Tales of Tyria #16: Table Scraps

[MrTunitz]

Have been searching around for some half decent and entertaining discussion about guild wars, mmo's, and all the what have yous that come along with those topics for a few weeks and finally i find a channel with the length and depth to scratch my itch, just wanna say thank you for putting your time and effort into creating a show with great production quality and i hope that more people discover and appreciate what your working towards.

[SoundStrategyNetwork]

@MrTunitz Thanks Mr. Tunitz. It takes a lot to put this show together, and It's good to hear that all that work is doing something worthwhile :) -

[shinigami714]

I rather like the background bird...seems to be excited about Guild Wars. Great podcast, as always.

[ZombieSexmachine]

i wish ArenaNet would release the requirements for gw2. Im updating my comp to play it in 3D an im buying parts with out knowing what i really need

[kevzy18]

tbh with cross proffesion skills solo pvp is a bit of a non-starter, you lose a lot of the dynamics and things what would be fun to watch when say 2v3 situation the 2 people working together to beat the 3 playing more solo usin cross profession combo's

[kevzy18]

I must start watching whole video before posing to avoid double posts :P but PvP needs more than conquest no matter how many 'gimics' they add, for me and this is a personal prefrence nothing better then solo deathmatch, team deathmatch, and a mode where teams have to attack certain objectives while the other team defends, then vice versa best time wins. but will these modes utilize the class skill mechanics (engineer turrets) as much as conquest?

[kevzy18]

love this show, well reserched and the people actually know what their on about

[SoundStrategyNetwork]

@kevzy18 Thanks Kevzy!  We'll try to keep it that way :)

[Serpheos]

Yes, we are indeed hoping that Total Biscuit get some awesome new Guild Wars 2 videos. If he does not get the press invite, something has definately gone very very wrong!

[Prebz100]

CAN SOMEONE KILL THAT BIRD?! No seriously, atleast put it in another room while broadcasting? ;)

[SoundStrategyNetwork]

@Prebz100 Will be looking into this. Hadn't had a problem with them too much before, but you might hear that he calms down about halfway through the show. I took him out of his cage so he'd stop yammering.

[MouseAndShiraz]

I know where Bridger is coming from with the 'cheap' chess example, but I'm not sure it's a great example. The queen is an example of risk versus reward; she is a powerful piece in chess but you only get one. If you use her irresponsibly you can't get her back and you are handicapped for the rest of the match. You can't really say the same thing about sonic boom.

I think 'cheap' is exactly what it sounds like; it is a tactic that has greater success compared to the difficulty or skill...

[MouseAndShiraz]

... required to actually pull it off. The tactic is disproportionately easy compared to its counter. Spamming a particular unit in CoH, for example, like back when pioneers were much more spammable, is cheap because it is disproportionately easy and successful compared to a combined arms tactic.

I've never liked the 'it's just a part of the game' argument, because that implies that games don't need to be balanced. Any tactic which involves little skill and little risk for great reward is cheap.

[SuperMusicCrazed]

@SoundStrategyNetwork when GW2 comes out will u still make Pod cast about it ?

[SoundStrategyNetwork]

@SuperMusicCrazed Absolutely, that's the idea here :)

[DHDirectX]

What software do you use to record @SoundStrategyNetwork? Very nice quality.

[SoundStrategyNetwork]

@DHDirectX XSplit, though the quality is going to get better after I upgrade my computer this weekend :)

[kDeviLXIII]

Great job as usual guys, keep em comin! cant wait for WvW details to come out

[Lazyke]

great podcast! this deserves more viewers!!

[CaCaFoGo]

I'm from europe and i cant really tune in for the live show because of the time :S but i still watch it every week and leave a thumbs up on Youtube! Great show guys.

[SoundStrategyNetwork]

@CaCaFoGo Thanks for the thumbs! We'll try to do some more Euro-Friendly show times in the future.

[venom1876]

n GW1 KISS has a luxon and a kurzick alliance, in total about 1500 players. Lukely if they coorperate in WvWvW, it's easy for the contesters to farm noobs.

[SnKzephyr]

i was wondering where the video was... it was unlisted :/

and now its found!

[cybermerc2]

Around 35 minutes in you asked what guild is going to have 500 or 250 members to coordinate in WvWvW. Well in SWTOR The Old Timers Guild had ~1300 people playing, and thats not all the guild members, so its definitely doable. Not to mention a guild alliance of smaller guilds pulling together.

[VinnMauS]

Amazing episode as always! Bridger ur getting better with every show:) that expression for your emotions to the guy who thought that press should not have priority access was incredibly hilarious =D

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