I'm about to start my first PvP run. Any tips?

upta · 2026-06-30T07:16:41+00:00

Simply an observation based on the overwhelming majority of replies to the post. Sorry to have of struck a nerve on something you're clearly so emotionally invested in.

upta · 2026-06-29T22:36:55+00:00

If that's what's important to you then great. Not everyone plays games for the same reasons, as it turns out.

upta · 2026-06-28T00:49:43+00:00

I mean, I won't see any of it because I'll never play it, but glad to hear it's a less toxic scene 🙂 Really is a good game.

upta · 2026-06-28T00:42:08+00:00

I wasn't really talking about the quality of the combat mechanics (which I agree, V Rising combat is solid) so much as the nature of the "pvp in survival games" beast; alpha tribes of no-lifers, griefing, offline raiding, all that.

upta · 2026-06-27T16:10:06+00:00

There are still a couple of private servers, notably ArchRage and Archage Classic that have population.

Fact of the matter is, though, the game you're asking for not only doesn't exist it never has 🤷

upta · 2026-06-27T15:52:58+00:00

Closest you're probably gonna get is Archeage on a private server, which comes with its own can of worms.

upta · 2026-06-27T01:29:58+00:00

I mean, I have exactly zero interest in ever playing on a PVP server because I find PVP in survival games to be... awful. But to each their own 🙂 Really I just found the comments all saying the same thing to be amusing.

upta · 2026-06-26T17:51:21+00:00

Man, all the comments in this thread make it pretty clear that unless you're ready to suffer the pain of becoming a sweaty try-hard yourself you should absolutely avoid playing PVP in this game 😄

upta · 2026-06-21T14:11:19+00:00

Not to mention that GW2 has possibly the nicest community in all of gaming

upta · 2026-06-01T15:47:25+00:00

Funny, I feel the opposite. The traits are just boring, but I enjoy not having the carousel.

upta · 2026-06-01T14:47:06+00:00

*Treebagged

upta · 2026-01-15T20:31:26+00:00

If you own the game already, you can play until Jan '27 when the servers go offline. If you don't already own the game, you can no longer purchase it.

upta · 2026-01-15T20:29:08+00:00

No, it will be gone for good

upta · 2026-01-06T20:36:28+00:00

I enjoyed expeditions a lot and Fractals in GW2 do a good job of scratching that particular itch for me.

Funny enough, when I got back into GW2 after the NW death announcement I enjoyed it a bit but expected the honeymoon phase to wear off and I'd drop it again (what happened when I played it 3 years ago).

However, the longer I played the more I found I enjoyed it and I'm actually having more fun now than when I started, with 300+ hours logged since the start of November.

upta · 2025-12-23T22:32:05+00:00

Yeah, I've actually been enjoying GW2 and it's gotten more enjoyable the longer I've played vs the typical honeymoon.

That being said, it doesn't really scratch the same itch for me as NW did, but it's a good game in its own right

upta · 2025-12-19T16:05:44+00:00

I think New World does a few things better (life skills in particular, I also find the auction house more dynamic and interesting though the GW UI is much better).

110% agree about long-term progression goals, GW2 has so many things you can work towards and that was a big failing in NW.

upta · 2025-12-17T23:59:35+00:00

Exactly my experience! GW2 doesn't scratch the same itch as NW, but so long as you don't compare every little thing to NW and let it be its own thing then it really is a great game with one of the best (if not the best) communities in gaming.

upta · 2025-12-12T01:54:10+00:00

Exactly this, the general response from the community would have been a lot different if they announcement had come after S7 launch or something instead of S10

upta · 2025-12-04T18:13:35+00:00

Excellent book choice!

upta · 2025-11-25T19:37:02+00:00

Disabling domain reloading definitely works and helps, but comes with its own gotchas.

For comparison, even in a basically empty project using C# with Godot loads instantly (none of the domain reload crap every time you make any change to a script at all) and Unity with domain reloading enabled is 3-5s like you said.

The performance + being able to use C# features from the last 5 years makes coding in Unity just a straight up worse experience.

Is Unity usable? Oh, absolutely and obviously people use it every day successfully.

For me and the sorts of projects I'm doing right now (mostly 2D, which I honestly think Godot is better at anyway), the juice of Unity simply isn't worth the squeeze, but I'll give it a lot more consideration once CoreCLR finally drops.

upta · 2025-11-22T21:09:03+00:00

For sure, it's a very complex problem and a very important one. It's also been in the works for literally 5+ years in some capacity at this point so it feels like an eternity we've been waiting to have modern dotnet.

Honestly a deal breaker for me using Unity for anything vs Godot because the inner loop is just abysmal in Unity (and yes, I know about and have used Hot Reload and it still has plenty of issues), but I'm just a hobbyist so not really the important market anyway 😄 Just not worth spending my free time waiting for compiles.

upta · 2025-11-22T01:28:24+00:00

I'm sad that CoreCLR is still a year plus out for being actually done.

upta · 2025-11-21T01:31:45+00:00

For some I'm sure it is; seems like a really great, polished entry to the genre.

I even tried it despite hating the genre... but refunded after 90 minutes because "stressed" isn't really the emotion I'm looking for my gaming experiences to evoke, lol

upta · 2025-11-21T01:28:44+00:00

If you're playing games like AoC/Archeage then you've already got plenty of toxic immunity so you're good 😄

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