The only possible way it would do that is if Anet were amateurs. And they aren’t. As someone else said a second ago, it’s a simple fix.. Adding collision on something like that. Other things I’d agree it’s not as simple. Their engine was built for their game. They wouldn’t mess that up. I promise you it’s a simple fix, it’s not hard and wont break a bunch of other things. You guys are over thinking it big time.. I guarantee Anet could even tell you the same.
It’s also a very fast & easy patch. But as others said it’s not really a big deal. But the fact they over looked this for 2 festivals now says something. Do they even know? I was on known issues & seen nothing about it. That’s the entire point of my post. It’s an easy fix, it’s not hard. Even you could look up a youtube video & see how it’s done & mane to recreate it on their engine. UNLESS they have a bad engine. & I know for a fact they don’t. They know what they are doing. I just believe this was overlooked. And that’s it. That’s why I keep bumping this. You guys can argue with me if youd like and tell me I’m wrong, because I never used their engine.
But a studio as big as Anet would not have a kitten engine like that. I promise you. I’m about 90% sure they over looked it or cant be bothered to mess with something so minor.
Yup I know. And well, I never stated that anyone here was wrong. And for sure it needs a fix. But quoting myself…
discussing if it would be easy for them or not is going to lead nowhere.
Don’t take me bad, it’s nice and appreciated the issue is reported. But the report was made and done, no reason to keep discussing it further. Hopefully they will see this and fix it (for the next year maybe). shrugs
It’s just no matter what I will never agree with you that it could be a hard thing to fix something like this, since we don’t know their engine.. But it being their own engine & the game was built for this type of stuff I know for a fact they would make it easier to fix things like this, not complicated. But I just keep bumping every now and then and maybe one day Anet will see it. Because as I said before it’s not on the known issues so I’m trying to get it there. Speaking of known issues.. The page stopped working for me. Does it work for you?
OP mentions about knowing Unity and Blender, Guild Wars 2 uses a completely different and in-house engine. Each and every engine works differently, what’s easy in one may not be in another. Only Anet can tell if it’s an easy fix or not. What can seems a easy change may lead to a chain of breaking items.
Either way, the thing isn’t about if it’s easy or not, it’s about their priority and how serious such a bug/flaw can be. It’s a bug/mistake or an intentional change with a unfortunate side-effect (who knows) for sure, but discussing if it would be easy for them or not is going to lead nowhere.
The only possible way it would do that is if Anet were amateurs. And they aren’t. As someone else said a second ago, it’s a simple fix.. Adding collision on something like that. Other things I’d agree it’s not as simple. Their engine was built for their game. They wouldn’t mess that up. I promise you it’s a simple fix, it’s not hard and wont break a bunch of other things. You guys are over thinking it big time.. I guarantee Anet could even tell you the same.
It’s also a very fast & easy patch. But as others said it’s not really a big deal. But the fact they over looked this for 2 festivals now says something. Do they even know? I was on known issues & seen nothing about it. That’s the entire point of my post. It’s an easy fix, it’s not hard. Even you could look up a youtube video & see how it’s done & mane to recreate it on their engine. UNLESS they have a bad engine. & I know for a fact they don’t. They know what they are doing. I just believe this was overlooked. And that’s it. That’s why I keep bumping this. You guys can argue with me if youd like and tell me I’m wrong, because I never used their engine.
But a studio as big as Anet would not have a kitten engine like that. I promise you. I’m about 90% sure they over looked it or cant be bothered to mess with something so minor.
Every man and his dog on these forums is an expert at computer coding. It doesn’t mean they know how ArenaNet do it. Just wait two weeks or so. Maybe next year it’ll get sorted! ^ ^
Is that sarcasm? I’m sorry, but an actual programmer understands how collision works. And people like you seem to think we just want to be know it alls and defend the company to death.. We aren’t attacking them.. But.. It’s literally just changing code on that entity. They can make anything have collision. All they have to do is select it, and change the code to allow collision. It’s literally that simple, I promise you. And as others said.. Just waiting isn’t a big deal since it wont be long. It’s just kind of silly that this bug still exists for this halloween & how much of an easy fix it is. It’s like they don’t care/know..
It’s not sarcasm, it’s just that it’s always one of two things when the “I’m a computer programmer” card is played on these forums. Either that someone has done a little bit of coding as a hobby and is a know it all and says they are an expert at programming but are actually out of their depth. Or they are genuine a programmer to a high level, and assume because it’s a seemingly simple thing to do, it must be simple. But that’s not necessarily so. I’m not saying nor assuming you are one or the other.
