Guild Wars 2

bhavv · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:27

InKursion said:
How is that an excuse for not having keybind modifiers?

It wasnt an excuese, but GW1 didnt use alt / ctrl skill binds and it worked perfectly with 8 skills on buttons 1-8 because you could freely mover them around. Arenanet made the mistake of applying the same method to GW2 with what appears to be fixed skill slots in awkward positions (heal skill in slot 6, bloody terrible because it cant be reached while using wasd).

I only find GW2 difficult due to still being unable how to simply move my skills to the slot I want.

I actually have 5 extra buttons available on my mouse:

http://i.imgur.com/t68TR.png

My scroll wheel has 3 seperate clicks, plus 2 thumb buttons, but I cant figure out how to set the macros in the crappy software :x

ThomBassmonkey · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:27

Vuvuzela said:
disagree, Tor, Rift, Tera have all been better than this. I'm sure it will be sorted come launch, but Arena Net have some work to do.

I didn't play the Rift or Tera beta but SWTOR was horrible for the first day. The same log in issues as GW2 then half the NPCs weren't showing, stuff you were doing wasn't registering etc.

bhavv · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:29

Vuvuzela said:
disagree, Tor, Rift, Tera have all been better than this. I'm sure it will be sorted come launch, but Arena Net have some work to do.

What problems are you finding worse in the GW2 beta than the others?

Other than performance, which they have purposely bound to the CPU at the moment to stress test CPU usage, and in game bugs which is the point of testing a beta, what other problems do you have that are worse than other betas.

bhavv · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:30

ThomBassmonkey said:
I didn't play the Rift or Tera beta but SWTOR was horrible for the first day. The same log in issues as GW2 then half the NPCs weren't showing, stuff you were doing wasn't registering etc.

The login issues are easily fixed by properly clearing up your failed log outs through your account management. This is working for 90% of cases where people cant log in due to old connections not being properly cleared.

Komedy · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:32

anyone have a link to the official forums for this

Spektor · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:36

Trying to play with a friend is near impossible, only getting overflow servers, never the same one twice

Wish it would put you on your friends server or let you pick an overflow server or something

TheMeekon · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:37

InKursion said:
Nope, you can't. But don't say anything! It's a Beta so the game is immune from "whining"

I don't know what's worse: Beta critics or rabid fanboys.

Not even a fanboy, just tired of your continuous... 'it's a disaster!!111!'

Vuvuzela · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:38

Fenris said:
The the bloody point, it's a beta.

the the what?

Even at this stage you would think it was at least playable......

TheMeekon · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:38

Spektor said:
Trying to play with a friend is near impossible, only getting overflow servers, never the same one twice

Wish it would put you on your friends server or let you pick an overflow server or something

I'm guessing that would be more like an instance. Glad they have this in and there isn't 5 hr queues.

Riddell · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:41

I've played enough now to know that I'm going to really enjoy Guild Wars 2. Seriously considering not playing it again until it is released to keep it as new and fresh as possible.

bhavv · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:41

Vuvuzela said:
the the what?

Even at this stage you would think it was at least playable......

It is playable, I'm playing it and it works. Sorry that you cant follow the clear advice already given multiple times on how to get the game working, thats not the fault of a beta.

ThomBassmonkey · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:44

bhavv said:
The login issues are easily fixed by properly clearing up your failed log outs through your account management. This is working for 90% of cases where people cant log in due to old connections not being properly cleared.

The login issues are fixed now anyway because you don't suddenly have hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people trying to log in to mostly untested servers.

InKursion · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:47

Dare I say it but... is anyone else a little offput by the Teleport system? I'd prefer in-game transport, even

Teleporting around everywhere really collapses the feel of the in-game world and its vast size. I guess this is related to the fact that it's not truly an MMO, anyway...

bhavv · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:48

Lovely, figured out how to use my mouse properly, really nice for something that was only £40:

Just had to use macro editing on the top left.

I made 2 custom profiles (can store up to 5 and switch on the fly), one has a single and infinitely looped double click on the thumb buttons (for consumables in GW1), and the other one pictured has keys 6-0 bound to macros 6-10.

And it works, middle mouse click = heal skill

Devious · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:52

It just kicked me out, Ive just restarted and it has downloaded a few new files.

InKursion · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:58

TheMeekon said:
Not even a fanboy, just tired of your continuous... 'it's a disaster!!111!'

Where am I saying anything is a disaster? I'm just saying they have overlooked some pretty basic things considering all of the high-falutin' hype talk they were giving for this. Breaking out of the MMO mould, yes, certainly... by not giving us normal MMO keybindings? Methinks they're trying to be a little bit too radical...

gord · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:58

Anybody want to party or PvP? Im on OcUK mumble for the foreseeable afternoon.

Fenris · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:14

Vuvuzela said:
the the what?

Even at this stage you would think it was at least playable......

It's perfectly playable, I've encountered several bugs/errors and reported them which is what I expect to do when I play a Beta.

gord · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:20

I would report bugs if I could find some. So far I've had one woman speak with a mans voice and that's it.. everything else feels and plays like a final game!

DragonWoLf · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:21

So peeps, got my email and whatnot from my prepurchase a while ago, got my email about the beta weekend, clicked to my Account tab and the download client link is unavailable, anyone else get the same issue?