Guildwars 2 on 384k comments.

[Sillicur]

Hey guys, i have not myself played guildwars 2 yet, amped for it and already pre-ordered. The problem is, till october i still have 384 line.

Now, I have played wow and done 25man raiding on 384k as well as 40man AV / Isle of conquest without any problems. As well as bf3 64 players. Mweb gives me a nice 190ms.

My question is, any of you actually played in a beta weekend on 384 and how was it? If not, have any one you checked how much bandwith gw2 takes per hour roughly. I am just worried that during events or WvWvW the game will need more than 30 kb/s which will make the 384 line lag.

Please let me know.

[Glordit]

Hey guys, i have not myself played guildwars 2 yet, amped for it and already pre-ordered. The problem is, till october i still have 384 line.

Now, I have played wow and done 25man raiding on 384k as well as 40man AV / Isle of conquest without any problems. As well as bf3 64 players. Mweb gives me a nice 190ms.

My question is, any of you actually played in a beta weekend on 384 and how was it? If not, have any one you checked how much bandwith gw2 takes per hour roughly. I am just worried that during events or WvWvW the game will need more than 30 kb/s which will make the 384 line lag.

Please let me know.

Got a friend that plays on both 384k DSL and 384k Wireless and has not had any problems as of yet. Plus you are forgetting this is Anet, they made Guild Wars run on 56k so I would expect the same from GW2

[Sillicur]

Ah very nice! thank you for the info!!!

[VirtualForce]

Hey, was wondering whether GW2 would work on 3G, seems it should.

Thanks!

[Sillicur]

Yeh it should, from asking around a bit more i found that if you could play wow you can play gw2. GW2's network coding might even be a bit better.

[Spartan]

GW2 netcode is better, also new tech than older generation MMOs. I am pretty sure I also noticed an anti-lag system akin to FPS games when I was playing structured PVP.

Having a fairly dodgey 1mb dsl line at my house, during Beta weekend 2 and 3 I made a note of checking how much bandwidth it used while playing. I checked on two PCs at home and when they were playing at the same time/together.

Both PCs used less than 10kb/s during gameplay.
I saw a few spikes to 15kb/s (spiked once to 19 during a vicious brawl) during heavy PVP fights or world events in PVE.
The girlfriend and I were able to play together without any lag or lock-ups during Beta weekend 3, I only noticed a slight delay once or twice due to packet loss.

With a 384K line you should be just fine. Hope that helps.

[Tank]

plus the fact that next month is the projected free bump from 384 to 1mb lines so cool

[Spartan]

That only happens in October. Upgrade window moved. 1mb to 2mb happens first in August and September.

[_Caboose_]

Dude i played the BWE3 on MTN uncapped while being throttled to a 256 line so u fine lol

And i was doing WvW (FPS lag not high lat)