Not to mention the fact that ArenaNet have a rather large plate, and a large banquet on top of it. It doesn’t matter how much you do or don’t know about programming at the end of the day. You don’t work for ArenaNet, so you don’t know fully what procedures they have to adhere to.
What do you mean by “People like me”? You don’t know me, so how do you know which people are like me?
But even people new to programming knows how collision works. Even flash 2d game developers.. It really is that easy to fix, unless they screwed something up majorly when they first changed it for halloween. And if so.. The guy in charge of that must have really made a mistake. Because I doubt that was a team thing. Even good programmers can make mistakes. We’re only human. If this was a collision issue on something other than just a small wire then yes you are right it would be harder. And I meant people like you who think someone saying something is always trying to be full of self. Those kind. If you didn’t mean that sorry. Butt hat’s how you came off.
I’m sorry, but an actual programmer understands how collision works.
Programmers also understand that it’s never as simple as changing one object. There are consequences to any change, no matter how small. Does the object inherit properties from something else? Does something else inherit its properties? How sure are you (the programmer) that the particular object is the only thing that needs collision added?
Enterprise programmers also have to work with the rest of their team: what was the reason that someone put a non-collide object in a JP? Did they realize it would affect the JP and decide that was the lesser of evils? Or was it an oversight?
Does the team need the person who would/could fix it working on something else that affects more people and that won’t get automatically resolved in a week or two?
And that ignores the issue of change and configuration management, quality assurance, and managing what each build includes.
But.. It’s literally just changing code on that entity. They can make anything have collision. All they have to do is select it, and change the code to allow collision. It’s literally that simple, I promise you.
You can only promise that changing one property on a single item is simple. You can’t promise that there’s nothing else to worry about, nor that someone is available to test that the “literally that simple” fix actually fixes the issue, without causing other issues.
And as others said.. Just waiting isn’t a big deal since it wont be long.
Which is it? The second quote impugns either their integrity (“don’t care”) or their skill (“don’t know”). Which is especially surprising since you agreed (3rd quote) that there’s another possibility: “waiting isn’t a big deal.”
And people like you seem to think we just want to be know it alls and defend the company to death..
I have no interest in defending ANet, to death or otherwise. I don’t work for them; they don’t pay me. I simply can’t agree that we know that this is an easy fix. If anything, the fact that they haven’t fixed it suggests that it’s more complicated than it seems.
It’s just kind of silly that this bug still exists for this halloween & how much of an easy fix it is.
It’s annoying, to be sure. It’s only silly if you imagine that the only issue is changing collision for an object or two.
tl;dr Raise the issue and be adamant that you want it fixed. Remind them in 9 months, so they don’t miss it next year. There’s no need to argue about whether the bug should have been fixed or not, or whether any of us know how easy it will be to fix — that distracts from your primary concern, which is that you’d like to run the JP without work-arounds or waiting a few weeks.
Bro I understand what you are saying. BUT it’s not as hard as you are making it out to be. It’s not anything major. It’s a VERY simple fix. THAT’S A FACT. Unless they coded it a terrible way & connected it with other things.. But It worked fine before the halloween change to that wire.. So if they changed that much just to give it a new look then someone really messed up. now if we were talking about collision on other things then you are correct. But this is NOTHING major.
And no, I’m not attacking them, don’t try to make it look like I am. It’s them not having enough clarity. Riot had trouble with this before on things. They need more clarity on things instead of leaving us in the dark on them.
Also it can be slid in with a hotfix/with a build. It’d nothing major, you are right. It’s just crazy that this is the second time it’s here this festival..
Every man and his dog on these forums is an expert at computer coding. It doesn’t mean they know how ArenaNet do it. Just wait two weeks or so. Maybe next year it’ll get sorted! ^ ^
Is that sarcasm? I’m sorry, but an actual programmer understands how collision works. And people like you seem to think we just want to be know it alls and defend the company to death.. We aren’t attacking them.. But.. It’s literally just changing code on that entity. They can make anything have collision. All they have to do is select it, and change the code to allow collision. It’s literally that simple, I promise you. And as others said.. Just waiting isn’t a big deal since it wont be long. It’s just kind of silly that this bug still exists for this halloween & how much of an easy fix it is. It’s like they don’t care/know..
It is easy to do, unless they coded it a very unprofessional way/their engine works differently. But trust me, otherwise this should NOT be hard. Also they should look at bug forums more. I’m not saying spend all day on there, but they can skim through some in a few minutes & give a reply if there is a fix coming or anything..
