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Warframe 1999 may be the single most batshit “fuck it let’s do some stupid shit” update ever created in a video game. Fuck it. Go back in time to 1999. swordfight your future self. The villain is a Jojo’s reference. There are sentient bioweapons that have been blasting a track by an evil boy band for over 100,000 years straight. It’s rumored Trent Reznor did the music, and that rumor is very obviously true. You swordfight a tank. And there’s dating sim elements

#warframe #crédits where it’s due de is NOT afraid of going outside whatever style they have

pyreo

Okay this is looking ridiculous

An exclusive look at Homestead, the new player housing system coming to Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds.

ArenaNet says by the end of the expansion's year-long cycle, around 800 decorations will be available.

It acts as a showcase for your in-game collection of skins and cosmetics. Any alts that you leave in your Homestead—they'll get bonuses for resting in it, including for WvW and sPvP—will still be chilling there when you log in with another character. There's also a stable for your mounts to hang out—great news for anyone who's got a fancy Jackal skin that they rarely have an excuse to see. Even your skiff is docked in a little pier, with some fishing spots available along the river.

With an armour stand, you can make a statue of their character that inherits your current fit—dyes and all. And the weapon stand will let you display any weapon that you've earned.

Any resource nodes that you've bought will be carried across to your new home, available for the daily gathering. And while it won't be available at the launch of Janthir Wilds, a new auto-collect feature is planned for one of the quarterly updates that will instantly gather every node attached to your Homestead's mine, logging camp or farm.

#gw2 #it look really sick anet #but now show me how decorating work #is it going to be blood and tears like in warframe #i need to know

rosewoodroad

Fossilised (opalised?) wood Caladbolg design based off @skritt-shinies' AU

Imagine Caladbolg breaking during the Commander's final stand against the Void, falling alongside its owner as it did with Trahearne. Then, as the Commander revives, the sword is reborn once more, infused with Aurene's breath.

aaaaa42a

#gw2

spiritofthetiger

:start another one:

#guess who did it again #i wanted to keep my money to craft the legendary chest but then anet said they would give a legendary relic to everyone with a legendary run #Welp !!

ratasum

I had opened up the GW2 Warp discord to troubleshoot an issue I was having and saw they had a channel for "free A.I character art." Immediately left the discord and uninstalled the program. Just so people are aware.

ratasum

An update thanks to @mystery-salad poking in after I'd mentioned it: they also have an entire section for a.i generated character rp and links to "lies about a.i generated images." So it sounds like the entire addon was developed by a.i bros. Which is a pity since there's really no other overlays for rpers like that.

dalennaugw

Adding on some extra info from discussions that have been going on in light of this, since at the time I went to reblog, it hadn't been put up yet.

It's been determined that these guys are trawling through the GW2 tags specifically, including the racial tags (like #sylvari and #gw2 asura, etc.) for their AI generation data. From the sounds of it, we're talking screencaps and their edits as well as art.

This is a great time to share around the tools we have to combat them again.

Glaze is a defensive tool that helps to protect your work, specifically, from being scraped.

Nightshade is an offensive tool that helps to poison the datasets of these AI generators. It works best when used collectively by multiple artists.

Both of these tools are being developed by the University of Chicago, which recommends using both if you can (but at least using Glaze if Nightshade's effects are too visible on your stuff for your liking). They're also working on integrating the two tools so we can use them together.

Finally, there's this watermark tutorial as an alternative if you need it.

I want to extend proper credit to the people who provided these links again, and who have been informing us about what these clowns are doing, but I don't want to paint unnecessary targets on anyone's backs. Sorry.

Kick GW2 Warp to the curb and make sure you're protecting your stuff, guys. If you didn't think you had to worry about it before, it sure looks like we do now.

Don't let your perceived level of skill, your online presence, etc. make you think you're not a likely target, because other people thinking they didn't have already found their works being stolen for this crap.

Take care of yourselves about this.

#gw2

caithesgirlfriend

peitha's design is very cool on its own but i have to be real with you guys it's really boring and disappointing to me in the context of a design for a female demon in the gw2 universe. like she's hot but she's barely monstrous compared to the male demons we've seen it's really close to this meme

#gw2 #they designed the femcharr #and they designed they femasura #and then they designed peitha like that ??

ratasum

Oh man I just did some research into the stuff re: the partner program and that's some really shady shit.

Best of luck and best wishes to the partners who choose to leave over this; it's completely understandable. Absolutely not okay in the end.

ratasum

So coming back to it after sorting out the issues and making sense of what was going on, this is what I've managed to put together:

Anet changed the contract for the creative partner program.

This change now comes with the caveat that anet has full and total ownership over any GW2 related art created by a partner, including free time work and enacted retroactively.

For those following at home, this is extremely bad for the artists.

So basically if you - say - have a comic that you're working on in your spare time and it uses GW2 as a basis, anet would officially own that under the terms of the new contract and would have free reign to use it however they want.

This is without extra compensation for the creative partners.

Note, I may have some details wrong. The artists in the creative partner program are under NDAs and this is just what I've managed to extrapolate from various artist statements while digging around online. We don't know, for example, what the compensation for the partner program is, though to my knowledge it isn't "live on it" kind of money. It is (iirc) a small kickback from people signing up using their partner referral code and some gems to give out.

Regardless, this is awful for the creative partners who have put a lot of work and long hours into the community and into content that they love, and I really wish all of those choosing to not renew or join as a result of these changes the best.

#gw2