what they should do is look for client side applications that are running, and refuse to run if a blacklisted application is running (there are various ways to validating this, some with checksums). if a blacklisted app is running prompt to close it or GW2 closes.
If a blacklisted application runs while the game is running, popup a 30second timer to close said application or the game closes.
The closure of the client can be done from the server, and the IP address can be on a temp suspension for 5mins so that users that are cheating and attempting to avoid a lockdown system like this cant rush the servers with attempts.
While they can proxy/VPN in, there are only so many IP addresses in use and with the 300k playerbase, maybe 3-5% are cheaters, those IP addresses will hit the suspension timeout.
i5 4690k @ 4.5
16gbs of ram
hd7850 2gb (1050/1200)
random crashes all the time. it is NOT my pc. game ran perfectly fine before hot launch. witcher3/gta5/shadow of mordor runs without any issues.
other pc is: 4790k, 32gb of ram, gtx760 2gb. same random crashes.
Drop that Character model limit down to Medium or Low and your crashes should stop.
i tried. not only game looked worse, but crashing continued
it wont make the game look worse, it just lowers the number of Characters on your screen. if the game’s quality dropped then you got something else going on.
This is their stance on Multiboxing, and has been since Day 1 as far as I’m concerned.
Chances are if you are multiboxing, whatever application you used to launch GW2 multiple times is getting flagged right now. This is something that the GW2 team needs to look into, and give community feedback on.
You may use more than one account at the same time.
You may use more than one computer at the same time.
You must be actively playing on each account.
And as stated above, you may not program your keyboard to perform functions on more than one account at a time.
a. For example, if you press W on your keyboard to move forward, a single character on a single account should move forward. The keystroke or mouse click should not perform functions on more than one account.
This is correct. However, if you are running multiple accounts and choose to cheat on one of them, we are going to close all of them. This ban wave had nothing to do with multi-boxing, but likely also impacted players that owned multiple accounts.
If anyone is cheating I hope you are closing all of their accounts. It does nothing but ruin the game for the other decent players.
I got soo sick of the WvW bot hacks (Cliff Jumping, Flying, going under ground to keep cap) that I stopped playing WvW months ago.
I think that Anet needs to give 100% absolute feedback to the users they ban with server side logs stating what they did. It wont prevent them from coming on the forums, but it may help those that are hit by ban waves that did nothing wrong (such as running linux, you guys have banned quite a few running Linux lol).
Rofl. Witcher has models weighting bigger textures than entire zerg. Gw2 is 32 bit crap using dx9 that even WoW turned away from. Maybe they should reconsider using worse textures if their client can’t handle their own creation?
Than have fun playing the witcher for the next 3 years .. beacuse I don’t want
worse textures only because some people a too stubborn to change 1-2 settings.
It just says all about the game when you have to turn options off to actually be able to play And no problem, if Anet keeps on destroying this game i will surely go back to witcher since it is an actual masterpiece.
and yet, you are here. just get over yourself and do what needs to be done.
because GW2 is a 32 bit application and can only access up to 3.5GB of ram total. That is why.
Then maybe Anet should focus on optimization and lower memory usage so we can play the game the way it is ment to be played?
I think the point you are completely missing here is, the Game client is as its going to be for a while. I doubt we will see an upgraded client anytime soon (if ever) and we all must make adjustments to compensate its short comings.
If you do not want to then you will suffer from OOM crashes. Nothing else can be done.
This is their stance on Multiboxing, and has been since Day 1 as far as I’m concerned.
Chances are if you are multiboxing, whatever application you used to launch GW2 multiple times is getting flagged right now. This is something that the GW2 team needs to look into, and give community feedback on.
You may use more than one account at the same time.
You may use more than one computer at the same time.
You must be actively playing on each account.
