Please don't ask about release date, beta or anything like that. The game is currently is closed alpha.

I was at Eurogamer yesterday, and I can confirm with you that there is no tentative release but they're looking to trying and getting a Closed Beta this Q4. No, there will be no way to get into the CBT as it'll be for specific people only, perhaps top guilds will get invites from what the NCsoft staff said.

The beta test will determine their route after.


I also managed to get a fair bit of play in, the demo being 40 minutes. We were thrown into a fairly high levelled content (Lvl60) and I played an Asuran thief taking on Tequatl the Sunless. Game is very very fluid and fast. Most of the time you won't have enough time to stop and see what's going on or read your skills; but worry not they're really easy to take a look at with all the information you need displayed clearly.

Even for an alpha build, it is very very polished. Thief mechanics are pretty interesting, where you can swap your weapons on the fly as long as the swap hotkey is not on cooldown. Same goes for utilities. Above each utility skill is a small arrow where you can slot them out for other utilities so long as its off cooldown! Also all classes can autocast one skill, typically your first skill which has no cost(?). So I'd autocast Twisting Fangs, and all I needed to do was to hit it once when I was near a mob and it'd spam it.

The developer talk was just Colin showing off some stuff, but what caught my attention was the inclusion of facial sliders for the characters. Currently only the Humans have it, but we'll definitely see more to come! (Sims 3 anyone?)

After that, I spent the last three hours conversing with Regina and the others from the guru about general stuff and just talking really.

http://instagr.am/p/N6Q8w/

This post has been edited by ZeratoS: Sep 24 2011, 08:42 PM

Thanks for the input. By the six, you really flew to London to attend this expo? Hope you had fun at that place!

And...did a charr follow you back home?

Nice, btw Zeratos, are they selling the Charr plush on booth? since some of us do want to get it, but the shipping cost is too high if going by Penny Arcade...

I'm currently in the UK studying, so it was just an hour half train trip to London. Fraid there wasn't any swag nor purchasable merchandise at the booth. I DID ask Regina, but they said they gave most of it away at PAX and Gamescom so they really didn't bring any for Eurogamer.

As for other merchandise in the future, Regina said t-shirts will definitely be for sale at one point but they're still trying to figure out a design that's good but differs from the staff tee's.

This post has been edited by ZeratoS: Sep 25 2011, 07:54 AM

fuuuuuuuu deng u get to play guild wars 2 so early !!!

http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/09/...7ef12c60a_7.jpg




hows the ping btw?



hmmm

i'm at 22/50 now.
if i max weapons tree should get 30/50 XD

This post has been edited by Deimos Tel`Arin: Sep 25 2011, 10:22 AM

The next expo will be in Paris, but I doubt I can go for that one. The build will be the same though, so nothing new there.

Not sure what you mean by ping as this is still an alpha build so everything was probably connected locally.

^ nah i'm sure they got a server online and they use internet connection to connect to their servers.

whats everyone's progress btw? http://hom.guildwars2.com
mine is 22/50


how come this tered so quiet one?

30/50

I think it's quiet coz the game haven't release yet...

and the only way of trying it is to fly halfway across the world...

^ eh the unlocks are account wide? i tried all 3 of your characters all came out 30/50 O_O

Yes points are account wide. Help me get the rest of mine :<

^ oooo berapa u got now. i'm at 22/50

17? I haven't been working on it! I only want to get to Icelord Diadem anyway since I saw the Firegod Vambraces and they're fugly.

^ what's your character name oooo let me check your progress XD

btw do you have spare mini pets?

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Added on September 27, 2011, 12:12 pmi got the following miniatures.

well, extra ones, i added them to the hall of monuments liao.
these are extra copies, not added to the monument.

anyone want ar?

http://i.imgur.com/XHSOx.jpg


mostly whites, some purple.

i'm at 32/50 so i need 18 more miniatures to get full points for the miniatures tree.

This post has been edited by Deimos Tel`Arin: Sep 27 2011, 12:12 PM

I have hydra and necrid horseman. I don't mind giving them away.

^ aaaaah i got those 2 liao. got others?

nope...those 2 are the extras...

if you got the $$, you can try gather the items for the destroyer weapon.

Its Alexandriea Erisia. I'm not sure what I need but I don't think I have half of those

(waiting for my other characters birthday to come up )

okies u got 17/50

hmm berapa gold u got?
if u got gold u can craft some armor.

lulz i spent like 300k on vabbian armor.

getting the luxon armor already make me bankrupt liao...thanks to the War in Kryta daily quest that I got the $$ to get both the oppressor and destroyer weapon.

200k left

Was planning on making elite Kurzick and then nailing the title as well but all bots these days..