Actually..you’re doing better than most FPS wise. You could be doing better by lowering a few “troublesome”(un-optimized) settings.
Shadows on high
Reflections on Terrain and Sky
Turn on Effect LOD
Shadows on ultra causes huge Frame Time spikes for pretty much everyone.
Reflections really kills your FPS because there’s a massive body of fully reflecting water UNDER 98% of maps that you cant see unless you glitch below the land.
Effect LOD checked will cut down the number of particles caused by massive amounts of spells being cast. Helps in zergs a ton.
And while you’re at it,you might as well turn on Depth Blur. It makes the game look better and has zero impact on performance in my system which is substantially weaker than yours.
But if you’re after 120FPS for your 120hz monitor…I’m not sure that will happen even with lowest in-game settings and a 5ghz OC on your CPU.
Hey thanks for the reply i will try some of these settings. I never did like Depth Blur tho it bothers me, i have had it turned off since beta’s and day 1. 120hz isnt really a big deal to me, id just like to stay above 60fps with nice settings. The reflection tip is great, ill get that lowered ASAP.
I was mainly concerned that my PC may not be performing properly, but i guess its parts of the game being un-optimized and flat out taxing.
I’ve been wondering if my PC is under performing or if this game is just that taxing even on my system. But i get around 55-60fps in lions arch and it dips down to the 40’s sometimes. Other places it generally stays 70-110 ish. But i feel with this powerful of a machine i should be getting much better performance especially with lowest character model limit on.
here is a screen shot of my settings and system, note the resolution and refresh rate are cut off but its 1080p and 120hz and my monitor is capable of anything between 60-144hz.
I think unless they reward the people that just finished this season with the same rewards, then Anet will show their true colors.
I’m glad the new system will be more mmr and win focused but that last system was focused on time played and as such made it so you had to play every waking moment to move up.
I’ve giving my data and I’ve put in my hours can i please have my two pieces of GHA?
This was a “Off-Season” and was stated as such. You don’t get rewarded for your own mistakes. They clearly stated multiple times very publicly that this was in fact a off season and no rewards would be given.
The concept of ‘Hard’ is pretty relative to the individual. I’m sorry that you’re not gonna feel as special when there are a few more people walking around with legendaries, but that’s your problem. Don’t wish for the hardship of others so that you can maintain a personal definition of person you get through the exclusivity of your digital objects.
As an aside to this post, present actual information when trying to make a point; don’t just loop-macro ’it’s too easy’ and ‘I said to make it harder’. Those statements hold no real meaning.
That special feeling is long gone aswell, thats why im saying there needs to be a harder weapon to obtain than even current legendarys. Something for endgame players with time on their hands. Something that isn’t as easy to obtain and isnt for casual players.
Trust me i worked harder for my legendarys then anybody in this thread, i made one of the first 3 sunrises and i didn’t use the gemstore. I payed 25g for dawn, but at that time 25g made me literally the richest player in the game (which wasn’t easy to obtain). I went back and took a screenshot of my purchase history about a year ago.
Even having to grind every day to farm the materials, gold and currencies needed it was still easy to obtain the item, it was 100% time gated. There needs to be a skill gate or something that is going to make you “try”.
Wait…So
It’s ok for the current system is what your saying?
Do you know what the collection will entail?
Have you seen the mastery system?
Sound’s to me like your one of those people who made a lot of gold off luck, and now when it’s about to be shared with the rest of the gaming community you want it to be harder so you can keep your share of the market.
Elitist doesn’t even begin to describe this thread and its maker.
There was no getting lucky making gold when the game started lol.
The concept of ‘Hard’ is pretty relative to the individual. I’m sorry that you’re not gonna feel as special when there are a few more people walking around with legendaries, but that’s your problem. Don’t wish for the hardship of others so that you can maintain a personal definition of person you get through the exclusivity of your digital objects.
