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[Tr0n]

/me getting ready for lag fest. :)

[Atlus]

I'm disappointed that I won't be able to play my alien gizmo elf goblin character -- aka Asura.

[Vahkris]

Geikamir said:

I wonder how big the dive in LA is.


I would assume that you have to reach level 30ish to be able to make it there. Since I won't be playing PvE I'll just have wait until release to see it in person. It's probably better that way regardless. More excitement for release.

There are supposedly Asura gates that go straight there.

[saladin1]

I wonder if there's any water coming out of those fishes mouth (or whatever those are)..

[Linfang]

Man I hope their website and blog aren't a sign of the times of what we can expect when the beta opens up, because we just hosed their servers lol. The asura will be working overtime

[SirSausage]

I can't wait to see how much LA has changed. :D But I'm slightly worried about the BWE launch. Anet's servers may crash in a matter of minutes. Hopefully that won't be the case. Remember the WAR open beta fiasco? Let's hope something like that won't happen again.

[Wakers]

Just for people who are not sure, once and for all (this is done using the time given on the GW2.com countdown)

http://www.wolframal... and 21 minutes

So it's 2100 for us Europeans and 2000 for the UKers.

Edited by Wakers, 19 April 2012 - 08:42 PM.

[DaS_BrOt_2MaL]

Cl1p said:

GMT is GMT, they didn't mention PST or CET :

They did. Check the Blog, they said "Pdt (gmt-8)" which is wrong. I guess they meant "pdt(gmt-7)", so they start at noon = London(gmt+1--summertime) 8pm, Berlin(gmt+2,--again, summerime) 9pm

[Cl1p]

From twitter:

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FYI the start of the Beta Weekend Event is April 27 at noon PDT (GMT-7), not -8

Woohoo, extra hour :)

@post above me, oh right, they did say pdt, only read the gmt part since I didn't know what pdt was at the time :p
And yes, as you said 'I guess they meant' how am I supposed to know what they meant, I only know what they said :p

Edited by Cl1p, 19 April 2012 - 08:45 PM.

[Nabbis]

Finland is now on gmt +3 so can someone count when beta starts our time I just can't do the math on 23:40.....

[riche]

Lumm said:

Yeah - their problem is that they are mixing apples and oranges hard-core style :)

"GMT is an absolute time reference & doesn't change with the seasons." -> and then they start to adjust GMT for daylight savings time and....BOOM :D

They know now:

We're still working on bringing the blog back online. FYI the start of the Beta Weekend Event is April 27 at noon PDT (GMT-7), not -8 ^SL

[Laxley]

Twice a year I get both amused and annoyed at how the clocks going forward or back means nobody uses the correct time zones for a while.

12:00 PDT
20:00 BST (Currently used in the UK)
21:00 CEST (Currently used in Central Europe)

19:00 GMT (Not currently used in the UK)
20:00 CET (Not currently used in Central Europe)

[Cid]

DaS_BrOt_2MaL said:

They did. Check the Blog, they said "Pdt (gmt-8)" which is wrong. I guess they meant "pdt(gmt-7)", so they start at noon = London(gmt+1--summertime) 8pm, Berlin(gmt+2,--again, summerime) 9pm

GMT-8 is the west coast.


You guys make no sense.

[Wakers]

Forget time zones guys.

The answer is 2100 EU time and 2000 UK time.

[Omedon]

riche said:

They know now:

We're still working on bringing the blog back online. FYI the start of the Beta Weekend Event is April 27 at noon PDT (GMT-7), not -8 ^SL

So I take it those other countdowns that are NOT on the GW2 site itself are now wrong?

[DaS_BrOt_2MaL]

Laxley said:

Twice a year I get both amused and annoyed at how the clocks going forward or back means nobody uses the correct time zones for a while.

12:00 PDT
20:00 BST (Currently used in the UK)
21:00 CEST (Currently used in Central Europe)

19:00 GMT (Not currently used in the UK)
20:00 CET (Not currently used in Central Europe)

Thank you and agreed. Im usually the one in my family teaching the rest everything twice a year :D

[Ardeni]

Nabbis said:

Finland is now on gmt +3 so can someone count when beta starts our time I just can't do the math on 23:40.....

I think it will be 10pm on Friday so I guess I will be starting to test the game on saturday. Then on the good side the BWE will end on 10am on Monday for us so we might get to play for a few hours on monday.

[DaS_BrOt_2MaL]

Cid said:

GMT-8 is the west coast.


You guys make no sense.

No. Gmt-8 is the westcoast in  winter (which is called PST). We are in DaylightsavingsTime (PDT), which is gmt-7

Every half year....

[Lumm]

Cid said:

GMT-8 is the west coast.


You guys make no sense.

The thing is that during the summer it is GMT-7 since the GMT clock does not change with the season (so when you adjust it to summer time you shift GMT zone). That is the entire mix up.

[Nabbis]

Ardeni said:

I think it will be 11pm on Friday so I guess I will be starting to test the game on saturday. Then on the good side the BWE will end on 11am on Monday for us so we might get to play for a few hours on monday.

Yeah that was pretty much what I thought thanks. and I noticed that there is a countdown on gw2 site ^^ its good I bought some EDs for the next week...

[DaoMarik]

SirSausage said:

I can't wait to see how much LA has changed. :D But I'm slightly worried about the BWE launch. Anet's servers may crash in a matter of minutes. Hopefully that won't be the case. Remember the WAR open beta fiasco? Let's hope something like that won't happen again.

Better now than when game starts, all part of the testing -  though I'm sure there will be lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth no matter what... :p

Anyway, as Robin's Minstrel's once said "...and there was lots of rejoicing!"

Marik

[Hirsty]

<-- SOOO glad it starts at 8pm GMT!!!
I get off the train and into the house at 9pm! I miss the initial lag fest! yayy

[Makovorn]

GoF said:

If a web page is down: hit this in Google search:

cache:http://www.arena.net...event-is-coming

This will remove the strain from the ArenaNet server(s).

^^ Just thought this post needs another mention. Thanks GoF :)

[Vahkris]

Blog is back up now.

[Linfang]

saladin1 said:

I wonder if there's any water coming out of those fishes mouth (or whatever those are)..
http://i739.photobuc...1/Capture-8.jpg

On the left it looks like it does, however look above the frog guy standing there, it looks like the water jets up around the basin

[Daelin Dwin]

Good stuff. I'll miss out on the initial woes from like 8pm-10pm somewhat thankfully, unless of course there are no woes...

I wonder what else new will be available.

[Requiamer]

Nabbis said:

Finland is now on gmt +3 so can someone count when beta starts our time I just can't do the math on 23:40.....

Check the front page of GW2, they put a huge countdown on it.
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

[Chalky]

saladin1 said:

I wonder if there's any water coming out of those fishes mouth (or whatever those are)..
http://i739.photobuc...1/Capture-8.jpg

It looks very impressive - looking forward to how it all looks when you're actually running around it!!  Shame about the sylvari and asura, I hope it's just because they want to leave some surprises for later betas rather than having is play the same content over and over.

[Colin Johanson]

sashpimp said:

Can we play catacombs?

The Ascalon Catacombs Story dungeon, and 3 Ascalon Catacombs explorable dungeons will all be included in the beta event yes.

[Hybarf Tics]

It so happens I got a week vacation starting tomorrow and I'm renting a hotel room in Lion's Arch for next week-end, then from there it'll be explore for bugs and fun fun fun. :surprised:;):):D:o:cool: