Guild Wars 2

Benjamin.7893:

Starts the thread saying “Why I don’t play WvW”
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snowaugar.1823:

Onshidesigns.1069:

snowaugar.1823:

Onshidesigns.1069:

snowaugar.1823:

I reitterate how rediculous it is to attempt to add realism to a game with dragons undead and other creatures and the ability to throw fire balls
… who says erryone wasn’t born with magical sight… but yes realism ina magical world lol

There is no magic is the game with that ability. Magical worlds still need to abide by simple rules to make sense. Realism within the realm of fantasy.

This confuses the kitten outa me fantasy doesn’t need to follow any rules whatso ever its fantasy its imaginary realism dictates I can’t hurl fireballs from my hands or shout at people to make them stop bleeding… its fantasy not reality f-a-n-t-a-s-y

No fantasy is just changing the rules. The player stats are fantasy rules. It’s a different world with rules. Ask yourself what realism is to your character.

On the issue Realism. What is that here? Realism is a illusion in this world. Everything is a wave but we perceive it as particles.

Someone had one too many… and your point is fairly null and nonsensical.. realistic rules like vision impairments in a world of magic makes no sense

I never once said “realistic rules”. It’s fantasy rules written out in a way that would seem realistic to the character on the screen.

On the part where I talk about actual realism in this world, Is true. Look up the two slit experiment if you don’t believe it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6Mq352f0E

Wolfheart.1938:

We’ll miss you dearly…not.

Have fun playing TEXT on a screen.

snowaugar.1823:

Onshidesigns.1069:

snowaugar.1823:

I reitterate how rediculous it is to attempt to add realism to a game with dragons undead and other creatures and the ability to throw fire balls
… who says erryone wasn’t born with magical sight… but yes realism ina magical world lol

There is no magic is the game with that ability. Magical worlds still need to abide by simple rules to make sense. Realism within the realm of fantasy.

This confuses the kitten outa me fantasy doesn’t need to follow any rules whatso ever its fantasy its imaginary realism dictates I can’t hurl fireballs from my hands or shout at people to make them stop bleeding… its fantasy not reality f-a-n-t-a-s-y

No fantasy is just changing the rules. The player stats are fantasy rules. It’s a different world with rules. Ask yourself what realism is to your character.

On the issue Realism. What is that here? Realism is a illusion in this world. Everything is a wave but we perceive it as particles.

snowaugar.1823:

I reitterate how rediculous it is to attempt to add realism to a game with dragons undead and other creatures and the ability to throw fire balls
… who says erryone wasn’t born with magical sight… but yes realism ina magical world lol

There is no magic is the game with that ability. Magical worlds still need to abide by simple rules to make sense. Realism within the realm of fantasy.

Is this Acceptable?

This is Unacceptable!

“Fog of War” can also be achieved by making the WvW maps less visible in the distance.
*things like fog, smoke, low light, rain, fire, blowing snow, atmospheric haze

snowaugar.1823:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Olvendred.3027:

Basically, with your first suggestion, you want a return to culling. But with the added bonus of making it hard to see even those enemies whose models have rendered (at different distances, of course, based on each individual’s graphics options). We can call it ‘Culling+’.

Somehow I have difficulty seeing this getting a lot of support from the wider community.

Turn your settings down or buy a better computer.

Why should you be able to tell who is even in the distance? This idea is about realism.

Realism ina world where you can hurl fireballs good idea all of you should go back to your cod ….. because we all know how realistic……

I don’t Ever play COD. It’s too easy with a GUI that assists players. JUST LIKE GW2 WvW TAGS.

When I say Realistic. I mean the “Fog of War”. The fog of war is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations.¹ The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one’s own capability, adversary capability, and adversary intent during an engagement, operation, or campaign.

Olvendred.3027:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Olvendred.3027:

Basically, with your first suggestion, you want a return to culling. But with the added bonus of making it hard to see even those enemies whose models have rendered (at different distances, of course, based on each individual’s graphics options). We can call it ‘Culling+’.

Somehow I have difficulty seeing this getting a lot of support from the wider community.

Turn your settings down or buy a better computer.

Why should you be able to tell who is even in the distance? This idea is about realism.

You may be talking about realism, but, as I said, I think you’ll find more players are interested in playability, and not being disadvantaged because they have an inferior system to someone else. There were months of complaint and effort before culling was removed, it seems unlikely they’d bring it back, but worse.

