Guild Wars 2: The One Thread

[Malthurius]

although i'm excited about WvW, i'm concerned regarding memory processment. You have:

-A giant battlefield
-Character collision
-Physics
-500 players

I don't know if GW2's engine can handle all that.

This thread shall calm those fears.

[Eternal Champion]

World vs. World will be the best thing ever!

[Malthurius]

It appears that some Curse representatives from Guru are going to have some footage for us as well in addition to TB, and Mike. Safe to assume this is wave 2 of the press beta.

[Guilegamesh]

Am I the only person who does not care for the Mesmer? Maybe guru knows something about the Mesmer that I do not, buthe Mesmer is the last class I want to see videos of.

[jvbastel]

Am I the only person who does not care for the Mesmer?

Yes.

...

Yes, you are.

[Malthurius]

Am I the only person who does not care for the Mesmer? Maybe guru knows something about the Mesmer that I do not, buthe Mesmer is the last class I want to see videos of.

More power to you then. All the classes play so differently, it's only natural to not have interest in certain ones. I could care less about Elementalist for example.

[Guilegamesh]

I have nothing against them, they seem interesting and fresh. I just don't think we need videos made just to cover them. Much rather see thief and ranger videos personally.

[jvbastel]

I have nothing against them, they seem interesting and fresh. I just don't think we need videos made just to cover them. Much rather see thief and ranger videos personally.

well, while I'm eager to see mesmer videos, I hope it's not the only thing people record. Ranger does need some lovin

[vizzle]

I wonder if WvWvW will wind up like Ilum.

And for those who don't understand the reference, I show you this:

[Eternal Champion]

I have nothing against them, they seem interesting and fresh. I just don't think we need videos made just to cover them. Much rather see thief and ranger videos personally.

That's cause you're interested in those classes. But the Mesmer is the newest announced and we haven't seen much of it, and it's the profession some of us are interested in so naturally we want some new info.

[Sargerus]

I wonder if WvWvW will wind up like Ilum.

And for those who don't understand the reference, I show you this:

This is exactly why i'm concerned about WvW performance (see my post above). Although you could add that the Hero engine in SWTOR is pretty much crap, hence why Ilum is so laggy

[Blufossa]

/crosses fingers

Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme!

[Guilegamesh]

That's cause you're interested in those classes. But the Mesmer is the newest announced and we haven't seen much of it, and it's the profession some of us are interested in so naturally we want some new info.

I expect to see Mesmer videos, no doubt. It's just the amount of hype on the mesmer, other class and mechanics videos will suffer to sate everyone who wants Mesmer.

[Deleted]

TotalBiscuit is in the closed beta this weekend and says he's allowed to release the content, early next week we should have some nice GW2 vids.

He says its the biggest project he's taken on and plans to play Guild Wars 2 pretty much full time for the foreseeable future, cant wait to see all this content, he did a brilliant job with the cataclysm beta.

[Deleted]

My only concern is that the majority of people won't care about the objectives in WvWvW, I mean, even in Fort Aspenwood who is so simple, 5 or 6 out of 8 people don't capture the mines, don't care about the objective and are only there to pvp each other.

[Borzo]

Am I the only person who does not care for the Mesmer?

You are the only one, correct. If that makes you feel bad... good, it should.

[vizzle]

That's cause you're interested in those classes. But the Mesmer is the newest announced and we haven't seen much of it, and it's the profession some of us are interested in so naturally we want some new info.

Offtopic but I think your avatar is much more distracting than mine...

[Deleted]

This is exactly why i'm concerned about WvW performance (see my post above). Although you could add that the Hero engine in SWTOR is pretty much crap, hence why Ilum is so laggy

Anet built an engine for GW2 for exactly this reason though. EA brought the engine for SWToR.

[Lusitan]

[Tuqui-tuqui]

That's cause you're interested in those classes. But the Mesmer is the newest announced and we haven't seen much of it, and it's the profession some of us are interested in so naturally we want some new info.

Your avatar... I can watch it forever.

This is exactly why i'm concerned about WvW performance (see my post above). Although you could add that the Hero engine in SWTOR is pretty much crap, hence why Ilum is so laggy

The issues with SWTOR was that the game was based on the idea that players would choose one faction or the other and ideally the numbers between them would be the same. BW should have seen that it does NOT work that way. Players will flock towards a specific faction for one reason or another creating a slight unbalance in population which the losing side will see and there will be an even greater migration from the small faction to the larger. They should have seen WoW, WHO, and god knows how many other MMOs with world PvP and two factions, cannot get their populations working correctly. Which is why they rely so much on battlegrounds and end up killing their world PvP.

GW2 is taking its idea of world PvP from DAoC which proved that three factions work best. You can have one large faction and the two smaller ones can, and will, join up against the larger one. Whatever happens, the smaller faction will not always be the target of the larger one. Sure you will get defeated on occasion, but there will be a third faction also wanting in on the action giving the smaller faction some breathing room.

On a side note: Mythic Entertainment, creators of DAoC, saw how well their tri-faction balancing act worked yet they dismissed it in WHO. What a serious fuck up. WHO could have been an incredible great game if they would have done what they do best. Instead they attempted to compete with the behemoth that is WoW. What a disappointment.

EDIT: I just realized you are talking about performance. Freak it, my points still stand.