And as stated above, you may not program your keyboard to perform functions on more than one account at a time.
a. For example, if you press W on your keyboard to move forward, a single character on a single account should move forward. The keystroke or mouse click should not perform functions on more than one account.
this is such flawed thinking. The only setting you need to lower is character limit. As that is what really drives the memory in the game client. You lower that, you probably stop crashing.
Why would i do that if i have few gb of unused memory? 2-3gb used memory is not much. It is gw2 client that needs optimization and/or upgrade.
because GW2 is a 32 bit application and can only access up to 3.5GB of ram total. That is why.
I am not planning to lower anything down on a PC that can handle The Witcher 3 on 60fps and everything on ultra. Seriously i wish they already swapped to 64bit client with dx11 already. My memory is like 5gb free anytime i play so it isn’t about my PC. It is about how the game uses it’s memory. Same about graphics and processor that don’t even sweat.
this is such flawed thinking. The only setting you need to lower is character limit. As that is what really drives the memory in the game client. You lower that, you probably stop crashing.
Never crashing, But i use Medium character limits and High Character models. OOM means your client cant access paged memory for whatever reason.
All windows 64bit.
HD6970M – Win10x64
R9 M270X – Win7x64
295×2 – Win7x64
R9 280x – Win7x64
R9 270x – Win7x64
R9 390 – Win10x64 (new ITX build work in process, so cant say its 100% stable yet but no crashing yet)
So you should adjust your in game settings if you are crashing with OOM.
I have been running this game on a HD4600 off a i5-4570 since Saturday (ITX build, in the process…ect) and Ill say, I am impressed at what the 4570+HD4600 can do for the game.
medium settings, 1600×900 1GB shared ram (BIOS setting) 40FPS in cities and 60FPS+ out in open areas. Not bad for integrated graphics.
But I agree with Fermi for the Dedicated card. You want more vRAM, a 380, 280x, would be my to go for AMD solutions for ‘Low end’. They are both sub 200USD~ cards and will sustain high FPS at 1440p easily.
edit
Also a 280x is a 7970Ghz, the only things faster are the 290/290x, 390/390x and the Fury/FuryX cards since the 7970Ghz was a single card flag ship back in 2012. While the Pixel rate of the 380 matches the 280x, the 280x has far superior Memory Bandwidth, and that is why the 280x is faster then the 380. end edit
But, Anytime now we should be getting a 380x (Tonga XT) release. So maybe hold off until this card is released and reviewed before buying anything just yet. The ONLY Tonga XT chip we saw was in the MacBooks (M295X) so on a desktop board with more power overhead we do not know what to fully expect out of the 380x yet.
380 is a 285
960 is a weak GPU that should just not be considered.
I would say look at the following lineup
370, 270x, 280, GTX660Ti, HD7870 for the low end
gtx970, 280x, GTX770, HD7970 for the mid-high
290, 390 GTX980, 290x, 390x, Fury, FuryX, 980Ti for the High end
Also consider buying used. You can get a used 290 for under 225 now.
I burned through the auto loot mastery in 4 hours with Banners, Guild MF, Boosters, and Birthday boosters, running the CoF farm And I am going to do the FoTM next.
Personally I dont see issue with this. People can either farm (4hours is with a good group that just doenst auto attack) or take the slower approach. its not game breaking either way.
and make them bigger so they stand out more. Its very hard to see HP’s with how the maps are drawn currently. They need to be a more defined color as well as change more defined between if you unlocked it or not.
No, i’m pretty sure you gained a spirit shard at lvl 80 though..
Nope. Didn’t.
They split the old skill points into 2 things. Hero points and spirit shards. After the change:
Hero points from leveling to level 80 and from hero point challenges.
Spirit shards as a reward, tome use at 80 or a drop. never from leveling either before or after reaching level 80.
yea, too much time has passed and I didnt really care back then but I am 99% sure you got shards for leveling at 80. I remember watching my shard count when I was making volcanous and Infinite lite to make lode stones. And I burned though all of them, then went and played for a while(2 months or so) and when I looked again I had 230~. I do not do dailies (no point IMHO) so I know they did not come from there.
you did for a time, they dropped skillpoints on level and had us gaining the spirit shards until the expansion launched. Now we only gain mastery points….