I’m not saying it’s not a nice thought for an ideal world, it’s just utterly impractical.

You should not even be able to tell who the enemy is at long distances. WvW now is to easy for large groups and impossible for small groups.

Player Character.9467:

Players can already scout and call out enemy positions…

Only in chat. Players can’t mark positions on the map.

If you ever played MAG on playstation 3. You would understand what I mean when I say reconnaissance.

Olvendred.3027:

Basically, with your first suggestion, you want a return to culling. But with the added bonus of making it hard to see even those enemies whose models have rendered (at different distances, of course, based on each individual’s graphics options). We can call it ‘Culling+’.

Somehow I have difficulty seeing this getting a lot of support from the wider community.

Turn your settings down or buy a better computer.

Why should you be able to tell who is even in the distance? This idea is about realism.

This post gave me an idea.
Add Reconnaissance to WvW
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Add-Reconnaissance-to-WvW/first#post2164551

First idea can only be done with the elimination of being able to see enemy tags. Unless the player mouses over any enemy. Then the enemies tag is visible.
Suggestion
*Add reconnaissance to WvW
*players can choose play a reconnaissance role. Buy using unique equipment and skills.
*Reconnaissance players can call out enemy positions.
*Reconnaissance players can use drones
Think of this idea as GW meats Navy Seals. But with weapons and equipment that fit the GW2 theme.

First idea can only be done with the elimination of being able to see enemy tags. Unless the player mouses over any enemy. Then the enemies tag is visible.

Suggestion
*Add reconnaissance to WvW
*players can choose play a reconnaissance role. Buy using unique equipment and skills.
*Reconnaissance players can call out enemy positions.
*Reconnaissance players can use drones

Think of this idea as GW meats Navy Seals. But with weapons and equipment that fit the GW2 theme.

Guns and Giblets.9308:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Guns and Giblets.9308:

Onshidesigns.1069:

I will not play WvW until these things are implemented.

*EVERY player should not see enemy name tags unless mouseover.
*No enemy commander icons on screen unless moused over.
*option to show allies name tags as just a dot.

Turning tags off in options is NOT a option. It would put some players at a disadvantage.

While I like this idea in theory, Asura would be at an advantage for hiding on castle walls or behind bushes, while Norns would be impossible to hide all but the largest of objects.

Realistic, but without any commensurate tradeoffs. It’s not like Norns can sacrifice secrecy for strength.

So Asura should be able to. With my idea Anet could also add a cover/crouch system.

Crouch/cover would be sweet.

Anet should know Elder Scrolls Online will have this.

Guns and Giblets.9308:

Onshidesigns.1069:

I will not play WvW until these things are implemented.

*EVERY player should not see enemy name tags unless mouseover.
*No enemy commander icons on screen unless moused over.
*option to show allies name tags as just a dot.

Turning tags off in options is NOT a option. It would put some players at a disadvantage.

While I like this idea in theory, Asura would be at an advantage for hiding on castle walls or behind bushes, while Norns would be impossible to hide all but the largest of objects.

Realistic, but without any commensurate tradeoffs. It’s not like Norns can sacrifice secrecy for strength.

So Asura should be able to. With my idea Anet could also add a cover/crouch system.

Thrashbarg.9820:

Onshidesigns.1069:

I will not play WvW until these things are implemented.

*EVERY player should not see enemy name tags unless mouseover.
*No enemy commander icons on screen unless moused over.
*option to show allies name tags as just a dot.

Turning tags off in options is NOT a option. It would put some players at a disadvantage.

1) If, like me, you have to play on low settings to take it easy on the hamster, often name tags are the only thing you’ll see at the distance where a $1000 machine from this year would render all the player models. Sounds like this would create an unbalanced advantage for players with top end machines.

2) You can’t see enemy commander icons unless you target the player, and then you can only see it in the “buffs” bar, not above their head as allies do. Not sure what you’re on about here. The NPC “Commander Siegerazer” shows up, maybe that’s what you mean?

3) That would be a nice quality of life setting, but listing it as a deal-breaker to ever play a game, dang homey, that’s one closed mind and boring life, sounds like….. If you just want to reduce screen clutter, turn off the “show all player names” option, but if you think name tags are causing lag or obscuring the screen, I’d like to show you the wall of particle effects that name tags can’t even be seen through anyway, it’s called a zerg, maybe you’ve seen one by a dragon before.

