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Guild Wars 2 Known issues

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  • Audio
    • Combat audio may not play correctly when enemies or players are struck.
  • Commerce
    • The Gem Store and the Trading Post may not be viewable by some players.
  • Events
    • The amount of time between enemy waves in some escort events may be long.
    • Queensdale: on occasion, the centaurs encountered during the “Battle for Beetletun” event may become stuck on the sprinklers.
  • Hardware Compatibility
    • Display: the graphics-settings slider has only a minor impact on performance at this time. •We are currently optimizing Guild Wars 2, making ongoing improvements to the game’s frame rate. Presently, the game is CPU-bound on most high-end systems, so lowering graphics settings or upgrading your video card may not have a large impact on performance.
    • On older or lower-end machines, it is recommended that you try disabling reflections to improve frame rate.
    • Installing the game client into the Program Files directory on Windows Vista or Windows 7 can lead to issues with the patching process.
    • It is advised that you install the game to another folder or launch it as an administrator.
    • Forcing anti-aliasing through AMD Catalyst™ Control Center or AMD VISION™ Engine Control Center typically results in a black screen when playing. ATI cards that are known to cause the black-screen issue while using the latest drivers (12.3) include:

      •HD 2900
      •HD 5770
      •HD 6970

    • Windows TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) will sometimes restart a user’s graphics drivers if they become unresponsive, resulting in a notification that the graphics driver has been restarted.
    • Alienware ATI Laptops: the Guild Wars 2 client does not restore properly after being minimized.
    • Currently, adjusting the core clock speed of the GPU or CPU typically results in lower performance.
    • It is advised that you leave core clock speeds at factory defaults.
    • AMD CrossFire™ and NVIDIA® SLI™ are not currently supported. •These features should be disabled while running the game.
    • Enabling NVIDIA 3D VISION® may cause a crash on some systems. •If you experience a crash while this setting is enabled, it is recommended that you disable it in the NVIDIA Control Panel.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Dyes: equipping new armor does not keep the old dye settings.
  • NPCs
    • Occasionally, multiple NPCs may overlap with each other while walking.
    • Interacting with walking NPCs may cause them to stop, disappear, and then reappear at another point in their path.
  • Personal Story
    • On rare occasions, a player’s personal story may not progress correctly. Restarting these instances and trying again should allow you to continue.
    • While progressing through your personal story, some of the recorded audio lines will not match the text that is displayed. This is due to changes made after the lines were originally recorded, and will be corrected in future versions of the game.
    • Additionally, during your personal story, some of the NPCs will not have accurate (or any) lip-sync animations. This is an additional effect of lines having been changed after they were originally recorded.
  • Points of Interest
    • While trying to completely explore maps and find all points of interest, it is important to note that some of these locations are not labeled on the correct floor.
    • Click on the map-level icons in the lower-right corner of the world map—or use the Page Up and Page Down keys while viewing the world map—to reveal the different floors.
  • Renown Regions
    • In some cases, the voiced audio of a scout’s description of nearby renown regions is not played.
    • Queensdale: on rare occasions, the shell game in the “Support the citizens of Beetletun ” renown region may not function correctly.
    • Queensdale: completing the “Unite the ettins” renown region does not count toward map completion. As a result, the maximum completion for the Queensdale map is 16 out of 17 renown hearts.
    • Hall of Memories (PvP Lobby): renown regions are currently shown without descriptions.
  • Social
    • Chat: using a bound letter key to begin a chat reply (for example, after assigning “y” as the hotkey for chat replies) results in that letter being typed into the chat message field.
    • Contacts: some players appear offline.
    • Guilds: there is an infrequent issue with members not appearing on the roster of a guild.
    • Parties: on very rare occasions—affecting users on a case-by-case basis—players are unable to join or create parties.
  • UI
    • Display: selecting the “Windowed Fullscreen” option does not save the setting.
    • Mouse: Using Alt+Tab while auto-running with the mouse will disable the Guild Wars 2 custom mouse pointer and replace it with the Windows cursor. This will affect the player’s ability to perform certain actions in the game.
    • Restarting the Guild Wars 2 client will correct this.
    • Sound: the “Mute when GW2 is in the background” setting does not function properly.
  • LOCALIZATION KNOWN ISSUES
    • Most of the audio for BWE1 is available in German and French, but some voiced audio is still missing. Lion’s Arch is particularly affected by this issue as most of the voiced audio heard there plays in English.
    • If a recorded line of audio is outdated, it will still play. This means that some subtitles will not match the voiced audio you hear, since the subtitles have been updated.
    • In the event that no voiced audio has yet been recorded in English, no audio will be heard.
  • Gender issues
    • Anytime female player characters address themselves or are addressed by an NPC with nouns like “friend,” “shaman,” “hero,” etc., the voiced audio will not reflect the gender correctly. The subtitles should, however, reflect the correct gender.
    • Timing issues: Currently, some of the timing in the French and German audio is not correct. As a result, the voiced audio in some conversations between multiple NPCs overlaps or is cut off.
  • Crafting
    • Some translations do not reflect the correct names. The jeweler crafting discipline is particularly affected by this.
  • Achievements
    • Newly added achievements are missing their translations.
  • Lion’s Arch
    • Some conversation text still appears in English.
  • Commerce panel
    • The text in the tabs of the Commerce panel (Gem Store, Trading Post, etc.) has not yet been localized and will appear in English.

