ArenaNet Schedules Guild Wars 2 Stress Test For Monday, May 14

Written by: Jason Winter (@winterinformal) | May 10, 2012 11:30 am

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Want to play Guild Wars 2 next week? Great!

Want to enjoy playing Guild Wars 2 next week? Well, that might be a bit more challenging.

ArenaNet‘s scheduled a stress test for Guild Wars 2 this Monday, May 14, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. PDT, as posted on the official Facebook page and beta forums late last night:

This special test event is open only to Pre-Purchase customers who have registered their accounts. With your help, we can conduct important tests and address some of the issues we identified during our first Beta Weekend Event. During this event, all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing character on your Beta account using the same game client. Please note that since this is a stress test of our servers, you may experience some in-game performance issues. If you’ve pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and wish to participate in the stress test, we recommend that you register the account and download the game client.

Now, this is a stress test, which probably means there will be lots of lag, bugs, disconnects, crashes — but hey, it’s Guild Wars 2! To hear some folks talk about it, even its crashes are better than some games when they’re actually running.

And the last stress test was one week before the beta weekend, which means… potentially nothing. But it’s nice to dream, right?

UPDATE: ArenaNet’s Mike O’Brien just authored a post on the stress test and the last beta. You can read it here.

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http://profile.yahoo.com/7MPGC5FCQJZGFKICKCMALR3AYY Eric

sweet, i was wondering how i was gonna pass the time waiting for midnight
Camzillasmom

TSW Weekend, GW2 Stresstest Monday, D3 Tuesday… 24hours away from gamers heaven
http://twitter.com/Nathiest Nathiest

Then it’s not a true Stress Test.
RalphWednesday

NDA has been mentioned multiple times in Twitter since the announcement yesterday. There is no NDA.
- iamthemikeb
  
  They mentioned it twice, once this morning, after we recorded the story, and after that again when they addressed what an “NDA” was to another person on Twitter. Unless, of course, they are using words/phrases that don’t include “NDA” “disclosure” “discuss” I found no such mention of NDA as you claim. If you find something, let me know!
Deamont

Oh ok I see stress test I see as in… Not letting everyone in and testing with only a handful of people
H S

Sounds like they want to check overflow servers issues.
- http://twitter.com/EdwardvanRaak Edward van Raak
  
  This is what I’m hoping too.
  
  As for the rest of the beta…
  I’m just going to do some PvP I think. And look if they fixed the PvP match browser list that was broken for me last beta.
- http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
  
  Did Arenanet get the grouping issues fixed during the last BWE? Where groups had problems getting into the same overflow server.
  - H S
    
    nope, which is why I think they are going to cram us all into as few servers as possible.
BigH001

You have the worst luck with these things, don’t you Mike? :p

My plans for the time are to play around with a few weapon combos that I saw posted after the BWE which I didn’t try, and maybe do a little more exploring in some of the other starter zones.
http://profile.yahoo.com/2LCIYLFDZ6DH3IR2I7IY6ANQSU REMCO Estimating

Hope I can actually Play for more than a few minutes at a time, this time.
But I’m an unrealist.
I could not even stay on long enough to xfer to Darkhaven, to run w/ You Gents.
Thanx for the info!
http://www.facebook.com/nina.visaya Nina Ann Visaya

I’m just happy to be able to help out any way I can and get a chance to see my character again lol but, I’m gonna try and explore more underwater.
- Jay
  
  I had a lot of fun underwater on my Thief… Spent over an hour straight testing it out.
- ArcherAvatar
  
  This is exactly the right attitude. I have no idea how much lag/disconnects/performance issues I will have to deal with, but if it helps the developer, then I am happy to help.
  
