Guild Wars 2

All of a sudden, I noticed that other players and some NPCs don’t appear for me until I am almost on top of them, then they fade into being visible. I have all the settings on max, as I have had from the start and have always thought that other players fade from view on a too short distance, but lately it seems even shorter.
Is it like this for anyone else, or is it just my connection that is about to give up or something?

that is the graphic culling employed but the game engine, server-side manipulated.
it’s not your computer or your connection.
they keep fiddling with the culling settings and it still doesnt function properly.

It’s actually gotten a lot worse, at least in my opinion.

It’s a terrible problem in WvW. Can happen even in small engagements… invisible enemies are rather hard to fight.

Thanks for the info about culling. I hadn’t realized that was going on server-side. I got bit by that just the other day in WvW. Me and a team mate were contemplating whether we should take on a supply depot populated only with NPC guards. All of a sudden a large group of enemy players “materialized” and were running our way. They were now too close to escape from. I’m pretty sure if we’d seen them at a fair distance away we could have made an escape.