Guild Wars 2

havent seen this bad though from others

ok, so this has continued today as well. You cannot tell me there is nothing wrong here when majority of the games end up with one team is completely unable to even cap a point and the entire game is basically 3cap and kills. I am getting these winning and losing as well, and they are all terrible.

Hi,

I have read quite a few topics about the matchmaking system, people are complaining they lose a lot of games, etc which happens to me as well, however I am interested in another aspect to see how wide-spread it is.

I experience about 80% absolutely rubbish quality games, meaning it is a total stomp for either team, with a clear superiority on the entire team level, not just one or two good players.
Here’s a screenshot of my last 10 games. Look at all those sub 100 games, win or lose those are just rubbish games, and the rest aren’t much better either. If the list showed more than just 10 games you would see this pattern going on and on.

This is really starting to p me off, I have a feeling that even completely randomized matchmaking would be better than this…. it was bad last season but not this bad…

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Pepsi.8907:

I can see a couple of scenarios (with no intent at insulting you) :
a) You got carried (by build, friends, etc) to said level and it is, thus, too strong, pairing you with other people and creating unbalanced teams;
b) You got your skill cap and are stuck in that tier until you get better
c) You log at wrong time where the player pool is unbalanced or there’s premade farming Squeue
d) Your win loss ratio is too strong and MMr decides to gently “resolve” the issue
e) System decided to stop loving you and will make you lose on purpose until the end of time

I vote for e…

Or even a, since you seem to view scoreboard as relevant (and I’ll kill whatever debate could have existed by mentionning said fact):

• Scoreboard is based on offensive rather than defensive > reward points for capping and killing
• scoreboard do not take into account reviving allies
• Scoreboard do not take into account bunking a point even if you survive the whole game alone against the whole team
• Scoreboard do take into account whatever kill (even off point) you can make
• Scoreboard do take into account beast killing
• Scoreboard do take into account double point capping
  etc. etc. etc

So having the lowest score doesn’t necessarily mean you are the worthless player on game, just like having the highest score doesn’t mean you’re the top player in game.

My own tips:
1) Get a premade composed of two ele, one mesmer and two DH (or other offensive class)
2) Farm Stronghold
3) Abuse the system
4) Cry in a corner
5) Stop playing

Can be done in whichever order you want.
You can also insert: invent yourself a ruby or higher friend (well skilled at least) who’ll buy another HoT account (preferably) and have his freshly new MMr, team with him, laugh maniacally
If you could have four other players like these, it would be best, but that’s not mandatory.

hehe
thanks, unfortunately not a single friend of mine plays this game, I have tried converting them (mostly from WoW) ever since I quit that one about 2 years ago but none of them ended up sticking to it for more than a few weeks (or even less).
Like I said I would love to have “reached” a skillcap that would mean that I get at least some decent games, but there is on decent game in about 10 for me (and no, it is usually not the one I actually end up winning) most games are just easy win (rare) or near catastrophic defeat (most of the time) where during the entire game you never have the upper hand or any chance for that matter.
Oh and I dislike stronghold so I only play conquest

Hi all,

Just a quick question to see if I am the only one with this problem, but PvP matchmaking seems terrible to me. I have been stuck in the same tier for nearly 3 weeks now (for about 50 games or more), with a win rate of about 20%, meaning I lose about 4 games until I win one, so I am generally 1 pip up then lose and that’s about it.
I am not saying I am any good at PvP, and I would accept the usual response that is given in any other games in a similar situation, that is ‘you have reached your skillcap’, but unfortunately about 90% of games in total are hugely unbalanced, one team not even reaching 200 or 250 points when the other gets to 500 (I soloQ exculsively). So the games are not even close. And on top of it most of the time I when I lose I am actually the best player on the losing team (by score).
I just have no idea what to do and it is starting to become really boring, makes me not want to play PvP at all.
Anyone have any good tips of what I could try to do?

Thanks

Xetu.7341:

Caedmon.6798:

Start using Sweetfx or Reshade and voila.

Doesn’t work with the 64-bit client.

There are ways to get it to work, but so far I had no success.

Havent tried the 64bit client yet, how stable is it? Is there any benefit currently?

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Madman.6912:

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Madman.6912:

Caedmon.6798:

Start using Sweetfx or Reshade and voila.

Yes I was thinking about that but I am just afraid I get banned for cheating if it gets interpreted like a cheat or something

They are perfectly fine to use as all they do is enhance the color of the game. They don’t modify the mechanics in any way. They are just graphic enhancers. Been using Reshade for a LONG time with GW2 and never had any issues.

I seriously can’t play without it now. I tried, and the game is so washed out and faded normally, that I just couldn’t stand it. I need Reshade. lol

What’s the perfromance hit of using it roughly?

