Video games have evolved far past the button-mashing days when your
entertainment was easy to forget because the game was simple. Games
today often influence our emotions, making us feel as though we are part
of the story, part of the game universe, and that we matter in
important ways. The end result is that, very much like other forms of
entertainment, we find ourselves drawn to the experience even when we
aren’t in-game. Proof of this are the fan sites, forums, and other
applications that we devour in order to continue the in-game experience.
The bragging, information sharing, and verbal sparring we engage in on
these sites are all signs of high levels of passion and our desire to
continue the experience outside of the game.
This is where my team comes in. My name is Rick Ellis, and I’m a Tech
Director at ArenaNet, leading a dedicated extended experience team that
provides extensions for Guild Wars 2. These extensions allow players to
participate in and contribute to the Guild Wars 2 universe in relatable
and interesting ways without requiring d3 gold instant delivery a gaming rig. The use of web and mobile technologies means this can be done virtually anywhere.
“You shouldn’t be wondering what your friends are doing in-game; you
should always be connected to them to chat.”You shouldn’t be wondering
what your friends are doing in-game; you should always be connected to
them to chat. You should be able to help or otherwise contribute to your
guild or the game. While we’ll be providing mobile and web apps for our
Marketplace and Hero Viewer, along with functionality you’ve already
seen in other MMOs, these are not what we refer to as extended
experience components. Why, you ask? These applications, while useful,
don’t really allow players to participate in the game world. The auction
functionality of the Marketplace gets close, but it’s essentially a
solo activity that has little to do with the actual gameplay experience.
I know people will argue this point, but think of it this way: not many
MMO players play a game just for the auction diablo 3 gold quick delivery capabilities, but many play to socialize with their friends.
One thing that separates what we’re doing from the rest of the MMO
market is that we aren’t using a simple, one-way connection to get
information from the game. We have constructed a high-speed connection
to the Guild Wars 2 server and database architecture, allowing us to not
only retrieve information from the game but also push data into the
game in real time.
It’s really this key piece of technology that opens the door for us
to create an almost endless number of applications. This is why we
referred to our PAX demo as the “tip of the iceberg.” For those of you
who were unable to attend PAX this year, I’ll describe our demonstration
in more detail. We were showing an iPhone and iPad, both running a
real-time world map display. We demonstrated the ability to watch your
friends move around in the game and see dynamic events as they become
active, all exactly as it’s happening in-game. We showed that users have
the ability to chat instantly d3 gold
with anyone on their friends list. It’s the two-way connection with our
servers that makes it possible to chat between a mobile device, located
anywhere in the world, and in-game players.
Additionally, the world map shows the locations of all points of
interest, all teleport locations, any visible lore locations, and the
locations of all vendors and trainers, even if they are moving in the
world. Of course, being an iPhone/iPad application, you can scroll and
zoom the map as well, then quickly return to the selected character if
she is off-screen.
The PAX demo was a sneak peak at some of the things the Extended
Experience Team is working on and was intended to make people think
about the possibilities of what can be done. We’ve since seen many great
ideas pop up on forums and, of course, many questions as well. (See
below for a few answers!) We look forward to interacting with the
community more to keep you up to date on the cool stuff we’re working
on.
“We are committed to making our games more accessible and allowing our players guild wars 2 gold
to experience our game world anywhere, at any time.”So, it’s as simple
as taking Guild Wars 2, adding water, and—voilà!—cool stuff happens,
right? Almost. We can say that if we take a rabid fan base (all of you),
add current mobile and web technologies, and mix with some magic
ArenaNet dust, we do have some awesome ingredients for providing
applications to our player base—applications that are very different
from what’s been seen in the MMO space in the past.
The mission of our Extended Experience Team is to focus solely on
building world-class applications. We are committed to making our games
more accessible and allowing our players to experience our game world
anywhere, at any time.
Now that you know the team and our philosophy, I’m sure the real
question on everyone’s mind is “What else can we expect to see in the
future?” Without giving up too much more information—we do have to keep
some secrets—what you can expect to see is a series of apps that will
share information with each other and the Guild Wars 2 system in ways
that simply haven’t been done buy guild wars 2 gold before.
The most prominent features for mobile and web users will probably
stem from the ability to stay connected to the game world and, more
importantly, your friends and guildies. We’ll be doing as much as we can
to remove the communication barrier that exists between in-game players
and out-of-game players. How many times have you been away from your
computer on raid night and wished you could connect up with your guild,
monitor their progress, share your insights, and ultimately share in
their victory? The ability to socialize beyond the game boundaries is
essential, and it’s one of the first things we’re working on. Naturally,
security and the protection of personal information are of paramount
importance with social features like this. With the broader
possibilities for communication, we want to ensure people are always in
control of who talks to them and when.
Beyond communication, we’re exploring features that allow out-of-game
friends to help in-game friends by locating places or items.
Additionally, we will have a much tighter system for accessing and
consuming wiki content. This will greatly reduce the need to
continuously jump out of the game to access web sites for information.
Future features for our mobile world map will include the ability to
select a player and open up the Hero Viewer, which shows information
about that character: stats, equipment, achievements, etc. Further, the
user will be able to select a piece of equipment and retrieve
information about where that item came from: a location, an event, a
certain boss, or even a portion of that player’s personal story. Mobile
users will also have the ability to tap a location on the world map,
causing their in-game friends to see a radar ping appear on the mini-map
and world map. This is a great feature to help less-experienced friends
and guildies learn their way around the Guild Wars 2 world.
This is just the start of where the Extended Experience Team is
going. In the end, we will make all of our extended experience features
tightly integrated with each other and the game, so that it becomes less
and less important which piece of hardware you are using to experience
Guild Wars 2.
2012年7月30日星期一
2012年7月26日星期四
The Artistic Origin of the Charr 3
As Charr Week rumbles on like an unstoppable war machine, let’s take a look at the origin of the charr from a visual point of view. I talked to the three ArenaNet artists most responsible for the look and feel of the charr, Katy Hargrove, Kristen Perry, and Kekai Kotaki, to get their take on this iconic Guild Wars 2 race.
