Guild Wars 2

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Mantisentil.7034:

I want to ask that will the matches occur in a limited area like points etc.. otherwise it will be an unbalanced match for melee characters

Yes it will be contained to a general area

Obviously my words and the words of everyone else in this forum are falling on your deaf ears, so Ill continue to ignore this thread now…

#Gw2Conspriacy

SamTheGuardian.2938:

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

sam, maybe u have a point there, but spaming your own thread is just making you look like a rager. no need to respond to every single post in here. you are loosing credibility.

i’ve read all of this thread and i didnt find any example of hacks. it is only making conclusions out of anets statement that they removed the orbs because of hacking. i agree though, that there are a lot of exploits in spvp that need to be addressed asap. unfortunately we are gonna have to wait until January to get the 1st pvp patch. i hope it will be fixing bugs first, spectator mode and everything else second.

Here is one of many videos demonstrating hacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX5G4Yp_he4

I’m sorry to inform you that there is no integrity server-side to support fair and balanced sPvP play. If you’ve been playing by the rules and taken it seriously, yes others are cheating to win.

Theres maybe one good example in that whole video. The rest have been fixed or are just not hacks to begin with. Since you feel it is occuring so often I ask of you to give us some examples from your own Point of View, because with 613 hours played I have NEVER seen a hack in SPvP

I think LoL is a great reason to say why this is not an issue. LoL has a spectator mode yet it is still (at nearly all times) the most watched game on twitch.tv

To add to the numerous amounts of people here… I have NEVER seen a hack used in SPvP (I even youtubed hacks and found that all of them did not use it in SPvP and even advised against it, meaning their anti-hack system for SPvP is fine).

Secondly, relating this to WvW is incredibly off topic in terms of discussing hacks and how it affects the game (See… SPvP forum at the top).

The game is dwindling in terms of the SPvP community, but its not just because of the devs. There has been such little community effort to do anything the past months, no one has attempted any small tournaments, even on a 1v1 or 2v2 or heck, even a 3v3 scale. I started attempting to change that today by announcing my 2v2 tournament. There has been almost no guides, and I don’t see that many people watching streams and supporting the teams that play this game to a professional level. Granted, the PvP team probably is not being given as much funding (a lot more people (and therefore money) play pve), but that does not excuse the outright lack of anything the SPvP community has been trying to do.

Tl;Dr Stop moping around about about the lack of SPvP support and give it some support!

@Klinch

• Generally we are trying to avoid any troll builds like double bunker guardian where neither party can really kill anything

@Hvaran

• We are going to select a date that tries to work best with the 8 teams once they have been selected

Hi guys this is BLU from Team Replika (formerly Tsunami). I am here today to officially announce our European 2v2 tournament which we plan to do on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. We will be hosting this tournament in the near future live on twitch.tv, but right now we need teams to play! We have already snagged Team Paradigm to play in it, and we still have seven more slots. The first few tournaments we have planned will be for bragging rights only, but if it becomes successful we plan on adding a prize pool to it as well! Here will be the rules for the tournament:

Rules (subject to change)

Tournament Setup

• Tournament will be 2v2 in sets of 3 fights with the finals being in a set of 5 fights. Single Elimination
• Teams must confirm their class combination at least 24 hours before the tournament. This cannot be changed at any point unless an admin allows it
• Unfortunately, no double classes will be allowed
• If a team is not available for the night (chosen at least 2 weeks in advance) they will forfeit their spot

Fight Rules

• If a player is stomped they cannot reenter the fight
• Fights may only be restarted if an admin agrees a bug was the determining factor, or if both teams suffered from server/lag related issues
• If the fight exceeds a length of 5 minutes, a panel of 3 judges chosen and announced at least a week in advance will decide the match.

If a team is caught violating any of these rules they will be immediately disqualified from the tournament and bared from any future events.

Interested in applying? Good! We have 7 spots open which will be selected via email application. We will notify all seven teams of their selection in game and then announce the full lineup here. If you wish to apply please fill out the following form and send it to DrBLU42@Gmail.com DO NOT contact me or any members of Replika with queries on your application. However you may contact us with general questions about the tournament.

REPLIKA 2v2 TOURNAMENT #1 APPLICATION FORM

• IGN of both players (name.1234):
• Preferred name (to be used by casters and scoreboards):
• Team Name:
• Class combination:
• Country and Time Zone:
• Team Song (song – artist):
• Link to team logo .png (background elements MUST be eliminated):
• Links to any team media sites (youtube and twitch mainly):

Good luck to all of our applicants, I look forward to reading them And for those of you wishing to spectate the event I will have LOTS more info coming in the next few days.

