GW2 closed beta this year

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GW2 closed beta this year

« on: September 28, 2011, 09:14:41 AM »

Looks like they're going to have both a closed and an open beta.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-27-guild-wars-2-closed-beta-2011-for-sure


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Re: GW2 closed beta this year

« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2011, 11:13:50 AM »

bout time!!!!!


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Re: GW2 closed beta this year

« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2011, 11:14:41 AM »

a few remark's about the pc spec's.

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27/09/11 @ 09:38
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What kind of rig do we think this will need to run nice? Not being funny, but the original Guild Wars is still one hot looking game and, at the time of release, it could be played on fairly modest PCs with the settings at maximum.

... Or will I need a new machine?
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27/09/11 @ 10:44
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Guild Wars 2 runs on a heavily modified version of the Guild Wars 1 engine. It seems to scale very well and be optimised for a wide range of pc specs.
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@Gearskin
I believe they play on machines that have components that are so old you can't even buy them anymore. They are optimising for low end. Their focus is on art style rather than power hungry graphical effects and high poly counts.
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Guild Wars has always been very good at having an extremely scalable engine. I'd imagine its so robust at this point that its ridiculous, since they only improved it with every expansion pack they released. People playing on absolutely atrocious laptops could get GW to run.


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Re: GW2 closed beta this year

« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 03:18:45 AM »

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We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.