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The more stress on the servers the happier we'll all be, but do keep in mind that we also want everyone to also play normally and mimic day one play. I'd love to see how many people can do the race all at once
Will the Elite specs be available for testing too? I reckon that would be a great incentive for players to hop on.
Unknown at this time, and I know that is a crap answer, but it's the one I have.
we will see some changes in the new elitè spec or they are the same we tried 2 weeks ago?
I'm not sure honestly, I do know that the skills team is addressing the feedback that was given but I'm not sure if any of those changes will be in the stress test.
Apparently I'm the queen of vague answers today!
From the forum thread:
The developers intend for the test to run a couple of hours and they hope to enable the elite specs. One of the advantages of our release system is it has a great deal of flexibility so it depends exactly on how our internal ‘pre-testing’ goes as to what will be enabled.
Thus the vagueness of my other answer, we'd like to but we'll see
In case you're wondering, yes, people are already proclaiming in map chat that you confirmed elite specs will be available for testing tomorrow.
Of course they did, they's say we're giving out ponys too, but the Raptors are cooler.
On a race-related note, it would be nice if at some point the rewards scale beyond the top couple of 'winners' if the crowd participating gets large enough.
Since yes, I fully look forward to a full-map with every single person in the map in the race if at all possible. :D
I can pass that along as feedback, personally I was pleasantly surprised how popular the race was in the demo weekend, I hope it's not just because it's a novelty and stays being a thing.
We're you one of the people behind he race? I did it the first weekend and it was so fun. I can't wait to do it with other mounts besides the raptor. It really showed how the mount could make a long distance feel effortless.
- A former mount hater.
No, I'm not a designer, people who are much more creative than me come up with all the good stuff, I just get to play it all!
But skimmers are even cooler than raptors! They're like... sea ponies. But cooler.
They're just so pretty!
So...hop on my raptor and run in circles while chatting to guild mates about random shit? Sounds about what I was planning on doing anyway, lol.
That would totally work! I usually stand in front of something popular and dance
edit: And I have found crash bugs doing this, so it's not a waste of time
Just had a browse through yer post history, so you are on teh engine team? Well from my point of view without a skeleton you dont have a pretty face (more of a blob than anythign else).
If ye are on EU sometime send a ping, it would be nice to put a character to teh name :3
I was Tech QA so I was supporting the Engine team, most recently with the Mac client. I just moved to Lead QA for GW2 (see the flair in the quoted post). Our engineers/designers/artists/QA/CS/Production/Community and all the rest are amazing and we wouldn't have this awesome game without them.