Guild Wars 2

I play Guild Wars 2 via Steam. You can upload screenshots to Steam which become visible on the activity feeds of the people on my friends list.

It’s hard to get good shots with my avatar in the middle of the screen. I don’t necessarily want my Steam friends to see how he looks like. He feels a bit misplaced when it comes to panoramic shots especially. I know there are the vistas but they give me hardly any freedom and rarely capture the stuff that I had wanted to get into view.

From a quick Google search it seems to me that a first-person view had been considered and dismissed by the devs. However probably for other reasons. I don’t need to fight or do anything gameplay relevant from first-person. Third-person is fine to play with. To me it’s really just about being able to take good screenshots. The view I wish for could be forcefully switched back into third-person when any action – moving, attack, jumping or whatever – is executed.

Takings shots this way would be one way for me to capture or “recycle” feelings and impressions that I like better. And – perhaps more relevant to the devs – this may enable me to advertise this game indirectly to the people on my friends list. Because I don’t like uploading most of the third-person screenshots I have taken thus far.

You can already hide the interface. I can’t imagine why you would be able to do that for any other reason but to take screenshots, so some people from ArenaNet must know my feelings. Give me a locked/limited first-person too and I would love you. : – )

As I understood it, you can always just type /sleep and your character will lie down, then you can take your screen shot without it in the picture, but moving the camera a little bit.

But yeah, a First Person screen shot mode would be cool.

Don’t know about that sleep thing, gonna try it. If you mean hiding the character behind the camera – well that’s what I’ve always been trying at one point or another in the third-person games I play. But it can be a pain in a certain body part to do : – /

Yes please. I really NEED a first person view for videos and screenshots. Im so tired of my backside having to be in every video.

Now that I finally learned to take screenshots without the hud, I find that I would greatly enjoy this feature too! :-)

I think there is more info here in the main thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-player-camera-improvements/first

Here – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Beauty-of-Guild-Wars-2/first – is a thread with screen captures from around Tyria. At the bottom of page one Michael Walker explains how to take pictures without your character in the frame. That’s where I learned about using “/sleep”.