I managed to get some play time in Guild Wars 2 today before succumbing to the 95% load screen hang; Having to Ctrl+alt+del out of the game and then having to restart the comp to recover wore me out after the fifth time. Definitely performance issues during this event, but that’s the whole point of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘beta’
GW2 BWE#1 Wrap-up
May 1st, 2012
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I covered GW2 extensively over the weekend with my thoughts on questing, combat, Battlegrounds/Mists, and World vs. World. I want to briefly wrap-up my thoughts from this weekend into one post so that someone wondering what I think about GW2 can easily find them. Something about GW2 won me over. I had framerate issues in [...]
GW2 WvW Impressions
April 30th, 2012
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WvW is the closest I have ever come to reliving Dark Age of Camelot RvR. I chose to lead off with that comment because WvW is the reason why I will play GW2, and the reason why many of my friends decided to even give GW2 a chance. I want to begin by giving you [...]
GW2 Mists and Battleground Impressions
April 30th, 2012
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I spent some time in the Mists this weekend. The Mists are a PvP staging area for both WvW and Battlegrounds. In the Mists you can practice and try different weapons, completely customize your traits and slot abilities, and fight against golems and various class-clone NPCs to become better at fighting. This practice area is [...]
[Updated] Streaming WvW Tonight (4/29)
April 29th, 2012
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Thanks for watching everyone! That was a good two hours of WvW. I’ve included the video of the stream below.
GW2 Combat
April 29th, 2012
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I keep changing my mind over what I like most in GW2. This morning it was the combat that really captured my interest. I made a quick video showing off a newbie Warrior’s attacks. You’ll see in the video that GW2 has a very traditional “Lock on” and hotkey combat system. While still not quite [...]
GW2 Questing: Great for Groups
April 28th, 2012
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I really enjoy the questing/leveling in GW2 so far for one reason: group friendly. I took a video w/ commentary to show you the basics. If you overlook the overflow issues, GW2 accommodates groups very well. Having to worry about being on all the same quests, or even being the same level, as your friends [...]
Overflow has Got to Go (or change)
April 28th, 2012
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The Overflow system in GW2 is really annoying. I was actually quite confused by how this system worked until I experienced it first-hand. I thought it moved you to another server when your server was too full, but actually it moves you to another “instance” of the zone you were trying to enter. I call [...]
