Guild Wars 2

Xalugami.2096:

I’m not even too sure what you’re asking here. If you want a darker themed SAB-like stage, just wait until we raid Lord Vanquish’s castle, that’ll probably be menacing enough. Also “more adult story and theme” is subjective. All that’s left is making it open for more players simultaneously (oh god that sounds horrible) and filling it to the brim with Dynamic Events.

Just go to Orr.

I’d definitely be excited to hear about more SAB content after the first 4 installments and the (probable) rescue of Princess Miya; but it should remain platforming focused (and not crammed with dynamic events) as well as be an instance so those who want to be alone can be alone.

First it would be great!

This not a stage. It’s a zone with a smaller number of players.

Classic platform RPG’s have never been online. Only because the technology was not there.
If LOZ was online with 50 players on the whole map. It would not be over populated.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Realm_of_Torment

This idea have the Bone Pits and the Underworld.

No monkeys in this idea. Only low bit monsters from the Realm of Torment.

Lookers – temporary players who are looking but don’t know if they will stay.

Casuals – players with less time but do play.

Hardcore – play a lot

Lechers – People who play for free and never buy anything with real money. Box cost does not pay for the servers or new content.

Doesn’t anyone want to see a SAB zone, that is dark? Without all cute stuff in it.

Think of this idea as The Legend of Zelda online. Where you explore the map with 25 to 75 player cap.

*skills like that in the SAB.
*Map would include single or group play dungeons.
*DE’s scale to players
*player levels are their like hearts in Zelda.

• DE’s scale to the average number of player hearts.

Realm of Torment, SAB style

Imagine a whole SAB zone. That plays like any other open world zone in the game. With DE’s and many solo/group puzzles everywhere on the map.

Zone is Realm of Torment in low bit SAB style.
*open zone 50 player cap. Think what LOZ Online would be like.
*Theme is darker, gothic, scary, and not cute happy place to be.
*Inspirations for zone: Realm of Torment, Legend of Zelda, Hexen, Doom, Kings Field 2, Duke Nukem, Alice
*16 bit 24 bit look
*No zerg like combat or advertized DE’s.
*but you do get credit for helping people.
*SAB like puzzle JP
*hidden areas accessed through solo play.
*Some hidden areas need help to unlock.
*more adult story and theme.

This idea for a Realm of Torment SAB zone. Would complement any future non-SAB for the Realm of Torment.

Why do this? When the four zones are finished. Players will still want new Moto SAB content.

They would need to turn off hand items automatically in the hero panel. To avoid clipping issues.

Denial Of Service.5732:

Brother Grimm.5176:

I think using the word “TOTALLY” like that discounts you as “grown-up” of any kind.

not everyone is from `MURIIIICAA

no ty ill keep it at 3rd.

kthxbai

We in America, could not care less what silly names you come up with to call us.

Dueling could be implemented in ways that address the concerns of everyone.

Anet developer said invasions would be permanent and we may never get to kill Scarlet if ever. Expect her to be a long term villain.

Super Adventure Box is permanently recurring.
Crown Pavilion is a permanent building.
Queen’s Gauntlet is permanently recurring.
Invasions are permanent but less common.
Bazaar of the Four Winds will most likely be permanently recurring.
Sea of Sorrows Scavenger Hunt is permanent.
Aetherblade is permanent.
Southsun Cove is permanent.
Dragon Bash, Wintersday, Shadow of the Mad King are permanent.

Stormleaf.1769:

Regardless of whether or not SAB is a ‘good’ thing for the living story, equating it to a “slap in the face” is so absurdly hyperbolic that it completely nullifies whatever merits your argument might have contained.

It was to be expected for smaller unrelated living story updates to be released during the main living storyline.

Rosen Myst.7641:

Onshidesigns.1069
It’s not your decision what the lore is for GW2.

I never said it was and I never claimed to have created any lore! Anet created all the past lore of Tyria … nowhere in any of that lore has there ever been anything like SAB. Based on the world Anet developed it seems out of place. If you think it fits just fine, that’s your opinion. Anet can create any lore they want to; it’s their game. That doesn’t mean I can’t find it out of place.

Just don’t put words in my mouth!

Lore is something that is in the past.
The SAB is a new present day Asuran technology that will become lore.

Rosen Myst.7641:

Worst news ever. I don’t like SAB because it doesn’t fit in with the lore of the game. The devs forced it to fit. I’m glad people like it. But not me.

It’s not your decision what the lore is for GW2.

Account bound wardrobe PvE
*first make all armor and weapons account bound.

*Introduce SPvP style wardrobe in PvE.

*Let player click on wardrobe item to choose from
stat combinations. Then withdraw a copy of item.

*Wardrobe stat combos are unlocked by depositing new copies
of items with different stats.

*once item is deposited into the wardrobe. Players can
take out as many copies as they want. With the stat combo
they unlocked.

*Deposit upgrade items onto each item in wardrobe.

When withdrawing a copy of a piece of armor. You choose the unlocked
stats and unlocked upgrade item for that piece of armor.

Account Terminated.6013:

Have had the same issue; random black screen crashes. These crashes happen even on low population maps. I usually have no use of my mouse either and have to reboot my pc.

