Originally posted by Reinate

Fear not this night ... PLEASE tell me there will be a full version of this remake made.

It was simply amazing! <3<3<3

Originally posted by Reinate

thats not answering the question Mike ;-)

Originally posted by Bluewy

There's currently a bug, that when you own the karmic retribution in Domain of Istan it works for the new map as well. Very nice story, some really cool new stuff happened!

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

Gathering the driftwood near the fishing event is giving us, even with max tools, ruined logs.

Originally posted by markotza

Hi! I've noticed the pages of text finally got their own UI, can we expect retroactive redo of all the other pages/books in the game?

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

Gathering the driftwood near the fishing event is giving us, even with max tools, ruined logs.

Originally posted by Matters-

What (if any) issues did you have developing S4E2 that come to mind in particular?

Originally posted by Evangeder

1. Did you actually think of "Portal" game when designing one of the rooms in

2. What was the origin of the episode name? Is this really a refference both to bugged code at the beginning and, or?

3. Not a question but.. The last boss fight was awesome. Oh god.. i realized in a few seconds "whaaaaaaat is going ooon?! is that a" This really blew my mind. Best episode so far, keep doing it just like that! I can't wait to play episode 3 XD

Originally posted by melin-skyland

not sure if its a bug but when I use the Season 4 Portal Tome that I bought in the new map I only get the option to "put it away" shoul'nt there be a option to get to the new map?

Originally posted by MindAsWell

I have to ask, was the design of the cube based off the Rata Sum seen in the original trailer

Originally posted by VacuumViolator

Are you aware that several Legendary weapons have been bugged since the release of PoF? Weapons that have on-skill-use effects do not play.

Some examples:

-Flameseeker Prophecies does not turn pages on skill use

-Rodgort's flame does not get bigger on skill use

-Predator does not breathe fire on skill use

-Quip does not spin around on skill use

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

Gathering the driftwood near the fishing event is giving us, even with max tools, ruined logs.

Originally posted by anet_mattp

This was a really bad cold and flu season...

Bug in the system indeed.

Originally posted by Matters-

What (if any) issues did you have developing S4E2 that come to mind in particular?

Originally posted by DeathWish001

I have a feeling that the cubs were named after the devs children and were voiced by a teenager.

Originally posted by Sxi139

Maybe a spoiler. But could we see more asura technology in the future or inquest?

E.g. updates to WvW with new asura technology that could have been made since the last update there ?

Originally posted by Andulias

Congratulations on the release, I'm absolutely loving it so far! The in particular is amazing and exactly the kind of lore development I love to see.

Are these AMAs going to continue for future episodes independent of the forum AMAs?

Oh, also, I found myself in the new JP and, without spoiling anything, even when I go to the correct console and click on the password, the game thinks I haven't and doesn't give me the option to use it on the elevator :(

Originally posted by anet_charliee

We did a lot of things this episode that were a bit risky and pushed the capabilities of the engine. We have a bunch of moving platforms, story instances that transfer directly to other story instances, wind/magnet/gravity tech, and lots of player-specific open world stuff. QA had their work cut out for them and were total troopers.

Originally posted by Ecmelt

API support was promised last AMA, 1 month later we got the dev promoted and API on hold again and so on as it happened many times before.

Will you ever acknowledge API is a very important thing for the community and actually, properly, meaningfully support it? Hiring a dedicated person, even as half-time job would be a great start.

Originally posted by kalamari__

just wanted to give a compliment to the guys who designed all the inquest stuff and gave the asura in this episode very good characterisations in my opinion.

this is how I always imagined a inquest city/base would look like. big but on the inside intimidating, oppressive and confusing. whenever you used the inquest in the past they never had anything new. they always looked like the metrica province inquest.

love it that put in the extra mile to update the inquest as a whole!

Originally posted by ANET_Byfield

For me, The Belgariad. I'm reading through it again after 20ish years and it's just as good as I remember.

Originally posted by Arjybarjy

I just want to say, you did a fantastic job introducing a new charr tribe and new characters in this story. And that final boss battle is honestly my favourite one ever.

You made an episode that was just fun to play all the way through non-stop even when it wasn't instanced story events (i think previous episodes failed to do this).

Really well done, the most enjoyable living world episode yet, thank you for all your hard work.

Originally posted by Hellmasker

Hey ANet, loved the new story and I can't wait to finish the new map events + achievements!

... which brings me to a question I've had for a long time.

Why are the point rewards for achievements so low these days? Does it have to do with post Pinnacle weapon and backpiece rewards not being done/envisioned yet? Thinking I'll have to wait literal years at this pace to wear the radiant backguard is really discouraging, and I'm in NA's top 10. Can anyone offer any insight on this at all?

Originally posted by Arjybarjy

I just want to say, you did a fantastic job introducing a new charr tribe and new characters in this story. And that final boss battle is honestly my favourite one ever.

You made an episode that was just fun to play all the way through non-stop even when it wasn't instanced story events (i think previous episodes failed to do this).

Really well done, the most enjoyable living world episode yet, thank you for all your hard work.

Originally posted by quantum_waffles

Hi Z and Team. Great episode.

Question for you Z, when will we get to see your armory?

Originally posted by dracoisms

Just wanted to say

Originally posted by maxOS1104

Any update on the Mac client issue that the client reads a ton of data off the hard drive?

