Guild Wars 2: All Aboard the Mantrain

Lambeth · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 12:34 am

I lost my id and most of my discs. :c

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

You don't need the discs and if you still have information about your account, you might be able to recover it.

Lambeth · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 4:41 pm

I tried once and decided it would be better just to wait for the sequel.

[Insert Fail] · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 10:35 pm

Hey dudes, ArenaNet will be opening their servers to pre-purchase customers only on Monday, May 14th, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm PDT).

If you played during the first BWE, your character will still be there.

Mr. Mander · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:28 am

Just some interesting news from the Beta Weekend

Apparently GW2 has a PvP event wherein crystals will randomly fall from the sky and corrupt players. Corrupted players and uncorrupted players then fight in a zombie-horde type situation. Pretty unique as far as MMO PvP goes.

Leoj · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:48 pm **Posts:** 1977

Pretty sure that was the end of beta event for the beta weekend 2 (BWE2). It didn't go as planned what with all the crashing and the fact that on some servers it never even started.

Mr. Mander · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:11 pm

Yeah, the friend who told me about it really didn't use the right words. I heard about that server stuff later as well.

Leoj · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:48 pm **Posts:** 1977

It sucked

The server stuff I mean not the event. The event was kinda cool. I got on, buy by the time I got to where it was (and was placed in the overflow server) it was mostly over. It was kinda laggy and I got corrupted but then DCed and came back normal and then the servers went down. Was fun while it lasted.

Madican · **Joined:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:18 pm **Posts:** 13531

Mr. Mander wrote:

Just some interesting news from the Beta Weekend

Apparently GW2 has a PvP event wherein crystals will randomly fall from the sky and corrupt players. Corrupted players and uncorrupted players then fight in a zombie-horde type situation. Pretty unique as far as MMO PvP goes.

Sounds like the WoW zombie event.

You will discover how much players can be dicks when given half a chance.

Leoj · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:48 pm **Posts:** 1977

I doubt you can go through a portal to load into town and keep the corruption. Although you could go around kill low level players and turning them corrupted or corrupting waypoints so people couldn't use them unless they took them back. However GW2 has this system where if you outlevel a zone, you get deleveled to compensate. You dont lose abilities or what not, they just dont do as much dmg this way you can't just roll through stuff as a high level and totally own the noob zones.

Madican · **Joined:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:18 pm **Posts:** 13531

Leoj wrote:

I doubt you can go through a portal to load into town and keep the corruption.

Yep. Shattrath was in another plane and it still had the zombie horde.

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Although you could go around kill low level players and turning them corrupted or corrupting waypoints so people couldn't use them unless they took them back.

Couldn't take them back. Once the NPC's got infected the disease just spread constantly. Low-level zones became filled with zombies.

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However GW2 has this system where if you outlevel a zone, you get deleveled to compensate. You dont lose abilities or what not, they just dont do as much dmg this way you can't just roll through stuff as a high level and totally own the noob zones.

It wasn't just the amount of damage, that had little to do with it. It was that, if infected, the disease would turn whoever it infected within a set time limit. This led to hordes of zombies descending on cities and towns, infecting the NPC's, and no amount of power could stem their tide. Safety was an illusion and the greatest place to be was out in the middle of nowhere.

It was glorious.

Leoj · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:48 pm **Posts:** 1977

I was talking about GW2. The cities and zones are separated by portals and if logging out and back in got rid of the corruption, I don't think you were able to move it between zones to grief people in cities.

Mr. Mander · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:13 am

Guild Wars 2 has an official release date now.

August 28th. Prepare your wallets.

[Insert Fail] · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:44 pm

The release date is earlier than I expected. I honestly thought it would be around October. I'm hoping they're not rushing it, I'd rather they get things right. Either way, it's exciting and I look forward to going into it with my friends.

Bucket · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:58 pm

That soon? That's pretty awesome. Paid off my collector's edition months ago so all I can do now is wait.

Which is the hardest part.

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