GW2 : Interview de Jeff Strain dans un magazine allemand

Ca vient de guildwarsguru (c'est de la traduction google donc c'est parfois [souvent] de la traduction bidon, mais ca donne une idée) :

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Guild Wars 2: The status quo - 10 Facts + Interview!
Five divided races and an enemy of everyone at the same time it takes: Tyria in the year 1325th We have all the important facts gathered Guild Wars 2 ...

1st Open, persistent game world
The main innovation in Guild Wars 2 concerns the world, which is the first time with all the other players share - just as in other (paid!) Online role-playing games! Concretely, this means you are also out of town on players, you can always groups and jointly cope with tasks. Instantiated comes only in specific quests and missions. Nevertheless - and that the developers put great value - mutates Guild Wars 2, therefore, not to an x-any online role-playing game! Sinnentleertes Monster Bela happy, generic Sammelquests and Wegschnappen of prey will be avoided. Long run routes are also flat, because the quick trip by overview map also works in Guild Wars 2nd

2nd Worlds instead of servers
So people are not mutually occurs on the feet, each new character is assigned a so-called world. The big difference to the rigid classification of many competing server products: The character data from Guild Wars 2 will be managed and globally in a large database. So, you wish at any time between the worlds switch back and forth, so you need not fear to another server to land as your friends. Between the Worlds are also special PvP battles instead of (more in fact 5).

3rd Freedom of movement and struggles flottere
It was also time: Guild Wars 2 offers a more direct nature of control! They swim, jump and climb to the new game world to explore. The camera moves closer to your character up, so are the battles more exciting. The new combat system, the tactical depth of the predecessor maintained, but with significantly fewer skills, so that beginners are not overwhelmed. Using well discernible impact should we also talent in the heat of battle and without reading a text description grasp. Total muten sure actionreicher the fighting.


Quote:4th Huge Events
Instanced quests and missions, there was already in its predecessors, so Guild Wars 2 adds a new task: The so-called events (events). An event is a dynamic Quest series, and may at any time in a zone of persistent game world. Simplified example: A dragon destroys the important city bridge. All players in the zone, whether in a group or not, you can now fight the beast. If the attack fail, try non-player characters from the city, rebuild the bridge. You must protect them from predators. All players who take part will receive a reward at the end as in normal quests. Such dynamic events run in huge scales and even overlap. Jeff Strain describes it with the scarce words: "Everywhere in the world is something going on!" Normal quests are designed for solo players and adjust their level of difficulty as soon as possible in a group.

5th Player-versus-player (PvP)
Player-versus-player battles (PvP) are also in Guild Wars 2 is an important component. Pure PvP avatars there is no more, you play only with a role-playing game character. Introducing PvP battles between the worlds (more about the worlds read in paragraph 2)! There are special open PvP areas where players from different worlds fight and argue for strategic positions. The resulting battles will be huge, because each player is loose and not binding mitmischen. From love to e-sport and as an alternative to the loose-PvP worlds, there are also guild battles (GvG). For this mode remains fair, all players temporarily on the same level. It is therefore all the talents, skills and equipment, with his team and his opponents equal.

6th Extensive character development
Just 20 character levels the player can reach in the predecessors - many is too little. The level cap will be in Guild Wars 2 dramatically increased, according to Jeff Strain you even think about it, they just completely omitted. What is certain is that with the nature of his Aufleveln for hundreds of hours employed. Whether also classical attributes such as strength, agility and vitality to use? "Do we still do not," replied Strain. Also on mounts, he did not mention anything to lose. But we confirmed that Guild Wars 2 a "robust" craft system. In addition, equipment such as weapons and clothing, a much more important role and no longer bound to be classes-the war in Guild Wars 1 still completely different.


Quote:7th Accompany and "Side Kicking"
The heroes and followers from Guild Wars 1 have run out of steam. Instead, each player can be more than a companion everywhere, but no slot in a group show. The developers give you the choice is a part of your forces rather in a companion instead of into your character to invest - for example in a pet or a hero as in Nightfall. In addition, Guild Wars 2 side-Kicking system similar to the one from City of Heroes. It fit the characteristics of a niedrigstufigen nature hochstufi are those of a player in the same group. This is useful if you jointly solving quests or early in the game at the large world-PvP (read more Item 5) wants to participate.

