Guild Wars 2

Charak.9761:

World 1 is very nice, fun, and done right.

World 2 was just a kick in the face, it’s too big/long. Dont make dungeons/instances take the average player more than 20mins to complete, we’re not playing WoW here. All the worlds reward the same, so why was w2-z2 so long?

You mean you don’t want a zone to take as long as 2 episodes of Dr. Who?!

Aerlen.5326:

Josh Foreman.8250:

Aerlen.5326:

my old NES cart still has my original saves though I’m real sure the battery will die shortly.

That’s amazing. I remember reading the instruction manual as a kid and seeing that the battery life was supposed to be 5 years and being worried about losing my saves!

Yeah, I recall that too but every year I plug it in, the save is still there. 25 years and still there… Nintendo is amazing.

The nintendo has proven to be far more durable then most things like the PS and Xbox. Those things seem to break way to easy but a lot of stuff is cheap as dirt anymore. Computers for example, my old one has been beaten and abused still works fine. The new super duper awesome gaming god computers?! Break after like a year or 2 -_-

Did anyone else get stun locked by the water when you fall in? I usually can jump right out but I just lost like 3 hearts because my invisibility wore off before I could even to try jump out. Just pointing this out incase its a bug.

Josh Foreman.8250:

Aerlen.5326:

Really? I accept that challenge. I play Zelda 1 100% through every November, takes me 6 hours. Game on. The last dungeon dungeon in Zelda 1 doesn’t require perscision perfect jumping for one thing and by then, you have a full complement of hearts plus a red potion plus the vest which cuts damage and the best sword in the game. I can clear that dungeon in 15 minutes tops, how does that even compare to laggy design, instant death, cheap enemies, messed up hit boxes, pixel perfect jumping and the heck I’ve heard others going through?

I will find a group to play world 2 with and we shall see if I clear it in under an hour then.

Awesome. You play through every year? That’s still my favorite game. It’s responsible for my career. I’m working on a re-make with my own high res graphics. Here’s some of the sculptures I’ve done for it so far.
http://scrybe.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24

As to my challenge…. all I know is that I run through SAB over and over constantly and find it very easy. But like I told someone above, I’m very used to the engine problems like camera, lag, weird hit detection, etc so I hardly notice them and have developed strategies for getting through the levels without running into most of the problems described by most. And I’m not a super great jumper. I don’t find the “pixel perfect jumps” accusations to be accurate at all. But I know last time I played through LoZ it took a long, loooong time. And some of those later dungeons were BRUTAL. The rooms with 8 darknuts you can only hit in the back? That seems WAY harder to me than SAB. But I see where you’re coming from. You’re super familiar with LoZ. I’m super familiar with SAB. I’m sure that plays into both our perceptions.

And thats what I was trying to say to him, hes comparing a game hes beaten over and over to a game brand new to him. Was Zelda super duper easy for him the first time through with no guides or google?

Those are Iron Knuckles you mean, the ones you can only hit in the back : P I hate the Wizrobes and they also scared me lol OO the Like-likes, I hate them. The scared me the most, I am like AMG I just bought this bloody shield!

EDIT: AMG YOU DIRTY RAT.

Aerlen.5326:

Meriem.3504:

Aerlen.5326:

Josh Foreman.8250:

Well I would challenge anyone who thinks SAB W2 is harder than Zelda 1 to beat the last couple of dungeons! Zelda is WAY harder. Even so, I certainly don’t want to punish anyone for playing anything I make. Quite the opposite. I really, truly, honestly only want to make people have fun when they play my content. Some people have fun with brutal instant kill stuff like Tribulation Mode. But Normal Mode should not feel like that.

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Really? I accept that challenge. I play Zelda 1 100% through every November, takes me 6 hours. Game on. The last dungeon dungeon in Zelda 1 doesn’t require perscision perfect jumping for one thing and by then, you have a full complement of hearts plus a red potion plus the vest which cuts damage and the best sword in the game. I can clear that dungeon in 15 minutes tops, how does that even compare to laggy design, instant death, cheap enemies, messed up hit boxes, pixel perfect jumping and the heck I’ve heard others going through?

I will find a group to play world 2 with and we shall see if I clear it in under an hour then.

