Angoril.2179

iGPUs, whether Intel or AMD, don't have any VRAM of their own. They instead use system Ram which other than being slower, leaves the rest of the system with a smaller amount to work with. On top of that, Intel iGPUs, unlike the ones found on AMD CPUs are quite bad to say the least. There's not much that can be done other than buying a new GPU. I don't know what kind of games you play other than GW2 but unless you play newer AAA titles, there's no need to overspend on a GPU. If 1080 is your resolution of choice, a RX6600 or even a used RTX 2060 are more than enough.

This patch right here is yet another time that you show you don't really play or, even worse, understand your own game. Some of the things you say are so out of touch with reality that surprises me how you came to those conclusions. Oh well... nothing I wasn't expecting out of the current team.

Yes, things can be a bit on the expensive side in this game and if you start looking at the real value behind things, some are ridiculous (set of permanent gathering tools more expensive than an expansion for example). BUT, they give you the option to convert gold to gems if you don't want to / can't afford to spend cash. So unless you don't wanna put money in the game or the time to convert the gold... what exactly do you expect to happen? Having a bunch of slots is a waste by the way. I have 8-9 of them and most of my characters are nothing but glorified flax farmers. Once every blue moon I may remember that I want to play with one of them and someone else turns into a flax farmer.

Couldn't agree more. That thing is horrible. That would be overpriced for the 400 gems in the lootbox, let alone being a "special" skin. Whoever thought that low quality textures like that would go unnoticed needs to have their eyes checked.

Speedtest always connects to a server that is close to you as that gives you optimal results for your connection. If you wanna know what ping you're supposed to be getting, change the server to something close to where GW2 servers would be. That said, their servers aren't really all that great and I wouldn't expect them to become any better. I always have higher ping in GW2 compared to any other online game I play/have played in the past.

More of the same from the team that can't support the name of the game. They need someone in there that actually knows what they're doing instead of just amateurs. If those are the ones that are creating the expansion, they can discount it down to €5 and it still won't be worth it. Shame how far this game has fallen because they got greedy.

Couldn't agree more. I stopped playing the game shortly after LS4 ep 5 got released, came back for 6 and after quitting the 2nd day of ep 6 got released I thought, how bad can things get from here? Little did I know that anet wanted to challenge that... and they succeeded. I only came back a couple weeks before Visions got released, caught up and the rest played them as they released. The story isn't as horrible as it was in the final 2 episodes of LS4 but, it's no more than average. Decent for a MMO, bad compared to anything else. I don't know if it's the management in anet being useless or the writers just not being all that great but the story is fairly mediocre at best throughout the game. Also, stop being lazy. "Do X amount of events to fill this bar" doesn't count as story. The maps, for me, have been an absolute disaster. Grothmar is... boring. Doing events on a set schedule and being "forced" to do them in a certain order that anet set is not my definition of fun. Bjora is ok, I guess. I enjoyed exploring that one for the most part and the puzzles were nice. When it comes to the metas, not a fan of the one on the first half of the map since I dislike anything that interferes with me wanting to do something other than the meta. Drakar is on par with almost every other world boss in the game. If there are enough people around, roll your face across the keyboard and you win, otherwise you lose. Nothing interesting to see there either. Visions left me as uninterested as the rest. Was better than I expected story wise but the bar for MMOs is set so low that it's not really an accomplishment. Drizzlewood is by far the worst map this season. Annoying to explore due to the map wide meta and the snipers all over the place, extremely repetitive with no unique events and a horrible final boss fight design, "achievements" that are nothing but grind. At least it has the best voice acting this season. Ok, I may be joking with the last one but I will take no voice acting over lazy Bethesda tactics of having a main character voice throwaway NPCs without changing their voice (like in Grothmar) any day of the week. As others have mentioned, the masteries could be missing and nobody would even be able to tell the difference. They are so pointless and they lack so much imagination that I wouldn't be surprised if they went to their local convenience store and with no details asked the people to give them gameplay ideas. Makes me wonder, does that studio have any kind of standards or is everything treated with a "good enough" mentality? Strikes are mediocre. I stopped doing them a couple weeks after Visions launched and haven't touched them since. I just don't see the reason to do them since they aren't really all that much fun and the rewards are about as disappointing as the entire looting system in this game. Overall I am not a fan of this season so far... at all. While I didn't believe their promises about expansion level features, given it wasn't the first time anet was promising more than they can deliver, some honesty at least would go a long way. I know personally would be more lenient if they were willing to tell the truth for once instead of treating us like idiots with nothing but empty promises and PR speech twice a year that they address the community. I gave up on the game for the time being, most likely will check the next episode when it gets released but I expect absolutely nothing from it other than what anet does best... the bare minimum. Can we be done with LS already? Just create expansions.

