Guild Wars 2

and you should feel bad

i find that the english voices are typical english voices for most games – terrible (although not as bad as tera thankfully that is fixed by changing the files with that of the japanese version)

i assume there is a japanese release of this game and so it would have its own voices is there any way that wont get me head caved in by the mighty ban hammer to get the japanese voices?

(also what audio slider does the combat grunts and screams my character makes? because they occasionally sound a little bit inapropriate – also chromes spell check does not appear to work here so this is causing me issues…)

^ should have made it clear that I meant warrior tanking in tera (warriors tank mostly by not being where the attack is – this makes them harder to master than lancers who tank by standing there and screaming COME AT ME BRO)

Feirlista Xv.1425:

Sounds like you PCIe is not set to x61 or you have your video card in the wrong PCI slot.

that would mess with other games like crisis (that runs on max no problems) or metro last light (that runs on max but the frames drop on this one level when I’m going across a bridge + that game just does not like AMD cards at all the benchmarks show it)

and the card is in the top slot (my motherboard goes like this: 2X pci-E X16 (X8 dual mode – that means if I have a card in each X16 slot they run at X8) and then theres another one at the bottom that’s at X4 or something

also I fixed the problem sort of – I had taken the overclock off a bit ago while I did some testing with things (overclocking the ram) and forgot to put it back on

more like warrior tanking then?

so… last year I had a E6700 oc to 3.8 ghz and an NVidia 295

this year I have an i5 2500k oc to 4.7 ghz and a 7970 oc to standard ghz edition speeds

when playing the game I put everything on high and I get something like 40 or so fps
my 7970s fans after a while spin up to max so that’s probably doing something
no idea bout my i5 though (its a quad core with none of that hyper threading stuff)

and yes my card is doing X16 (theres some post somewhere saying that his card was at X1 or something so he did stuff in the BIOS and its now running at X16 or X8 or something and it fixed his fps)

my computer is a high end machine (not like the best you can have but its all you need to play anything currently out) yet it cannot play this game well (you know this game that when it launched there were a lot of people going on about it and there appeared to be a fair amount of hype surrounding it)

I should point out that the aforementioned E6700 and the 275 I had before the 295 could play TERA (a game that has better visuals) with everything on the highest settings at over 60 fps now its running it at over 300 fps (if I turn vsync off)

and this game does not appear to be optimised much at all

could anyone tell me why this is? it makes no sense (oh hang on its still running on the same engine guild wars 1 used right? some form of cost cutting measure right? this means it only supports DX9 right? even after someone from the dev team said they were excited about the possibilities of DX11 or something right?)

I find this funny… guild wars 2 one of the big releases of last year with lots of people wanting to play it

is still over a year later an unoptimised pile of kitten

but face tanking is fun… especially if you choose the smallest race so you have this tiny little character TAKING ALL THE HITS IN THE FACE

I just started playing again and I have a level 21 elementalist
i want a class that does similar things to classes i play in other games
for example in wow i play a druid mostly caster and healer but i used to love tanking before blizz ruined it is there any class that is anything like one of the things druids can do?
in TERA i play a lancer but the combat being what it is there will probably be nothing that relates to the lancer playstyle

also i am currently on underworld is that a realm with an active community? iirc i could change home realm once or something (might have changed i have not played for about a year)

the launcher/patcher does not tell me how much I have left to download aside from the files left
the % bar appears to go up based on files done/files left

this means that I got have 100 files and the first 99 could be a few MB in size and that last file could be one or two GB but nothing on the launcher would actually show me that

who decided this was a good idea? it is very annoying especially for people like me who have really bad internet and need to know how much they actually have left to download

I think I made a post about this about this time last year

the downloader does not show the size of the patch instead it simply says the amount of files left to download the speed it is downloading at and the amount of data downloaded
the % does not indicate amount downloaded data wise but the files downloaded

for people like me who are stuck on a slow internet connection knowing how big the download is will save a lot of hassle because we would be able to see how big it is and whether or not it should be downloaded overnight

why does it need a beefy single thread processor? and how can I play games that are much more graphically intense than gw2 and not have these problems :/ sounds like an optimisation issue on both problems

just read through all the stuff in that thread (and bits it links to) and they have said its an optimisation issue

this is like runescape it never used to use the GPU and only a single CPU core meaning loadsa cores did nothing but a few highly clocked cores fixed everything but then they did a massive update that let the game use gpu and more than one cpu core (I did some tests where I made it so java could only use one core and it did nothing to the fps I think I will do the same with gw2 because I like doing pointless things like that…)

intel pentium E6700 3.2 ghz dual core (its usualy at 3.8ghz but it appears the overclock might have failed on startup sometime recently and no one has got around to telling me about it despite me asking people to tell me because then i can look at things to see why it seems stable on stress tests (p95 for about 2 days no problems) but fails on start up occasionaly)

my computer has a gtx 295 and can play games like crysis, tera online, skyrim, world of warcraft, nexuiz on maximum settings yet on guild wars 2 it struggles on lower settings

the card is a dual GPU card (one card two GPUS making a toasty heat sink sandwitch – and with the power this thing uses it is toasty) and so my computer sees it as being SLI does gw2 have problems utilising sli? if so is there something i can do to fix that?

i am currently updating the drivers for my card to see if that fixes anything

kiting and strafing an waiting for an opening is how tera works (only i play as a lancer so for me its more sit there taking all the hits timing blocks and hitting in between the oponents attacks so i dont run out of blocking power) only i feel it gets it right (that and graphics the leveling experiance is terrible past level 45 :/) by having everything aimed by you and dodging/blocking done by you so all RNG does is work out when you crit or not

the system sounds like a hybrid of that (and the items giving attacks things sounds like the gear system in lego universe) and the current “standard” of wow (i say standard because most mmos i have played work like wow) it will probably take me some time to get used to but it sounds interesting and it probably takes a few levels to experiance it propperly

sorry if anyone takes offence at me drawing comparisons between different games (its happened elsewhere) but it helps me work out roughly how it might work in my head (does guardian work like the lancer in tera? or does guardian also require running around (i like playing as a solid unmoving rock of pure defence for some reason…)
or something…

how does combat in gw2 work?
it does not seem to be an action combat system but neither does it seem to be click of boredom (like wow)
are the skills aimed like in tera? (if so is there a way to lock the camera and character movement to the mouse? because its currently like lego universe only the basic attack isnt bound to the lmb) or are they like wow where you just have to face in the general direction and push button to cause damage? or something else?

i was told the combat was very much an action system but currently all i can see is the evasion mechanic