Guild Wars 2 Beta Invites Just Went Out

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Guild Wars 2 team has officially announced on the Twitter that official Beta Weekend Event invites have just been sent!

We’ve started sending out emails with instructions for where/how to download the Beta client. Thanks for your patience; happy patching!

Source: twitter

There is official link on the Guild Wars 2 forum for client download, after login go to Account ->Download Clients link.
You can also use this link: http://cloudfront.guildwars2.com/client/Gw2.exe for download. We can confirm that this link works and you can read more about this on reddit.com

Download Guild Wars 2 for Windows for $54

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Green Man Gaming offers 10% Sale for Guild Wars 2 for Windows Digital Edition with coupon code “BRING-ALLUR-GUILD“. This offer cuts Guild Wars 2 price from $59.95 to to $53.96 with bonuses 3 Day Headstart Access, Beta Weekend Event Access, and Hero’s Band In-Game Item .

If you’ve decided to buy GuildWars 2 Deluxe Edition for Windows this site also offers 10% Sale with the same coupon code “BRING-ALLUR-GUILD” which grants you 3 Day Headstart Access, Beta Weekend Event Access and extra in-game items for $71.96.

Guild Wars 2 will offer years of great gameplay

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As a part of a large tour with Guild Wars 2 developers, eurogamer published today an exclusive interview with Randall Price, senior vice president at ArenaNet. They talked about companies goals, from short-terms to long-terms plans:

  • The short-term plans started with pre-purchase program and beta weekends
  • The medium-term goals include patches that will come out post-release of the game
  • The long-term plans include a number of the high-level features and expansion content for years to come

“Look, even from our standpoint we’ve got years of work, of great work, that players are going to be able to enjoy. We’re launching a service – you don’t launch a box and be done with it. We have years of awesome, fun work ahead of us.” – said Price.

Source: Eurogamer.net

First Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend begins on Friday, April 27, 2012

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ArenaNet announced the first public Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event, which begins on Friday, April 27, at noon PDT (GMT-8) and ends on Sunday, April 29, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT-8).

How to get access to the First Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend?

  • The only way to absolutely guarantee your access to this or any future Beta Weekend Events is to pre-purchase any edition of Guild Wars 2.
  • Customers who have pre-purchased the game will receive an e-mail next week with instructions on how to download the client and participate in the Beta.
  • This is a public event, which means that you’re not bound by a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

What we can expect during the Beta Weekend Event?

  • You can choose from three races: Charr, Human, and Norn
  • You can create more than one character.
  • You can try eight powerful professions.
  • You can participate in World vs. World events, where three teams comprising hundreds of players wage open war across four vast maps.
  • You can try PvP; the levels of PvP players are scaled so that all players are on equal footing.
  • You can see Metropolis of Lion’s Arch.

GW2 Press Closed Beta Aggregation Page

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A huge Press Closed beta event weekend is finished and the Press starts off with preview on the general mechanics combat and starting zones, underwater environments, WvW, character creations, the guild system and lots of videos:

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GW2 Latest Development Update

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Today, Lead Game Designer Eric Flannum posted on ArenaNet blog updates about the latest development changes, explaining improvements to the compass and meta-events, additions to the open-world content, hidden treasures and much more.

The Compass:
The compass now provides different zoom levels that let you get a better view of your surroundings. Just scroll the mouse wheel in and out to zoom. There’s also a nice little set of buttons to show you which zoom level you’re using. If you need a better look at the world just beyond the compass’s edge, you can also pan the map by right-clicking and dragging. The map will snap back to your character’s position once you start moving again.

Don’t forget: if you want to coordinate tactics with your party, you can use the left mouse button to draw lines and create circular pings they will see on their own compasses.

Meta-Events:
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 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!

Meta-events provide us yet another tool in our tool kit to create a world that reacts to player actions. Once you run across your first meta-event, we’re sure you’ll come back for more. And keep your eyes open in areas that seem relatively calm. The bandits might be just over the ridge, ready to put the torch to the village!

Hidden Treasures
Another recent development for Guild Wars 2 has been the implementation of hidden areas with interesting challenges. Our amazing environment artists have carved out a variety of caves, cliffs, and structures in the world. We’ve been stretching our imaginations to fill these spaces with content that should provide an exciting change of pace. Some areas will test your platforming abilities, requiring you to make a series of difficult jumps before you find your treasure at the end, while others contain dangerous foes that will stop at nothing to see you dead.

For more information visit ArenaNet blog.