I think this is an excellent Idea

/signed

Signed, this would also help with bug issues i feel

As of today ive lost nearly 100 tickets to this bug and have not seen any of them restored. Will I ever see compensation for this loss?

So are we gonna get an update anytime soon or are you just going to continue ignoring this thread

Tyler Bearce.3427:

We’ll look into this and see what’s going on. Thanks for the heads up.

Please dont take as long as it took you to fix the chest region bug…. Oh wait

Jackie.1829:

Heh over 80 chests lost to this bug and some QPs. I dont understand how this is not yet fixed after over a month and more.

I hope there is some compensation at the end, where you do take the time out to go through logs and reimburse those who lost chests.

If this is anything like when chests just werent working, then we wont, which is a load of kitten poop

what the kitten ANet… a month and a half and no progress update at all?

I know its posted to the top, but its been nearly a month and a half since this bug was DISCOVERED and still there has been almost no response from devs! There is a bug causing anyone who transfers between NA and EU servers to gain no tournament rewards from either paid or free tournaments. I am personally down about 3QP that I should have due to this bug, along with countless chests. It has been said that if you win more matches on NA then it will work there, but I have over 700 matches won on EU, an almost unattainable task to repeat in a sensible amount of time. When will this bug be fixed? Im tired of sitting in the dark!

Thanks for that informative and well reasoned post OP! You’ve really given them convincing reasons to absolutely abandon Esports for that sake of one man feeling it’s demise. Such strong foundations you have in game production I’m sure.

Over the past few days lag on EU servers has gotten progressively worse for reasons I am unsure of.

I am an NA player playing on the EU servers. This is not something of my fault as I have been here essentially since the game began and I have never experienced these issues before. In addition, this is not something pertaining to my IP either (speedtest link below).

What I am trying to figure out is if there are there any other players (playing from NA to EU or vice versa) experiencing these issues and if so do you know of a way to fix it?

Speedtest Link: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2301332341.png

Id also like to add that it occurs in the PvE instancing as well, so it is definately something with the servers. Here is a link to the speedtest I just ran to Seattle (server location) to confirm

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2284692795.png

After transferring back to EU from a failed adventure on the NA servers, I have returned to find the EU pvp servers a lot laggier than I left them. Are any other NA players playing on EU experiencing the same? It was not this bad when I left, but unfortunately it is currently at a level where I cannot even play! I checked my internet and everything and I know it is not that. So yea…

Edit: Also to add it seems to be spiking more or less. For example I will log on and be perfectly fine but about 5-10 minutes later it may become unplayable, and switch between these two latencies at uneven intervals

This is ridiculous. Its been two and a half weeks since I transferred to NA and this bug is still affecting me. Not only am I down about 30 tournament tickets, but also I should be getting about 5 to 6 QP, but thanks to the brilliant servers, those cannot be granted to me either. When will this bug be fixed? I have had friends who have had this bug fixed for them and it is absolutely ludicrous that this is still an issue. I am tired of not getting responses

Or you could possibly learn to dodge. OR you could grab some stability, or even vigor, so you can dodge more. Yea…

Its been out for awhile now, but here is the first part of my guide to bunker Engineer! Part 2 is delayed beyond what is advertised on the video unfortunately, as I am having some issues finding/forming a new team, but anyway…. enjoy!

Quality Player.6975:

Diablo.9301:

You do know that all the worlds are hosted on US servers (the European ones are located in Texas). So no, that won’t be a problem.

No, EU is actually in EU
NA is in Texas

Im pretty sure you are wrong about this. IIRC I saw a mod post about all the servers being in USA. And this may not solidify the argument, but all of the “server times” are PST, which may indicate as to their location. Then again I could be wrong

Title pretty much says it all. It will get as far as the char screen then Ill get the crash message, Ive even re installed the game and its not helping. Any idea whats going on?

Any idea on when this issue will be fixed? Its still in effect as of todays patch >.<

Valantine.5892:

/Waste of Thread.

This game will never be an official eSport with the downed system making it nigh impossible for a great player to 1v2 against two ‘good’ players, and strictly impossible for a top player in the world to 1v3 against ‘good’ players. eSports take skill heavily into account, and Guild Wars 2 is on the high TTK noob system of death where even noob thieves can stay alive by porting around, taking off 2-3k chunks of health by throwing pebbles at you.

The system is poorly conceptualized and even more poorly executed. Don’t look for this game to become an eSport until they give us a facet of the game where it can be taken out completely, which allows smaller, more advanced players to take on greater numbers.

