The Guild Wars 2 Thread

[Metro]

Isn't GPU pretty much the only relevant spec when it comes to gaming? You'd assume a person would be smart enough to meet the other requirements capable of supporting the GPU's performance.

 

[Ulminati]

I guess I'll go ahead and register us a guild on seafarer's rest. Kodex Kool Krew would be ideal, but KKK tag is not permitted 'cause racism
Suggestions anyone? We can use 4 letters in the tag. Kdex? Krew?

 

[Zed]

I'm on seafarer, and so is meh (he's a closet player).

Gonna call it a night now. Level 22, but I spent a lot of time just exploring (also I don't skip cinematics). I'm not rushing through the game for once.

Choices in story quests are pretty cool. Crafting is pretty good. I spent an hour just farming rare ingredients for crafting. I hope they get AH to work soon so I won't have to do that again for tier 1 crafting...

 

[DakaSha]

Ok I'll ask differently: Is anybody here running this on a 3 year old laptop? Or maybe a 6 year old desktop?
Shits way to expensive to just buy only to see it fail miserably on my system

Yes I'm being annoying but I honestly don't know how to find out whether i can play it decently since companies seem to think its unimportant to release demos or benchmarks now days

edit: I could say that i can run pieces of shit like red orchestra 2 on lowest settings pretty decently (im guessing above 30 fps). Isn't gw2 supposed to be pretty optimized compared to that shitstain?

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I'll try it on my Precision M4600 with a mobile Radeon 5900 something when I receive it.

 

[Berekän]

Ok I'll ask differently: Is anybody here running this on a 3 year old laptop? Or maybe a 6 year old desktop?
Shits way to expensive to just buy only to see it fail miserably on my system

Yes I'm being annoying but I honestly don't know how to find out whether i can play it decently since companies seem to think its unimportant to release demos or benchmarks now days

edit: I could say that i can run pieces of shit like red orchestra 2 on lowest settings pretty decently (im guessing above 30 fps). Isn't gw2 supposed to be pretty optimized compared to that shitstain?

I'm playing on a Geforce 8600 GT, don't know how useful is that for you, performance could be better but I'm not complaining.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Also, how do you make the game less blurry? I can't believe just how everything looks like it's smeared through vaseline, it's very unpleasant and vague to look at. Guild Wars is so sharp and clear in comparison. These next-gen effects suck.

Also the walking speed is way too slow, and the cutscenes go on for too long.

Apart from that it's pretty great, smooth, with lots of neat ideas.

 

[DakaSha]

I ran a scan at one of those "can you play it" sites and it says i pass everything but the graphics requirments.. but then it goes:

Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
RequiredYou Have

Pixel Shader version 3.0 4.0

Vertex Shader version 3.0 4.0

Dedicated Video RAM 256 MB
512 MB

So wtf.. I pass all the sub requirements.

 

[Takeda Kenshi]

Did the Behemoth boss in the swamp, was pretty decent. Easy but decent. Hope it only goes up from here.

 

[Ulminati]

r00fles

 

[DakaSha]

Well i just did tests for how RO2 should be running on my system and all the fag sites give me pretty much the same if not worse statistics so i guess ill buy the piece of shit


I'll prob end up using my pell grant money for a new computer soon

 

[Angthoron]

Heh, Gunnar's Hold was decimating everything in 3W last night, according to the stats.

I'm taking it easy, not really rushing. Some guildies are at 15 already while my highest char is a measly 8. Seems they added more events and detail since BWE2, lots of shit to do at all times.

Ret paladins... Errr, 2h sword guardians pretty much own - took on an elite event (granted, an easy one, spider mother) without even breaking a sweat. Thieves feel a little more risky to play now, though.

 

[made]

So did they fix or add options for FOV and camera smoothing in the final build?

 

[Ulminati]

Framerate is way better than in beta. I ended up playing my sylvari elementalist instead of the charr necromancer I was planning to. Nearly level 16 on it and doing pretty good. I still haven't found a skillset that clicks with me though. And I'm beginning to wonder if I should switch from staff to scepter/focus or scepter/dagger. It feels like I'm doing very little damage solo. the few instances where I can make the most of my AoE I'll get steamrolled in seconds by the swarm.

 

[Darth Roxor]

so I heard this game is shit

 

[Ulminati]

You can farm potato in the game. How can it be shit?

 

[Angthoron]

You can farm potato in the game. How can it be shit?

This.

 

[SuicideBunny]

I guess I'll go ahead and register us a guild on seafarer's rest. Kodex Kool Krew would be ideal, but KKK tag is not permitted 'cause racism
Suggestions anyone? We can use 4 letters in the tag. Kdex? Krew?

why not just Dex? either way, sent an inv my way once you're done.

 

[Ivory Samoan]

Is it odd that I enjoy the farm quests, like watering the useless cunt-of-a-farmer's corn?

That and sPvP are SUBLIME.

 

[pocahaunted]

Forced patch right as we were going for the swamp Behemoth, bummer.

Overflow and party mechanics are a nightmare.

 

[Castanova]

So, in this game, you wander around an open zone until you come across a Heart symbol. Then you repeatedly do mundane tasks until a meter fills up and you get your reward. Then the Heart symbol is filled and you move to the next Heart symbol.

Sounds like fun?

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Actually it's simpler than that - you just click buttons.

 

[Castanova]

But seriously folks. Why is this game better than any other MMO ever? Instead of getting quests from a quest dispenser NPC you just get quests by wandering into their zone. The quests are the same design... collect something over and over, kill something over and over, click something over and over. Is everyone delusional?

BTW, people who think there's "no monthly fee" -- think again. I'm willing to lay down money they release an expansion every 6 months. Amortize the cost of that thing and you've got your monthly fee simply rolled up into a semi-annual fee.

 

[Ulminati]

I guess I'll go ahead and register us a guild on seafarer's rest. Kodex Kool Krew would be ideal, but KKK tag is not permitted 'cause racism
Suggestions anyone? We can use 4 letters in the tag. Kdex? Krew?

why not just Dex? either way, sent an inv my way once you're done.

Dex sounds fine. I'll go ahead and make it.
Anyone else want an invite on seafarers rest, shoot me a line and I'll toss an invite your way. My account ingame is Ulminati.6219

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Castanova you're so intelligent, thanks for opening my eyes.