Current Guild Wars Build

[Scaper-X]

Figured since I keep checking gw.exe for the latest build, I should share my findings.

Currently at 7.400. This is interesting as midday yesterday, they were at 7.399. Usually we see numerous new builds every day, so for them to stop at 7.399 is interesting. Then again, I suppose the development team has to sleep at some point.
-- Scaper-X

[Scaper-X]

7.402

There is a new blurb at the login page.

"Welcome to Guild Wars! Plesae see www.guildwars.com for information about our upcoming Beta Weekend Events, the next of which begins on December 4th."

And to those in chat, no, I still can't get in.
-- Scaper-X

[Tarrant Rahl]

Heheh, now that you've seen build numbers, want to start speculating on what's changed in those builds? :evil:

[Scaper-X]

7.414

I also like that we can monitor how much work is being done every day (somewhat). Something very nice about knowing that ArenaNet's people are actively working for our hard-earned money.

Wonder if they've implemented the trade chat section yet.
-- Scaper-X

[immortius]

Well, I do notice they added 4 new languages. Italian, french, german and spanish. But the December 4th Beta weekend notice is english for all 4 new languages.

[Scaper-X]

Heh, was Swedish Chef there previously? I must have missed it.

"Velcume-a tu Gooeeld Vaers! Pleaese-a see-a vvv.gooeeldvars.cum fur inffurmaeshun aebuoot oooor upcumeeng Beta Veekend Ifents, zee next ooff vheech begeens oon December 4t."

"Inter yuoor aecuoount imaeeel aeddress und paessvurd tu lug oon tu Gooeeld Vaers."

The actually "translated" everything on the main screen to Swedish Chef. Seeing as the blurb is new as of 7.402, this must also be new. Game programmers with a sense of humor (and muppet appreciation) are the best.
-- Scaper-X

[Richard Aden]

Heh, was Swedish Chef there previously? I must have missed it.

"Velcume-a tu Gooeeld Vaers! Pleaese-a see-a vvv.gooeeldvars.cum fur inffurmaeshun aebuoot oooor upcumeeng Beta Veekend Ifents, zee next ooff vheech begeens oon December 4t."

"Inter yuoor aecuoount imaeeel aeddress und paessvurd tu lug oon tu Gooeeld Vaers."

The actually "translated" everything on the main screen to Swedish Chef. Seeing as the blurb is new as of 7.402, this must also be new. Game programmers with a sense of humor (and muppet appreciation) are the best.
-- Scaper-X

Yep, Swedish Chef's been there since long before the WPE :D funny stuff

[Scaper-X]

Ah, sou. Nifty.

Shame I didn't notice it earlier.
-- Scaper-X

[BenDover]

Figured since I keep checking gw.exe for the latest build, I should share my findings.

Currently at 7.400. This is interesting as midday yesterday, they were at 7.399. Usually we see numerous new builds every day, so for them to stop at 7.399 is interesting. Then again, I suppose the development team has to sleep at some point.
-- Scaper-XWow! Somebody is anxious to play :lol:

I'm not really sure what you can gain from following the build numbers, but good luck with it.

[Tuin]

Wow! Somebody is anxious to play :lol:

I'm not really sure what you can gain from following the build numbers, but good luck with it.

There must be some higher spiritual purpose in them!!!!

:spy: /em continues starting blankly at the build numbers, drool dripping from the corner of his mouth :spy:

[Scaper-X]

Wow! Somebody is anxious to play

Eager, eager, eager.

Just ask anyone in channel.

7.415, by the way.
-- Scaper-X

[Dreamsmith]

There must be some higher spiritual purpose in them!!!!

There is, but you lack the necessary background in numerology... :uhhuh:

[Scaper-X]

7.425

Nothing new except for that I'm positively exhausted from being on a film set from 4 p.m. until about an hour ago.
-- Scaper-X

[Scaper-X]

7.429

No apparent changes. I'm hungry.
-- Scaper-X

[immortius]

7,456 - Chat filter level option added to the preferences menu. The levels are:

None
Normal
Maximum

[Scase]

7.414

I also like that we can monitor how much work is being done every day (somewhat). Something very nice about knowing that ArenaNet's people are actively working for our hard-earned money.

Wonder if they've implemented the trade chat section yet.
-- Scaper-X


Only thing I would be worried about is if the updates/improvements drastically slowed down after release because of the "Hah we hve thier money now" mentality.

But heres hoping for the best :D

[Mortaj Delvas]

you have to remember that ArenaNet is going on the "Buy Our Expansion" business mode. If we have to wait for patches (which is something they said we, as gamers, would not have to do), we won't buy their expansion packs.

Most businesses make more money on repeat business.

