Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

[Lucavi]

Holy shit @ that neck. Love how you can make a meat tank if you really want to, or a stick.

Hurry hurry!

[notorious bum]

I want to hump the ladies in dis game.

Seriously though, they put a ton of polish on this game, it's insane.

[Arximiro]

What neck! Son he is dissapoint

[Takiwaki]

[Cichy]

Nice SS, the red head is a player right?

[bluefan]

Too much teasing. ArenaNet is doing this on purpose. They probably all gather in the meeting room after every blog update and just laugh maniacally at all the responses across various forums. Buncha sadistic people....

[Vimes]

lol, the devs are awesome:

@mkerstein
So it seems Izzy and Tyler did not sleep at all but defended a keep in WvW for 10h. Madness!

(those are 2 devs just to be clear)

[Zerocool]

Can it be tomorrow yet?

[Takiwaki]

Repair mechanic, its different than 14 so should be ok, sounds great IMO and helps push skillfull play. The new long term resource they were talking about in place of mana

Morning.

Let me explain what is actually happening.

Every time you get defeated (so after you have been downed and failed to rally) one piece of your armor gets damaged. Once all your armor pieces are damaged, they will break - and you will have to repair or replace it.

It is very different from a durability system other games use, as you cannot avoid being hit by opponents - but you can avoid getting defeated by skilled play.

So if you never get defeated, you will never have to repair a single piece of armor.

Hope that helps, we have a blogpost about it coming soon that will get into more details. -MK

[Takiwaki]

loving the texture detail

http://images.4chan.org/vg/src/1329678446328.jpg

[Takiwaki]

images gone

Cloth armor and greatsword = Mesmer I guess

[Zzsark]

The detail on that dagger is pretty nice. Also loving the underwater depth range.

[Rulke]

The body structure is done really well

Reminds me of how you can bulk up your char in APB, pretty cool.

[Takiwaki]

Come tomorrow someone should make a media thread, cus its gonna be a bit crazy.

[blindSharingan]

Repair mechanic

Honestly it still sounds kinda shitty. I tend to hate any type of repair mechanic but really it's a pretty minor complaint amongst all the other stuff in this game that looks really great.


Karl Pilkington is in this game?!

[Takiwaki]

Honestly it still sounds kinda shitty. I tend to hate any type of repair mechanic but really it's a pretty minor complaint amongst all the other stuff in this game that looks really great.


Karl Pilkington is in this game?!

Well, since they removed any mana use ingame and no potions etc, I guess it did have to be replaced with some long term resource mechanic that would help people facilitate skillful play. There is no weakness on death etc.

[blindSharingan]

Well, since they removed any mana use ingame and no potions etc, I guess it did have to be replaced with some long term resource mechanic that would help people facilitate skillful play. There is no weakness on death etc.

Did it really though? No one wants to die/be killed; things like gear damage have always seemed kinda like an extra "fuck you" after the frustration of getting killed. I just bring this up because I know Arena Net's whole idea was to get rid of some of the crappy mechanics that MMO's continue to regurgitate and take the stuff that's fun and improve upon it. I don't really know anyone that likes repair mechanics. Personally I'd rather have weakness than have to have gear repaired.

Don't get me wrong though I'm not trying to shit all over the game. I think the game looks great otherwise. It is still in beta; maybe they will get enough feedback to decide they don't need the system.

[Guitarman]

It's a money sink, too. necessary evil, etc.

[Arelian]

Did it really though? No one wants to die/be killed; things like gear damage have always seemed kinda like an extra "fuck you" after the frustration of getting killed. I just bring this up because I know Arena Net's whole idea was to get rid of some of the crappy mechanics that MMO's continue to regurgitate and take the stuff that's fun and improve upon it. I don't really know anyone that likes repair mechanics. Personally I'd rather have weakness than have to have gear repaired.

Don't get me wrong though I'm not trying to shit all over the game. I think the game looks great otherwise. It is still in beta; maybe they will get enough feedback to decide they don't need the system.

You need a penalty for death or else it means nothing. Do you know how much I care about death if I know I'll respawn with absolutely no penalties? Not at all.

I also can't believe people would rather have a weakness mechanic - something that prevents you from playing the game at all/to the best of your ability no matter what - in place of a repair mechanic. Repairs can be kept up with if you're paying any attention at all, and I highly doubt it'll be cumbersome at all to get repairs. At best it might cost you some money.

[Rhyis.]

lol, the devs are awesome:

@mkerstein
So it seems Izzy and Tyler did not sleep at all but defended a keep in WvW for 10h. Madness!

(those are 2 devs just to be clear)

Oh god, it's WAR RvR all over again. Sit in a keep pouring some oil over and over again for half the day. (not a good thing)