  Also… woohoo!!!! I get to play GW2 again!!!
- anthony tracy
  
  ^this
  I miss my characters…
Wraintreck

Hey there’s less lag if you’re crafting right? ;p
I’ll probably make a new character, and then wonder while my skills are lagging so bad. haha
EndrzGame

My buddy came over to my place during the last BWE to see what all the hubbub was about. As soon and he could he pre-purchased the digital deluxe edition. So I’ll be grouping with my best bud in the starter zone. Can’t wait for the next BWE.
Sorry to hear you’ll probably be out of town for it Mike B. =(
- http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
  
  gratz, that should be fun
Chris Rushton

The last stress test was 2 weeks before the beta…
- iamthemikeb
  
  Was it? Either way, I’m going to miss it. I’m making sure to pack a table for my trip in the event that it needs flipping.
- QSatu
  
  It was 1 week before beta weekend. but it doesn’t prove anything tbh.
  - Chris Rushton
    
    It was 2 weeks before, I know this because I was working both weekends and I work alternate weeks.
http://twitter.com/FishBaitism Fish Bait

Last beta, my pc died two hours before the BWE, expensive rushed parts next day, played
Did sod al exploring, so that`s this weeks aim.
Maarten van Oosterhout

11 pdt , that will make it 19:00 in most of europe or 18:00 in england and portugal,

So by the time we europeans need to sleep for the next work day ,
you americans wil take over, so they will have full servers all day..
http://twitter.com/Extronomous Marcus Åberg

I will spend my time continue leveling and exploring!
Charlotte Young

No character wipe at all?? or just for beta events? (
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawna-Daniels/1135007726 Shawna Daniels
  
  They only mentioned no character wipe for this stress test, so you can continue doing whatever you were doing from 2 weeks ago.
  When the game goes live on launch, everyone will start fresh, whether the same is true for future beta events, nobody knows yet.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Hamilton/1150725720 Ryan Hamilton

It’s okay Mike! If they do a beta weekend the following week after this stress test I wont be able to play in it either.
http://twitter.com/AlexSweet23 Alex Sweet

Don’t forget that for Europeans this will be from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.
- Damir Miric
  
  You took the words out of my mouth. They will have 2 nice curves 1 going from low number of players to high in america, and one high to low in Europe.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Keller/100000218559506 Chris Keller

i was told at the end of the last beta weekend that all characters were getting wiped so i sold all my stuff(and i mean sold ALL OF IT) and bought up all the gems i could afford to get a bunch of pets and stuff….

I guess i’ll be making a new character
- anthony tracy
  
  Hate to mention this in light of you deleting your Character, but no character wipes for this stress test.
http://www.facebook.com/itsJUSTINduh Justin Klammer

I never got into WvW …… so I’m gonna try that but since it’s a stress test it might be really bad lag in WvW lol. Probably just start a new characters.
Cyclops07

cool that they keep working on the game to perfect it for release. Shame its on a Monday but I might be able to get a couple of hours in at the end
Revanhavoc

If people got this excited about the Wall Street Banks stress tests, then maybe we could enact some real change in the financial system.
ArcherAvatar

MikeB,
Same exact build, nothing new introduced, and NO NDA.
Also, wtf bro? y’all gots ta get yo prios right mofo! F that RL BS man, we gots GW2s!!!!
Kicknpups

G2 FaceBook page should be steaming with QQ’s the day of this test..Not realizing or not reading correctly that it’s a stress test and not beta..I look forward to just playing with my Engineer and exploring more..
http://www.facebook.com/joseph.fiol Joseph Giovanni Fiol

I tried getting off work, boss said no. Like a boss
- SiderFace
  
  He’s your boss, and he said it like a boss, but that is NOT boss.
http://www.facebook.com/JIndeed Jon Hutch

W V W V W … P V P… GET MY FIX! Oh and ENJOY people around me, cause god knows when I go back to SWTOR I’ll find 2 people on my server. GW2 please come out soon!
Old Ben

> all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing
> character on your Beta account using the same game client

Just play normally? Same game client? Monday?

Hm…

How exactly is this “a stress test” ? If it’s on a weekday, they’re going to have less players, so doesn’t that immediately make it less “stressful” than if they did it on a Saturday or Sunday?

I suspect what this means is “we won’t have the Asura and Sylvari starting areas ready for another two or three weeks, but people were starting to get restless and media coverage was waning, so we’re going to give you one day now, with nothing new, and pre-apologize for the lack of performance improvements”.

This is really the 3rd day of the previous beta weekend, probably with the grouping and login bugs fixed, and not much else.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Becker/1470011374 Tim Becker
  
  >Same game client?
  
