If they are going to make the maps the same as they originally were during each story instance, are they going to do the same for season 2 maps?
The first time you get to Prosperity it isn’t supposed to be full of vines and that’s something that happens right before Entanglement, right? I’d be really confused while playing season 2 if it wasn’t for a friend that told me how the world was during every story step.
I can’t state for sure but I could say possibly yes.
lol, the curious thing is the most of these scammers appeal to use the expression “Please keep in mind that Guild Wars 2 is a global game with hundreds of thousands of players. This means that standards of behavior must be upheld.” What difference would it make? It’s another proof that’s not real as I’m sure Anet wouldn’t use such appellative expressions to put players in despair. Be aware people!
The Streaming Client feature is always on and no longer requires use of the -StreamingClient flag.
Forced streaming? Really? I mean… really?!? Didn’t NPE crap teach you anything? Forcing things and/or taking choices away from users is the worse and stupid path to follow.
Ok back to facts: it seems this streaming thing is causing some issues. I haven’t even tested map loading times yet but I already experienced some issues right at Character Selection screen. At first I got surprised that my FPS at that screen incredibly rose (usually I would get 30 or 40ish but got above 50 after patch) but then got annoyed by the stupid loading times. After launcher my screen stayed white for about 1 min (usually it was 15 secs and I play in Windowed mode), then Character Screen showed up but background stayed black with no character models for more than 30 secs. Worse of all is whenever I clicked or chose any option (opening Options, changing characters, etc…) my screen would freeze for 2 to 4 secs! Just to note, it was still downloading patch at that moment.
Thing is: give choices back to users! Stop forcing users to use it as you think they should use. Make the streaming thing optional unless it gets 99.9999% flawless and even so I would still prefer it to stay optional. Not everyone has a great connection and some could prefer downloading everything at once and not bother with it while playing than downloading in parts while playing. Better waiting and playing a stable game than being able to start it quickly but having to stumble across freezes or long loading times.
Edit: Ok scratch that, it seems the issue only occurs when it is still downloading the patch. Later yesterday I tried to play and it already was with patch fully downloaded, I had no issues and everything seemed to be normal. Anyhow, I still stand by what I said, always give users choices (like this thread couldn’t even exist if users had the option to turn off streaming).
You luck you had been getting yellows from those world bosses, I have hardly get any yellows from them for months lol. Exotics? I haven’t got one from world bosses for ages :P. yay RNG gods :P Btw, my MF is 120ish atm.
The quickest and easiest way to locate missing map elements is to:
Hit F11 to open your options
Select the Content Guide drop down menu (5th dropdown at the top)
Change this to ‘Disable Personal Story’
Now your content guide in the top right of your screen (default location) will point an arrow in the direction of the closest missing map element. If you happen to have only a single Heart missing that you have not uncovered, it will still point you directly to where it is so you can uncover it and complete it.
Even better, choose “Hide Events and Personal Story”. Otherwise, it will point you to events too and these have precedence over map completion stuff (if I recall right).
Map completion takes priority over events in the content finder.
Ah ok, I made a mistake then. Thanks. But anyhow it will ensure it won’t point you to any events nearby at least.
The quickest and easiest way to locate missing map elements is to:
Hit F11 to open your options
Select the Content Guide drop down menu (5th dropdown at the top)
Change this to ‘Disable Personal Story’
Now your content guide in the top right of your screen (default location) will point an arrow in the direction of the closest missing map element. If you happen to have only a single Heart missing that you have not uncovered, it will still point you directly to where it is so you can uncover it and complete it.
Even better, choose “Hide Events and Personal Story”. Otherwise, it will point you to events too and these have precedence over map completion stuff (if I recall right).
if you see any scout icons on the map then you haven’t uncovered all of them yet
Seeing a scout or not doesn’t mean you have uncovered all them actually. I have all maps completed and I still see scouts around. But that’s a good tip too, if you can’t find a heart you can try talking to scouts and they will point you all the hearts around.
Orr doesn’t count.
Lol, I didn’t mean Orr. I still see scouts on several maps, since starters to lvl 70 ones and i have 100% map completion.
Even though it was on a beta test maybe it would be better to report it through the email exploits@arena.net as reporting exploits through forums isn’t allowed. Also through email you are free to even give more details if needed.
if you see any scout icons on the map then you haven’t uncovered all of them yet
Seeing a scout or not doesn’t mean you have uncovered all them actually. I have all maps completed and I still see scouts around. But that’s a good tip too, if you can’t find a heart you can try talking to scouts and they will point you all the hearts around.
No problem. And nice to hear you are enjoying the game despite all. And rest assured they have read this, just a reply or solution may not come as fast as we would hope/want.
Even though there are several issues that went without a fix for ages, the forum has a purpose and several issues reported here were fixed. It’s just a matter of how complex the issue is, some can be easy to fix others can’t. Also, devs or mods won’t come and reply to each and all threads created, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t reading them. It’s better for them to spend their time fixing or developing things than replying to every threads on the forums.
Do you mean the Content Guide, that thing with an arrow pointing you the direction, or the area that says what’s your next story step? As far as I know the latter will be always visible until finish your Personal Story, no way to disable/hide it.
Usually devs or support hardly answer to each and all stuff posted on forums, but they do read them and acknowledge them (although the lack of answer may look as they don’t).
