Posts by Zyn

Collection of articles and videos from the press beta event:

http://kotaku.com/5886430/ten-things-i- ... ta-weekend

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/02/20/gu ... t-mode-pvp

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/02/20/gu ... the-mesmer

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/02/20/gu ... -world-pvp

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/02/20/ch ... ild-wars-2

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gw2 ... 27964.html

http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/gets-it-right/

http://kotaku.com/5886430/ten-things-i- ... ta-weekend

http://www.destructoid.com/guild-wars-2 ... 2175.phtml

( use this script to make the following links more bearable : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/83584 )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7crErSlSmak

http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2- ... gins-today

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It starts today.Hundreds of invited players and press from around the world will be logging into Guild Wars 2 for a beta test weekend of high adventure, exploration, in-depth personal stories, and teeth-rattling combat. We love playing our game as much as we love showing it off to our fellow gamers, so damn near everyone at ArenaNet will be logging in this weekend to play alongside our beta testers.

After this beta weekend we’re all going to have lots of great stories to tell about epic world vs world battles, hilarious NPC chatter, hidden wonders, narrow escapes, hard-fought victories, as well as moments of quiet awe in this magnificent handcrafted world.

Next week, media will be posting their observations and videos online, so prepare yourself for a flood of information and gameplay footage. In a Dev Update right here on the ArenaNet Blog, Lead Designer Eric Flannum will discuss some of the changes players experienced during this beta weekend event. Plus, we’ll have some very specific information about an upcoming Guild Wars 2 beta event – I guarantee you will not want to miss it!

Monday can't come soon enough! And upcoming beta event!

Actually it turns out they have a team looking into the POSSIBLITY of a future console version, but Guild Wars Insider doesn't understand this and slaps it on there like it's the real deal. So no need to kill your cat, call the cops, etc.

http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/confere ... confirmed/

Guild Wars 2 console version eh? Didn't expect that.

Yeah le totally LOOL XDDD

Now behold my grey lifeless ingame scenery : http://steamcommunity.com/id/zyndrome/s ... 876234139/?

Not everyone is a fan of desolate areas ... like myself. Hell, I even published a mod that adds trees in and around Whiterun.

Deal with it

And currently I am looking into making a mod that makes survival in the Wilderness harder. Bear traps left behind by hunters everywhere, tougher hostile animals, etc. Sure, there are mods like that already but I want it my way.

And the fact that ArenaNet are bros

Closed beta invites have now been given out to the press (IGN, Destructoid, Curse, etc), and their NDA is lifted on 20th February. So 2 weeks from now we'll have an explosion of first impressions and even more information on the game, and hopefully some of them will flesh out the wiki, as there is barely any info on the Mesmer profession.

I thought the UK had changed named to "Little America" by now.

Just watch it though, as enemies scale with your level. After you've maxed out blacksmithing, enchanting, and what else before getting into any fights, don't come bitching when simple mobs rip you apart

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http://www.arena.net/blog/dragon

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We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.

Yeeees, Guild Wars 2 is finally entering the open beta phase. I am very excited for this, after trying the disappointment known as SW:TOR and longing for something new since I quit WoW a year ago, as this is feels very different for once. It's an MMO with Action RPG mechanics (think Diablo), dynamic events replacing the old talk-to-NPC-for-quest system, cross-profession skill combos, adhoc grouping (you don't have to be in a party to complete objectives or kill mobs together to get full credit), NO SUBSCRIPTION FEE just like GW1, and more. Another beauty is that ArenaNet wants to do something about the old fashioned "Holy Trinity", which means Tank-Healer-DPS.

And instead of writing walls of text for you, here's a wall of VIDEOS instead that show off and explain the game a lot : (it's all copypasta really from information that has been gathered so far)

2012-01-25

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/sho ... tcount=652

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We purposely didn’t use the term “Open Beta”, we mentioned Beta Events. To some people Open Beta means unlimited access to the game and everybody on the interwebs can play it. This is not what we will do.We will do Beta Weekend Events. Those of you who played Guild Wars might already be familiar with the concept. It means that many of you (like the blogpost says) will get a chance to participate in specific Events, but access won’t be unlimited – there will be some kind of selection criteria and the beta period will usually start on a Friday and end on the following Sunday.

I hope this helps.

Lets hope it'll be much more accessable than the SW:TOR beta was.

2012-01-24

Guild Wars 2 PvP Roundtable with ArenaNet, with more info on how PvP and WvWvW works : http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/2012/01 ... oundtable/

GENERAL

Elementalist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wKMj4iTzw

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game ... 506/page/1

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gui ... 25557.html

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=440171

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3455607

Maps

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/wor ... html#tyria

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/map ... 11575.html

Lore

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/5707 ... tedupd.png

Wikipedia

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/

The SW:TOR forums are a comedy goldmine.

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So is any other official forum ... but Bioware forums take the grand prize.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4325959 ... _2012#blog

That's ... quite some changes. Maybe included in tomorrows beta-patch?

Quote from D3ads

*bump*https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Wikipedia have closed shop for the day, though if you press escape before the page re-directs it still functions

or use any addon that blocks scripts, i.e. NoScript

http://www.diablofans.com/news/1050-dia ... reenshots/

There might be a Q1 2012 release after all ... at best.

I saw that thread, it's just ridiculous .. but another interesting one is this : http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=164481

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These are high quality textures and better lightning your character only gets during cutscenes, but everywhere else it's using the low quality ones (which look blurred and flat). Currently there is a trick you can use to make your character use the high quality textures outside the cutscenes. If you look at promotional screenshots for the game, all the characters are using the high quality textures, but ingame they are not. People were complaining during the beta about low quality textures, so Bioware enabled them to shut people up and disabled them again on release. And they are calling the low quality textures it a feature.

'The Mechanic' , aka 'Jason Statham Killing Bad Dudes #583'. Hilarious amount of equipment errors, with microphones often visible in the shot

People are getting anxious, especially the retailer Best Buy that now says it'll be released on February 1st : http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/07/best- ... ry-1-2012/

That man is a wizard in showing emotions.

It's like I'm really on the SW:TOR forums!