Guild Wars 2 updates

[Pants]

Originally Posted by hometeam

Well my guild and I got tweeted/facebooked by arenanet. We spent our weekend doing this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj5PwJX7EIk





At one point we had 2 devs following us, one of whom made a char look and named like us, hopped in our voice server, and played with us.

We all made charr mesmers with some variation of illlliilili.

dont be fooled by youtube views, this thing has sat at the top of reddit all day plus been officially acknowledged and plugged by arenanet!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/

Haha, that's awesome. Must have been a shit ton of fun.

[hometeam]

We did alot more than that, that just happens to be a cut. We for 2 hours rolled around the world making friends and doing strange coreographed things. If you watch the 13 minute cut off the youtube link you can see the instant /sleeps we did as well as some of the other stuff

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by hometeam

We did alot more than that, that just happens to be a cut. We for 2 hours rolled around the world making friends and doing strange coreographed things. If you watch the 13 minute cut off the youtube link you can see the instant /sleeps we did as well as some of the other stuff

Lol I made 3 characters and they were all fairly fun. I loved the guardian and the elementalist though. Warrior....eh idk. I think this game is as it should be. A learning experience at the beginning and everything gets exponentially better as you level.

[hometeam]

I tried alot of different stuff. I quite liked the warrior, but I think im going to play ranged of some sort. Engineer is top of my list as of now.

also building a new PC for gw2. Parts are ordered, PC will be operational and OCed on saturday night~

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by hometeam

I tried alot of different stuff. I quite liked the warrior, but I think im going to play ranged of some sort. Engineer is top of my list as of now.

also building a new PC for gw2. Parts are ordered, PC will be operational and OCed on saturday night~

How much did that run you?

[hometeam]

ehmm.. about 2200. But this sytem will dominate gw2 and many games upcoming.

CORSAIR H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Tuniq TX-4 Extreme Performance and Exceptional Reliability Thermal Compound
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX850 V2 850W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC
Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor
ASRock X79 Extreme6/GB LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
EVGA 02G-P4-2678-KR GeForce GTX 670 FTW 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support
Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F240GBGT-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM
COOLER MASTER R4-MFJR-07FK-R1 200mm Case Fan
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML16GX3M4X1600C7
LG DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH24NS90 - OEM
COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

will using my samsung 7200 rpm 1tb HDD that i have laying on my desk here

Im also going to add a second card in SLI next month, looking for a 4.5-5ghz overclock on the 6core

You can build a computer to run gw2 pretty handily for around 800 bucks though. Get a bargain case, an i5 2500k and a 560ti and be good to go for fairly cheap

[Setsuna]

Can I haz some of dat lettuce?

[Canofbier]

There's a stress test today from 12:00 to 4:00 pacific time, for any of you who wanted one last fix before the game comes out in a couple weeks. I finally caved and pre-purchased the game, because I knew I was going to buy it anyway once it came out.

[chasedude]

Originally Posted by Canofbier

There's a stress test today from 12:00 to 4:00 pacific time, for any of you who wanted one last fix before the game comes out in a couple weeks. I finally caved and pre-purchased the game, because I knew I was going to buy it anyway once it came out.

I hate when they schedule these stress tests while I'm working

Anyways... I heard that all the packaged retail boxes are already sold out across the board. A Gamestop employee told me there's been so many orders that they can't take anymore. Digital dowloads are still available, but those wanting their pretty box will have to wait until more are manufactured.

[hometeam]

Another stress test tommorrow... 6-10pm our time! wheee

[hometeam]

1 hour stress test sunday 2-3pm. If anyone is interested I will be playing on sorrows furnace for the remainder of the beta time. However, after beta is over we will be re-rolling on another server~

[Canofbier]

Originally Posted by hometeam

1 hour stress test sunday 2-3pm. If anyone is interested I will be playing on sorrows furnace for the remainder of the beta time. However, after beta is over we will be re-rolling on another server~

Man, they're really going nuts with these stress tests.

[hometeam]

Yea, and after looking again its 1-2pm not 2-3!

Anyways i'm going to use the time to jump right into WvW.

I figure they will keep on doing stress tests up until maybe a week or few days before launch. They know that the d3 launch is what players are dreading, and will be a marketing nightmare for them unless everything goes smoothly.

[hometeam]

Updated server for launch for me and my guild Arcanix at www.alttabme.com - Jade Quarry

[chasedude]

I got in on the Friday test for awhile and home long enough to get in about 15 mins for this stress test. I think Anet has paid attention to the problems with D3 and are testing as much as possible before release. Can't wait for the official release though, not far down the line.