[Ithamar_Arrowblood]

ok , i cant take it anymore, next month..... *sigh*

[ElvisKungFu]

i think all of us probably try to log-in once a day anyway in the off chance that - hey I'm in, I'm in!!! At least Scaper-X has found something useful to do with this daily ritual... :smile:

[Mortaj Delvas]

I run the client just to update it now rather than on Dec. 4th

[Magnus Dominus]

i think all of us probably try to log-in once a day anyway in the off chance that - hey I'm in, I'm in!!!

lol I know I am. These Guild Wars withdrawals are probably worse than quitting smoking - I'm dying here...give..me..guild wars.........

[Amy121]

i think all of us probably try to log-in once a day anyway in the off chance that - hey I'm in, I'm in!!! At least Scaper-X has found something useful to do with this daily ritual... :smile:

Heh, and I thought I was the only one doing that, at least I'm not alone. :uhhuh:

My friends keep telling me to stop reading the boards 'cause it will only make me want to play more, but I have to get my fix somehow, and after making custom character wallpaper for your computer, there isn't much left to do but troll the boards for tidbits of info.

[Dria El]

Boy, I don't feel quite as bad now! :xmad: Build is up to 7476 woot!

I had this dream that I got in and was the only one and was like 'Cool!'

I am SOOO ready for next month!

15 days and counting!

:thumbsup:

[Benkus]

I'm so happy i got Rome total war to play untill the 4th of december... Keeps me busy...

But the events are kinda irritating ;) You wanna play and suddenly you cant. Event is over. gotta wiat for the next.

I just cant wait for Guildwars to come live. Permanent.

[Dria El]

7480 as of 5am pst

Morning all...

Dria

:xman:

[Redrebel]

It's now at 7481 for me as of 12 noon PST

[Dria El]

7485 @4:20 PST

:xears:

[Bobangry]

7,492

Here's hoping for a glitch that allows logins! :D

[Scaper-X]

i think all of us probably try to log-in once a day anyway in the off chance that - hey I'm in, I'm in!!! At least Scaper-X has found something useful to do with this daily ritual... :smile:

7.496

Heh, been awhile since I was last on this board, pleased to see people kept this thread alive. Took a break while the www.brokensaints.com DVD was being released. And yes! This is my way of coping with the wait.

Unfortunately, no such glitch. Yet.
-- Scaper-X

[Soup Erman]

Hey theres an idea for a competition for more closed beta testers, (ArenaNet if your listening;)) first 5-10 who log on at a certain time (specified, or un-specified to make it more mysterious) get to be closed beta testers. :uhhuh:

[Dria El]

Hey theres an idea for a competition for more closed beta testers, (ArenaNet if your listening;)) first 5-10 who log on at a certain time (specified, or un-specified to make it more mysterious) get to be closed beta testers. :uhhuh:

Sounds fun to me!

Dria

:xsnow:

ps. 9:46am PST and no new build

[Nekojiri]

Hey theres an idea for a competition for more closed beta testers, (ArenaNet if your listening;)) first 5-10 who log on at a certain time (specified, or un-specified to make it more mysterious) get to be closed beta testers. :uhhuh:
o-o...Think of the server load at 12:00AM on the 4th....

We'd blow up the servers! :lol: :flip:

[Dreamsmith]

(Speaking of stressed servers -- this message is a duplicate, delete it please.)

[Dreamsmith]

Hey theres an idea for a competition for more closed beta testers, (ArenaNet if your listening;)) first 5-10 who log on at a certain time (specified, or un-specified to make it more mysterious) get to be closed beta testers. :uhhuh:

Too much stress on the servers. Better idea: whoever is the first person to post to this topic using the alias "Dreamsmith" gets to be a closed beta tester. I think that's fair... :innocent:

[Soup Erman]

They've hit the 7,500 mark, at 11:41 am GMT + 12.00

[Scaper-X]

7.509

Interesting. Tried entering my password incorrectly. It told me I had done such. Nice to know that our accounts are all still there, just in stasis.

C'mon, December, get here already dammit.
-- Scaper-X

[ZieG]

Chat filter installed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Scaper-X]

Chat filter was added three days ago, yep.

Suppose we'll learn what the three options entail soon enough.
-- Scaper-X

[Tarrant Rahl]

Note that the chat filter is for obscene language, not spam :evil:.

[Bobangry]

That makes me sad Tarrant :(

a pretty "big" accomplishment after being woken up by a firealarm at 5:30 am...gotta love the dorms. :uhhuh: but anyway...

Would it really be difficult to add an option that makes any person that says a message really fast be muted? (bnet does this and calls it flooding, where the spammer gets disconnected)

I was never personally bothered by the spam because it is easy to move to a high number district to avoid it. Any low #'s (especially #1, that's basically a trade district) and you're just asking for it. :)

[Scase]

Does anyone know if the chat filter will be optional?
Like in DAoC you type /filter and it toggles it on or off but for your machine only.

[Dria El]

7512@9:30am PST

And they still wouldn't let me sneak in!
:creep:

Imagine the nerve of them!
:xrollseye

Dria

:xtongue:

[Scaper-X]

Does anyone know if the chat filter will be optional?