The obnoxious, condescending and flagrantly hostile posts directed toward players who simply want to play the game the way they want to play it explain the popularity of soloing far more eloquently than anything else possibly could.
Maybe if more “pro-grouping” players were less antisocial, more players would prefer group play.
While it is true some content only makes sense if it is scaled for groups, most content can be easily scaled to accommodate anything from a single player to a massive zerg. The technology is already widely used in the game, is one of Guild Wars 2’s key selling points and allows the maximum number of players to enjoy the game with a minimum amount of hassle.
If a group of players want a challenge worthy of a group, by all means, they should have one! And if a single player wants a challenge that is worthy of a single skilled player, why not?
So far, not a single credible reason for denying that to players has ever been expressed.
And that’s because there isn’t one.
But you see, HoT is already mostly soloable. With the exception of a few events, Bosses and Champs. It comes down to the skill level of said player whether or not they are capable. Group play dictation has nothing to do with it.
Like I said, if you cannot solo through HoT (there are Skill challenges that are GEARED for group play, Champs, and Bosses as well) then you need to reflect on what you are doing wrong and fix it. Its really as simple as that.
as for having both the commander tag(100G back in 2013) and mentor tag, its fine.
I dont get why you are bullying those that only have a mentor tag. its like you have some elitist ego about the fact you probably paid 300g and now anyone who gets that mastery can now put a mark on the map. Grow up.
As for greifing with tags, its been a problem since the introduction of the commander tag. Nothing has changed there. Just instead of everyone dropping 100g or 300g to get the tag, they just need to get a mastery. Elitists will be elitists and Trolls will be trolls. Having more ‘tag’ options does not change it.
And yes, anyone who has a tag as the ingame right to show that tag off. Just cause you think you own XYZ map cause you are organizing it does not entitle you to tell others to disable their tag. Get over yourselves already.
I kinda wish HP’s were BoA so you can just farm them on whatever character you wanted and distribute them however you want. But yea, 250HP change is fine. Lets leave the rest of the challenge alone.
HoT is soloable. I dont get why so many people are having issues with it. The only mobs you cannot outright solo are the Bosses and Champs. If you are a good player you can run around in berserk gear, if you are not then you can’kittens pretty simple.
I think those that are QQ’ing over this need to reflect on their class/build choices and go back to the drawing board to figure out what they are doing wrong.
it kinda sounds like they did this to offset the current costs of the pre’s on the TP. I think if they make it cost less then the cost on the TP currently, to ‘craft’ these Pre’s we would see countless flame posts about it.
I think they will probably tune down the crafting costs to make it more enjoyable and obtainable by casual players (Look at the HP change from 400 down to 250), it just take time to them to analyze and action on it.
You do have to give them some semblance of a break. I get frustrated just as much as anyone when stuff goes wrong and I don’t get to play when I come home from a long day at work. But they are real people too. They’ve been patching stuff around the clock since the xpac launched. It will get fixed once they can.
I hope you guys are getting rotated out well enough. I understand perfectly how bad those “war room” situations are in IT. Take care of your health! We can wait (as much as we might complain. ;-)
Issue with this is NCSoft, they are a for profit company. Every 30mins GW2 is offline thats potential gem sells lost, account purchases lost…ect.
I give it 4 hours, then a rollback if a fix has not been discovered.
This turns much into an ERP system outage, if the ERP is down the business makes no money. IT gets no sleep until that business is making money again (speaking from personal experience).
Maybe as a single player game. As for a MMO, crafting in GW2 itself is a puzzle game which requires community cooperation to solve. And the community is good enough to share it rather than keep it for themselves.
you do know that the community ONLY shares these things to jump the prices on the TP. Look at the bottle for nightfury, 500G. It was 14G 3 days ago….