8th Updated graphics engine
Guild Wars also has an excellent reputation Grafikfetischisten: Arena Nets self-developed engine comes with great visibility, low hardware requirements and very short loading times. This principle, the developer at Guild Wars 2 true! Since the graphics at the time of publication but top-up to date, writes Arenanet a large part of their engine from scratch, it adds new features such as sophisticated lighting effects, significantly higher polygon volumes and improved textures. About DirectX 10-supporting wanted man does not speak, but we think it is very likely. So far there are no screenshots Guild Wars 2nd

9th Races and classes
In Guild Wars 2, next to people from several races. Two of them, the asura and the Norn, celebrate their appearance in Eye of the North, there is also a people called Sylvari. Interestingly for connoisseurs of its predecessors: Even the Charr, formerly enemies of the people, you must play! Since all peoples against a new threat unite, there is neither groups nor a division into good or evil. Breeds not only determine the look, but above all the capabilities of the character. The Norn can be found in a bear form with completely new properties and talents transform. The classes would like Arenanet betrayed nothing, but this one - as Jeff Strain - the predecessor of which inspire. Here are the races at a glance:

The Norn
The three-metre Norn transform into bears, and therefore like everything alone. Team companions regarded them rather than witness their heroic deeds. They dominate the Zittergipfelgebirge and quarrel with the Schaufl errasse it. With the Charr are always smaller Konfl ikte out, people are indifferent to it peacefully. A Eisdrache in the north prepares them still worry. It is the last remaining Kryta Kingdom of the people. Stick to the tactical very unfortunate among all other races and various Dragon strongholds, it is also not on the inside to rest. The white robe, a religion, the magical creatures believed dead worship, the Queen and the old gods Five cult fall.

The people
Three kingdoms of the people are destroyed, one of the lost contact. It is the last remaining Kryta Kingdom of the people. Stick to the tactical very unfortunate among all other races and various peace. The white robe, a religion, the magical creatures believed dead worship, the Queen and the old gods Five cult fall.

The Charr
The descendants of cats Charr have already 1,700 years military conflict with the people behind it. Imagine the power to the outside, which destroyed the Kingdom of Ascalon, they are internally divided into four legions who disagree: the blood Legion, the Legion ash, iron Legion and the gold Legion. The latter is particularly because of their religious beliefs unpopular.

The Asura
Former underground alive, it is the small Asura at the surface easily. Asura portals allow easy travel, their magical objects have the highest quality. Modesty is not an asura virtue, they believe they are the smartest people Tyrias. A Asura are more commands than it receives. You should only care that you're not a victim to the farmer asura plan.

The Sylvari
Only 100 years before the action of Guild Wars 2 schlüpften the first Sylvari in the adult state cocoons to a magical oak in the Bay Arbor grow. Their knowledge exchange in the "dream of dreams", a collective awareness. The wisdom of the Centaurs Ventari form the basis of their society, which have so far spared by war. Sylvari shall be deemed to be curious, clever and magical hochbegabt.

10th No running costs
A huge, persistent world. Hundreds hrs playing time only for the character development. Open-PvP worlds. Zone Cross major events. Modern graphics. And much more ... What is missing, then? The monthly fee! The Professional s Arenanet promise for Guild Wars 2: Once the game to buy, once activated - and play so much you want, without ever again have to pay anything. This is where the competition to attract warm!


Quote:Interview with Jeff Strain, a founding member of Arenanet

PC Games: How do you want the only target? Such a build complex world, all players share, and still no monthly fees?

Strain: (laughs) "A very good question! Interestingly, many people believe that the complete instanced game world was the reason why we Guild Wars 1, no monthly fees had to ask. This is simply wrong! The presence or absence of a persistent world is not crucial for the ongoing costs for the maintenance of an online role-playing occur. "

PC Games: How do you know?

Strain: "What really counts are the innovative technologies, which we created Guild Wars 1. They allow us, the operating costs low to keep what will be in the huge advantage - the lack of charges - for the player pays. We believe, therefore, in our approach to Guild Wars 2: Once the game is available, we will start working on other content. Such, where the players themselves must decide whether it wants to or not. Maybe the add - ons or entire campaigns or pay online extensions, we know that even not so accurate. However, what is sure is that we provide course in Guild Wars 2 again the same comprehensive support services to our fans now accustomed! "

PC Games: We always had the feeling that no equipment too large role in Guild Wars plays so that the PvP always fair. What is now in place?

