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[Quarter Rat]

Oooh, the MESMER

Finally a game with PvP as a game mechanic and not some tacked on rep grind.

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yeah, pretty stoked

 

[whodatfever]

I was a Mesmer in GW 1. Mind control rules.

 

[p0pe]

Sign up now for the Guild Wars 2 Beta!

Available for the next 48 hours I think.

 

[SouthernSaint]

Sweet I signed up I've been waiting for this game for at least a year but recently I heard rumblings that Guild Wars 2 will be console compatible and that scares me.

 

[zeetes]

awesome. signed up! thanks

 

[Firecross]

lol.. apparently signups are open for a little while longer to hit 1mil.

 

[buzd]

Now closed.

 

[Quarter Rat]

Sweet I signed up I've been waiting for this game for at least a year but recently I heard rumblings that Guild Wars 2 will be console compatible and that scares me.

They're doing the PC version first, and that's all that matters.

Looks like Planetside 2 will be the same way also

 

[DawgPoundSaint]

Guild Wars 2 Pre-Order April 10

Finally, news that it will be out soon! :17:

 

[Firecross]

Apparently beta invites are out.

 

[Firecross]

I'm not "officially" in the BETA but I HAVE played it over the weekend, I played as a charr Thief.

I think the game is pretty interesting, the story i've seen thus far is good, the cut scenes are good. The game really tries to teach you early on that moving out of the bad stuff is a good thing. There will be little red circles on the ground, you don't wanna be in there. I saw a skilltest where an NPC will just throw mines at you and explode after a second or two, a red circle pops on the ground and you should be moving out of it and hitting the npc. After the NPC's hp is gone you win the challenge test.

Now for the annoyances:

You're gonna have to switch weapons often, you can switch between the weapons you have using F1 on the keyboard which invokes a cooldown, your abilities will change depending on what you switch to.

Dynamic events were ALWAYS atrocious with lag, these are big public quest type deals, the lag was horrible, we were tasked to kill waves upon waves of "Tar Elementals". Being a Melee was NOT fun, I would take globs and globs of random damage just running into the fray and attacking what other melee were focusing on.

You feel completely overwhelmed at times, there is just all kinda stuff going on at once between quests you pick up or a new dynamic event starting, sometimes it is completely chaotic which is both a good and bad thing.

Dynamic events happening in the middle of a quest, I was doing one of my quest objectives only to have a dynamic event boss spawn ontop of me and 1 shot me. Tons of people complaining that its erratic atm.

Double tapping movement keys to roll on the ground to move out of the way of attacks, cool idea but you get often screwed by lag, it is not very responsive atm.

Thats just some of the things I saw when I got to play it. I liked what I saw, I just don't really have the PC power to handle all the massive dynamic events, it was so laggy and horrible, I think that alone will cause me to skip the game until I upgrade my PC.

 

[Quarter Rat]

I'm not "officially" in the BETA but I HAVE played it over the weekend, I played as a charr Thief.

I think the game is pretty interesting, the story i've seen thus far is good, the cut scenes are good. The game really tries to teach you early on that moving out of the bad stuff is a good thing. There will be little red circles on the ground, you don't wanna be in there. I saw a skilltest where an NPC will just throw mines at you and explode after a second or two, a red circle pops on the ground and you should be moving out of it and hitting the npc. After the NPC's hp is gone you win the challenge test.

Now for the annoyances:

You're gonna have to switch weapons often, you can switch between the weapons you have using F1 on the keyboard which invokes a cooldown, your abilities will change depending on what you switch to.

Dynamic events were ALWAYS atrocious with lag, these are big public quest type deals, the lag was horrible, we were tasked to kill waves upon waves of "Tar Elementals". Being a Melee was NOT fun, I would take globs and globs of random damage just running into the fray and attacking what other melee were focusing on.

You feel completely overwhelmed at times, there is just all kinda stuff going on at once between quests you pick up or a new dynamic event starting, sometimes it is completely chaotic which is both a good and bad thing.

Dynamic events happening in the middle of a quest, I was doing one of my quest objectives only to have a dynamic event boss spawn ontop of me and 1 shot me. Tons of people complaining that its erratic atm.

Double tapping movement keys to roll on the ground to move out of the way of attacks, cool idea but you get often screwed by lag, it is not very responsive atm.

Thats just some of the things I saw when I got to play it. I liked what I saw, I just don't really have the PC power to handle all the massive dynamic events, it was so laggy and horrible, I think that alone will cause me to skip the game until I upgrade my PC.

That's actually an awesome writeup, and yes I am the jelly.

You keep mentioning lag, was that latency (ping) or hardware related (FPS) ?

 

[Firecross]

Yeah, there was some server lag when you tried to "double tap" to roll on the ground to get out of the way. I wish I could have taken screenshots but Arena.net isn't playing with their NDA, they have your email watermarked in the background and shows up while playing at all times.

Thief was pretty cool, everytime you stealth it heals you, when you die you can "fight to survive" which will give you a new action bar where you can press certain abilities and heal yourself up enough to get back up. The area I was in was pretty damn chaotic, there was all kinda stuff going on between you questing/picking up quests or events happening.

I was real impressed by the game which is very rare for me to say about a BETA, I can tell you the hype is real and not just full of BS. Bioware is gonna be crapping in their pants once that game is done because there is no way SW:TOR is going to compete with that.

 

[Optimusaint]

i cant wait

 

[Quarter Rat]

{So I get this email yesterday...}





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From: The Guild Wars 2 Team guildwars2@ncsoft.com 12:20 PM (21 hours ago)

to: me

Title: The Wait is Over!
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I look inside and what do I get?

Pre-Purchase Guild Wars 2 Today



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