This could be a couple of things: The default starting rating in comparison to the populations rating curve i.e Default rating is above/below average. Or the nature of the Glicko algorithm in how it tries to place you as fast as possible i.e you win your very very first game, you’ll shoot up in rating and face tougher opponents.
How long does the volatility last?
Just curious because it’s changing anyway(?).
There are a lot of variables. For instance if you don’t play for a while, your volatility will go up. With a big enough population, a new player can get a pretty stable rating very few games.
This could be a couple of things: The default starting rating in comparison to the populations rating curve i.e Default rating is above/below average. Or the nature of the Glicko algorithm in how it tries to place you as fast as possible i.e you win your very very first game, you’ll shoot up in rating and face tougher opponents.
There are still 2 more Ready Up episodes before the patch, so that’s a thing.
Can i may ask any rework on ele’s scepter skills ? Fire AA is slow and terrible , Dragon Tooth is hard to land and easy to dodge ,Water 2 is totally useless . May Air 3 got some Dps and aoe blind like signet of air and staff air 2 ? Plz say yes , im dont want to stick with Fresh Air anymore ,when it is the best way to play scepter.
Amulet suggestion:
How about making the amulet and jewel each share the same capacity of stats (50% each, instead of 90/10 ratio), so more variations can be achieved? Currently the amulet is determining too much, some amulets only work properly for specific classes.
If the amulet and jewel have 50% of the stats each, it would open up for build diversity. WvW and PvE has it, but not SPvP. It’s the easy alternative to the combinations of jewelry and armor you get in WvW/PvE.
Its an interesting idea. I honestly don’t know how we came up with the standard distributions of stats we have. I know there was a thread a while ago about new stat combinations after ferocity was announced, maybe you could necro that thread.
Are you and Justin playing games on Anet servers late at night? Your posting suspiciously close together.
Programmers have secret telepathic links that less us share posting power.
Evan, not to be critical but it is an idea that has been brought up atleast 200 times since launch. I would at least hope you guys had looked into it by now
#Evanlesh4PrezandCeo2014
I’d say combos already in the game but not PvP should get priority, then we can start trying new hotness.
It’s an interesting idea to visually show selection areas, I can’t think of a game that has done this off the top of my head. However with any amount of overlapping characters that can be on the screen, this may not look so hot.
Is there a way we could better visually show who you would target if you clicked while hovering character models?
Simple – when the “O” goes over a player you could create a thin glow all around the target to create a distinction between the non-targeted ones. If there are multiple players within the circle, allow for tab selection between characters in the circle/approximate to the circle.
We definitely already glow targets when you hover them. I cannot describe the number of iterations of targeting we’ve gone through. It’s incredibly hard to get something that stand out in crowded fights that is still aesthetically pleasing. The two concepts are at odds
The comment I like most from what you said is that the scoreboard would only show a single match, while rank is a stat that comes from outside the match. It’s a worthwhile distinction.
It shall be done. If I can remember when I’m at my desk on Monday. Maybe.
Fluffball, can you think of some iconic way of showing health state in the UI?
The healthbar is pretty tiny, but it miiight be able to fit some text over it like “Downed”, “Defeated”, or “Deathshroud”. Though for other languages it may not fit. That could also make the actual health value hard to see.
Yup. No matter what type of color blindness people have, we can see shades really well (better than “normal” people.) So if a health bar is 100% white in one case and 40% white in a death shroud case, there is no mistaking it.
But pure color like the wurm pheromones or the WvW map is just not readable for many of us (BTW thanks to whoever upped the contrast on WvW colors several months ago.)
That’s pretty interesting. So how well can you read the shades of green used for the double healthbar while targeting a necro in deathshroud? The deathshroud color is a more desaturated green.
lol at the wvw colors. That partially an accident because wvw and pvp shared team colors. I quite like the newer blue. (maybe because I was the one that updated it)
It’s an interesting idea to visually show selection areas, I can’t think of a game that has done this off the top of my head. However with any amount of overlapping characters that can be on the screen, this may not look so hot.
Is there a way we could better visually show who you would target if you clicked while hovering character models?
Rather than place the information inside the health bar itself, why not add some sort of frame around the character portrait (or class icon in simple mode)? It would be similar to the way veterans, champions and legendary NPCs have different portrait frames.
With the ‘Simple Party UI’ option turned on, I can’t imagine there being enough room between the text, health, and icon for a visually distinct border (if we’re trying to avoid colors).
We coooould however use the icon that shows up on the map and put it at the end of he healthbar. Skull for defeated, ankh for downed, something(?) for deathshroud.
We know all about how cool the scoreboard could be. Though as I’ve said before, it’s just not a high priority at the moment :/ I’d really like to see a live scoreboard for spectators like you see in other competitive games.
I also want to bring something up that is related as I’d like to see some discussion about it. We intentionally shipped the scoreboard without showing things like k:d ratios because it put unnecessary emphasis on certain aspects of the game and can lead to ridicule from other players. Just look at what putting ranks on the scoreboard at the end of the match has done. Almost every day there are posts about bad matchmaking where the complaint is purely speculation based on rank numbers when we know for a fact that it has nothing to do with matchmaking. I’m not taking a stance for or against showing more information, but I would like to hear some feedback on the subject.
It shall be done. If I can remember when I’m at my desk on Monday. Maybe.
Fluffball, can you think of some iconic way of showing health state in the UI?
The healthbar is pretty tiny, but it miiight be able to fit some text over it like “Downed”, “Defeated”, or “Deathshroud”. Though for other languages it may not fit. That could also make the actual health value hard to see.
Maybe the player name could change to add health state afterwards like:
“Bluxgore (Downed like a scrub.)”
Amulet suggestion:
How about making the amulet and jewel each share the same capacity of stats (50% each, instead of 90/10 ratio), so more variations can be achieved? Currently the amulet is determining too much, some amulets only work properly for specific classes.
If the amulet and jewel have 50% of the stats each, it would open up for build diversity. WvW and PvE has it, but not SPvP. It’s the easy alternative to the combinations of jewelry and armor you get in WvW/PvE.
Its an interesting idea. I honestly don’t know how we came up with the standard distributions of stats we have. I know there was a thread a while ago about new stat combinations after ferocity was announced, maybe you could necro that thread.
This is a UI bug. You only get 5 rank points per top-stat, but each UI alert is showing your total rank point gain from top-stats. This would have started happening after we made rewards time-based. We’ll work on getting this fixed. Thanks for the report!
What about the fact that the Rank Points you get doesn’t add up for the Rank Point Ttitles? Gladiator, Mercenary, Avenger, Ransacker, Marauder, Ravager etc.. People who’s done tPvP has been leveling without getting these titles. Hotjoiners are R35 with Ransacker, tPvPers are R50 with 5/10 Ransacker.. Shouldn’t be like this.
This has been addressed previously, and will have a retroactive fix.
So we won’t geting because 8% of mac and linux users cant get it? Great…..
It’s my duty as a programmer to be respectful of these things. Does it mean it will never happen? No. It does mean that someone else will have to approve not having a cross platform feature. I’ve already started the ball rolling to get this cross-platform functionality done correctly, but I have no timeline on that.
This is a UI bug. You only get 5 rank points per top-stat, but each UI alert is showing your total rank point gain from top-stats. This would have started happening after we made rewards time-based. We’ll work on getting this fixed. Thanks for the report!
Evan, I think if possible you should also make the Guild Wars 2 icon on the start menu flash when the tournament queue pops and we get the sound notification. That would be clutch.
We do have this functionality, but its currently hacked in as a windows-only feature. I’d like it to be cross-platform if possible before I add it.
Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.
Could there be another option that allows you to check a box that says “Play notification sounds even while minimized”? I’m not sure the difficulties around such a change, but then such a thing could be added to all queues (overflow/wvw/spvp/etc) and still leave growth for whatever else comes up during the games growth that could be classified as a notification.
Yes, you are describing the functionality that we need
Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.
Sometimes when I am stomping people my animation does not go all the way through.
I don’t know if it’s because I was interrupted but my last stand trait kicked in? Or maybe I was immobilized which didn’t stop the stomp?
But I’ve only noticed it on my warrior and thought somehow the stomp was interrupted, but then eventually my hand went up and they were stomped.
This is another animation bug that can happen with quickness. You’ll start stomping with quickness on, so the entire animation plays quickly, but the quickness wears off halfway through so the actual cast time extends beyond the animation.
I am aware of quickness but I do not have any traits or skills that would give me quickness. Literally the entire stomp animation stopped happening and I was just standing there for a few seconds and then all the sudden I stomped him.
It’s happened more than once and always when I was taking fire from other enemies. My guess is I was immobilized or the last stand trait kicked in on a millisecond delay after the interrupt had hit me.
Sounds like skill lag could manifest in that way also. Finishers are a ‘skill’ as far as the game is concerned. Were you getting any other skill lag?