I think he means when you played Zelda back in the day without cheating ie guides and google. Nowadays Zelda is a joke, back in the day it was not.

You mean when I originally beat it in 1988?

I give him that Zelda was a challenge but it didn’t make me ragequit then or now. But like I said.. no perfect jumping, no instant death, no lag, no latency, no tiny hitboxes.. etc etc…

Well this is easier then Zelda for me. I just ran pass all the assassins on the bridge without getting hit once and without stopping first time through. I played games where you have to be near perfect in hitting. Then again Zelda wasn’t a platformer, this is.

Aerlen.5326:

Josh Foreman.8250:

Well I would challenge anyone who thinks SAB W2 is harder than Zelda 1 to beat the last couple of dungeons! Zelda is WAY harder. Even so, I certainly don’t want to punish anyone for playing anything I make. Quite the opposite. I really, truly, honestly only want to make people have fun when they play my content. Some people have fun with brutal instant kill stuff like Tribulation Mode. But Normal Mode should not feel like that.

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Really? I accept that challenge. I play Zelda 1 100% through every November, takes me 6 hours. Game on. The last dungeon dungeon in Zelda 1 doesn’t require perscision perfect jumping for one thing and by then, you have a full complement of hearts plus a red potion plus the vest which cuts damage and the best sword in the game. I can clear that dungeon in 15 minutes tops, how does that even compare to laggy design, instant death, cheap enemies, messed up hit boxes, pixel perfect jumping and the heck I’ve heard others going through?

I will find a group to play world 2 with and we shall see if I clear it in under an hour then.

I think he means when you played Zelda back in the day without cheating ie guides and google. Nowadays Zelda is a joke, back in the day it was not.

Ok I just did the rapids at the start of world 2. I don’t understand what people are complaining about other then your stick can swing a bit farther then it shows and you sometimes need to target what you wanna hit and not just swing wildly.

Does the music at the start of zone 2 remind anyone of snake rattle and roll lol?

Josh Foreman.8250:

Assassin X.8573:

sofar these devs have been nothing but rude kittenbags to the playerbase. Great customer service you have going on here

Howso? I apologize if I’ve come off as rude. I was using the ‘protip’ line a couple times, but I apologized for that and explained that I forgot it’s used to insult people. I was actually trying to be funny and reference the era of gaming SAB is referencing. I really do appreciate the feedback I’m getting here and want to encourage people to share their opinions. That’s how I grow as a designer.

The feedback I like the least is the accusations that I’m basically trying to sell stuff. Since it’s not true it’s not helpful to me. But stuff about difficulty spikes, specific mechanics problems, etc. Those are very helpful.

Aren’t you the peep who made the giant chainsaw for halloween?! If so, necros need chainsaws too! Trying to make minions out of a butcher knife just doesn’t cut it, no pun intended!

Josh Foreman.8250:

Fhaeris.9237:

@everyone: they made it this hard just to sell more infinite coins off the gem store. Don’t fall for this trap.

We made it so that it’s fun to play. It’s quite possible that we are just THAT much better at jumping than the average player, but I doubt it. I want it to be fun. If MOST people think it’s too hard to be fun then I’ll reduce the difficulty. But like I said above, we don’t have good numbers on that yet.

NO! Don’t touch the difficulty! You know how many people died to that first goomba in mario? This brings back the days when super simple games felt far harder then then super complex games today!

I will say I agree that you guys to get harsh treatment and is not needed etc. I actually feel bad a lot of times and I try to be nice. But since the game industry has become more about money and less about a passion of the game, I have notice less and less competence and care with games themselves which has cause me to be more angry to see the thing I loved ruined by greed.

First I say this to not sound mean but I am trying to be constructive with my critism.

I have to question your staff with some of the mistakes, amatuer mistakes, I have seen in this game such as trying to a one time world event? WoW attempted this and we seen how it turns out. WoW solved pet issues in big boss battles and dungeons which this game is not really that far from different. Even LoL uses this concept with the spiderling pets for Elise and that is not even an MMO. Then there is the bugs which I know with programming there is always bugs and they can be real pain to flush out especially when the bugs are cause by things completely unrelated like casting mage armor crashes you because a new boss was put in the game. But there has been bugs in this game for months if not the full year that remained unfixed and while there is always expected to be bugs I feel this game has exceeded the line of acceptable amount to unacceptable amount.

