Guild Wars 2

There are no bugs in Kabylake. Coffeelake is due this month, and Cannonlake is due Q3 next year assuming things slip as it hasn’t been released.

All three will be excellent at playing the game irregardless.

ElectricGoat.8253:

I recall it used to be on Steam and was removed. I don’t think they’ll be going back anytime soon.

The original series is still on Steam, but GW2 never was.

Yeah, Skylake can do 4K video. Not 4k gaming. Imbedded GPU still have some way to go for an excellent gaming experience.

XP and Vista are getting dropped due to the age and vulnerabilities of the OS whilst 7 though 10 remain strong and stable.

Path of Fire is dropping XP and Vista anyway.

Wait for the steve based expansion (pls Anet, do it.)

We don’t yet? They’ve gotten far better though, so expect more of the same and hopefully more refined.

Yes I imagine so given these add brand new mechanics.

It’d be completely overpowered if you could combine two Elite Specialisations together. Basic lines don’t give new abilities like the Elite ones do so the restrictions should remain.

TopBadge.3569:

Game of Bones.8975:

In order to bring in a new race, programmers have to go through and enter voices for each and every contact that character makes in the entire world.
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not really, NPC babble is already non race specific.

He means for the Story.

They’d have to record the entire personal story/HoT/LW Seasons with 2 new voices all over again.

Not to mention the resource they’d have to put into designing a new personal story as well as new levelling up zones for these characters.

Chris.3290:

Wow, The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race has spoken.

It’s an expansion, not Guild Wars 3!
It’s going to run on the same engine and there is zero return in adding even more graphics definition. Plus many gamers are tired of the upgrade treadmill. It’s nice to have a game like GW2 that has good graphics but can still run on older machines.

Actually Guild Wars 1 updated from DX8 to 9 in the Factions expansion so no. Not impossible.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I don’t think they will. Going to be so much fun going to LA and seeing mounts everywhere. Can’t wait to see all the threads on the forums about people’s systems tanking frames as it has so much more to draw, on a poorly optimised engine to start with.

Yep going to be fun.

Been announced they like Gliders will work in Core Tyria.

Behellagh.1468:

Assuming they redo the textures.

Presumably, it’d be the textures on the new maps/creatures.

AegisRunestone.8672:

Um… can someone, a dev or mod, clarify the minimum space requirements? It says 50 GB. Is that for all the current content?

Right now, GW2 is about 29.4 GB for its GW2.dat file (and I have HoT). I only have about 32 GB of space left on my computer… Do I actually need 50 more GB or is the 50 GB including at least the core game?

It’ll be to cover themselves. as I recall base was 20, HoT 35 and PoF 50.

Doesn’t matter if its the same DX, engines can be radically upgraded over time.

Look at what was possible on DX9 with The Witcher 2 for example.

Actually, those specs are bumped up.

But seriously, people who don’t have monster PC’s would like to be able to keep playing.

We may need some sort of clarification from the Devs on this.

It could simply be related to the size of the maps in the expansion pack and the strains of those.

robertjan.2197:

How big is the new map compared to HoT and Core?

Apparently they are all the biggest maps this game has seen.

Although system specs are jumping there has been no mention of either API.

But apparently viewing distance improvements will be in due to the size of the maps.

Jethro.9376:

There is now way, that PoF 50GB big.

That’s like base game + HoT

Everyone runs with the same client, so it will take GW2 + HoT into account.

But I don’t think it’ll be anywhere near 50gb unless they go overboard with textures. Probably higher than usual to cover for Season 4 as well.

Strangely enough, I noticed immediately on the game page they have changed.

For Heart of Thorns.

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 or better
Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
35 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

For Path of Fire

Windows® 7 or better (64 bit only)
Intel® Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTS, ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
50GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

Fishae.2503:

thanks

how is uk always screwed over things like these every time everywhere. even gem prices are higher when buying in GBP

Tax not to mention the weaker pound over here in the past year has not had brilliant results on pricing.

To be honest, I’m surprised its a base £25. I was expecting at least £30.

DeadTreeJig.6714:

Lokki.1092:

The mounts are not speed increases, they are movement skills just like the HOT mastery skills.

From the video it looks to me like a speed increase, of course those could be animation renders rather than actual game play.

Well, rabbit can leap up cliffs, and the raptor can leap over spaces. Not too sure about the other two, one seems to float over everything which might be needed for Lava? Unsure to be honest.

Dungeons aren’t coming back.

Everything else by the sounds of things will be including in future living world releases/competitive feature packs.

Waypoint to friends won’t work considering story instances.

