post what you found in gwdat!

AceeBlueEagle

AceeBlueEagle

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

ASH -Ashes of Humanity

R/

Do I get points if I have spoken with person that wrote the program you guys are using to browse the file?

therangereminem

therangereminem

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by cgruber
I loaded new files when entering Isle of the Nameless.
me too about 100files or so , wonder if they added things to the chest

dunky_g

dunky_g

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

[SNOW]

loaded a few files today aswell entering fow.

probly nothing.

cellardweller

cellardweller

Likes naked dance offs

Join Date: Aug 2005

The Older Gamers [TOG]

Quote:
Originally Posted by evenfall
New string in the gw.dat.

Zaishen Title

A title for balthazar faction or balthazar faction cap maybe?
It doesn't have the "XX Title Track" like other titles though, so it may be for some other stuff.
My bet is on a KoaBD equivalent for pvp titles.

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

In one of the files I found among the most recent ones I found this:
Quote:
 N e c r o H e x S p a m m e r   I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 1 - S p a m H e x e s a n d u s e B l o o d R i t u a l o n a l l i e s . *  M e s m e r H e x S p a m m e r ä  I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 2 - S p a m H e x e s a n d u s e M a n t r a o f P e r s i s t e n c e w i t h C r i p p l i n g A n g u i s h t o d i s a b l e W a r r i o r s . 6  R a n g e r C o n d i t i o n S p a m m e r ô  I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 3 - P r i m a r y R u n n e r , k e e p A p p l y P o i s o n u p a n d s p a m C r i p p l i n g S h o t . I f t h e y b u n c h , u p p l a c e T r a p s . "  D a m a g e W a r r i o r   I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 4 - G e t o n n o n - m o n k t a r g e t a n d c o o r d i n a t e d a m a g e w i t h D a m a g e W a r r i o r 2 . &  D a m a g e W a r r i o r 2 Ľ  I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 5 - G e t o n N o n m o n k t a r g e t a n d c o o r d i n a t e d a m a g e w i t h D a m a g e W a r r i o r   M e s m e r M o n k Š  I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 6 - C o o r d i n a t e y o u r A e g i s , a n d r e m o v e h e x ' s "  P r i m a r y H e a l e r ^  I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 7 - H e a l h u r t a l l i e s ! &  S e c o n d a r y H e a l e r ^  I H a t e I z z y C h a r a c t e r # 8 - H e a l h u r t a l l i e s ! ,  Y o u a r e r e p e a t e d l y o r d e r i n g y o u r c h a r a c t e r t o a t t a c k w h e n i t i s u n n e c e s s a r y t o d o s o . T r y c l i c k i n g o n a f o e j u s t o n c e , a n d t h e n w a t c h w h a t h a p p e n s .
A team of 8 "I Hate Izzy" characters in gw.dat = wtf?

The file itself must be very old, those are found right after the descriptions of the old PvP Premade Characters, like the old favorites the Abominable Snowman or Ivex Trapper

Quote:
Identity Mixed Blue Green Purple Red Yellow Brown Orange Silver Black Blue Red Yellow Turquoise Purple Green Silver Blue Red Yellow Turquoise Purple Green Silver
Those look like dye colors, I remember 'Identity' word used to describe the Dye Remover, but what is 'Turquoise' doing here?
The only ingame reference to Turquoise I remember was a Turquoise Team, 4th team in multiple team maps in the old Tombs (like Burial Grounds or HoH itself)

Quote:
Charrslaying Demonslaying Dragonslaying Dwarfslaying Ogreslaying Giantslaying Snakeslaying Pruning$ Skeletonslaying Tenguslaying Trollslaying Deathbane Barbed Crippling Cruel Silencing Defensive Zealous Furious Hale Vampiric Heavy Insightful Sundering Poisonous Quick Defense Enchanting Fortitude Rage Shelter Swiftness Warding
And those are all weapon mods, the list doesn't cover all possibilities present ingame but has 3 which cannot be found ingame:
Snakeslaying - I've never seen this one, even th emighty Google gives zero finds on this.
Quick and Rage - "I'm weilding a Quick Fellblade of Rage" sounds cool, but I can't imagine what those mods did. Maybe any alpha testers out there remember those?

MoriaOrc

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yawgmoth
In one of the files I found among the most recent ones I found this:

A team of 8 "I Hate Izzy" characters in gw.dat = wtf?

