Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

[Gokulo]

Anyone can say if they improved performance?

[Odin'sLaw]

sorry if someone has already said this, Checked play.com today as guildwars 2 has finally been pre-orderable, standard is 45.90 CE is 399.99, now come on how epic does it have to be for me to give them 2 weeks wages? :/

[Isiolia]

sorry if someone has already said this, Checked play.com today as guildwars 2 has finally been pre-orderable, standard is 45.90 CE is 399.99, now come on how epic does it have to be for me to give them 2 weeks wages? :/

MSRP was more like $150 for the CE, so it's probably just the store marking up a rare item.

[Odin'sLaw]

well $150 is £120ish so someone is hoping to make a killing

[Isiolia]

well $150 is £120ish so someone is hoping to make a killing

Probably. Or they have a system that automatically jacks the price as stock plummets, like Newegg and Amazon seem to have.

[Kwijiboe]

The PVP areas blow. Also, how the fuck do I leave?

[Kiehl]

The PVP areas blow. Also, how the fuck do I leave?

Question of the century. I went to the PvP lobby and then portals back to the starting area.

[Scythiroth]

I would love to hear what you guys that have never played think

I gave it a shot earlier today after having never played GW1 or really following this game much (I had seen a few gameplay videos and stuff in the past, but didn't really follow this game too much).

I really liked the quest system and how you can so easily just join events already in progress, but the controls just really bothered me. After playing TERA (not trying to make this into a game vs. game thing, but that is just what I'm comparing it to since their gameplay is kind of similar), these controls just don't work for me.

I may still end up playing it in the future if some of my friends play it, but gameplay/controls are really important for me to enjoy a game. =(

[Arelian]

Unplayable lag. Yes!

Edit: What about the controls bothered you, Scythiroth? The combat system for this and Tera are actually almost similar, you just have to find your "1" key to LMB and you'll have a nearly identical system.

[Mistral]

BURN THE HERETICS!

(joke)

I just logged into it earlier today as well. I definitely liked the questing! The whole "Public Quest" idea emerged I believe back when Warhammer's mmo came out. This is just a better-done version of the whole concept, for sure.

What I want them to do, though, is fix the dang camera. I wanted to increase the speed at which you move it, as it felt too slow to me. Also, their battle system is very unique - I just haven't quite figured it out yet, I guess. I do like not having to tab to the next target, however, the issue here is the camera. I want to be able to flawlessly turn and burn, so to speak, and the controls were too clunky. (Or maybe I'm just used to moving the mouse as the camera as per Tera and your traditional action games)

I'll give it another go later, and I'm going to say it's mostly just a beta issue they're probably aware of.

[altwight]

Pickign server and server transfer are totally borked atm. Woke up too late to pick same server as my buddies.

[Arelian]

I've been waiting for server crashes all day. Getting delays of over 15 seconds on ability use is literally murder, lol.

[bluefan]

Moved my tilde to my R, and R to tilde. Weapon swap is easier to press and I've always used tilde key for auto run in all MMOs. Binded the function keys to my macro keys on my Black Widow. Tweeked a few more settings and I'm all good.

But yes, I find TERAs camera mouse movement to be more fluid.

[Arelian]

It also definitely feels like any group event is incredibly overtuned... lol Getting 1 shotted is never fun.

[Kwijiboe]

This lv9 Champion Wasp was owning fools.

[Takiwaki]

so I kinda do not like mesmer AT ALL, which is sad cus It was my main in GW1 lol

[Dranio]

I'm thoroughly enjoying my elementalist, though only lvl 6 atm. 4 sets of skills to learn for each weapon though, should be fun man! I'm half done with the scepter/wand/whatever it's called.

[Aristio]

I'm liking the game. Just got to level 10 Engineer. I'm happy we only have 4 weapon combos total as grinding those out are bothersome. The weaponkits come fully unlocked which is nice. Although, I feel Engineer's damage output is lacking. Was wacking at an environmental target for a few seconds when a warrior comes over and finishes it off like it was soft butter. Wishing I had a G13 keyboard though.

[bluefan]

It also definitely feels like any group event is incredibly overtuned... lol Getting 1 shotted is never fun.

This lv9 Champion Wasp was owning fools.

Yeah, the scaling was never meant to have so many people like that against a regular event boss. For the bigger events at the end of a chain yeah, but not just local events.

[Eanae]

Hating the control scheme too. No automove to target on even talking to NPCs or looting? Why is this a good feature? It's awful. -_-