When asking others if they had the updated ‘Log-in screen’ before purchase of PoF, they may have been thinking of the launcher, as most would.
It will probably change with purchase.
Possibly it will eventually change without purchasing at some point. The Character Selection screen changed to the HoT themed one around HoT launch (maybe a few days before) even for those who didn’t own it yet (as in my case).
just so we don’t talk past each other, I’m refering to the character select screen, when saying log-in.
The launcher has the Path of Fire magenta look to it, but when looking at my characters, everything is as it is with HoT.
People say, that the desert background is there, even for people without PoF. is that true?
Ahh, I thought you meant the launcher. That’s right then. Hmm, I can’t tell that yet, last night when I tried to log-in the game was under maintenance and I couldn’t log-in. I have seen only the launcher so far. If this thread isn’t going to get updated within 4 to 5 hours I can come back and tell that.
Honestly, I think an account should have at least one level 80 before it unlocks as an option for gems. If they are going to sell them as is, then they should undo all the level gating design changes they implemented in fear of ‘confusing new users’.
Good point, they implemented that crap NPE (yay NPE :/) to prevent players from “doing what they weren’t supposed to yet because they weren’t experenced [. Come back later.]” and now provide ways to skip right away to max level… gotta understand that marketing moves… >.>
No problem. And yeah, I tried to look for an official article/thread when sending my post but the only thing I found was an announcement in the frontpage. I’m sure there is a thread somewhere but, yay, that search…
To OP: if you want to get a grasp about what has changed, take a loot at patch notes or Game updates articles in the Wiki. It’s a extensive reading but just a skimming over it can give you some idea about what happened to the game.
Also the experience for the masteries are account wide. So when you do get “stuck” with say your rev, just jump on your ranger and redo Hero Points to get some more xp. If you can join the meta events aswell they give tonnes of xp.
Also once you finish with those HoT masteries Kaltyn mentioned, I’d pop over to tyria and work on the pact masteries til you get auto loot. Gives you more freedom since loot goes straight to bag, even world boss chests. So less hassle looking for loot bags or bodies
Yep, for instance, Auric Basin meta event (the vine one) gives tons of XP enough to fufill 3/4 of the bar.
And yeah, auto-loot is awesome. I never worried about loot of world-bosses’ chests after that xD (A note on chests for OP: it only works for “spawned” chests, like those that spawns after a world-boss. Chests already spawned in-world like ones found after vets in mini-dungeons have to be manually opened).
Huh, that’s weird. I haven’t pre-purchased it and last night when I went to play it started to patch then all suddenly the launcher got changed. How do you know your game is up-to-date? Could you check what’s the build number (go to Options, the numbers is on bottom left)?
Although I’m not sure if it’s possible to play without patching but may be possible since there are command line args that prevent patching O.o [shrugs]
The best way for you to report exploits is through an email to exploits@arena.net, you could even provide further details through that way. Reporting exploits through forums is not allowed and discouraged.
Huh, I wonder what that overlay in there is about, it doesn’t make any sense to me. O.o
The overlay is the Guild Wars 1 maps with their outposts and important places on top of the Guild Wars 2 maps. The white spirals are the portals between maps.
Oh I thought so. I never played GW1 then it didn’t make much sense for me (the area where it’s supposed to be Tengu land got me wondering). Thanks for the info.
Yes, that’s how Illconceived mentioned and also, in fact, what could get one in trouble isn’t using the “wrong” category in the reporting, but by using the wrong tools to do so.
An example, reporting exploits in the forums isn’t allowed and event discouraged, doing so is something that could really get one in trouble (not that you did it here, but worth bringing it up). The proper and best way is to do that through the email mentioned by Illconceived above.
Just to check, when you say you have all checkbox checked, do you mean also the Combat option as well all the ones in submenu? Even if all checkboxes are checked in the submenu, you won’t get any entry if the main option, Combat, is unchecked.
If that’s the case you have all them and it still doesn’t work, my suggestion would be to trash out that chat tab and make a new one. Usually doing so fixes chat glitches.
Hmm, what do you mean? Could you post a screenshot or something? I couldn’t get what is the issue you see. Could you give more details? It will help either devs as other players to see the issue.
Full screen uses a different color settings, you can even notice that by the fact that Screen Gamma is only enabled when in full screen. And that’s it, try to test different Screen Gamma values and see if it helps.
Also, I see you took a photo of your screen and that’s is good to see what you see, but if you could take a screenshoot (pressing Print Screen) it would be good, then we could see if it’s something with the game or your monitor.
o_o i’m not sure about how the crash reports work and who has access to them and stuff, but that is…yikes
Why would they even need that?
It’s not they need that, it’s just that Crash Report just copy the whole command line used to run the game. Wiki even warns that using that param could reveal your password in plain text.
Well, for basic users I don’t think there are more to say than what was already said, but thanks for bringing this subject to attention again and I see some nice technical stuff here.
It’s still sad, though, how many people are still fooled by these “so obvious” (yes, it doesn’t need too much effort to see that something is wrong with them) scams.
I was rather disappointed to say the least that this happened without notification.
If the issue was with the icon being the same as a standard map event icon then a change to the rift icon would solve any “where is my event” issues that it may have caused with players that do not have a stabiliser.
Yeah, recently I noticed I wasn’t fooled by “empty” events anymore when seeking events. Well, I must say I was one of those annoyed by it using the same icon as normal events. It was annoying to use Content Guide to seek events for dailies and then end up at a place with nothing going on. I know I could have used the stabilizer but I didn’t carry it all time and I took a while to get one. I must say I’m glad to hear it was “fixed”.
However, I agree that it makes it difficult to find rifts now and I agree it could have been fixed by changing the icon, that’s something I suggested several times, even through in-game bug report.
I thought contested Waypoints don’t show up on the map; only ‘in person’. No?
It does. However, due Megaserver thing only the ones in the map you are currently in are showed as contested if it was caused by an event. Other than that, only permanently contested ones (like ones “broken” during LS Season 2) are showed that way wherever you are in the world.
It’s showing your Mastery XP bar full, that means it’s ready then you can spend Mastery Points to unlock that Mastery. Open up the Mastery panel and unlock/train that Mastery, or select a different not-filled track and that popup should go away.
Due to an issue with the conversion of fire orchid seeds, we have temporarily disabled the ability to acquire The Wayfarer’s Henge Backpack. We will re-enable the ability to acquire the backpack after the bug has been addressed. Thanks for your patience.
Due to an issue with the conversion of fire orchid seeds, we have temporarily disabled the ability to acquire The Wayfarer’s Henge Backpack. We will re-enable the ability to acquire the backpack after the bug has been addressed. Thanks for your patience.
And I don’t know why you’re having trouble with “next ally” (not ‘nearest’) — it works fine for me on just about everything. I’ll test it on the GN chest the next time I have a key.
(It is a bit wonky, since its definition of “ally” or “next” don’t match mine.)
In fact, I made a little mistake since it has been a while since I used it. It does target interactable objects indeed, I remember when hunting chests at Dry Top long time ago I used that hotkey for that. However, as I said before, it doesn’t target ally players though. I would guess it should so since other players are allies in most of the contents.
It might not be intentional. The Item & Heroic Boosters both “[summon] a Black Lion Merchant If Your Inventory Is Full after Gathering (20-Minute Cooldown)”
It seems fairly common that people have full inventories when visiting the pod, since many save up Greater Nightmare Keys, so they only have to navigate the maze once.
As long that makes sense, it also can be intentional yes. I have seen players doing stuff like that just for the lulz.
There are other ways to prevent or resolve the issue, besides disabling (which would cause other ones). The main one would be to change the priority order for “interact” (default key: [f]), so that summoned NPCs are always last, after chests, doors, or other types of nodes.
In the mean time, you can designate a key for ‘next ally’ — if you keep pressing it, it will cycle through all the interactables near you (alas, including NPCs). I use it whenever I can’t click on a node.
That could be a way, either preventing it from spawning at that area at all or changing the priority when overlapped (or even a menu/popup to choose what to interact with). I’m not sure about the hotkey though, if I recall right “Next Ally”, or even “Nearest Ally” never targeted interactable objects for me, in fact, it doesn’t even target other players (that could be allies in PvE eh?).
What character voice you mean? One like “ahhhhww” when falling down? You could check if “character chatter” is disabled in options, it prevents your character to voice over effects and stuff. Also, falling sounds weren’t removed.
If you are going to report an exploit you better to do that through email to exploits@arena.net. Reporting exploits through forums is discouraged and even not allowed.
Well, I had been having black screen issues for all year long last year and somehow it gone on itself (for now). I had been working with Customer Support to troubleshoot it and the details and the outcome can be found here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Constant-black-screens-and-discon-Repost/ (and in the former thread linked in the OP there).
If only GW2 goes black, where the game is actually still running and you can press F12 to bring up the logout menu for example, it’s a problem that can be caused by packet loss.
