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Originally posted by StepW

Thanks for the awesome reply :).

Although I'm also wondering from the perspective of actually choosing how the commander reacts to things. This is a bit of a tough question to phrase. Given that there are so many different possible characters playing the role of commander, does all of that customisation perhaps inhibit the writing team from giving the commander character too much... character?

To give an example from the latest story episode (minor spoilers ahead!), Joko goes on the whole "you're the villain" monologue. Hypothetically, this might have hit a soft spot or resonated significantly with the commander. Sufficiently portraying such emotions might be difficult, since different personalities or different races might respond differently to such a claim.

Like, say, a Blood Legion Charr with the "ferocity" background chosen might act aggressively towards such a claim, but a dawn-born Sylvari with the "charm" personality chosen might have let those words...

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Originally posted by Skelegro93

Was it intentional that the reality of Aurene growing up didn't immediately dawn on the commander and his friends? As everyone entered Joko's chamber they only commented on what Aurene was doing and not what it could mean. I think Braham and the commander did say something along the lines of "well she IS a dragon." I also really liked how Joko's magic just blasted out of him in a "he's done" sort of way.

Originally posted by glowinggoo

There must be a lot of stress coming from the story team rehaul, but I'd like to tell you that it really works. My friend and I LOVE LS4 and how it handles everybody's arcs (especially the Commander, it's perfect), so whatever team rehaul happened, you guys are doing great.

We were just talking about how LS4-3's story has so many things that we've wanted to see since HoT and that playing it felt like opening up your Christmas presents. Lots of 'did they really go there?' 'holy shit' and 'wow did they really say that'. We've been pretty invested in the Commander for sometime, and this just made them our favourite protagonist.

Which, you know, isn't really a thing I expected to be saying about GW2's MC back in early 2017, even if we've always liked the general arc they have.

(That said, I'll miss Joko. Oh well. As of this moment, I'll trust that whatever you've got in mind to replace him is going to be more engaging than he was.....which is a pretty t...

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?