Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Ixillius

1) The raptor mini collection was pretty cool which made me wonder if there is any chance of seeing the fire and ice skins as usable legendary mount skins?

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3) Much like ember bay's skulls, Desolation's mouth of torment has strange faces crawling their way out of the centre. Image What drives the land to take these forms and will it ever be tied to the story in any meaningful way?

4) Since PoF is a bit more demanding, what would be the best option for people upgrading? Going the route of i7700k or the newer CPU's...

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Originally posted by indigo121

QA team: "If you do your job right, people wont realize you've done anything at all" Working in software development, I understand the complexity of your job, and the massive responsibility to not get it wrong. We all know that some bugs and issues made it into launch, but I still want you to know that I think you did your part to help deliver one of the smoothest MMO expac launches out there. What was the funniest bug you dealt with during testing, and what was the most infuriating bug you had to help squash?

Originally posted by UniqueError

That explains a lot. I really like all the mounts myself.

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Loved the expansion so far, the only downside I found was that I feel like I completed most of what was new quite quickly compared to HoT but since LW4 is coming quickly that doesn't feel like a real problem to me. In other words, amazing work guys !

Now onto the question.

What's the thing you had the most fun working on for this expansion ?

And what's the biggest technical challenge you faced that you can talk about ?

Originally posted by MylianMoonstar

When is Lyssa coming into play? She is such a hidden, powerful figure that surely she and the other Gods will have more in Season 4?

Originally posted by Fritanga

Will there be a continuation of the Rift Stabilizer side story?

Will we see halloween come to Amnoon?

Can we find new and exciting ways to further praise Joko?

Originally posted by silvermember

Hello balance team.

Are there any near term changes for the weaver specialization, especially for the sword and barrier skills? To me, while the class feels nice, the weapon damage and barrier are too low for a squish spec.

The weaver is a nice spec.

Originally posted by ian421

Can you talk about the programming side of things a bit?

• What source control do you use? What is it like collaborating on a game?

• What languages/frameworks are used? Why were they chosen?

• What are some things that you didn't expect to be a really hard but ended up being really challenging to program?

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Originally posted by Doom_Box

The Guild Wars 1 servers have been extremely laggy lately, almost to the point where it’s unplayable.

The issue usually comes when you alt-tab out of the game while in an explorable area. When you tab back in your character and NPCs start rubber banding across the whole map and it doesn’t go away.

Other people I have been playing with have also reported the issue. It happens when leaving from both American and European districts.

Is there anything that can be done about this?

Originally posted by sa1330

@Trevor Bennett Any possebilities that bounties will come in ls4 maps or old core tyria maps? I enjoy the system a lot in my casual gw2 free time.

Sorry about asking on future releases.

Originally posted by miniatureian

Mounts team -

Thanks for making the mounts drive like dump trucks, the entire feel is great, like we're actually mounted. How do you feel having mounts affects Central Tyria aka map completion?

The Zephyrite movement system is quite fun, seems like it took some effort to develop, but is limited to three places. I thought it was limited to these to minimize taking shortcuts in other maps, but mounts open up similar ways to travel. Did you play with using the Aspect movement system in more of the game (additional maps, as a Zepherite mount, or in the next xpac)?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Loved the expansion so far, the only downside I found was that I feel like I completed most of what was new quite quickly compared to HoT but since LW4 is coming quickly that doesn't feel like a real problem to me. In other words, amazing work guys !

Now onto the question.

What's the thing you had the most fun working on for this expansion ?

And what's the biggest technical challenge you faced that you can talk about ?

Originally posted by Chiorydax

Got a few here...

• The PoF promotional artwork for Balthazar really reminds me of the Transfomers G1 Movie designs for Unicron and Wreck-Gar. Is there any chance someone pulled inspiration from those?

• When Spoilers. Is that simply a design choice or should we be reading into that?

• You guys did a great job making the maps fun and nostalgic, but is there any area you would have liked to develop even deeper if it had been possible?

• I remember seeing the interview where you guys mentioned having a grand plan for GW2 in terms of the huge story steps. So I'm curious, how far back have you been specifically planning to make Balthazar the rogue god?

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Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Loved the expansion so far, the only downside I found was that I feel like I completed most of what was new quite quickly compared to HoT but since LW4 is coming quickly that doesn't feel like a real problem to me. In other words, amazing work guys !

Now onto the question.

What's the thing you had the most fun working on for this expansion ?

And what's the biggest technical challenge you faced that you can talk about ?

Originally posted by LordDankus

Who is your favorite hero and why is it Palawa Joko?

Originally posted by nickname6

Currently you can't use mounts while beeing transformed (Embiggening, Minature, Watchknight, Kodan). Is a change for this on the table or will this stay for sure?

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Originally posted by ImNotBeyonce

What was the weirdest bug that happened during development?

Originally posted by UniqueError

What made you decide to somewhat "sneak in" the gryphon mount into the expansion instead of straight up announcing it? Is it the potential flak from the playerbase that made you do it like this?