Guild Wars 2

Can’t agree more, the current camera is not optimal!

I support this suggestion with all my gamer willpower!

I agree. It is kinf of obvious that like 90% of the content was tested with only Human chracters ( and probably the thief and warrior class) as everything elses seems off or is bugged.

This definitely needs to be an option. I find playing certain races to feel much more unconfortable than others due to camera placement. It’s an option that definitely needs to be made available. If we get horizontal placement, why not vertical as well?!

They shouldn’t just let you go higher with the camera, but lower too. It would make it a lot easier to take full body screen shots of your characters without looking down on them or zooming out. So I say yes!

I hate staring at the ground all the time. For the first couple months, every time I played The Maw world event in Wayfarer Foothills, I didn’t even know there were things going on up in the sky! Then I was approaching it one day from a distance and was like “WOAH! I didn’t know that was happening all this time!”, and realized that my camera was making me stare at the ground ALL THE TIME.

+1 for more control over my playstyle

I have always been on this band-wagon since day 1. Another thing I’d like to add is that when my norn is downed, a lot of the time i’m off the bottom of the screen.

Some more camera issues I’d like to bring forwards: The most zoomed in you can be sems quite far out, IMO. I’d like first-person view, or at least over-the -shoulder.

Secondly and option that turns your camera to whoever you are locked on to (because I am frequently locking onto targets I can’t see, wasting valuable comment time turning the camera to face them- also it would be helpful for teleport abilities, if after teleporting through an ability your character turns back to the target they are locked on to).

But let’s start with the vertical adjustment

This should absolutely be an option. It’s…interesting, being an asura. And by interesting, I mean extremely frustrating and it feels like I’m missing 70% of the game.

This is my biggest issue in the entire game. The only reason I haven’t talked about it, is because I figured it would have already been discussed to death. I hope the devs really take a critical look at the camera system and improve it so I can properly see the awesome content they’ve created.

I’m surprised that this isn’t in the game yet…it’s been a long time now…

I’m closing my eyes, wishing really hard upon a star, clicking my heels together three times, raising my hands to the sky, and chanting. Despite all that, I’ve made it through this comment without a single tpyo.

I suggest more freedom in camera pivot point and zooming adjustments so that we can take much more awesome screenshots!

Agreed! This would make a big difference in some areas, where it is almost impossible to see what you’re doing. ArenaNet have done a lot of things right with Guild Wars 2, and they’ll continue to do so.

My hope is, that this comes sooner, rather then later.

I also really want this.

If you use a ranged weapon without a target, the shots are aimed right at the center of the screen, which is completely obscured by your character. There isn’t usually a practical reason to do this, but when an enemy vanishes, all of my shots are fired directly into the ground. I can usually hit an invisible enemy if I aim right where it is, but this is a little more than difficult when I have to aim at a point that’s always behind my character.

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I thought maybe it was just me, but I have this thought every single day that I play, my Asura especially. If the distance from my feet to the bottom of my screen was closed by about half, I would be so happy.

Obligatory “why the hell isn’t this in the game already????!!!!!!”

Couldn’t be with you more!!!! There have been post for Z-Axis control before. I know I posted one myself months ago. I have no idea why they’re not considering this. It would be ideal!!!!!

Maybe keeping the current control mechanism plus another key like “shift” could allows Z-axis control. Even a slider in the option panel could be the minimal amount of control.

Agreed. Most of the times I have to lower my camera all the way to the floor to see if I’m hitting something or not.

I’d like to zoom in much more so I can take screenshots of my character’s face :P

I want this so much.

I really want the ability to zoom into first person view as well. I can’t take pretty screenshots when my character is in the way.

@Nymeria
There’s a way to get the camera closer to yourself than the zoom allows
Walk up and face a wall, then rotate the camera around to the front. The wall will force the camera closer to your character. If you get too close though your character starts to become transparent as the camera tries to get them out of the way so you may have to experiment with distance from the wall.
If you have the look behind function keybound you can use that to fine tune the distance.

Any news on that ?
I would really like to see it in game. And also bit more on horizontal adjustment, like 1cm-2cm (real world).