Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

Kito is voiced by Jason Spisak. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1032853/

In addition to Gorrik, Ike has voiced a number of other characters for us, like Zalambur. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2941559

Koss is voiced by Keston John. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1929609
Zaeim is voiced by Dave Fennoy...

Exemplar Kerida? She was played by Courtenay Taylor.

When I play WvW, I normally don't tag up, since it usually results in my immediate death (there's an achievement for killing devs). There is a WvW stream every Thursday though where the WvW team and a guest all select a server and go play WvW there.

All damage with the exception of fall damage has been removed. :-p

To clear this up ahead of time: The duration increase is intended, but unintentionally omitted in the release notes.

Thank you for the report! We'll investigate what's going on.

As someone else posted, this is because the rainstorm in the area stopped :)

Very nice. Obviously, the couple in the upper right is the most attractive. :D

That is really nice! (And I love your color choices!)

Very much so! :)

I can actually speak to this one.

Vistas tend to come in near the end of the dev cycle, since they depend so heavily on map geometry (which doesn't get a full lock until pretty late, so we can catch little bugs and world-outs and such). They also aren't really "load bearing," either in terms of gameplay ("is this episode, overall, fun?") or narrative ("does this episode's story make sense and feel rewarding?"). So often, as we're finishing iteration on the bigger-ticket items (like instances), vistas fall to whoever on the team has time. In this case, me.

Having worked only a little with our in-game cinematics tool (the knockout and wake-up shots in the Hero of Istan instance back in episode 1) and having never made any vistas, I was...well, pretty uncertain. So a lot of the credit goes to the cinematics team, who made time this episode to sit down and help me sand away some of the jankier bits after I presented first drafts. Also some to one of our tools progr...

Yuri Lowenthal is Hero-Tron's voice actor, and he was excited to get to voice "the Tron" (as I like to refer to Hero-Tron) again.

;)

Fun fact: "You can certainly try" got lost in the editing process for the skeleton guy's conversation in the jailbreak sequence of Daybreak (hence "...but you feel compelled to try"). So, y'know. I had to find a spot this time 'round. Obviously.

Cheers! :)

Snaff was played by Dave Fennoy, and Zafirah is played by Cherise Boothe.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271965

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1735042

Huge shout outs to our lead writer, Samantha Wallschlaeger, and our Open World writer, Lily Yu, for not only being incredible devs to work with on a professional and personal level, but for truly elevating the writing of GW2 with this release. They had a direct and massive impact on making the dialog and storytelling in this release great by providing the narrative, editing and design teams with incredible work with every draft; this was honestly one of the smoothest development cycles I've experienced, and that is in no small part because of them.

It takes a village of people to wrangle the story. A lot of people had their hand in planning, designing and executing on this release, and after a billion meetings and iterations that included both of their invaluable input, along with the input of the all of GW2 writers and release designers, it often fell directly to Samantha and Lily to make the pieces fit together in as few words as possible.

Just wanted to make sur...

We're working on a fix for this!

We're working on a fix for this!

What time did you try, and what issue did you run into?