Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this has been suggested before, but I’d really love to have a vertical camera position slider available (similar to the horizontal position slider that we’ve already had right now).

GW2’s camera at the moment seems to focus on my character’s back, which causes two problems:

1. My character eats up too much screen space when the camera is zoomed in, blocking the view of the action
2. The camera behaves erratically when I’m looking up

Imho, ideally, the camera should be positioned above the character’s shoulder.
I think this might also be the reason why some players say that GW2’s camera keeps looking at the ground during combat. They instinctively move the camera over their characters’ shoulders, causing it to look at the ground because it’s focused on the their midriff.

Here are a few comparisons between GW2’s camera and some other third-person games’ cameras. (I marked the center of the screen with a green circle)

http://i.imgur.com/nlrw3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/YeFrP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/52dfR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TLQrp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/d9bGM.jpg

100% agreed!

The camera in GW2 is the worst I’ve ever experienced in an MMO and unfortunately it isn’t addressed by ArenaNET as much as it should be despite the fact that a good camera is the MOST essential feature of any game. But instead of getting the Camera polished, we get new PVP stuff and Halloween events (as a PvE player from Germany, I’m and very interested in both of these /irony off).

Other games do the camera kind of dynamically. If you zoom very close to your character, the camera is at face value and looks at the head. If you zoom out, it moves up and looks over the character. This way the character is positioned in the lower center of the screen and this again allows a clear view at the environment. Thinking of it, even Star Trek Online does this for my Spaceship.

To say again: a good camera is the MOST essential feature of any game. ArenaNET, please get your priorities right and finally polish the camera. Thanks!

Sorry for digging this out, but maybe someone will notice this. It really is a small fix, wich would be very useful…