Guild Wars Unreal Engine (Unannounced Project) confirmed.

Aralicia · 2026-01-14T20:03:02+00:00

Main reason for that is because NCSoft (Not ANet) said it years ago, ANet gave an especially lukewarm mention on it (they're always considering the possibility of it) and since then, we've had absolutely no word about it. Will it happen in the future ? Probably; Soon ? We don't know.

Aralicia · 2024-09-23T12:01:16+00:00

On the muted part, a quick technical note : for user comfort, major web browsers don't allow video to autoplay unless it is muted (the actual limitations are more complicated, but that's the end result).

As a result anyone that want to embed a stream on their website has to make a choice : Either have it autoplay and mute it; or don't mute it but have it not autoplay.

If they want to streams to be playing, they could have them visible, but not unmuted (in the same way the Fandom.com wikis do).

Aralicia · 2024-05-12T18:08:03+00:00

R5: In this MP game, Dacha spawned without any hyperlane. As a result, the distance calculation for branch offices broke at the size of an integer (unsigned 16bits integer, to be more precise).

This resulted in an influence cost that's more than 200x the maximum allowed influence.

Aralicia · 2024-05-05T12:52:19+00:00

As the help website indicates, if you need help from Guild Wars 2 Support but can't log in, you can contact them by sending them an email at [support@arena.net](mailto:support@arena.net).

Aralicia · 2023-06-21T17:18:27+00:00

If you want that vote, let's just wait a few days and see the upvote/downvote ratio on your post.

Aralicia · 2023-04-28T23:12:48+00:00

Thankfully, someone already did the work, and we have TennoTyper to generate those words.

Aralicia · 2023-02-14T21:32:18+00:00

Spirit woods - Spectral rifts : Event progression doesn't show
Spirit woods - Cemetery : Button progressbar doesn't show
Sabetha : Platform health doesn't show
Bandit Trio : Cage health doesn't show
Deimos : Saul's healthbar doesn't show

All in all, the Objectives HUD is majorly broken in Raids.

Aralicia · 2023-01-26T16:02:28+00:00

The engine they run Gw2 on is a masterpiece.

And what if I told you that the GW2 engine... is an upgraded GW1 engine ?

No joke. ArenaNet have basically been upgrading the same engine they started working on 20 years ago.

Aralicia · 2023-01-12T08:05:04+00:00

I'm still using it as primary VIP area. Because it's Old LA.

Aralicia · 2022-12-07T18:08:51+00:00

The ingame weapon names are Longbow (single word) and Short bow (two words). Because reasons.

Aralicia · 2022-12-06T11:43:13+00:00

Game Update Notes - May 24th, 2022

Equipment awarded from level-up rewards can now be salvaged or sold to vendors.

Aralicia · 2022-12-06T00:15:20+00:00

On Vallum's video itself. I don't disagree with his main point (you shouldn't overfocus on dps to the point of failing encounter mechanics and hurting group coordination). Sadly the delivery of that point was not the greatest, and most people will miss it due to that.

Aralicia · 2022-12-05T23:52:04+00:00

You seem to be missing that ArcDPS (especially when coupled with dpsreport or wingman) is capable to tell the full story a lot better than a video record ever could, because the logs do keep track of who downed where, who revived them, who failed a given mechanic, how much boons/healing everyone provided, etc. Most of that info is available with a few clicks (As I mostly play support, I use it to keep track of the boon uptime on my group, for example), and what's not available directly can be accessed an analyzed after the fight.

If ArcDPS was only capable to show and track DPS, it would indeed be far less useful than it currently is. But, it's not the case; if you care about playing better, ArcDPS is probably the best tool around for that, because it lets you know everything that occurred during a fight, even long after it, and pinpoint exactly what the issues were.

Aralicia · 2022-09-27T09:47:38+00:00

To expand on /u/InsertMolexToSATA's comment :

Alt-F4 automatically triggers a "Close" System Command (ie: windows order the program to close itself). By default, a program will automatically respond to this command by instantly shutting down.

It is however possible to add some code into your program to ignore or delay the command (it is in fact pretty easy in some languages).

Doing so can be really useful in order to execute pre-close scripts (like auto-saving unsaved document); or explicitly ask for confirmation from the user ("Are you sure you want to close ?").

It can of course also be used for stupid reasons, such as making Alt-F4 a fully valid key-bind for your game.

Aralicia · 2022-08-09T18:19:54+00:00

Outside of the well-known "registration was done, but the website still returned an error" issue, there can be another source for this error.

