Wintersday & Reconnects!!!!

[paleblade]

Hot off the GW offical website!!!! Plus there is other stuff, but this looks awesome.

Wintersday 2006 — Special in-game events have become fan favorites the world over, and during this holiday season Guild Wars players will be in for another Wintersday Festival! During this event, players will find favorite outposts dressed to the nines with holiday décor, as they are invited to complete holiday-themed quests, participate in PvP snowball fights, and receive unique holiday rewards such as Winter Gifts, a Snowman Summoner, Eggnog, and Candy Canes. Wintersday 2006 will take place in-game December 20, 2006 through January 1, 2007.


Reconnect After Disconnect — One of the most player-requested features comes to Guild Wars! If a player gets dropped from the game due to a connection problem, and that player can reconnect within ten minutes, the player's character will be relocated to the spot of disconnection. If the character was performing an action, such as casting a spell or auto-attacking a target, that character will complete the action as if still connected. If a player is in a group when disconnected, the other members of the party will be notified about the player's connection problems. ;D

[Pass The Towel]

Nice reconnect feature!

And the 20th is exactly when I leave to visit my computer-less parents! I guess I'll be missing Wintersday this year, unless I can get my hands on a GW installed PC over the holiday ;D

[Starbuck]

Yea! More candy canes! Looks like a week or two farming gargoyle skulls...

[Khorrax]

Good thing it starts on 20 because I'll be able to enjoy this event for a few days

[Yozhura]

Don't forget the LFG-system.

"Party Search — A brand new Party Search panel will be added to Guild Wars this December, which will allow players to more easily form groups. Casual and hard-core gamers alike will benefit from this new system, as it will make it easier for players to form parties for some of the tougher quests and missions in the game, find the last cog needed for a fearsome group that can tear through the PvP arenas, or just connect with old friends online to go explore the diverse Guild Wars world."


This will be one of the best updates to GW ever! ;D

[Zalis]

Sounds great.

Now where's my Alliance Roster update?

[Radicc Tyranntt]

zalis said:

Sounds great.

Now where's my Alliance Roster update?

Gaile said that feature isn't likely to be added.

[Jaxx Skraxis]

:oThat's cool that they finally got reconnects working and ready to implement.

Looks like I will get a little less than a day to checkout Wintersday this year, unless, like Towel, I can get to a computer with decent internet and GW during my visit out with the folks.

Party search should be a helpful new tool to check out.

Link to the press release for more info.

[Zalis]

You know what we need now? The ability to assign hero/hench party formations.

Why not? They made them assume formations based on the weapon you're using... what if you want them to spread out? Or surround you?

[Radicc Tyranntt]

searing flame murders your hero/henchies like nobodies business. So this would be a pretty good idea. Why don't you throw it up on a forum people actually read.

[Zalis]

The only way I avoid it currently is to surround the enemy. That way the mass damage is minimized.

[toyah angel]

fantastic reconnect feature i quite offen suffer this problem with my laptop and there is nothing more ennoying than being droped by your connection players think your just leave in the middle of a mission