Character Artist Katy Hargrove created the original concept art that evolved into the charr, the main adversaries of mankind in the original Guild Wars.
Q: Katy, what was your main inspiration for designing the charr in the original Guild Wars?
Katy: The charr would be the main threat to the humans of Ascalon, so we wanted something inhuman, iconic, and intelligent.
The original concept for the charr was a race of animalistic creatures that have a variety of forms and functions. Some of these creatures would be brutish brawlers that ran on all four limbs, while others would be more intelligent magic users who would stand on their back legs, performing rituals and holding magic artifacts with their hands.
Initially we were considering an orc-like race of creatures, but I think everyone buying d3 gold soon agreed that we didn’t want to make orcs, ogres, or trolls the main bad guys in our game. They’ve been used in many books, movies, and games, and have been done very well. We needed something different, something that would grab at your gut without needing to be explained.
In our world, if you are a human, large cats are terrifying. They’ve been eating people for thousands of years, and they come for us out of the trees and the brush and the darkness. So we took a risk and tried concepting cat people. However, the original concepts weren’t impressive, and even came troublingly close to being cute. We began incorporating fire and horns into their designs to push towards a more threatening, demonic feel. We ended up with a fire worshipping race of hell cats. As we fleshed out more of their story we followed through on less of the varied forms than we originally planned, but you can still see remnants of the original design in the stances of the magic-using and weapon-wielding charr in Guild Wars.
Q: Did you work from a text description of what the charr diablo 3 power leveling looked like, or did you just set out to design an aggressive, animalistic race?
Katy: The original text description for the charr didn’t describe their look much. It mainly described the charr attitude as a race and some of the things they might do in terms of play mechanics. We had a lot of artistic freedom when it came to designing the charr.
One of the ideas that helped sell the charr as a race was they wouldn’t just be dudes with cat heads. When talking about cat people as a concept, that is the mental image that met with the most resistance. I began talking about the charr in terms of being not dudes with cat heads but as chimera-like monsters that joined several animals together, with heavy feline features. I remember a key meeting when I drew a quick sketch of a bipedal cat beast to get the point across, we then began concepting to flesh out the race and really sell the idea – and a charr was born.
Kristen Perry was the character artist who volunteered to craft a viable design for the female charr in Guild Wars 2. The female of the race had diablo 3 items not been seen in the original game, so creating a concept that was both recognizably female and recognizably charr was a challenge.
Q: Kristen, can you talk a little about the different approaches you tried out for the female charr before settling on the final design?
Kristen: As a team, we had many discussions regarding the direction of the female charr, and a lot of that back-and-forth was in the form of thumbnail sketches and theoretical debate. These discussions centered around the tension between making the female charr attractive to the playerbase while still making it look like part of the same race as the male charr.
Much of the problem was in making the female charr more universally attractive, which leans towards a more human appearance. Those initial designs explored the tension between an acceptable human notion of beauty and an animalistic design that is cool, but just too “creature” for the average player to find engaging. This exploratory process brought about one model design that was indeed more humanoid and catgirl in appearance. It had the back leg joint articulation gw2 gold of the charr, but stood much more upright, had a human neck, slender arms and almost hand-like paws—and, yes, breasts. The problem with this design, though, was we were trying to find a solution between both goals, which meant we didn’t really satisfy either. The human part of our charr catgirl wasn’t human enough to be cute, and the charr part of her wasn’t charr enough to be fierce, let alone look like a female of the same race. So while this experiment was very important for visualization, in the end it didn’t give us the result we wanted.
By this point we knew we didn’t want a catgirl, but there was still another conundrum to solve. The males of the charr race are large, overly muscular, brutish, and monstrous. We couldn’t give the female of the race the same hulking masculine proportions, because then there’d be no real way to see any gender difference. But how do you make a smaller, less muscular, less imposing member of the race feel just as powerful as their male counterparts?
Q: So how did you strike that balance and create something that was both feminine and charr-like?
Kristen: Well, when I started designing gw2 gold for sale the female charr, I definitely wanted her to feel just as fierce as the male of the race. She had to feel sleek and agile while at the same time have an appearance of strength and power. By thinking in terms of movement, it became clear the answer was in optimizing nuances. Yes, she had to be large and robust like the male, but we could tone down the testosterone by really extending her body lines to gracefully flow from the top of her head to tail tip.
I didn’t see any reason whatsoever to give her less clawing power, so I rebuilt the sabers on her hands and feet and brought out the padding design. The face and horns were designed with style and movement in mind, but also incorporated markedly more feminine cat-like features instead of the more monstrous male features, though there will be those options too. The horns don’t have a particular direction to denote gender; they just have to look cool. The female’s tail, however, has long hair. This was a very specific thing I wanted to include, as I love the sweeping feel to the long hair, and it’s an easy detail to note from behind in telling whether the charr is male or female.
Finally, there was the matter of the chest. It really didn’t make any sense to have boobs on a charr female, particularly with all the effort we took to make her sleek and fierce. We thought they should have no breasts at all or at least hide them under some fluffy fur. Above all else, we needed to be true to the race, of course! There was still some debate, however, so I gave them a choice: either be subtle and downplay the breasts (it wasn’t a point of the race, anyway) or go full-on realistic. Yes, that’s right —none or six!!
But really, the armor augmentation required for six boobs would be just as ridiculous, so none it was!
Concept Art Team Lead Kekai Kotaki was responsible for bringing the look of the charr 250 years into the future, to the time of Guild Wars 2. The warlike charr have changed a great deal since they first appeared in Guild Wars, so their updated design had to reflect their more industrial culture. I thought we’d let Kekai get in the final word on the charr.
Q: Kekai, how did you approach the charr design for Guild Wars 2?
Kekai: My approach was simple: make the charr badass. And then make them even more badass.
Character Artist Katy Hargrove created the original concept art that evolved into the charr, the main adversaries of mankind in the original Guild Wars.
Q: Katy, what was your main inspiration for designing the charr in the original Guild Wars?
Katy: The charr would be the main threat to the humans of Ascalon, so we wanted something inhuman, iconic, and intelligent.