Strain: "Equipment is a much more important role in Guild Wars 2. You'll find lots of cool objects, which really in the character development forward. Why in Guild Wars 1 or otherwise, was just that we entirely on the PvP the ability of the player designed. No one should be at an advantage just because you have more time spent in the game than others. we solve this problem in Guild Wars 2 simply changed: the world-PvP are the players in equipment and level significantly differ from each other - that's totally okay so. GvG In the same character values, talents and equipment of the players, however, accordingly, so that all the same opportunities. That is also the e-sports tournaments claim for elaborate saved! Since player against -- Player fights again being very fair, we can at the objects also really steam. "
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5th Player-versus-player (PvP)
Player-versus-player battles (PvP) are also in Guild Wars 2 is an important component. Pure PvP avatars there is no more, you play only with a role-playing game character. Introducing PvP battles between the worlds (more about the worlds read in paragraph 2)! There are special open PvP areas where players from different worlds fight and argue for strategic positions. The resulting battles will be huge, because each player is loose and not binding mitmischen. From love to e-sport and as an alternative to the loose-PvP worlds, there are also guild battles (GvG). For this mode remains fair, all players temporarily on the same level. It is therefore all the talents, skills and equipment, with his team and his opponents equal.

En substance, pas de persos pvp, donc va falloir grinder pour pouvoir faire du pvp -_-
Il ne nous restera que le GvG ou il ne sera pas obligatoire d'avoir un perso pve grindé à mort...

Perso je suis bien refroidi... En résumé, tu es riche, tu peux t'acheter le meilleur équipement et tu as du temps pour grinder => tu es le roi du pvp... Bye bye le concept du "skill > temps passé"...

la règle d'or serait : si tu as du stuff tu déchires?? argh, serait-il passé du coté obsucr du mmorpg version wow??? bon bin advienne que pourra on vera le moment venu

j'ai lu quelque part qu'ils allaient *peut être* mettre un truc comme dans City of Heros :
dans un groupe les hauts lvl sont moins forts et le bas lvl sont plus forts ...
à suivre ^^

pour les anglophobes voici un petit résumé fait par MP:

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Le Wiki Guilds Wars vient de s’updater avec une traduction de l’article allemand de PC Games : « Le Status Quo » Et attention, on y apprend des trucs !

Ça commence par 10 points importants du futur MMO d’ArenaNet.

Monde ouvert et persistant : ça one le savait déjà, mais il faut le rappeler : Guild Wars 2 ne sera pas une suite d’instance comme GW1, mais un monde plus classique où tout le monde se rencontre partout. ArenaNet renouvelle son souhait de se débarrasser des quêtes Fedex et de grind. De plus, on pourra se déplacer dans le monde automatiquement d’un lieu à l’autre avec la carte, comme dans GW1.
Des mondes au lieu de serveurs. Les bases de données des perso étant globale, on pourra passer d’un monde à l’autre sans soucis. Pour Guild Wars, les trois « mondes » étaient l’Amérique, l’Europe et l’Asie.
Mouvement et dynamique de combat : votre personnage pour nager, sauter et escalader. La caméra se rapprochera du joueur pour rendre les combats plus cinématiques (ils ont lu mon billet d’humeur sur la shoulder cam ?) La profondeur tactique de GW reviendra, mais avec moins de compétences (c’est p’têt pas un mal). Et des effets encore plus reconnaissables pour comprendre ce qu’il se passe en pleine action.
Des évènements : des enchaînements d’évènements dont on a déjà parlé. On parle ici d’évènements de grande envergure, avec plusieurs choses se passant simultanément. De plus, les quêtes s’adapteront si vous êtes en solo ou en groupe.
PvP : (plus de séparation perso roleplay et perso PvP) Le PvP de masse se fera dans des zones spéciales et se feront affronter des gens de différents mondes pour des positions stratégiques. Le PvP Guild vs Guild, plus compétitif, imposera un niveau fixe temporaire pour tous les participants, afin que leurs stats, compétences et équipement soient le même pour tous.
Plus de développement : Plus de restriction au niveau 20, voir plus de restriction du tout ! Par contre, pas d’info sur le système de statistique ou sur la possibilité d’avoir une monture (c’est un peu le fourre-tout, ce point n°6). En revanche, il y aura un artisanat « robuste ».
Compagnons et Side-kicking : pas de mercenaires, mais chaque joueur possède une place pour un compagnon (qui ne compte pas en groupe), similaire à un pet ou à un héros de Guild Wars. Le joueur aura la possibilité « d’investir une partie de sa puissance » dans son compagnon. Quoi que ça veuille dire… Sinon, il y aura aussi un système de side-kicking comme dans city of heroes.
Update graphique : Screens or STFU. Rien à dire pour l’instant, sauf que la mentalité Guild Wars reste en place.
Race et professions : on connaît les races, on n’en apprendra pas plus sur les classes ce coup-ci.
Toujours pas d’abonnement.
Ensuite, Jeff Strain, interviewé par PC Games, imagine développer du contenu payant pour Guild Wars 2. Payant, mais non obligatoire. Addon, campagnes, etc. Ils ne savent pas encore quoi. Moi je serais eux, je ferais un max de petits trucs pas cher…

