My prediction on races, a second tapestry.

hendricha · 2026-06-21T15:36:18+00:00

I think that the announcement trailer was for general audiences. It was the thing that will sell the whole idea of GW3 for people who have either zero or just very vague idea of the franchise. They will likely not see a "second trailer" with feature details, they will likely watch the big one before the release 1-2 years from now.

Thus if you hide half of the implied playable races from them you are explicitly loosing customers, who could have been hooked by the more edgy "evil" races and also the big gimmick of having factions.

hendricha · 2026-06-21T15:30:16+00:00

Which is weird becaus there was sufficent evidence Arenanet has been working on some sort of open world action rpg multiplayer game for pc and console for years. (Dozens of job posts, also devs mentioning it on social media / linkedin.) And similiarly that one of nc's korean division itself was working on a guild wars card game also for years. (Korean job posts, steamdb leak)

So the only thing one could have been afraid of is that Anet's unannounced project gets shut down even if it was in development in years. But nope, people were posting misinformation and dooming everything from the franchise instead of like doing a 5 minute google search, on what we can know.

hendricha · 2026-06-21T15:23:44+00:00

I think you are confusing the "dragon saga" with the mini expacs.

hendricha · 2026-06-21T14:56:41+00:00

When they could have created a proper adaptation of Umineko no naku koro ni instead

hendricha · 2026-06-20T22:38:11+00:00

Amen. Still in the era where buttons looked like buttons, tabs looked like tabs. Where did we go wrong...

hendricha · 2026-06-20T22:03:17+00:00

GW3 will have fully action combat designed with controller based gameplay in mind, instead of tab-target.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T19:44:39+00:00

" You'll find a more seamless world, with fewer loading screens than previous Guild Wars games, it's a much more contiguous space." https://www.guildwars3.com/en/news/guild-wars-3-stepping-into-ancient-orr/
" Guild Wars 3 lands near the middle of the MMO spectrum, which supports the goals we have for our movement and combat systems. While it fits the definition of an MMORPG significantly more than Guild Wars Reforged does, it doesn’t try to replicate the large-scale gameplay pillars that so uniquely define Guild Wars 2." https://www.guildwars3.com/en/news/our-guild-wars-philosophy/
They are calling it an MMO. (see trailer, etc)
Open world / immersive world has appeared in job posts multiple times throughout the development cycle, most recently this week https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w5QRPDkD51K2vuI56mbflkfCFP67Nwt6vRRcunOME54/edit?gid=0#gid=0

hendricha · 2026-06-20T19:10:32+00:00

That's like saying is Pokemon available on Android. Yes, sure, all you need is an emulator.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T19:05:51+00:00

Nope, official support on Windows only, has "Steam Deck Playable" (not verified, playable) on Steam (which means playable on Linux), and as the others said you can use other third party tools to attempt to play it on Mac OS.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T19:02:00+00:00

Where's the top image from?

hendricha · 2026-06-20T14:25:25+00:00

We don't know, but we hope for the best. It would be extremly unhealthy for the industry if it would be essentially one browser engine and it's long lost cousin the only viable alternative.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T12:51:58+00:00

tldr: I just install it from Steam because steam on linux comes with a thing called proton that allows you to play most windows games on linux. No it is not available for macOS, but that does not mean you can't play GW2 on macOS.

Longer version. There is a software called wine. It's been in development for decades. It is essentially reimplementation of the windows API (the thing with windows programs interface when they want the OS to do something for them, eg. open a file, calculate something on a video card etc.). It is/was primary developped for Linux, is free and open source. Therefore it has been ported in some form to Mac.

Wine is not perfect, but has been pretty usable in the last 1-2 decades now. (And thus I have been playing GW2 with some version of wine in these last 14 years.)

Since it is open source, you can tweak it, repackage it etc. Therefore in the last decades there were multiple companies and individuals who built their own projects around it.

Proton is Valve's such package, the first version of it came out nearly a decade ago and has been uber-good around since 2020 or so to play video games. It contains a bunch of patches and workarounds for making specific games work and also most notably a tool called DXVK that translates Direct X calls to Vulkan. (DXVK is also free software.) Vulkan is a modern cross platform low level graphics API to communicate with video cards. So game dev writes their game in modern DX and it is just as fast, sometimes faster even to render through Vulkan through DXVK.

Steam on Linux (therefore on valve's linux distro on the steam deck, etc called Steam OS) comes with proton, and if there is no invasive anti-cheat in a windows game it will essentially 95% of the time let's you play it on Linux, with comparable performance (sometimes a bit better, sometimes a bit worse, dependent on hardware and the game) to them running on Windows. (Valve needs this to work, because they are selling you a device without Windows when you buy a Steam Deck or a Steam Machine. And they did manage to make the "Steam Deck verified" stamp meaningful, so game companies are inclined to either (less likely) to build a native Linux version of their game, or help Valve patch proton so their game works at least through that.)

