Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Varorson

Out of curiosity, how much harder is it to alter JUST the PC's voiced lines? Since you need different voice actors anyways, it would seem like such is easier than for altering NPCs to reflect the PC (and their choices), but how much more/less difficult would you say it is?

Originally posted by -Wonder-Bread-

It really was excellent and Nolan North's voice acting truly sold it. He has been by far my favorite voice actor ever since his work in Spec Ops: The Line. The man has incredible range.

Side question to you: How does one get hired on as a game writer? It is something I have always wanted to do and it doesn't seem like just being a writer is enough.

Originally posted by TehOwn

Is Crystal Reid still around? I loved her enthusiasm in earlier videos.

Edit: Also, I think people worry that "one team" means fewer people.

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

Sry, forgot to add the ""

What I meant was that it was highly criticized because it didn't show many new content, which then led to people suggestions of how a good trailer could be (I tried to find the reddit threads about this, but didn't have sucess), which then led to a very high praised episode 2 trailer with the only thing being criticized being the fact it didn't say the name of the map)

Originally posted by Kaneyren

Raids and Fractals are the same team working on two different products.

This seems pretty bad for two of the most important things keeping people playing in between Living World releases.

Originally posted by -Wonder-Bread-

Fair enough. I hope you are settling into your new position well. Joko's writing in particular was some of the best ever in the entire game. So major props to whoever wrote that.

Originally posted by greiton

have you ever seen another dev make something and just go how did they do that?

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

ah ok. Got to say, after the trailer "disaster" of Episode 1, trailers have been way better, with episode 3 trailer being an improvement to episode 2

Originally posted by JessicaLPrice777

Guys, you're reading WAY too much into "I can't talk about what we're doing next." There's no secret code underlying these answers, just, literally, I can't talk about what we're doing next.

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Originally posted by DeimosXid

Are any of these future unknown features still in the works, or has development on guild-related content completely stopped?

Originally posted by Korruna

The Roller Beettle mount is awesome! I had a question though... I'm not sure if it's latency or not, but the penalty for the Big Air tricks seems to hit me even when I'm not hitting the button, or when I'm just trying to do a normal jump. Are there any plans to look at how this penalty works? It feels like it's too sensitive right now. I say this since the Roller Beetle already has many other penalties and the Big Air one currently makes the mount a lot less fun for me with how it currently works.

Originally posted by skarpak

do you tho?

Originally posted by Thop207375

I doubt you can probably answer this but is there still three teams associated with Living World?

Originally posted by void2258

It's unfortunate that the nature of the achievement system makes everything single run. We did Caladbolg once per account and can never do it again because the system can't handle per-character segmenting (repetition can only be account wide). It would be nice if there were a way to do these kinds of things multiple times (although of course that would need reward adjustments as well unless you want to give us a free ascended on every character).

Originally posted by JondorHoruku

What was your inspiration for the way roller beetles work, and were there any unforeseen difficulties in implementing the design (esp the ‘momentum’ aspects)?

Originally posted by Chiorydax

That makes me curious, by the way! Who did the motion capture for Joko? I remember people praising his/her flair even in the trailer for this update. Whoever it is, they're a ton of fun!

Originally posted by questhere

There's a lot of speculation over if Joko is truly dead and whether we'll ever see him again. But it seems no one's asking the obvious questions.

Do dragons poop? and how regular are they?

Originally posted by Thop207375

You’ve done a fantastic job

Originally posted by FirePosition

I have a lore question. Can Sylvari be Awakenend? They couldn't be Risen because it was technically conflicting corruptions (Risen vs Mordrem), but can they be risen from the dead and be controlled, either by Joko as Awakened or by another powerful Necromancer? Or, due to their plant-like substance, can they be "reanimated" by some sort of nature magic? Or a combination of both?

Originally posted by void2258

On that topic, why is the intelligence of both dragons and the minions so varied? Zhaitan was basically himself a dumb beast, but his minions were sometimes smart and had whole sub-stories (mazdack, the eyes and mouths). Morde was highly intelligent and conversational, while most of his minions were mooks. Kralk is a silent Kaiju, but Glint and Vlast were talkers, while Aurene hasn't spoken yet (though that could be an age thing). Jormag is somehow communicative enough to have willing followers doing his bidding, while we have seen no sign of any intelligence whatsoever from either Primordus or his mobs. And we have no data on Steve.

Just what is up with the dragons intelligence?