It's okay really. Better than average compared to most MMORPGs, bad compared to a single player RPG. I enjoy it for the most part by keeping my expectations in check and the only part that I really hated were the final 2 episodes in LS4 due to how badly written they are.

The story in this episode is so close to quality to GoT season 8 that I have a feeling they asked Dumb and Dumber for pointers. I didn't like anything in LS4 story wise except the Joko monologue, I was really disappointed with episode 5, both with the story and with the community reaction to what was right in front of their eyes so I thought "how bad can it get?"... a lot is the answer that anet prepared for me. Aurene resurrection because death is pointless in this game and then she talks too! But she doesn't sound like a dragon, she sounds like a teen from Divinity's Reach. But we still have business to attend to so let's go hunt some dragons. Death gives you superpowers in this game so Aurene, who was unable to deal significant damage on Kralk's face at the end of episode 5, suddenly rips off one of his wings in 1 single attack!! WOW (ArenaNet, I have a few hundred deaths on my main, can I gain a minor boost of 1000% on my attack damage?). Then we have the typical filler to the filler because if you can trust anet to something that's to give increasingly less story for longer development time... don't you all love the waste of resources that is LS? And we get the 2nd and final instance to the long awaited season finale. So the dragon that was killing for sport and wasn't thinking of anything but to consume more and more magic suddenly gets a change of heart and like a death row inmate becomes sentimental. And to think that we even denied him his final meal by cutting him off the ley lines... At least he's dead so no more branded, I grew so tired of them it's not even a joke. I seriously hope now that NCSoft made you focus on the game that makes you cash again that LS5 will be having some quality.

It took me a while to realize what was hitting me the first time I got close to one of those. I was running around like a headless chicken, wondering if some enemy was glitched under the ground or something. Won't go for map completion though until I have my own skyscale.

Won't go into too much detail either as I'd rather do that on the official thread but in short: I found the story pretty bad. From the overall events, to how short it was, to storytelling.The map is pretty great from what I saw so far. At the same time I have a feeling it will be a love/hate relationship with it, similar to HoT maps. Map wide metas are fine if you wanna do the meta, when you just wanna explore though, they become annoying.Didn't unlock the mount yet but from the little I got to fly around with it, I love it. On a side note, anet really needs to hire someone that knows how to design boss battles. LS4 is riddled with highly annoying boss battles that are not challenging at all, they just have so much AoE spam that it becomes a chore doing it on more than 1 character. Also, in before the meta rewards get nerfed.

This is an argument that has been going back and forth for many years now with both sides having sound arguments. Personally, I am in the camp that doesn't support a price increase. The companies that are usually after such things are the ones that always make the news about their bad practices, EA, Ubisoft etc. A few years ago, one could argue that you can't have a high quality game without spending too much to make it and support it but then... The Witcher 3 happened. CD Projekt RED if anything, has proven that you don't need to follow frowned upon methods, like overly expensive DLCs, microtransactions, aggressive DRMs in order to have a successful game that sells millions of copies, you just need to have a good game. The problem with the industry today, the way I see it at least, is that there are too many involved that have nothing to do with gaming. They just see money and they want to make more. Games that were created with passion always stand out of the crowd for all the right reasons and they always sell. Those that are created just to have the loyal fanbase open their wallets again though...

I really hope this law passes. I honestly don't care about ArenaNet, they are big boys, they'll figure it out, although seeing how they refused to fix the issue with Belgium but instead they took the easy way out, that adds even more to it. I don't care about underage gambling either, never did, so I won't pretend that I want the law around for some moral cause. I don't like where the gaming industry is going though and when companies like EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft, even ArenaNet refuse to take any steps towards a better experience, but want to keep on with predatory practices, burn them all to the ground I say if they don't want to play nice.

Looking forward to the mount and the armor set but that greatsword... did a rainbow puke on it or what happened?