I was wanting to know if other people would like to have a slider for character draw distance in the options?
I remember playing the beta and seeing tons of people out in open fields from far away and it made the game feel more alive. Seeing people fighting in the distance and chaos happening from far away made me want to run over and help out. Since the games launch tho I have noticed they reduced the distance you can see players from. Sometimes this makes it harder in WvW and also you don’t see whats going on in the far distance when players are battleing in pve. In lions arch you can only see players from a few feet away and it makes it seem so empty at times. I know character/mob draw distance was reduced to increase players framerates. Some people have bought or built a new pc to see the game in its full glory and would like to see the players and mobs fighting in the distance. A slider that allows you to adjust how far you can see mobs and players would allow people with bad and great computers to adjust accordingly to thier needs or wants.
Without it, the game would be pretty much unplayable because of laggs/framedrops. Until ANet comes up with a better idea we have to live with either a emty and boring world + invisible armies in WvW, or not being really able to play at all (Karka LA event comes to my mind).
But besides that, i totally agree with you.
It’s one of the things that make me want to play MMO’s.
To see players everywhere doing random stuff is just cool and makes the world feel alive.
GW2 absolutely lacks that feeling, since you only see players a few meters around of you.
