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How well did you like the beta? (1 worst, 5 best)

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8 (14%)
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4 (7%)
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9 (15.8%)
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14 (24.6%)
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22 (38.6%)

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Voting closed: May 05, 2012, 09:46:27 am

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #30 on: April 30, 2012, 10:20:32 pm »
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Also, sorry people, the Norn race and starting zone are fucking crap

This is why I made a Norn in the beta actually. I never liked them in gw1 so I tried Norn just to mess around during the beta (I always make some big mistake with my first character). The Norn storyline didn't appeal to me either. I was also disappointed that they locked the asura and sylvari.
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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #31 on: April 30, 2012, 11:21:32 pm »
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I actually quite liked the Norn story. :P
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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #32 on: May 01, 2012, 04:18:47 am »
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Can you put a "didn't play, want to see result" in please because I don't want to fuddle the result with false inputs! :)

Hmm I put show results to everyone. I was able to see it after logging out.
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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #33 on: May 01, 2012, 01:51:23 pm »
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This is why I made a Norn in the beta actually. I never liked them in gw1 so I tried Norn just to mess around during the beta (I always make some big mistake with my first character). The Norn storyline didn't appeal to me either. I was also disappointed that they locked the asura and sylvari.

The story I didn't find too bad, I just really disliked the visuals on the characters and general setting. I've clocked a shit-load of hours on skyrim; maybe I'm just all norsed out!  :P

Next we're all rolling char, which appeal to me a lot more in that they're a deicidal bunch of industrial cat-demons. Maybe i'm just a repressed furry...at least not as repressed as the Norn though, eh  :lol:
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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #34 on: May 01, 2012, 02:08:57 pm »
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I tried the char briefly. Their starting heart missions and dynamic events are far harder than norn or human. I gave up pretty quickly and went back to human.

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #35 on: May 01, 2012, 11:45:55 pm »
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PvP.

I don't know why any of you are even talking about anything else.  Heart missions?  You can't make a magic casting monk paladin?  Do you wear your panties on your head or does your mom make you take them off?  How do you even play cRPG with those kinds of complaints?

GW2 is a PvP game.

World vs World has more tactical and strategic depth than I've ever seen in any game remotely close to this genre.  It blows all of the PvP out of the water for every other game.  It's what we all hoped Warhammer would be, which was "a vast improvement over DAOC".


Maybe your experience was less than stellar if you joined WvW solo.  It's "Guild Wars", not "Solo Wars", though, so get a guild.  You can contribute solo, in the ways of puggies everywhere, but there's a whole lot more you could be doing as part of a larger team, especially an organized one.

Siege engines... the logistics of supply... keep defenses and attacks... many objectives to go for... ways that small numbers of players can destroy zerg armies... there's a lot of great stuff here.  Combat is fun too but they really struck gold on PvP content.


The PvE looked interesting but I spent the entire weekend in WvW and am pretty sure I could spend the next year in there, at least.
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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #36 on: May 02, 2012, 12:51:10 am »
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Well I personally always just played SP and ran with friends in parties. I never really touched PVP and so that's where my bias comes from.

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #37 on: May 02, 2012, 05:50:16 pm »
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Hated most of it.

Loved the RvR, although that still needs A LOT of work.

The game has potential. Friend of mine loves the art and such and likes the PvE bits... myself, i really hate that PvE crap though. It bores me to death.

AI is still the same crappy AI that WoW had when it came out.

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #38 on: May 06, 2012, 10:10:40 am »
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Anyone know when the next beta weekend is?
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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #39 on: May 06, 2012, 12:44:26 pm »
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Not sure. But they reckoned we should have one a month until release now.

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #40 on: May 06, 2012, 02:34:51 pm »
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Not sure. But they reckoned we should have one a month until release now.
don't count on that, i'd expect a mid-late summer release at this stage. anything earlier seems unlikely as theres still quite a bit of testing to do and then they need to optimize the game after that.

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #41 on: May 06, 2012, 02:41:15 pm »
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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #42 on: May 07, 2012, 04:38:12 am »
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don't count on that, i'd expect a mid-late summer release at this stage. anything earlier seems unlikely as theres still quite a bit of testing to do and then they need to optimize the game after that.

That doesn't mean there can't be a beta weekend once a month  :P

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #43 on: May 07, 2012, 09:19:49 am »
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ah sorry misread that :p, skipped over the a.

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Re: Rate your beta experience
« Reply #44 on: May 07, 2012, 09:47:05 am »
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Yeah, their official statement was "several once-per-month beta weekends after first one at the end of April".