The file itself must be very old, those are found right after the descriptions of the old PvP Premade Characters, like the old favorites the Abominable Snowman or Ivex Trapper
I'm pretty sure these came up before in this thread. Yea, it's an old premade PvP build from way back when. I'm pretty sure it's named after a guild (who apparently didn't care all that much for his skill balances )

Quote:
Those look like dye colors, I remember 'Identity' word used to describe the Dye Remover, but what is 'Turquoise' doing here?
The only ingame reference to Turquoise I remember was a Turquoise Team, 4th team in multiple team maps in the old Tombs (like Burial Grounds or HoH itself)
The new rarest dye?

Quote:
And those are all weapon mods, the list doesn't cover all possibilities present ingame but has 3 which cannot be found ingame:
Snakeslaying - I've never seen this one, even th emighty Google gives zero finds on this.
Quick and Rage - "I'm weilding a Quick Fellblade of Rage" sounds cool, but I can't imagine what those mods did. Maybe any alpha testers out there remember those?
Quick could be a precursor to the "of Quickening" wand wrap. No idea for the Rage mod, though.

Also: Confirmed for existence of a string "Zaishen Title" in the dat file. No idea /speculation what it'll be for, though.

The God Of War

The God Of War

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2008

Amsterdam =]

The Rune Dragon [HDFF]

D/Mo

Don't Know of some of this things are posted here before but today i found these things in the gw.dat which i never saw before anybody now what they are ? :

This looks like a bullet hole


Which weapon is this ??


From where is this map ?






(Srry if it are just normal things but i didn't recognise something of these things )

Buzzer

Buzzer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Australia

Quote:
Originally Posted by The God Of War
From where is this map ?
Sunspear Arena, next to Kamadan.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

Zaishen title will most likely be for using keys to open the chest.

bog boy

bog boy

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

pxks

R/E

imo its unlikely that they will require keys to be used i think it will just be based on total amount of faction gained

Master Knightfall

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2007

imo it will be most likely that you will have to use zashien keys to open the chest to get zashien faction for the title. That's the way it works for treasure hunter I don't see why it would be different for zashien title. It also will increase the value of zashien keys to sell to other players and bring an influx of more pve players to pvp who want those stupid titles. Can't wait for this one <grin>

MoriaOrc

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Knightfall
imo it will be most likely that you will have to use zashien keys to open the chest to get zashien faction for the title. That's the way it works for treasure hunter I don't see why it would be different for zashien title. It also will increase the value of zashien keys to sell to other players and bring an influx of more pve players to pvp who want those stupid titles. Can't wait for this one <grin>
But Zaishen is everything PvP (they run the battle isles). I might as easily claim it'd be a title for Zaishen [Elite] Challenge victories!

Also, the string is "Zaishen Title" which is not "Zaishen Title Track." So it's rather extreme speculation that there is even going to be a new title.

therangereminem

therangereminem

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/Mo

just came to me title mighht be just a filler for another word or words

Zaishen marketplace it could mean, just somthign to add buti stilll think its a title

MarlinBackna

MarlinBackna

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2007

[TAM]

W/

[quote] Charrslaying Demonslaying Dragonslaying Dwarfslaying Ogreslaying Giantslaying Snakeslaying Pruning$ Skeletonslaying Tenguslaying Trollslaying Deathbane Barbed Crippling Cruel Silencing Defensive Zealous Furious Hale Vampiric Heavy Insightful Sundering Poisonous Quick Defense Enchanting Fortitude Rage Shelter Swiftness Warding[/quo] te
I think "Rage" was a precursor to the "Furious" Mod, as I don't see it on this list.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by MarlinBackna
quote] Charrslaying Demonslaying Dragonslaying Dwarfslaying Ogreslaying Giantslaying Snakeslaying Pruning$ Skeletonslaying Tenguslaying Trollslaying Deathbane Barbed Crippling Cruel Silencing Defensive Zealous Furious Hale Vampiric Heavy Insightful Sundering Poisonous Quick Defense Enchanting Fortitude Rage Shelter Swiftness Warding[/quo] te

I think "Rage" was a precursor to the "Furious" Mod, as I don't see it on this list.
I can see it! :-D

MagmaRed

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2007

Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]

R/

[QUOTE=MarlinBackna]
Quote:
Charrslaying Demonslaying Dragonslaying Dwarfslaying Ogreslaying Giantslaying Snakeslaying Pruning$ Skeletonslaying Tenguslaying Trollslaying Deathbane Barbed Crippling Cruel Silencing Defensive Zealous Furious Hale Vampiric Heavy Insightful Sundering Poisonous Quick Defense Enchanting Fortitude Rage Shelter Swiftness Warding[/quo] te
I think "Rage" was a precursor to the "Furious" Mod, as I don't see it on this list.
Dont' see what?