I always get a kick out of random internet people being all “I refuse to do X until the world conforms to my standards exactly!” Honestly, who cares if one random dude doesn’t play a game because he doesn’t like the UI. Apparently they feel the need to tell us. If I went to the forums of every game I don’t play, I’d be a busy man……

On 1, I don’t think you should even be able to tell who the enemy even is at a distance. Where is the “fog of war” at?

grifflyman.8102:

But that’s why balling up is good, it’s difficult to tell if there are more than 20 in a group with the huge red cluster of text.

I really wish they had collision boxes.

In this article Dev. Devon Carver talks about players doing more roles in WvW
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/devon-carver-on-the-future-of-world-vs-world/

If players are grouping together because of the red text. That hurts Anets plans to spread players out to do more things.

This suggestion is more for WvW. If they remove all the enemy name tags.

Add a crouch button. And add a sneek in crouch animation.

This is as bad as seeing enemy locations on COD radar.

This suggestion is to allow players to use town clothing while fighting. But to give town clothing lower armor stats then the players current armor level.

I will not play WvW until these things are implemented.

*EVERY player should not see enemy name tags unless mouseover.
*No enemy commander icons on screen unless moused over.
*option to show allies name tags as just a dot.

Turning tags off in options is NOT a option. It would put some players at a disadvantage.

Kaaboose.3897:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Example:
*Supply Crate
Open 10 Supply Crate to get 1 weapon ticket in the mail.
Players earn 1 ticket for every 10 Supply Crates opened.

*Black Lion Chests
Open 10 Black Lion Chests to get 1 rare item/skin in the mail.
Players earn 1 rare item/skin for every 10 Black Lion Chests opened.

Why not just cut out the middle man and sell the skin on the TP?

Anet is determined to destroy their company with these RNG chests. This idea allows Anet to make their extra money. And still guarantee players a reward.

Players who only want one ticket it comes out cheaper for them. Buy farming gold for the first 5 chests. Then if they don’t have the gold to buy gems for the 2nd 5 chests. They will then spend 10 dollars on gems. That leaves 650 extra gems.

Where Anet makes more money is from players who want more than one weapon ticket.

You all know Z sucks compared to the original.

Conncept.7638:

Well this would be an honest and sensible thing to do, it provides ANet with steady income and players with steady rewards.

Which means it’s never going to happen, mostly because of the honesty part.

I’m afraid you’re right on this. Anet is hanging out with a bad crowd after all “Ncsoft”.

If RNG is here to stay. Anet should guarantee one weapon ticket/rare of better item in BLC. For every 10th chest opened. That way it will cost at most 20 dollars for a guaranteed weapon ticket.

Some have said to this idea, don’t buy RNG chests. But Anet is determined to destroy their company with these chests. So let make it less of a rip off by guaranteeing a weapon ticket on every 10th chest opened. This can’t be too hard for them to do. It’s also shows that Anet cares about their customers.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Tower Guard.5263:

Moa horse race lol. Do I get to be one?

Anyway… mini dragon pet?

The Moa race is a betting game taking inspiration from the 9-rings style betting mini-games from the original festivals in Gw1, but with a little more action involved for each round of bets. The bonus: this activity will remain in the game permanently in Lion’s Arch after the Dragon Bash festival ends.

You don’t get to be a Moa for this specific activity, though you never know what might pop up in future festivals! As one of the people who built roller beetle racing I’d love to see its spiritual successor in Gw2 someday, we might need to wait for beetles to pop up in game though

Did you test out this mini in Queensdale? I’ve seen at least 3 times a dialog box pop up asking for me to beat on a moa to win a race I can not find.

The only issue with the dialog box is that it pops up and blocks the screen. When I’m doing something.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Moa Racing is coming, June 11!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/june-11-2013/

Also Dragon Ball, which sounds (more or less) like another variant on Crab Toss / Keg Brawl. We’ll see

Moa Racing should be a permanent mini game. Anet did promise a moa racing game for launch but failed to deliver. Also new a the new “Helmed Moa Racer Mini” kind of hints the the game will be permanent.

Dragon Ball will be temporary. Notes don’t don’t really give any ideas on how it’s played. But all the other festival game were unique and fun.

