Guild Wars 2 beta stress test experiance

Apart from the bug that prevented you to play the character that you just created, what other issues did you encounter?

What did you like and dislike during the event?

I was kind of dissappointed by the poor texture quality in the game. Hopefully it significantly improves when the game is actually released. I had the graphics all cranked up. Still the render was DirectX 9, while my system can do DirectX 11.

Definitely felt smoother. A bit of lag as the day progressed but not nearly as bad as the first BWE. WvW got quite a bit laggy at certain points, but bearable. Some serious team balance issues with WvW though. Our team had a score of around 28K while the other two had less than 15K. We basically owned everything on every world except for 2 or three nodes.

Played GW. I still think the texture details of GW are a little bit better than that of GW2 beta.

The use of DirectX9 was actually deeply disturbing. I know they have been working on the game for a while now; but, couldn't they have recompiled the whole thing for DirectX11 before the beta; just so everything gets tested properly?

Played GW. I still think the texture details of GW are a little bit better than that of GW2 beta.

The use of DirectX9 was actually deeply disturbing. I know they have been working on the game for a while now; but, couldn't they have recompiled the whole thing for DirectX11 before the beta; just so everything gets tested properly?

blackhermit

Its not the simple. The model for DX 10/11 is completely different than DX 9. Its a large part of the reason DX 9 has remained around for so long as you've got two fairly different codebases to support.

All other games shouldn't exist after GW2. It will change gaming forever and the way we play games. I am going to burn every PC game I own and sell my steam account due to GW2.

I will play it 24/7 and make a second life out of it.

HyperWarlock

I only played 2 hours yesterday, 1 hour on WvWvW and 1 hour of pve with my guardian. The pvp was an horrible experience. The game was extremely laggy and melee characters just don't work in this game. If you take an initiative, you die instantly, so I was stuck with my staff doing silly dps with the other ranged, not knowing if I was even killing anything. On the other side, I had a blast with the pve. I went from 15 to 17, but I took the time to explore. It reminds me all the fun I had in mmo like lotroFranko_3

[QUOTE="Franko_3"]I only played 2 hours yesterday, 1 hour on WvWvW and 1 hour of pve with my guardian. The pvp was an horrible experience. The game was extremely laggy and melee characters just don't work in this game. If you take an initiative, you die instantly, so I was stuck with my staff doing silly dps with the other ranged, not knowing if I was even killing anything. On the other side, I had a blast with the pve. I went from 15 to 17, but I took the time to explore. It reminds me all the fun I had in mmo like lotroBrunoBRS

I only played 2 hours yesterday, 1 hour on WvWvW and 1 hour of pve with my guardian. The pvp was an horrible experience. The game was extremely laggy and melee characters just don't work in this game. If you take an initiative, you die instantly, so I was stuck with my staff doing silly dps with the other ranged, not knowing if I was even killing anything. On the other side, I had a blast with the pve. I went from 15 to 17, but I took the time to explore. It reminds me all the fun I had in mmo like lotroFranko_3

I only played 2 hours yesterday, 1 hour on WvWvW and 1 hour of pve with my guardian. The pvp was an horrible experience. The game was extremely laggy and melee characters just don't work in this game. If you take an initiative, you die instantly, so I was stuck with my staff doing silly dps with the other ranged, not knowing if I was even killing anything. On the other side, I had a blast with the pve. I went from 15 to 17, but I took the time to explore. It reminds me all the fun I had in mmo like lotroFranko_3

All other games shouldn't exist after GW2. It will change gaming forever and the way we play games. I am going to burn every PC game I own and sell my steam account due to GW2.

I will play it 24/7 and make a second life out of it.

HyperWarlock

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="Franko_3"]I only played 2 hours yesterday, 1 hour on WvWvW and 1 hour of pve with my guardian. The pvp was an horrible experience. The game was extremely laggy and melee characters just don't work in this game. If you take an initiative, you die instantly, so I was stuck with my staff doing silly dps with the other ranged, not knowing if I was even killing anything. On the other side, I had a blast with the pve. I went from 15 to 17, but I took the time to explore. It reminds me all the fun I had in mmo like lotroFranko_3

Check out Diablo III reviews on neutral forums like MetaCritic and Gamespot. One guy (Psychodrake) writes:

"Where do I start. Graphics - Woah. One of the biggest developers in the world can't even deliver a game that looks half decent. What is the bloody industry coming to. Not even Blizzard care about taking steps forward with technology. The game suffers from low-res textures, low-poly models and some of the sloppiest animation work I have ever witnessed..."

I am afraind, the same is going to happen with GW2 if they attempt to march on with last decade's graphics quality.

Check out Diablo III reviews on neutral forums like MetaCritic and Gamespot. One guy (Psychodrake) writes:

"Where do I start. Graphics - Woah. One of the biggest developers in the world can't even deliver a game that looks half decent. What is the bloody industry coming to. Not even Blizzard care about taking steps forward with technology. The game suffers from low-res textures, low-poly models and some of the sloppiest animation work I have ever witnessed..."

I am afraind, the same is going to happen with GW2 if they attempt to march on with last decade's graphics quality.

blackhermit

to the graphic complaints:

last two are from the same place, one from the top of a mountain and another underwater (duh).

as a bonus, here's geralt:

i think the game looks pretty damn good as it is.

@BrunoBRS

The screen shots look nice. That's why I pre-purchased. But when we move around, the aritistic textures and low poly objects don't look very HD quality.

Incidentely, what are your graphics settings?

@BrunoBRS

The screen shots look nice. That's why I pre-purchased. But when we move around, the aritistic textures and low poly objects don't look very HD quality.

Incidentely, what are your graphics settings?

blackhermit

[QUOTE="blackhermit"]

@BrunoBRS

The screen shots look nice. That's why I pre-purchased. But when we move around, the aritistic textures and low poly objects don't look very HD quality.

Incidentely, what are your graphics settings?

BrunoBRS

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="blackhermit"]

@BrunoBRS

The screen shots look nice. That's why I pre-purchased. But when we move around, the aritistic textures and low poly objects don't look very HD quality.

Incidentely, what are your graphics settings?

blackhermit

and what in-game specs?

i have yet to play in the beta but nice. i am glad that the devs are putting in some good beta time before even making a release datek2theswiss

[QUOTE="k2theswiss"]i have yet to play in the beta but nice. i am glad that the devs are putting in some good beta time before even making a release dateblackhermit

[QUOTE="blackhermit"][QUOTE="k2theswiss"]i have yet to play in the beta but nice. i am glad that the devs are putting in some good beta time before even making a release datek2theswiss

I was going through my screenies folder from Fraps and noticed I had taken a pic of it, haha.

... yes I was celebrating his death with fireworks.