Guild Wars 2

Yeah, would be great for machinimas too

+1ing this, but be aware that people have been asking for this since beta.

+1, defiantly would make some of the jumping puzzles easier

Yeah because I like machinima and there aren’t any in gw2 because of the camera It’s sad.

I joined wow all those years back because of machinima, i played eve for years joining because of a machinima – it’s free advertising that works…

Absolutely, positively has to be done. We’ve suffered long enough without it. END THE OPPRESSION NOW!

Thanks for the feedback and votes so far folks, please spread the response to likeminded people, if we dont all ask, we dont all get.

Mungrul.9358:

+1ing this, but be aware that people have been asking for this since beta.

Don’t worry mate, fully aware of this, just don’t think its all been compiled in the one post before, so far this is the one with the most replies to it as far as I’ve seen.

It’s , such a minor tweak to implement but will create a big effect on how people explore and play and share their experiences with the game.

Keep spreading the word all to get people to add feedback

Thanks again guys, keep it coming!

I really want this back. I want to go back to areas I’ve completed, run around, and really see all those little details I’ve been missing. Please add!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/First-Person-Shooter-Mode

Nuff said

Agree 100%, yes please I miss being able to view and interact in this way.

First person view for sure. Played a lot of GW1 that way

Krosslite.1950:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/First-Person-Shooter-Mode

Nuff said

Nice find Krosslite! Not quite what I was on about (looks more like Oblivion-Style that link, that would be cool) but it would be ACE for long range targeting speaking of which!

Keep up the posts, likes, dislikes constructive features, etc folks!

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/11857-feature-camera-options-center-on-target-3rd-person/
someone posted this already at the beginning of 2011

Devs have commented that 1st person is being evaluated becuase so many skills in the game do not work from a 1st person view.

how do you deal with thief leaps? or the disorientation of whipping around a character doing that snake strike? etc

its not as simple as just letting you zoom all the way in as Irondog is implying.

Personally i would say best way would be issue a town clothes ‘weapon’ that is a camera. when you use the ability of the camera it zooms you all the way in to first person. Allows for great screenshots and could be used in some jump puzzles put could be easily weapons swap back to combat mode if the need arose.

course i prefer the situational awareness of 3rd person even in JP, would use it strictly as i said, a camera to take screenshots.

in some situations such as the well jumping puzzle in LA the environment itself pushes you into a distorted 1st person type view but your looking through your characters head. in that situation no one can possibly say they would like 3rd person better because you cant see anything but your head.

DNA Instinct.6258:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/11857-feature-camera-options-center-on-target-3rd-person/
someone posted this already at the beginning of 2011

Great idea, but its never been discussed fully here. A couple of short posts here and there but never anything of this thread size before. Maybe its because the forums here have had a bit more time to mature and have more people on it. Either way, we’ve had a lot of good feedback here compared to other threads.

Still good find.

Teraphas.6210:

Devs have commented that 1st person is being evaluated becuase so many skills in the game do not work from a 1st person view.

how do you deal with thief leaps? or the disorientation of whipping around a character doing that snake strike? etc

Personally i would say best way would be issue a town clothes ‘weapon’ that is a camera. when you use the ability of the camera it zooms you all the way in to first person. Allows for great screenshots and could be used in some jump puzzles put could be easily weapons swap back to combat mode if the need arose.

course i prefer the situational awareness of 3rd person even in JP, would use it strictly as i said, a camera to take screenshots.

It is that simple. It was done in GW1 and the Assassin (with its shadow step and leap skills) as well as other classes that had a leap abilites with the Eye of the North Expansion. While it wasn’t the best viewpoint for shadowstepping you can change it when you liked.

This is how it worked. When you zoomed in with the mousewheel, like you do in GW2, you could zoom in so far you could zoom past the 3rd person into 1st.

Now I’m not saying the game should be played entirely in FP, GW1 & 2 was originally designed in 3rd Person. but there are some circumstances that are easier. Especially for the majority of the jumping puzzles, but they can be tricky without a FP viewpoint. Which is kinda why it would be nice to have it as a feature than a forced option.

Town clothes weapon would be a good way round it, but not so good for external areas… heck even making the player completely invisible from their own viewpoint would be better, as you can zoom in quite close (but only invisible at that range), but anything to get the back end of the player out the way your view in some cases.

Still really good points, town weapon may be the way forward for part of it.

Again, keep the comments coming, if you agree/disagree all comments welcome!

+1 to OP, its very useful for jumping puzzles as well as for making movies, taking screenies etc.

TY for the input Guwanjee

Some people of my guild has left the game only because there was no first person view, it must be solved the sooner the better.

I have found on internet a mod who gives you this possibility, I asked directly to Arenet support if we can use it without we get banned and their answer has been:

We do not authorize the use of any third-party mods or addons.

Ok, you don’t authorize this external software, but I see this option not so hard to include inside the game and at same time you give the possibility to play person like me in first person.

I’m a bit disappointed that this option is not present. Another thing is the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON. I cannot play for many hours with the right mouse button clicked.
(I have the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) A simple solution like: you click one time the right button and it remain pushed until you click it again….

I hope Arenanet provides to solve this Missing.

Thanks for the posts guys! You don’t know what the name of the mod is called do you? It would be nice if we could pass it along to the devs and see if they can integrate it into GW2, would save a lot of work if the author could approve it and allow them access to change it.

As for the Right Mouse button issue you have, you could try recording a macro or if you have an external device like a joypad, you could use a program like joytokey to bind it to instead, might help a little with the ol’ cps

Thanks again guys and keep contribootin!

I was one of the machinima directors in the past, and it’ll be really good idea for movies.
IMO that would be a great free marketing and advertisement because the entire work machinima directors will do for them

Haven’t checked back on this topic for some time. The 4 winds Bazaar got me thinking of it again. Insanely beautiful place marred by awkward camera angles and not being able to take the full view in. TY for the input Drac! We need more like you requesting this