Guild Wars 2

FumikoM.6029:

I would love to be able to zoom in closer to my character so I can take better pics of my lovely doll face. No I’m not kidding. Another thing is when the camera “jumps” when you zoom in closer. A smoothed zoom I would love.

Make a charr and you can.

Apotheosize.4293:

I really do hope an FOV increase is allowed. Currently you can actually tweak your FOV by playing the game in Windowed mode and resizing the height to extreme lows, thus playing in a very thin long rectangle. The FOV is drastically increased and the game world feels much much more larger.

yeah i explained how to do this a few posts up for the people that dont yet understand the implication of FOV (yes some dont know about it : ).

It is like walking around with blinds irl and having to have to turn your head up and down and around constantly to be somewhat aware of your surroundings :/

I would be happy if they would just up it from the 65fov to 85 and be done with it. REAL happy and changing the ratio takes minutes (unless they did not document their code which i seriously doubt). No matter how complex the game is ,changing this ratio cannot be a problem.

If so ,then i need it explained to me

Awesome compilation

LOLLOL xD my pleasure m8

What do you mean by HD and triple HD ?

you have a 6x series google this: nvidia 670 turn off boost

The so called boost function keeps throwing your gpu into low performance mode on the 6x series.

There is no offical SLI support but it works fine for most people.

Currently the FOV is set to a fixed ratio which means it will always be the excact same too small fov on any resolution. I really o not see why hey do not just adjust the ratio.

Turn off auto targeting.

as for the foliage i have never seen a third person game remove such things according to what the character COULD see at least certaintly not in a mmo.

First of all MMO’s are a different beast altogether compared to SP games and regular MP games like bf3. Infact the tech has come a long way. It used to be like " the game does not look too good but it is expected since it is a mmo"

Which was quite correct, every mmo out there compared to sp games or w/e just did not look good , period. I say that has changed by a lot already.

performance vs looks : MMO’s have a whole lot more going on and to process then those games that you mention CPU .memory , caching or GPU wise they are a lot more complex and often take a bit of time to slowly be optimised further beyond the closed beta.

Take a look at SWOTR for instance it is miles simpler and lighter in gfx quality but throw a map full of players on your screen and BF3 will show you a higher FPS even though it look a lot prettier.

As for the nvidia 6x videocards it turns out that in that case it is the build in ‘boost’ function exclusive to the 6x series that is the main culprit and add the most to the performance issues.

GW2 is still recieving constant patchs including optimisations.

The out of range / in range indicator is a bar under your skills that lights up in red if the skill is out of range.

You see the thing is avan most veteran mmo players that complain about sociability are themselves the least social ingame. They become socially passive, join groups for instance witouth trying to talk just for fun ,joking around or even responding unless they have a ‘reason’ as can be read in this very thread.

The ‘reason’ usually is beingkitten of about something or shouting orders around ending up with the word “noob”

If they are in a guild they tend to only talk to their guild.

They are not complaining about the lack of sociability since they are the prime example of how not to be social. They are complaining about not being forced to communicate during DE’s mainly.

it is the “please hold my hand and make me do it or the blame is on you” syndrome.

Zeebie.5937:

I levelled from 70-77 (I’m assuming we are talking about both maps) there today, and it was annoying and caused a huge cost in repairs bills. It’s clearly design around group play but there no real reason to complete the quest. I know on my server all that happens is people go from chopper to giant to another 2 sometimes 3 quest and repeat.

there needs to be some real reward for finishing the map or following all the quest through to the end.

So in GW2 we go from threads complaining it is not social enough because quests dont need groups perse since they scale to complaining that quests need groups ?

Pluton.7364:

did you know what killing pvp? having headache from low FOV

yeah

this obviously got my vote ^

for the ones that dont understand the complaining about the FOV do this:

Set your game to windowed mode (prefferbly without your monitor scaling/strecthing it) now make it half the height of your screen and as wide as it can go. Play for at least 20 minutes like this , pref. a little longer THEN switch back to your fullscreen/resolution.

You will understand instantly.

[qoute]I do a lot of what Ceallach does: often I find myself tagging along with a group as we follow a particular event or clear an area, and sometimes conversations start up out of that, especially if you’ve got a good sense of humour Some of my most fun experiences so far have been just random encounters with other players while we struggle with some quest, and the hilarious banter we have while we’re doing it. I’ve found the game to be pretty social so far, but it definitely can be intimidating to just strike up conversation with strangers.[/quote]

indeed and humor is key here. I also dont see how starting a convo in a videogames chatbox is such a hurdle.

Being social all depends on you as a player. As long as the game is not instanced to hell like STWOR or STO it is simple enough but even in those instanced games it is still possible to get into contact with people,there is no excuse.