7.517

Yes, there is an option to have no chat filter.

"None" in the pull-down menu.
-- Scaper-X

[djl]

7518 as of 11 AM EST

[Dreamsmith]

So, I see they don't believe in taking days off...

[Scaper-X]

Suppose we'll see over the Thanksgiving weekend just how much time the devs take to themselves.

Wouldn't be surprised if we find they're obsessed enough as to continue releasing builds through the holiday.
-- Scaper-X

[Soup Erman]

Suppose we'll see over the Thanksgiving weekend just how much time the devs take to themselves.

Wouldn't be surprised if we find they're obsessed enough as to continue releasing builds through the holiday.
-- Scaper-X
A lot of the devs are in korea though aren't they? As far as I'm aware Koreans don't celebrate American holidays.

[Scaper-X]

A lot of the devs are in korea though aren't they? As far as I'm aware Koreans don't celebrate American holidays.

It's entirely plausible but I don't know for certain. Regardless, Jeff Strain is (I believe) American. I assume there must be other American devs as well. Again, we shall see whether the holiday impedes development any.

EDIT: 7.520

"Space Ghost? I have to potty."
-- Scaper-X

[Saidinhc]

Arena has the power to just update the game whenever they want via the streaming technology.. The build version numbers don't really provide us with any information, but you can use them to reference bugs that you find during the BWE or for the beta testers.

Other than that widely known fact, is there really a point to this thread?

[Bobangry]

Saidinhc:
There is a very worthy point of this thread. To let people know otherwise untold menu changes for one (such as the chat filter). Also it lets us know how much the devs are working on the game and can provide an idea how much updating there is to do. There are alot of people keeping up with the updates so they don't have to do it all on the 4th (last time some people I know had to wait up to 45 minutes when I just logged on and played) and they are enjoying keeping the rest of the community up to date! Is it a crucial thread? No. Is it fun? Yeah. :)

[Maven Prime]

....thats like saying is it worth talking while your alive....

[Tuin]

Us rabid fan-folk just want to keep eachother posted on how often AN has recompiled the cliënt source and speculate as to what changes that might have brought :lol:
It's like worship. Instead of praying several times a day we fire up the cliënt to see if we have been blessed with reïncarnated code :worship:

[Dria El]

Ok, maybe I was hallucinating but when I went to try to log in just now I got (just for a second!) a small popup box that said 'loading' or something very close to it. I almost had a heart attack! LOL

But alas, no go. And, no new build either.

Dria

:xgrin:

[Scaper-X]

7.523

It'd seem that the explanation of the thread's purpose has been covered by my fellow "gwarheads".
-- Scaper-X

[Dayblade]

heh, I find it ammusing to see the number of views there are for a thread that might seem trivial.

Don't get mad at me, I did say "might".

[djl]

/bump 7527 as of 7:30 PM 11/22/04

[Scaper-X]

7.527

Might seem trivial, sure. Doesn't keep us from posting to it, however (or viewing it, for that matter).
-- Scaper-X

[Mortaj Delvas]

9:10 PM EST Monday 11-22-04

build 7.530

[Dayblade]

7.527

Might seem trivial, sure. Doesn't keep us from posting to it, however (or viewing it, for that matter).
-- Scaper-X
Yep, I'm here looking too hopeing someone finds a way in. :spy:

[Green_Opiate]

build 7,542 at 2:45 EST

imagine what the first builds mustve been like...

[Green_Opiate]

hehe lets try to get the views on this above the wpe suggestions thread :lol:

[Scaper-X]

7.544

Interesting. When I've the game windowed and minimize the program or select another item on the task bar, the music stops playing but the sound effects continue. Not new, just haven't mentioned it before.

On that note, damn but these asthetic environmental sounds are immersive.
-- Scaper-X

[Dria El]

7547 @ 5:43 pst

Dria

:xsmile4:

[Dannzzigg]

A silly question... but how do you know what build it is? Where do you find this info? I've noticed a counter at the top right-hand corner of my screen after starting the game that I assume is downloading updates, but I don't see any numbers corresponding to what you folks have been posted.

<feeling uneducated>

[Dria El]

7549@8:50pst

And to answer your question, if you click the options rollout (tab on the right side near the top) its in the bottom right hand corner.

[Jantix]

10 days, 243 hours, 14850 minutes, 874800 seconds..............
till the next open beta.....................
its like christmas :)

it was cruel to have the wpe and the first beta weekend so close together, and now make us wait so long :(

[Green_Opiate]

7.552 @ 2:30 am est

while we're at it what builds are you guys gonna try when it starts? i was thinking of trying a protections monk..with something else...i dunno yet...

or maybe a ele/r trapper

or maybe reincarnate my mes/nec

there'll be a char wipe for this BWE right?

[immortius]

there'll be a char wipe for this BWE right?

No, not for this one.

[Scaper-X]

There will, however, be a wipe at the end of the beta. Our characters names will still be reserved for us, though.

In other news, I just finished Half-Life 2 a little while ago. To put it excessively mildly, it was GOOD.
-- Scaper-X

[codemeister]

7.554 11:36 cst

[Tarrant Rahl]

Alrighty, moved this to the Off-Topic because it's interesting, it's fun, but it's really not adding any discussion :p. Feel free to keep it going! :thumbsup:

[Tuin]

7,555 @ 19:30 cet Sexeeeeh!!

[Scaper-X]

Afraid I must disagree with you on the thread move, Tarrant. This is directly related to Guild Wars and does not belong in the Off-Topic section. Granted, my displeasure with this moderation will in all likelihood not get the thread moved back to where I posted it, but the opinion should be voiced.

Also, there has indeed been conversation, discussion, and more than just build numbers posted in this thread. What more can I say other than that it belongs in the Community forum.

EDIT: 7.556
-- Scaper-X

[Tarrant Rahl]

Afraid I must disagree with you on the thread move, Tarrant. This is directly related to Guild Wars and does not belong in the Off-Topic section. Granted, my displeasure with this moderation will in all likelihood not get the thread moved back to where I posted it, but the opinion should be voiced.

Also, there has indeed been conversation, discussion, and more than just build numbers posted in this thread. What more can I say other than that it belongs in the Community forum.

EDIT: 7.556
-- Scaper-X

Noted, but disagreed with :).

[Dria El]

7563@3:46pst

<sigh>

[codemeister]

7.564 5:40pm CST

[Dria El]

7565@4:29pst

[Maven Prime]

bah!! forum /\/@zi's...guess this is my last post...

[Iehova]

Latest build is 7,575.

[Dreamsmith]

Noted, but disagreed with :).

Now we see the violence inherent in the system. HELP! HELP! WE'RE BEING REPRESSED! :lol:

[Scaper-X]

And yet this qualifies as "on-topic"?

http://www.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=186657

Much like George Carlin, all I'm asking for is some consistency.
-- Scaper-X

[Dria El]

Now we see the violence inherent in the system. HELP! HELP! WE'RE BEING REPRESSED! :lol:

LOL! Thanks! I needed that this morning. :)

[Soup Erman]

7,577 @ 1:45pm GMT+12

I have noticed a problem! My ingame reso is at 1024 x 768. At that or lower resolutions, the options tab doesn't display properly. The bottom part, under game options, just disappears off the screen. Devs if you're listening, a scroll bar please :)

[Iehova]

7,580 @ 6AM GMT+2

(Yes, I don't sleep)

[Mortaj Delvas]

7.581 at 4:34 EST (I never remember how many hours I'm off from GMT sorry)

[Kirellii]

I know many of you when you attempt to log in are just wondering if you can get into the game, but for me it is an experience beyond that. Beyond wondering if I won the battle report contest.

I have been listening to the sounds, watching the clouds - etc.

One of my main issues (which I did not complain about) was the errors in the cloud code where every now and then, the fogging would condense into a point, which would float across the screen - a pixel - a flaw - but oh how so annoying to an OpenGL programmer mind. Purple it was - the color purple - deep and annoying.

This is gone...

Now I am listening to the sounds in the background and the distant rumbling of thunder and the whistling of the wind as I have noted my sound would slip from desktop stereo to Dolby 7.1 from time to time. I am not sure if this is GW related exactly.

I know this sounds flaky, but *Honest* - the storm sounds like it is getting closer. Being battered by Hurricanes so much this year gets one attuned to such things. So I am an amateur expert on the matter.

Or I am going nuts. :scratch:

It is like a hideous howling rising and falling.

So now - when I look, all I check are the annoying lines that run up and down the column on the left as you move forward and back. Forward and back and foward once more - just like the bug in the Beta where I could not turn left nor right until I restarted at 1st level and got perhaps a different file than if you started at 15th level. Forward and back - watching - hoping for a bug fix... Streaming technology save me - no not the hair - don't steal all the hair from people. Oh the armor - all white - like death. Forward and BACK - and then repeat - counting the players - seeing the class balance - noting all the other Ranger fems could turn - jauntily so - and easily - what was I doing wrong. Did I buy this Betaware only to be trapped in an OpenGL hell of some sort or worse yet - punished into DirectX. The glow - I can see the glow - promised in the higher OpenGL coding. So subtle - so beautiful. So beautiful, I cannot leave - wait - wait - I must find the ocean and see a sunset - somehow. Help me.

If this had been an actual breakdown, I would have taken time off - which I have to burn, driven to Washington, FOUND them, and begged. I did not. The point however is that when all you give is the opening screen, everyone at some level is watching it. Given that you have read this far... what have you noticed... look again.