  No, they told you to start the game some times before the stress test to update the client.
  So I guess there is a new build of the client. Maybe it has been optimized a bit for gpu or cpu. Not so much a server stress test maybe.
  - Old Ben
    
    If it had been optimized, surely it would put less “stress” on the CPU. And “the same game client” is a direct quote from the ANet post.
    
    There was indeed a small patch. I’m not sure if it affected the actual client or just data files, though. I can tell you that it didn’t fix the bugs in the options window. The setting for “windowed – fullscreen” is still not saved correctly, and the option “mute when game is in the background” still doesn’t do anything. Those two bugs would have been pretty trivial to fix, so I doubt they made any relevant updates to the client.
    
    I think the main thing they want to test is a fix for the grouping / overflow server issues, so maybe the “stress” part is just that they’ll be bouncing people to overflow servers sooner, to see if the groups stay together.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Becker/1470011374 Tim Becker
      
      Its defenetly a client update.
      
      last time it said Build: 14.210
      after the update Build: 14.215
      
      2 patches with roghly 40mb
jeddsan

I’m gonna get my level 20 and try out my level 20 green armor set that I’ve crafted !!
jeddsan

I’m gonna get my level 20 and try out the level 20 green armor set I’ve crafted!! and make a sreenshot out of it!
jeddsan

I’m gonna get level 20 and then equip the level 20 green light armor set I’ve crafted and take a screenshot of accomplishment of it !
http://profile.yahoo.com/Z36GPOU3Q2QIQYBIDVNQAVGNGE Raul

Really hoping they fixed the login issues, if I can get in this time around, I will do exactly what they asked and try to break it by going to wvwvw, and the major choke points.
(-for about an hour or so, then I’m off to see the rest of the world )
http://profile.yahoo.com/2SZI7MOKR6OET3R6YXZJQC5WGQ John Athon

Why the hell would you have a stress on a monday in the middle of the working day? I doubt that’s going to be a accurate representation of the stress level the game will usually have…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mattias-Lindroth/100002269981671 Mattias Lindroth

I dont understand why they limit access to stress tests, I have prepurchased the CE so I have access but still, the best thing to prepare for actual release is to let the whole crowd in on a friday or saturday or sunday.. I’m not sure I will bother with this one, unless I happen to have time over, I would rather dedicate my very limited SSD space for Diablo 3. Or I might play GW1 some more for those unlocks.. ^^
Ryan Weckbacher

Why would they have it in the middle of Monday for? No one will be able to get on hardly in the US
- http://www.facebook.com/adzaell Adam Elliott
  
  Australian: way before dawn and then off to work…. not even going to get to log on.
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hoogenbosch/100001214895999 David Hoogenbosch

Forgetting about EU again are we US? Servers will get slammed in EU. It will start at 20:00 CET. Changing the start time to be on primetime in the US would mean it would start about 04:00 in EU.
- http://www.MasterRenny.com/ Thomas Renshaw
  
  If your from England it will be at 7PM
  
  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=11AM+PDT+to+UK+time
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gerald-Gauthier/100000751968422 Gerald Gauthier

yea don’t automatically start your shitty imbedded video. im trying to read, and some shrill cunt starts screaming in my headphones…
Xrulan

I just wanted to say, I played the entire 7 hrs of the stress test with only one instance of lag. The game never shut down. There were log in issues which needs to be addressed but all in all, it was great. This game is hot and ready and I believe we are just weeks away. It just blows anything out there period. Nothing competes - D3 is no exception. I know many will say that is not a fair comparison but the graphics in GW2 are breath taking. At times I was in a cave and I almost wanted to stop fighting and just look around at the detail, tonal qualities, textures, realism, etc. Maybe it’s time I made a stock purchase?
Cyclops07

I didn’t get to play much just a bit after work and it seemed about the same for me. I ran pretty well no crashes/freezes did not have any issues logging in. But I didn’t see many people where I was so not sure how much lag has improved in wvw. I hope they just keep on optimizing this game and take as long as they need to make it work, I don’t want it rushed out even if i have to wait till Xmas.

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