All festivals so far have taken place mostly in Lion’s Arch.
*Shadow of the Mad King in Lion’s Arch
*Wintersday in Mostly Lion’s Arch
*Dragon Bash festival in Lion’s Arch

Only these 3 non festival events take place outside Lion’s Arch.
*Lost Shores
*Flame and Frost
*Southsun Cove

Will future festivals ever take place in anther city? Or will the current festival be expanded to other cities to some degree? I would like to know this from Anet.

I agree the game needs more armor skins. But I disagree with there being to many cute items.

With the new Dragon Bash festival coming on june 11. Anet should think about trying out my idea in this post. Because the new RNG “Dragon Coffer” are going to turn more players away from the game. If they do not get anything of value for their money.

Why would Anet add all these swimsuits to npc’s st this point? Anet MUST be going to put them in the gem store during the coming festival.

I Suggested this idea in another post. This idea is only if Anet is determined to have RNG chest in the game. I would rather they didn’t. But at least with this idea players will get something of value for their money.

For every 10 crates, 1 guaranteed skin
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/For-every-10-crates-1-guaranteed-skin/first#post2124025

Similar to this? Let hope we get the swimsuits too.

I like cosmetic mounts with only the same temporary speed boost as running.

Npc’s don’t react fast enough to attack a mount running past them at swiftness.

Let say there is a chest in the back of a cave. One player without a mount and one with a mount. The player without the mount has to earn his reward by fighting through the enemies. The player with the mount bypasses most of the enemies for a easy reward.

The game should revolve around choosing between good and evil decisions. And that should affect how your character develop. But unfortunately Anet thinks everyone wants to play a hero.

What are the players who want to be a anti-hero. By using tactics that are underhand or evil to achieve the quest goals.

Crossplay.2067:

To me, Anet’s refusal to make them is as stupid as their attempts at balancing. People keep suggesting it because they want it. The threads will keep coming until we get what we want. It’s easy money too. Hell, if they gave the 2 that are in the game a 33% speed boosts, I would have bought one and then I would buy another as soon as I saw something I liked more. And I would keep doing that.

It’s also mind-boggling to see all the vehicles in a game with vast stretches of land just sitting idle and collecting dust. The art assets are already there! Why not use them to gain more profit? What’s even dumber than that is the fact that there are riding clothes and aviator glasses! That’s like making car seats but not cars!

You’re not getting any cars outside maybe a mini game. They will most likely only be for military npc’s.

You will see more small cosmetic mounts, like ridable golems. But Anet does NOT want players riding through groups of enemies like they are not a obstacle.

Wolfey.3407:

Mini Claw of Jormag
Mini Shatterer
Mini Tequatel
Mini Jormag
Mini Zhaitan
Mini Primordus
Mini Kralkatorrik
Mini Eye of Zhaitan
Mini Glint

Mini Shadow Behemoth

Meta event bosses could drop mini version of themselves.

Outlaw.3421:

I would like to see the posts from the GW2 website fed into the “My Story” tab. It can show a red " ! " when there is a new story entry like when you level and have a new trait point to use.

Each update that has story posts can have the content thrown into the “My Story” tab. We click on each event as a form of a drop down. I guess it works a lot like the wiki, but this is just another alternative of displaying information.

Attached an example I created real quick in Photoshop.

You can probably add those images as event tabs in achievements too to create some visuals.

That exactly what I was thinking on a earlier post. I would also like to see a collection of notes found for each stage of the event. Things like npc conversations notes, book pages read.

HiddenNick.7206:

BobbyStein.2315:

Ideally, the in-game story should tell you everything you need to know about the current Living World plot, context, and character motivation through a combination of scenes, clues, and gameplay. Blog posts, interviews, novels, etc. are supplementary.

One of the challenges of weaving a story into open world content is ensuring that players see the right details in the proper order. By nature, dynamic events are designed to be played as you encounter them, which makes story delivery especially challenging in that content type due to its non-linear placement. We’ve been experimenting on different ways to weave the story into the action with each Living World release, sometimes with mixed results.

We used a combination of letters, instanced cinematics, and achievements to tell the Flame & Frost story. While spreading details out among all those different UI elements was not ideal, it was the most effective means of directing people through content with our current tech. We are exploring some options that would streamline this experience, but we’re not ready to discuss the details right now.