The good news is I use the column pixel rolling to compare performance at different game settings for smoothness and on different computers. It is all I have to show my friends. Most of them go... "That's it?" when can I play the real thing followed by disbelief that the screenshots are REALLY how the game looks. Come now - you must have finally lost it they think.

I have been updating my friend's computers so they can play too. Now I am off to go fix another one as I noticed that the sky - was blotchy and looked like an 8-bit color of a 32 bit presentation while the ground was different. Given that this was an older Win 98 machine, my suspicion is that there is different levels of OpenGL used for each from the coding aspect. Since he has a 64 MB video card, I am going to up him to a modern operating system and drivers and see if the clouds smooth out.

Good morning - have you seen a GW sunset yet? Have you seen a moon? Did I miss it in my Beta haste?


aka Leather N Lace
("Rangers of the Deep" OR "Reign of Dragons" based upon the new ladder that was added/posted last night to the GW site. On that, the sort buttons for up and down were just empty boxes and did not have arrows... did you notice - I did. Did you notice that when this was unavailable, the Photics site was passworded or locked down, but now they are both up? Elite - odd - a pattern develops - probably meaning nothing.)

PS. - I am off to do my good deed for the day and untangle a Microsoft horror. I wish they would consider streaming update too, for the OS and we were all somehow pushed to XP Pro. I know - hardware incompatibilities, 64-bit coming soon - but while I am dreaming - as someone once said...

"Dream big, for little dreams do not have the power to stir the blood of men"

(In case I did not say it before - thanks for making GW. I hope it changes the gaming world. :innocent: )

[Dreamsmith]

Someone is obsessed... :lol:

7,584

[Tarrant Rahl]

And yet this qualifies as "on-topic"?

http://www.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=186657

Much like George Carlin, all I'm asking for is some consistency.
-- Scaper-X

Yes, it does, and frankly it's not your place to decide what does and doesn't. If you'll kindly refrain from questioning the judgement of admins and moderators, it would be appreciated. If you have an issue, take it up privately.

[Iehova]

7,585 @ 4:18pm Gmt+2

[Scaper-X]

Hrm. Is the Game Options section new?

I don't recall seeing a Control Setup button before. Wonder if this means we'll be able to remap our keyboards now.
-- Scaper-X

[Dryyk]

Just remake the thread :sleep:

It is indeed on-topic, sorry.

[Green_Opiate]

im noticing this...i may be crazy too... now the wind is blowing the smoke from the torches as well as the flags...im almost sure it didnt do that before...

[Scaper-X]

Hrm. While the smoke's always been there, not sure if it was also affected by the wind that was blowing the flags.

If it is new, yay. If not, still yay.
-- Scaper-X

[Scaper-X]

7.592

Looks like I might not win that one gold piece (I guessed 7.642)...
-- Scaper-X

[Green_Opiate]

7,596

to get that gold im gambling on them picking up the pace with the updates getting towards the bwe. actually i think i said 7,800 so that doesnt look like its gonna happen.

[Dria El]

7597@2:11pm PST

[Scaper-X]

7.599

Goodbye to the 7.500s...
-- Scaper-X

[Green_Opiate]

7,600 @8:13 est

...hello to the 7600s

[Scaper-X]

Heh, nice.

Just in time for the thread's 1500th viewing.
-- Scaper-X

[Mortaj Delvas]

Just check

7.601 @ 03:44 PM GMT -5.

[Dryyk]

7,602 at 9:39 EST Time.

Hello Scaper. :D

[Tarrant Rahl]

Hrm. Is the Game Options section new?

I don't recall seeing a Control Setup button before. Wonder if this means we'll be able to remap our keyboards now.
-- Scaper-X

Nope, that's been there for some time :).

[Soup Erman]

7,604

I'm still waiting for a scroll bar so I can see the game options section on my low resolution.

[Scaper-X]

Hello Scaper.

Hola, Dryyk!

7.607

Good point on the scroll bar, Soup. I'm sure that'd help many with the same resolution issue.
-- Scaper-X

[Iehova]

7,609 @ 8am Gmt+2

[Jantix]

7,610 @ 1:30 Est

[Iehova]

7,611 @ 4pm Gmt +2

[Iehova]

7,615 @ 9:34pm Gmt+2

[Scaper-X]

7.619

C'mon, stay under 7.642. That's .23 to spread over four days...C'MON!
-- Scaper-X

[Dreamsmith]

That's .23 to spread over four days...C'MON!

Unlikely. They usually average 11 or 12 builds a day. (I calculated that before posting my guess on that other thread... :D )

[Scaper-X]

Same, but I estimated a lower per-day number of builds.