OriOri.8724:

If you are talking about that leak on Reddit, it could all be faked. At least wait until Episode 5 drops to see if it got its predictions about this episode correct or not

That was a separate leak, as far as I can tell there has been multiple leaks from multiple sources over the past 48 hours.

My suspicion at the moment is Braham decides to remain inpatient and attacks Jormag winning, causing Taimi to rejig her idea into sending Primordus into the Desert against an awoken Kralkatorrik. Or he attacks, comes close to failure before we end it as the final boss of Ep 6.

Potential areas for future two episodes, more of Rata Novus? Further North? Isle of Janthir? South of Ascalon…even North of Ascalon for a side adventure. Scavangers Causeway as well. Simply put, there is a lot of potential here.

And thats if, if the rumors are true about the expansion in the first place.

Fenom.9457:

Note: this leaves jormag alive for expansion 3/LW4

Unless he dies at some point over the next four months…

Going off the Guild Wars 1 release schedule when Mike O’Brien was the creative lead there, I’d assume a 2-3 month window between announcement and release.

Arden.7480:

Trahearne? Even not Caithe…

This is new thing, which we can see in NPCs- he and another norns want run to Jormag alone, so this is not about Braham, but about stupid norns, who believes in myths.

Why did you say “new Trahearne”? Hm?

Well this man could be about to lead his race into a cataclysmic battle that sees scores of them dead and or turned into the enemy.

Hello everyone, my name is Cassy. I’m the leader of a small guild called Bite Me Silly. We have built a lvl 49 Guild Hall. We’re looking for active social members of the guild to join us for events and missions. We focus on PvE and dabble in PvP. We want social members who can contribute by talking and playing with us. We have a TS to use as well, and do weekly Guild Missions.

We’re just looking for active members so need some great people to join us, we just aim to have fun playing the game together.

If anyone is interested send a PM to Cassy.3702 or Will Lucky.8703 in game.

Hello everyone, my name is Cassy. I’m the leader of a small guild called Bite Me Silly. We have built a lvl 46 Guild Hall. We’re looking for active social members of the guild to join us for events and missions. We focus on PvE and dabble in PvP. We want social members who can contribute by talking and playing with us. We have a TS to use as well, and do weekly Guild Missions.

We’re just looking for active members so need some great people to join us, we just aim to have fun playing the game together.

If anyone is interested send a PM to Cassy.3702 or Will Lucky.8703 in game.

Hello everyone, my name is Cassy. I’m the leader of a small guild called Bite Me Silly. We have built a lvl 42 Guild Hall. The first is members for the guild, we’re looking for active social members of the guild. We focus on PvE and dabble in PvP. We want social members who can contribute by talking and playing with us. We have a TS to use as well, and do weekly Guild Missions.

We’re just looking for active members so need some great people to join us, we just aim to have fun playing the game together.

If anyone is interested send a PM to Cassy.3702 or Will Lucky.8703 in game.

Hello everyone, We are Bite Me Silly a guild that caters to mostly PvE with some PvP mixed in. But we’re looking for two types of members.

The first is members for the guild, we’re looking for active social members of the guild. We focus on PvE and dabble in PvP. We want social members who can contribute by talking and playing with us. We have a TS to use as well, and do weekly Guild Missions. We don’t have many active members so are looking for great people to join us. We have built a lvl 35 Guild Hall with the level 1 buildings and a level 2 arena.

The second is Alliance Members. We know there are lots of other smaller guilds who are struggling to get some of the guild upgrades done at all. So we’re looking for smaller guilds who would like to join us with an Alliance rank giving them full access to the Guild Hall and its upgrades (Bank not included). There obviously is no rep rule here, you are welcome to join BMS for its activities or socialize but that’s entirely up to you. This obviously will require further discussion between us.

If anyone is interested send a message to our leader Cassy.3702 or myself.

Well it’s been positive news so far, hopefully it continues.

Can we get a confirmation of this is going to actually be released on Tuesday, and if so exactly what will the details for this release be?

Hello everyone, We are Bite Me Silly a guild that caters to mostly PvE with some PvP mixed in. But we’re looking for two types of members.

The first is members for the guild, we’re looking for active social members of the guild. We focus on PvE and dabble in PvP. We want social members who can contribute by talking and playing with us. We have a TS to use as well, and do weekly Guild Missions. We don’t have many active members so are looking for great people to join us. We have built a lvl 29 Guild Hall with the level 1 buildings and a level 2 arena.

The second is Alliance Members. We know there are lots of other smaller guilds who are struggling to get some of the guild upgrades done at all. So we’re looking for smaller guilds who would like to join us with an Alliance rank giving them full access to the Guild Hall and its upgrades (Bank not included). There obviously is no rep rule here, you are welcome to join BMS for its activities or socialize but that’s entirely up to you. This obviously will require further discussion between us.