I have been in groups that at first were silent, i break the ice and the group becomes chatty and end up with new guildies or people on the FL, this does not always work but if you never even try to be social it will never happen, This does not happen if you are socially passive.

I have never had issues with it in any mmo tbh. How can you blame a game MMO’s in particular for being anti social? It is up to you.

The argument of “i have no reaons to be social” is a lemon. Even now i meet people by afk chatting in areas using /s and /m, go figure.

Unless you as a individual lack depth yourself this could be a problem for you, get help.

FOV
FOV!
FOV!!
FOV!!!

Please fix the FOV

LaronX.8079:

I help becaus I want and becaus I want.

LaronX.8079:

I do help selflessy but selflessly does not mean I don’t expcet to at least get something

LaronX.8079:

I am not helping poor ppl.

You are a banking director irl correct ?

Rangers and ele’s got a bit of the short end here. The rest seem to have very viable downed states.

keroksi.3076:

I main thief so i know what different stealths it got, but it doesnt still explain another thief attacking you for long periods without blowing his stealth.

And to be more accurate, im not saying he can spam backstab on me more than normal, just that he stays invisible.

Its bugged. It happens on your toon to but you dont notice yourself. Its easy to recognise, whenever you see that puff of black smoke that is when the thief is supposed to be vissible but he stays invissible for about 4 or 5 seconds longer then that.

I kinda agree with the op. Most people complaining about a certain class usually never played it themselves , they are merely having trouble with them. From their point of view that class is easy to play with no drawbacks.

If they were to play it they would see the actual drawbacks compared to the perks. I did this with the warrior class and thief and saw for myself that HS needed a nerf (A-net agreed on this) and to win on a warrior all i need to do is button smash myself to victory.

If you are on a warrior or a guardian and die that fast there is seriously something wrong with your build or how you play.

I agree on the 3 to 5 seconds immunity idea.

If defending a point would net us enough points to be able to just stand there and ‘defend’ then there will be matches where most will do just that and try to avoid to engage when they own 2 of the points.

In 8v8 there will be 4 on one point and 4 on the other doing nothing but wait and accumulate easy points whenever they can and run between 2 points re-cappig them and doing it all over as much as possible.

Lance Coolee.9480:

Yet you based the entire premise of your argument on the fact that I “play 40 hours a week”

yes, and?

faileon.4381:

Read post #1 and 3. Please uninstall GW2…

whoops

if people are playing in the middle of the night on a week day like the op it might be a better idea to play on U.S pop server.

Lance Coolee.9480:

/facepalm.

srsly, when did /age really have a valid bearing on any metrics?

How does time played not ?

You got to 80 100% complete in no time
Ref played more hours and is still at 50%

It actually points out a lot from all sides.

incorrect. There are tons of charr , humans, asura,sylvary npc’s in the field that just stand or sit their talking to you witouth opening their mouth.

Mickey.4207:

Why people keep telling OP to go back to WOW? did he say he wants to go back to WOW or that he is from WOW? this is a cliche used by people to down play other people opinion. Not clever really.

You must have never seen any of his other posts

Lance Coolee.9480:

Smackjack.5071:

Ever since 2 people asked for a screenshot with his /age the op has not been back.

I’m also level 80, 100% map complete and 1 profession at 400.

So you played 40 hours a week , that says it all. I can get to endgame on any mmo even faster in most with that amount of time.

If i wanted to , but i dont. I dont see the need,

pericles.3286:

@Mikali
Sure I need to learn how to play … meanwhile I can be 90% of the matches 1st with my warrior and gain more glory points rather log in with my necro finishing most of the times last one cause I suck .
@ZombiesTT
If its me and not the game thats good thing …
@Irishbrewed
Thnx for the tips

In the end I found myself very good player if Im playing with my warrior and very bad player when Im playing with my necro .. Maybe I need to understand the mechanics better but I really cant find any reason why burst like Backstab-HB-Crossfire(seen 19k damage lol ) and all this abilities .. I just hate the burst … It should be more wise to bring down the burst a little its my opinion thnx for the answers .

Being a ‘good player’ on a warrior is not as hard as being a good player on a necro. Lets be honest here , playing a warrior is not hard. I made one to see why they killed me so easily , leveled it up to lvl 3 took it into the myst , did not practice any of the skills and ended up top player in my first match with it just smashing random buttons.

That experience said it all to me.

so basically what you are saying is all the classes is balanced except for elementalist in PVP ok how? 5%higher damage or what? they can already 1shot alot of obstacles in PVE so its not a option i don’t want skills to turn into pvp version skills like in gw1.
and your hypothetical nerfs is just awful. you also only mentioned 3 classes.
and please don’t make a post with “THE CLASS IS OP” because you cannot kill it in pvp instead adapt.

