strigori Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Delving back into Guild Wars 2. I haven't played that in a couple years... have they made any decent changes? Yeah, they have overhauled a lot of stuff. The trait system hardly resembles what it used to be, and have not even gotten into it yet as it requires lv 30 now. I just started a new char as I was so out of it with my old Ele. And the way they doll out each part of the system is very different. Very much designed to ease people in a bit, but if you had unlocked some of the things they remain unlocked, as most things are account bound and not char. And there is a full free expansion coming soon, with class specializations. We will see how far I get with it this time. I may have to go check it out... It took me about 8 or 9 months to lose interest the first time it came out... The one other thing is they have gone to the "MegaServer" set up. Where for PvE and sPvP world is irrelevant, home world only matters for WvW. It can make zones feel much more populated than before, particularly at off hours on your home world. That's kinda weird? I wonder what prompted that? Common trend with MMOs anymore. Basically all players are pooled on one server and zones are instanced as the population demands for the moment. Has a real solid effect of making the game seem more populated than it might otherwise be as well. I know I have played games where I was the only person in a zone, particularly if you are not max level. I imagine it saves them a ton of money in the amount of running hardware too. But I bet that makes the daily farming in Queensdale a complete sh*tshow... It didn't seem that bad anywhere I have been. I saw times before when I played where there would not be enough players around to take down the world bosses when they came up. Lots of people there for them now. Though if you have a low end rig, I can see a need to turn down a lot of settings in that kind of situation. They seem to have a good handle on the numbers in a given instance before it creates a new one. There is also a notification you get if the map population drops very low that offers you a boon for moving to a more populated instance of that map. When I stopped playing that daily farm run in Queensdale was a mess. You had people jumping the spawns and throwing off entire groups "rotation"... The other thing was, I got tired of trying to do dailies for 4 characters. That got to be a bit tedious and time consuming... I think they have tweaked the dailies since then too. And back to an account list and not tied to a specific character. Everything is very account based now. There is a Wallet now that pools all coin, karma, and every other form of currency, and every char has access to it. I hope so, that was part of the reason I didn't play as much. I also like the sounds of that, keep everything centralized. Did you ever PvP in GW2? I did a little WvW, and an odd match here and there. But without being with a group of people I know well, pvp really does not do much for me. Pug pvp is generally a bad idea, but WvW can be ok now and then as the scale is so much larger. I concur, did they ever fix those event timers? I don't know. I never payed that close attention to them. Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Delving back into Guild Wars 2. I haven't played that in a couple years... have they made any decent changes? Yeah, they have overhauled a lot of stuff. The trait system hardly resembles what it used to be, and have not even gotten into it yet as it requires lv 30 now. I just started a new char as I was so out of it with my old Ele. And the way they doll out each part of the system is very different. Very much designed to ease people in a bit, but if you had unlocked some of the things they remain unlocked, as most things are account bound and not char. And there is a full free expansion coming soon, with class specializations. We will see how far I get with it this time. I may have to go check it out... It took me about 8 or 9 months to lose interest the first time it came out... The one other thing is they have gone to the "MegaServer" set up. Where for PvE and sPvP world is irrelevant, home world only matters for WvW. It can make zones feel much more populated than before, particularly at off hours on your home world. That's kinda weird? I wonder what prompted that? Common trend with MMOs anymore. Basically all players are pooled on one server and zones are instanced as the population demands for the moment. Has a real solid effect of making the game seem more populated than it might otherwise be as well. I know I have played games where I was the only person in a zone, particularly if you are not max level. I imagine it saves them a ton of money in the amount of running hardware too. But I bet that makes the daily farming in Queensdale a complete sh*tshow... It didn't seem that bad anywhere I have been. I saw times before when I played where there would not be enough players around to take down the world bosses when they came up. Lots of people there for them now. Though if you have a low end rig, I can see a need to turn down a lot of settings in that kind of situation. They seem to have a good handle on the numbers in a given instance before it creates a new one. There is also a notification you get if the map population drops very low that offers you a boon for moving to a more populated instance of that map. When I stopped playing that daily farm run in Queensdale was a mess. You had people jumping the spawns and throwing off entire groups "rotation"... The other thing was, I got tired of trying to do dailies for 4 characters. That got to be a bit tedious and time consuming... I think they have tweaked the dailies since then too. And back to an account list and not tied to a specific character. Everything is very account based now. There is a Wallet now that pools all coin, karma, and every other form of currency, and every char has access to it. I hope so, that was part of the reason I didn't play as much. I also like the sounds of that, keep everything centralized. Did you ever PvP in GW2? I did a little WvW, and an odd match here and there. But without being with a group of people I know well, pvp really does not do much for me. Pug pvp is generally a bad idea, but WvW can be ok now and then as the scale is so much larger. I concur, did they ever fix those event timers? I don't know. I never payed that close attention to them. After typing that I remember it wasn't affiliated with GW2... Did you ever get in any of the 5 man runs? Only one I ever did was the one in northern part of the map with the lava and the two annoying fights... Quote Link to comment