Ben-A-BoO

Ben-A-BoO

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Europe

Quote:
Originally Posted by MagmaRed
Dont' see what?
The wood because of all the damn trees.

evenfall

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

"Rage" is probably the "+1 weapon attribute (10~20% chance)" suffix mod we have now.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

I was looking in the wikies and it seems that there is no 'rage' upgrade.
Maybe is an upgrade that appears only as inherent modifier in Prophecies and Factions items?

Chico

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

So, who's going to be the first to post something found from the new update?

Shyft the Pyro

Shyft the Pyro

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

NYC, USA

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chico
So, who's going to be the first to post something found from the new update?
Everyone's too busy actually playing! GASP!

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

I did a quick browse after the last update, couldn't find anything new, those new weapon skins didn't appear as the last # files so they must be somewhere deeper inside.
But I found ome thing I've never seen in gw.dat, this:


a small GW2 logo inside gw.dat, what is it doing there?

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yawgmoth
I did a quick browse after the last update, couldn't find anything new, those new weapon skins didn't appear as the last # files so they must be somewhere deeper inside.
But I found ome thing I've never seen in gw.dat, this:


a small GW2 logo inside gw.dat, what is it doing there?
Waiting to be added to the ingame store

sykoone

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mystical Chaos

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yawgmoth
I did a quick browse after the last update, couldn't find anything new, those new weapon skins didn't appear as the last # files so they must be somewhere deeper inside.
According to Linsey Murdock, the dev who created the new area, the weapons were created a year ago. It just took this long for the area to be designed and coded.

Quote:
Yay! The end run is out now, which has been my little side project for a while now. Other than a couple bumps here and there (which are generally to be expected) it seems to be going over pretty well which makes me happy. John Hargrove and I have been talking about doing an end run for over a year now so seeing it finally out is exciting. We had the weapons made last year in preparation so it was just up to when I would have time to do the design and writing.

Ravious

Ravious

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Servants of Fortuna

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by zwei2stein
Event. Stop the Weapons Shipment (LvL 8)
Stop the illegal weapon's shipment from Loamhurst.<br><br> - Kill Shifty Williams before he reaches the Centaur camp.
Event. Stop the Weapons Shipment (Completed)
You've stopped the weapons shipment!<br><br> - See Captain Harkness for your reward.

Event. Collect Krait Swords (LvL 9)
Shifty Williams is collecting krait swords for the war effort.<br><br> - Bring krait weapons to Shifty.
Event. Collect Krait Swords (Completed)
You've helped Shifty collect swords for the war effort.<br><br> - See Shifty Williams for your reward.
Wow, so I didn't notice this until now, but look.

For Collect Krait Swords you actually are giving Shifty Williams swords.
For Stop the Weapons Shipment you have to kill Shifty Williams from giving weapons to the Centaurs.

You put two and two together and one player starts an event for another player by turning in a quest. In other words,

Player A collects Krait swords and goes and gives them to Shifty for the reward. Shifty says "thankee" and then a few minutes later runs off towards the Centaur camp. Players closer to the Centaur camp get a message from Captain Harkness that there is word of an illegal weapons shipment to stop.

Wow, if that is anything close... I must say I am looking forward to such interconnectedness. More and more it seems that WAR's public quests are a way of hiding the grind instead of feeling like being in an organic world.* I am in awe of A.Net's vision.

*I am not just pulling this out thin air, there is a site that leaks WAR information, and there is heavy discussion about how a WAR public quest is basically: Step 1 - Kill 50-100 mobs, Step 2 - Kill 10-20 elite mobs, Step 3 - Kill boss plus adds.

Lady Syve

Lady Syve

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

PWNZILLA team

X Legion Of Doom X [LOD]

Wow, that would be so incredibly awesome! If this is what they meant when they said that GW2 will have a dinamic quest system, I'm gonna be one happy camper :P

I hope these sorts of quests will be going on very frequently, because I'd feel bad if I kept on missing them.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Loamhurst is that place in Divinity Coast.