The original concept for the charr was a race of animalistic creatures that have a variety of forms and functions. Some of these creatures would be brutish brawlers that ran on all four limbs, while others would be more intelligent magic users who would stand on their back legs, performing rituals and holding magic artifacts with their hands.
Initially we were considering an orc-like race of creatures, but I think everyone buying d3 gold soon agreed that we didn’t want to make orcs, ogres, or trolls the main bad guys in our game. They’ve been used in many books, movies, and games, and have been done very well. We needed something different, something that would grab at your gut without needing to be explained.
In our world, if you are a human, large cats are terrifying. They’ve been eating people for thousands of years, and they come for us out of the trees and the brush and the darkness. So we took a risk and tried concepting cat people. However, the original concepts weren’t impressive, and even came troublingly close to being cute. We began incorporating fire and horns into their designs to push towards a more threatening, demonic feel. We ended up with a fire worshipping race of hell cats. As we fleshed out more of their story we followed through on less of the varied forms than we originally planned, but you can still see remnants of the original design in the stances of the magic-using and weapon-wielding charr in Guild Wars.
Q: Did you work from a text description of what the charr diablo 3 power leveling looked like, or did you just set out to design an aggressive, animalistic race?
Katy: The original text description for the charr didn’t describe their look much. It mainly described the charr attitude as a race and some of the things they might do in terms of play mechanics. We had a lot of artistic freedom when it came to designing the charr.
One of the ideas that helped sell the charr as a race was they wouldn’t just be dudes with cat heads. When talking about cat people as a concept, that is the mental image that met with the most resistance. I began talking about the charr in terms of being not dudes with cat heads but as chimera-like monsters that joined several animals together, with heavy feline features. I remember a key meeting when I drew a quick sketch of a bipedal cat beast to get the point across, we then began concepting to flesh out the race and really sell the idea – and a charr was born.
Kristen Perry was the character artist who volunteered to craft a viable design for the female charr in Guild Wars 2. The female of the race had diablo 3 items not been seen in the original game, so creating a concept that was both recognizably female and recognizably charr was a challenge.
Q: Kristen, can you talk a little about the different approaches you tried out for the female charr before settling on the final design?
Kristen: As a team, we had many discussions regarding the direction of the female charr, and a lot of that back-and-forth was in the form of thumbnail sketches and theoretical debate. These discussions centered around the tension between making the female charr attractive to the playerbase while still making it look like part of the same race as the male charr.
Much of the problem was in making the female charr more universally attractive, which leans towards a more human appearance. Those initial designs explored the tension between an acceptable human notion of beauty and an animalistic design that is cool, but just too “creature” for the average player to find engaging. This exploratory process brought about one model design that was indeed more humanoid and catgirl in appearance. It had the back leg joint articulation gw2 gold of the charr, but stood much more upright, had a human neck, slender arms and almost hand-like paws—and, yes, breasts. The problem with this design, though, was we were trying to find a solution between both goals, which meant we didn’t really satisfy either. The human part of our charr catgirl wasn’t human enough to be cute, and the charr part of her wasn’t charr enough to be fierce, let alone look like a female of the same race. So while this experiment was very important for visualization, in the end it didn’t give us the result we wanted.
By this point we knew we didn’t want a catgirl, but there was still another conundrum to solve. The males of the charr race are large, overly muscular, brutish, and monstrous. We couldn’t give the female of the race the same hulking masculine proportions, because then there’d be no real way to see any gender difference. But how do you make a smaller, less muscular, less imposing member of the race feel just as powerful as their male counterparts?
Q: So how did you strike that balance and create something that was both feminine and charr-like?
Kristen: Well, when I started designing gw2 gold for sale the female charr, I definitely wanted her to feel just as fierce as the male of the race. She had to feel sleek and agile while at the same time have an appearance of strength and power. By thinking in terms of movement, it became clear the answer was in optimizing nuances. Yes, she had to be large and robust like the male, but we could tone down the testosterone by really extending her body lines to gracefully flow from the top of her head to tail tip.
I didn’t see any reason whatsoever to give her less clawing power, so I rebuilt the sabers on her hands and feet and brought out the padding design. The face and horns were designed with style and movement in mind, but also incorporated markedly more feminine cat-like features instead of the more monstrous male features, though there will be those options too. The horns don’t have a particular direction to denote gender; they just have to look cool. The female’s tail, however, has long hair. This was a very specific thing I wanted to include, as I love the sweeping feel to the long hair, and it’s an easy detail to note from behind in telling whether the charr is male or female.
Finally, there was the matter of the chest. It really didn’t make any sense to have boobs on a charr female, particularly with all the effort we took to make her sleek and fierce. We thought they should have no breasts at all or at least hide them under some fluffy fur. Above all else, we needed to be true to the race, of course! There was still some debate, however, so I gave them a choice: either be subtle and downplay the breasts (it wasn’t a point of the race, anyway) or go full-on realistic. Yes, that’s right —none or six!!
But really, the armor augmentation required for six boobs would be just as ridiculous, so none it was!
Concept Art Team Lead Kekai Kotaki was responsible for bringing the look of the charr 250 years into the future, to the time of Guild Wars 2. The warlike charr have changed a great deal since they first appeared in Guild Wars, so their updated design had to reflect their more industrial culture. I thought we’d let Kekai get in the final word on the charr.
Q: Kekai, how did you approach the charr design for Guild Wars 2?
Kekai: My approach was simple: make the charr badass. And then make them even more badass.
2012年7月25日星期三
Video: Growing the Sylvari
Four years ago, the Guild Wars 2 writers and designers came to the artists with a crazy direction d3 gold for a new race. They are a brand new species to diablo 3 gold Tyria—less than 25 years old—innocent to the world, they nevertheless buy d3 gold possess a collective wisdom. They have a certain noble quality, incorporating gw2 gold Arthurian chivalry as well as all the secrets that the darker places may reveal. guild wars 2 gold They are mysterious. They are unusual. They are unique. They are the sylvari.
Oh yeah, and they are plants.
