Guild Wars 2

Me and a guildy just noticed that during jormag, we could see everyone and they used basic character models, guess anet sneaked in this fix? Graphics options would be nice to alter the culling though, and it seems culling hasn’t been removed from lion’s arch yet.

I can confirm that this also happened at Blackgate’s Jormag but I did not take any screenshots…

Same on SOS, at Jormag too.

Akragth.2350:

Same on SOS, at Jormag too.

I wonder what people will call the Claw of Jormag when the real Jormag is in the game.

zeromius.1604:

Akragth.2350:

Same on SOS, at Jormag too.

I wonder what people will call the Claw of Jormag when the real Jormag is in the game.

Claw.

OMG they fixed culling at Claw of Jormag!!!!!

Zillions of players, chat is flying with jokes and laughs and callouts for damage and it was amaaaaaazing!

TY so much, ArenaNet. I gained a new found respect on how difficult it must be to scale these large world events.

Pics – in front of me, behind me and you can’t see all the ones to the side of me haha.

zeromius.1604:

Akragth.2350:

Same on SOS, at Jormag too.

I wonder what people will call the Claw of Jormag when the real Jormag is in the game.

Hmm? Don’t you mean the opposite?

My pics were from Sanctum of Rall, btw.

This occurred on TC’s Jormag as well. I’m not sure it could be considered wholly a positive as I couldn’t even activate my healing skill, but it sure looked more cluttered. It was proof again that the display of title’s should be optional.

The absence of culling was certainly a positive in itself. I didn’t notice the usual players popping into and out of existence. It was more like WvW now. Odd that it would occur in one place out of the blue.

They said they had to rework the mob and npc models so I imagine as they get each zone finished they will disable culling on those maps.

It is so frikken amazing, if you get the chance go check it out!

I don’t understand, is this a troll thread? OP posted a pic with a bunch of invisible people in it, and said culling is removed. Yet so many are confirming, so…plz explain.

Curo.2483:

I don’t understand, is this a troll thread? OP posted a pic with a bunch of invisible people in it, and said culling is removed. Yet so many are confirming, so…plz explain.

OP is running the game at the lowest settings. A few posts below are ones with the higher settings which will show the player models.

Karizee.8076:

OMG they fixed culling at Claw of Jormag!!!!!

Zillions of players, chat is flying with jokes and laughs and callouts for damage and it was amaaaaaazing!

TY so much, ArenaNet. I gained a new found respect on how difficult it must be to scale these large world events.

Pics – in front of me, behind me and you can’t see all the ones to the side of me haha.

Are you seriously using F6, F10, F12? Or is that for some other combination of keys? :O

While I really appreciate something like this, I can’t help but wonder will it cause more damage to the performance. You’re probably running it on lowest settings, but I’m just stating my concern here, since they announced official removal of culling in PvE.

GW2 is so badly optimized, unlike newest games, which I can crank up on highest graphics + some really demanding options like tessellation, still run tons better then GW2, and I’ve heard lots of people complain how it just plain strains their ultra performance systems.

You should by all means include option to hide player models. Aion did this, and I remember it not entirely fixing lag issues and stuff, but it did reduce it. I think it can be activated by pressing Shift + F12 or something.

Another thing for PvE, limit particle effects, there is too much of them = more lag.

Spiderwick.1879:

Karizee.8076:

OMG they fixed culling at Claw of Jormag!!!!!

Zillions of players, chat is flying with jokes and laughs and callouts for damage and it was amaaaaaazing!

TY so much, ArenaNet. I gained a new found respect on how difficult it must be to scale these large world events.

Pics – in front of me, behind me and you can’t see all the ones to the side of me haha.

Are you seriously using F6, F10, F12? Or is that for some other combination of keys? :O

Lolz, no. G510 keyboard. I can 10-key faster than anyone I know, my brain just flips it around to do 18 keys with my left hand. For some reason I haven’t cared enough to fathom some of the G-keys show up as F-keys.

Curo.2483:

I don’t understand, is this a troll thread? OP posted a pic with a bunch of invisible people in it, and said culling is removed. Yet so many are confirming, so…plz explain.

I am not trolling, as Ayrilana said I’m running on lowest graphics settings. The screenshot is suppose to show how every nameplate is now shown (instead of you only being able to see the names/people around you), in addition, the closest people to me are using basic character models now.

CharrGirl.7896:

While I really appreciate something like this, I can’t help but wonder will it cause more damage to the performance.

I saw no decrease in performance, although like you said I was running on lowest graphics. I would really like options to alter culling too though, similar to wvw.

zeromius.1604:

Akragth.2350:

Same on SOS, at Jormag too.

I wonder what people will call the Claw of Jormag when the real Jormag is in the game.

he won’t, they’re just going to do crapy living story stuff from now on so nothing to worry about

Same thing on Desolation, gives a bit more feeling when you see more then 10 ppl there…

http://i.imgur.com/yZcTUHu.jpg

doesn’t really look like culling is gone to me. Just nameplates floating around all over the place. I would have expected the actual models of the characters.

Culling has not been removed. I did Balthazar and Grenth yesterday with a very nice guild from Stormbluff Isle, and not only I couldn’t even see the name of a lot of players around me, I also couldn’t see the name of plenty of enemies.

I’m playing in high visual settings. Maybe that’s why I still have culling.

wow look at all those people.

Culling can be removed on a map basis. It can even be removed on a specific map from specific server basis probably.

This may be the best thing that has happened to world boss events if this goes game wide.

I bet Anet doesn’t even realize they did this. They didn’t realize they increased his HP last patch either.

Sounds like a bug, you should probably report it.

As they’ve mentioned previously, they’ve made no changes to claw, this is almost certainly a bug they accidently introduced when they tried to fix the first bug they introduced by “accident”.

I guess we could start calling him.. claw of JorLAG badum tssss

Wow I wish this would happen on all the maps!
It would be so awesome.

I really want to see the WvW portals in LA without culling right before a reset