Guild Wars 2

Don’t think so. It will revitalize all our characters.

Wouldn’t that make some people choose commander tags just because of the color buff / scope of the buff? For ex even if ppl are wanted at Green tag for help, they will choose tags that only suit their personal needs over group needs.

I think it would devide more then to unite…and it would make the community act more selfish instead of acting united with a common goal…because u know..that’s the mentality.

People should choose tags purely because they mean “hey, it’s an organized group that needs people to succeed” That’s more then enough and it kinda works now. It even works in corelation with other tag colors which atm represent different stuff specific to that server. For ex RED is a more aggressive group while blue pops up when defense is really needed.

Of all the things that could be improved, the GOAL of the cmder tag at this moment i don’t see it as being something needed improving in the way you want it.

Didn’t they say a playable demo will be available at the next PAX? That should be a good enough indication.

I honestly don’t feel the need for a new RACE. What do u expect me to play? KFC race that hides behind walls all the time like the chickens they are and not help anyone? Or those butterfly assasins u see in the personal story? Sry but i can’t they look to lame.

At this very moment i see no use for a race…there aren’t even cool ones out there that i would enjoy playing and feel awesome playing them.

@Pifil pretty much the case.

The biggest advancement in underwater combat will come when we get the Bubbles dragon expansion.

Lol…“not as detailed”. Sry but u are wrong. They are at least as detailed but not the same STYLE of artwork search some screenshots really.

Yes i turned down character models around me to minimum…it improves it just by a bit….but still low FPS for the amount of detail i see.

To put it more precise, i wrote my PC specs above. To have 60FPS i run everything at minimum. However u look at it that is wrong. U see this issue as something inevitable and don’t offer any solution as if there is no solution. What i am telling you is if there is no solution u should make one. There is always something u can do.

What u said above doesn’t disclame the directx potential improvement…maybe they can do other things also who knows. This is just a solution from someone who noticed it in action and was impressed. Keep in mind back when AION released i did not have the specs i had above, i had a medium-at-best PC with everything already 4 years old in it.

For over 50% of the players atleast in GW2, atm this mmo is a “full-hd slideshow game” if u want good settings (not absolute best). Then i ask myself..why even bother making such a pretty game?…for what target audience exactly?

Sure the game looks amazing if i stay still if that’s what u wanted to hear. It’s by far the absolute best “stay-still” game on the market or a “screenshot game”. Nothing comes even close to it BUT if i actually want to move, meaning turning everything to medium at most, it transforms into a generic looking game…and most ppl at this moment i bet you literally anything are playing a “generic looking game”.

Here’s one that dramatically improved AION which at it’s peak had huge fights in their version of wvw (abyss)..like really huge…not only horizontally but vertical fights also (both above you and under you in flight mode) that included pve elements in them…and the graphics are at the same level but different techniques.

They changed DirectX. After that change my FPS increased dramatically from around 40FPS in fights to 60-70fps….in big fights where everyone was spamming skills inside tight space-keeps while fighting both a huge boss and the enemy players. The same FPS i got in open spaces where it had to render further away.

Even tho AION turned out not to be such a great game, they saw a problem, and 5-6 months after the game released, the devs actually upgraded the whole directx engine. For that they have my respect. It’s no small feet but the results can be mindblowing.

OH YEA..did i mention the game looked even better after the upgrade? So they upgraded both graphics and performance.

Now think DirectX12 is coming out…

Again is your only solution to just leave it like this Tom? Because i don’t see u giving any solutions good or bad. I just see u come up with excuses by asking us about other games.

That’s not an excuse for the bad performance Tom. As great as it is, it shouldn’t be so demanding. It’s not at that level at which it should be that demanding specially on good gear.

As long as the game demands nonstop hi-end rigs which just a handful of ppl can afford, those “great graphics” u are talking about will never be achieved by most GW2 palyers as most of them have low or medium at best settings.

By your logic, even if the game performance is crap, because it looks pretty it should not be touched/improved. You might be OK with sub-par quality but me personally will never be.

Quality for me doesn’t mean just a “pretty looking car” but it’s performance is a coma-induced hamster on a broken square-wheel. The car has to have “good performance” also, in balance with the aspect of the car.