I just press the windows logo on my keyboard and then close GW2.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Hey all, no worries, we got you covered.

Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.

Account Bound weapons, armor, trinkets. Why not just everything Account
Bound so we can have a wardrobe in PVE?

Or maybe you’re wanting players to change all their equipment to MF? So players can have account bound armor and weapons.

Patches for the world game is around 100,000 files. Had to reinstall last week. Don’t remember how many Gigs that was.

Already posted it here also: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Black-screens-disconnects/first#post2714215

Same issue for me. It’s seems to be of Anets end. From other posts I read. It could be a memory error, GPU, or playing 32bit GW2 on a 64 bit OS.

I don’t know if it was deleted my temp cache for GW2. I seen about a 50% decrease in black screen crashes. But I am still getting too many crashes to probably complete the number of achievements I need.

I would like to see a the SAB in 24 bit.

HoboLyra.4908:

TC seems good. we win about 50% of the time.

No more players are needed in TC.

Once the four zones are complete. I hope Anet takes my idea for a full SAB like zone. That would be darker, gothic, scary, and gloomy. It would have puzzles for solo/group play and DE’s. The map would be like the whole Legend of Zelda. But a open zone like any other, upto say 50 or 75 players. It would still have many puzzles to solve. With themes from Zelda, kings field 1/2, Doom.

The Zone should be a 16 bit version of the Realm of Torment.

Kam.1780:

Bright.9160:

Yes.

And there’s nothing wrong with it tbh. It’s a pretty boring event to begin with, and unless you want swift closer, a hit on Scarlet, or farm champions, there really isn’t much of a reason to stick around.

I don’t blame them. I usually just complete a couple of the rift events, and then alt/tab to the forums or something like that. Unless I’m playing with friends, which can make the experience a little bit more enjoyable.

Actually this kind of behaviour leads to the frequent failures of the event, not to mention that thanks to the leechers those players that really would like to contribute are forced to the overflow servers not hosting the event.

NOT everyone wants to take part in the event! You think everyone waypointed there?

Invasions are in zones with other things going. If someone wants to do other things or just watch. They have the right too.

Raids will be random large DE’s that occur all over the game world. They would be smaller than a invasions, one 5th the size. With a clear objective that the enemies are trying to achieve.

Raids are a step between balloons like DE’s and invasions. Occurring more often than invasions. Like a random world event, limited to certain parts of a zone.

Gehenna.3625:

My point is, Anet went B2P with microtransactions. If it had been a totally convincing success, I am sure they would use it again. But instead we see new MMOs coming out with subs. Wildstar is just one of them.

You mean, Anet went B2P with Megatransactions.

I just want Kasmeer’s bikini.

FrownyClown.8402:

Anet does not permit the use of marijuana of any kind.

We all know the developers are smoking something.

Guild Wars 2 Test Report
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Constantly-losing-connection-to-server/first#post2694608

I’ve been getting black screens disconnects randomly since the DB patch. It happens even on low populated maps.

System information
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer TOSHIBA
System Model Qosmio X505
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz, 1734 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date TOSHIBA V2.90, 12/10/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\windows
System Directory C:\windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “6.1.7601.17514”
User Name
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.96 GB
Total Virtual Memory 7.98 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.75 GB
Page File Space 3.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Firewalls are turned off on router and windows.
Tried turning off anti virus during game.
Deleted local data file
did memory test
reinstall game
Disk cleanup
update GFX driver
Error when I try to create a “Guild Wars 2 Diagnostic” file.

Deleted temp cache for GW2

Posting this in tech support too.

Treeline.3865:

Avelos.6798:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Windows 7 is both 32bit and 64bit.

Windows 7 32-bit is Windows 7 32bit. Windows 7 64-bit is Windows 7 64-bit. It can’t be both at the same time if that’s what you’re meaning.

What he means is probably that it comes in both variants.

Anyway, OP, you’re not the only one with the issue. While I don’t have it myself, I’ve tried to help a few who had it, assuming something was eating up all their RAM. A guy in my guild has the bug every few hours. While he only has 4 gb ram the game never uses over 1.5gb (thus he’s using a total of around 3.1 of 4gb ram. Running 64bit as well, nothing out of the ordinary. Yet the message still appears randomly.

Never experienced a game as bugged as GW2

That’s what I mean.

chris.9142:

if they made the engine 64bit that would be saying allright so everybody running win xp win7 or vista 32bits cant play this game you do know most game run on 32bit engines dont you? even crysis 2 runs on a 32 bit engine and that looks significantly better then guild wars

Windows 7 is both 32bit and 64bit.

I’ve been getting black screens disconnects randomly since the DB patch. It happens even on low populated maps.

System information
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer TOSHIBA
System Model Qosmio X505
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz, 1734 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date TOSHIBA V2.90, 12/10/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\windows
System Directory C:\windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “6.1.7601.17514”
User Name
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.96 GB
Total Virtual Memory 7.98 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.75 GB
Page File Space 3.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Firewalls are turned off on router and windows.
Tried turning off anti virus during game.
Deleted local data file
did memory test
reinstall game
Disk cleanup
update GFX driver
Error when I try to create a “Guild Wars 2 Diagnostic” file.

