Guild Wars 2

Various notification screens in the game seize control of our characters and completely block whatever we were trying to do. Examples include “You have been moved to Overflow” which blocks all mouse and key presses and freezes the character until you click OK; and any number of dungeon “cut scenes”- when anyone in the dungeon party deliberately or inadvertently triggers a “cut scene” it auto-triggers for everyone, no matter how far away we are, and seizes control from the player- blocking whatever else the player is trying to do, like equip different weapons, swap some Traits around, eat buff food, repair, vendor, whatever. The worst part is that when the “cut scene” finally ends, or we shut it down with “Skip to End,” all windows we had open are closed, any weapons we had just equipped are not equipped, any Traits we had swapped around are not swapped around, we have to investigate our buffs to see if the food we were eating as the “cut scene” intruded actually got eaten, etc. etc. etc. NOTHING we had been in the process of doing is saved. Unless we completed all actions by manually closing the Hero panel, the entire group must wait while we do it all over again.

Is there not some way that these notifications and “cut scenes” can be made more controllable by players and less intrusive and disabling?

For the “Overflow” warnings I suggest doing away with them altogether as pop-ups requiring player confirmation- just a little icon on the mini-map would be sufficient, because the truth is that most of the time, we couldn’t care less whether we’re in the “real” LA or an overflow instance of LA- we just want to vendor/bank/TP/Forge and get on with our lives.

For the dungeon “cut scenes,” please have them “suspend” (but not block/cancel/undo) whatever action we were doing, and enable the Escape key to shut them down instead of requiring a mouse click on “Skip to End.” That way, if we’re in the middle of our Hero panel when someone triggers a cut scene, we can just hit escape when it pops and we will still be right where we were in our Hero panel when the game relinquishes character control back to us!

Thanks!