Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker




06 Oct

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Originally posted by Chrystolis

This isn't specific to Path of Fire, but I've always enjoyed that ArenaNet employees have the option to turn on the ArenaNet tag within game, and that plenty do! It's always a treat to see them in game and know that many are players just enjoying the game with the rest of us.

Out of curiosity, when/if you play in your free time, do you prefer to roll with the tag on, off, or a mix of the two depending on your mood? Do you find that the tag draws too much attention, is it mostly positive attention?

Thanks for all you do!

One of my favorite things about working here is that we are encouraged to interact with the players as ANet employees in the game (and on reddit, etc.). Nearly all of the interactions I've had with players while tagged have been very positive.

I usually tag up if I'm just running around doing events or map complete, and only turn it off if there's something very specific I'm trying to achieve and want to focus.

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Originally posted by sigmacephei

Are the warrior Spellbreaker burst Counter and the trait Revenge Counter inspired by Meliodas? Or perhaps I need to stop binging netflix anime

We take inspiration from a lot of different places. Life, movies, games (video and other!), anime... a lot of concepts, presentation and styles can help shape the things we make. Thus, I can’t say that Full Counter has been inspired by the anime. I can, however, say that everyone on the team has seen the Seven Deadly Sins. :)

Originally posted by jojo_iso

2006 here as well. This game has been with me from the beginning. Thank you.

Thank you! It's always a pleasure to talk with players who've been with us since GW1. You love Tyria as much as we do, and your support makes this all possible.

Mo

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Originally posted by XiahouMao

In the Domain of Vabbi, doing a /salute by a statue of Joko will cause your character to shout "Praise Joko!" and give you credit towards an achievement. However, if you try to /salute again at the same statue, you'll be informed that you've already saluted at this statue and no exclamation will occur.

Can this be fixed to allow for Joko praise to be repeated? I'm currently living in worry of my fate once I've used /salute at each statue. My character will no longer be able to verbally praise Joko. That leaves me with no reason to live!

You speak as if this was a problem. Once you have shown your loyalty to our glorious god-king by undertaking his divine pilgrimage, make the ultimate statement of commitment to him by joining his Awakened army! Feel secure in the knowledge that you'll be praising our father-king for the remainder of your unlife.

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Originally posted by ImNotBeyonce

What was the single happiest moment in the development process?

What was the single biggest heartbreak moment?

Happiest: Watching the announcement live with all of the players. There's something special about getting to finally show off all of your hard work after pouring so much passion into it. It's even more special when you get such a positive reaction like PoF did.

Biggest heartbreak: Spoiler

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Originally posted by biffpower3

When designing the new PoF maps, was there any conflict between the map design you wanted, and staying true to the GW1 maps?

I think you did a fantastic job with map design, and loved the nods to GW1.

Also - favourite weapon / armor skin in PoF?

Glad you noticed and enjoyed all the call backs to GW1 we put in. Just like when we planned the maps for original release of Core Tyria, we would look at the GW1 worldmaps and ask what was memorable and what could've survived 250 years and how would it be changed. As Tirzah said, we try to keep landmarks in the same locations. I'm one of a handful on the team who helps make sure locations line up pixel perfect if possible. That said, perceptive players will notice that we had to shift landmarks around, such as Augury Rock, which is slightly south of its original location.

All our environment artists are amazing in how they have translated Crystal Desert maps and Elona 250 years into the future. Some like Justin F, Jesse C, and Darrin all worked on the original GW1, so they know those areas well.

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Originally posted by [deleted]

Is Glint Kralkatorrik's daughter?

Yes, in a way of speaking. Glint was created by Kralkatorrik as his scion. (While "scion" technically means "son" the story team is using it to mean any offspring, son or daughter).

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Originally posted by riddlemore

To Peter Fries: on a scale of 1-10 how much do you love choya butts?

To Dodge Lafnitzegger: your name is hella cool.

To Gaile: hi. You're awesome.

Thanks!

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Originally posted by Anet-Clayton

Headless and naked NPCs running around everywhere...

Pssh, that's not weird at this point Clay, it happens all the time!

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Originally posted by Mireles

Consider this situation:

You are working on what seems like a normal day at the office.

Suddenly, iron shutters that you never seen before cover the windows. You hear the saw guy's voice come through everyone speaker phones and PC. He informs everyone that only one person gets to leave work alive today at the end of the day. If there is more than one alive, nobody survives.

Spoilers there has also rabid wayward cats released into the office. One may or may not have red glowing eyes.

The power goes goes out, its pitch black, and within seconds you hear a blood curdling scream of someone getting murdered.

What do you have at your desk that you use to defend yourself while cowering in the corner?

A horned Viking helmet. I know it's not historically accurate, but it's made of real metal and real horn and it serves as both defense (head protection) and offence (goring attackers headfirst like an angry bull).

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Originally posted by Amiron

I can't believe no one mentioned the music. What a beautiful range of middle-eastern scores Path of Fire brought! Composers; what was your favorite track to create, and which one was your favorite listening to a live orchestra play it for the first time?

I can't remember the name off-hand but the piece with the epic choir singing (I think it plays in Highlands?) is definitely my favorite.

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Originally posted by Anet_RoyCronacher

This will likely stay. We currently don't really really have different classifications of transforms(they are used in all sorts of ways across the game) and a lot of them that would be cause issues or balance concerns if we let you mount and remove the transform.

To follow up on this a bit, there are some thoughts for how to handle mounting up while in certain transforms, but they will all require a fair bit of internal rejiggering and that tends to be an expensive undertaking.

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Originally posted by jojo_iso

GW1-GW2 lore vet coming in.

As much as I hate Kormir... You guys nailed the f**k out of that instance. Thank you for your amazing work.

Thank you <3 No really, that instance was going to be my early death. We worked really, really hard on it, practically up until the very last minute, bc we knew it was important to get it as right as we could.

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Originally posted by Anet_Tirzah

And we can't forget our amazing concept artists who supplied us with great fantastical ideas and color palettes too. :)

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Originally posted by GaileGray

Is it possible to drop the crystals into the scribe's storage? I honestly don't know, but I was thinking that might be a way to work around the gate. You know, I'll see if there's someone else who could answer this more informatively. :)

I appreciate all the discussion here, on the new decorations. There are definitely some compounding factors which make them take a lot of effort/time, and we can probably make some small changes to alleviate some of that stress.

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Originally posted by [deleted]

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As one of the designer coordinators who worked on season 1, I would personally love to bring back that content. Dragon Bash and the Escape from LA especially hold a special place in my heart. But who knows if what the future will hold.

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Originally posted by DiviShrubbery

Can we please get a Palawa Joko statue for our guild halls where we can press F to pay respect?

No guarantees or promises at this point, but it's on The Table™.

Praise Joko!

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Originally posted by Anet_Tirzah

It was something we've always wanted to do but didn't have time before. We wanted to add them into this expansion to give areas more moods from just day/night. You'll notice the rainstorm from the south of Riverlands will be on at the same time as the one in the north of Desolation too!

You may also notice some content changes that accompany the weather.

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Originally posted by indigo121

Story team: gotta say, I loved the story overall. There were a few minor hiccups here and there but overall one of my best things. Probably the favorite thing for my girlfriend and I was the relationship between rytlock and canach. What would you say was the inspiration for writing it that way?

The entire Narrative team really got behind the idea of these two very sharp, very dark personalities taking shots at each other in both a sort of competition and mutual grudging respect. They're kind of like brothers that way (at least, like me and my brother), or at least, brothers in arms. They may not always like each other or agree with each other, but when the fighting starts they know they can at least count on each others' abilities.

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Originally posted by ijohno

Um, my only question is... how do did you guys lose a city? :(

ecto gambling...