What does the down system have to do with casuals vs hardcores? Were discussing ANets direction in adding new features, not refining current ones

Here is a video by Destiny, a professional SCII player, about the reasons Starcraft is struggling as an Esport at the moment. I feel this same principal applies to guild wars 2, and this only reinforces the reason why some form of ranking (NOT including the paid tournies) are NEEDED if this game is ever to be an esport, as casuals and moderates need an incentive to keep playing the game and have fun while doing so

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7rH1C964uA

So say I have ~400 wins on Gandara. I transferred to a US server. So now I have to win another 400 wins before earning rewards again?

Join a Guild. Obviously guilds are going to do better than Pugs, thats MMO 101.

Im personally very disappointed in this blog post because we already knew all of this. What I (and I think a lot of others) want is an actual time frame. My team has been practicing for 15+ hours a week waiting for the competitive to kick in, but we cannot keep going like that not knowing when it is coming.

TL;DR Need TIMEFRAMES!!

1) performance suffers greatly because of how things are built and view distances

Maybe if you are running on a rig more than 2 years old, in which case you wouldnt be running this game too well anyway. In addition, multiple mods already do this just fine!! AND, its already in the game! Any dragon or big boss fight will increase your FOV anyway! This one is just a blatant lie IMO

2) art suffers because of texture tiling, LOD problems and just general stretching from the fisheye effect.

IMO this is also bull. If you put the game into windowed mode and pull it down, the game looks just as good if not better with this kind of FOV stretch. The fisheye isnt even noticeable until you get up past 105. Again, let the players decide!

3) gameplay suffers because positional awareness becomes less necessary in a game where combat is greatly designed around positioning.

Assuming this one is based from a PvP perspective, in the mean time with the current FoV settings team fights are a mess of particle effects, and in addition to that thieves and warriors can come in and gank people out of nowhere because we cannot SEE them entering the battle. Its not a disadvantage if you give the option to EVERYONE.

Ill end by saying that honestly, I just lost all respect for Jon on this one. Blatantly ignoring something requested by a majority of the playerbase and then making up lies to cover for it is just crossing the line.

“Very soon” implies “at any moment” according to dictionary.com

Thats a lot of moments…

Not sure if foreign…. or just 12

1) Okay, I’ll agree with that, but its not a major issue
2) Check the video below, turrets are great if you know how to use them
3) Engi lacks in weaponry what it gains in kits. We can’t swap weapons anyway so there is no real need for such variety when we already have it in kits
4) I’ve said this below, but please keep playing the class. Your response to the down state is just brainless. #2 is an interrupt, so who gives a crap if it pulls them in. Heck, you could even save another teammate from getting stomped with it if you are in a downfight. #3 is amazing, if you are in a teamfight and you pop this badboy, you are getting up. Our downstate is fine, if you want it to be better play a thief.

IN CONCLUSION:

Engis are the best point defender hands down. Granted in a 1v1 scenario a guardian or mesmer may be better, but in terms of 1v2 or 1v3 where most guardians and mesmers get melted, Engis shine. Please refer to the below match for my backing of this (engi playing mid point)

PS: I am sorry to be a rank smasher but please play to at least rank 18ish before formulating these opinions. Rank 7 or 8 doesn’t even scratch the surface of organized pvp IMO

If this was the case then they should have made it so that once the game begins (10s countdown) you cannot swap out anything, instead of nerfing it.

Pete.6037:

I’d rather them fix other major things out rather than add something that only a small percentage of the player base will use.

what major things would that be? They fixed tournament rewards and the auction house. ANet have said they will make this game an esport, but they have made no effort to reach that goal since launch (correct me if I am wrong)

Semi rage post, but we need an answer. There are many people out there (including myself) who are ready to devote huge amounts of time to this game in hopes of getting into the esports scene. However, the clock is ticking on this game’s esport potential, and I think a lot of teams are getting nervous for this game making it into the esports scene.

Bottom Line: we need more than just a “we are working on it” for private servers. We need to know something is coming to get this game into the scene or the teams are going to leave before it even gets started.

Feel free to post your thoughts below

I recall a statement coming from John Peters (or one of the other lead devs) saying that they were going to let the meta settle (ie: have people find work arounds) before nerfing things. Personally, I do not see the reasoning behind nerfing the mine.

Firstly, the mine in itself is not that powerful to begin with. A 20 second cooldown that does very minor damage and requires 2GCD’s to activate for a knockback is not worth taking in itself.

Secondly, I have not heard a SINGLE PERSON complain about the blast finishers, seeing as it was very clunky to activate it with combo fields AND it was very underused.

So yea, just my 2 cents there. The mine is entirely unviable now, if anyone wants to argue otherwise, feel free to.

Esports players are going to be calling for this, the current method (tab targeting) is wayyy too clunky in team fights. Please implement this!