If anyone is interested send a message to our leader Cassy.3702 or myself.

Hello everyone, We are Bite Me Silly a guild that caters to mostly PvE with some PvP mixed in. But we’re looking for two types of members.

The first is members for the guild, we’re looking for active social members of the guild. We focus on PvE and dabble in PvP. We want social members who can contribute by talking and playing with us. We have a TS to use as well, and do weekly Guild Missions. We don’t have many active members so are looking for great people to join us. We have built a lvl 27 Guild Hall with the level 1 buildings and a level 2 arena.

The second is Alliance Members. We know there are lots of other smaller guilds who are struggling to get some of the guild upgrades done at all. So we’re looking for smaller guilds who would like to join us with an Alliance rank giving them full access to the Guild Hall and its upgrades (Bank not included). There obviously is no rep rule here, you are welcome to join BMS for its activities or socialize but that’s entirely up to you. This obviously will require further discussion between us.

If anyone is interested send a message to our leader Cassy.3702 or myself.

So is this due for today or for later on in the month?

Hello everyone, We are Bite Me Silly a guild that caters to mostly PvE with some PvP mixed in. But we’re looking for two types of members.

The first is members for the guild, we’re looking for active social members of the guild. We focus on PvE and dabble in PvP. We want social members who can contribute by talking and playing with us. We have a TS to use as well, and do weekly Guild Missions. We don’t have many active members so are looking for great people to join us. We have built a lvl 23 Guild Hall with the level 1 buildings and a level 2 arena.

The second is Alliance Members. We know there are lots of other smaller guilds who are struggling to get some of the guild upgrades done at all. So we’re looking for smaller guilds who would like to join us with an Alliance rank giving them full access to the Guild Hall and its upgrades (Bank not included). There obviously is no rep rule here, you are welcome to join BMS for its activities or socialize but that’s entirely up to you. This obviously will require further discussion between us.

If anyone is interested send a message to our leader Cassy.3702.

Went Ultimate myself as well. Value was as expected and I’ve had many hours enjoyment with the game so no worries.

Zappix.7928:

That expansion also didn’t come with new professions.

People are talking about Factions (released 2 slots for Ritualist and Assassin) and Nightfall (2 slots for Paragon and Dervish).

Whilst this is an expansion, it’s releasing a new profession, the basic $50 version should come with at least 1 new slot as part of the package. It would fall in line with their previous way of releasing slots with the introduction of new profession/s. Regardless of if it’s a expansion or standalone.

But those were not expansions, those were Stand Alone campaigns, they came with character slots for people with both. Eye of the North the only expansion didn’t come with slots.

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

• Saw that standard didn’t come with a character slot when every previous guild wars series expansion that added classes did, and I would also be paying for a base game account I don’t get, and literally logged out of game in disgust.

Technically wrong.

Only one expansion came out for Guild Wars 1 and that was Eye of the North. It did not come with Character slots.

RabbitUp.8294:

HoT is looking nowhere near close to being a full game. All things aside, they still refuse to give us a less vague description of the new content, or even a release date, yet still ask for a pre-purchase at full price.

Oh, I expected £35/$50 from day one simply because of Blizzards moves in the business over the past two years. When I saw Reaper of Souls being sold for £35 on day one I knew that was the new baseline, I expected a major expansion pack to GW2 to be sold for that price.

Looking at the price of PC games in the past two years, yes this is in line with expectations actually.

Got the Ultimate Edition myself, spent many hours in the game and hope it long continues.

I came to the same conclusion after the second match, there is simply too much to do for a 5v5 and I’d rather see the player cap rise to the suggested 8v8 to compensate.

But surely that can’t be right? That would devalue the old precursors entirely.

PorceleinEve.2973:

Will Lucky.8703:

I’ve got a question about the Pact Campaign Legendaries. I know the future Legendaries will all be account bound.

But the old ones created from crafted precursors, will they be account bound or not? Will those be sellable on the TP after they’ve been crafted or will this still only work for legendaries created from dropped Precursors?

as i understand it, new legend, all account bound. old legend the final precursor would be sellable in the auction house.

Wait Wait Wait, all Precursors crafted will be able to be put on the TP?

My will to play the game has slowly dropped the last month or so, I’m just hungry for more info and more importantly when I can play the Expansion its been a long time coming.

I’ve got a question about the Pact Campaign Legendaries. I know the future Legendaries will all be account bound.

But the old ones created from crafted precursors, will they be account bound or not? Will those be sellable on the TP after they’ve been crafted or will this still only work for legendaries created from dropped Precursors?

My personal guess is May-July

Hopefully they keep minimum specs intact, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were notched up.