Have you ever dreamed of a fantastic online-game and had a horrible computer and an even worse internet-connection? Welcme to Guild Wars 2 Open Beta.

I mean really, compared to the press-beta... this is a joke:

#1 FPS are horrible - no idea what they screwed around with their engine. I run a i7 2.6k, 570gtx, 16gb and FPS on max feels like 10! The Beta-Forums are full of complains about it.

#2 Its impossible to try out the combat system, when youre ping is like 400-600ms and doing a hit or activating an ability takes like 1,5-2sec. No intense combat-feeling, at all. It is completely out of sync. I just wanted to try out PvP and skip PvE and Lore for launch - well I can skip PvP now aswell.

#3 Music great, artwork great, characters great, textures okay, grafic-design great, animations okay (its abit odd...) - combat? could be good.

Conclusion: I would not release GW2 before the end of 2012. Never, ever! But how they set the pre-purchase and the open beta, it might be this summer. This game has potential, no doubt. But so far, these 2-3hours of "testing" .. cough..cough.. "Give me back my money" for now.

Whats your impression?

This is not an Open Beta GEEZ, this only the first BETA WEEKEND EVENT, henc it's still in Close Beta. BWE will continue until the game is fully optimized and there will be NO OB at all. Get your facts straight please.

this topic belongs in the GW2 section.. Op what made you think it was worthy of a special place in GD?  your opinion isnt that important.

thanks

Originally posted by Gabby-air
It's rather odd the performance is so bad considering devs said if people were running guild wars they should have no problem with this game and let's be honest that is far from the truth. It's pushing a system more than Battlefield 3....

If you read GW2 forums you'd see what the devs said "GW2 right only fully loads your CPU and it has very little load on the GPU" as the BWE goes on they will be optimizing the graphical and other engine problems of the game.

"Hardware Compatibility

• Display: the graphics-settings slider has only a minor impact on performance at this time.
  • We are currently optimizing Guild Wars 2, making ongoing improvements to the game’s frame rate. Presently, the game is CPU-bound on most high-end systems, so lowering graphics settings or upgrading your video card may not have a large impact on performance.
  • On older or lower-end machines, it is recommended that you try disabling reflections to improve frame rate.
• Installing the game client into the Program Files directory on Windows Vista or Windows 7 can lead to issues with the patching process.
  • It is advised that you install the game to another folder or launch it as an administrator.
• Forcing anti-aliasing through AMD Catalyst™ Control Center or AMD VISION™ Engine Control Center typically results in a black screen when playing.
• Windows TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) will sometimes restart a user’s graphics drivers if they become unresponsive, resulting in a notification that the graphics driver has been restarted.
• Alienware ATI Laptops: the Guild Wars 2 client does not restore properly after being minimized.
• Currently, adjusting the core clock speed of the GPU or CPU typically results in lower performance.
  • It is advised that you leave core clock speeds at factory defaults.
• AMD CrossFire™ and NVIDIA® SLI™ are not currently supported.
  • These features should be disabled while running the game.
• Enabling NVIDIA 3D VISION® may cause a crash on some systems.
  • If you experience a crash while this setting is enabled, it is recommended that you disable it in the NVIDIA Control Panel."

It's not optimized, they said that, but the perfomance didn't suddenly drop from the last events from all i heard.

Also, i played structured PVP the last few hours. Yes, it does lag, sometimes it stops completely for a minute or something. But most of the time it's not noticeable. No idea about my ping, or FPS, didn't check.

Also: Nobody paid for beta. You paid for the game. Anybody who says he paid for beta should have to pay again if you want to play after launch  - you didn't buy it after all.

I have 2 different impressions:

1. Finally got in after 30 minutes, made a norn warrior. Had no lag whatsoever, game was running fine, did some DEs, visited Hoelbrok and LA. Then I crashed, might be because my AMD decided to boot out a raid disk. Total playtime about 2 hours, got 1 lag spike.

2. After fixing my drive I made a human thief. Suddenly I got horrible lag and the game was close to unplayable. Got kicked out 3 times and decided to call it for tonight.

It really felt like 2 different games and was rather confusing. I played on Far shiverpeaks. All settings except shadows were maxed out and I had no problem running the game whatsoever, it looked great.

The login server was really annoying, as was the lag in Shaemoor.

Well plays fine for me I7 FTW, only issues are connecting but i expected as much.But given the huge volume of traffic straining the servers its not suprising.

Game runs fine once i'm in, Everything on max with steady FPS, except with large groups and aoe going on. Overflow system seems to be working well. I do however wish they implemented the guest feature so you could play with friends :(.

But I know for myself that the game is worth the money with 30-minutes to an hour of play i've done.

p.s. My main is now going to be a thief there awesome =D

Originally posted by EduardoASG
[Mod Edit]

You sir, did not play in the AoC beta.

I spent 4 hours to get the patcher working there, another 2 to log in and once I logged in it had more bugs than the temple of Doom. Not to mention that most items hadplaceholders and many of the quests didn't work. and that was Tortage, the place known to be far more polished than the rest of the game.

I actually thought this would be worse. It is a beta, if the game still have issues at launch I will be furious, now I just get slightly annoyed on the logging server.

From what Ive heard from people in game. It seems that the high end video card chipsets are having problems running the game. For example my GTX 460 runs the game perfectly on max settings with no graphics. whilst a person with a 580 has a laggy mess. Ive heard rumors that the game has been optimized yet and thats why it works for some people and not for others.

On a positive note ive personally found the game really fun. Its lived up to my expectations but Im also fairly easy to please haha. I imagine some critic is going to find some way to complain though. 

For those that are upset, dont be. Closed beta are for fixing problems. It would be rage worthy if it was like this at release but like others have said. Its the first CLOSED beta weekend for those that have prepurchased. Stuff will break.

Best wishes

Saint

Originally posted by Twistingfate

From what Ive heard from people in game. It seems that the high end video card chipsets are having problems running the game. For example my GTX 460 runs the game perfectly on max settings with no graphics. whilst a person with a 580 has a laggy mess. Ive heard rumors that the game has been optimized yet and thats why it works for some people and not for others.

 

On a positive note ive personally found the game really fun. Its lived up to my expectations but Im also fairly easy to please haha. I imagine some critic is going to find some way to complain though. 

 

For those that are upset, dont be. Closed beta are for fixing problems. It would be rage worthy if it was like this at release but like others have said. Its the first CLOSED beta weekend for those that have prepurchased. Stuff will break.

 

Best wishes

Saint

 Strange, i had pretty bad FPS and performance on my GTX 460. Which processor do you have?

Intel i5 760 @ 4 cores 2.8ghz. thats my processor.

gtx 460 video card.

4gig of corsair ram.

windows 7 64bit

Originally posted by Stalkerous

Originally posted by Gabby-air
It's rather odd the performance is so bad considering devs said if people were running guild wars they should have no problem with this game and let's be honest that is far from the truth. It's pushing a system more than Battlefield 3....

If you read GW2 forums you'd see what the devs said "GW2 right only fully loads your CPU and it has very little load on the GPU" as the BWE goes on they will be optimizing the graphical and other engine problems of the game.

"Hardware Compatibility

• Display: the graphics-settings slider has only a minor impact on performance at this time.
  • We are currently optimizing Guild Wars 2, making ongoing improvements to the game’s frame rate. Presently, the game is CPU-bound on most high-end systems, so lowering graphics settings or upgrading your video card may not have a large impact on performance.
  • On older or lower-end machines, it is recommended that you try disabling reflections to improve frame rate.
• Installing the game client into the Program Files directory on Windows Vista or Windows 7 can lead to issues with the patching process.
  • It is advised that you install the game to another folder or launch it as an administrator.
• Forcing anti-aliasing through AMD Catalyst™ Control Center or AMD VISION™ Engine Control Center typically results in a black screen when playing.
• Windows TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) will sometimes restart a user’s graphics drivers if they become unresponsive, resulting in a notification that the graphics driver has been restarted.
• Alienware ATI Laptops: the Guild Wars 2 client does not restore properly after being minimized.
• Currently, adjusting the core clock speed of the GPU or CPU typically results in lower performance.
  • It is advised that you leave core clock speeds at factory defaults.
• AMD CrossFire™ and NVIDIA® SLI™ are not currently supported.
  • These features should be disabled while running the game.
• Enabling NVIDIA 3D VISION® may cause a crash on some systems.
  • If you experience a crash while this setting is enabled, it is recommended that you disable it in the NVIDIA Control Panel."

Ah, didn't know they were so behind in optimization and overall performance. I thought their justification was in the same regards as other devs where performance is usually blamed on it being a beta and on release performance really only ends up improving very slightly like for example AOC. But I trust Arenanet and do believe they will smooth the issues by release, was just a little surprised by how bad it was.