Well said Gazareth

Hmm…it might be “inbetween”. As i personally see it (which may be wrong ofc) is if he is in an area of the map ppl spamming stuff…and people loading in and out of his view, that means drive writing/reading for that short amount of time which could create sporadic drops in FPS even tho it’s not related to GPU. After the dudes are loaded on his screen, that’s when GPU comes into effect…but most noticeble lag (for me) happens DURING the load not after loading.

My desktop is:
- i7 (first generation) but more then enough for a game. It barely loads 40% during GW2 peak
- Sapphire HD 7970 GHz edition vapur-x which was one of the best quality/price GPUs u could find when i got it (i am sure better ones appeared):
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/product_index.aspx?pid=1679&lid=1
- 6gb DD3
- Added cooling systems for better performance
….and HDD 7400RPM.

With the gear above i almost always stay at medium max knowing if i bump into an event like the plant-boss (new marionette) my performance drops a lot.

A PC (not laptop) like mine should NOT have issues with an MMO. Hell i run at max new single-player games with no FPS drops (which are tailored to go “all out” on graphics) and i can’t run an mmo (which should be fine-tuned to run everything on anything). I only consider a downside my HDD because it’s even on SATA-2 not 3 (MB doesn’t support it sadly)….but the rest? i mean if those are not good enough to run an mmo what is? the latest most expensive PC? i mean come on. It’s well above average. Hell i run at 50FPS the latest Assasins Creed which was said to be a PC killer in the first month, with most settings at high and a few turned off like shadows which i don’t like. My rig (specs wise) 3 years ago u could consider it one of the more hi-end combos, when GW2 came out.

Anyway….one thing is for sure. An mmo should not move like this on medium PCs/laptops (not hi-end because those move good). It’s in need of a rework when it comes to performance and i would honestly love to see ANet actually take this seriously, recognize it as a problem and make a blog about it and future plans.

The GPU is not the bottleneck lol….besides that GW2 doesn’t “eat” as much GPU as it does other things.

Your true bottleneck in this is the HDD. The speeds are prehistoric…it’s not even 7400rpm. A normal 7400rpm HDD moves slow on a desktop PC by today’s standards…imagine how a 7400rpm HDD moves in a laptop. You need to upgrade your HDD to SSD. If your laptop has 2 drive slots (altho i doubt it) u could easily install SSD+HDD and have both the speed for stuff u regularly run AND the space to store stuff (GW2 should be installed on the SSD).

Personally i’ve noticed that GW2 eats mainly 2 things. CPU and HDD/SSD. The amount of stuff loaded around u doesn’t consume as much GPU as it does processing power + speed with which your hard drive actually writes that data (hdd/ssd speed).

An SSD upgrade will benefit you overall not just GW2…it’s one of the most intelligent upgrades u could do to a laptop besides RAM which u have.

AS FOR OPTIMIZING GW2.
Yes i agree it can be better and it SHOULD be better in this day&age. Main issue is the DirectX used for the game. It’s really outdated. That would solve a lot of issues. It’s useless to have extremely beautiful graphics if most ppl can’t run or run at lowest settings. That’s including character models and details. How can u brag to others about your cool looking “stuff” if most have it turned to low and see a generic character skin of you.

Considering how ambitious they are and where ANet wants to take this game it would be “really very” embarrassing for them not to do something about this game’s performance. It’s by far one of the biggest and most underrated issues of the game.

cool story bro….cool story

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Achievement unlocked: Grandmaster Trolling

Tell me how exactly do u dissociate trolling from stupidity, in a text posted on a forum? Because honestly…me, as someone who lurked this forum since beta, and reading the vast amount of stupidity that has been farted by ppl’s brains here, wouldn’t surprise me if a post like this was meant to be serious in his mind.

I want to use a speargun on land.

Cool fact, never noticed that.

@Astral no it wouldn’t. Just an example that could “excuse” that. Rytlock was the first Revenant. After he came back the power became accessible to other heroes through him & his teaches or just the fact that he came back unleashed this new potential power…but everyone who got it had to master it. It’s like u getting a new “super power” over night…u have no clue how to use it. There u go..lvl1-80.

There will be lore i am sure about it.

This is something i came up with in 5 min. I am sure a story teller can do 100x better

The playable version will be playable at the next PAX in a few weeks. Personally i think the product is very close to being finished..it’s just fine tuned now. I think it will get released on the 3rd anniversary of GW2 this year.