Sometimes when I am stomping people my animation does not go all the way through.
I don’t know if it’s because I was interrupted but my last stand trait kicked in? Or maybe I was immobilized which didn’t stop the stomp?
But I’ve only noticed it on my warrior and thought somehow the stomp was interrupted, but then eventually my hand went up and they were stomped.
This is another animation bug that can happen with quickness. You’ll start stomping with quickness on, so the entire animation plays quickly, but the quickness wears off halfway through so the actual cast time extends beyond the animation.
I’d like to bring up one problem that always arises when we talk about these kinds of features. How would these systems work across different game modes? Either the functionality has to be generic enough for multiple game modes, or have specifics for each map type (which can be harder to learn).
@Nettle,Silver: You’ve explained well the importance of attracting new players.
Specifically for the high-level players it sounds like balance is by far the most important feature to keep you going, which is no surprise. I can’t speak much to that as I program sPvP features and don’t deal with balance first-hand However, the balance patch is coming, so that will definitely be affecting top-tier players. Apart from that, giving feedback on the Ladder CDI would be most beneficial.
Outside of the top 1000 players, you can only view your percentile on the leaderboard to get a rough idea and compare against friends. There is no exact number available below the top 1000 players. If you’re after a sense of progression based on ranking, you should totally go post in the ladder CDI!
I like this question. As you said, our focus right now is to better integrate sPvP with the rest of the game. This will hopefully do one major thing: Bring more people into sPvP that are already playing Gw2. This will mean more competition, and better matchmaking. The new ladders (which I hope you’re giving feedback for in the CDI thread) should be a good way to gain prestige for being the best.
Apart from competition and prestige, what kind of things are most attractive to the high-level players? Personally I’m not hyper competitive and play all parts of the game, so the rewards overhaul will be amazing for me :P
Haven’t played my warrior in a while, but I believe I left him with sword/shield + longbow condi. Then I was playing static discharge engy for a while (still too noob to micro kits). Now I’m having a blast on my siphon necro!
I play, but not with my tag on. ~1200 games (50% of them rated): ~700 warrior, ~200 necro, ~200 engy. I consider myself in the “competative casual” category.
That means a bit more than 2 games a day since release, which to me is casual and has nothing to do with competitive. Especially due to the reason soloq doesn’t proove points for balancing.
Competitive casual is the gamer archetype I put myself in, not a judgement of numbers. To me it represents how I prefer structured matches and winning, but don’t go out of my way to become the best. I don’t claim to know how to best balance the game, I leave that up to the balance team :P I still love to play our game though.
I play, but not with my tag on. ~1200 games (50% of them rated): ~700 warrior, ~200 necro, ~200 engy. I consider myself in the “competative casual” category.
Chopping up maps for smaller team fights is an option. The water in Spirit Watch or the center point in Foefire are examples where players already do this with custom arenas. However, unless we needed 6 TDM maps ‘RIGHT NAOW’, we would still prefer to make a new polished experience and let players with customs arenas keep doing what they already have been.
I am fairly certain a lot of players wouldn’t mind having these “chopped up” TDM maps – no more conquest pls
It seems like people really want (and want we also want) is a way to officially support new games modes combined with our current queues regardless of what the new map is.
Chopping up maps for smaller team fights is an option. The water in Spirit Watch or the center point in Foefire are examples where players already do this with custom arenas. However, unless we needed 6 TDM maps ‘RIGHT NAOW’, we would still prefer to make a new polished experience and let players with customs arenas keep doing what they already have been.
We’ve shown our prototype maps already for new game modes. Our current maps really are designed specifically for conquest. Trying to make a new game mode work on existing maps is really tough because options are so limited. Not to say it’s impossible, but I believe creating a map for a specific game mode really makes it fun to play.
I understand your frustration. As a player, I also want more features. However as a developer, I would rather have our releases get the testing time they deserve. The more we try and do without pushing back release dates, the lower the quality bar of that release gets. Regardless of it being a small fix, when many teams try and ‘squeeze in’ more fixes, they start to go untested, missing from patch notes, and ultimately cause more harm than good.
We have multiple teams all working on different things at different times. The fix for is bug lives with the rest of the upcoming PvP features and will be released at the same time. Since this bug fix will be retroactive, we’re not worried about trying to squeeze it into an earlier release.
You cannot have additional admins for you custom arena. When we are able to update the back-end for custom arenas, we will be able to add admin support.
