The Factions Update- Things You Weren't Impressed With

tbh i wasnt really impressed at all with this update. i didnt like the fact that u started with a lvl 20 character as it took away the fun of being a low lvl character trying to kill higer lvl mobs

no runes to buy.

no skills to buy unless u lvl abut 10 times just to get a few skill points.

although the area maps were good graphicly(sp.) it didnt seem as though there was enough content to keep me playing this for a day.let alone a weekend. i know anet have worked hard to do thid for us, i am grateful, but it was not what i expected and i was bitterly dissapointed with it.

i will still buy the expansion, as there is a lot more content yet to be explored. i just though id post a thread for people who have found things they dont like about the update and they can post them here.

Well it's barely been 4 hours since the event started....I doubt you explored much of the new content. Though it's a problem if you got bored so easily. Did you try out the new 12 vs 12 battles yet? Ive heard those are really fun.

other than what you are reading from your quest giver, you have absolutly no clue what is going on. INTRO TO THE GAME PLEASE!

so thats my only real dissapointment, i know its just a beta event giving us a little smell of the cake but GW should have at least gave us a small intro cinematic.

if i were randomly invited into the event i woulda felt VERY left behind in whats going on. the only real solid things we know about factions are what you learn from NPCs in Lions Arch.

a few hours of play ..

area maps look amazing as usual ...lotsa new content to come etc..
too early for that kind of thread i think

and i kinda expected an extra character slot or 2 for the beta event. i have 4 characters that i played hard to get em where they are and i didnt want to delete them. so i sent my other email address an invite just so i could play the event.

as stewie would say, "not cool man, not cool"



but those are my only real complaints

so GW + 100 for the awesome event, -2 for what i didnt like about it.

98/100 is my score

I was very disappointed with the overall update after about two hours of playing, so I just sat and watched the Cinematic trailer about a hundred times. It's much more impressive than the game.

Conjure nightmare -8 degen

This isn't the game, guys. It's a preview. You wont start at level 20 with top armor in the full game, and the merchants will of course be functional then.

It seems a new fresh take on GW, which is nice. If I've got a complaint it is that the graphics aren't as beautiful as I'd hoped. Yes, the textures are very high-res now (check the houses in the Marketplace), and it looks as if lighting has improved, so now the game is about on par with Half Life 2, but there's not the same imagination and playfulness as there was in Pre-Sear and in Sorrows Furnace/Grenths Footprint. I wonder if this was done by a different graphics team?
Then again, maybe I just prefer 'european' graphics to 'asian', or maybe I'm just suffering from GW burnout, having played since the week after launch, I don't know.

Now I'm off to try the 12vs12. Haven't done that yet.

didnt get to see that skill

I guess to a PVPer that would be something to not like, if you are on the other team :-P but to the pve crowd, -8degen to a monster would definitly put a mesmer in my group

Got a bug in the quest to kill all the Luxon scouting groups. Last group would not spawn. Searched all around the area, was standing right on the green star ..... nothing.

Also seems to be a lot of freeze up lag problems.

Other than that, it's okay.

the bug needs to be sent to guildwars. as for the lag and freeze you get, id check out your computer because the game seemed very fine for me and the people i were playing with

Hex spell -8 deg by 10 ~ 13 seconds if i correct

damn.. i m experiencing GW crashes like the first weeks ..

Let's decompress a million files at each zone okay?

At this stage I can't justify a purchase, I wouldn't pay full price for what I consider an expansion. Most of the mobs I've encountered were variations on those in GW (yetis, jellyfish, skales etc) with the same animations. I wasn't that interested in either of the new classes, guess I'm burnt out on Guild Wars.

agreed since the content is different, but not new :/

imo, the next best thing to GW is a game where you can "mount" things and pay every month for a cartoon-ish world

comparing chapter2 to that gets GW a +1 so we are back up to 99/100 score lol

I've hit both bugs: Lag freeze and the non-spawning party on the quest.

12v12 is better than advertised. No one knows what they are doing yet, but after 5 hours people are beginning to get a clue and owning as a result.

i also noticed bugged drops from nagas btw.. they disappear as they hit the ground(and some graphical stuff are missing), i also got a crash while exploring Hills to the east

Well....I weren't impressed with the load times, but that is expected more or less. I do have one complaint.....namely the size of the new towns, though to be fair I think calling them cities is more appropriate. If they get much bigger they had better give us some way of traversing the city other than by running across the full length of it.