The first examples 2 things are very simple things that should of already been learned from and not repeated. That is why jobs want people who have experience so such silly mistakes aren’t made again right?

As said before, I don’t say it to be mean but I really feel that in some shape or form whether its lack of experience in games, designing or just not really caring, that some of them at least really do not belong in the field or perhaps need to take on different work improve their experience. You said you are human like us right? Then just like with other profession some people are just bad at what they do. We seen it with with very important professions such as doctors and nurses so it can happen with even game developers.

From the original idea of the necro, we aren’t suppose to escape. They said something like when you lock horns with a necro, one of you will die. The necro can’t run away but the necro prevents you also from running away. But then again they haven’t stuck to their original ideas anyways. We are having event after event of killing enemies in a circle.

Quite frankly I wouldn’t hold your breathe anymore if things will get better for us. WoW solved the pet idea years ago and GW2 isn’t that much different where they can’t take the concept and implement into this game. A year later and a simple mechanic still hasn’t been implemented so they are at least usable in dungeons and boss mobs.

Alissah.9281:

2 words:

boobs physics

I actually think the female running animation is a bit weird… Maybe thats just me being used to sylvari :/.

The boob physics doesn’t even work correctly and has been broke since forever : p

DIdn’t have this problem originally but past few months with the patches I have this issue along with the loading screens taking longer and longer. I am being told its the game being poorly optimized or something.

fla.8021:

Is there a way i can make an alarm to go off when Dredgehaunt Cliffs is invaded?

Thats why I said sleep 50 mins to give you time to log on and be ready for the next spawn.

Keep pushing because this is the last day. Just hope the RNG doesn’t kill you on it. Best you can do is take a nap for 50 mins then check. if not, take another 50 min nap. That may help get you through depending on how your body handles sleep.

The worse thing is that the debuff does not countdown when you log off. Someone needs to be devoured by the darkness for that one.

I disgree that this was close to Halloween. The Mad King and his story is awesome while Scarlet and her story is really bad. The good thing about this event was her machines are really neat and I love the design. Her minions suceeded where she failed.

While I did not like the watchknights completely and I think Scarlet was unsuccessful attempt at creating an evil and scary yet goofy character, the actualy Twisted minions, mainly the ones that are the watchknights themselves really capture the theme of the crazy but evil. : 3

Isende.2607:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Gabby.3205:

Thomassassinate.9370:

@Colly, i wouldnt mind that, i guess the only problem would be ability to hide armor, and i guess players would complain saying the other player had a advantage over him (aka the person lost and is QQing)

Ahh, class identity. It takes me back to my childhood, playing Ragnarök… People would ask for some form of customization, other people would say that then it would be too hard to tell one class from another. Good old times (haha nope).

People will always complain. Still, I want more permanent tonics that can be used in battles, and ones that REALLY are permanent and that can be used in WvW. I would love a Kodan combat tonic, I would make a new character with a typical Kodan name and I would be a Kodan forever.

People that are bad at PvP will never understand the need to identify another class, the reason is because they will never understand PvP. Based on what you guys say they should just go ahead and remove all visual tells from PvP.

I don’t think any explanation would work. You either get it, or you don’t. I don’t think anyone expects much from the PvE crowd anyway.

in rift, we had costume slots that let us appear any way we wanted to, including in pvp. then, came the crying about “i can’t tell what class it is!” trion removed the ability to costume in pvp.

THEN came the outcry from pvpers — NOTICE, please, from the pvp crowd, NOT the pve crowd — that if people couldn’t recognize what a class was by the weapons used and the skills used, they didn’t need to be in pvp.

outcry was so huge that we were given back our ability to costume ourselves, anywhere.

I don’t know about Rift but in GW2 there is this little icon next to the potrait that shows what class they are. People need to use it.

I just death shrouded and cast fear on her. She ran away like the polished kitten she is!

RyuDragnier.9476:

I’m sorry, but I loved Scarlet’s dialogue in her Playhouse. It was witty, I laughed a few times, and she seems like a truly insane character I wouldn’t mind seeing often. She’s the Joker, and we’re Batman.

