General question about GW...

ChrlyDntSurf

Hey I had a pretty general question about the game, I just found out about it today and Im trying to get all the info I can on it. These forums seem to be a pretty good place, lol. Anyways.....

My question is this, how do you basically load into the game. When you log on do you go into a town or something along with everyone else? Or do you enter into a chat room and get people together and start doing missions in a seperate game. I was reading that you get people together then "create a game", thats what threw me off. I dont remember where I read it, maybe the PC Gamer article.

If this is true, where you meet people in a predesignated area, then make a game to do missions, how could it be MMORPG?

Sorry in advance if my info is really off, Im still trying to get a picture of this game in my head. Also sorry if I didnt word this right, lol.

Any comments would be great, thanks guys.

Seriphos

Alright heres how it goes....

Everyone starts in town, you can walk around and talk and buy things etc.... but when you want to do a mission, solo, co op, or PVP you go to your map and click on where you want to go. Your teleported to an "outpost" where other people who want to do that mission are there, you can discuss strategies and select the skills you want to bring into the mission there. When you get your team grouped up you enter the mission and there you are. if its solo you enter it alone and have a map to yourself, you and the monsters. If its co op you and your team have your own map, your team and the monsters. If its PVP your team and the other teams your put up against have your own map. Whether you die or complete the mission you go back to the outpost you entered the mission in. You can teleport back to town or to other outposts.

Hopefully that helps, or did it complicate things?

Seriphos Seraphim
Elite Gathering Guild Leader
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Guild Wars alpha tester
Lineage 2 beta tester
Risk Your Life beta tester

Seriphos

oh yeah, bcuz of the differences from other MMORPGs, some people would call it an MMORPG, some people call it a CORPG. i forgot what CORPG stands for though....

Seriphos Seraphim
Elite Gathering Guild Leader
http://www.freewebs.com/elitegathering/
Guild Wars alpha tester
Lineage 2 beta tester
Risk Your Life beta tester

ChrlyDntSurf

Yeah thanks, that helped, but one more thing,

So when you select the mission you go to a part of the map or a different map all together? If another player wanted to get there could he just run there or does everyone get teleported to totally different maps? So that when your doing a mission you will never run by another person doing something else?

Knowledge

ArenaNet Team: Guild Wars includes persistent gaming areas, and these areas are great places to meet people and make new friends. But once you form a party and go on a quest, you and your friends get your own unique copy of the quest, and that eliminates the things that are real problems in most persistent world games, such as waiting for monsters to spawn, having someone prey on other players by stealing the items that drop from a monster kill, standing in line to tackle the boss monster; and endless, monotonous travel. We feel that most games require that the gamer spend too much time preparing to have fun, rather than actually having fun.

Guild Wars has a world "overview" map that players can use to jump directly into any quest or town. Some areas or missions are designed for solo play, others are more appropriate for parties, and a few are major challenges designed for a whole guild to tackle. When you complete the primary goal of a quest, all of the adjacent quests on the world map will be unlocked, allowing you to continue progressing through the world.

However, even after you have completed the primary goal of the mission, there will be other secondary or hidden goals to challenge you. Some of these missions are much harder than the main quest, so often when you go back and play old quests that you played long ago, you can find that you're powerful enough to explore new areas of the map and find hidden items that you could never get to before.

We'll also continue to release new content for Guild Wars in a variety of ways. In addition to releasing expansion sets about twice a year, we'll continue to support existing players by adding new maps, quests, treasures and monsters from time to time in order to build an ongoing adventure and story that players can enjoy.

 

ChrlyDntSurf

Thanks a lot knowlege, really filled in all the blanks.