It is a pretty easy fix actually. Unless they coded it a VERY dumb/weird way.. I’ve worked in games using Unity 3D & Blender. Collision can be hard to work with on certain things.. But something like this shouldn’t be hard. And as you said it’s actually quite embarrassing.. All they have to do is make the jack o lantern wire have collision. :l
There are several post of this on the bug section, yet nothing has been replied to so posting here. The jumping puzzle Trolls Revenge is impossible to complete without a glider because the blue banner things hanging that you go across were replaced with hanging jack o lanterns with no collision. This is a very simple fix That can literally be done with the smallest patch/build..
Useful rule to remember: Forum access is also a ‘perk’ of having a paid account. Therefore if someone is posting on this forum they have bought the game. They might only have the base game and not HoT, but they have something more than a free account.
A lot of people are assuming this is to stop gold sellers and/or spammers…
However, since free accounts can NOT send gold or items and can also NOT spam map chat this is certainly not to address those issues.
I would assume this is just one of the (arbitrary) things Anet put in to make f2p accounts feel more restricted in order for it to be more attractive to buy the full game.
They can still go to a crowded area spamming Say/Whispers can’t they?
Yeah F2P sucks but you don’t have to buy HoT to get to LA.. You can still buy the core game for cheap and that will unlock all content, except HoT areas.
Didn’t even know that was a thing. Kind of weird that it was. Thanks, didn’t know.
So I guess I’m the only one confused by what’s goin on? I dunno maybe i should /exit stage cos I have like 0 clue whats happening atm. OP (I think?) saying she bought game on release (bought =/= paying money?). Then op imply later that she didn’t bought the base game when it costed money. What’s goin on? and what world did i landed on
PS also what?? when did they change so only lvl35 can enter LA. do u mean.. If I didn’t have HoT.. than this would also apply me? I have no way to test cos I have HoT so.. whats goin on?? hlp me understand
I own the base game. I bought it back when it costed money. My friend is new & has the free version of the game & as a free player you can’t get into LA as a free player till level 35. However he can still do some of the festival since doors are scattered outside of LA. He just can’t get full experience. If he buys HoT he can immediately get into LA without being level 35.
I can understand people criticizing ANet for their tactical decision to lock out LA during festival events. If the goal is to get people to buy the game, then it’ perhaps better to show them just how fun it is by including them in more of Halloween, rather than less.
However, I can’t understand why people think that this is a bug or insist that ANet must change it today or even in time for next year. ANet has made it clear that “free to play” comes with lots of restrictions. They want those who have paid to have advantages over those who haven’t, and that includes unrestricted access to LA and its festivals.
Moreover, it people really want into LA to see the decorations and participate in Mad King Says, it doesn’t take all that long to level up.
I never thought it was a bug. Unless you are just speaking in general.
There should be absolutely zero reason that you can’t access Lion Arch if you aren’t level 35. It seems like you are just pushing EVEN MORE reasons on someone that they should buy HoT since that removes the level needed. My friend, a long time WoW player has started playing Gw2 with me. He was really looking forward to Halloween events coming up, and watched some old videos. But yet.. he can’t access this event till level 35!? We tried running there, pvp portal to lions arch.. Nothing works. You are punishing new players or people who maybe come to check out the game & try the halloween event? This also hurts you. I have never in my years of gaming played an MMO that made you have to be a certain level to participate in a festival event. You guys should remove the level 35 needed for festivals.
Your viewpoint is understandable but try to look at it from ours too. There are many people that believe even GW2 going free to play was a mistake. This was certainly not even an option when I got the core game for abt full price.
Therefore why do u feel u deserve more, given that ur not willing to spend a single cent on either the core game or the expansion? You mentioned your friend was a WoW veteran.. then maybe he would feel more comfortable with GW2 necessitating a $15/month subscription fee with only the initial month given free?
If you like the game so far, then show them that you support it by purchasing it.. Plus you get a much better price than before, about $15 or so each for the core game and HoT. This game is kind enough to not req a subscription, otherwise I wouldn’t even have considered it. You should never feel you are forced to do anything, true.. but I don’t think even WoW was as lenient to new players. If I remember correctly they don’t let new players lvl past 20? Just something to think about.
It will be thanksgiving in abt a month which means that ostensibly u should work on being thankful for what u are given, esp in a given scenario where not even a single cent is being asked of you. If you are that stringent on not having to spend more money than u have to, then there’s always black Friday and similar deals to consider before making the final decision. No one’s forcing you to do anything, you are essentially ‘free to play’ which for a long time as I mentioned was not even an option. Therefore I don’t understand how you feel they are punishing you to the extent u claim they are.