strigori Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Nope, I wasn't what people wanted class and gear wise before I walked away from the game. Was not part of a guild, and the pug people were so specific on everything. You know, can't have someone that will add 10 min to something learning it. Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Now that it's become "Strig and Walks MMO hour"... Yeah, that's the main reason I stopped playing WoW and a contributing factor to why I stopped playing GW2... Unless you were in a guild, you were hosed because trying to find a PUG on GW2 was like finding a needle in a haystack. People had no patience for anyone new, and unless you knew the run very well, you'd get booted or not even picked up. Quote Link to comment
strigori Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Now that it's become "Strig and Walks MMO hour"... Yeah, that's the main reason I stopped playing WoW and a contributing factor to why I stopped playing GW2... Unless you were in a guild, you were hosed because trying to find a PUG on GW2 was like finding a needle in a haystack. People had no patience for anyone new, and unless you knew the run very well, you'd get booted or not even picked up. That's been a top factor on my leaving of every MMO have have played since EQ1, and its an absurd amount really. I was an officer in a high end raid guild back then, with some different dynamics than our competition. Maybe I just have a tough threshold, but I don't want to join guilds that take anyone through open chat. And that can make it a bit harder to find something. Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 In WoW I was in a decent sized guild that raided on a pretty steady basis, but once Cata came out, it fell on it's ass. Our outfit had some cred among other guilds, because we knew what we were doing, and if you were from another decent guild, we'd let you piggy back a raid or two. Once Cata came out, that was OVER. The gear Nazi's were rampant, and my Orc Warrior, could barely get a 5 man run as a tank, forget about being able to DPS anything. My Warlock and Mage couldn't get any time either. The only toon I had that I could play on a regular basis was my bear tank. I was well geared, my tactics were good, and I had a couple party saving macro's to drop if necessary. But outside of that, there wasn't any point in playing any of my other toons, because they'd get invited to a group, they'd see the spec, and i'd be out in under 30 seconds.... Quote Link to comment
strigori Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 In WoW I was in a decent sized guild that raided on a pretty steady basis, but once Cata came out, it fell on it's ass. Our outfit had some cred among other guilds, because we knew what we were doing, and if you were from another decent guild, we'd let you piggy back a raid or two. Once Cata came out, that was OVER. The gear Nazi's were rampant, and my Orc Warrior, could barely get a 5 man run as a tank, forget about being able to DPS anything. My Warlock and Mage couldn't get any time either. The only toon I had that I could play on a regular basis was my bear tank. I was well geared, my tactics were good, and I had a couple party saving macro's to drop if necessary. But outside of that, there wasn't any point in playing any of my other toons, because they'd get invited to a group, they'd see the spec, and i'd be out in under 30 seconds.... I was gone from WoW long before that. I ran with 3 other real life friends and we 3 and 4 manned most of the dungeons. Yet pugs wouldn't touch 3 of the 4 of us. Most of the other MMOs I have played I never got near endgame. Often progression would get blocked by needing a group, and not being whatever makeup was trendy at the time would sink me. Now my old EQ1 guild was the #2 on the server for quite a while. We were a full on raiding guild, and I was one of the officers. We had a reputation for completing content with less numbers, or non-ideal class breaks. often running raids with 20 men under the max(Raid max in EQ was 72, and VOIP wasnt really a thing yet.) Typically I ran groups outside of raids with old guildies, but now and then if I was doing a pug, my guild tag alone would trump things, even if my class was having neglect issues from the devs. And on the other side when we would fill out a group with the odd random guy, we didn't worry about what their AA spend was or the gear, just if they could follow directions. Quote Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 NCAA 14. Balling out with #1 Texas State waiting for Bo to get fired. Need some new sliders. TF2 for ****s and gigs. UFC Undisputed 3 when I ant to get embarrassed. My career difficulty is too high. Fallout 3. Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Picked up WWE2K15 for $30. Hadnt bought a wrestling game since Smackdown vs Raw. What the holy hades have they done to the control system. I played two matches. Lost the first via countout because I accidentally went out of the ring, lost the second because I couldnt figure out how to kick out. Severely unimpressed. Quote Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Shadow of Mordor on XB1. On sale this week for both XB1 and PS4 for $29.99, hell of a game so far. If you like Lord of the Rings movies and the Batman Arkham Asylum/Arkham City games, this one's right up your alley. Quote Link to comment
RunMickeyRun02 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 When I do get a turn on the 360 I play NCAA 2014. I Downloaded updated rosters and manually advanced all the huskers a year. Playing out the scenario of me taking over as coach next season instead of Riley. I created coaches of my friends and family. The kids are always playing Minecraft, and the wife plays the Sims (3 I think....) Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Picked up WWE2K15 for $30. Hadnt bought a wrestling game since Smackdown vs Raw. What the holy hades have they done to the control system. I played two matches. Lost the first via countout because I accidentally went out of the ring, lost the second because I couldnt figure out how to kick out. Severely unimpressed. It sucks in the beginning, but once you get past the kick out, and climbing in/out of the ring, it's a pretty enjoyable game... Quote Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Beat Contra III and Goof Troop on SNES with a buddy yesterday. I always wanted one of these as a kid but never got one. Fapfapfapfapfap.... Just bought a Retron3 myself on Amazon. Will see if it's functions right, but if it does work well I'll be able to play NES, SNES, and. Genesis games. If something is wrong I'll just send it back. Quote Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Beat Contra III and Goof Troop on SNES with a buddy yesterday. I always wanted one of these as a kid but never got one. Fapfapfapfapfap.... Just bought a Retron3 myself on Amazon. Will see if it's functions right, but if it does work well I'll be able to play NES, SNES, and. Genesis games. If something is wrong I'll just send it back. Actually interested in one of those myself for my NES and SNES games...plus, these machines have SD card slots for save games if your batteries die in the cartridge... Quote Link to comment
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