I dont main a ele in pvp no’r do i favor the class (or any other for that matter) but i do have one. Ele’s dont need a dmg buff no one is asking for that what ppl are advocating is a defense buff or a interupt utility at least AND to fix the bugged skills on the ele since half of them are bugged.Even the auto attack bugs out next to being way to slow.

You clearly have not played a ele otherwise you would have known this from experience.

I survive loads of CC’s om any of the 5 classes i use in pvp.

Ever since 2 people asked for a screenshot with his /age the op has not been back.

I’m not blaming Arenanet for a lack of players, I’m blaming them for designing leveling content that requires a group

Like I said, you don’t have problems like this in WoW, which did away with the archaic concept of group questing many years ago

So group questing in a MMO is archaic now and Solo questing is preferred ?

Go play Skyrim ? lol

which makes the fact that all models outside of the cut-scenes talk with their mouths closed all the more obvious and strange.

That that would be the case was my first thought but then people started mentioning vids being flagged so i held of judgement of it.

Does anyone have actual proof of GW2 vids being flagged for this?

Amiron.1067:

Last time I checked, Smackjack, I never said anything about the gamepad being better than the K&M combo.

Someone did

Which is what i responded to.

InsanityPlea.9163:

Smackjack.5071:

From the op:

TsukasaUjiie.2837:

VirtualBS: You need to understand that this crash often locks up the computer before it is able to throw a blue screen, as illustrated by my issues and skeletank or create a minidump.
Quite often there is no stop code for us to diagnose with or dump to run bluescreen view with.
Im still hoping a dev will weigh in on this topic.

uhm why did you conveniently not Bold and highlight the part where he says: quite often it crashes before i get a bsod screen

“Quite often” means not everytime and it only takes one bsod code to learn more. Which explain the mention of “BSOD errors” because there are no BSOD errors otherwise.

he says something like this twice in your quote so i have to ask , what the hell are you arguing for ,just for the sake it seems?

DaveK.1023:

Smackjack.5071:

Your assumptions were misplaced considering the fact that you are discussing a configuration that uses hardware below the minimum requirements as stated in the op.

Which is why i assumed you actually supported what you said in your assumption. goes to show that assuming about assumptions and assuming in general without question generaly a bad idea.

I like your style, very refined :-) Peace man. :-)

Thank you

peace back V

GW2 .exe is LAA so the limit will actually be 4gb. In theory the extra 4gb should not be a issue , in practice it can. It is not unthinkable that it is and would not affect his performance at all since it is not being used but it is present.

P.S even on a 64bit os a 32bit non LAA exe will not surpass the 2gb limit.

Uhm yes i know that…..but… do you ?

You are arguing how WoW handles mechanics in direct comparison to GW2 and how WoW does it for a reason so why does GW2 do it like this…. I know i know and thus,

Another : but but this is not how WoW does it.. thread.

keep it spinning tho

Ragnar Dragonfyre.1806:

lol yes, because 15 years of MMO experience makes me a “scrubbing n00b”.

Like I said, obvious troll is obvious. Try harder kid.

I have seen lots of people that have been gaming in a specific genre for years and years and still not have a clue so , yes.

I feel a bit bad for them sometimes tho.

Freakiie.8940:

You didn’t lose anything. The problem with tournament chests not working was WELL KNOWN (so well known that I who hadn’t set foot in the Mists yet at that time even knew about it), but you still kept doing tournaments.

It was YOUR decision to keep doing content that you should’ve known wasn’t working properly. This is like complaining that you did a dungeon 10 times, a week later the rewards get improved and you wanting the new reward for the 10 runs you did last week.

Thats what i did. simple reasoning would tell you that just assuming that they will hand you the rewards later when it is fixed is just not very smawt.

Another : but but this is not how WoW does it.. thread.

I had no lag, What lag?

If the forums are ruining it for you and you prefer them to be closed then why not at least stop visiting them.

Know someone who is botting ?

Like be friends with a goldseller?
If it is players you are talking about then i can say that goldsellers are the reall and only issue here. I doubt there would have been any players botting so far.

btw Goldsellers do not pay for the game they use hacked acounts

Hey you figured out my name ….or wait no you didn’t. Zero points for you on that one. (Now back to the SMACK talking – there is a slight hint in there)

Yup i get A+ in ignorance because of course we all know how much a gamepad owns a m&k in MMO’s , shows just how ignorant i am….the shame….owh ..the shame..

:)

Name one MMO that launched witouth bugs issues or specifically bugged quests.

Maybe if the OP never played a mmo i could sort of somehow understand but outside of that mmno.

Yeah it would be fun to see.

Thye did something similar in Aion where the head GM’s would log into their toon and explode the players toons in the city hubs.

Im pretty sure Anet will do this again soon.