Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Hellmasker

Hey ANet, loved the new story and I can't wait to finish the new map events + achievements!

... which brings me to a question I've had for a long time.

Why are the point rewards for achievements so low these days? Does it have to do with post Pinnacle weapon and backpiece rewards not being done/envisioned yet? Thinking I'll have to wait literal years at this pace to wear the radiant backguard is really discouraging, and I'm in NA's top 10. Can anyone offer any insight on this at all?

Originally posted by Arjybarjy

I just want to say, you did a fantastic job introducing a new charr tribe and new characters in this story. And that final boss battle is honestly my favourite one ever.

You made an episode that was just fun to play all the way through non-stop even when it wasn't instanced story events (i think previous episodes failed to do this).

Really well done, the most enjoyable living world episode yet, thank you for all your hard work.

Originally posted by ANET_Byfield

For me, The Belgariad. I'm reading through it again after 20ish years and it's just as good as I remember.

Originally posted by kalamari__

just wanted to give a compliment to the guys who designed all the inquest stuff and gave the asura in this episode very good characterisations in my opinion.

this is how I always imagined a inquest city/base would look like. big but on the inside intimidating, oppressive and confusing. whenever you used the inquest in the past they never had anything new. they always looked like the metrica province inquest.

love it that put in the extra mile to update the inquest as a whole!

Originally posted by Ecmelt

API support was promised last AMA, 1 month later we got the dev promoted and API on hold again and so on as it happened many times before.

Will you ever acknowledge API is a very important thing for the community and actually, properly, meaningfully support it? Hiring a dedicated person, even as half-time job would be a great start.

Originally posted by anet_charliee

We did a lot of things this episode that were a bit risky and pushed the capabilities of the engine. We have a bunch of moving platforms, story instances that transfer directly to other story instances, wind/magnet/gravity tech, and lots of player-specific open world stuff. QA had their work cut out for them and were total troopers.

Originally posted by Andulias

Congratulations on the release, I'm absolutely loving it so far! The in particular is amazing and exactly the kind of lore development I love to see.

Are these AMAs going to continue for future episodes independent of the forum AMAs?

Oh, also, I found myself in the new JP and, without spoiling anything, even when I go to the correct console and click on the password, the game thinks I haven't and doesn't give me the option to use it on the elevator :(

Originally posted by Sxi139

Maybe a spoiler. But could we see more asura technology in the future or inquest?

E.g. updates to WvW with new asura technology that could have been made since the last update there ?

Originally posted by DeathWish001

I have a feeling that the cubs were named after the devs children and were voiced by a teenager.

Originally posted by Matters-

What (if any) issues did you have developing S4E2 that come to mind in particular?

Originally posted by anet_mattp

This was a really bad cold and flu season...

Bug in the system indeed.

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

Gathering the driftwood near the fishing event is giving us, even with max tools, ruined logs.

Originally posted by VacuumViolator

Are you aware that several Legendary weapons have been bugged since the release of PoF? Weapons that have on-skill-use effects do not play.

Some examples:

-Flameseeker Prophecies does not turn pages on skill use

-Rodgort's flame does not get bigger on skill use

-Predator does not breathe fire on skill use

-Quip does not spin around on skill use

Originally posted by MindAsWell

I have to ask, was the design of the cube based off the Rata Sum seen in the original trailer

Originally posted by melin-skyland

not sure if its a bug but when I use the Season 4 Portal Tome that I bought in the new map I only get the option to "put it away" shoul'nt there be a option to get to the new map?

Originally posted by Evangeder

1. Did you actually think of "Portal" game when designing one of the rooms in

2. What was the origin of the episode name? Is this really a refference both to bugged code at the beginning and, or?

3. Not a question but.. The last boss fight was awesome. Oh god.. i realized in a few seconds "whaaaaaaat is going ooon?! is that a" This really blew my mind. Best episode so far, keep doing it just like that! I can't wait to play episode 3 XD

Originally posted by Matters-

What (if any) issues did you have developing S4E2 that come to mind in particular?

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

Gathering the driftwood near the fishing event is giving us, even with max tools, ruined logs.

Originally posted by markotza

Hi! I've noticed the pages of text finally got their own UI, can we expect retroactive redo of all the other pages/books in the game?

Originally posted by Rainpumpkin7266

Gathering the driftwood near the fishing event is giving us, even with max tools, ruined logs.