As an aside to this post, present actual information when trying to make a point; don’t just loop-macro ’it’s too easy’ and ‘I said to make it harder’. Those statements hold no real meaning.
That special feeling is long gone aswell, thats why im saying there needs to be a harder weapon to obtain than even current legendarys. Something for endgame players with time on their hands. Something that isn’t as easy to obtain and isnt for casual players.
Trust me i worked harder for my legendarys then anybody in this thread, i made one of the first 3 sunrises and i didn’t use the gemstore. I payed 25g for dawn, but at that time 25g made me literally the richest player in the game (which wasn’t easy to obtain). I went back and took a screenshot of my purchase history about a year ago.
Even having to grind every day to farm the materials, gold and currencies needed it was still easy to obtain the item, it was 100% time gated. There needs to be a skill gate or something that is going to make you “try”.
grindboards i mean .. leaderboards and poor match making have made me stray away from the game. I only log in to flip stuff on trade post and daily login reward =/
I’ve been put off of making legendaries for a long time because of how tedious and resource intensive it is making them. It’s not “easy,” I’ve been at it for months and months. If you have any way I can get the materials as easily as you did, please enlighten me.
Well… Tedious=/=Hard
Time shouldn’t be the one and only gate for a legendary; skill should be part of it too. Mind you, I’ve never had a legendary, but I don’t like the fact that you can be a terrible player and still have what should be a “prestige item”.
im not trolling, i just disagree with you. That method of obtaining it is too easy.
Expand your mind.
They’re not saying that the process should be exactly the same. They’re drawing comparisons.
They’re saying that the method for getting precursors would be a lot better if it was similar to Mawdrey and the Luminescent armour- that is, going out into the world, completing content, gathering rare components etc – rather than relying completely on RNG.
Since we have no idea what the new precursor acquisition entails, how can you say it’s too easy?
Because everything pve based in this game is easy.
The precursor collections will not be easier, as they are precursors. In fact, this system is likely to be harder than grinding gold (which isn’t hard to beat).
Grinding gold is easy, they are handing out legendarys now because social casual gamers cry. They dont want to put the time in to earn what everybody else has. They want it now and without a challenge.
Far from the truth.
What people want is a guaranteed way of getting a precursor. Right now, the only available methods are: relying on RNG (good luck), or farming gold to pay for someone elses luck. What people want is a third option: to work for their precursor through a scavenger hunt. Think Mawdrey – that required so many different components and steps, and a good portion of it was a scavenger hunt for items all over the world. People actually put enough effort into it to the point where they affectionately refer to Mawdrey II as a pet/person, and worry about her not eating too much.
The Luminescent armor collections is another example that combined RNG and guaranteed effort. You could either rely on RNG for the Carapace armor, or buy most of it for crests (guaranteed with time). You could either rely on RNG for the Mordrem parts, or buy the guaranteed part extractor. The remaining items are a matter of Story achievements, a guaranteed item which you need to hunt down/buy and then imbue after a successful boss kill, and an item you get for doing events in the SW (which really takes little time).
THAT is what people want for Precursors. Something to work towards, something that takes substantial effort.
so basically ur saying they just want it handed to them.
Please inform me exactly what is hard about making a legendary? I think the word you are looking for is tedious.
I didnt say anything about it being hard, i said it needs to be hard.
And im saying it should be harder, these are supposed to be LEGENDARY weapons meaning it should be hard as all hell to obtain them.
Completing a collection will certainly be harder than rng or farming gold, so I’m not sure where you are getting the idea that they are making it easier.
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And im saying it needs to be harder. Read the entire post, not a few words.
The precursor collections will not be easier, as they are precursors. In fact, this system is likely to be harder than grinding gold (which isn’t hard to beat).
Grinding gold is easy, they are handing out legendarys now because social casual gamers cry. They dont want to put the time in to earn what everybody else has. They want it now and without a challenge.
Easy if you have thousands upon thousands of gold to just throw around freely. Not everybody has the time to spend hundreds of hours farming for gold and/or cash for a legendary.