In buy wow gold the following video, Continuity & Lore Designer Ree Soesbee and I take a look at the unique background of the sylvari and how our enigmatic plant race has grown and flowered over the years from the initial designs to where we are today. We hope you enjoy it!
2012年7月24日星期二
Announcing Guild Wars 2 Spanish Localization
ArenaNet is excited to announce the confirmed language list for the localization of Guild Wars 2. As you may already know, the game will include full localization of both voice and text into German and French. d3 gold Today, we’re happy to announce that we will also feature Spanish text localization for Guild Wars 2 at launch.
Game text will be translated into Spanish for our large diablo 3 gold and diverse player community in Spanish-speaking countries. Partly due to the diversity of spoken Spanish in different regions of the world, voiced content will remain in English buy d3 gold but be accompanied by Spanish subtitles.
Adding Spanish text localization to our launch plans for Guild Wars 2 is a big deal to us here at ArenaNet. Like our players, the ArenaNet localization gw2 gold team cares passionately about the quality of Guild Wars 2 content, and we are striving to provide a polished game experience in all the languages we support. To this end, we work closely with our design guild wars 2 gold and development teams to ensure that the localized versions stand on their own and meet the high expectations fans have for the game.
¡Estamos entusiasmados de ofrecer la versión en español de Guild Wars 2 para nuestra buy wow gold comunidad global hispanohablante! Lo más importante para nosotros son ustedes, los jugadores. ¡Estamos creando un juego especialmente para ti!
ArenaNet is seeking a Spanish localization editor and a Spanish community manager
As we plan to offer game text in Spanish, ArenaNet is now actively recruiting for a qualified Spanish QA and localization editor located at our offices in Bellevue, WA, as well as a community manager based in Brighton, England. Qualified candidates should apply here.
Game text will be translated into Spanish for our large diablo 3 gold and diverse player community in Spanish-speaking countries. Partly due to the diversity of spoken Spanish in different regions of the world, voiced content will remain in English buy d3 gold but be accompanied by Spanish subtitles.
Adding Spanish text localization to our launch plans for Guild Wars 2 is a big deal to us here at ArenaNet. Like our players, the ArenaNet localization gw2 gold team cares passionately about the quality of Guild Wars 2 content, and we are striving to provide a polished game experience in all the languages we support. To this end, we work closely with our design guild wars 2 gold and development teams to ensure that the localized versions stand on their own and meet the high expectations fans have for the game.
¡Estamos entusiasmados de ofrecer la versión en español de Guild Wars 2 para nuestra buy wow gold comunidad global hispanohablante! Lo más importante para nosotros son ustedes, los jugadores. ¡Estamos creando un juego especialmente para ti!
ArenaNet is seeking a Spanish localization editor and a Spanish community manager
As we plan to offer game text in Spanish, ArenaNet is now actively recruiting for a qualified Spanish QA and localization editor located at our offices in Bellevue, WA, as well as a community manager based in Brighton, England. Qualified candidates should apply here.
2012年7月23日星期一
EuFanDay: The interview
As I said in my last entry here on Talk Tyria, Nerdy Bookahs had been
invited to the EUFanDay that took place this Monday and Tuesday in
Brighton. I was the one representing our blog there (a first post about
this went up on our blog. It includes a growing link collection for
write-ups etc. from the EUFanDay). As part of this event, we got to talk
with some of the developers about Guild Wars 2. Or rather, each of us
(the invited fan sites) were allowed to ask one question. I’d collected a
few more than just that, so that was a bit sad. Fortunately, I didn’t
have as many questions as some others, so the disappointment from those
who sent in their questions wasn’t that big on my site.
Tasha Darke and Dutch Sunshine have just posted the transcription of the interview. You can find the first part on her blog and the second one on GuildMag.
As those cheapest d3 gold two already transcribed the interview, I will refrain from doing the same. It’s a lot of work and time, after all (thank you for doing that, by the way!). Time which I rather want to spend on ranting and musing about which we got to know from the interview.
I’ll assume that you’ve read the interview now. But I’ll try to write in a way that you know what I’m talking about even if you haven’t. As I said, we had about 25 people (give or take 3) who all asked one question. So the questions were very mixed. We had a few about PvP and what we now know is that ArenaNet want to have structured PvP as an esport. We don’t know anything new about the observer mode but it’s probably a safe bet that they’ll do everything they can to include this as fast as possible post-launch because it’s needed if they want d3 gold for sale it to succeed as esport. Other than the observer mode, I don’t see a reason why they shouldn’t succeed here. Every character in structured PvP is the same level, has the same quality gear, access to all skills, etc. They also want their structured PvP (and WvW) to be easy to understand and get into. Overflow shards will also allow you to join structured PvP matches (but not WvW), so even if your server is crowded, you can still join those PvP matches. From the interview, I take it that we can expect some kind of announcement about additional PvP maps before release. They mentioned one that has lots of underwater combat and a pirate ship! Another one is supposedly going to make GW1 players feel nostalgic.
On to another area of the game, the community. It was stated again that there will be no restrictions diablo 3 gold or penalties for switching guilds. You’re supposed to be able to switch whenever you feel like it. How that works in the end remains to be seen. It requires us to let go of what we’ve gotten used to (it really shouldn’t surprise us anymore as it’s not the only thing that will work differently than in previous MMOs). Another thing that a lot of people are worried about is how the fansites will survive (I think there was a huge discussion about this on guildwars2guru) when Guild Wars 2 will have official forums. Regina said that while they will have less time, they’re still going to read the inofficial forums, fan sites etc. and that there will, of course, be people who’ll rather post on non-official sites than on the official ones out of fear of being censored on the official forums. If you ask me, I think it’ll be like we have it now: There isn’t guild wars 2 gold just ONE fan site and ONE blog out there. We have so many different ones and so far, there’s space for all of them. Because people have different preferences and thus, will want to post on one site but not on the other. The official forum will just be “one more” site that you can go to but it won’t be necessary. If all you want is get news about the game and chat with a few friends, why not do that where you’re currently doing it already? There’s no need to move on to the official forums as ArenaNet won’t ask us to shut down our fan sites or blogs.
