Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

Just wanted to quickly pop in over lunch break and pass along while there are things we love about the HoT open world map experience; there are also things we felt either weren't successful, or didn't align with the over-all vision for Gw2.

We said this a week or two ago, but it's always good to reinforce that cleaning up those areas is one of the major focuses for our spring seasonal update in April. Many of the things folks call out in this thread as areas we can improve are the kind of things we're hoping to resolve. We'll discuss more once we're got a better idea of what will make it in, but I just wanted to quickly point out we're also aware and working towards some resolutions.

Love the short term problem solving - wish it was easier for us to to do a quick short term fix. (sadly nothing with LFG is easy or quick)

I did want to quickly point out the team is aware of the recent discussions around things that aren't working (or missing) from LFG and have it included in the list of "resolving outstanding issues" that is our goal for the spring update in April.

Not entirely sure what will actually make it yet LFG wise since it's all in development - we'll give more details once we're sure.

This is accurate. If you miss June, as an example, you'll be able to get it the next time the month is June and you visit a major city.

Hey all, we're aware of the issue and are looking into it. Thank you for all the reports!

As this functionality is intended for high-end, skilled players at the top tier of PvP, this option will work only in Custom Arenas that allow Tournament Commands (while Ranked queues are disabled during an off-season).

Also, Revenant standard models will be included in an upcoming release.

Correct! Not only approx every 12 weeks will we do a big seasonal update. You'll also see updates between seasonal updates.

Content like raids, pvp leagues, living world, festivals, and WvW tournaments are all things you'd find happening between seasonal updates as the year progresses. (this "winter" season we've got a festival, raid, and pvp league kick off planned before spring.)

Things like new fractals, new legendaries, WvW updates, new PvP maps, quality of life updates, etc. are all the type of stuff that'd come with our seasonal updates.

Hope that helps a bit!

We've identified the cause of this issue, and expect to have the fix out in an upcoming release. All missing rewards will be replaced.

This bug was not entirely fixed; the developers have identified the issue and we are currently testing the results. We're expecting to have the fix out in an upcoming release. Thanks for your patience!

Thanks for the report! We're aware of the issue and working on resolving the impact squad markers currently have in WvW and PvP. Hoping to have this fix out ASAP. Thanks for your patience!

This note snuck in early and shouldn't have, this is a long term thing our FX team is playing with that isn't live yet.

This is a preview of what's coming in the January 26th Winter 2016 release.

Other releases we've confirmed for between now and the end of March can be found in the "Other big events for early 2016" section of this here blog:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/state-of-the-game-update-q1-2016/

Hope that helps.

It's slightly better, but still not very good. We had more moving platforms in SAB for a while in early development with the gator river in particular, but latency issues and weird engine stuff made them break often enough we had to cut back.

Given the weird twitching around the eyes of the folks who made the platform when we used to bring up "moving platforms" I think it's highly unlikely.

As for tables, I don't use that phrase! That was erroneously applied to me after someone else who will remain nameless did a few days of interviews and said "on/off the table" a lot. He knows who he is...

For the first year+ after Shat first made it in game, it was fondly known as the Shattnerer by most of the early Gw2 writing and content teams. I'm pretty sure Darrin had pictures up on the wall around the office similar to the sweet sweet link from Bobby. Fun memories ;)

For additional trips down memory lane -> This was also the first ever giant boss built that made it into the game.

Though it wasn't actually the first giant boss model ever made, that distinction rests with the leviathan (a massive crazy huge sea creature boss that only ever showed in trailers) was the first ever giant boss model. Early in development after the model was built engineering shot it down as creatures that large in water were too expensive for performance and our engine couldn't support moving platforms (collision) in large open world maps.

Please report players you observe behaving in this manner. Because there is not a better category at this time, I'd agree that filing it under "Botting" would suffice. As a reminder, match manipulation is defined in the GW2 Rules of Conduct as follows: "While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching."

Info on this is covered at the end of the blog, but absolutely yes, this is still true.

Interesting. I would have assumed that an oval type shape would behave correctly. I haven't ever used unity, and so don't know of any nuances to their collision detection. =/

Pretty fun. Nice job. I liked that I could easily control and direct the rebound direction; it made it pretty easy to plan and execute my bounces.

One note though, I got in a state where the ball was on the far right edge of the screen, and would only bounce directly up. I couldn't get it to hit the right side of the screen and ricochet back into the game play area. At first, I assumed I would be able to time my cloud's movement, and slam into the ball, from the left, right as it was about to cause a fail case. I had hoped that would push the ball into the right side of wall and get me my needed ricochet. No luck :( I ended up seeing no other choice but to just let the ball fall and start over. Maybe that means your cloud's collision volume is a rect? If that is the case, maybe consider putting some banked corners on the top right and top left.

Either way, nice job :)

Glad to hear you and your friend are ok.

You totally deserved it. Happy holidays everyone :)

This totally made my morning!