Originally posted by taran47

I've not seen it asked yet, so what was the strangest or funniest issue / glitch / bug in the system that you guys ran into in designing and programming all the things that went into this episode?

Originally posted by Zadah

I appreciate you doing this but I am busy playing the game when you are doing AMAs...

Originally posted by Zadah

I appreciate you doing this but I am busy playing the game when you are doing AMAs...

Originally posted by blushing_ukemi

The episode was great. The final fight was amazing! But... It would possibly be even more if I didn't have 2fps :/ (and I don't play on a potato). I want this kind of epic fights in the future! But... If all of them are going to be so heavy for my pc idk... Did... Could some optimization be closer to the center of attention on your table?

Originally posted by freezer650

Regarding the end of the episode.

Originally posted by Andulias

Here is a technical question - before PoF launched you said that thanks to upgrades to the engine you could increase the draw distance, which really helped make the PoF maps feel grand. Both LWS4 maps released so far however feature very restricted draw distance. Is there any particular reason for this?

Originally posted by endelon

Are you guys ever going to add a real alternative to butternut squash soup? Condition food now has 3 versions of the same stat food :P

Originally posted by MossyGargoyle

Is the avocado power/ferocity food in the new map giving the correct stats ( +80/60)? I was hoping it would be a legit alternative to the overly expensive Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup.

Originally posted by Keorl

Could we know more about all those inquest "labs", especially the biggest one ? I mean, how did they build them here this quick, Elona was inaccessible until a few weeks ago in lore.

Originally posted by colonel750

Even though I've yet to reach this point in the story (as an on and off player who is an altoholic I have waaaayyyyyy too much content to sift through but enjoying it all none the less.) It's always to interesting to see the world change again and again. All I want to say is thank you for continuing to make Tyria a wonderful world to share with friends and family. I recently introduced my wife to the game and even though I'm an adventuring Norn from the Shiverpeaks and she a lovely Sylvari of the Grove we've had tons of fun playing together. She's never been one for MMOs but it seems like Guild Wars will be the one that finally "clicks" for her.

Originally posted by Zerowolf00

I dont get this answer^{^}

Originally posted by Lorsio

Hi, I've already told that to Matthew Medina on twitter, but I really want to thank you guys for being awesome and what you did with Guild Wars. You are open-minded, talkative on social media and I could tell a lot more about you, but I'll just sum up by saying you "change" my life more than you think, and gave me a purpose in my life : working with you guys :)

I am a french student in computer science, and I'm studying to become an engineer. But because computer science cover a lot of stuff, I wanted to know what should I focus on, in order to have a chance to work with you ? By that I'm asking for languages such as C++/C#... & database stuff, that's what I like :)

I've already checked some job offer to give me ideas of what the response should be like, but I think it's better to ask here, to maybe have more details :)

Again, thank you so much for everything... You are awesome :)

Originally posted by CShee

Congrats on the patch !

Just posted something here before seeing the AMA was up, so just wanted to say the reference to kel Tath from the Malazan series was great !

What are your favourite fantasy series ?

Originally posted by Anet-Clayton

The cake is totally a lie.

Originally posted by Naqaj_

Incinerator plays the projectile sound effect even if that is disabled in the options.

Originally posted by Lorsio

Thank you for all those tips !!! It means so much to me :)

I think I fill most of those, so it's a relief :'). The only one I can be a bit behind is the math part where I'm like average/good, depending on the subject... Guess I'll try harder ! :)

Originally posted by StrikerJaken

Can we get a notification of a new mastery with the next episode?

I totally forgot that there was one and I never even thought activating it.

Originally posted by morroIan

Any update to the proposed guild alliance system for WvW?

Originally posted by Lachipoo

Any word on if this will not be region locked, I have a guild with both EU and NA players, will we be able to WvW together? Because that would be truly amazing now that region/server transfers cost gems!

Originally posted by kay_combinator

Thanks for linking the proposal, I should have done it to begin with. My confusion arose because - according to the Playing with Guild Mates paragraph - both a guild declaring itself as a WvW guild and a player picking their primary WvW guild play a role in the link placement. If I understand you correctly, only the players picking the same WvW guild are guaranteed to end up in the same link, but not necessarily everyone else in the guild, even if the guild has declared itself a WvW guild. Thank you for the clarification, it untangled the knots in my head :-)

P.S. I was trying to come up with some terminology to better distinguish the two cases, but I haven't found anything yet that fits. I know it's still quite a long time until the new linking can be released and that concepts are still changing, but perhaps you could find some simpler description along the way?

Originally posted by BastiatCF

(yeah there are two Rays working on this thing)

thats quite the angle you are taking on this

Originally posted by Xelazeratul

As a recent graduate looking for jobs this is all very useful, thank you!

As a side note, may I ask what you guys look for in code samples? For example, should they be complete projects or snippets? I'm still trying to wrap my head around what is being asked for.

Originally posted by nosolovro

have you read malazan series? cos i really loved too sanderson and rothfuss, but after i read malazan of steven erikson well let's say every other fantasy saga i read in the past become inferior XD

Originally posted by TehOwn

I know it's been a while since the AMA but I'm really curious.

Were extra ruined logs intended as... you know... it's driftwood?