It’s part of the second release in September called Tequatl Rising. It’s not in the game yet.
From how I understand it, the turrets remove his stacks of armour defense, so if no-one is manning them and removing the poison around the area, healing the people at his feet, and removing his armour stacks, they probably won’t be able to beat him.
It’s basically an event that requires co-ordination to succeed. Not just standing there and hitting 1.
They mentioned the rewards have been revamped for him, including a chance at ascended weapons and a mini Tequatl and a unique ascended skin that you can only get from Teq.
They’re ‘permanent’, but at a much reduced frequency, so they aren’t going to happen every hour.
I’m not 100% sure whether they’ll be in the game forever, though. I’m guessing that whenever the Living Story has us deal with Scarlet for good, the invasions may disappear then.
I can’t wait for this. Mega excited!
I agree about how impressive it is to have the content updates every 2 weeks.
Is any other software developer doing this? Errrm no.
Also, when you look at them, they are pretty big, each update.
So it is IMPRESSIVE, even through each individual player may not like parts of it.
What do you find impressive about it? No other software developers are doing this for a reason. It is impossible to produce quality concepts and quality code with a 2 week dev cycle. I’m a software developer and I thought the previous one month cycle was crazy. No matter how they organize their teams to emulate a longer cycle, the meta is that they have a 2 week cycle. Everything produced to date is the fruit of short-term thinking to get something out the door. It will continue on this way until they extend their development cycle. Impressed? No, I would say that I am shocked that any developer group would consider a 2 week dev cycle even viable.
it’s actually something like 4 weeks, but i think the point is still valid. several teams overlapping each other. which creates an additional obvious constraint that these all have to be largely independent and self-contained. it’s nothing like a “living world.” more like a travelling circus.
As of recently, it’s actually 4 months to produce one month’s worth of Living World stuff.
I believe the first living stories that have had the full 4 months of development time are the upcoming October ones. It was in an interview (I think) Colin had recently, though I can’t find it right now.
EDIT: or did you mean a 4-week worth of content to do and not the development time? Confusion, ho!
Yeah, this doesn’t seem like a “No, we’ll never do expansions” kinda answer to me.
Well the lighthouse and landscape changes to Southsun were.
Anyway, besides that, I don’t know how recent that 460 000+ players at one time is. I assume that’s the highest they achieved in year 1.
They’d have to provide us with an actual count of ‘active’ players, and set their own parameter for ‘active’, e.g. logged on in the last month, week, whatever for us to get a good picture. Still, even 100 000 users playing at one time is good.
I can only guess they’re doing good financially, though. We know they have 4 active teams that have 4 months to do content for just the living world now, and we’ve been told there are other projects they are working on in the background they haven’t told us about yet.
Yes…it could only mean those 2 things. There’s no other possibility.
Well, that’s a shame. He seemed like a nice guy who had a lot of passion for the game.
Still, I wish him luck in whatever he’s hoping to do next.
Slap in the face with the next week LS.
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Well there’s going to be a second release in September, and as I’m assuming SAB will be all month long (like it was in April), then I’m sure there’s plenty of time for something terrible to happen to SAB or something else.
No. To get inside Scarlet’s Playhouse, you have to go to Vorpp and enter his portal, which is just in front of the railings at the giant eagle/bird statue thing.
Once you’ve completed her Playhouse, you can go back into the CP the way you did before.
Did you finish Scarlet’s Playhouse?
I think the reason they don’t put this in-game is so we see the world through our character’s eyes, and we aren’t going to know her complete backstory just by being there.
However, that doesn’t excuse them from at least doing more with it in-game to make it feel part of the world. They could have added a couple of NPCs over the last couple of months to Rata Sum, around Hoelbrek, to the hylek, hell even a mysterious dead asura covered in vines, or at least an asura saying that they found one covered in vines, with each of them mentioning tales of what’s in that short story.
That would have been a lot of fun for the lore/story community. Piecing together different stories from NPCs. Even had one of them mentioned a Caera, it still wouldn’t have spoiled it until today. Today could have been the day that theories would have been proven right by the small little hints and clues about Scarlet’s background that were placed in the game back when F&F was released if they were there.
I could be wrong – they may have been added, but I haven’t seen anyone in the lore section or in the general section mentioning any text referencing Scarlet in the past couple months.
Well she’s sylvari so she doesn’t have a childhood, but I get your point. I took it as, “You should be happy now because soon you’re going to find it very difficult to be happy at all.”
I agree that they should have had all the zones appear once in 13 hours and then reorganise the order each time so it’s fair to each time zone.
Having said that, I say this almost every event to my guildies where there’s a hella difficult or time consuming achievement – this game becomes so much more relaxing and enjoyable when you just do the achievements you enjoy doing. It really isn’t worth the points if it is burning you out or making you stop doing other things. They will continue to introduce hardcore time gated achievements in this living story – and personally I’m okay with that. If someone wants to top the leaderboards or be on the top of their guild by playing constantly for a week, more power to them.
I just look at it this way – are 25 points really worth me possibly burning myself out and not playing for a month, which means I’ll then miss out on hundreds of points?
Yeah, she’s a massive stereotype of a villain, but I still enjoyed what little we got on her. She’s a refreshing change from what we’ve seen so far. Now if every villain from here until the last living story is like her, I’ll start seeing a problem.
The only thing I found a bit jarring was Vorpp’s line, “I know of this Scarlet…” and her having been trained and studied so much with multiple races. How come no-one else seemed to have heard about her until now? Especially when Mai-Trin was captured and full on said her name. Were our characters too busy killing an elder dragon to have even heard of her?
As far as we know, it’s actually a bug until confirmed otherwise: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Merged-Twisted-Portal-device-doesn-t-teleport/first#post2666352
Well that’s just them not spoiling what happens in the instance.
We don’t know why she’s attacking Tyria yet, no.
Also keep in mind she doesn’t just hate humans or the Queen. She was also behind the the Aetherblades attacking Lion’s Arch, and the Molten Alliance attacking the Charr/Norn homelands, or at least involved in it.
It was never meant to happen in the first place.
If you go back to the release page, we find that the official title for it is: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/august-20-2013/
Clockwork Chaos and not Queen’s Speech.
I don’t know whether we’ll find out if the Queen had something big to announce or not.
No. She’s still alive.
Her ‘death’ in the invasion events were her being her overdramatic/psychotic self.
It’ll be 10pm for you, Spooky.
Well, I’d argue it’s skewed in favour of those players that enjoy going around the world and hitting F rather than being skewed in favour of players that want solo content.
Canach’s story instance and the gauntlet are the only 2 things in the LS so far that you have/had to do solo.
I don’t disagree with you, though. An additional group set of bosses for the gauntlet would be good. They are bringing it back in the future, so let’s hope they think of adding some 5-man bosses to the gauntlet….so long as they redesign the arena to be a bit bigger.
I’m going to go with troll post for now.
That doesn’t mean every single part of the living story is going to be group content. They’ve said multiple times that they’re trying to get a mix for those that enjoy the various types of content.
I hope she takes over the live-stream, too, to prevent us from getting spoiled.
Looks like we need Batman…or BatQuaggan.
Methinks you posted in the wrong thread by accident.
Voice was added to ride the lightning? Which one? My ele is my main and I haven’t heard it.
I’m all for more options so long as it’s optional. I like the frequency of my attunement lines so I’d hate for them to reduce them.
But it’s not.
Your original post is that they can sell the one they don’t want and get the one they do. If they want the minipet that is 200 gold and the one they get and sell is 50 silver, it is still going to kitten off those who hate RNG.
Personally, I don’t care. I played GW1, I didn’t get a rare minipet until 3 years into my characters’ birthday and I had 12 characters., but I was never into selling them. I liked keeping them unless I had duplicates. My kuunavang from Factions CE was worth a lot undedicated but he was my first minipet, so I refused to sell it, so if they added birthday minipets similar to GW1s, it wouldn’t bother me, because I wouldn’t pay for the expensive ones anyway.
What annoys people, though, is that some people can get 200gold richer just because they got lucky. It’s the same reason a select number of players hate the current way to get precursors, though that situation is slightly different because you can come off poorer.
I actually miss how often Mesmers say their mantra lines. It seems too low to me now.
I quite liked charging it up and hearing, “Obfuscate. Disorient. Confuse!!’” Takes a lot of charges for me to hear them now.
I actually got this (yeah it was probably a bit of luck) by just doing my 30 balloons.
My guild members were pretty good at letting others know which champ was up, too and where without starting it before other guild members got there.
Yeah, I agree with this.
I only have 3 level 80s after a year and I still have 5 to go, but I get this is pretty useless for those who have all 80. There’s always going to come a point where this is a useless item unless you keep a character under level 20 for a year or you constantly delete and re-make characters.
Depends really.
If they add 10 minipets to the birthday presents and they all have an equal chance of dropping, then selling them and trading them would work. There’s still going to be ones that are favoured over the others and worth more but they aren’t going to be ultra expensive.
If you go back to GW1’s system where some people will get a rare minipet that could be sold for hundreds of gold but most people get a common one that sells for under a gold, it’s still gonna kitten people off.
Yeah, they’ve gotta be hiding something. You’re not going to get a meta achievement for just listening to her speech.
Yeah as draconx said it needs to be done in one zone. I assume it’s a bug they just haven’t fixed rather than intentional.
Best way to get it is to join a zerg that’s doing champions at the moment in Cursed Shore, or just craft your way there.
As Jorno stated, whenever you make our character’s speak in Living Story, it’s not a case of hiring one actor – it’s a case of getting 10 actors back into the recording studio and making sure that they can all be recorded in time for the Living Story release.
Interesting to note, however, is that they did recently add lines for Belcher’s Bluff for our own characters. Normally, when actors are brought in, they’re very rarely brought in for just voicing lines in a small mini-game. It wouldn’t surprise me if our characters had lines in future living story releases.
They recognized me in the instance, but didn’t in the map itself. That’s a known bug, though.
Go watch the twitch.tv preview. They said this is supposed to be hard, and not everyone is supposed to be able to complete it.
And it IS coming back, it’s confirmed in another thread.
I know it is coming back but as to whether the achievements and the mini will remain doable after the event is still unaddressed.
It’s been confirmed the achievements will, too.
Queen’s Gauntlet will return, possibly as part of the activity rotation or even other events. In any case, you’ll be able to complete those achievements at a later date.
Part of me was a little bit disappointed, but then I thought that it probably takes a lot more time and resources for very little benefit to us.
There’s no way in the mists that they would create a unique path for each hot air balloon in each map before sending you to a loading screen. That would take a while, and comes with its own set of problems. They didn’t design the maps to be seen from high-up, so they’d probably have to go back in and fix any ‘end of the world’ visuals you get from being high in a balloon.
The only feasible way I can think of them doing it would be for them to send you to a separate map where you can see land below and Divnity’s Reach in the distance and THEN to Divinity’s Reach, but that’s then two loading screens and getting devs to create a new instance that, while nice the first time you see it, probably has very little pay off to players for the time it would take.
I am not a game developer, though, so the above is complete guesswork.
While you make good points, please can everyone in this forum stop using the words ‘the majority feel’ or something to that effect. You don’t know what the majority want or feel. Anecdotal evidence from the forums or some people you heard in map chat or your guild are not ‘the majority’.
We also have no idea how relaxed or stressed the devs are doing these updates. They could have structured it to be quite relaxing for all we know.
Same time every day.
Midnight GMT/UTC.
For now, that’s 8pm EST, 5pm PST, 1am BST, etc.
Basically, it’s 3 hours from the time you posted.
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Just a couple of points.
This fight wasn’t intended to be beaten by the majority of the playerbase, so if they look at the amount of people achieving it not being very high, they’ve succeeded as far as ANet see.
I, and a number of other people beat her with condition damage specs, so you don’t have to go zerker.
I don’t live in America, either, but I’m on an NA server and I don’t have any issues ping wise, and my internet’s pretty average. I live in England, though. I’ve heard Aussies have problems with lag.
Other points people make about the fight (poor camera, voids not being destroyed with range and fps problems with gigantic zergs below them) I feel are valid, though. The blinding she does is a little bit pointless when you can just turn it off in the settings, too.
The one in Queensdale is bugged. You can only loot one of the two. Of the other maps I’ve done, both of them can be looted.
I don’t know if this bugs persists in certain other maps, though.
The system tries to recognize you saying the same or similar thing over and over again, rather than a lot of things close together, though I think it recognizes spam, too.
The easiest way to avoid it is to keep changing how you say thank you, which I know sounds absurd, but there we go.
It’s more for suppressing Gold Sellers, I believe, than anything else.
Could it be Quaggan Soup?
gasp
You wouldn’t!
…though now I’m interested in what Quaggan would taste like.
This is answered here, third dev post down: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Chomper-binding/first#post2588440
Queen’s Supper.
We travel around Tyria collecting food to fatten up Queen Jenna so that no enemy can kidnap her without a large amount of strong villain-types carrying her.
I may, or may not have got this plot from another game.
The one asking for help when you’re downed has been in since release, I think. I seem to remember hearing it very rarely back then. They may have just increased the frequency for which they play.
There’s a rare one for when they pick up rocks off of the floor, too (and possibly other things.
I’ve never heard any of my human characters say a line when reviving someone, though.