Guild Wars 2

Well I don’t really know where this kind of topic should be, none of the other forums seemed to be fitting, so I’ll just go with general.

Well the thing is quite simple, I was watching this video of an ultra realistic mod for Skyrim (not the kittenty mmo btw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCU862nVpJ0 and I wondered, Is there a way for us to Mod terrain graphics like this? I already am using SweetFX and it does help quite a bit, but still not as much as it could be, I mean I’ve watched the clean Skyrim and compared to the moded version, the difference is HUGE.

How amazing would it be to roam around all those great maps we have in GW2, but with improved graphics much like the video.

So has ever been a discussion about this? maybe on reddit?

GW2 just wasn’t made with things like this in mind. As far as I know, Texmod works with GW2 and could be used to replace some textures, but it’s very flawed and doesn’t have a large active community for that reason.

GW2 devs could look at the Skyrim mods and their shaders. Many shaders are open source already. Creating quality and modern textures requires work. E.g., parallax. GW2 looks good if you ask me. Not like modded Skyrim, not like Crysis, but good.

Too much jungle would ruin the gameplay, say.

How about recreating some part of GW2 world with Skyrim’s Creation Kit, for comparison? Or with Crysis editor.

They don’t allow mods..I think when they would allow it,hackers would be more rampant aswell.

Btw have you tried running skyrim with all those mods ? Its pretty heavy on the system,and doing the same with gw2 would absolutely destroy your fps.

I can’t recall of an MMO that allows modding at this level. Only single players that have most of their files local allow u and even those are limited.

You also have to remember that GW2 is running on Dx9 engine, they could crank up the shaders but it would probably end up affecting your performance a lot.

That is probably the bigest downside this game will have going in the future. Dx9 engine.