Crafting in this game seriously sucks. There needs to be better clues, maybe quests that are used for unlocks that give better information..ect.
the only exception is the mystic forge, I like how that is done. Cause its pure RNGness :-)
But crafting needs some love from the devs. Updated UI, better hint system,…ect.
its best if they would reply with an ETA at least a minimum time to get people off their backs. be it 1 hour or 1 day ETA.
people are trying to get ingame thinking that its gonna be fixed anytime now but its not.
lack of information is driving this madness of questions and posts imo. no information which is driving up anxiety and confusion.
we dont really need an ETA here. We know its bad if EVERYONE is having login issues. They are working on it and it will be fixes as soon as it can. My guess if they cannot meet a 4 hour fix time, changes are rolled back. To be patched probably tomorrow night.
I just hope they stop this patching from Friday until Monday morning at 12am. Lets have a smooth weekend please!
Every time I start make progress in HoT something else gets broke. My main character is still stuck on the first mission. Almost a week and two tickets later but still no fixes… Why?
All I wanted to do was to play with my friends on day one and experience the game along side them. Sadly when progress is blocked, it becomes impossible to keep up. By the time I get to play the content, everybody I know will be bored and the maps will be empty.
I have friends on my list that have over 50 mastery and I am stuck at 9 because of all the bugs…Next time I am just going to wait it out.
This has been by far the worst xpac experience I ever had by far.
This must be the only xpac experience you’ve ever had if you’re upset about bugs in the first two weeks.
I have been playing mmos for 10 years
I have never had an experience in an expansion in which I tried to do the first mission on 4 seperate characters until I could get one to not bug out. For the first day I had 3 characters locked out of progress.
I still have a character that cant access the first instance. I can access the maps now… but cant do the missions because my first one is jacked up.
How would you feel if you could not play on your main the first couple days of an xpac because of bug issues…
Or how about wasting a several hours completing the same mission over and over on multiple toons trying to get on the new maps?
Now I can’t log in for the 3rd time since the xpac when I had no issues before?… yeah I think I have the right to say I am having a pretty bad experience right now.
I have the right to my opinion.. and that is that this is the worst experience I have ever had with an xpac release of a game.
So then you never played Everquest where characters were dead locked on loading screens on 3-4 separate expansion releases for WEEKS?! What about when they merged servers and characters went Poof!
This is FAR from the worse release to date of any MMO (been playing since 1999 when Everquest was released)
ok I thought it was something I did, got the last patch stayed until the game reloaded. Now I get network connection errors on all my characters. Anyone got any updated thread on this?
I dont see how anyone is complaining about the cost, unless you are looking for instagratification and want it now now now.
Farm for the bat wings (I got my 4 in under 8 hours)
Farm ToT for the bottle ( 3,000 bags I got my bottle)
Time sink as you get time to finish the rest.
I think the problem is that its too difficult to tell mentors/commanders apart; especially when there are a ton of mentors. Mentors should be given less visibility (relative to commanders) considering just how easy/common they are now and will be even more in the future.
You should be able to spot a commander out of a sea of mentors but right now, I don’t think that is the case.
you are putting to much value on these tags in PvE.
I think we can all agree on one thing. When a player zones, All tags should be auto disabled. When a commander/mentor does, their Tag should be disabled.
This way if a player is tagging for a reason, they are forced to do it often.
And who says mentors can’t be mentors in level 80 zones?
I’d say, if you’ve got a mentor tag up in any zone, you’re asking to be asked for help with hero challenges or events. So start bugging those with mentor tags for help with events and hero challenges. Make them realize that the mentor tag isn’t the poor man’s commander’s tag.
Dude thats the problem here. They dont use Mentor Tags for helping new players. They are using them as hurr “Free Commandership” durr.
But you don’t know that, right? For all you know, they’re a legit mentor. So treat them as such.