If the issue you are having is very specific and not many people also experience it, maybe you better trying to contact Support for a more individualized response. If it’s a common issue with others threads about the same thing, be sure they read it and possibly are aware about it.
Yes, the merchants were removed due changes for the NPE but some “leftovers” were left behind, making the area even more non-sense than with the lack of those merchants. yay NPE (nop).
Yes I hope a dev can update us on the situation as where it stands right now. I bought EOTN a couple weeks ago and was hoping to get the goodies, but alas “Content disabled try back later”
Will we still need to “entertain the cows” at that Queensdale heart?
Sadly, the poor starving cows may soon be extinct (save for those who manage to escape and take up a feral lifestyle in regions where neither human, norn, charr, asura, or sylviar are able to go) before the only truly sentient species native to Tyria reclaims its lost heritage and comes to their rescue.
TL;DR — probably.
LOL at that pic. And well, I wouldn’t hold my breath regarding any changes to that, but well, one can hope…
That’s odd, if opening Wintersday gifts for now is useless, what’s the purpose of having that tree in home instance? Honestly, I haven’t even touched it since Wintersday ended though because I had already a lot of those stuff stored.
And why some people would expect things to have a value? Well, I believe everyone expects their loot to worth something. A junk or other at times isn’t an issue but if we take all those things as junk then almost all items from Wintersday would be considered junk.
Out of curiosity I tried to test it with that Halloween outfit while previewing an armor of a different weight (what would cause other armors not be included in the preview) and it showed normally (no perv intended, for science sake :P). Maybe the issue is like mentioned: specific to a certain armor, outfit or race, or all of these.
Well, there is a thread about this subject but I just wanted to mention it: if you see ppl abusing and playing dirt the thing is reporting them via in-game report. Reporting people abusing the game isn’t the purpose of this forum section.
Also, if you know or see someone exploiting you can report the exploit to exploits@arena.net. Just reminding, as mentioned by a mod, that this email isn’t for reporting players, but about reporting the exploits per se.
But just to mention, good you didn’t name and shame anyone, that’s something not allowed on forums too.
But this setback will not be forgotten. It shows bad things can happen in a completely unexpected and arbitrary way while the person did the change think they made some improvement. The biggest problem with the PS was never chronological order or difficulty anyway. I hope next time ANet does something drastic thinking it’s good for the players and can “reduce confusion”, a reality check should be commenced and public feedback should be consulted.
Very well said and agreed. Sadly, Personal Story wasn’t the only thing to suffer of that but at least it’s what’s going to get a “fix” for now.
It’s possible to be a minor rendering glitch at your end too, unless it always happens. I have seen similar things at Silverwastes, where one day a few workers would be there doing things with no tools, effects or stuff but another day they would show up correctly with tools and stuff. That’s why I said it may be render glitches at your end.
I’m having trouble wrapping my head around this. Under the original system I got up to Ships of the Line and haven’t touched the personal story under the current system. Am I fine to stay there and then when this rolls out will I just be able to carry on the story as if nothing had happened or am I going to get bumped to a different mission?
Similarly my other character got to Temple of the Forgotten God under the old system, are they ok to just stay there?
If you haven’t touched Personal Story since it changed, you will be fine and won’t miss anything.
Although it seems it’s more closer to what it should be, it doesn’t make sense targeting things out of your view. However there are controversies I see.
Yay, good to see Bobby back to keep us updated xD Thanks for the update, looking forward to continue my PS. My main has been waiting to punch some orrians for months now :P
(now just NPE is left to be fixed/reverted… Well, one can hope :P)
Is it wrong of me to get frown a lot when the issue is “very old and known” but no fix is in sight?
Maybe some of the resources at Anet that spend their time making a new Mini every week for 400gems could be reallocated to actually fixing these very old and known problems
No, not wrong. You aren’t alone on this. I have been cursing that skill whenever I try Sanctum Sprint for more than one year now :S
I do wish we had more nuanced control over which system messages we had to see — I don’t really care when a buddy changes characters, but I might want to know when they go offline. And more than that, I always want to know when someone I whisper is unavailable.
Yeah, agreed. That’s annoying to not get offline/online messages when just wanting to hide received items notices O.o not to mention the annoying “Skill recharging” too. The “System messages” category could be more broken down instead merging it even more as has happened lately.
I haven’t had any chances to try the beta but from what I know you won’t be able to access it after it’s over, even any chars created for it and any data related to it is usually wiped out.
Yes, with the New Players Experience system skill challenges are locked on early levels, as well some map completion items in world map. See this for more info http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Level_rewards
And welcome to Guild Wars 2!
I have given a similar suggestion a while back, that’s now buried among several threads :S No idea why they prefer to use forums for that, go figure. *shrugs*
Not sure if it also fails in this case but you can also click that little gear icon at the upper left, that brings up the same menu as Esc does (just in case no one tried it).
Yup, I see you couldn’t get a proper proof, I just mentioned what could be done in case you had. And yeah I see what you meant, but the proper way would be reporting it through that email, as even mentioned by a dev once.
If you have proof or even suspect someone could be using exploits or anything like you better report it through email to exploits@arena.net. Discussing about exploits on forums isn’t allowed. But also good you didn’t name anyone or something like, that’s also not allowed.
Also, in case you have chance, you can report them using the in-game tool (if you can clearly see who is doing it of course).