Bismuth.3165:

Are you using a 32 bit windows or not, if yes, then I think I know how to fix it.

64 bit windows 7

System information
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer TOSHIBA
System Model Qosmio X505
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz, 1734 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date TOSHIBA V2.90, 12/10/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\windows
System Directory C:\windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “6.1.7601.17514”
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.02 GB
Total Virtual Memory 7.98 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.71 GB
Page File Space 3.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

Because all cards use DirectX 11, not DirectX 9 which GW2 is based on.

Anet said they would bring in DX11 after release, but so far we have hear nothing at all! This is why the game barely used most GPUs as the DX9 is TOO old, yes it allows people with 10 year old PCs to play the game, but at the expense of lower performance from most gamers’ PC who will have PC under 5 years old.

When Blizzard brought DX11 to WoW, players with up to date GPUs said they didnt see that much increase in detail, but the FPS increased by up to 25%!!!

This is why Anet should implement DX11 immediately, forget fortnightly content, spend all the time on DX11 so that real gamers can play the game as it should be, a lot of players left the game due to lag, culling, skill lag, and low FPS. If the game was based on DX11 as well, this may not have happened.

So it doesnt matter if you have the best GPU on the market right now, DX9 relies more on your CPU than GPU, so if you want better performance right now invest in a new CPU not GPU! If not then we have to wait, and hope, Anet bring in DX11 support.

I have the same problem as the OP. And I do have DX11 installed.

I been getting the same thing since DB.

Players would buy keys if every chests had one good reward in each of them. Does not have to be a skin. It could be the best gold sink in the game.

Ex: Instead of 3-4 boosters taking space for a possible good item, Give 1 pack of 5 boosts in each chest.

Nibi.3572:

Honestly… Karma pots need to go now

They have no use anymore as karma is placed in the Wallet

Anet won’t be giving players so much more karma now. If they didn’t have plan for it.

Theftwind.8976:

If you are getting continuously disconnected when running an invasion event stay away from the large zergs. Take yourself to a quiet corner of the map and wait it out.

Two of us managed to get through the Playhouse the first time we attempted it. Not at all difficult.

If you start in overflow do not transfer to another map after the 10 minute mark, You will not get credit.

Get to the map before 10 minutes after the hour or you will not get credit.

I get random disconnects with black screens. I did what Anet said https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Black-Screen-Issue-Nvidia, Deleted local data file thinking it might be corrupt, reenstailed game, disable router and widows firwall, turn off anti virus. Can’t seem to create a diagnostic file for GW2.

And updated driver to newest beta version.

Player Character.9467:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Greo.6831:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Many players like myself have been getting disconnects. While others are not getting achievements they should have received. For these reasons give the “Infinite Watchknight Tonic” to everyone. Or make it buyable in the gem store.

You can obtain an Infinite Watchknight Tonic without having to reach the end of an invasion via the daily achievements and defeating the three champion types. You don’t have to stay until the end of 7 invasions if that’s all you want!

Todays daily achievement is to complete one invasion.

I also can’t solo Scarlet’s Playhouse. Anet shouldn’t have achievements that are required to be unlocked other achievements! I know I may have to find a group to do Scarlet Playhouse achievements. But I might get disconnected then too.

So we should get rid of any sort of story quest? Please keep complaining about a game being a game.

“Level 1’s should be able to solo Zhaitan!”
“Why can’t I drop 50 instantly built trebs anywhere I want?!?”
“WvW supply should be infinite!”
“Zenith skins should be replaced with legendaries!”
“Finishing explore once should give me tokens for a full set!”

I didn’t say any of those things. This is about a broken game with many bugs.

It’s not my computer, router, firewalls, anti virus. It’s on Anet end.

I have them too. Even after I updated my video card to the latest beta version.

The firewalls on the router and widows are disabled during gameplay.

Anet should just open up the playhouse for solo play to all players. By time gating the opening of the portal on a specific date.

No achievements should have to require unlocking them through other achievements!

Also even doing the playhouse as a group. Does not reopen the Queen’s Gauntlet.

I have a very fast connection, disabled router/windows firewalls, disabled real time anti virus scam, reinstalled game. May try plugging directly into the router next. But still get disconnects too often to complete achievements.

Greo.6831:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Many players like myself have been getting disconnects. While others are not getting achievements they should have received. For these reasons give the “Infinite Watchknight Tonic” to everyone. Or make it buyable in the gem store.

You can obtain an Infinite Watchknight Tonic without having to reach the end of an invasion via the daily achievements and defeating the three champion types. You don’t have to stay until the end of 7 invasions if that’s all you want!

Todays daily achievement is to complete one invasion.

I also can’t solo Scarlet’s Playhouse. Anet shouldn’t have achievements that are required to be unlocked other achievements! I know I may have to find a group to do Scarlet Playhouse achievements. But I might get disconnected then too.

Some players inventory gets full fast. So they have to stop to sell and deposit items.

If their crap, then Anet won’t mind giving them away.