us more.
Right. I’ve just read over the enthusiastically written news post about the megaserver update and, to put it -very- mildly, I (and most of the map chat of my home server, Piken Square) am somewhat worried.
For those who don’t know, Piken Square – and our US sister server, Tarnished Coast – are the unofficial GW2 roleplaying servers. We have something of a persistent world co-written between the rather large number of RPers and, for that to continue to work, we need to be able to almost guarantee that we’ll encounter each other. Not just our fellow guildmates or friends, but any of the many, many roleplayers who frequent the server.
Let me explain. At the moment, if I take my character out of Divinity’s Reach (the main RP hub of the server) and go for a wander around the Fields of Ruin, I’m likely to find other Piken Square inhabitants, ones I’ve never met before, RPing their characters. I might encounter characters who’re RPing being part of the Ebon Vanguard, Separatists, Charr troopers, etc – any of whom I could stumble across and start up a spontaneous in-character (“IC”) conversation or scene with. This is only possible because the world we’re all playing on is publicly recognised as the RP server for the EU.
The general worry in my guild, /map chat, frenzied curse-ridden forum posts and so on is that the megaserver update will, with the noble intention of creating tight-knit and fun ingame communities, actually obliterate the one that already exists for us. For our community to continue to thrive – or even exist – it’s essential that we have some controlled way of ensuring that we can join the “RP instance” of whatever zone we’re in (and not just the hubs like Divinity’s Reach – a lot of the most enjoyable RP comes from bumping into IC strangers while out in the combat zones). Note that this cannot be done by just joining our guildmates or friends – it needs to be far larger scale than that.
This thread is not just meant to be me (and others) complaining about the incoming update, as that’ll serve no purpose. Instead, I’ve endeavored to come up with some ideas as to how to make this work.
Firstly, by all means have the megaserver system, but have a manual instance selection. Much like how GW1 had its districts – you should be able to let the megaserver analyse your data and find you an instance, -or- manually join the RP instance of the zone you’re in, assuming it’s not full, of course.
Alternatively, when you roll out the megaserver patch, let us manually dictate what data and filters to send to the megaserver. I.e., I want to filter by language (English), location (Europe), and game type (Roleplaying), with the last as a priority. This won’t be as good as a fixed roleplaying instance, and will still splinter the community somewhat, but will at least help roleplayers find each other in the megaserver system. And perhaps, if your tech works as amazingly as you suggest that it does, it will naturally result in roleplayers gravitating back toward each other over time, eventually restoring the community to its current state.
Closing thoughts – this is meant to be constructive. While a lot of people are angry about this update and feel that Anet is neglecting or disinterested in its roleplaying community, some of us recognise that simply raging about it won’t accomplish anything. I’m also personally of the opinion that this update isn’t actually -designed- to shaft roleplayers, but that Anet hasn’t really considered the ramifications of it on said community. That said, it’s worth stating that a great many of the roleplayers on Piken Square do so exclusively – they don’t really play PvE or PvP – and thus, if roleplaying becomes difficult or impossible in GW2, they -will- leave for other games. Something nobody wants to see happen (particularly as a lot of roleplayers spend a quite frankly preposterous amount of money in the gem store).
If anyone else has any suggestions – or simply wants to make their voices heard and make it clear to Anet that this is going to be a serious problem – please post below. And while it’s a long shot, if we could get a response from an Anet developer or community GM, that’d be grand.
This is the culmination of my thoughts as well. I invested more money in Gem Store than any other sub-fee model game and I always prefer GW2 over other because community was created on it’s own as dedicated RP server was never given to us.
I would like to go to sleep without a worry that I haven’t made a mistake spending investment in a game I will no longer be able to enjoy as independent, wondering RP.
All in all, as this move is logical at one point, it is scary at other. There was never a practice that product you buy would change such a core element, add things yes but not revamp existing.
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