Guild Wars 2

I’m farily happy with my build both in PvE and PvP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbK3Qo0uPGY

Also seen lots of variations on Engineer in PvP, it’s more a question of play style than viable build, if you want massive burst dmg then sure there might not be that many builds.

Mrpopo.4593:

as messed up as this sounds the view is to close for me and when i play more then one hour i feel dizzy and really sick

If you search fov in the forum you can see that you are not alone, write in that thread instead

Turn off any nvidia specific graphics settings and only use the game settings and see if that helps?

Right now there are a few problems running eyefinity, mainly the immovability of the UI elements ´(WHY OH WHY did you change this from GW1) causing the map to end up to the far right.
The program Flawless Widescreen does nothing more then emulate the same results that you get with nvidia surround, I really want to use this but I don’t really want to get banned for it.
As stated this does nothing more than try to emulate nvidia surround behavior on AMD eyefinity, will one get banned for using this? if so could you please make the UI movable or put in controls for Eyefinity users to get the same experience as surround users?

If they follow they same model as they did with GW1 they will release more areas and content fairly often without any extra cost, then there will also be expansions in the form of Elona and Cantha to come which will cost you about the same as the original game and bring just as much content and updates.

Should note that they are still even now working on some content for GW1, however the GW1 team is smaller due to many being moved to GW2 but still, they have it active and will release more free stuff there.

ArenaNet hasn’t from what I’ve seen ever really placed money before players which is very unique for a major studio.
EDIT:;
Colin Johanson on free content updates in GW2

No need to buy them, Gw2 will feature consistent free content updates and in-game events going forward. Our goal is to make it so you get more from Gw2 for free than you get from a game you pay a subscription for.
On top of a large amount of free bonus content, we will be expanding on offerings in the Black Lion Trading Company going forward, as well as be doing large-scale expansion content down the road.
We’ll cover a lot of the details on the kind of support and plans we have in place over the next month or so on the Gw2 blog and with our press partners.
We do appreciate that you’d like to buy lots of new content, but we’d prefer to give a lot of it to you for free, cause that’s what we think a responsible MMO company does!

Link to source
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/ztv7a/colin_johanson_on_guild_wars_2_content_updates/

Calcifire.1864:

Unpredictability.4086:

We have a customizable profanity filter in game, so why not on this website too? It’s annoying to read “kitten” in place of words. Some things that are censored aren’t even really bad language (such as that movie Aaliyah starred in, Queen of thekitten).

indeed, dam-n, and gim-ped are minor at best, if someone is able to be offended by those words they probably shouldn’t be playing at all, because they’re likely 10 years old
(I mean come on, it’s an MMO, g.imped isn’t anything to do with BDSM in that context)
(also lol that g.imped isa banned word, but BDSM isn’t)

While I do agree, g.imped isn’t a BDSM term per-say, g.imp is a derogatory term for someone with a handicap historically stemming from someone that has got a limp and I think that is the reason, however these days I don’t think many use it in that way also there is even a fairly major program out there called g.imp (open-source alternative to photoshop) and the full first page on google is that program if you search that word.

Bassario.3465:

Right… only I wanted to pretty much try them all to lvl 10 before making a solid decision, so basically u guys are telling me this will cost something like $45.

O_O

harsh…………….

Or you could try five, remove the once you like the least, try the others?
And if you later on want to play those anyway then you either can buy a slot for each for $10 a slot or gather about 2½-3golds ingame and trade that for gems to buy them.

The splash is post-processing I think, turn that down/off and it should be removed but this will also remove any bloom effects etc.

brokeit.8346:

No, the pvp focus in this game is WvW which is why that is the only place to get real rewards for participating in. The other stuff is just to fill time, not to be a total secondary system.

You do know about tournaments, rewards etc, sure the rewards are cosmetic but that’s because sPvP is meant as a sport where everyone is on equal footing gear-wise.
Also sPvP is a totally secondary system, WvW you get bumped to lvl 80, sPvP everyone is a maxed lvl 80 and just like in GW1 PvP rewards etc are cut off from PvE as they don’t require you to PvP or to PvE, you can do which ever you like.
Anet has themselves in interviews said that they have been looking a e-sport for their PvP, which feels more like it’s geared towards e-sport? sPvP and tournaments or WvW? ^^

dux.8720:

there’s no edit function?!
i forgot to mention that one should be able to zoom out the camera view some more, too.

The pen icon on your post is edit.
Sure higher FoV means more work for the graphics card but if it’s a slider you can tweak to what matches your needs, meaning you can priorities if you have to.
Also the FPS isn’t that bad in all cases, some have issues true but not all.

First of the actuall bug, when an admin merges thread the PM link to the new thread doesn’t work, at least not for me? I just get directed to the sub-forum?

