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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?

Originally posted by SelfieOfDorianGray

I didn't say that the Commander's response was joking; I said that Braham's "Ka-Braham" (and, I would add, the immediate inclusion of jokes and comments of disgust from Taimi/Rox/etc.) were joking, and felt like a disservice to the moment. Further, I don't know if I necessarily agree that it feels 'authentically Braham', given that Braham has spent several episodes prior with a much more serious tone and seemed to be developing in that direction, but I'm sure everyone reads their interactions in a different way.

Originally posted by -Wonder-Bread-

This. Right here. Is an incredible f**king answer, holy hell. More of this, please! I love it!

That probably doesn't answer your actual question--the truth is I don't know why the decision to bring him back got made. (That isn't, by the way, intended to imply that I think it was the wrong decision or anything--just that I wasn't around when it was made.)

This part I am confused about. Is there not a single person left from the old team that could tell you such a thing? Or did the old team leave in such a way that they were not able to share this information with you? It seems a bit important to know the whys as a storyteller, especially when you're picking up from someone else's work and need to keep it consistent.

Originally posted by TheCavis

Did Taimi know we were immune beforehand? Because she went from "don't worry, it only infects humans" to "run over there and squish them" very quickly, even though it wasn't established human characters were immune at that point.

Originally posted by Chiorydax

Hey guys! Great work on making Joko an awesome villain. I was kind of "meh" about him until this update. Major props to the writing and cinematic teams for bringing this together!

• Are there any active plans to dive deeper into some of the standing mysteries from previous/existing conflicts? (I'm personally thinking of Joko's true origins or what happened to Menzies; those are both things I'd love to see that could have been revealed but haven't yet.) Of course, I know you guys love a few good mysteries, so I wouldn't be too disappointed if they were left to the imagination.

• I really enjoyed the new fractal and all the mechanics involved! How do you guys decide what aspects of the world to tackle with fractals next? Is it kind of "oh, this is neat, let's do this next" or is there more strategy behind it?

• On the subject of Joko being an awesome villain, what challenges do you guys feel were the toughest to overcome when creati...

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Originally posted by RUBIK1376

You said Ben is working on redesigns for a couple fractals and what I'm trying to say is that we just want him on new fractals not redesigns.

Originally posted by W4lhalla

So with both teams now merged, can you give us a rough cadence on to how many Raid releases we can realistically expect? Like on average one every 5 months, 6 months etc?

Originally posted by ddcarvalho

Specially Aurene.

Originally posted by SelfieOfDorianGray

we needed Aurene to do something on her own initiative that wasn't done the way the Commander [...] would likely want it to go.

I think this may be where some people take issue with the ending, then. Because given the responses from NPCs and the Commander immediately after Joko dies - the jokes, the levity - it feels like the Commander is perfectly okay with the way it happened. Even if the Commander makes an off-hand remark of, "Was Joko right?", following that with a joke and a campy catchphrase from Braham sort of undoes whatever feeling of consequence may have been intended in what had started as a very serious and reflective moment.

Just food for thought, I guess.

Originally posted by notameatheadmaybe

I might be wrong and I know you're not involved in VO work personally, but maybe you can shed some light on it, and if not, that's fine too. :)

I feel like all the VAs for the PC/Commander seem to have slightly differing take on most lines. Not every, but most. Is it because (possibly) due to what the particular voice artist's take on it, or is it something planned and baked into the scripts?

Edit: grammar.

Originally posted by wheadna

Given that Petey is a product in some sense of the scarab plague, does this mean that all rollerbeetles in GW1 are actually descendents of scarabs that emerged from the first plague?