Guild Wars 2

There was for Draconis Mons at the release of that map (and future maps). Otherwise, nothing has been mentioned (except for the new 64-bit MacOS client, of course).

Good luck.

I wondered the same thing, but was too lazy to look for an explanation.

I believe the new PvP lobby has the new graphics, as well.

Its also normal for them to rewrite the low and medium shaders occasionally. The current implementation of low shaders is far beyond what the game launched with, this is because they are adapting them to last-gen (presumably) entry-level hardware over time, which is of course improving in capabilities each year.

For example, current low shaders resemble old medium shaders quality, while at launch low shaders looked like a bad version of World of Warcraft or something.

This is never documented in the changelog or wiki, and you can only notice if you play at these setting for a long time and can see the differences.

They make similar changes to the game world. Many areas of the game world are changed without any notice to look better, and to fix slowdowns caused by graphical bugs. This is also something you can’t notice unless you’ve played the game alot.. that even the Core Tyria maps are much more detailed now than at launch.

For example ,in Rata Sum, the lights around the accounting area used to be directly in the middle, but now they are off to the hallways and the accounting area is dark. Similarly, Guilded Hollow recently had a bunch of texture changes where they tried to make the floors look better by replacing bad textures).

Compare GH treasure room at HoT launch to now and you will see what I mean.

I imagine that these changes are too frequent for the various development teams to keep track of them, so they are undocumented.

Excelsior.

Sometimes I feel they update textures somewhat or change the map a bit maybe (e.g. instead of stretching a texture over 50 m², they add a few corners/diagonals/polygones so the texture is actually rendered in 5×10 m², at least at very ugly parts.

The performance leaves much to be desired, but then, not everyone is Rockstar that delivers such a beauty even on old hardware (I could not believe what I saw on a GTX 660!) but I often feel slight things change. Especially since I am a guy that values aesthetic over anything, I have pictures and videos of me posing around and sometimes I feel like textures have changed (e.g. I can differ metal from leather on my clothes better than a couple of months before) or certain lighting looks better and stuff like this.

You can find mention of some of the graphics updates recently in the Dev Tracker, if you are so inclined.

Good luck.