There are various bits of story spread throughout the Southsun Cove content. Some are in idle scenes, whereas others are nestled in journals, conversations, or achievement lists (which, due to a bug, did not obscure later events and revealed some spoilers ahead of time). Having a few story cinematics at key moments would have certainly helped players piece together the plot, so in the future we will likely use them in ways similar to the F&F releases.

As always, thanks for the honest feedback. The Living World of GW2 is a new thing for us, so we appreciate your patience, understanding, and suggestions.

I think that your main problem is that you refuse to implement quest in a bit more standard way. Some form of quests would resolve all your problems with story telling. And what is so wrong with that approach?

And if anyone has not yet realized we already have quests in the game. They are called achievements. The only difference is that quests have some story description – this is the thing that the current achievement system is lacking.

This could be done by adding personal story type quests to the living story. They can’t be to hard to do solo, as they would be more for story telling purposes.

The current gates to LA could have a menu to select the city the player wants to visit.

Orpheal.8263:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Mounts are ridiculously ugly eyesore. That lets you just ride through mobs and bypass content.

And there is no Jetpack in the game. Only a back piece that has no animations.

Lol, this is the most ridiculous biased against mounts posting I’ve ever read so far.
You sir, are an absolute pro arguer…… not xD

As if people in GW2 wouldn’t already permanently bypass content in the game just without any mounts being in the game, or did you never have skipped so far yet anything in dungeons? Or skipped never anything in GW1 within the Missions, Dungeons and so on ?

You want mounts with these types of abilities so you can just ride through any obstacle in your way.
1= Dashing Tackle
2 = Vital Rush
3 = Stampede

BobbyStein.2315:

Ideally,* the in-game story should tell you everything you need to know about the current Living World plot, context, and character motivation through a combination of scenes, clues, and gameplay. Blog posts, interviews, novels, etc. are supplementary.*

One of the challenges of weaving a story into open world content is ensuring that players see the right details in the proper order. By nature, dynamic events are designed to be played as you encounter them, which makes story delivery especially challenging in that content type due to its non-linear placement. We’ve been experimenting on different ways to weave the story into the action with each Living World release, sometimes with mixed results.

We used a combination of letters, instanced cinematics, and achievements to tell the Flame & Frost story. While spreading details out among all those different UI elements was not ideal, it was the most effective means of directing people through content with our current tech. We are exploring some options that would streamline this experience, but we’re not ready to discuss the details right now.

There are various bits of story spread throughout the Southsun Cove content. Some are in idle scenes, whereas others are nestled in journals, conversations, or achievement lists (which, due to a bug, did not obscure later events and revealed some spoilers ahead of time). Having a few story cinematics at key moments would have certainly helped players piece together the plot, so in the future we will likely use them in ways similar to the F&F releases.

As always, thanks for the honest feedback. The Living World of GW2 is a new thing for us, so we appreciate your patience, understanding, and suggestions.

I don’t think telling part of the story outside the game is a good idea. All the clues should be in the game.

I’ve seen cutscenes, books, npc dialogue but without a record of that information in the hero panel. It’s hard to remember the details of the story.

Mounts are ridiculously ugly eyesore. That lets you just ride through mobs and bypass content.

And there is no Jetpack in the game. Only a back piece that has no animations.

You will see more small cosmetic mounts like broomstick, and tunneling device. Maybe with fun non combat abilities attached to them. Don’t expect large mounts with speed boosts!

If I was Anet I would make a cosmetic Jetpack mount.
*Hover 3 Meters off ground ability
*Invisible column under jetpack when hovering, prevents players from reaching higher places.
*hover jump ability, target area on ground must be at the same level with no gaps in ground.

The Mini Reef Rider just looks cool. For that reason I think anyone who likes to collect minis will want one. Unlike the toy sword skin that most people don’t like the look of. The Mini Reef Rider is sure to sell fast and the price will go up. Even with the high drop rate.

The SAB greatsword was common but the tradeable version still reached 50g in the TP. Because players liked the look of the SAB greatsword.

I think the Mini Kasmeer Mini will go up in price too. For the same reason.

Some of you are asking for official RP servers. I don’t want that to happen! Good servers should have a mix between players and role players.

Servers with no role players have boring dead cities. And servers that would be only be for role players, would have low populated zones.

Players and role players need to lean to play together!

I hope it goes up some. I bought 3 extra as a investment.