The Guild Wars 2 Thread

[Angthoron]

Fuuuuuck, that's an unpleasant backstab from the Finns.

 

[Syril]

You cannot sign up for the open beta? They only allow those who pre-purchased the game?

Open beta my ass

 

[Angthoron]

You missed the free open beta sign-ups bro.

 

[Ulminati]

Technically they were free closed beta signups. they might do an open-open beta stress test a week or two before the game goes live though. Would make sense, since that way they could spread out the downloads of the game client over a longer period and reduce the stress on ther servers come release day.

 

[Ulminati]

The Kodex Kickstarter Kult

 

[Fens]

Brotherhood of Butthurt is a shit name. Was the reason I never joined the guild in DDO. And it just might not fly with arena.net.

My old guild was Sticks 'n Stones. The short form was nice with SnS (spoken: sins).

But for the codex I'd suggest:
Codex of the Inconceivable
or
Grumpy Old Men
or
The Codex

ah... SnS... good times

Spoiler

"The Codex" will do

 

[Ulminati]

Possibly relevant for our GW2 enjoyment:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/voice-chat-ts3.71639/

 

[Angthoron]

Regarding that, I can ask a guildie that owns our raidgroup's 30-slot vent about temporary (until further notice) beta usage. I wonder what he'd think about rampaging Codexers on it though.

 

[Ulminati]

Probably not a good idea until we're settled on which (if any) voice chat we'd use going forward. No sense in making people install/configure vent if we're going with teamspeak in the end (since several codexers already have TS installed).

Also, if we're 10-12 people for the GW2 beta alone, that's really going to be felt on a 30-slot server that others are using.

 

[Angthoron]

I have TS as well, just gotta say that last time I used it I got the impression that is sucks salted monkey balls. I bet someone will say the same thing about the Vent though, so I don't really mind either way.

 

[Ulminati]

I used vent back when me and some bussies were playing WoW. I'm using TS now for LoL. In my experience the two programs are about equal, although TS feels slightly nicer and took less yelling at my firewall to make work.

what exactly makes you think TS3 is salted monkey balls? It keeps network traffic fairly low. The voice quality is decent. It has a smallish memory footprint. You have a small text chat window for linking stuff. Everything can be neatly divided into a tree of sub-channels, where you can adjust settings and access individually.

 

[made]

I thought everyone uses Mumble these days

 

[Angthoron]

I used vent back when me and some bussies were playing WoW. I'm using TS now for LoL. In my experience the two programs are about equal, although TS feels slightly nicer and took less yelling at my firewall to make work.

what exactly makes you think TS3 is salted monkey balls? It keeps network traffic fairly low. The voice quality is decent. It has a smallish memory footprint. You have a small text chat window for linking stuff. Everything can be neatly divided into a tree of sub-channels, where you can adjust settings and access individually.

While I'm not sure about traffic and memory usage as it's never been an issue to me, the text chat and tree subdivision is available for Vent as well now, the admin just needs to set them up.

And it was to do with quality of sound and some interface issues that I didn't like, can't quite recall it directly now, it's been over half a year at least. Just that I didn't like those.

 

[Ulminati]

While I'm not sure about traffic and memory usage as it's never been an issue to me, the text chat and tree subdivision is available for Vent as well now, the admin just needs to set them up.

And it was to do with quality of sound and some interface issues that I didn't like, can't quite recall it directly now, it's been over half a year at least. Just that I didn't like those.

Sound quality hasn't really been an issue on the TS server me, SV and phoenix mooch off of. (Well the voices are awful. But that's because of the people, not the software). There's about a dozen different codecs you can set TS3 to use, so I'm pretty certain it's more of a setup issue than any inherent difference in the software. As for the UI, I found TS3 less banalshitretarded than vent. But I think it's mostly down to shortcuts being slightly different than what I was used to. Again, the two programs are very, very similar.

I thought everyone uses Mumble these days

Yeah... I keep hearing that. but noone I know uses mumble. Care to enlighten us on its virtues as opposed to ts/vent?

 

[made]

Supposedly sound quality is better. It's deffo good and clear but i haven't used vent/ts in quite a while so can't really compare.

 

[Angthoron]

While I'm not sure about traffic and memory usage as it's never been an issue to me, the text chat and tree subdivision is available for Vent as well now, the admin just needs to set them up.

And it was to do with quality of sound and some interface issues that I didn't like, can't quite recall it directly now, it's been over half a year at least. Just that I didn't like those.

Sound quality hasn't really been an issue on the TS server me, SV and phoenix mooch off of. (Well the voices are awful. But that's because of the people, not the software). There's about a dozen different codecs you can set TS3 to use, so I'm pretty certain it's more of a setup issue than any inherent difference in the software. As for the UI, I found TS3 less banalshitretarded than vent. But I think it's mostly down to shortcuts being slightly different than what I was used to. Again, the two programs are very, very similar.

Yeah, I guess it might have had something to do with listening to the so-called "chavs" mumbling and "joking" on TS rather than the sound quality itself. (I'm an admin/moderator for our raid vents so anyone saying three extra words usually is offered a cup of STFU).

And I think I might be recalling what it was - there was some overlay issue, I couldn't get the shitty thing to disappear for ages and it just kept popping up and showing me all the shit I didn't need. Really, what I want is push a button and talk, then let the button go and stop talking. Whatever software allows me to do this without having half the screen taken by bloatware is fine with me.

I thought everyone uses Mumble these days

Yeah... I keep hearing that. but noone I know uses mumble.[/quote]

This. Nobody uses Mumble on our server at least, except maybe one weirdo guild I saw spamrecruiting.


Again, re: Vent, there's a bunch of codecs to pick from as well, and on our servers (we have 2) voice quality is good and pings are low, so I'm guessing it all comes down to what people are most used to.

 

[Ulminati]

Really, what I want is push a button and talk, then let the button go and stop talking. Whatever software allows me to do this without having half the screen taken by bloatware is fine with me.

The way I got TS set up for LoL it's minimized to the system tray. There's an icon (blue circle) that lights up if I'm speaking or turns into a microphone/speakers with a red diagonal slash if they're turned off. I bound mouse 5 (thumb button) as my push to talk key, and it records as long as I hold it down and stops when I release it. I bound mouse 4 (other thumb button) to toggle speakers on/off for TS if I'm trying to listen to something else. The application window is mainly used when navigating channels. It doesn't take up all that much screen real estate.

 

[SuicideBunny]

after hours of tweaking and hitting my computer with fists of rage it finally doesn't crash in the login screen anymore. wheee.

 

[Shannow]

I'm not in beta. I don't pay for the privilege of doing the beta-testing for companies. Just sayin'.

And Ulminati's desciption of TS sounds good. I never needed more than skype
Willing to roll with whatever system you guys come up with. Since I don't live alone I'll probably not do much talking anyway...

 

[Turisas]

Servers are up, I got to char creation screen at least. Quickly men!

 

[Excidium]

If you're trolling I'm already sharpening my machete.

 

[Turisas]

Am not, honest! Ingame now @ Desolation, created 'The Codex' already. Whisper Pop Amole if you want an invite (and if I can figure out how to ginvite).

 

[Excidium]

Awesome! I'll be there in a second.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

It works

 

[SerratedBiz]

I'll be expecting screenshots of your hot party members and maybe one or two comments on whether it's still significantly different from other MMOs to be worth paying for.