There's a small span between our guesses, no?
-- Scaper-X

[Dreamsmith]

IIRC, my guess was 7,676. I actually calculated 7,674, but the former looked more nifty. "Spirit of '76" and all... :)

[Dreamsmith]

Ah yes, I did recall correctly. Had to search for the contest thread (http://forums.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=281506) to be sure. Amazingly, it's still in that other forum, despite this being moved to Off-Topic. No doubt the oversight will be corrected. :D

Oh, and by the way, you have 23 to go, not .23, seeing as how the current build number is "seven thousand six hundred nineteen", not "seven and six hundred nineteen thousandths". That's a comma there, and AN is an American company, comma doesn't mean decimal on this size of the Atlantic. (And even if it was a decimal, you'd have 0.023 to go, not 0.23.)

[Green_Opiate]

7,620

theyre pickin up the pace getting towards the bwe...or are they...didnt think about it....

[Scaper-X]

7,622

I've been interchanging the period and comma for a few weeks now, best I stop.
-- Scaper-X

[Jantix]

7,623..............
GW is going to make me fail out of school..........

[Soup Erman]

7,626 ....

[Dria El]

7628@11:27pm PST

[Redrebel]

Couldn't sleep had to update....7630 as of 12:57 AM PST

[Iehova]

7,631 @ 3:45pm Gmt+2

[Iehova]

7,632 @ 7:53 Pm Gmt +2

[Dryyk]

7,633 at 2:47 EST Time

P.S. Venom Cadavas new website is up :D everyone go check it out. www.venomcadava.com (it's still under some heavy construction.. :P)

[Scaper-X]

Nice work, Dryyk!

Now working in Mozilla for me, too.

EDIT: 7,634
-- Scaper-X

[Dreamsmith]

BTW, has anyone had the game hang on them while checking out the build number or the options? I launched 7,632 and was playing around with the options (I just got a new video card, now "Detect" sets most of my settings on "High" rather than "Low"), and while I was messing around, the game stopped responding. I couldn't click any more options or even "X", but I could Alt-Tab to the WinXP desktop, and from there I was able to close the client gracefully by right-clicking on its taskbar entry and selecting "Close". I immediately relaunched it and saw the build number was 7,633. Now I'm wondering if having the build switched out from under me had something to do with it, or just all my monkeying around with the options.

[Scaper-X]

But you weren't actively connected to a server while changing the settings. Also, as we saw during the beta weekends, the entire program has to be restarted to download new builds.

My guess is that perhaps you found a combination of settings that your card didn't like? Perhaps another active program causing issues? Strange that it'd hang, never had that happen before.
-- Scaper-X

[Scaper-X]

7,642.

At least it's nice to see they're busy rebuilding, even if my chances of winning are slim now.
-- Scaper-X

[Green_Opiate]

7,647

my dat file is at 669 mb now... i guess id better burn it for my dial up friends to play before any more builds come out and push it over 700

[Dria El]

7648@9:40pm PST

gogogogogogogo!!!

[Iehova]

7,650 @ 3:47 pm gmt+2

[Iehova]

7,652 @ 9:34pm gmt+2

I bet the build will go up to 8000 before february.

[Scaper-X]

7,660

Looks like your estimate might have worked, Dreamsmith.
-- Scaper-X

[Kirellii]

7,647

my dat file is at 669 mb now... i guess id better burn it for my dial up friends to play before any more builds come out and push it over 700


I have found that reinstalling lowers it to 119 MB.

I am thinking that you have multiple versions of stuff in your dat file.

In the overall scheme of things "smaller" is better I think for speed.


aka - Leather N Lace

[Dreamsmith]

7,660

Looks like your estimate might have worked, Dreamsmith.

7,661. It's definately looking good for me, however, I have the narrowest range of winning numbers after poor Ander :lol:, the odds of the people right next to me aren't too bad...

[Green_Opiate]

I have found that reinstalling lowers it to 119 MB.

I am thinking that you have multiple versions of stuff in your dat file.

In the overall scheme of things "smaller" is better I think for speed.


aka - Leather N Lace

wouldnt reinstalling make me have to download all the levels again?

[Dria El]

7663@8:00pmPST

[Green_Opiate]

7,668

theyve changed the logo on the login screen to be the bloodstained looking one

[Dria El]

7670@11:59pmPST

and I was just gonna say that! lol

[Dria El]

7671@1:32amPST

I'm dying here!!!

[Dria El]

LET ME IN!!!

7672@1:40amPST

[Iehova]

7,673 @ 12PM GMT+2

Just 22 more hours.

[Scaper-X]

*siiiighs*

7,684...
-- Scaper-X

[Soup Erman]

Good point on the scroll bar, Soup. I'm sure that'd help many with the same resolution issue.
-- Scaper-X
They've fixed it for 1024x768 resolutions, but not for 800x600 resolutions

[Vexion]

7,685 hmm.... nothing new.

[Iehova]

7,688 as of right now.

[Soup Erman]

7,699 almost 7,700

[Soup Erman]

7,700 w00t :)

[Green_Opiate]

7,703

the guild wars logo got changed back during the bwe2..thought id mention that for the sake of things

[Dria El]

Good thinking. . .

