I haven't used Windows in... years. Please fork and maintain this if you care about it, otherwise use one of these excellent alternatives:
ArcDPS is a DPS meter addon provided by some cool dudes over at deltaconnected. It helps you to improve your own ability to play the game by giving you a better idea of how you're doing. It also shows you how everyone else is doing, and provides you the ability to be a total jerk to people who aren't as invested in the game as you. Don't do that. Help them understand more, and let them play the game on their own terms - if they really don't want to perform better on the meters, that's their own perogative. Let everyone have fun playing the game the way they want!
GW2TacO is a Tactical Overlay for Guild Wars 2 that lets you see tons of extra content overlayed on top of the Guild Wars 2 window, when it's in Full Screen Windowed (Borderless) mode. This extra overlay can show you the paths to follow to farm a map efficiently, how to complete a jumping puzzle, where traps are in a piece of content, and more.
Tekkit's Workshop is where one of the most subscribed Guild Wars 2 YouTubers keeps his advanced content packs for GW2TacO. He has some of the best routes, always updates with the newest content, and generally ensures his markers are aesthetically pleasing and easy to see and use in-game.
Some of my guild mates had a hard time downloading ArcDPS or remembering how to keep it updated. Adding GW2TacO and a separate marker pack to the mix just made it worse. There are solutions out there for keeping them updated, but none of them were really "easy." Some of the solutions work well, but don't do everything transparently. I wanted a truly turnkey solution for them that would keep it updated, stay out of their way, and let those with weird situations tinker with the code themselves. This was my answer.
powershell -c "[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; ; iex(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://github.com/solacelost/update-arcdps/raw/0.5.5/Bootstrap-ArcDPS.ps1')"
-InstallLocation
to match where you've unzipped it.powershell -executionpolicy bypass
into the "Open" text box and press "OK".PS C:\Users\James>
and a blinking cursor.-CreateShortcut
option switch set for initial setup and shortcut creation:
Note: You may also choose to use the -SearchPath "<PATH>"
parameter to change the default starting location that is searched to <PATH>
.
Desktop\Update-ArcDPS.ps1 -CreateShortcut -InstallLocation ($env:UserProfile + "\Desktop")
Looking for Guild Wars 2 in C:\Progra*
GW2 path identified as C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2.
You can double-click on the "Guild Wars 2 - ArcDPS" shortcut to automatically update ArcDPS to the newest version then launch Guild Wars 2 every time.
If you have chosen to enable Update-ArcDPS to manage TacO and Tekkit's, then it will also update those at every launch and automatically launch GW2TacO when it notices that you have started your game client and gotten past the launcher. Please note that in order for GW2TacO to work, Guild Wars 2 must be in Windowed Fullscreen (Borderless) mode!
The easiest way to do that is to manipulate the existing shortcut
-StartGW
. Replace that with -Remove
and click "OK" to save the shortcut.Special thanks to those who gave me feedback, logs, access to their screens, and absolutely invaluable testing time getting this all working!