That is an insult to the Joker!

PS Mad King for Prez!

Electro.4173:

Hmm. I’m really not sure why people seem to have such varying degrees of success with the events in overflow.

I’ve done just short of 20 invasions, more than half in of those were in overflow, and I’ve gotten into an event every single time. Don’t do anything special, just port to the invasion zone ASAP when the prompt changes to tell me where said invasion is happening. Never run into the bugged overflow with no event. And yet based on some of the other responses it would seem that bugged overflows account for at least 50% of them.

I’m not calling those people reporting bugged overflows liars or anything, certainly. I’m just baffled at the varied experiences and how it can be such an issue for some and a non-issue for others.

Good ol RNG!

PolishSausage.1279:

Aetherblade in general are a real pain the kitten to deal with because they can essentially stunlock a large group of players.

Molten Alliance meanwhile are too easy, as they have very low health, do little damage, and it’s even possible to solo their tunneling machines.

The clockwork mobs though seem to fall somewhere in the middle. The bigger guys hurt a lot and really do need to be focus fired, while the small ones can be AoEed and double tapped to make sure they don’t reform.

I’m not sure if this was intentional or not, but that’s about how it feels.

If it was a group of Molten Alliance Gunners with those protectors, we’d be singing a different tune… XD

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Best to describe this story is liken to putting make-up on a pig.

Everybody already know about the pig and making it nice a pretty doesn’t change the fact — it’s still a pig.

So what exactly did we learn that is useful from the story? Absolutely nothing! The pig is still a pig, only prettier with flowery words to describe what happened.

Besides, this story is not well thought off.

She claims, “So much makes sense now. The Pale Tree, the Nightmare Court, Caithe and Faolain…it’s all part of a grand design.”

Yet she believes that she’s not part of that design and can change things however she wants.

“We can change the rules…well, I can. And I’m going to.”

WHAT THE H’?!

If she’s as smart as the story claims her to be, she would have realized that her every action are perhaps part of that “grand design”; that all her actions are preset and predefined and there’s no way for her to escape that fact.

But whatever, let the reality in Tyria implodes.

Heard about the polished kitten before but not the make up on the pig lol.

If you have the time, make a character on her account and level it up to do the quests for her. The tonic is account bound so can just give it her to character. I think that would be the faster easier way.

Do as many of the dailys, monthlys and events in general as you can cause they can help level you fast along with running dungeons once your higher.

Demented Sheep.1642:

I find her to be a bit wacky and over the top like a cartoon viallin. Her attitude, her over competence (she graduated from every Asura collage?) and the way she going around destroying kitten yet it just doesn’t feel all that devastating. Not that everything has to be serous but she just sin’t really “clicking” with me.

Weirdly I like Mad King Thorn and he’s pretty much just off his nut and evil. Somehow he manages to still be intimidating whereas Scarlet isn’t.

Ya thats what I was trying to say there is just a certain art on how to do it. I am not sure myself but some work really well and others don’t. Scarlet missed the mark.

… villages being razed! Mass killings of NPCS!!! I felt that is why Flame and Frost was meh because there was no actual attacks cept a few small camps. This is even less then that, that I seen so far.

Destroying the Lion Statue and Lighthouse were good ideas. Need to bring that up to like leveling a part of Divinty’s Reach, like a section or 2 destroyed. Or actual towns being burnt to the ground or badly damaged.

Mad King Mad King Mad King!

So far I think she is terrible. There is a certain way you need to goofy characters that are to be feared. The Joker is an obvious a example, especially in the Dark Knight Movie. Kefka from Final Fantasy 6 is a another amazing example, hes pretty much the Japanese Joker though other then being a goof ball like the joker, he is his own character and pretty freaking evil too.

I crashed yesterday on my first Scarlet spawn -_- and on a map I needed!

I don’t know if its the event or what. It isn’t the people either cause I went to a zone that wasn’t being invaded and even 2 cities and it still choppy. Didn’t have an issue earlier but I don’t know! Thanks!

KOPPER.1458:

You are playing a game, it shouldn’t be work

When you have to do repetitive play play, it becomes work. I did the event in area I needed, finally had Scarlet spawned and crashed and got no credit for her or the area. The real question is, will this happen again?