7710@9:44amPST

<sigh> back to it

:xrollseye

[Green_Opiate]

build number seven thousand seven hundred eighteen as of three twenty three Ante Meridiem eastern standard time

[Iehova]

Build number seven-thousand seven-hundred thirty-one at twenty minutes past six o'clock Post Meridiem Greenwich Meridian Time +2 hours.

[Green_Opiate]

7,740

*sigh* the holidays usually go by quick, right?

[Dria El]

7744@4:17amPST

They're supposed to anyhow...

:xrollseye

[Iehova]

7748 @ 2:45 pm GMT+2

[Dria El]

7761@9:33amPST

[Diak]

7.762 in a mere 1,5 hours ;]

[Mortaj Delvas]

7.777 {All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:19 PM.}

LUCKY SEVENS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dria El]

7785@7:04pmPST

[Iehova]

7,788 @ 11:14 am GMT+2

[Green_Opiate]

7,790

stay warm folks :)

[Diak]

Thanks to Scaper-X's initiation and all the build tracking, I made this chart of the builds. The straight line shows the avarage tendancy. Build numbers are based on the final data submitted on a given day. Mainly for those involved with the guessing game =)

http://web.axelero.hu/corynn/gwbuild2.jpg

[Dria El]

7794@2:44pmPST

[Green_Opiate]

7,798

i just noticed it tells you if you have capslock on as you try to type your password.

[Dria El]

7802@3:42pmPST

Happy Yule!

:xfrosty:

[Mortaj Delvas]

7.828 @ 06:19 Pm Gmt

[Scaper-X]

Thanks to Scaper-X's initiation and all the build tracking, I made this chart of the builds.

Damn but that's nifty. Now why didn't I think of doing that? Hee.

Very pleased to see such a healthy-looking build-release estimation line. Very nice angle, that has. We might see 8000 before January's beta, yet!
-- Scaper-X

[Scaper-X]

7,836.

Rowan Atkinson is killing me over here.
-- Scaper-X

[Iehova]

7,839 @ 1:17 pm GMT+2

[Saidinhc]

8,675309


Damn you Tommy Two-Tones!!

[Mystic Arrow]

7,841
why is that?

[Diak]

Actually the trend line on the previous graph was inaccurate because of the same values towards the end of the date axis. Now it's accurate. One can see that these values are the same because of the start of the holidays. I'll put up a chart around every week, nothin better to do..
It's be nice also if someone would jot down the build number daily, even if it hasn't changed.

http://web.axelero.hu/corynn/gwbuild041231.jpg

[Dria El]

Still

7841@2:22pm PST

[Diak]

7,843 at midnight, Yay!
Back in business :D

[Dreamsmith]

Build 7,870 (Gw)

27 builds in the last 24 hours! Holy smokes...

Interesting interface change. Grab the login window by the title bar, you can move it about. Hopefully this is a prelude to being able to move around a lot of UI elements to suit your taste.

[Scaper-X]

Not sure what brought about the addition of the "(Gw)".

As for the new moveable login interface, huzzah. Certainly bodes well.
-- Scaper-X

[Diak]

Speaking of which, the graph now looks like this:

http://web.axelero.hu/corynn/gwbuild050105.jpg

In thory, the polinomic line indicates the progression if the devs progress at the current pace, while the logarithmic line indicates the rate of development that needs to be achieved if the devs increase development at the current pace. Hope I got it right :)

[Scaper-X]

Shiny. Very shiny.

The polinomic's suggesting the rate is slowing some? Interesting.
-- Scaper-X

[Diak]

Guild Wars skies, of course :)

:7,890

The rate slows not, avarage increase is 0,012 per day (since May). The future buildline would be somewhere between the log and poli line. That's what no one can predict.

[Dria El]

7951@9:12pm PST

[Scaper-X]

Yeah, that was a bit of a jump.

Still, with all the new changes...
-- Scaper-X

[Mystic Arrow]

7,951 now....nice windows...

[Dreamsmith]

Yeah, that was a bit of a jump.
Yah, I noticed this last week that we no longer get to see each and every build; they only occasionally push to newest build out to the public.

Diak: Awesome, simply awesome. Thanks for the pic...

[Dreamsmith]

Build 7,967 just went public. I bet this is the one we're going to start the event with (real soon now, I suspect).

EDIT: 7,968, and we are now live! Good luck this weekend everyone!