The majority of players find precursors in particular to be the nail in the coffin in getting their legendary, and ArenaNet is responding to that.
And im saying it should be harder, these are supposed to be LEGENDARY weapons meaning it should be hard as all hell to obtain them.
Legendarys are already too easy, why make them easier? These are supposed to be “LEGENDARY” weapons, not something handed out by walking around a few zones collecting stuff. They needed to increase the difficulty of obtaining legendarys. That or make Ancient Legendarys for those of us that actually want a challenge. Make them 5-10x Harder to obtain then current legendarys.
Well now legendarys aren’t legendary. They needed to be harder to obtain, they were already too easy. I feel this “farming a precursor” thing is bad, but im the type of person that actually wants to earn something not have it handed to me for walking around a few zones.
And i understand its not earned in it current form either thats why i said make it harder.
as a player that plays mostly power necro for the fun Lich form is a liability. its VERY easily countered by boon strips, moa, reflect, dodges. Its a extremely situational ability and if you use it at the wrong time your dead.
LA should remain a crater and we should get a real main hub. That castle we used for a few months was 20x better then the sea side flea market that LA is.
These players have the money to attempt probably 500% more then you. Thats why its snowballing for them. Once you get one or two you generally can use the gold from them to get 1-2 more and still hold a profit.
What exactly has to be done to unlock this as free content right now. I have barely touched season 2 story, basically saving it for a rainy day. Do i need to progress a certain amount to unlock it, or simply just have logged in during it?
Sorry Justin. I know you all had good intentions, but it doesn’t seem to have panned out as well. I am still impressed that Lexi managed to put in 800 games in the span of 4 weeks.
All the old leaderboard system needed was placement matches, otherwise it seemed to be a good system. I enjoyed actually have to try to stay in top. Now i just mindlessly grind games with no worry that ill drop leaderboard position. If i get paired against premades or small group premades of 2,3,4 i just get 10 points and “bunk” home till the bullkitten ends.
Should mention i ended the season at like 76 or so, this did not feel rewarding and most of the games were terrible quality compared to old solo queue.
the secret is to stop playing and then play again after a couple of hours. don’t get worked up about a video game.
It’s not just a video game its also time invested and i get upset when people waste my time by not being competent enough to play their character in a ranked pvp setting.
@ANET: Nice try creating something new, but it hasn’t worked. I miss having good matches. The old system, although flawed, gave a much better experience.
This pretty much sums up my thought too. I’ve given the new system a chance and i don’t much care for it. I used to look forward to getting on each day to play solo queue, now when i get on i expect kittenty games and to rage quit within a hour.
they didnt remove it because of player demand. They wanted to fix queue times by merging them together. Id rather wait 15-20 mins for a solo queue match then play the current system.
i would say jump into unranked now, you wont be the worst player there trust me on that. Unranked is going to teach you better then hot join for the most part and is probably a bit more fun.
If somebody rages at you in unranked just right click and block. Expect rage in ranked tho, thats just the nature of a competitive queue.
I am 52-0 (mike.4839) in rated team q — 51 points (dc once)
I am currently ranked 180th on the leaderboard.
You wanted this leaderboard to represent skill and effort. I have played 5 games a day and dominated every single one. Yet I am still behind people like Lexcicty who had 100+ points with about 120 wins and 160 loses…
At this point everyone is aware the leaderboards are basically time played. But why are people not being punished more for losing? You guys make it seem like effort is more important than results. Make losses automatic -1 for everyone for starters. And add MMR to the leaderboards. Currently you can win half your games in the lowest MMR bracket and still be rank one….
I don’t understand how these leaderboards represent anything other than who has absolutely nothing to do this winter break…
I don’t appreciate you firing shots at my friend, Lexi. lol But yeah, I get what you’re saying.
Your friend lexi is running a bot and babysitting it as it plays.
