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  • QanamilQanamil x Registered User regular
    Plebs! Rubes!

  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    Qanamil wrote: »
    Plebs! Rubes!
    Why, pre-purchasing man, he doth bestride the narrow world,
    Like a colossus, and we petty men
    Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
    To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

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  • HugglesHuggles Registered User regular
    Got to do something to keep the proles preoccupied.

    Staring at a login screen is something, right?

  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    30-minute GW2 video with narration from designer Jonathan Sharp: http://www.gameinformer.com/games/guild_wars_2/b/pc/archive/2012/04/13/guild-wars-2-video-preview.aspx

    I haven't watched it yet, but reddit seems to like it.

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  • BuraisuBuraisu Psychomancer Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Based on that video, anything can be set to auto-cast.

    Buraisu on
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  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    Great, I'll set everything to auto-cast and go AFK.

  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    I'm gonna let the serfs stress the server and enjoy myself when the next beta occurs.

    What is this I don't even.
  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    I don't really want to play the beta because I want to play the full game

    but I will play the beta anyway.

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  • steejeesteejee Registered User regular
    Buraisu wrote: »
    Based on that video, anything can be set to auto-cast.

    AUTO.CAST.....EVERYTHING!

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  • DraygoDraygo Registered User regular
    If only anet would autocast me betabetabeta

  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    I'll auto-cast the next Will Smith movie.

    It'll star Will Smith.

  • RednazRednaz Registered User regular
    Character creation has been set to auto-cast.

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  • warder808warder808 Registered User regular
    That 30 min video was pretty sweet. Didn't show off a starting area, which can be a little boring. There was decent explanations of things, and there was some small scale easy to see pvp going on at the end.

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  • ghost_master2000ghost_master2000 Registered User regular
    Damn, that video made it seem fun as hell to play. Good shit there.

  • warder808warder808 Registered User regular
    Guys. Hey guys.

    I'm going to Seattle next week for an ANet presser. I am super jazzed because I really admire the ANet devs and can't wait to interview some of 'em! I'd be happy to take question suggestions from my fellow WANGers... as long as they aren't stupid questions that nobody will answer like, "When is the release date?" or super-specific theorycrafting questions about skills/traits that might change between now and launch anyway. So if you have anything you'd like me to ask or look into, fire away!

    If you run into the press mob, WaM, feel free to say hi to the short lady with the curly red hair. That's a-me!

    UI: Can you scale or reposition the UI like the first game?
    Macros: Will the game have macros, what will there limitations be? The only thing I can think of doing is a 1 button press to switch weapons and activate a particular skill on the 2nd weapon bar.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    I don't really see the point of macros in a game where you don't even move your skills onto the bar like other games.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    warder808 wrote: »
    Macros: Will the game have macros, what will there limitations be? The only thing I can think of doing is a 1 button press to switch weapons and activate a particular skill on the 2nd weapon bar.

    I can almost guarentee the answer to this (at least the specific case you give) will be "Hells no".

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    If ANY of you happen to have not pre-purchased the game yet, you can grab the game for 10% off over at greenmangaming.com . Just use BRING-ALLUR-GUILD when you're looking to check out. That coupon expires on the 16th.

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  • BuraisuBuraisu Psychomancer Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Oh, there will be macros through add-ons if they are not already in the game. People will want buttons to switch builds and traits quickly outside of combat.. Unless for some reason ArenaNet doesn't allow Guild Wars 2 to have add-ons.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    ArenaNet isn't going to allow add-ons, no. Why would they?

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  • SJSJ College. Forever.Registered User regular
    Pretty confident they specifically said they didn't want to have macros in the game.

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Arthil wrote: »
    If ANY of you happen to have not pre-purchased the game yet, you can grab the game for 10% off over at greenmangaming.com . Just use BRING-ALLUR-GUILD when you're looking to check out. That coupon expires on the 16th.

    Thank you sir bear. You've earned every inch of that suit.

    Is this just like buying it from the GW2 site then? They'll send you the code and such and you can download the client or what?

  • LordOfMeepLordOfMeep Registered User regular
    While reading a certain forum that shall not be named, I learned something reading some of the stories of what happened during someone's attempt to stream.

    If Internet Batman suddenly appears before you and tells you you need to stop streaming, do not answer with "I dunno bro."

    HE IS THE NIGHT.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Arthil wrote: »
    If ANY of you happen to have not pre-purchased the game yet, you can grab the game for 10% off over at greenmangaming.com . Just use BRING-ALLUR-GUILD when you're looking to check out. That coupon expires on the 16th.

    Thank you sir bear. You've earned every inch of that suit.

    Is this just like buying it from the GW2 site then? They'll send you the code and such and you can download the client or what?

    Make your purchase, receive code on the next page more or less. However I will note there was some... oddness with registering it. I'm breaking the NDA a -little- here but let's just say a particular bear got into something special and already had an account but somehow has made a new one and he is very confused.

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  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    I seem to remember hearing something about ArenaNet aiming its PvP at a competitive level, in which case having add-ons could throw balance out the window.