Okay i ll give it to you in simpler words
Commander Tag Commanding
Mentor Tag Mentoring
Simple as that
You’re not getting what I’m saying.
If you see someone with a mentor tag up. Treat them like a mentor. Don’t let them turn it into the poor man’s commander tag.
If you see a mentor trying to be a commander when there’s an active commander there, remind others that he’s just a mentor and not a commander and to follow the actual commander. Or ask that he swap to an actual commander tag if he’s going to command.
And for all you know, the mentor is an actual commander and he’s just forgotten to switch to his actual commander tag when he came over to the level 80 zone from a starter zone where he was being a mentor.
Too good to be true. And i actually whispered a mentor to give up his Mentor Tag and to let an actual Commander to do the job and he replied with a rude no. As i was trying to take him a privilege or something.
and what makes you think your commander tag trumps his mentor tag? And what makes you think you are entitled to take over from what that mentor was doing?
Just getting fed up a little. I spend time throwing my tag on and running a Verdant or Auric map, getting participation well over 200% (not that it matters) only to have a crash with a few minutes left of night time after an hours worth of work, to come back to a new dead map with no participation.
Please, if participation is used to determined your rewards at the end, make some sort of attempt to get people back to the right map. I love the idea of participation to determine rewards, but this really needs to get implemented better. The way it currently works, I just can’t trust that the game will make it to the reward.
That sounds like a great idea and participation is a good way of determining which map you “belong” to.
In general though, if the game loses contact with a player (they should be able to tell the difference between a crash and someone exiting the game or changing characters) then they should “reserve” that player’s slot on the map for two or three minutes to see if they come back.
The community has been asking for this since before the Megaserver. There has to be a system they can establish to tie a players SID to a map ID for a period of time after disconnection. We need to be able to come back into a map when we get kicked.
Just like with Commander Tags, people can and will troll with mentor tags too. As far as I’m Concerned I like the mentor tag. I have both, I LIKE the fact we get a Chat Title (mentor) before our name, as it makes mentors stick out better then commanders. Commander tags have an array of colors to choose from, /squad commands, and /wvw commands that the mentor tag does not have. Also I do not believe the mentor tag can be used in WvW at all. So there is that too.
Also. I got my Commander tag when it was 100g, so for those that are QQ’ing over mentor and buying your tag for 300G please QQ at me some, as I need to feed on the QQ for my daily supply. K, Thx.
Say I only have 20 minutes to log on one day and I want to do all the adventures that I have done gold for. If half or more of those adventures are locked my entire plan is out the window as I just straight up don’t have time to sit around waiting for event after event.
Then you should realize that MMO is not the kind of game for you at that moment. Each time of game have different length of play period and 20min isn’t for MMO.
Just who do you think you are to say this about the user? Just cause they have 20~mins a day to play a game does not mean they cannot enjoy an MMO.
play story and do stuff? i paid for an exp pack to have elite specs. i was willing to work for said spec, but Anet says no help no spec….you can’t argue the truth of that. ill do story and all the other stuff when i have the ability to do it as the spec i PAID FOR!
They’re all tied to event chains. Did the event you participated in lead to another event, or was it the end of a chain? The adventures only unlock after the chain is completed.
This, and its a huge problem. Many HoT maps seem to have events failing cause players are dropping out or switching to a more populated map. The ENTIRE weekend I was only able to do 3 adventures cause of this.
They need to make the adventures Not tied to the chain but rather available when the area isn’t under attack. Or make the adventures have their own quest chain to open them that is like a collection or something.
But as it is, they are not getting as used as they could be, and I see a lot of questions about it in /map chat.
I did the entire story and zone unlocks on my Necro/Reaper. Only issues I had were when events wiped out 6+ people and I was left alone with 2+ Elites, or that champ.
I went back and started all over again on my Mesmer and Guardian, the guard survives a lot better due to the passive healing. So it really depends on your play style, skill level, and what class you choose to play with. also, There are some class+build combos that are just not solo friendly.