??? I bought the game on release. I will not pay $50 just for more content when the base game still had more than the expansion. And no I’m not complaining because of that, that makes sense.. Any DLC/expansion will not be as big as the base game. Stuff just gets added on to it. But however I do not in any way think the expansion is worth $50. I’ll pay $30 when it goes on sale, but until then I wont have it. I’m just annoyed that my friend couldn’t enjoy the Festival until he played for a few days more. But I did however find out we can go through the doors thanks to some people here. So thanks to them.
Also they went f2p because they lost a lot of people because they waited to long for a true expansion.
You guys should buy HoT, it blows WoW out of the water in how complex and immersive it is. I want more HoT content, and I’m willing to shell out dollaroos.
I am buying the expansion. But sorry, it’s not worth $50 to me. I’d gladly pay $30 though. Seeing if it goes on sale for Xmas. Also I don’t own WoW, he does. I hate WoW.
I never understood people that kittened about all the things HoT players get that they don’t as a free account. Literally the game is FREE, be happy with what you get when it’s practically a gift. As for the restriction being removed on holidays despite RMTs, holiday events are when they’d be the most active and would swarm.
I never understood why people like you don’t understand that I’m not complaining about what HoT does or gives. I said when they BLATANTLY make you try to buy it. That’s when it gets annoying is when it’s shoved on you. Besides that I don’t care. I own the game, but thanks for your concern. And if they swarmed that’s easy banning for Anet seeing as how they are rly active around festival time.
Shame they wont do anything since it’s a HoT thing. Just gives Anet even more ways to push HoT on everyone. Just like how DR’s only exist in base game, but not HoT. Keep it up, Anet.
Having DR in HoT zones would be stupid since every map resets every 2 hours.
And having DR on ALL base game content isn’t stupid? Okay.
do all base game maps reset every 2 hours? no? then it isnt stupid.
Okay my bad, then make it 2 hours for base game as well. DR kicks in WAY SOONER on base.
ill be honest the only map i farm thats not HOT is sw. and since it doesnt have dr on the bags bots farm it all day. they are free accounts and latch on to a single character and copy their every attack and every move.this is why diminishing returns are required. im seeing 5-10 bots per map constantly.of course reporting them does nothing. ill keep doing it anyway
You do know bots can log out, & go to different instances, correct? All this does is effect REAL players. You can never stop bots in any video game out there EVER. The sooner that’s realized the better.
It’s a free account thing. And this event can power level character so fast. Anet might not want free player to access it too fast.
level 35 in this game can be easily reach from open world pve though. Maybe you and your friend can go leveling until 35 and come back later.
WE both work, we find the time we can play, to play GW2. Telling someone to oh just go level to 35 is a terrible design choice behind festivals. I’m sorry, but it’s true. I’ve played many MMO’s and never seen one of them do that.
I’m really sorry that’s happened to you and your friend, but your frustration is misplaced. I believe the level 35 requirement was put in place to limit access for Real Money Traders (RMT’s). It’s one more barrier put in place to stop them from harassing players in the busiest town.
So yes, be angry, but not at Anet. Be angry at the RMT’s, and those players who continue to purchase from them.
I’m not angry. And it was a VERY poor design choice for any reason to have it there during festivals. Even if it were to combat RMT. I understand having it there at other times, I even said that. But REMOVE it on Festivals.
Would be nice to know why the restriction exists. I haven’t been able to figure it out on my own.
My only idea is for something to do with bots, or just want it to be a character progression thing. But eve then in other MMOs main towns are accessible from any level.. They should in my opinion, at least make it not require being level 35 during festivals.
Shame they wont do anything since it’s a HoT thing. Just gives Anet even more ways to push HoT on everyone. Just like how DR’s only exist in base game, but not HoT. Keep it up, Anet.
Having DR in HoT zones would be stupid since every map resets every 2 hours.
And having DR on ALL base game content isn’t stupid? Okay.
do all base game maps reset every 2 hours? no? then it isnt stupid.
Okay my bad, then make it 2 hours for base game as well. DR kicks in WAY SOONER on base.
There should be absolutely zero reason that you can’t access Lion Arch if you aren’t level 35. It seems like you are just pushing EVEN MORE reasons on someone that they should buy HoT since that removes the level needed. My friend, a long time WoW player has started playing Gw2 with me. He was really looking forward to Halloween events coming up, and watched some old videos. But yet.. he can’t access this event till level 35!? We tried running there, pvp portal to lions arch.. Nothing works. You are punishing new players or people who maybe come to check out the game & try the halloween event? This also hurts you. I have never in my years of gaming played an MMO that made you have to be a certain level to participate in a festival event. You guys should remove the level 35 needed for festivals.