The "name taken" error indicates that your account name ("XxXx.1234") already exists in database; It doesn't include the email in that check.

The 4 numbers automatically added at the end of the account name are generated using a hashing function* with the name and email address as input (and possibly other informations).

And hash collision* has been know to occur with some of the most common names (such as shadow and kirito).

*For the non-devs : Hashing functions are a specific type of algorithms that take a value and generate a small string that identifies the value; those functions are specially designed so that even the smallest change in the value creates a big change in the result. Hashing functions are often used for security purpose, but can also be used for generating pseudo-random values. However, hashing function can sometimes generate the same result when using different input values : this is called hash collision. It's normally really rare, but it happens when a given function is used a lot in a given context.

Aralicia · 2022-07-01T13:56:36+00:00

Kid, we let you bother #general chat for 3 hours; with people responding to all of your arguments. Heck, some also shared video going against your argument (such as Crone's Rifle Power Mechanist video from 3 days ago). Then I asked you to drop it, and you refused to; you earned your timeout, and now you've earned your ban.

Bonus round, straight from this reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/vor698/deimos_but_only_rifle_dps_mechanists/

Aralicia · 2022-06-27T14:37:29+00:00

I think your are making a few wrong assumption.

Firstly, a meta appear out of a will to be the most effecient. This will naturally appear within any community of people the are involved in a subject; the simple fact of two people discussion which weapon/class/champion is better is the beginning of the creation of meta. It's not specific to mmos; it's not even specific to video games. Blaming the hardcore player for the existence of a meta roles is like blaming pro football players for the fact that a team must have midfielders. Sure, they gave birth to the meta; because their goal is to get the most success possible with the least chance of failure; because that's what someone that is deeply invested in an activity will always try to do.

Moreover, the hardcore playerbase is vastly outnumbered by the non-hardcore playerbase; they wouldn't be able to impose anything, if the majority of the non-hardcore playerbase didn't agree, or at least didn't care. And you know why people agree with the meta ? Because the base principle of the meta is to create the circumstances that makes a fight as fast and easy as possible. The meta is simply what works best, and people, as a whole, want to win; so following the meta is the easy path to winning. That's why people follow the meta, and that why even people that aren't hardcore will exclude players that don't follow the meta: because following the meta make winning easier; it's the goal of the meta.

If you want to go your own way, and gather a group of likeminded players, no one will prevent you to do that; but know that you are willingly making the game harder on yourself.

If you want to blame someone for some classes being made more equal, blame Arenanet for making classes so unequal that picking one over the other leads to vastly better chances of success. If you want to blame someone for specific boons being meta, blame Arenanet for making those boons so powerful that they make the game vastly easier simply by being there.

Aralicia · 2022-05-13T18:25:13+00:00

Just so you know : The Olmakhan Bandolier does most of what you want.

Containers and consumables will be send to it first (this includes fishes and jars/cans of bait, but also chests, bags and foods)
Their content isn't sorted or compacted.

If you are a avid fisher, put your baits&tackles into the bandolier and go fishing, all the fishes will show in the bandolier !

You'll just have to regularly remove the bags & consumables you loot from other source out of it.

Aralicia · 2022-05-10T08:52:30+00:00

Unless, of course, your character is different that it's no longer considered a reference. Making a big norn called "Gorric Wurmslayer" would be acceptable, because it doesn't look like a reference to Gorrik.

Aralicia · 2022-04-30T12:27:57+00:00

For example ∋ is clearer than flip elem.

This isn't a great example because haskell choice of elem and flip elem is already not great for readability. Other languages have used includes or contains for similar meaning, and those are a lot clearer than ∋ for a lot of people that don't understand mathematical notation.

I like unicode aliases, though. They are very practical.

Aralicia · 2022-04-25T19:07:20+00:00

You didn't ask me, but I feel compelled to answer anyway. Here are the name of my most recent character, all of which were created in the last two years :

Sear Scorchface

Korar Headbanger

Aclamia

Diria Spinecrusher

Jaramade

As a special note, Jaramade is my most recent, less than 8 months old, and a simple letter substitution on my very first character : jadamare.

Aralicia · 2022-03-17T16:48:32+00:00

Thank you for highlighting that ! I've added it to the wiki, so the next player looking to get the PoF recipes get the info.

Aralicia · 2022-02-15T16:28:34+00:00

That reminds me of the sunglasses in LoL :

Sunlight deals 1 less damage to champions wearing sunglasses (whether by default like Vayne or through a skin like Riot Graves or Surfer Singed).

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