Something that disappointed me greatly were the answers about the customization for female humans mostly. ArenaNet want them to be idealized and beautiful. So no wrinkles, scars, etc. From what I have seen in pictures (or the customization videos from GamesCom), it looks like all female humans are dolls. I’d buy guild wars 2 gold really like there to be the option to have different faces (I’m thinking of Warhammer Online here which made it possible to add scars. We’re fighting dragons here, after all! It’d make sense to have scars!). But oh well, it can’t be changed, I guess. And since I want to play Asura and Charr anyway, I don’t really need to worry about the humans. The thing that then made me squeal again was when they mentioned that there will be dances. I feared that we wouldn’t get those (again, like in Warhammer Online where I first realised that I really love fluff like that and I miss it when it’s not there… just like minipets, emotes,… – thankfully, Guild Wars 2 will have all of those!).
One last thing that I want to comment on is the question by gaming-insight.de about where to get the “good items” (that is, the high-level armor). ArenaNet’s philosophy about how we should be playing the game is “do what is fun for you”. In other words: If you enjoy WvW, you should be able to get the gear from WvW. If you enjoy crafting, you should be able to get similar gear with similar stats (in power) from crafting, and so on. However, certain looks will only be obtainable through WvW, crafting etc. So that when you see a player in a certain armor, you know they have done WvW a lot. But they’re not more powerful than you are when it comes to the stats they have on their armor. If you ask me, this is a great direction and one they’ve already done in Guild Wars 1. There’s nothing wrong with having bragging rights. But make them about the look/uniqueness of the gear and not about the stats on the gear! This will make the game much better than handing out gear with much better stats because it means that the whole game world remains open to you even if you decide to ignore a certain part.
Tasha Darke and Dutch Sunshine have just posted the transcription of the interview. You can find the first part on her blog and the second one on GuildMag.
As those cheapest d3 gold two already transcribed the interview, I will refrain from doing the same. It’s a lot of work and time, after all (thank you for doing that, by the way!). Time which I rather want to spend on ranting and musing about which we got to know from the interview.
I’ll assume that you’ve read the interview now. But I’ll try to write in a way that you know what I’m talking about even if you haven’t. As I said, we had about 25 people (give or take 3) who all asked one question. So the questions were very mixed. We had a few about PvP and what we now know is that ArenaNet want to have structured PvP as an esport. We don’t know anything new about the observer mode but it’s probably a safe bet that they’ll do everything they can to include this as fast as possible post-launch because it’s needed if they want d3 gold for sale it to succeed as esport. Other than the observer mode, I don’t see a reason why they shouldn’t succeed here. Every character in structured PvP is the same level, has the same quality gear, access to all skills, etc. They also want their structured PvP (and WvW) to be easy to understand and get into. Overflow shards will also allow you to join structured PvP matches (but not WvW), so even if your server is crowded, you can still join those PvP matches. From the interview, I take it that we can expect some kind of announcement about additional PvP maps before release. They mentioned one that has lots of underwater combat and a pirate ship! Another one is supposedly going to make GW1 players feel nostalgic.
On to another area of the game, the community. It was stated again that there will be no restrictions diablo 3 gold or penalties for switching guilds. You’re supposed to be able to switch whenever you feel like it. How that works in the end remains to be seen. It requires us to let go of what we’ve gotten used to (it really shouldn’t surprise us anymore as it’s not the only thing that will work differently than in previous MMOs). Another thing that a lot of people are worried about is how the fansites will survive (I think there was a huge discussion about this on guildwars2guru) when Guild Wars 2 will have official forums. Regina said that while they will have less time, they’re still going to read the inofficial forums, fan sites etc. and that there will, of course, be people who’ll rather post on non-official sites than on the official ones out of fear of being censored on the official forums. If you ask me, I think it’ll be like we have it now: There isn’t guild wars 2 gold just ONE fan site and ONE blog out there. We have so many different ones and so far, there’s space for all of them. Because people have different preferences and thus, will want to post on one site but not on the other. The official forum will just be “one more” site that you can go to but it won’t be necessary. If all you want is get news about the game and chat with a few friends, why not do that where you’re currently doing it already? There’s no need to move on to the official forums as ArenaNet won’t ask us to shut down our fan sites or blogs.
Something that disappointed me greatly were the answers about the customization for female humans mostly. ArenaNet want them to be idealized and beautiful. So no wrinkles, scars, etc. From what I have seen in pictures (or the customization videos from GamesCom), it looks like all female humans are dolls. I’d buy guild wars 2 gold really like there to be the option to have different faces (I’m thinking of Warhammer Online here which made it possible to add scars. We’re fighting dragons here, after all! It’d make sense to have scars!). But oh well, it can’t be changed, I guess. And since I want to play Asura and Charr anyway, I don’t really need to worry about the humans. The thing that then made me squeal again was when they mentioned that there will be dances. I feared that we wouldn’t get those (again, like in Warhammer Online where I first realised that I really love fluff like that and I miss it when it’s not there… just like minipets, emotes,… – thankfully, Guild Wars 2 will have all of those!).
One last thing that I want to comment on is the question by gaming-insight.de about where to get the “good items” (that is, the high-level armor). ArenaNet’s philosophy about how we should be playing the game is “do what is fun for you”. In other words: If you enjoy WvW, you should be able to get the gear from WvW. If you enjoy crafting, you should be able to get similar gear with similar stats (in power) from crafting, and so on. However, certain looks will only be obtainable through WvW, crafting etc. So that when you see a player in a certain armor, you know they have done WvW a lot. But they’re not more powerful than you are when it comes to the stats they have on their armor. If you ask me, this is a great direction and one they’ve already done in Guild Wars 1. There’s nothing wrong with having bragging rights. But make them about the look/uniqueness of the gear and not about the stats on the gear! This will make the game much better than handing out gear with much better stats because it means that the whole game world remains open to you even if you decide to ignore a certain part.
2012年7月20日星期五
The nightmare difficulty level players result: will diablo iii the shaman skills on collocation
The author currently 44 level, just to nightmare the third act. The
use of the skills and runes long don’t change, small blame softening and
BOSS.