Also there was a “admin bug” in a merge, I think an admin merge 2 Field of View threads and 1 camera zoom and “jumpiness” thread causing mass confusion in the thread about what the actual topic is about.
While both relate to camera control field of view is not the same thing as zoom, could some admin if possible separate the thread again or create two “super”-threads, one for FoV and one for camera zoom/control issues?

gurugeorge.9857:

What is this, I don’t even …

You can zoom right out with the mouse wheel, and you can look at the sky.

The camera bounces a bit in a few cramped areas, that’s about the worst you can say about it.

What are people talking about here, it sounds like there are several topics being mixed up.

You should really read the thread and watch the youtube videos linked above, zoom and fov are NOT the same thing.

I myself miss /flex :´(
registers (no error) but no animation

Go in to PvP (the mist)
take the Asura Gate from there to Lions Arch
Jump to any of the major cities for free using the Asura gates in L.A.

You guys know they are still working on the game, they’ve even said in interviews that they are planing more PvP stuff with a fairly large amount of e-sport in mind.
GW2 is still under development, they are going to add stuff and PvP is a major part of GW (but it’s not the only part, PvE is just as big) so there will be more of it, they’ve talked about more styles than just capture points.
And all those pointing to WoW as the be all of PvP? How long did it take WoW to start with Battlegrounds? Arenas? etc

BGs and Arena came around/with BC expansion didn’t it?
That’s what? a year, year and a half after WoW release?

All and all it seems lots of people would like more camera control fov, distance, aspect etc and for some it’s not just cosmetics, they actually need it to be able to enjoy the game without getting nausea.
Hope someone at Anet pass this along, should be a fairly simple thing to do without causing to much trouble

Agreed, this would be very useful, also make them linkable like in GW1.

ChairGraveyard.2967:

Signed, we need a FoV slider with a good min and max range. The FoV right now is definitely too low on most 16:9 monitors. It makes a huge difference in being able to see the horizon line when you’re playing/not have your character taking up too much room and generally makes the entire experience better.

Preferably a FoV slider for both Horizontal and vertical and a custom aspect creator, IMO most games on PC should have this as gamers more and more use a great variety of screens and resolutions etc.

This would be great, but would probably require a major re-design and put much more strain on the servers, that said I agree it would be great, it would also be good for e-sport as well as catching cheaters

notebene; The idea isn’t to change the FOV to another set specific but to give those users that want it a fov slider that can set the fov to what fits them best
Also higher FOV means more to render and that can result in lower FPS, some gamers wont care to change it, some might not need to but like it better with higher and for those that suffer from nausea the can make it so the don’t get it or at least minimize it

notebene.3190:

If it’s something that they did totally different and it’s causing people to be sick, compared to Rift or any of the other games in the last 2 years, or the 12 years before in this genre, then I’m ‘really’ perplexed because I’m not seeing it.

This isn’t something unique to GW2 no, this problem plagues many games sadly but not everyone is affected, it’s like motion sickness, some get it, some don’t.
I myself don’t suffer from it, specially not since I’m an Eyefinity gamer (I get a higher FOV in GW2) but fov matters anyway, if you watch the youtube videos above you get a good explanation but basically it comes down to the ratio between how big your screen is, how far from the screen you are, the aspect of your screen, the fov in the game and how sensitive you are to it.

notebene.3190:

I’m just curious, thanks.

Here is a good explanation on FoV from a conceptual artist with more than a little under his belt, Feng Zhu.

http://www.fengzhudesign.com/about.html

For more than 12 years, Feng Zhu has contributed to some of the highest profiled projects in the entertainment industry. His broad design skills allowed him to reach across into many fields from hit movies, to triple-A games, memorable TV commercials and toy designs. Founding his own design company, Feng Zhu Design (FZD), his client includes Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Sony, Activision, Industrial Light+Magic, NCSoft, Warner Brothers, Lucasfilm, Bay Films, Epic Games, and many other top studios. In Hollywood, he has worked closely with well established directors including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Michael Bay and Luc Besson.

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZUao2jTGA
part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XsPYPGcl0

Syahin.3921:

FoV only applies to FPS games , in Guild Wars 2 the camera is way too close and you need to be apply to zoom out more.

No it doesn’t, it might be a little more noticeable in a FPS game but that’s all, zoom and FOV are NOT the same thing, watch the videos I linked above!

Start the game with the -bmp switch and you get high res BMP screenshots

Algomyth.5479:

I don’t know if I’m talking about the same thing here but many ppl have mentioned the issue with the view rapidly zooming in and out when your character is close to a wall and you move the camera around trying to see better.

This is not the same issue, I doubt that he and his friends spends 10-20min close to a wall or hours :P

JoeRosa.6035:

This makes no sense. How can you get sick based on the FOV?

Here is a good explanation from a conceptual artist with more than a little under his belt, Feng Zhu.

http://www.fengzhudesign.com/about.html

For more than 12 years, Feng Zhu has contributed to some of the highest profiled projects in the entertainment industry. His broad design skills allowed him to reach across into many fields from hit movies, to triple-A games, memorable TV commercials and toy designs. Founding his own design company, Feng Zhu Design (FZD), his client includes Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Sony, Activision, Industrial Light+Magic, NCSoft, Warner Brothers, Lucasfilm, Bay Films, Epic Games, and many other top studios. In Hollywood, he has worked closely with well established directors including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Michael Bay and Luc Besson.

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZUao2jTGA
part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XsPYPGcl0

biscuit.5091:

Patches.4210:

Edit: Engineer is far from slow paced but you have focus on your profession skills as well as your weapon skills, people seem to think it’s an spam attack class because the main attack is the one used mostly (cause that’s the only thing without cooldown and the other stuff isn’t made for dmg) but they don’t think about the CC or the boon/condition control etc.

- It is slow paced compared to other proffesions.
- It is supportive due to the control.

I can only compare to guardian but can’t say it’s any more slow paced than that and while I can see Thief might for ex. be a bit more intense (in some situations) I think it comes down to your play style more than the profession, every profession is slow paced if you hang back and just do support.
As for support, true that Engineer has good support skills, but that doesn’t mean the class is a pure support class, this as well comes down to play style.
There are three “roles” in GW2
*Damage
*Support
*Control
just like DCUO
An engineer with dmg and crit traits does good dmg, an engineer with healing and boon traits is nice support and for ex. turret traits can be used for control and so on.

This goes for guardian as well and my guess is all the other professions as well, boxing them in to one role only hampers your ability to use the class to its full potential.

As I only played guardian and engineer so far and engineer mostly I can say this, engineer is extremely versatile and they can do decent dmg with almost unmatched survivability even compared to guardian you just have to know how to use your skills.
Also engineer got more weapon selection than any other class in combat if he/she wants to, engineer is built not around the main weapon but the around the skills you select.

Elixirs = Survival and decent dmg
Turrets = CC or “fortification”
Bomb/Grenade kits = Crowd dmg with Contitions
Flamethrower = dmg / Crowd dmg with burning
Add to that the skills that help you get out of bad situations like slick shoes, Battering Ram, Goggles and Rocket boots.

Just try out what matches your game style and the situation, I usually go Elixirs for PvP and there is nothing wrong with my dmg and I can easily survive 1v1 and often 1v2 and stand a good while against 1v3 if the ones I meet aren’t really good at their classes and got good CC.

My standard sPvP build;
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.4.8.0.0.0.36.0.0.0.79.90.99.87.102.8.8.7.0.0.0.242.249.0.260.0.0.272.280.282.0.0.0.5.20.15.30.0

Edit: Engineer is far from slow paced but you have focus on your profession skills as well as your weapon skills, people seem to think it’s an spam attack class because the main attack is the one used mostly (cause that’s the only thing without cooldown and the other stuff isn’t made for dmg) but they don’t think about the CC or the boon/condition control etc.

Ofc you can use a rifle as support but you shouldn’t limit yourself to rifle or pistols, use your kits

Not sure how accurate these numbers are since they probably only had time at that point to report pre-launch / pre-order but vgchartz says 900’000 globally @ sept 1.
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/37350/guild-wars-2/

Lucky.3870:

I did not experience similar issues with the game myself; I don’t understand how FOV can bother people so much to the point of having headaches, but I’ve experienced motion sickness by playing Minecraft, so I get these things can happen to anyone.

Motion sickness is often due to a “disconnect” with what you are seeing and/or feeling compared to what the brain expects based on the “data” (i.e. sitting still while eyes believe you are moving) while headache often comes from strain, the strain in the case of FOV is because the eyes try to compensate the “tunnel vision” (which give some motion sickness) like feeling some people get, add to that post-processing which adds blur in an area where the eye expects no natural blur (a lot of people can reduce the headache but turning off stuff that blurs the graphics) you get discomfort and some get headaches.

A good FOV walkthrough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZUao2jTGA

As any graphics card made the last 5-6years has thermal protection, in Nvidias case I think it was GeForce 8 series that introduced it, that automatically should cut power or throttle if the card even comes close to burning like that meaning your card must have faulted as well as software protection not kicking in and if the card was limited and it didn’t work then it sounds more like a driver problem?

Sucks that your card got toasted and I’m not saying that something in the GW2 code could have helped but the probability that there is something in the GW2 code that overrides all protections that should be there and burns cards while not affecting more than a handful of people is slim to none.