@sirsquishy : “hugely”?
I think you “hugely” exagerate.
There are already people who start Verdant Brink with a not fully unlock Elite Specialisation and have not much trouble from the lack of few traits.
No, I am not exaggerating. And those people have completed map exploration and such. As where many of us have not (are either not interested or do not have the time). 60HP was easy to obtain before HoT. 180HP~ is also easy to obtain with in HoT. But while you are opening the maps and unlocking masteries to get those easy HP’s your build is nerfed due to the lacking traits/Skills while you are unlocking. And you cannot dispute that.
edit when I say nerfed, I do not mean unplayable or having issues playing the game. Just ‘Limited’ as you ARE locked out of 1 full trait line to equip the specialization.
I think the elite spec and the elite spec trait lines need to be separated. Since Anet said there are going to be many elite specs coming as time permits, we should not be bound to elite specs via traits only.
There needs to be a selection for which elite you are going to equip, maybe a primary and secondary slot when 3+ are made available, and then the trait lines are selected. This gives the new options more of an ‘elite’ feeling IMHO.
As it is, going Elite, we are locked out of 1 base/core trait line in order to just equip the stupid thing. So for Characters that only have the 60HP, and maybe 1-2 additional trait unlocks, are hugely nerfed.
Also, these new elite options give classes nothing ‘elite’ in nature. Just seriously overdue bug fixes and class limitation fixes(mesmer +25% swiftness, Guardian LB for better ranged, Necro GS for a proper Melee weapon….ect).
I feel that the spec ‘unlock’ should not be a trait line but rather a specialization selection. This way we are not locked out of 6 trait runes while we wait to explore and unlock the Trait lines.
I feel the current cost to unlock the complete trait line and utilities is more then fair and gives a feeling of progression to ‘become’ closer to the specialization.
The cost of the spec unlock is also more then fair.
I just do not think the Trait line lock out to ‘become’ the spec is not fair.
FX series CPUs are weaker per core over the older Phenom II’s. its due to how AMD decided to design the new CPU Module with dual Int’s and a single FPU rather thena 1:1 mapping.
When I had a FX8350, to get the best performance I also had to disable the 2nd ‘core’ per module and run it as a quad core CPU clocked at 4.8ghz. At the time I was running a HD7850 GPU.
When Haswell first came out, I bought a G3220 for a smaller build (media box) and decided to throw GW2 on it to see what it was capable of. In the starter areas the FPS double and nearly trippled in really open areas over the FX8350, using the HD7850.
I have since moved from AMD for compute over to Intel, because of the performance per core. And I highly suggest that you also consider it too for the best performance in the game. Even A G3258 clocked at 4.8ghz (You are overclocking the FX series CPUs anyway..) beat the snot out of the AMD offerings for this game.
I setup a spare system for my newphew to play HoT on this weekend using only the HD4600 on the 4570, 8GB DDR3 1600 CL9 Ram and a 128GB ssd. Running on medium/low settings at 1600×900 that system is getting a solid 30FPS in/out of combat in the new zones.
the FX series from AMD is aged and cannot touch Intel in performance. Overclocking wont bring it any closer to the performance of a G3220, let alone a i7-4790 or anything else Intel has to offer. If the FX8350 doesn’t give you the performance you want, its time to rip and replace it.
Set your character limit settings to medium, low, or lowest (which ever stops you from crashing)
As for the 2GB and 16GB memory sticks. I would pull the 2GB stick and stay with the 16GB stick. You are not really running both memory channels in dual channel mode since only 2GB would be dual channel. It causes issues, and i suggest not doing it. Only run matching pairs of memory sticks. so 16GB/16Gb or 2Gb/2GB. Dont mix them.
And no problem, if Anet keeps on destroying this game i will surely go back to witcher since it is an actual masterpiece.