Guild Wars 2's Gendarren Fields Showcased

Written by: (@winterinformal) | June 4, 2012 12:30 pm

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Can’t wait to get into the Guild Wars 2 beta this weekend? Yeah, neither can we.

To whet your appetite, PC Gamer’s posted a few videos from its stream from last Friday, where a couple of staffers ran through the new level 30 zone, Gendarren Fields, taking on pirates, zombies, centaurs, and even a mischievous vendor.

The videos really highlight the differences between solo play and playing with a group. While content is supposed to scale, some enemies simply aren’t meant to be defeated by single players, like the cunningly named pirate captain Slade Killcount and her minions.

The rest of the videos showcase your standard dynamic event fare, including a warrior who seems allergic to his healing skill. Unfortunately, nearly all the action is solo, which doesn’t give you a great idea of how GW2‘s dynamic events can be truly… well, dynamic.

Just four more days, people. We can make it. Breathe.

Guild Wars 2's Gendarren Fields Showcased

  • http://www.kaiketsu.enjin.com/ Corey Jenkins

    GW2 looking nice as always. Although I have to say PC gamer could get their skill up a bit at video games…just sayin. I can’t remember if I saw the dodge bar go down once lol. cool looking zones though.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_INBXCM4CZFVSPC2ZYINQJAK77Y Methadose

       Think you got it backwards, Consoles are the players without “skill”.

      • http://www.kaiketsu.enjin.com/ Corey Jenkins

         I meant the actual staff at the PC gamer website. not people who play PC games heh.

      • Brosaxon

        I think he meant PC Gamer the website, not gamers who play on PC

        P.S: PC master race!

  • gameguy369

    At this point, GW2 could announce they improved a pixel on one mob – and I would get excited.

  • http://twitter.com/ookamiwing Phillip Rushing

    Dancing with Pirates. This fall only Tyria TV.

    I am ready for some ROFLStomp in WvW with the GBTV crew this weekend. Can’t wait to get to play and finish trying out all the classes

  • Van Stonehouse

    I saw a video of this area posted on IGN and the narrator/player goes into the skills, and they have a new system in place along.  In the new system, there are now ranks of skills.  You have to unlock 5 skills in the first rank to make skills in the 2nd rank available for purchase with skill points.  There are a total of 3 ranks, and the skills generally get better as the ranks are progressed.  

    Also, for the class that was being played there were three NEW SKILLS that are not on the Guild Wars 2 wiki at least.  

    http://ca.ign.com/videos/2012/06/01/guild-wars-2-gendarran-fields-commentary 

    Skip to about 3:40

  • balen arenas

    For people that who play and review video games for a living, those guys sure are terrible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Benjamin-Westmore-Graham-Cowper-Smith/695080386 Benjamin Westmore Graham Cowpe

    Can’t wait T.T 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Rosario/100002490853136 Joel Rosario

    will this be a playable zone 

    • http://www.kaiketsu.enjin.com/ Corey Jenkins

       yes, not sure if it’ll be in this upcoming beta or not though. I think it may be, but don’t quote me on that.

      • itsJUSTINduh

         It will be in the beta! :)

  • CCLemon77

    Looks like it’s possible to have First Person View in the game.

    *Taken From Guild Wars 2 GURU Forums*

    If you look at the PC Gamer Stream on Twitch, you will be able to see several options at Time Mark 3:18

    - Max Camera Distance Slider

    - Testing: Enable Dueling Camera

    - Use First Person Camera

    - Show FPS

    All options above in some form are welcome, especially the 1st Person Camera.

    So now that we know that it’s actually in game, we don’t have to
    speculate about how it would take them too much exra time and work to
    put in such an option into the game.

    It’s a good thing and hopefully we’ll see that option in a BWE soon or at launch. 

    *Taken From Guild Wars 2 GURU Forums*

    • Odeezee

      temper your expectations though, that was footage from a dev build where they just test out stuff, but i guess it doesn’t hurt to hope.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Rekkar Rel Valoran Matthews

    Mikeb and his hipster nonsense. Haha

  • dawolv

    If someone wants to play an MMO Solo, theres a thing i heard about.. it’s called an RPG.

    Seriously, people can whine about lot’s of stuff, but you don’t complain that you have to score balls in a basket in basketball anymore than to play with others in an MMO.. that’s just dumb!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1009623910 Adelle Barbara Mason

    Definately will be taking part in this beta weekend the last one my laptop broke down and had to be fixed, but it wasn’t fixed in time for the beta so I missed it. The first time I played Guild Wars 2 was during the stress test so really looking forward to this weekend :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=657961050 Gilles Colinet

    2 other PvP maps were confirmed?
    No memory of that
    link to the confirmation?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Willi-Enderle/1668850948 Willi Enderle

      Cant remember where i read it anymore.
      But its true :)

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