Thus our policy will simply be as follows: to preserve your character name from Guild Wars into Guild Wars 2, you must be an active Guild Wars player (more on that below), and you must create a Guild Wars 2 character with the same name as your Guild Wars character during the Headstart Access period or on launch day.

“We have not released an official launch date within 2012 as feedback from our closed and open marketing betas will help us determine an exact release date. We will release Guild Wars 2 when it is ready.”

Igričarska stran Kotaku poroča o reklamnem lističu, ki so ga opazili v trgovini Fry’s in na katerem zelo nazorno piše datum izida igre Guild Wars 2.

Še en placeholder, ali gre tokrat za pravo informacijo?

ArenaNet bo izvedla še en stress test, ki se bo pričel v ponedeljek, 14. maja ob 20. uri, in se končal v torek, 15. maja ob 3. uri zjutraj. Sodelovali bodo lahko vsi, ki so prednakupili igro. Več informacij na uradnem forumu.

We’ll be conducting a stress test on Monday May 14 from 11 AM to 6:00 PM PDT (-7 GMT).

This special test event is open only to Pre-Purchase customers who have registered their accounts. With your help, we can conduct important tests and address some of the issues we identified during our first Beta Weekend Event. During this event, all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing character on your Beta account using the same game client. Please note that since this is a stress test of our servers, you may experience some in-game performance issues. If you’ve pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and wish to participate in the stress test, we recommend that you register the account and download the game client.

Prvi BWE se je za GW2si končal zelo uspešno, saj smo na koncu imeli čez 90 aktivnih članov!  Ker pa je bilo ime guilda začasno, si moramo čimprej poiskati novega. Zato apeliram na vas, da mi pri tej nalogi pomagate.

Svoje predloge za ime in kratico (4 mestni guild tag) napišite v komentar te novice. Čez kakšen teden ali dva bomo vse predloge nabasali v mega vprašalnik in izglasovani predlog bo postal uradno ime GW2si guilda za vse bodoče beta dogodke in release.

Server za BWE in release

Trenutno priljubljena ideja je izbira angleškega “UK based” serverja, ki bo gostil dovolj tekmovalnih guildov in skupin za aktivne World vs. World boje ter ponujal strukturiran PvP izziv na visokem nivoju. PvE pri izbiri serverja ni tako pomemben faktor, saj bo po vsej verjetnosti številčno zastopan na vseh serverjih.

Ampak o tem morda več, ko bomo bližje izidu igre. Seveda so tudi v tej točki dobrodošli vaši predlogi.

Logotip za stran in guild

Ker še zdaleč nisem umetnik ali grafični designer (kot ste lahko že opazili ), bi to nalogo prepustil vam. Potrebovali bi nov logo za stran in guild (lahko sta enaka), ki bo najbolje zastopal oz. predstavil našo skupnost. Osebno se bolj nagibam k novem, originalnem logotipu, kot pa samo iteraciji že videnega, uradnega GW2 logota s tekstom. Za primer bi podal nov GW2Guru logo.

Vaše prispevke lahko prav tako objavite v komentar novice. Podobno kot pri imenu guilda, bomo tudi logotipe izglasovali.

• Thank you for playing (+ responses to many concerns) - Jonathan Sharp

Tournaments will allow you to play with an organized 5 person team and see your results as you make your way through a tournament! We didn’t show them this weekend, but they’re something we think a lot of you will really enjoy. Sit tight, they’re coming!

• Choosing our own music? - Jim Boer

Under [Your Name]\Documents\Guild Wars Gw2Dev folder, you’ll see that GW2 creates a Music folder next to the Screens folder (where screenshots go). All you need to do to get your external music collection playing in the game is to create a playlist of the appropriate name and type in this folder.

Supported playlist formats are .wpl, .m3u, .pls, .asx, and .wax.

Supported audio types are everything FMOD supports by default, which includes .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .wav. aiff, and a bunch of old-school music formats, like .mid or .it files.

There are eight specific playlists the game recognizes, and these are designated simply by the playlist’s file name. They are: Ambient, Battle, Underwater, City, Crafting, BossBattle, NightTime, and MainMenu. Hopefully these are somewhat self-explanatory in terms of when you might expect to hear them play.

• “For Great Justice!” - Jon Peters

This is a general rule of our skill system. AoE attacks hit up to 5 targets. AoE buffs or heals can heal up to 5. We cap it at 5 because its the party size and lets us reign in the balance on AoE without impacting most normal situations.

It prioritizes targets.

For enemies:
1) Your selected target assuming they are in range.
2) enemies based on proximity to you.

