Thursday Jan. 19th Update

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

Stupid work, maaaan
Its still 11:40AM here and I work till 4:30PM and get home at 5:10PM
This sucks I want to go home now.

Guys please post more screenshots

For all of us at work/school or whereever.

Please post some screenshots

Toffin

Toffin

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Camp Rankor

No Diplomacy Only War [nDoW] No Diplomacy Only Slackers [nDoS] Looking for an Alliance.

W/

Feeling sick, gotta go home from work.... *cough*, *cough*....

unienaule

unienaule

I dunt even get "Retired"

Join Date: Aug 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

LMAO The Zaishen guys you train against say "gg" when you beat them. This is amazing. Also, the AoE range training is pure genius. And the ways to test out bow range...

Josh

Josh

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

England, UK

D/Mo

Haha, you can vs AI Spike/IWAY/Degen teams, etc, lol. ;p

Lord Scoopula

Lord Scoopula

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Fargo, North Dakota

W/Mo

The profession select screen...

Anarkii

Anarkii

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

-None-

R/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by boxterduke
Stupid work, maaaan
Its still 11:40AM here and I work till 4:30PM and get home at 5:10PM
This sucks I want to go home now.

Guys please post more screenshots
The Login Screen

Character Selection

axe

axe

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Pwn Appetit [NJoy]

W/

Tombs now is an entrance to the UW that you dont need favor to enter, I went in with a full crew of Henchmen, we got passed the first stage and I had to get back to work LOL.

Also the downloads. 11-12MB for the new build, and the FIRST time you zone that zone will need 1400 files, then after that all the zones have a few files, so if you can use high speed initially your 56K will do fine afterwards.

UNiUNi

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2006

does any1 know howto get into FoW by now? europe's got favor, wanted to buy my FoW armor.. but ghosts don't appear.. hum, sucks somehow ~~

Bastard Son

Bastard Son

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Upstate NY

Bastahd Sons of Zeus

Sweet stuff in here. Glad to hear the Party Map Travel restricts those that haven't been there from tagging along. What I haven't heard yet is how this works in-game. Does it just not let the party leader map travel? Or do those that haven't been there just get left behind in the instanced zone?

Basically, just how does it work?

antialias02

antialias02

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Eastern Iowa

Forsaken Wanderers [FW]

Me/E

Wow. You can choose to train against IWAY, OF Spike, Trappers... and more...

This is the update of true and substantiated glory.

The new creation/login screens are beautiful as well. I am pumped. =)

neoteo

neoteo

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

Macau

www.exilesofdarksteel.com

E/

w8 till americans get out of work

no sleep this weekend

Lord Scoopula

Lord Scoopula

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Fargo, North Dakota

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bastard Son
Sweet stuff in here. Glad to hear the Party Map Travel restricts those that haven't been there from tagging along. What I haven't heard yet is how this works in-game. Does it just not let the party leader map travel? Or do those that haven't been there just get left behind in the instanced zone?

Basically, just how does it work?
The leader can't travel unless everyone in the group has the area...so it's been in my tests.

TimberOwl

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/Me

Screenshots can be seen in the other 19th january thread in this same forum.

Yeah i also don't like the little triangles, im skeptical about that they are really meant to show actually?

The music in the login screen totally rocks, but alas i feel im the only one who loathes the black colour scheme...

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Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Just down the road.

Mo/

I'm speechless... this update is... fantastic. Even the enemy henchies talk to you...


I also think this is incredibly useful - it sorts out alost everything you ever need to know about the area of effect of AoE spells.

saphir

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

doa

Mo/

very nice update!
no one has mentioned that the login screen is in full 3d, you can zoom in, zoom out and rotate around your character. real cool

and tombs is now pve, w/ wicked crazy insane mobs!!

Knido

Knido

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

in exile

W/

no balanced training ><

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

OMG!! Underworld and The Fissure are closed...

Europe got favor now, but kneeling wont make the ghosts appear

Guess someone need to cleanse the Tombs first of those EVIL entities

Da Judge

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

ScotLand

W/Mo

wow.........just..........wow


Huge thanks to A-net for this (HUGE) update, It is fantastic.

I love the whole Zaishen Challenge idea. Practising PvP against an extremley well organised AI team that spike perfectly, hit from 2 sides and generaly mauled a guildie and I very quickly, was an experience.

Ele obsidian flame spike team and the Illusionary weaponary team are gonna pay big style after we work out a team build to counter them

This is a fantastic way to get PvE players interested in PvP without all the pressure(moaning and flaming) of actualy doing an organised PvP match.