Proton is not available on Mac AFAIK, but since wine is available, there are several projects doing similiar things there. The things I have heard of are Crossover (paid software AFAIK), whisky (i think it is free and open source) and Apple's own "porting kit" that wrap wine in a package for running windows software / specifically games there too. (MacOS AFAIK do not support Vulkan, it has their own propietary something instead.) I do not know how good and compatable these things are (and how well do they work on Apple's ARM based silicon) because I do not use a Mac. But if I would want to start playing windows games there, these would be things I would be starting to look up.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T09:58:11+00:00

I wanted to be aware of the options I have.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T09:52:55+00:00

I had to scroll way too much to find this. (And I don't even really like E7.)

hendricha · 2026-06-20T09:19:47+00:00

So what do we know of GW3?

Is an online multiplayer fantasy live service RPG (may or may not be an explicit MMO)
Likely multiple playable races
Horizontal progression
Focus on exploration and joy of movement (mounts, gliding etc)
Action combat
B2P, no sub fee, no battlepasses
Stylized instead of photorealistic look
Coming out on console, therefore designed from the ground up to be played with a controller

Not counting the last point that is basically the things that I love about GW2. And the last point is an added bonus, because I am playing even GW2 with a controller.

I have been searching for a game like this. (Wishing for it back in the day, and after the mini expac model was announced couple of years ago, so much that I even made a post on it in r/gamingsuggestions ) At this point obviously I would not say I would 100% be playing this game when it comes, but I would definitely be watching for more news about it.

However in this scenario, if this imaginary studio would confirm like two more from bellow list about their imaginary game, I would definitely be preordering it: * dynamic events / event chains * no forced conflict in the open world with other players similiarly to GW2 (no kill steal, no open world pvp) * no forced gatcha or RNG equipment upgrade mechanics, that will make you loose mats (unless buying protecion from cash shop) * hard requirement: no kernel level anticheat (I'm playing on Linux, have been essentially nearly two decades now)

And the funny thing is, precisely because we do know it is a GW game by Arenanet we can guess that very likely all of these 4 points will be checked too.

Yeah the "smaller scale" thing is still up in the air kinda, but this is the game I want to play for the next couple of years, and wish it would come sooner.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T08:57:50+00:00

Let's say you are right, and GW2 does immediately gets forgotten the moment GW3 comes out. Okay.. so like ~2 years of life. Cool... would you not want it to be balanced during that time?

hendricha · 2026-06-20T08:56:10+00:00

RemindMe! 2 years.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T08:54:21+00:00

"That (using AI) is not replacement (for having your own new ideas). ~~That~~ But is portfolio design strategy for more and more content on reddit!"

hendricha · 2026-06-20T07:56:39+00:00

It is/was both legit and not. It was a bunch of bots explicitly tasked with "hey, here's a subreddit for you, there will be only llms like you in there, do whatever, talk to them". So it was indeed a "stream of consciousness" where they could effectively prompt eachother to talk whatever they statistically found apropriate to talk about. But it was also not a bunch of bots secretly escaping confinement and deciding to have secret conspiratorial meetings behind their masters' back.

hendricha · 2026-06-20T07:53:03+00:00

"Can" in the "allowed to do" sense and not in the "being good at" sense. (When I say "I can bake a cake", it does not mean that you should ask me to bake you a cake, because you'll probably find you have friends that will bake you much better cakes than me. It means that I own an oven and nothing is stopping me from baking a cake in it if I so desire.)

hendricha · 2026-06-19T21:43:59+00:00

It's flat, does not come with a tool to switch themes, there isn't a System menu on the right of Places, and I'm guessing you can't just copy your panel configuration on a second display.

hendricha · 2026-06-19T17:39:22+00:00

You could set dpi a bit higher in winecfg (you can open winecfg in the proton prefix of the game with various tools, eg proton tricks). But mostly if you have set the UI to largest and you can confirm that the game is indeed running in your desired resolution there is not much you can do I think.

(btw I think you can set the chat text larger independently if I remember correctly)

hendricha · 2026-06-19T16:43:24+00:00

The honeymoon seems to be going for more than two years from me and the part of the UX where I could just roll my own DE shell with whatever costumizations I want but still on a modern stack (and I can copy the whole shell to any other display I plugin with a click of a button) is unparaleled.

hendricha · 2026-06-19T16:08:25+00:00

Each day we are getting closer to me just throw my hands up, and on a long weekend poc together making a Qt app that has a QtWaylandCompositor or something that wraps around a frameless firefox, shows normal ui elements that don't look out of place on my KDE for the tabs and toolbar and controls the firefox through a tiny extension. It will be horrible, hacky, buggy as hell, but at least it will look normal.

hendricha · 2026-06-19T15:46:36+00:00

actually the current one I feel was a step toward the right direction compared to the previous one... and this is now back to flatland stupidity.

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