Edit: didn’t know you could use doors outside LA to do some of the stuff. Thanks.
Shame they wont do anything since it’s a HoT thing. Just gives Anet even more ways to push HoT on everyone. Just like how DR’s only exist in base game, but not HoT. Keep it up, Anet.
Having DR in HoT zones would be stupid since every map resets every 2 hours.
And having DR on ALL base game content isn’t stupid? Okay.
Shame they wont do anything since it’s a HoT thing. Just gives Anet even more ways to push HoT on everyone. Just like how DR’s only exist in base game, but not HoT. Keep it up, Anet.
I use to play as mainly a DPS warrior build.. But now it seems BERSERKER is hidden behind HoT expansion now.. Even though the concept of berserker use to be stuff you could always use to enhance that. Why is that even behind HoT.. Anybuild I look up for DPS they go Berserker. For tanks with decent damage it still has Berserker somewhere. I’m at a clear disadvantage in PvP because I don’t have the expansion. I don’t understand what type of build is even that great for a warrior doing pvp anymore.. Any help would be appreciated.
Can anybody recommend what’s good for a lvl 72 warrior? I am almost always solo, & have not played Gw2 for a lot of months and came back and a lot has changed. It doesn’t seem as good to be pure dps, hardly tanky. I seem to get my kitten kicked by any veteran/skill challenges unless I constantly run in circles crippling with my rifle.
If I’m always gonna be solo what do you guys recommend I run as armor/signets/traits ETC. Because my dps build isn’t that great anymore solo. I can barely take on more than 2 risens.
And if somebody can give me a good setup for PvE, I’d also like to have a dungeon build to please & thank you!
We’ve attempted numerous bug fixes for this issue, but unfortunately, none of them have solved the problem yet. We’re taking another look at now, though, in search of “the one fix to fix them all,” so to speak.
Thank you for your patience!
Ah that’s great. Maybe hotpatch/update AC just with a warning of a bug like that could happen/work around it sometimes. At least so players can sort of know how to fix it. I know it sounds stupid, but I don’t think people would find it stupid. I sure wouldn’t! Or at least make a front post on news about it. It’s really frustrating going through something only to get to the end to be taunted & can not achieve your goal. >.<
Again with the misleading titles, you meant to say achievement rewards are disappointing, as clearly you don’t care either way about the achievement themselves but more about what you get for achieving the achievements.
But ignoring my somewhat glum attitude, no I fully agree. Having a tangible reward would motivate a lot of players to go out and get themselves some more achievements.
Of course this seems to be the natural evolution of any in-game achievement system, so I really wouldn’t be shocked to see this coming in any case.
I would however like to see some variety in the achievement rewards, it doesn’t all have to be grand minis or skins smaller rewards for the easier achievements would also be nice.
That’s what it was gonna originally be, but the title was to long..
Don’t know what to tell you bud.
Am I the only one that doesn’t care about my slayer record? Or Weapon Kills? I don’t care if I got 1,000 centaur kills, because I get nothing out of it. That could be changed.
What about adding cosmetics for armor, weapons, or even titles?
If you get X kills of Y – You are rewarded for something. Keep the tiers, and add rewards for each tier. Or maybe even make it something we can do for capes. Say you slayed a certain amount of an animal, and you are rewarded with a cape made out of the skin of it. Or doing every single slayer achievement will reward you with a unique title/cosmetic. I’ll expand on this & fix the grammar & go into more detail/more recommendations of other things besides slayer if I get some support.
This was rushed. Anyways..
I’ll just let this die if it gets no support. Thanks for taking the time to read my opinion.
Oh Detha.. How we loathe you so. Why can’t you just fix the kitten cannons & stop greeting me. Do you ever feel like you would be better off with Detha dead? Well as a matter of fact.. You are!
Okay. Enough with the sad attempt at being funny. In all seriousness this is about the Detha Tremblebones bug in AC exp. When you get to the Ghost Eater room, talking to Detha doesn’t always trigger the next part of the dungeon. She will just greet players when you try to talk to her. The Dungeon will not be able to progress any further, and you will have to start over. A way to fix this is luring the oozes/Scavenger to her to get her killed. You then revive her & talk to her & it should fix the bug.
Just figured I’d share this with others, because I doubt I’m the only one who experienced this. Please fix this bug ArenaNet. Or at least acknowledge it.. This has been there since Beta. :/