I am (was) a hardcore PvE player and had very little time for PvP because of all the eliteism that came with it. Now I'm waiting on a couple more guildies to finish ooh'ing and ahh'ing at the login screen so we can work on counter builds for the teams in ZC (Hate to bring up another new abbreviation but it is easier than typing Zaishen Challenge :P )

I feel I have only just scratched the surface.

I'm off to look for more new stuff

Claire Wolf

Claire Wolf

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

The Zephyr Of Tyria [tZoT]

A/

I love it.. Tried out Battle isles... HENCHIES KNOW HOW TO USE TARGETING SYSTEM NOW OMFG! Fwee, this is awesome. ^^

Lord Scoopula

Lord Scoopula

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Fargo, North Dakota

W/Mo

I think I see Mt.Doom in the background.

temp

temp

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

my bedroom

Band Of Death UK

way to screw up the Underworld ANet. Fow is gone and UW has been moved to Tombs, the new Uw is the UW battle ground when in PvP. teh sucks, like the login, thats about it

brokenkey

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by lunchbreak
I'm speechless... this update is... fantastic. Even the enemy henchies talk to you...
Maybe thats a bug and actually Korea has the favour?

Claire Wolf

Claire Wolf

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

The Zephyr Of Tyria [tZoT]

A/

Oh and a question, henchies actually say gg to you now ? How polite. xD After the for battles I was like o.o wtf it talked.. So yeh.

beanerman_99

beanerman_99

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

In the clouds

[Sage]

E/

"Curse you merciful Posidon!"-Bender

Im at work and so jealous you all are getting to play.
May have to taek a personal day tomorrow.

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

so fow armor is gone? UW is still a place to solo? and fow itself completly gone

N8DOGG

N8DOGG

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

here

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

W/Mo

WOW GREAT JOB DEVS

Makes me want to get GW2 Even more now.

Get in Game and start to check out the new Locations!!!!

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

36/166 hour suspension and i will!!!!! sucks suspension gunna end friday heh

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Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Just down the road.

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Da Judge
wow.........just..........wow

Ele obsidian flame spike team and the Illusionary weaponary team are gonna pay big style after we work out a team build to counter them
I went to fight the IW team... and just beat them down - no sophisticated builds - I went by myself, accompanied by Zaishen henchmen.

kvndoom

kvndoom

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Communistwealth of Virginia

Uninstalled

W/Mo

Elona Reach is broken by the update. The 2nd and 3rd crystals are not in the mission at all. Sigh...

Claire Wolf

Claire Wolf

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

The Zephyr Of Tyria [tZoT]

A/

Thats it... T_T I'm going to have to camp outside the game store to compete with getting it from the 4367358 people who love the new update.

Sir Krohan

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Shattered Hand

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by axe
Tombs now is an entrance to the UW that you dont need favor to enter, I went in with a full crew of Henchmen, we got passed the first stage and I had to get back to work LOL.

Also the downloads. 11-12MB for the new build, and the FIRST time you zone that zone will need 1400 files, then after that all the zones have a few files, so if you can use high speed initially your 56K will do fine afterwards.
Excuse me?

Kaguya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Moon

Mo/

Thumbs down for the new black interface.

Those huge black bars around health bars just look annoying, as do most of the other black stuff. Can I get my transparent GUI back?

Nice update otherwise, hope there'll be options for changing the GUI tho :1

Ghost Recon

Ghost Recon

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Mo/

Speech less.

BlackRecluse

BlackRecluse

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

[Dark]

W/

ugh if you UW and FoW are gone...just terrible. and the new "UW" is easy...give us back our real dream riders...

if theres no more underworld/fissure of woe, im done with this game. anet cant cant forc everyone to pvp

KiyaKoreena

KiyaKoreena

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Kirins of Holy Light

N/

Yellow triangle means its an enchantment spell, pink means its a hex spell.

I really like the new color scheme. Easier on my eyes, and it will make screenshots of items for sale look a bit nicer. :-) I also like that staff heads and wrappings have new icons.

cliffboss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

new menus are amazing, only thing is on the manu my characters have different armour[i think the pre-sering ]

edit 1
nvm it has to update ur profile

Lasareth

Lasareth

Aquarius

Join Date: Jun 2005

Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place

I'm utterly impressed by the new layout very very nice

GrimUK

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Lot of people in Tombs say that TOA is broken and that ANET know about it, thats why noone can enter via there. Reports of bugs in some of the missions as well.

No idea if this is true just some speculation.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

just one word .................

..................A W E S O M E ...........................

(and over 100 posts in the short time since the update!)

Not sure about FoW but UW can be entered from Tombs ....... FREE!

menikamatii

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/Mo

my sword has changed looks......