Thing is, when a card gets a few years on it, sooner or later it will give out, you can get lucky and get many years from a card or get one that’s not so good and burns up after a while, this is random and doesn’t have to have a connection to the game you just started and specially if you didn’t have problems before with the same game.
It was just your cards time sadly and as it’s a card that I’m guessing got 2years or more on it it happens =/

BCDragon.5614:

Icky I can’t see that, it says something about a private build.

Patches, thanks

np, if you want you can switch Cleaning Formula 409 to Blood injection for more direct dmg, but there are a lot of conditions in PvP and there are a few other tweaks you can do, just try stuff out and see what fits your play-style

Also; a few of those skills are still buggy :/ Rocket boots doesn’t always work as they should but when they do they are a lifesaver as you can use them when you are knocked down etc.

I myself do fairly OK in PvP, survivability isn’t a problem using alchemy and neither is dmg.

Traits:
Explosives: 5
Firearms: 20 – Sitting Duck, Rifle Mod
Inventions: 15 – Energized Armor
Alchemy: 30 – Fast-Acting Elixirs, Cleaning Formula 409, Automated Response
Tools: 0

Skills;
Healing – Elixir H
Elixir C
Rocket Boots
Elixir B
Elite – Supply Crate

Weapon;
Rifle with a Sigil of Superior Nullification

Gear;
Power, Vitality and Toughness

Works great for me at least

Just avoid the zerg if you’re not in a group and pick off stragglers instead

Godmoney.2048:

ituhata.6830:

This includes posting insulting, offensive, or abusive comments about players, repeatedly sending unwanted messages, reporting players maliciously, attacking a player based on race, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, etc. Hate speech is not tolerated.

I think you bolded the wrong part.

Um, no. I bolded the correct part that I wanted hilighted. It points out how open to interpretation the policy is.

I’m not criticizing it necessarily as much as pointing out the reality is that you can get banned for anything that is offensive emotionally in any way.

Anet is welcome to run their company in any way they see fit. I’m not telling anyone how to run their business. I am however pointing out the reality is that GW2 is more likely to ban you than any other game you’ve ever played before. Take that how you choose to.

Well the part just after (the part ituhata quoted) that is the part that goes in to describe what the part you highlighted actually means, if not you could use the TOS as your personal ban hammer on anyone that just looks at you funny or just asks you a question in general etc as that could be unwanted attention in your view?
The reason for this specification in contracts/agreements is to avoid them being to open to interpretation.

Derpinator.2894:

Downed state is fine, but two changes need, omg NEED to be made:

1) when they’re really dead, take them off my screen. Completely and immediately. No more corpses laying around. Let their team mates rez them, but if I can’t kill them more, why can I see them?

2) in wvw if I’m capable of getting loot, just give it to me. The sparkly bag on the ground gets totally lost in zerg situations (which is most of the time). Truly annoying.

1) They remain as respawn is timer based 15sec I think they need to wait for that or if they prefer a buddy to res them but generally people are waiting for the clock.

2) Turn on Auto Loot?

As for down state, it take anyone trying to learn no more than 1 day to learn how the different classes down states work and while it may take ~3-5 seconds more to get the actual kill it’s not that hard, what’s more problematic is the differences between some classes as to their cooldown on down state skills.
Some have counters from start, some even AoE counters, while some have singel knock down with CD, this could use an overlook but the mechanic itself works fine as it promotes helping your team mates instead of just bolting when they start to drop.

Stalzy.9548:

The FoV in this game is a little close. But that’s because (what I think) it’s designed around WvWvW. You’d have too much of an advantage to be able to see the entire battlefield. Looking over walls for secretly played siege equipment would be bothersome for many in there.

This is simply not true as GW2 has native support for 3Dsurround / Eyefinity and works fairly well, still not perfect I would love some fov (both vert and horizontal) and aspect controls etc to remove the stretching but anyway, I get a much higher fov using Eyefinity than if I’m not using it.
Can you spot the difference? :P (only thing changed between pushing PrtScn is resolution from 5940×1080 to 1920×1080)

1920×1080
5940×1080
this forum doesn’t allow images but direct links instead (imageshack hosted)

Notice the Asura gate is not clipped and I see much more using the higher resolution so if fov was fixed because of WvW then why would multi-screen users get higher fov and not just a distorted stretched screen?

As stated not a bug, but support, healing and ressing is way under-rewarded both in PvP and PvE to the point where you start to question if it’s worth helping a fallen player out during a big event or in WvW.

If your IPs differ a lot you should get a mail from ArenaNet asking you to approve the connection from the different IPs, so if you just approve it you should be fine I would think?

I have a pair of G930 as well, this is a general issue with the channels on the headphones, not just GW2 but many other games suffer from this problem with the G930.

I generally use the 7.1 which eliminates the problem, I think it’s a incompatibility issue with Windows Vista/7 sound drivers and the logitech driver :/