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Two of the most important skills is spirit line art and soul the harvest.
Spirit do you from technique has his own body, can be in 3 seconds to move freely and invincible. This ability can be in contact with any limit skills, can dodge any damage spell (BOSS Mars skill), through the monster diablo 3 power leveling to eat the blood of beads/SEC special strange/flee for life, it is necessary skills. Runes now it looks nothing special good, I use is dark shadow blast.
Soul harvest is also necessary skills. As long as you are around in more than 5 monster, this ability can provide you with about 100% of the damage, and only half of the CD duration… So we actually d3 gold hurt the shaman is two times the panels show!!!!!!! And the spirit was to do with you in the monster heap came back. I use of runes are the siphon life, strange when can directly back to the full.
I use left key skills is blown poison arrow, mainly is for independent DPS consideration. Not only the output monomer in BOSS war useful, kill small blame when also can kill a priority crispy strange. Runes guild wars 2 gold are the scattering blow arrow, and this is the most natural choice.
I use the right skills is bite the soul, a typical DOT skills. This skill function generally, only in the fight in the much more special movement will have a use, can consider to change for other spells. I use of runes are the spirit of hatred.
I choose a sudden collision with a sudden FuWenLai undead for AOE. This is because the soul must gw2 gold quick delivery be close to harvest, and sudden corpse in the collision can melee damage was caused when the huge AOE.
Finally a skill is the wall dead, because this skill… Very cool. And in the blame of massive damage, can also blocking way to provide control.
Passive choice more important, my choice is:
Jungle tough
You and the pet hurt 20% lower.
Feast grim
When the ball of life for you, you will restore mana 10% of the upper limit, intelligence is increased by 10% for 10 seconds. Intelligence can be stacked up bonus effect 5 times.
To body soul
Spirit, spirit was afraid do and the soul of the harvest cooldown reduced 2 seconds. And next time when you have been fatal injury, will enter the territory of the soul for 3 seconds, and treat you 10% of the maximum life. This effect every 90 seconds can trigger a.
B: yes, I did not take pet because they died too fast.
In general, the medicine or very good career. When the monster are too can get hurt a growing BUFF; Has the very strong AOE skills and a single output skills; Every 15 seconds can spirit was a line, 90 seconds can believe in brother chun once, survival d3 gold quick delivery and preserving life ability is good.
Two of the most important skills is spirit line art and soul the harvest.
Spirit do you from technique has his own body, can be in 3 seconds to move freely and invincible. This ability can be in contact with any limit skills, can dodge any damage spell (BOSS Mars skill), through the monster diablo 3 power leveling to eat the blood of beads/SEC special strange/flee for life, it is necessary skills. Runes now it looks nothing special good, I use is dark shadow blast.
Soul harvest is also necessary skills. As long as you are around in more than 5 monster, this ability can provide you with about 100% of the damage, and only half of the CD duration… So we actually d3 gold hurt the shaman is two times the panels show!!!!!!! And the spirit was to do with you in the monster heap came back. I use of runes are the siphon life, strange when can directly back to the full.
I use left key skills is blown poison arrow, mainly is for independent DPS consideration. Not only the output monomer in BOSS war useful, kill small blame when also can kill a priority crispy strange. Runes guild wars 2 gold are the scattering blow arrow, and this is the most natural choice.
I use the right skills is bite the soul, a typical DOT skills. This skill function generally, only in the fight in the much more special movement will have a use, can consider to change for other spells. I use of runes are the spirit of hatred.
I choose a sudden collision with a sudden FuWenLai undead for AOE. This is because the soul must gw2 gold quick delivery be close to harvest, and sudden corpse in the collision can melee damage was caused when the huge AOE.
Finally a skill is the wall dead, because this skill… Very cool. And in the blame of massive damage, can also blocking way to provide control.
Passive choice more important, my choice is:
Jungle tough
You and the pet hurt 20% lower.
Feast grim
When the ball of life for you, you will restore mana 10% of the upper limit, intelligence is increased by 10% for 10 seconds. Intelligence can be stacked up bonus effect 5 times.
To body soul
Spirit, spirit was afraid do and the soul of the harvest cooldown reduced 2 seconds. And next time when you have been fatal injury, will enter the territory of the soul for 3 seconds, and treat you 10% of the maximum life. This effect every 90 seconds can trigger a.
B: yes, I did not take pet because they died too fast.
2012年7月16日星期一
Guild Wars 2 Beta Development Update
Today we get the first official blog post following up this weekend's press beta event for Guild Wars 2.
In this update game designers Randy Knapp, Devon Carver, Jon Peters and Lead Game Designer Eric Flannum give us a quick overview of some core gameplay elements and mechanics that have changed since they were available for public play at last year's conventions.
Downed-State and Repair Mechanics
Several small tweaks have been made to the Downed-State with the goal to make it more meaningful and less frustrating in certain situations. Additionally, the new repair system provides a long-term attrition mechanic similar d3 gold quick delivery to a death penalty.
•While downed, the fourth skill was changed into a channeled heal (instead of a call for help) that is interrupted by damage to enable players to get back up if no enemies and no players are around.
•The penalty for being downed multiple times in a short amount of time has been increased, making it harder to get back up if you get downed too often.
•The cost for traveling back to a waypoint after being defeated has been reduced, instead:
•When a player is defeated, and not just downed, a random piece of their armor will diablo 3 power leveling be damaged.
•If a player is defeated while all of their armor is damaged, then a random piece of armor will break.
•When armor breaks, it ceases to provide any benefit to the player and must be repaired by visiting an armor-repair NPC in town for a small amount of gold.
The Compass
•The compass now provides different zoom levels using the mouse wheel.
•You can now pan the map by right-clicking and dragging.
•Just like in Guild Wars 1 it is possible to draw on the map (to give directions to team mates).