Depends on the features you enable. The one I use has about a 5 fps hit, not much. There are others that are more performance friendly with less features. There is also those that are heavy in features that will hit you for about 10 fps.

Regardless, the fps hit isn’t that big compared to things like ENB and such. Reshade is very performance friendly, with only a 5-10 fps hit at max.

But that also depends on your system as well. If you’re using an old system, you’re going to feel it more than if you are using a higher end system.

Nah, I have a 6700k@4.6Ghz and a FuryX, but I am also very sensitive to fps playing on a 144hz monitor in 1440p resolution

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Madman.6912:

Caedmon.6798:

Start using Sweetfx or Reshade and voila.

Yes I was thinking about that but I am just afraid I get banned for cheating if it gets interpreted like a cheat or something

They are perfectly fine to use as all they do is enhance the color of the game. They don’t modify the mechanics in any way. They are just graphic enhancers. Been using Reshade for a LONG time with GW2 and never had any issues.

I seriously can’t play without it now. I tried, and the game is so washed out and faded normally, that I just couldn’t stand it. I need Reshade. lol

What’s the perfromance hit of using it roughly?

Caedmon.6798:

Start using Sweetfx or Reshade and voila.

Yes I was thinking about that but I am just afraid I get banned for cheating if it gets interpreted like a cheat or something

Hi,

I was struggling to place this topic into a category offered so I figured I’d just put it in general discussion about the game, because It doesnt seem like a bug, but it still annoys me.
It is about game colors. It might be some effect the game engine has (in fact this is my best guess), and it is largely subjective, but does anyone else feel like that for about 75% of the time colors seem very “faded” in guild wars 2. There are some areas and scenes where colors seem beautifully vivid (so it is not that “you have a crappy monitor”) – but on the other hand for example when I enter the PvP lobby everything is just like color saturation was reduced to like 10% …

Did anyone else pick up on this?

SourGummy.8570:

I’m currently going thru LS2 chp5. I got gw2 early in the year and was only able to unlock the last chp. I got the ultimate HoT which came with gems and the first thing that I did with them was to unlock all LS2.

I am ok with their approach since this is entirely OPTIONAL. If you want to play thru the story then you buy it (with purchased gems or convert via in-game gold). “Paying for past content” is same as paying to see an old movie, maybe you want to watch the first Hunger Game before the new one in theatre, but you missed it while it aired for free last Sunday night on cable, now you can either pay for a bluray/dvd/netflix/etc, or read about it online, or just skip it and watch the new one.

So far I am enjoying it, but also kind of rushing thru it so I can start with HoT story (level’ed a Rev with only 30 tomes used, also played thru the whole gw2 story again)

No it is not, since the story makes no sense without it…. If the story got continued from where the base game left it off and living world would have been some sidestory (just like any other dlc is for any other game) then I would agree with you that it is optional. But that is not what happened….

If you want, I can explain it with your hunger games metaphore.

Imagine you buy hunger games (1) and watch it. Then later they release the extended edition dvd with 20 minutes extra footage that takes place AFTER the hunger games 1 ended, and they show it onTV on one channel ONE time, and then they start making hunger games 2 but the story picks up after the extended edition’s extra content and not the version you have and make you pay to watch the extended edition extra otherwise you wont understand the second episode….

Never, ever, anywhere that happened

Arianhod.3485:

“Now I would have had no problems with arenanet saying we will release periodic content that will be free if you are an active player or whatever (However they phrase it) …”

They said that, when they started releasing the living story, 2 years or so after the game’s release (with newsletters, blog posts etc). I don’t think that at game release it was already in their plans doing those eps in the way they currently are (and you can see this from how living story 1 was released).

“free once you bought the game once, and you only have to pay for expansions …”

I think their point was that it’s not sub-based, and their point still stand, you can log in whenever and play the game, you’re just missing 8 personal story episodes (something like 24 missions?)

btw, loved the witcher 3
ps: sorry for my english!!!

No dude, from the beginning means when I paid for it, so I know exactly what I am paying for, not a minute later

Arianhod.3485:

I’m sorry but IMO you can’t compare -insert single player game here- with -insert MMO name here- … a single player game is a finished product (except for the occasional DLC, free or not it may be) while an MMO is not, it’s a work in progress (in the sense that new content is kept getting released throughout the years).

