Post by Eorl @ 10:49am 18/07/12 | 24 Comments
Players logging in for the beta weekend will be greeted firstly with the chance to play the Asura and the Sylvari, two races that have been locked away for the past beta events but have now been made available to test.
Beta players will be able to create asura and sylvari characters for the first time this weekend, exploring each race’s fantastical home region, and experiencing the unique storyline options available to these races.Among the new races will be new PvP maps, Keg Brawling, more World vs World gameplay and a large amount of bug fixing that you can check out at the official blog post.
“I hope players come away from this weekend with a better sense of the sylvari as a race—their personalities, quirks, interests, and setting,” Ree says. “I hope they’ll love the sylvari voices—the PC ones, in particular, are amazing!—and getting to see the Grove and soak in all its wonders. Personally, I look forward to hearing how players respond to the somewhat inhuman visual choices available for sylvari PCs—something that our artists worked very hard to create. It’s difficult to balance beautiful and not-quite-human!”
The last Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend will be commencing on July 21st at 5am AEST and will be finishing on July 23rd at 5am AEST. ArenaNet has also noted that all beta character progress will be deleted after this weekend event, however any friends that have been added to your contact list will be preserved.
Guild Wars 2 will be available August 28th this year for PC.
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Posted 11:32am 18/7/12
Posted 01:14pm 18/7/12
I guess I'll use this weekend to try and finally decide the contents of my first character slot for launch.
Posted 02:38pm 18/7/12
Posted 04:28pm 18/7/12
That's not the problem, even one of my video cards is more than enough. They said the last few builds were limited by CPU, not GPU, which makes me nervous. I'm worried that they're not going to be able to improve the performance as much as one would hope.
Posted 04:58pm 18/7/12
I do hope they can improve the performance in large battles especially for PVP. Most MMOs tend to fall down in this area, sometimes even years after launch so we'll just have to wait and see.
Posted 05:26pm 18/7/12
If you want to catch up on what has changed, just check out the blog post in the OP, some great changes that have been slowly evolving over the beta weekend events.
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Posted 01:09pm 21/7/12
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Posted 01:59pm 21/7/12
I got in anyway, but now it's making my computer just turn off after about 20 minutes. No error, just suddenly turns off. What the f***.
EDIT: Forums seem to be working now.
Posted 04:21pm 21/7/12
then I went sakjdhkjashdf and it worked, f*****g reserved b******!
Posted 05:09pm 21/7/12
So you're playing as a Norn?
Posted 08:55pm 21/7/12
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Posted 01:38am 22/7/12
Performance has definitely improved. It's still not averaging the framerate that I'd like, but it's actually staying completely playable when the screen is full of players and enemies with particles going everywhere. It'd previously get down really low in those situations.
Yeah, I think I'm going to have to jump in really quickly with the 3-day head-start to try secure a position on there. I guess it's no big deal anyway with guesting and all, but I'd still like to get on Sea of Sorrows at launch. I'm not going to be home though, so I'll have to take my laptop with me.
Posted 10:27am 22/7/12
The voice acting is pretty bad, like almost so bad that I half expect it to be placeholder audio but unfortunately not bad enough that I'm pretty sure it's what they are going to try and pass off as voice acting. I really don't think that level of amateurish s*** should be acceptable anymore.
The combat and animations are fun, not sure if I like the way quests work though. It's a clear evolution of the standard fetch quest and party quests of other MMO's but I don't know what is even going on in half of the event quests. I get a notification of an event near by, head over to it and join the zerg and then get a reward for contributing to something but I have no idea why we were doing what we were doing.
It's still fun, zergs are always fun, but it just seems to be disconnected somehow.
Posted 10:44am 22/7/12
I haven't noticed any bad voice acting so far, how is it bad for you? Is it just not quite your style of deliverance or just doesn't sound right?
Posted 11:08am 22/7/12
I dunno, I really don't think it's acceptable now days to have even ordinary voice acting in games, especially if they want to be taken seriously. Secrete World for example, all the voice acting and cut scenes in that were top notch. Guild Wars is of a level that is certainly associated with games but I don't think that is a good thing at all.
Posted 11:41am 22/7/12
The voice acting isn't amazing, but I can't say I've found it off-putting at all. I certainly wouldn't call it terrible.
I don't agree with that. Sure, amazing voice-acting is always preferable, but games aren't the same thing as movies, where everything hinges on story and performance. The majority of a game's merit comes from how well designed the actual gameplay mechanics are.
Imagine two games, where one has a great story and awesome voice acting, but the gameplay is boring, uninspired and frustrating, whereas the other has balls-to-the-wall exciting, refined, rewarding gameplay with a s***** story and uninspired voice acting, which one is going to be more popular?
I'm not saying that bad voice acting isn't a problem, but I don't agree at all that it's unacceptable if a game wants any hope of succeeding.
Posted 01:01pm 22/7/12
I guess the reason it frustrates me is that I don't think it can be that hard to get it right. It's like watching a Uwe Boll movie, you know all the actors have been fine in other movies you've seen but when it comes to Uwe Boll they are all giving cringe worthy performances.
Posted 01:17pm 22/7/12
I think it depends how important story is to the game though, I mean if its just an FPS thats all about action where story takes a back seat, corny dialogue and bad voice acting wouldn't really bother me. But if its a game where story is important, then that story is delivered in a sloppy way, thats pretty bad imo.
Posted 05:26pm 22/7/12
I never said you can't, I was just saying that I don't think "ordinary" voice acting is as detrimental as it sounded in your post.
And besides, I'm not really hearing any voice acting I'd deem "woeful" in Guild Wars 2.