Guild Wars 2

Newbeach bluffs is an area dominated by coniferous trees with no hint of snow in sight. Once your character goes through an extremely small cave you arrive in a winter wonderland with snow falling and the land covered with it. Snowblind Peaks seems to have come from literally nowhere.

I know this might read like a rather trivial issue- but I think there should be some patches of snow and a gradual move toward a snow covered area. I know Arenanet has done this before in Guild Wars 2- just look at Timberline Falls and its transition from snow covered areas to grassy ones.

IMO, I think that this area of Gendarren fields was rushed – the cave and general barrier between the snow covered areas and the grass covered ones was put as a “quick fix” but this really doesn’t work because as it stands, the cave leading between them is extremely small. One possible solution is if the cave could be enlarged to make it look like your character moves a greater distance- and rises in elevation, it would be much more believable.

All the other areas in Guild Wars 2 show remarkable attention to detail and are quite enjoyable to play through- this one however makes me cringe every time I go near it.

This is next to the cave in Newbeach Bluffs
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While this is on the other side- in Snowblind Peaks
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It amuses me I found this thread while exploring that area for the first time. Shortly before reading this I told my group," Well, that escalated quickly." From summer sunshine to going sledding. Alrighty then. Quickly changes from revealing armor to overcoat. There we go.

Your suggestion sounds good to me but not sure how much they would be able to apply it at this point.

Regardless, just thought I’d post to say I noticed it as well.

True- changing it now would be quite difficult but not impossible. Regardless, this sort of thing probably isn’t too high on their priority list right now. OCD people like me are the prime victims xD.

I too found it jarring and never expected to walk into a winter wonderland. It’s like I transitioned into the Shiverpeaks without a loading screen.

Yeah, Shiverpeaks is supposed to be snowy because of it’s elevation. But somehow, somewhere it lost that reason. It’s now just a weather anomaly.