XcmGT.3847:

Meriem.3504:

Yes it is bugged. most of the events don’t count me as completing them, ie getting a medal even though I sitting right there beating on this and staying until the end.

I really think people call bug way too much on these forums…you need to make sure you are only attacking scarlet’s minions they are the only ones that count as portals. The pirates and molten alliance do not count, also, if you do not get it in the first wave I would not bother since most will be doing pirates or molten alliance.

I know this! I do the twisted minions only. The bar says portal strength, the other 2 do not.

Yes it is bugged. most of the events don’t count me as completing them, ie getting a medal even though I sitting right there beating on this and staying until the end.

Tathar Lossehelin.5761:

Hobo-tron is the best written character in the Living Story. Pure hilarity!

Job–o–Tron: Just–a–few–basic–questions. First–question: What–is–your–occupation?
Tergvi: I’m an adventurer. I roam the globe, taking what I can find and living off the land.
Job–o–Tron: Recording–response: “Raider.”
Tergvi: I’m no raider. I kill dangerous beasts and those who do evil. I defend the innocent.
Job–o–Tron: Updating–response: “Muderous–raider–with–delusions–of–grandeur.”
Job–o–Tron: Next–question: What–is–your–dream–job?
Tergvi: To be a traveler. I’ve been from the Shiverpeaks to the Sea of Sorrows, but there’s so much more to see.
Job–o–Tron: Recording–response: “Hobo.” Next–question: What–is–your–greatest–professional–accomplishment?
Tergvi: I’m not answering any more of your questions.
Job–o–Tron: Recording–response: “No–professional–accomplishments.” Now–tabulating–results…
Job–o–Tron: Update: We–currently–have–no–opportunities–available. Please–re–apply–when–your–skill–set–has–improved.

He says a bit more after the contracts are destroyed, he mumbles to himself something with that he will probably be replaced with a non golem and become a hobo or vagrant. I have it somewhere screenshotted.

locoman.1974:

Actually Anise is in love with Hobo tron, but her responsabilities to the queen don’t let her elope with him, which is what makes her bitter… but since she can’t take it out on the Queen, she takes it out on Logan…

The Queen just finds it funny so anytime she decides to annoy Logan she looks the other way..

Do not bring such shame and blasphemy about our beloved Hobo-tron!

lordkrall.7241:

So, people shout about how this should be in-game.
HOW would this be in-game?
The only one that could tell us all this would be Scarlet (if she even can due to the experiment) and I have rather major doubts she would tell us.

They can do it differently then literally take what is written there and put it in game. Games have done it, its not a new concept, its about how you execute it.

The Mad King is a perfect example! The way he was portray and talked about did not tell us every little detail but it was enough to really show his character. Then if you wanted you could cheat and go outside and read his story!

WoW try to this stuff and it was terrible because you didn’t have much of a clue if any what was going in game! Who is this new king? Why is he acting and looking like a barbarian? No idea cause I didn’t read some comic strip about him!

Cyan.6904:

These short stories are always great to read, and are a huge slap in the face for all the people who claim the writing around this game is poor. I do agree that it would be nice to see this information presented in-game.

The depth I was missing around Scarlet is here now, and I’m eager to find out more.

The writing around this game IS poor. Is this info in the game? No thereforth I do not care and it is non existent in the game world. I would read a book if I wanted to read stuff like this. I play an RPG game to RPG in the game, not tab out to read the website.

Telemin.7380:

He says that inside the playhouse, during one of the encounters with Scarlet.

OO I didn’t go there yet so he only has that one thing with the 3 pirates with the ceremony? Thanks also!

Elbegast.6970:

“EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!” – Hobo-Tron, God Of All Daleks, Supreme Emperor Of Skaro Tyria

Fire-the-laser—- pew—-pew—resistance-is-futile!

I can see it now! The pirates will re-engineer him and make him evil and with fancy weapons and maybe big! Epic Boss Hobo-Tron! He will be come Terminator-Tron until we save him!!!! The hades with the queen and the crazy tree lady, for Hobo-Tron!

PS WTB Hobo-Tron mini!

Nilkemia.8507:

Hobo-Tron’s okay. Except for this bit during the Scarlet fight:

Hobo-Tron: “I-miss-Southsun-Cove.”