@ Mo : exact il devrait y avoir aussi un système Mentor/disciple pour permettre de lvler plus rapidement. Mais c'est pas ça que tu voulais dire, n'est-ce pas? il y aura aussi le système d'évolution du niveau de difficulté, à savoir que ce sera plus dur selon la taille du groupe (en gros je le redis vaux mieux être seul que mal accompagné )

@ Ani : pour le PvP de masse il me semble avoir lu quelque part (à moins que je me trompe de jeu) que cela pourrait ressembler aux missions comme la clarière de Jade ou Trembleforet sur Faction, en gros il y aura toujours à faire quelque soit le niveau mais haut lvl = frontline et bas lvl = intendance, gestion des ressource....
Mais en gros c'est clair qu'il faudra un perso ubber-stuffer pour ppouvoir vraiment s'amuser.


au sujet de l'équipement, ça sent bien le WoW ou autres free-to-play coréééns avec ses donjons fait pour 40 joueurs dans le but d'avoir une chance infime de récupérer un piece de l'armure mythique sur le boss final apres 6h de combats souvent rébarbatifs et de balade dans des zones qui le sont tout autant .

Par contre, encore un point obscure (mise à part la date de sortie ou simplement de la béta): Les Guildes.
Bon d'accord on sait que pour les GvG tout le monde aura le même niveau (passe encore, je vois bien le petit newbies avec son jours et demi de connection aller taper des combat contre les vieux routards de GW, même niveau laissez moi rire )
Mais quand est-il des hall de guildes? Enfin comment seront-ils visualiser?(comme GW1 une simple icone identique à tous le monde sur la carte)
Puis avec toutes ces races jouables, on sait que chacune aura son ennemie mais les races dites "amies" pourront-elle grouper ensemble?

Enfin bref comme dirait l'autre: Wait & See !!!

En tout cas j'attends la Béta pour voir si ça en vaut vraiment le coup par rapport à un ftp classique.

[HS] D'ailleur à ce sujet, je test en ce moment Dark and Light, bon il est pas super beau, pas super bien réalisé et apparament par super suivit par les Dev , mais il a pas mal de petites idées franchement interressante (surtout au sujet de l'artisanat, des guildes...) des que j'en serait un peu plus je ferait mon compte rendu où il faut [/HS]

Pour le Grind : il a été dit qu'il n'y aura pas de lvl max, juste des carac max ...
Pour le pvp : dommage pur les pvpers mais le perso creer sur mesure pour le pvp n'existera plus, perso ca ne me dérange pas,au moin tu sera obligé de faire du pve pour chopper les Compétences, il y aura des arène différente pour chaque tranche de niveaux.

Pour ce qui est des persos, j'ai pas peur tant que le grind se fait de manière transparente (quêtes, missions ...) mais si il faut camper dans un endroit pour lvl up parce que la prochaine mission necessite un niveau plus élevé, ca ce serait très pourrie, je hais le farm d'XP (ce qui fait que les free to play sont inintéressant).

Darkst Heavenlyfaith a écrit:

Pour le Grind : il a été dit qu'il n'y aura pas de lvl max, juste des carac max ...
Pour le pvp : dommage pur les pvpers mais le perso creer sur mesure pour le pvp n'existera plus, perso ca ne me dérange pas,au moin tu sera obligé de faire du pve pour chopper les Compétences, il y aura des arène différente pour chaque tranche de niveaux.

Perso pour moi c'est vraiment nul... Grinder (que ça soit de l'xp ou du pognon pour acheter du matos) comme un taré pour avoir 1 perso de chaque classe utilisable en pvp non merci... Et puis ce n'est pas qu'une histoire de niveau/caractéristiques mais d'équipement (le matos équitable sera que pour le gvg pas pour le world pvp).

Bref, ce qui fait l'attrait actuel pour moi dans GW, càd pouvoir jouer avec toutes les classes de perso tout en ayant, à chaque fois, un perso "parfait" en terme de caractéristiques et d'équipement, et bien ça c'est pas dans GW2 que je le trouverai