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MrDwhitey wrote:So, this will be openworld then? It wont be entirely instanced like GW?
So we'll be seeing randoms all over the place?
Yeah the game is almost totally persistent, you'll be seeing randoms everywhere and you're expected to team up with them to do dynamic events.
Now this makes my interest in the game go from near on zero, to I will be signing up for the Beta when I get home and will be now following news on it. I had assumed it would be a mostly single player game like the first, with PvP arena bits and such.
Been liking some of the character designs I've seen around the web, so with this knowledge, yeah, I am interested.
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"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
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I singed up, now to wait patiently knowing I won't get in anyway.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Melissia wrote:I singed up, now to wait patiently knowing I won't get in anyway.
I wouldn't be so sure...
I was one of the first couple hundred to be invited to the Battlefield 3 Alpha test, and I was invited to the DotA 2 Beta on the 8th of October when only 400-500 people were online WORLDWIDE during primetime.
I signed up, though I'm not so sure I will get in due to my computer not recognizing my processor. It says "AMD Processor Unknown (4 Cores) 799~MHZ" on their DXDIAG thing and my computer. In reality, its a Phenom 955 BE @ 3.25 GHZ. If I just updated my BIOS it would fix it, but I'm afraid my several year old mobo would fry by just flashing it.
800 x 4 comes out to 3.25 GHZ, but I'm thinking they'll just glance over it and say "wtf is this gak, feth you"
Back to checking my email 4 times a day, just like I did with DotA 2...
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Signed up, i'm hoping my specs aren't too terrible.
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Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
I didnt play the first one but I heard it was great. GW2 looks brilliant in every single way. Its like they just took all the great parts from MMO's and RPG's and mixed them together. I really cant wait for this game!
"You have ruled this galaxy for ten thousand years, yet have little of account to show for you efforts. Order. Unity. Obedience. We taught the galaxy these things, and we shall do so again."
I never played GW1 but have done a lot of other MMOs over the years.
What do you guys see as the main strong points of GW2 and where it might differ (radically?) from the MMO clones?
Personally I know Im burnt out with MMOs in general but would be willing to give something different one last hoorah.
Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
1. No real holy trinity = no need for specific classes during dungeons
2. No 'get 10 bear asses' type quests
3. No need to talk to anyone to start quests (dynamic events) outside personal storyline
4. Personal storyline takes into account choices that you make both at character creation and as you play along
5. Independent loot tables for everybody. This means everyone that helps gets something after a kill.
6. No kill stealing. If you helped, you get something. This applies to resource nodes e.g. ores.
7. Dynamic events scale according to the number of people helping out. This means they're always a challenge, but always doable.
8. WvWvW PvP. That is all
9. No real Flavour of the Month class as of yet, no no imba PvP matches
10 Underwater combat/pets do not suck.
All I can think of for now, no doubt Corpses and Slarg can add more.
Signed up, haven't played GW for ages but looking forward to this. Probably have to roll something different to my ele/mes (I think, may have been monk or necro no idea).
Karon wrote:I wish more MMO's would do crafting like EQ2 did.
Involving, interesting, interactive, even educational. I actually enjoyed sitting there and trying to craft things.
Guild Wars 2 has quite a good crafting system, it's very heavy on experimentation but has a huge amount of materials to use and recipes to discoverer.
Slarg232 wrote:
Anyway, if we get into the beta, you guys want to go ahead and group up, or not right now?
Also, Corpses, have you seen anything about being able to hold Guilds and such from the Beta to the release?
The press beta sent you an invite to the Developer beta guild when you created a character, no idea if the open beta will allow guild creation.
Ratius wrote:I never played GW1 but have done a lot of other MMOs over the years.
What do you guys see as the main strong points of GW2 and where it might differ (radically?) from the MMO clones?
Personally I know Im burnt out with MMOs in general but would be willing to give something different one last hoorah.
Watch this if you haven't already.
@people concerned about their rigs, Arenanet are attempting to get a wide spectrum of machines into the beta so they can test how the game runs on normal computers. Pretty much the entire press beta was on high class machines so they need to know how standard PC's run it on a large scale.
Also I doubt we will hear back about the beta application until it closes tomorrow.
64-bit OS 8Gb RAM 3.4Ghz 4 core processor Geforce GTS 450 1Gb graphics card 600W power supply.
Oh and if you live any sizeable distance from the united states WvWvW may be an issue in the beta, it's kind of laggy at the moment. Fingers crossed for European and oceanic based servers before release!
FAQ wrote:Can I reserve my Guild Wars 2 guild name during a Guild Wars 2 Beta Event? No. You cannot reserve your Guild Wars 2 guild name during a Beta Event
Also there will be multiple events, even if you don't get into one you may get into one of the future events (you don't need to apply again).
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Either way it'd be nice if we sort of do what KC did when he got into that SW one and sort of keep a log here for the others who don't make it, answering questions and such.
There is an NDA anyone in the beta must sign (if you are under 18 you need to get a parent or guardian to sign for you) so I don't know how much we can say on here.
corpsesarefun wrote:If you have applied but not yet received a confirmation email re-enter your email to this site
https://beta.guildwars2.com/resend
"Thanks for signing up for the Guild Wars 2 beta test"
... was the confimration email, right?
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
8GB DDR2+ RAM
Phenom II X4 BE @ 3.25 GHZ
Radeon HD 6870 2GB
620W PSU
gakky stock motherboard that won't let me OC my CPU because it will blow up my entire computer.
Hopefully they consider that average.
I was looking at the crafting video on massively and it actually looks quite nice, I like it.
Oh well, need to convince the rents.