[Diak]

Thank you's Dreamsmith! If some of you people like it, it was worth the time making.

v0.2 - Having obtained permission to use the AN & GW logo I present all who are interested with the next update after JanBwe, best and nicest yet. I switched from logarithmic to linear equotation on the primary trendline, shows more clearly but quite unnoticably different this way. I also got hold of older data which got implemented and modifies trendlines, but is out of bounds for this graph (build was 4,953 on the 10th of May). It's really wicked to see how clearly the graph illustrates the start and end of the holidays, then the boost before and during the event.

http://web.axelero.hu/corynn/gwbuild050111.jpg

[Bobangry]

Cool picture Diak. I forgot all about this thread since it was cast into the off topic realm. I rarely venture here! ;)

[Dria El]

8103@4:35pm PST

[Backsword]

7,585 @ 4:18pm Gmt+2

What I fid interesting is when the build umber dosen't change for a week and then jumps by 70 in a few days, like it just did.

[Dria El]

Almost a week and no new build. . .

[Diak]

Yes, most definately interesting..
Next graph is due whenever build increases :)

[Dreamsmith]

Almost a week and no new build. . .
Yeah, I think that, sometime after the holidays, they implemented a system where they can do builds internally without pushing the changes out immediately. Makes it impossible to monitor their day to day progress, although I suspect the reason has more to do with making sure things are just the way they want it before the push a new version to the closed beta testers.

[Diak]

Next stop: 8,211
Current outlook:

http://web.axelero.hu/corynn/gwbuild050126.jpg

[Dreamsmith]

The magic number for today is: 8,245

[Dria El]

8298@3:39am PST

[Jantix]

8335 @ 1:17 Est

[Bravo]

Maybe we should set p some sort of competition to guess the retail build for guild wars... :lol:

[Dria El]

8704@11:27pm PST

[doublebubble]

8,758 -- 8:20pm Eastern Time

~dB~

[Excel]

8,828 7:35am GMT

[Guardian_Angel_MP]

8,841 11:14 Cst (gmt -6)

[Excel]

nope no update yet :rolleyes:

Just wanted to comment how long it has been since the last update :-/ Maybe they have taken a vacation :p

[Soup Erman]

w00t new build, 9,281. Its no fun playing this game now they only update the builds once a month :(

[Pale Blade]

w00t new build, 9,281. Its no fun playing this game now they only update the builds once a month :(

Yeah 525 file download! I wonder what it will be tomorrow night when I start playing.........

[soul seeker]

and the current build is 9,342

[Soup Erman]

9,371 as of 2:08pm GMT +12

[Excel]

updated again: 9,472

[soul seeker]

and again 9,578 10:06am CET

[soul seeker]

some bigger download today, over 50MB and we have a new interface :)
new build is 9,696 12:55pm CET

[soul seeker]

and now its 9,707
they are working hard this week, good job AN http://www.rpgforums.net/images/smilies/bigclap.gif

[Soup Erman]

up to 9,746

[Excel]

9,766.............

[soul seeker]

up to 9,906 :)

[Ash Fleetfoot]

This has got to be the saddest thread on the forums...... can I play, can I play :howdy:

still 9,906

[IWantMORIDIN]

AAAAAAAAH they just upped it to 16,783!

;)

[Yalinya]

9,951 now :)

[Thalanor Thornhale]

The 10K barrier has been broken as of today (April 10 2005)!!!!

10001 :clap:

[SpineyNorman]

10,066
and the login screen music is back!

[Bravo]

10,077....

[Bravo]

10,096....

[Excel]

10,399....

[MyNameIsCronoTrigger]

10,437 :surprise:

[SpineyNorman]

10455
10455

[Jantix]

10,509

Hehe, this is best thread ever started. Going for what, 3-4 months now?

And now we're a mere 24 hours from release. (for preorders anyway)

I'm going to miss the small community and all the anticipation on the days before the BWE's started. Guessing what would be new and how everything had been tweaked. I remember back when I knew almost everybody who posted on GWOnline, things sure have changed.

*sigh*
I can't wait to be able to play whenever but the BWE mentality sure was fun.

[Ash Fleetfoot]

10,523..... yehah almost there :happy65:

[Ash Fleetfoot]

10,525........ even closer...... :clap:

PS excuse the double post but the version has changed and no one noted it :winking47

[Ash Fleetfoot]

Oops :o triple post ....come on guys you can do better.....

10,533... and counting :happy65:

[Thalia Du Arc]

Do you remember when you were a little kid, and you almost got sick waiting for your birthday to roll around, or for Christmas (or whatever you celebrate), or for school to let out......... You remember that horrid feeling of anticipation and how totally consuming it was????? WELL THIS IS WORSE!!!!
LOL :surprise:

[Lord FireFox Moonchild]

10,549

Hehe sorry, couldn't resist.

[Chewbacca The Hutt]

i was gunna post a newer build sooner, but i couldnt find this thread without SEARCH!

[Lord FireFox Moonchild]

In a few minutes it'll be Go-Time for the Early Access Day. :happy14:

[GrimSoul]

I can't resist either. 10556 as of a few minutes ago. :boxer:

[Lord FireFox Moonchild]

One more Minute to go!!!!! :surprise: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Build 10,588 now.

[soul seeker]

10,591 :surprise:

[Vexion]

10,631 :happy34: