Guild Wars 2

PeterFries.1057:

I know where we’re going, and I advise you to go ahead and fasten your seat belt.

You guys really aren’t doing much to squash expectations of a major upcoming announcement (such as an expansion or something of a similar importance), are you? :P

Between this, Colin’s statement of “We hope you’ll join us for the ride; you won’t want to miss it”, the teaser images, and the theme “Point of No Return”, it’s hard to imagine anything else worth this level of hype.

I’m hoping that if the payoff for this doesn’t meet player expectations, there won’t be too bad of a backlash. The general atmosphere from the communities I’ve seen have been pretty down since the announcement for Ep 8 on Jan 13.

/cheers

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

. . . and how the heck do I have eight backpacks?! HOW?!

http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20000915

I just had to, sorry. Please continue your conversation, I’ll show myself out.

Primordus has been awake for 200 years. At this point it’s more like he’s forgotten us.

Zhaitan was around for over 100 years before we took him out. These things don’t happen very quickly.

I completely disagree with Braham. Bear in mind that in Flame and Frost he decided “to hell with it” and just got stuff done, despite what his mother and Knut said.

He’s along with Rox because they’re a team, not because he’s her date. They trust each other. Rox has more life experience than he does, so she’s got a voice of reason and wisdom while he’s a kitteny teenager that rushes into things headfirst. He’s silly and fun. Just because he’s not more important than her doesn’t mean he’s subservient to her.

I also highly disagree that Ottillia’s plot point has anything to do with female empowerment. I honestly think this is taking the Living World stories and actively attempting to portray it in as negative a light towards men as possible.

I’ll have to find the study, but I’ve heard one referenced that when women make up 33% of the people, people tend to see it as half of the group…when they actually are 50%, then people tend to see it as women are overrepresented.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/speech/Can-t-talk-to-Vorpp/first#post2664060

Grimwolf.7163:

Gasoline.2570:

Blow that kitten!

Oooh…
That’s a spectacularly unfortunate concept they created. Shows just how much thought and review goes into these things XD

I’m pretty sure the thought and review was: “This is hilarious/awesome!”

You guys/gals do realize that just because the Asura PC may or may not have created the steam creatures in the other possible reality that it doesn’t necessarily mean that the same thing must happen here for the steam creatures to exist in this reality, right?

From my understanding, if you are somehow able to get into the overflows that existed during the 10-minute window, you can participate. Could be wrong about that.

It’s to prevent the overflow invasion from carrying over into the next hour when another zone is going to be hit by an invasion.

Each invasion is 45 minutes. With a 10 minute window, the latest an overflow will have the invasion is 55 minutes past the start, giving them a bit of a buffer for it to end before another invasion kicks off.

Best solution I can see is to temporarily allow boosts to work on consumables so people can use them up if they want, then turn it back off.

If you make it to the invasion within 10 minutes of it starting, that overflow should have the event. Only overflows opened after the 10 minutes shouldn’t have it.

At least that’s how it’s supposed to work.

The invasions happen about once per hour (deduced time), each time happening in a different map (the Living World UI should show you which one, I believe). Each invasion lasts 45 minutes, so you’ll have to wait up to ~15 minutes after the last one before the next invasion occurs. Any overflows that are opened within 10 minutes of the invasion beginning will also host an invasion.

Updated to reflect the new release name.

Gmr Leon.1846:

Hey everyone, thought I’d bring this to your attention. A redditor by the name of Plagiarised is going to begin trying to transcribe all the ambient dialog in GW2 (kind of crazy but yeaah…) and could use some help on the project. The first area he intends to go after is the Royal Palace area in Divinity’s Reach.

Here’s the link to the thread for those interested: I will try to record all the NPC conversations and Mr. Plagiarised needs your help.

If you’re up for it, he provides instructions on what sort of submissions are desired. Honestly, I think this would be of great benefit to the lore community, as well as the wiki community, so I’d encourage you to try and log the conversations you find where possible, however you find easiest/productive/whatever. I’m sure he’d appreciate any and all help on the matter.

Has anyone gone through and captured ambient dialogue from this new release? I believe there are new ones around the city related to the jubilee, and I believe they’re going to change again once the release lands tomorrow.

Ronah.2869:

I think WE make more stories in these forums, more complex, more fun or funnier, etc then A-Net would probably do.

Stories in these forums are not limited by things like reality.

You mean the Emissary Vorpp we saw in the opening ceremony?

I doubt he’s the creator of the Watchknights, as he was surprised by them and considered them a “marvelous feat of engineering”. He probably is important though, considering he’s a named NPC, so we better keep an eye on him. :P

I don’t think I’ve seen him since, though.

I should be more specific. I mean the Crown Pavilion instance. We have no information on what’s going to happen to the Pavilion in the open world.

Fixed.

DoctorOverlord.8620:

I did not know the bit of the lore about one of the Mad King’s seals being broken when Salma ascended the throne, was that shown during on the Halloween events in GW1?

It was here: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Heirlooms_of_the_Mad_King

That is why His Royal Squashness has sent me here to perform a mystical ceremony of ancient magical…er…magic. According to his calculations, which are as infallible as everything else about His Majesty, he is imprisoned behind a series of magical seals that prevent him from materializing in the mortal realm more than once a year. The return of the Krytan royal bloodline to power has destroyed the first seal, weakening the barrier preventing our most glorious king’s permanent return to your world. I am as excited as an inquisitor in a room full of dissidents!

Last I heard: Lion’s Arch, at the hologram (Grand Piazza).

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

zerorogue.9410:

Not exactly, It was supposed to be a 5th puzzle in Caledon Forest, but was scrapped before release. Perhaps, too many puzzles in same map? too difficult? you’ll have to ask Anet about that.

Then why does it connect to the end of Vexx’s Lab? The first room of this JP is literally directly behind the collapsed tunnel at the end of Vexx’s Lab.

You mean Spekk’s Lab?

WhatLiesBeneath.9018:

Vahkris.6847:

The release on September 3rd is from a different team than the one for Queen’s Jubilee and The Queen’s Speech, and each team has 3 months, not two weeks, to develop their content.

Also, there’s always more in the release than what’s put on the preview page.

Actually each team have 4 months to develop their living story update.

Depends on how you count the months. Do they start on the next one as soon as their previous one launches, do they wait until it ends to begin development on the next? Is their assigned release month included in the development time at all? They get one month for each release of the other 3 teams, but depending on how their actual release month is handled it could just be 3 months of solid dev time.

Plus when you consider they need to set aside time for QA (two weeks last Colin told us), then it could be closer to 3 months.

True, but usually under a verified account name (ArenaNet logo on it).

Seeing it in-game is better than seeing it in text form with little to no context.

Also, they don’t like spoiling it because sometimes things appear in the DAT file that don’t actually appear in-game, such as the dialogue for the Fancy Cat contest.

They posted the white mantle logo from the War in Kryta content in GW1: http://www.guildwars.com/warinkryta/wm/
(left wallpaper)

I don’t see any reason to believe this is ArenaNet.

It’s each character’s birthday, not your account’s birthday.

Characters that are one year old will receive a Mini Queen Jennah, a 24-hour Birthday Booster, and a Scroll of Experience.

So yes, you will need to wait until your character is 1 year old before you get a birthday gift for them (which it sounds like next month you’ll get it, if it was created almost a month after release).

Any other characters will get one when they are 1 year old. They are introducing it now because many players created a character on day 1 (or -3 due to the headstart) and it needs to be in-game before they hit 1 year old.

Specifically, GuildWars2Guru received one.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/1220-watch-out-for-scarlet-on-august-20th/

I added the reference to the wiki and tried to clarify it was a fan site (organization also counts, but trying to clarify it was a real life item not in-game).

Grimno.6172:

On the release page it says

August 14
“The Queen’s Speech release page is vandalized by unknown persons. Players and organizations receive a poem and a pocket watch in the mail. "

I cleared my mailbox cause I know letters don’t arrive unless full, but I have not received any pocket watch/poem.

Has anyone received it yet?

That should read “some” organizations (and maybe players, I just know of the organization). The wiki has had a couple conflicting edits between a couple editors…one of them being me. Please check it again.

Edit: Yes, it’s a real pocketwatch actually sent to a fansite for marketing.

Traveller.7496:

I hope they actually have balls to kill her, even if it means inconsistency with personal storylines.

You don’t think Logan and/or Anise would have every possible scenario planned, considering there was already an attack?

That’s not really much of a bet. The Aetherblades attacked once already, it’s pretty obvious they’re going to make another attack, even before all the theories started flying around. It’s low-hanging fruit right now.

Steel Courage.1250:

So the Birthday Gift is given To People who are 1 year old, but even if the vent is over and you turn 1 year old, will you still get gift?

It’s your character’s birthday gift, not the game’s birthday gift. You will get the birthday gift when each character turns 1 year old.

The release on September 3rd is from a different team than the one for Queen’s Jubilee and The Queen’s Speech, and each team has 3 months, not two weeks, to develop their content.

Also, there’s always more in the release than what’s put on the preview page.

Updated post to include deadlines.

Updated original post from Anthony’s post in the Queen’s Jubilee section.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Complete-the-Opening-Ceremony-before-the-20th/first#post2619152

Alleluia.1320:

When did Colin say there would not be any new zones this year? Or the dragon fight line? As far as the dragons are concerned, we could easily have story involving them without a “dragon fight”. I’d like a source so I can see the actual wording, if you have it pls.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1k104u/guild_wars_2_teases_anniversary_plans/cbkcz7p

You won’t be seeing a new region this year. This is however an example of living world content as discussed in the blog post in July that has a wider affect on the world, and more permanent impact as well.

Updated post to add info from Anthony Orden as well as add content deadlines.

Here is the GW2 wiki page for the Clockwork Chaos release.

Clockwork Chaos

The release begins on August 20th and concludes the Living World content begun in the Queen’s Jubilee release. This release will also include the first anniversary celebration for Guild Wars 2.

This post will be updated as more info and related articles are available. As always, the wiki is updated and populated by players for players, so if you are able to update any of the related pages further with information related to the Clockwork Chaos release content, it would be very much appreciated.

Also, if you need to catch up on what’s happened so far in the Living World:
Living World Summary

Known Content Deadlines:

Ending on August 20th

• Opening Ceremony instance from Queen’s Jubilee content

Ending on September 3rd

• Queen’s Jubilee and Clockwork Chaos story content
• Queen’s Gauntlet
• Crown Pavilion instance
• Hot air balloons
• Beacons of Kryta
• Living World achievement categories, and the special Daily achievements for Queen’s Jubilee

Permanent:

• Account wallet
• PvE Culling removal
• Daily activity rotation

Sources:
GuildWars2.com Clockwork Chaos Release Page
Info on end date
Opening Ceremony Deadline

Thank you.

Cirian.8917:

A guy in the youtube thread was talking about watchknight technology and it reminded me of some Order of Whispers bonus material.

There’s an informant (see attached screenshots). When I talk to her on my guardian (Priory), nothing. But when I talk to her on my warrior (Whispers), she offers intel on Uzolan, the human inventor sponsored by minister Caudacus Beetlestone.

Uzolan built Uzolan’s Mechanical Orchestra (east of location on screenshot) and perhaps also the other mechanical wonders in Divinity’s Reach such as the massive mechanical solar sytem outside the palace and I presume he’s also claimed the watchknights as his work. It’s all the same kind of tech… mechanical, clockwork… that’s the advanced human technology theme. Only, Uzolan appears to have gotten hold of technology above his competence level.

So, while the watchknights are claimed as human creations they might not be.

Keep in mind that the Alleyway Lurker NPC has been there since launch and so is very likely completely irrelevant to the current arc.

The “above his competence” is likely meant to refer to the golem he creates for the Caudecus’ Manor dungeon, which is asuran tech and definitely above his competence. AlsoUzolan died in that dungeon, so I doubt he can claim the Watchknights unless they took some of his plans afterwards.

In which case they’re all idiots for continuing to use technology from someone known to be a threat to the queen to protect the queen.

Nothing’s indicated as such so far…although very little concrete info has been given on Scarlet. If she’s the suspicious figure (and from what I’m reading it looks like that may be the case), then she’s sylvari and couldn’t be Livia unless some lore gymnastics were performed.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Lutinz.6915:

Official Dev Word is actually that they havent decided how they will release expansion style content since the Living World is something that is very new and they are still figuring out what works with it and what doesnt.

Colin Johansson has said that they have a large dev crew working on longer term projects for the game but they arent ready to talk about what is being worked on yet. How they release this content, either as super large LS updates or paid expansions, hasnt been decided on yet.

This… right here ^^^^^^.

Gosh, still not even a year old and calling for an expansion [again].

If you are bored, find something else to do for a little while. Its not like your account is going to be removed if you opt to take a break.

Some were calling for an expansion within the first month.

Kartel.2561:

It saddens me to say that GW2 hasn’t been shaping up to be as much of a “living world” as I had hoped it would be …and EQN looks like it will be (if they can deliver on even half of what’s promised). As much as I plan to stay in Tyria for years to come, if this new option ends up pretty decent, I can see it presenting a dilemma for me and I think many others.

That’s really the kicker on that, isn’t it? Can they actually deliver on what they promise. EQ2 actually was meant to have some form of dynamic events even way back in 2004, but it was scrapped. We’ve yet to see how the realities of development will hit what they’re promising with EQN.

Adding stories to the game takes developer time, and must be completed and in the game with enough lead time for QA to do their job.

Adding them to the website doesn’t take that time (or at least not the people who do the game itself). Completely different group and it likely can be done in the last week if needed without hurting the release schedule.

Also, many of these stories seem like background for the player to know, not the characters. The characters don’t seem like they’d be in a position to know about many of these things, and characters like Marjory are not going to be publishing books about how the Ministry killed a kid and she met a mysterious person and was convinced to leave the guard.

Nor is Subdirector Bling going to be publishing any information about meeting Canach and telling him where to find Noll, since that triggered the events of The Secret of Southsun.

Venirto.4208:

“Queen Scarlett”

That’s my vote so far, except spelled correctly.

Queen Scarlet

Guess we’ll see on the first preview.

Zeph.5927:

I’ve said from the beginning of this whole Living Story idea that it was gonna be bad. While I can understand that Anet wants to keep throwing content at us to keep us playing, it’s actually having the exact opposite effect. It’s driving people away because they can’t keep up and/or it’s burning them out on the game. Anet needs to slow their kitten down and start developing more permanent/meaningful content instead of this fast-paced/farm like crazy idiocy.

And seriously, it’s about time we got more Elder Dragon content. Enough with this stupid side story kitten that honestly hasn’t made a lick of difference in the kitten game other than making people farm like crazy morons.

Honestly, it’s not actually the fact they’re releasing every two weeks. The entire problem is that they remove the content after 2-4 weeks with no way to re-play it. If everything were moved to instances or something and we could replay it, this wouldn’t be a problem. They could have their 2 week release schedule for live content, but the older content gets moved to historical instances afterwards, and people could play it at their pace…it just wouldn’t be out in the live world, but as someone with that problem I don’t really care about that.

(Note, this isn’t talking about recurring festivals where it’d be coming back anyway, only the non-recurring stuff)

I love this game, but I want to be able to take a break (especially since I’ve got a kid on the way) without missing something important or fun. Else, there’s less reason to come back when I’ve already missed a story piece they’re going to be continuing to build on. I could play practically any other MMO and never have this problem, and my time playing is richer because of it.

pullnointer.1476:

Justdeifyme.9387:

Never take anything Nuka Cola says serious, he’s blinded by hatred.
Tho some of the Voice acting in the game has gone wrong, many things went good actually, I don’t know who this Jenny is you’re talking about but I really like the Voice acting of the Sylvari Female how it is at the moment, it’s kinda cute.
But the phrase “It burns!” when you are set on fire actually sounds more like the Asura Female, and one Shout of the Guardian isn’t Voice Acted somehow.

Jennifer Hale… where have you been in the past 25 years? she is the VA for female sylvari and queen jennah. edit: you may recognize her in mass effect(shep) or diablo 3(leah) to name a few recent games

yeah I’d really like a “hold the line” fix. it sometimes says something completely different and I’ve heard it once actually saying “hold the line” and I main a guard..

I think it’s not a good idea to assume everyone knows the voice actor behind the characters and NPCs, nor that they’ll instantly get it when you use Jenny instead of her name..

Probably would have been a good idea to clarify that in the first post, as I initially thought they were only talking about Queen Jennah’s voiceovers.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The very first living world team actually did the thing some of you have called for. Some 40 or so permanent events were added around the game in our very first content update. They were met with little interest or fanfare. Granted, Halloween may have stolen the show. But those events are still in the game today. I’ve seen very little reaction to them, however, positive or negative.

Okay, going to specifically comment on this right here. I assume you’re talking about the Skritt Burglar and Modus Sceleris content, because as far as I know those are the only two groups of new events you added during that release (and note that this is the wiki, we were specifically looking for new stuff). We listed them here:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Mad_King

It’s actually not surprising you didn’t see much fanfare on these events. Most players probably never even knew they existed (which seemed obvious when in the patch notes following Halloween we had a reminder that something had been added). They not only were completely overshadowed by Halloween, but in the original patch notes all we were told was that a Skritt Burglar was on the loose, but nothing about how to find him (I’ve only seen him once since he was added, and that was 3-4 weeks ago…and I’ve played since launch), nor that Modus Sceleris was even added. The game had been out for only two months, and very few people would have been able to tell you with certainty what was added and what was already there. Plenty of players even thought the notes were talking about events added for Halloween, so they never went looking.

The Modus Sceleris groups move around and are often out of the way. There’s even been several questions on these NPCs, but because there’s zero backstory or lore associated with them they don’t seem very special other than their unique skills.

New Skills and Traits and Modus Sceleris.
Modus Sceleris – Help track down these troublemakers
Modus Sceleris – are these guys still around?
DAE want Modus Sceleris to be expanded more?

To the players, it really just feels more that we didn’t know about them and you guys stopped developing them because you didn’t know what to do with them, not that you stopped because we didn’t like them. Those that actually see them and do the events tend to like them…when they get to see them.

The thing is, we don’t actually need whole revamps of huge numbers of events. If the Living World teams would work on permanently adding 5-10 events each month (5 is perfectly fine) alongside their release, and the patch notes actually point them out (or at least which maps they’re on), you’d see a lot more people responding because they’d actually get to play them.

…when they’re not cramming to get LW content done before it’s removed, that is.

If they gave us the ability to play through historical Living World story content (sans returning content), pretty much all my current gripes about the frequency would disappear. They can put in 24 or even more updates each year, but if I can go back and play through previous stories if I stop playing for a month or two (due to real life situations like having a kid or being deployed), then have at it. Make the initial release live with special rewards, I don’t care, but someone can still experience the stories as they build on each other.

Heck, for rewards for completing this content they can just give us Black Lion scraps and add the older weapon sets that I barely ever see around. That’ll make it interesting.

Now that the wallet is out, I only got the karmic infusion for one character, and I have that character use all the karma items with boosters if I get too many and need to clear it out. Works pretty well.

They specifically stated the Zephyr Sanctum would be back. The only question is whether the Bazaar itself would return.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/So-EVERYTHING-in-this-patch-is-temporary/first#post2561414

ColinJohanson.2394:

We still want to have some content that can happen each year, our holiday festivals, Super Adventure Box, Zephyr Sanctum, and the new Queens Gauntlet are all intended to be content that will regularly return.

lordkrall.7241:

They have confirmed that it is a recurring event I believe.
I’ll see if I can find the quote.

Here you go: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/So-EVERYTHING-in-this-patch-is-temporary/first#post2561414

ColinJohanson.2394:

We still want to have some content that can happen each year, our holiday festivals, Super Adventure Box, Zephyr Sanctum, and the new Queens Gauntlet are all intended to be content that will regularly return.