Sorry Hobo-Tron, but I doubt many others miss it.

I also noticed that he and that minstrel were also shielded like Scarlet was. Could they be evil too?

When does he say that? I watched his chat and he never said this? o.o I only seen him talk when he has 3 pirates around him. Is there more I am missing?

YESSSS he was the first thing I was looking for!!! When does he talk though? I been standing around waiting for them to jab at each otheer and nothing : [ Is it only after we get attacked?

BobbyStein.2315:

SquirrelKing.8964:

I would like to add that I do not have a low spec machine. I have a core-i7 processor with a radeon 7950 HD and 16gb of ram. My fps was over 40 for the duration of the cutscene. I don’t think it is anything wrong on my end.

What was your latency?

You really need to check youside and I mean that sincerely. I get a constant warning only with your game thakittens (why you are filtering a everyday grammar word such as it I do not know) running my CPU at 100%, your graphic and loading screen have been loading slower and slower as this game has progressed and I have ran higher end games then this and don’t have any issues.

I did not have any of these issues when I first played Gw2 but as updates came, I notice these problems surfacing.

Mad King for Prez! Scarlet is only good for fire wood! See how that rhythms!

Elbegast.6970:

BobbyStein.2315:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

…I think we still have much to find out rather than “we know all we will ever find out”.

There is a lot more to come. The Living World story is paced very differently than other content in the game, partially due to the nature of how we build and release it. I won’t spoil anything other than say that we’ll reveal more in time.

Your ‘pacing’ is too slow. I don’t remember what happened last content update…some politics or a party or something. By the time you tie this story in with the others, I will have forgotten it too.

Aside from the poor/lazy/unintelligible storytelling, these Living Story ‘chapters’ don’t work very well if you keep ripping them from the book once they are read.

I really think they need to instance and/or phased this stuff including entire areas yes. For example with Molten Alliance LS, the entire area of Wayfarer hills has a seperate Wayfarer Hills which is instance but focuses soley on the invasion. You can run around the whole are like before but it will focus MA events and stuff. Plus they could even juice up more since it wouldn’t interfer with lowbies such as MA attack forts and towns. Hoelbrak gets burned to the ground? No problem cause that part is a seperate instance.

WoW actually did this where Orgrimmar nad Undercity, the Orc and Undeadcaptial city was completely phased for people who were on a certain quest line. You could go anywhere in the city like usual unless certain parts were blocked off for story purposed cause it was under martial law/invasion depending which one you were in.

Aion has a battleground that was a main hub city in a previous expansion. The city still remains there for others to enjoy but you can do the instance version for the new expansion as it was pretty much razed.

For like DR you have the hole still there, phased out. until you do a certain part of the story to open up the Gauntlet and rebuilding of the hole.

Eldrake.1543:

Meriem.3504:

I am serious when I say this but the Mad King felt threatening, minus past 4 of halloween which should be deleted where as a lot of these other bad guys do not or a joke. He feels a cross from the joker in the original batman movie with the new one!

Again Aetherplate pirates are clowns with bad batteries.

The Mad King is more deserving of the title as the personal nemesis than Scarlet is. I mean, I am eagerly anticipating his arrival. He’s nemesis material.

I really really like him! I started playing around Halloween which sucked me into GW2 but its pretty downhill for the most part from there in terms of story. Molten Alliance seemed like it was going be awesome but was meh for me anyways…

I am serious when I say this but the Mad King felt threatening, minus past 4 of halloween which should be deleted where as a lot of these other bad guys do not or a joke. He feels a cross from the joker in the original batman movie with the new one!

Again Aetherplate pirates are clowns with bad batteries.

And that is why I think only the Mad King is scary thus far in this game. Delete the last phase where he jokes at the halloween event and hes pretty crazy and scary. I am serious when I say the candy corn monsters among the Mad Kings insanity is far far far better then these so called pirates which are more like clowns with batteries gone bad.

You may think it sound stupid but think about this for a moment. If in real life you saw giant candy corn monsters and plastic spiders and glow in the dark skeletons rips people limb from bloody limb with some crazy guy laughing, thats a hell you don’t want to see! The dumbest stuff is sometimes the scarier stuff.