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I don’t even…

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Most likely 80..because as Lazaar said ANet concentrated on end-game content AND take it chronologically. By the time u kill Zhaitan u are level 80. The jungle dragon is AFTER Zhaitan so u are atleast 80 by then.

Level 0-80 – Zhaitan. Consider it a tutorial. Trust me u will prefer to have a ton of lvl80 maps because when u get to level 80 u don’t get bored. Leveling from 0 to 80 is fun because u have a ton of maps already.

As was discussed in another thread….considering DirectX12 will soon be released (with the release of Windows 10) i actually prefer them going for that instead. What i would love instead is to see a confirmation they will indeed change the directx in the future even without an ETA.

That will at least give us a peace of mind knowing it’s coming. It would be a huge improvement both visually and from a performance pov even tho the work they have to put in it am sure is huge, the rewards are almost a fresh game that will stay fresh for a very long time and that can attract a lot of new customers.

I personally know of one other mmo which did this change in the past…AION. The difference was extremely noticeable.

Please add Potato as weapon..maybe a focus. Nobody uses them anyway. Make Potato legendary.

I think the raven animation could be a bit better. Would be nice if your projectiles change like it does for other legendary weapons (ex quip).

Not overly impressed but i could see why ppl are enthused …if i think about the glow in the dark dil…i mean…legendary staff we have now.

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Besides it hasn’t been state it will be payed…how cheep can u get seriously. By the time the expo comes out this game will be 3 years old. If u played it since beta u practically payed 50$ for a game that has lasted u for 3 years. Is it that much to pay 30-40$ more when the expansion comes out IF it’s payed?

Tell me how much did the last “50$ game” last you before u quit and forgot about it?

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If u love your T-shirt and still wearing it 5 years, you also go to china and pay the kid who made it extra 10 dolars?
Sorry, but for me its not extra, its what i except, and the reason why i bought it.
But i understand your (different) attitude
Besides, there is plenty ways to support developers another way (and more voluntarily, for those who really want to)
Btw, please dont see someone who dont want to “extra pay” as a bad guy or something.

U made like literally the dumbest comparison humanly possible. When you try to compare something u compare it with something else from the same “field” in this case games.

Good thing u didn’t compare it with ebola. And even so…if the kid from China comes out with an improved t-shirt what do u want me to do…send my current t-shirt back to china so he can modify it for free? If i liked the old one i would buy the improved one. Your comparison is wrong on so many levels it’s actually impressive.

Biggest problem for WvW are the mechanics. They said they are looking at the core mechanics for WvW. That will be the true deciding factor. Keeping towers/camps..scouting etc.

A new map added to the main borderlands (not EoTM) is kinda huge from a balance pov.

If i were a Revenant, i would want to summon a potato…

…I would summon the F out of that potato…and use it to beat my enemies with it.

@OP Waw dude really?….i mean honestly go take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself out loud “Did i really post this sh**?”…come back and tell us what the reflection answered.

Next thread u will make is about ANet stealing the idea of trees from real life.

I remember them saying besides the new utilities we get a new healing spell…and a new utility thing..not sure..something like that.

It’s down to how much the extra specialization changes your class honestly. It can be a complete game changer.

It all depends on the amount of maps we get. How can u state it’s a small expansion if u don’t even know how many maps are added. Not to mention all the other stuff.

Too many unknowns.

Besides it hasn’t been state it will be payed…how cheep can u get seriously. By the time the expo comes out this game will be 3 years old. If u played it since beta u practically payed 50$ for a game that has lasted u for 3 years. Is it that much to pay 30-40$ more when the expansion comes out IF it’s payed?

Tell me how much did the last “50$ game” last you before u quit and forgot about it?

Not to mention u will most likely be able to get the expansion with ingame gems. Just like u can upgrade the normal GW2 client to digital deluxe and so on.

The game as a whole has performance issues. I wish they would improve this together with the release of the expansion

@laokoko depends on what quantity of T6’s u can get from the new maps either by random killing or doing events, even by story. That’s also a factor. Everyone will be in the new maps.

Not saying you are wrong…but there are a lot of unknowns at this point. Good part is u know for a fact u will get a guaranteed precursor. That eliminates the “gambling” factor out of the way for all players. That also means ppl can be happy grinding/gathering the mats in time knowing they won’t have to gamble for the legendary.