Meta-Events
A meta-event is a series of dynamic d3 gold events that come together to tell the story of an area. Examples include:
A meta-event might tell you the story of a norn area in danger of being corrupted by the Sons of Svanir, or maybe a human region constantly threatened by centaur armies. When the area is peaceful, you’ll know that the centaurs are being held in check, but when the invasion begins, you’ll see information pointing you where to go to help the people of the world stay safe from centaurs. Driving the centaurs back might require a herculean effort with groups of players destroying several catapults and killing centaur captains. A meta-event can cover a guild wars 2 gold much larger region than a standard event might; you could as much as a quarter of the map thrown into turmoil by a meta-event!
Hidden Treasures
To offer additional challenges and reward exploration, the Guild Wars 2 level designers have added a number of hidden treasures to all maps, including puzzles or similar challenges to have to be completed.
Boons and Conditions
Boons and conditions have seen a revamp, after the previous iteration didn't seem to be interesting or fun enough. Both systems were updated to be "less math-y" and give a better feedback for players. You can see updated boons and conditions below, for the full gw2 gold quick delivery details make sure to hit up the ArenaNet blog (in the Source at the bottom of this news item).
Updated Conditions
•Bleed: Inflicts X damage per second. (Stacks intensity.)
•Poison: Inflicts X damage per second. Reduces outgoing heals by 33%. (Stacks duration now.)
•Burning: Inflicts X damage per second. (Stacks duration now.)
•Cripple: 50% movement-speed reduction.
•Chill: 66% movement-speed reduction. 66% skill cooldown increase.
•Immobilize: 100% movement-speed reduction.
•Weakness: Attacks result in a glancing blow 50% of the time and endurance regeneration is slowed.
•Vulnerable: Lowered the amount of armor it reduces, but allowed it to stack so that it creates moments of super-high vulnerability for damage spiking.
•Blind: Your next hit misses.
•Fear: You flee from your opponent.
•Confusion: Inflicts X damage each time a foe attacks. (New condition; stacks intensity.)
Updated Boons
•Aegis: Block the next attack
•Protection: 33% damage reduction.
•Regeneration: Regenerates X health per second.
•Fury: 20% Critical Chance increase.
•Might: X damage per attack increase. (Stacks intensity now.)
•Vigor: Faster endurance regeneration.
•Swiftness: 33% movement speed increase.
•Retaliation: Does X damage to an opponent each time they hit you. (New boon.)
In this update game designers Randy Knapp, Devon Carver, Jon Peters and Lead Game Designer Eric Flannum give us a quick overview of some core gameplay elements and mechanics that have changed since they were available for public play at last year's conventions.
Downed-State and Repair Mechanics
Several small tweaks have been made to the Downed-State with the goal to make it more meaningful and less frustrating in certain situations. Additionally, the new repair system provides a long-term attrition mechanic similar d3 gold quick delivery to a death penalty.
•While downed, the fourth skill was changed into a channeled heal (instead of a call for help) that is interrupted by damage to enable players to get back up if no enemies and no players are around.
•The penalty for being downed multiple times in a short amount of time has been increased, making it harder to get back up if you get downed too often.
•The cost for traveling back to a waypoint after being defeated has been reduced, instead:
•When a player is defeated, and not just downed, a random piece of their armor will diablo 3 power leveling be damaged.
•If a player is defeated while all of their armor is damaged, then a random piece of armor will break.
•When armor breaks, it ceases to provide any benefit to the player and must be repaired by visiting an armor-repair NPC in town for a small amount of gold.
The Compass
•The compass now provides different zoom levels using the mouse wheel.
•You can now pan the map by right-clicking and dragging.
•Just like in Guild Wars 1 it is possible to draw on the map (to give directions to team mates).
Meta-Events
A meta-event is a series of dynamic d3 gold events that come together to tell the story of an area. Examples include:
A meta-event might tell you the story of a norn area in danger of being corrupted by the Sons of Svanir, or maybe a human region constantly threatened by centaur armies. When the area is peaceful, you’ll know that the centaurs are being held in check, but when the invasion begins, you’ll see information pointing you where to go to help the people of the world stay safe from centaurs. Driving the centaurs back might require a herculean effort with groups of players destroying several catapults and killing centaur captains. A meta-event can cover a guild wars 2 gold much larger region than a standard event might; you could as much as a quarter of the map thrown into turmoil by a meta-event!
Hidden Treasures
To offer additional challenges and reward exploration, the Guild Wars 2 level designers have added a number of hidden treasures to all maps, including puzzles or similar challenges to have to be completed.
Boons and Conditions
Boons and conditions have seen a revamp, after the previous iteration didn't seem to be interesting or fun enough. Both systems were updated to be "less math-y" and give a better feedback for players. You can see updated boons and conditions below, for the full gw2 gold quick delivery details make sure to hit up the ArenaNet blog (in the Source at the bottom of this news item).
Updated Conditions
•Bleed: Inflicts X damage per second. (Stacks intensity.)
•Poison: Inflicts X damage per second. Reduces outgoing heals by 33%. (Stacks duration now.)
•Burning: Inflicts X damage per second. (Stacks duration now.)
•Cripple: 50% movement-speed reduction.
•Chill: 66% movement-speed reduction. 66% skill cooldown increase.
•Immobilize: 100% movement-speed reduction.
•Weakness: Attacks result in a glancing blow 50% of the time and endurance regeneration is slowed.
•Vulnerable: Lowered the amount of armor it reduces, but allowed it to stack so that it creates moments of super-high vulnerability for damage spiking.
•Blind: Your next hit misses.
•Fear: You flee from your opponent.
•Confusion: Inflicts X damage each time a foe attacks. (New condition; stacks intensity.)
Updated Boons
•Aegis: Block the next attack
•Protection: 33% damage reduction.
•Regeneration: Regenerates X health per second.
•Fury: 20% Critical Chance increase.
•Might: X damage per attack increase. (Stacks intensity now.)
•Vigor: Faster endurance regeneration.
•Swiftness: 33% movement speed increase.
•Retaliation: Does X damage to an opponent each time they hit you. (New boon.)