For allies:
1) party members based on proximity to you
2) non party members based on proximity to you.

• The State of Melee in PvE - Jon Peters

First what’s already there:
1) Melee does more damage. Melee damage is simply higher than ranged damage across the board.
2) Melee has more control. With a few intentional exception Melee has a lot more control than ranged.

What Melee needs:
1) defensive tools on more weapons, particularly on lower armor professions.
2) ai needs to favor Melee a bit less than it currently does.

What else:
Finally because of the more action based nature of combat Melee needs to be taught better. Effective Melee requires skills that translate over from FPS games which are notoriously harder on casual players. You have to wasd to move, constantly aim with your mouse camera, and hit skills on 1-5.

• Cliche, Cheesy Script & Boring Story - Bobby Stein

Fiona: “I found Norn absolutely mind-numbingly dull. It was also badly written. I gave up after not being able to get past Shape Of The Spirit at level 8~.
I have switched to Charr and it’s like night and day. The writing isn’t much better but the story is far more interesting. The world events and scenery are too. I really suggest giving Charr a go. Norn is absolutely shocking IMO.”

The stories and dialogue vary greatly between the racial stories. This is intentional, partially to give players some options to experience a variety of content. The dialogue was often given to people who are more comfortable writing (or editing) in that racial voice, so it’s why you may like the tone of one story over another. As you can imagine, some people really enjoy fantasy dialogue and others loathe it, so we wanted to provide options.

• Difficulty thread - Andrew McLeod

Here’s some of the areas we’re looking into updating:

1. New-player experience: It often takes people a while to get used to GW2 combat and learn to avoid attacks and learn what their skills do and how they work. We’re looking at slowing down the rate in which we introduce different enemy mechanics so that new players have more of a chance to get accustomed to the game.
2. Event scaling: We’re looking at ways to make the scaling on a lot of events work better for large amounts of players.
3. Monster balance: Some enemies are significantly more difficult than others while others aren’t very threatening- we’re working on updating the balance for both of these categories so that there’s a more consistent difficulty level between various enemy types.
4. Individual quest and event balance: Some events and personal story quests can be overly difficult, and we’re looking at identifying these places.

• Events reoccurring too often? - Anthony Ordon

There aren’t any events that repeat every 3 minutes. Generally the shortest repeat time is 8 minutes, but all of them are hand-timed. Usually events that occur in high visibility areas like garrisons and towns have a 20-30 minute delay. It would be very helpful if you could mention specifically what events felt too fast for you.

• Thanks for all the great feedback! - Mike Ferguson

I can however tell you that we’ve already got quite a few siege weapon updates ready to go, including the ability to kick out anyone using a siege weapon that you placed on the field. This update and many more will be waiting for you in our next beta weekend.

• CC …. too short - Mike Ferguson

Our CC tends to be shorter in duration because long durations are simply not fun for people who get hit with them and end up stunlocked till dead. On the other hand, almost every profession has access to at least some form of CC between stuns, knockdowns, knockbacks, chills, etc.

Everyone will need to learn that one of the keys to GW2 combat is WHEN to use your CC, and not just hit it as soon as you engage so you can roflstomp the target. Trust me, knockbacks used on people ressing can turn entire fights.

Naključne slike iz BWE #1. So pretty!

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RIVERSIDE

BWE se približuje, zato je napočil čas za organizacijo. Guild Wars 2 Slovenija bo seveda imela svoj začasen BWE guild, ki bo deloval kot neke vrste stičišče slovenskih GW2 igralcev.

Pridružite se nam tako, da me v igri dodate med kontakte (ali kogarkoli iz dodatnih kontaktov) in nam pošljete sporočilo/in-game mail za pristop.

• Ime guilda: Hang It Out
• Tag: GWSI
• EU server: Riverside
• Kontakt: Tron.2189 (ali samo Tron)
• Dodatni kontakti: Postopac.4635, Chroniko.4356, Veon.4679, PaJo.3905, Kex.5091, IceDBear.5291, Soopa.5931, Shinsei Yama.4986, Imho.4179

Ime in tag guilda sta prav tako začasna (končno ime za release bomo določili s pomočjo vaših predlogov in glasovanjem).

Voice chat bo potekal s pomočjo programa C3 (brezplačen klient brez potrebe po serverju) na kanalu GWSI. Kratka navodila:

• Presnamite si klienta na downloadc3.com/download.
• Po inštalaciji kliknite na c3links.com/?84ksg1M.
• Kanal: GWSI
• Geslo: myth

Seveda pa bomo, tako kot običajno, viseli tudi na #gw.si IRC kanalu (24/7/365).