I suspect the true “drop” in price will be when we have a guaranteed release date. For the people who think prices won’t go down by that much have to take in consideration..once most people have a legendary, they won’t need another one of that type.

I think it will take a few LS stories to rebuild LA. Would be a good filler before the release of the expansions which i personally think will be on the third anniversary of GW2.

I will obviously buy it no doubt about it. That’s one of the major issues i’ve had with this game and what i’ve been trolling the forums about. Can’t wait for it.

PS. I have a vague feeling it will be released on the 3rd year anniversary day for GW2 this year.

I will be playing the F out of that

Like other said. In 6 weeks we will have a playable DEMO. The final release date has yet to be revealed.

What i am curious is what will they offer us till when it gets released (not the demo). LS kinda ended…..what will there be? WvW seasons?

Theoretically DX12 should make your toaster more efficient and cost effective. That’s the whole reason.

Anyway..it does NOT answer the question i asked in my first post.

What was the video we’ve seen when the dudes where in a dark cave and were facing a dragon. That was NOT in my opinion the ingame graphics level…and i am pretty sure they wouldn’t make a “special clip” just for a few seconds which is placed inbetween actual ingame graphics. Seems a bit strange.

Yup was thinking of that Peril, altho a confirmation they will be willing to upgrade to DX12 in the future would be reassuring. Right now the game is pretty heavy on PC’s.

Not many mmos make this transition (from one DX to another)….it would be a huge (to say the least) plus in my book and a major respect gain.

Will you (ANet) improve the performance of the game to suit this new epic map? I mean…it’s a pitty if u created such a beautiful large map but if u go and do events with several players, the game lags because of the skills.

A lot of players will be forced to use low-medium settings thus rendering your hard work to at most half it’s potential that players could enjoy.

In the trailer, where the dudes are in a dark cave and encounter a minidragon, the graphics used there are not as the ones used ingame. Is this an indication of a different DirectX? The facial expressions were better..the lighting and details were better.

I ask this because later..that minidragon (the one that continually spits fire) appears and looks completely different from that small “scene” i was talking about.

Overall….it’s useless to add high-end quality if the majority of ppl can’t support it…mostly when a large number of players spam skills….like you typically see in events everywhere lol.

Dude..this thing has been said so many times it’s not even funny…and i fully agree with it each time it was said.

…apparently a skip button is way waaaaaaaaaaaaay above anet’s budget…and apparently they have a total annual budget of 1$. There is literally no other logical explanation for this.

Waw…..the amount of detail u put in this actually kinda blew my mind. I honestly hope someone from ANet gives this thread some attention/comments. Compared to all other threads, this is probably one of the best ones made.

Not to mention it’s made by someone from the community.

I looked over them i like most of it. How about a forum redesign?

Should have, Could have, Might have, Would have.

You never give judgement on those. You can’t know what the result would have been.
Fact: he experimented on them without warning or consent
Fact: he used them aparently just to make a new “power supply” using their energy
Fact: asuras tend to not care about others that much as they do about themselves. This means they don’t care as much about saving, as they do about exploiting in the name of discovery. They consider other races inferior which could easily translate in “not worth saving” especially for:
Fact: the dude was part of the Inquest…do i need to tell u more about the Inquest?

Dunno what to say. I looked over them and personally i think they are decent balance changes. Ppl have to realize some things really need to be nerfed in order to be more balanced & offer diversity options as in ppl find other alternatives apart from the standard “push full might” option.

Dunno. The changes are decent imo. and not too overdramatic to break the feeling of the game we already got used too.

I love how u saw just a few might nerfs but u completely skipped the good parts.

Half-life 3 confirmed

I think u didn’t understand a big portion of what happened in the last LS’s..but thank you for the screenshot/transcribe walls.

in a war each side has it’s points. The side that kills more usually proves it’s points are better. Sad but true.

It’s not justified. He had no idea about the dragon-silvari relation in the first place. He just started making experiments….and even so it’s wrong.

1 Thread – 11 Posts made by the OP – no relevant message.

At first glance i think it’s something related to your ISP. Did u try contacting them?

Or do u have a friend at whom u can try out your account and see if the same thing happens? If not it’s clearly on your end.

Did you try to reinstall GW2?