Could it be that they are planning to make new explorables using already existing mission areas in Prophecies?

fog_of_redoubt

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
Loamhurst is that place in Divinity Coast.

Could it be that they are planning to make new explorables using already existing mission areas in Prophecies?
My guess is the Devs are having some more fun with gwdat browsers like the did with they Xul Marketplace

Ravious

Ravious

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Servants of Fortuna

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady Syve
Wow, that would be so incredibly awesome! If this is what they meant when they said that GW2 will have a dinamic quest system, I'm gonna be one happy camper :P

I hope these sorts of quests will be going on very frequently, because I'd feel bad if I kept on missing them.
I have a feeling they are going to do some kind of quest keeper/lorebook/tome of knowledge that tracks what you do. Linsey mentioned a while back that they would not do it for GW1 because it was basically too late and it was something to consider for GW2 (paraphrasing) but to do it right you would have to start from the beginning.

Free Runner

Free Runner

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

GW2G

Knights Of The Sacred Light [KSL]

Quote:
Originally Posted by fog_of_redoubt
My guess is the Devs are having some more fun with gwdat browsers like the did with they Xul Marketplace
That wasnt exactly Anet having fun with the Dat group. It was more like the Dat browsers having fun telling everyone of the progressing Marketplace strings forceing Anet to remove them.

crazybanshee

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Look out!

E/

Please don't turn this into a debate over the new title or anything, there's plenty of threads for that. What I'm asking is, there was much debate over some sort of zaishen title starting a while ago, based on what was in the gw.dat file. Now it turns out that the zaishen title is true, as were the list of 3rd year minipets being discovered before they were released.

So what about the other things people found in the dat file? Double booze/sweets weekend? Anything else? Anet seems to play everything close to the vest but there are obviously some people who can figure out what's coming. I'm sure there's tons of other players who would like some hint of which way the wind is blowing.

Lord Xivor

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

Fort Bragg, NC

Our God Is A Consuming [FIRE]

Rt/A

For 100k, I will tell you the event that will happen next weekend. ;-)

For 500k, i will tell you who your future wife is. :-)

j/k...they need to make it so people cannot crack the gw.dat file.

guildwars hero22

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2008

farming zashien (keys)

R/Me

forgive me for my misunderstanding, but what and where is the .dat file exactly?

Alexandra-Sweet

Alexandra-Sweet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

That one place with the trees, mountains and snow

Ember Power Mercenaries [EMP]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by guildwars hero22
forgive me for my misunderstanding, but what and where is the .dat file exactly?
By default it's in C:\Program Files\Guild Wars
It's a really big file that contains all the data Guild Wars needs to in order to run.

Some people use software to look into this .dat file and can see stuff that Arena Net puts in there during an update.


Note: .dat is a data archive.

Aba

Aba

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

Vancouver,Canada

So everlasting tonics/tonics were found in the dat file before.
So anyone think Anet would put the years entire lineup in??
or has anyone found anything regarding the new tonics?

Xunlai Secret Agent

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Xivor
For 100k, I will tell you the event that will happen next weekend. ;-)

For 500k, i will tell you who your future wife is. :-)

j/k...they need to make it so people cannot crack the gw.dat file.
Laugh out loud.

Treg Q

Treg Q

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

[Koff]

Just found sound file: "This base belongs to your party!" Awesome

EDIT: http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9...texdxt1as1.png

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

That is just the BMP load screen for gwen's adventure

Warwick

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2008

Unguilded [lol]

D/E

Imo, Quick prefix/suffix would make you attack faster, and Rage prefix/suffix would make you deal more damage. I think Quick would be a prefix and Rage a suffix- I cant really imagine "I'm wielding a Rage Destroyer Scythe of Quick!" . Shame it was scrapped.. Perma IAS would be win

MrSlayer

MrSlayer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

United Kingdom

Quit Whining And [PLAY]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Warwick
Imo, Quick prefix/suffix would make you attack faster, and Rage prefix/suffix would make you deal more damage. I think Quick would be a prefix and Rage a suffix- I cant really imagine "I'm wielding a Rage Destroyer Scythe of Quick!" . Shame it was scrapped.. Perma IAS would be win
Quick Destroyer Scythe of Rage would make more sense <.<