2012年7月13日星期五
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2012年7月12日星期四
Diablo 3 Beta Patch 14 Live
The new patch is out and it’s awesome! Graphics are improved, I feel
like they also improved the physics a bit, although no mention of it in
the patch notes. Seems that the monster now do double damage, are
harder to kill as well as some other difficulty increases, the Skeleton
King almost buy d3 gold
killed me multiple times during the fight. All in all the game feels
and play great. Some minor lag issues, but overall this beta feels
finished. Check out this brutal boss fight on my first run-through with
the barbarian. You can get cheap diablo 3 gold the patch notes at the bottom of this post.
For best graphics set to 1080p – click play, then click the gear icon that appears then 1080p.
Let’s take a look at the crafting changes:
Crafting
Gold cost to craft items reduced
Cost to train Blacksmith doubled
More diablo 3 gold crafting materials are now required to craft items
Chance to salvage rare crafting material from blue Magic items reduced from 10% to 5%
This just made crafting a whole lot more expensive. Doubling the price of training the Blacksmith, reducing salvage rate and really increasing guild wars 2 gold the number of materials needed to craft items. This is a much needed change as players got into the habit of mass-producing crafted items hoping for a chance to get the affixes they wanted, and salvaging and selling the rest.
Check out Markco’s commentary on the effects of the patch:
Blizzard buy gw2 gold has meet a lot of negative feedback from their long-time followers about the fact that they have sacrificed the dark, gruesome nature of Diablo and made it easier and more appealing to the “casual player”. It seems that players voices are being heard. I’m noticing scenes of gruesome murder and impalement inside of dungeons, playing the game takes more effort and skill and leveling up artisans will now be a monumental task. That combined with the Blizz dev’s promise that “You Will Die a Lot” in later difficulty stages makes me think that Blizzard still has what it takes to satisfy the hardcore PC gaming market.
Not much longer now…
For best graphics set to 1080p – click play, then click the gear icon that appears then 1080p.
Let’s take a look at the crafting changes:
Crafting
Gold cost to craft items reduced
Cost to train Blacksmith doubled
More diablo 3 gold crafting materials are now required to craft items
Chance to salvage rare crafting material from blue Magic items reduced from 10% to 5%
This just made crafting a whole lot more expensive. Doubling the price of training the Blacksmith, reducing salvage rate and really increasing guild wars 2 gold the number of materials needed to craft items. This is a much needed change as players got into the habit of mass-producing crafted items hoping for a chance to get the affixes they wanted, and salvaging and selling the rest.
Check out Markco’s commentary on the effects of the patch:
Blizzard buy gw2 gold has meet a lot of negative feedback from their long-time followers about the fact that they have sacrificed the dark, gruesome nature of Diablo and made it easier and more appealing to the “casual player”. It seems that players voices are being heard. I’m noticing scenes of gruesome murder and impalement inside of dungeons, playing the game takes more effort and skill and leveling up artisans will now be a monumental task. That combined with the Blizz dev’s promise that “You Will Die a Lot” in later difficulty stages makes me think that Blizzard still has what it takes to satisfy the hardcore PC gaming market.
Not much longer now…
2012年7月11日星期三
Diablo 3 PvP Matchmaking System
Finally some PvP talk have kicked off the in forums. This thread
concerns the matchmaking system. The title of it is called: Stop saying
PvP will be “Pay to win” where the OP is claiming that the matchmaking
is based on your gear, which is a ridiculous statement, runescape gold that got a response from Bashiok to clear up any misunderstandings.
More specifically, based off of your win/loss record. It’s not dissimilar from the matchmaker found in StarCraft II, which is based off of the Elo system buy wow gold used for Chess championships. Your win/loss and who they were against determines a ‘skill rating’, which is used to match up against other players of a similar rating. The intent is to get an even/fair match. Regardless of any swtor credits individual factors like build, gear, or player ability, you’ll find some equilibrium where you’re facing off against players that you’re about as likely to beat as you are to lose. If getting better gear raises your abilities then you’re simply matched gw2 gold against players of a higher rating. Changing builds or just getting better at PvP could have the same effect. But regardless if you move up or down you’re ultimately still netting around a 50/50 win/loss as you’re always matching against similarly rated players.
Umm… rift platinum that rating system wont work. You can’t use ratio, because someone fighting harder opponents will have the same ratio that someone fighting weaker opponents will have. It would be like pairing up professional baseball players against little leaguers simply because they d3 gold have the same team batting average and era. It’s not a fair fight.
Oh no, it’s not based on ratio. Look up the Elo system, I’m sure there’s a wiki that can explain it better than I could.
The matchmaking system is not based on your gear but your win/loss record, just like in World of Warcraft, correct me if i’m wrong. This means that you will eventually fight against players who have used real money to purchase awesome gear. There’s nothing that can the current matchmaking system can do to prevent you from not going up against RMAH users.
So, pay to win? Yes, all the way to the top.
More specifically, based off of your win/loss record. It’s not dissimilar from the matchmaker found in StarCraft II, which is based off of the Elo system buy wow gold used for Chess championships. Your win/loss and who they were against determines a ‘skill rating’, which is used to match up against other players of a similar rating. The intent is to get an even/fair match. Regardless of any swtor credits individual factors like build, gear, or player ability, you’ll find some equilibrium where you’re facing off against players that you’re about as likely to beat as you are to lose. If getting better gear raises your abilities then you’re simply matched gw2 gold against players of a higher rating. Changing builds or just getting better at PvP could have the same effect. But regardless if you move up or down you’re ultimately still netting around a 50/50 win/loss as you’re always matching against similarly rated players.
Umm… rift platinum that rating system wont work. You can’t use ratio, because someone fighting harder opponents will have the same ratio that someone fighting weaker opponents will have. It would be like pairing up professional baseball players against little leaguers simply because they d3 gold have the same team batting average and era. It’s not a fair fight.
Oh no, it’s not based on ratio. Look up the Elo system, I’m sure there’s a wiki that can explain it better than I could.
The matchmaking system is not based on your gear but your win/loss record, just like in World of Warcraft, correct me if i’m wrong. This means that you will eventually fight against players who have used real money to purchase awesome gear. There’s nothing that can the current matchmaking system can do to prevent you from not going up against RMAH users.
So, pay to win? Yes, all the way to the top.
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