@massivelyop@massivelyop I agree with Colin. Just "good enough." Although that's a sad bar for the year. I have heard GW2 diehards call it the weakest expansion the game has seen. I don't know enough to agree or disagree but when I was on last night I was told it's a safe bet to get the big pack and wait on this one.
I love ESO, and the Arcanist is the best thing to happen imo, but I would have loved to see a new idea in public quests. It still feels like anchors from 2013.
As someone who's particular with labels to a stupid extent I'm extremly annoyed with people calling Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 MMOs to this very day. The game cannot be massive if the overworld is a bunch of instanced maps...
@mitsunee By that measure, World of Warcraft is also not an MMO. There are four instances of a zone running at all times on every server. (Chromie time on/off, war mode on/off)
GW1 is definitely an online RPG with social features and multiplayer, as every overworld zone is your own private instance. Multiple phases of a zone is a normal feature nowadays though.
For the #GuildWars2 Wintersday animation I gave the Peitha model a completely different rig than the one she uses in game, this not only gave me more control but also some useful features like sticky lips and stretchy arms
To significantly speed up the rendering process I made a sphere map from in-game screenshots and used this as a background. It still took over 10 hours (even with EEVEE on a 3070ti) rendering several layers and camera angles at 4K, the end result was 140GB+ of raw frames
Usually you would either mocap these kind of animations or spend ages smoothing out and tweaking your keyframes to make it look less robotic, but I only had a very limited amount of time so for a joke this keyframe hell was good enough
My #GuildWars2 MSPaint contest judges have spent an eternity looking at your submissions in a futile attempt to determine which memer is the dankest of them all, and we need your help to decide! Pick your favorite drawing!
Literally every entry I got was WAY beyond my expectations, so EVERYONE WHO SENT A DRAWING IN IS GETTING A SMALL PRIZE. Check your in-game mail! (If you were nominated and don't win any MC, you'll get yours once voting closes.)
Getting to see MSPaint shitposts every day for a whole week was the highlight of my month. Thank you all so much! Here's some honorable mentions. (Artist credits and their image description in the alt text)
Currently installing #GuildWars2 on Linux to check it out, since it's pretty much the last game seriously stopping me from fully abandoning Windows. Excited to see how it plays out, the install has been child's play so far, thanks to #lutris. Now to wait for the download.
Very excited about necro swords. From the perspective of an open world farm commander, a ranged fast-projectile piercing auto that scales off power is precisely the kind of thing you need on an optimized farming build!
Historically, necros have tagged with axe or staff, which demand heavy tab targeting and have bad projectile speed respectively. Once weapons release, I might start leading LS4 trains on my necromancer! #GuildWars2