As for living story 2, you had the option to log in during the 2-week release of each episode (just log in, and out again) to unlock them for free. Now you can buy the episodes with gems, which you can get from >ingame< gold. If this is not customer friendly I don’t know what is

Sorry but I disagree, I can compare it because witcher 3 released 16 free dlc-s and they SAID it from the beginning that it would be free and they said that there would be paid expansions… Now I would have had no problems with arenanet saying we will release periodic content that will be free if you are an active player or whatever (However they phrase it) FROM THE START and not trying to sneak in this fee later on. But as far as I remember the pitch was that it is free once you bought the game once, and you only have to pay for expansions… (which I did…)
MMO-wise I only play wow and elite dangerous, but none of those charge me extra if I want to enter a vanilla raid because I didnt log in when that was the current thing, or charge me for trying to use wings (ED) because I didnt log in during that patch….

Look at it from this point of view:
I didnt play it for a while, apparently because I didnt find it engaging enough, or simply because some other games at the time were more engaging, and despite this I still had support and faith in them to buy, and not just buy, to PREORDER their official expansion, (even though I left the game because I didnt have enough fun with it) only to get awarded with a pay-gate mobile-game style….

Hi,

Sorry or commenting on this thread but I am in the exact same situation… I fell like getting charged for this is a total disgrace.

I owned this game ever since launch of the original, but since ALL my friends eventually quit it, I started logging in less and less myself, until I basically didnt log in anymore for a long time, and even after this, I still preordered the expansion, paid full price, and on the first week of said expansion I dropped another like 40 GBP on cosmetic stuff purely because I felt like the game devs deserve more money because I think they did an excellent job with the expansion… but then I noticed that there are “gaps” in my understanding of the story, so I went looking for stuff that I might have missed only to be pay-gated by greed for something that was (and is supposed to be) free to players…

On top of that the price is waaaaay too high … I was considering paying for it with the remaining gems i got (even though I felt it was unjustified) but then I had to realize that it is not 200 gems total… it is 200 EACH…. NEVER … GOING … TO … HAPPEN

All they managed to achieve with this is that they got me kittened off and probably stop spending any more until they come to their senses.

They want an example of customer friendly dev team look at cd projekt red and their approach to customers with witcher 3 …

That is another game I considered the devs deserve more money for and I ended up sinking well over 500 pounds into it buying copies for friends, buying collectors edition, buying a whole ps4 with it for a friend of mine … Looks like something like this won’t happen here, I just don’t feel the attitude is correct. As Angry Joe and corporate commander would say “f* off and give me more money!” … I did… I wish I didnt now….

EnderzShadow.2506:

Madman.6912:

Hi everyone,

I kinda returned to the game for the expansion, I played a bit at the launch of the original game, a few months, and I never played pvp back then. Long story short, I started to get bored again and figured I’d try pvp for a change.
I dont know if this is supposed to be happening but basically all the servers that have any people on them are just doing farming in the middle, mostly on skyhammer and nothing else.
I was trying to get some capture points here and there and actually play the game as it is supposed to be, but it didnt seem practical in that environment. Is that really all there is in pvp? 95% of servers dead with nobody on them, the rest is just farming?

Now obviously I am a noob, only been playing pvp for like 2 days but I dont find this experience too satisfying.

Is there any way to get some real games? at least try? please? or is that the big guild wars 2 pvp experience, and that’s it?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Regards

I play plenty of pvp…is it the time you logon? Just guessing, but I play at all times and get regular games.

So honestly, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

However the state of pvp at the moment is a joke.
Pay to win—picked the right op class!

Hi,

around from 11pm onwards (UK time). However as others have pointed out I was only playing this hotjoin servers, well, that’s what the pvp guide showed me in a youtube video, but apparently there are other ways, so I will explore them tonight, thanks everyone

Hi everyone,

I kinda returned to the game for the expansion, I played a bit at the launch of the original game, a few months, and I never played pvp back then. Long story short, I started to get bored again and figured I’d try pvp for a change.
I dont know if this is supposed to be happening but basically all the servers that have any people on them are just doing farming in the middle, mostly on skyhammer and nothing else.
I was trying to get some capture points here and there and actually play the game as it is supposed to be, but it didnt seem practical in that environment. Is that really all there is in pvp? 95% of servers dead with nobody on them, the rest is just farming?

Now obviously I am a noob, only been playing pvp for like 2 days but I dont find this experience too satisfying.

Is there any way to get some real games? at least try? please? or is that the big guild wars 2 pvp experience, and that’s it?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Regards

Getting seriously fed up with this as well… tried and re-tried like 5 times from scratch after npc-s dying all the time. Will run out of repair money if this goes on for long. Funniest thing is that my best try was probably the very first one when I didnt even look at tricks on web on how to do it, since then it’s just getting worse and worse… If I wanted a struggle I would have stayed with wow raiding every day hitting my head against the wall 50 times till a boss goes down, but that’s not why I switched to this game …. Still stuck there, will probably give it a few more tries, and than I’ll throw the whole **** out of the window