    I've also just pre-purchased my copy, can't friggin wait! :D

    Flay on
  • CaedereCaedere S'no regrets BIRDIESRegistered User regular
    LordOfMeep wrote: »
    While reading a certain forum that shall not be named, I learned something reading some of the stories of what happened during someone's attempt to stream.

    If Internet Batman suddenly appears before you and tells you you need to stop streaming, do not answer with "I dunno bro."

    HE IS THE NIGHT.

    What happened to them?

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  • ArchangleArchangle Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    LordOfMeep wrote: »
    While reading a certain forum that shall not be named, I learned something reading some of the stories of what happened during someone's attempt to stream.

    If Internet Batman suddenly appears before you and tells you you need to stop streaming, do not answer with "I dunno bro."

    HE IS THE NIGHT.

    Is there Dhuuming in GW2?

    Archangle on
  • BuraisuBuraisu Psychomancer Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Arthil wrote: »
    ArenaNet isn't going to allow add-ons, no. Why would they?
    Why wouldn't they? Add-ons can lead to innovative features that can be added to the official game in the future and modding communities can literally come up with thousands of ideas that may improve the game experience. Also, it allows customization of the user interface which is important because not everyone likes playing the same way. Add-ons that ArenaNet feel are unbalanced or break the game, can be blocked.

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  • SwashbucklerXXSwashbucklerXX Swashbucklin' Canuck Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    LordOfMeep wrote: »
    While reading a certain forum that shall not be named, I learned something reading some of the stories of what happened during someone's attempt to stream.

    If Internet Batman suddenly appears before you and tells you you need to stop streaming, do not answer with "I dunno bro."

    HE IS THE NIGHT.

    I want to meet Internet Batman when I'm at ANet. I hope he has a batmouse.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    Buraisu wrote: »
    Arthil wrote: »
    ArenaNet isn't going to allow add-ons, no. Why would they?
    Why wouldn't they? Add-ons can lead to innovative features that can be added to the official game in the future and modding communities can literally come up with thousands of ideas that may improve the game experience. Also, it allows customization of the user interface which is important because not everyone likes playing the same way. Add-ons that ArenaNet feel are unbalanced or break the game, can be blocked.

    I wont get terribly into why I don't actually believe much of that. Anything that's useful can simply be added by ArenaNet. There's no purpose for why people usually clamor for add-ons, you say that but most people? They crave threat/DPS meters, which in the case of this game, are worthless.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    I don't doubt once people play the game they will start wanting certain things added in. Maybe ArenaNet will add them but it would probably be faster for the community to do it. A game made by humans won't satisfy every desire which is why mods and UI overlays exist.

  • ArkadyArkady Registered User regular
    Arthil wrote: »
    I wont get terribly into why I don't actually believe much of that. Anything that's useful can simply be added by ArenaNet. There's no purpose for why people usually clamor for add-ons, you say that but most people? They crave threat/DPS meters, which in the case of this game, are worthless.

    Off the top of my head, one of the things that add-ons could fix that I doubt Anet will bother with are making boon/condition icons much more distinct and displayed in an easier to interpret manner (like say, conditions on the left, boons on the right instead of just being in a giant pileup in the bottom middle of the screen). There's also the obvious stuff like font changes, removal of fancy background art (I wouldn't ever do that but there are people who like super minimalist UI's). I mean, in the realm of out-of-the-box UI's GW2's is the best, but it still doesn't really hold a candle to my WoW UI where I had everything exactly where I wanted it.

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  • XagarXagar Registered User regular
    It would be nice to have different rows for different active effect types. At least they're sorted.

  • RexNerdlyRexNerdly HereRegistered User regular
    From the videos I've watched the UI seems well put together. I personally am looking forward to a more minimalist experience. After the skill bloat in TOR this game seems pretty streamlined to me.

  • ArchangleArchangle Registered User regular
    RexNerdly wrote: »
    From the videos I've watched the UI seems well put together. I personally am looking forward to a more minimalist experience. After the skill bloat in TOR this game seems pretty streamlined to me.

    Oh yah, TOR had 4 full bars of skills for both my jug and op. I couldn't have found the button to remove conditions even if I had wanted to.

  • FreiFrei A French Prometheus Unbound DeadwoodRegistered User regular
    ugh I'm going to be in lousy Canada when this comes out.

    Are you the magic man?
  • SwashbucklerXXSwashbucklerXX Swashbucklin' Canuck Registered User regular
    Frei wrote: »
    ugh I'm going to be in lousy Canada when this comes out.

    Canada's lousy all right. Lousy with AWESOME. We gots norn lumberjacks and polar bear pets.

    Want to find me on a gaming service? I'm SwashbucklerXX everywhere.
  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    Frei wrote: »
    ugh I'm going to be in lousy Canada when this comes out.

    how long are you in canada for?

  • FreiFrei A French Prometheus Unbound DeadwoodRegistered User regular
    Yeah, but I'm going to be in Edmonton, stabbing capital of Canada.

    Also internet there is SO LOUSY compared to my America Fuck Yeah internet I get here.

    Are you the magic man?
  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    Anet puts a lot of focus on PvP, and at least in GW1 tried to do the whole e-sport thing, which makes me doubt they'll allow add-ons/macros.

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