In my case it seemed to be pretty much this.
P.S.: I would suggest any one having the issue to run a tool called PingPlotter (or similar) and check if there are any packet loss. At times, the packet loss is happening at some node in the middle that’s not either your direct ISP’s neither Anet’s.
There are several reasons, including problems with your graphical processing unit, CPU, or other cables. I had a similar issue that only affected GW2, but when I ultimately found the source, it turned out to be a melted hard drive cable; it just didn’t “slip” until GW2 was heating things up inside (not hotter than acceptable; just too hot for a weak cable).
Those can be hard to troubleshoot. One method, if you are comfortable, is to shut down your computer, disconnect it from the power, and re-seat as many components as you can, cleaning things out with a dust blower.
I have never seen things like that but for this specific case I can ensure it doesn’t get that far. What seems to happen regarding a black screen in this case is just the game disconnects (for whatever reason) and you are kind of booted back to Character Selection screen possibly but such screen just doesn’t load, then the game sits there with a black screen just like if the map you were on simply unloaded and nothing else got loaded over it.
It doesn’t seem to be a GPU, CPU or any other hardware issue because everything else works, you can even bring up Options or Log Out popup by pressing the hotkey (F11 and Shift+F12 respectively) and the cursor is still visible. You can even Alt-Tab and anything else in the system is still working. Hardware issues usually would affect the whole system.
To OP: yes, your best bet is contacting Support and working out with them to troubleshoot it.
It’s indeed a bug and maybe a repair could fix. Even when that story step is active your own backpiece would be hidden and the egg one is showed instead, but from your pic the egg overlaps your backpiece.
Well, welcome to the club! I was used to have this issue later last year and it had last more then 1 year, after a long troubleshoot with Customer Support the cause wasn’t “officially” found but everything pointed out to be a “packet loss” at the middle nodes of my connection (neither my ISP servers neither Anet’s but some other between).
I would take it this way: “an intended behavior that went out of control when on top of another intended behavior”, aka “bug” or “glitch”.
The light effect is intended for when people level up, as mentioned before, but what seems to be wrong here is the light goes out of control when on top of another feature (tonics) and it could be used for people to grief others.
So yes I also would say it needs some action, maybe a little tweak here and there then the light doesn’t become too bright… it wouldn’t take long to make such adjust I believe, but I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for any action to be taken anytime soon though.
Yeah, people are better reporting exploits and stuff through the proper email, that’s exploits@arena.net. Reporting exploits in forums isn’t allowed and it’s discouraged as it can expose it for more people to exploit.
If you crash on middle of a teleport you will usually come back at a nearby WP or at Lion’s Arch (apparently a fallback “default” position) with a message saying the WP wasn’t possible because it was contested. Apparently the “contested” message is used in game more to mean “teleport failed” for whatever reason. As said above: intended behavior.
Simply you got that due the previous issue: a connection failure that disrupted the teleport.
The issue doesn’t seem to be with forum but with the redirect itself. Apparently the language prefix in the URL is causing certificate issues, it works fine if taking off the language prefix (from http://en.support.guildwars2.com/ to http://support.guildwars2.com/).
Possibly it has nothing to do with API system being down. GW2Efficiency has been having that issue for weeks while other websites have worked normally. I believe GW2Efficiency is having some kind of issue.
P.S.: For record, at the time of this post the API seemed to work normally as I had just used an Account Audit thing from a website and it uses mostly the entire API.
they were turned back on 4 hours (or so) ago, so it would be working normally when you made your post
Yup, I realized that. However I still wanted to note that that website had been having issues way before they took the API down for maintenance, then OP’s issue is possibly not related to the incident though.
Possibly it has nothing to do with API system being down. GW2Efficiency has been having that issue for weeks while other websites have worked normally. I believe GW2Efficiency is having some kind of issue.
P.S.: For record, at the time of this post the API seemed to work normally as I had just used an Account Audit thing from a website and it uses mostly the entire API.
I have seen it happening before, it would glitch out and new dailies won’t come, with timer being stopped at 0. Usually in these cases a simple map swap get it unstuck.
In fact, there is nothing wrong here. There can be multiple map instances sharing the same IP, the /ip command even shows a number at the end (like XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:Y, where X is the IP number, Y is the instance number).
If you are having crashes and the like your best bet is to contact Support. They will guide you through some troubleshoot to help you to know what is wrong.
Edit: I also use PangoBright to reduce monitor brightness / eye strain.