Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to say thank you to the dev that made this beauty. Combat feels a lot better for me now that I don’t have to use auto target to aim ranged attacks, unlike other combat modes.

Easily beats all the other features combined in my opinion.

Totally unconstructive praise, but figure it’s okay?

I love it <3

Thanks again!

As a PvP guy I love the skill retargeting. Really makes everything more responsive.

It’s amazing when doing JPs!

all hail joel the camera missiah !!!!

The Action Camera is AWESOME!

It’s now my default mode of play.

That said, I’m thinking it would be nice if autoattack didn’t require mashing the left mouse button all the time. It gets a bit much in boss fights.

- No rebindable righ click.
- Can’t set left click to automatic.

Half done job as usual by arenanet. It’s sad that some amateurs mods made years ago are better than this.

Simzani.4318:

- No rebindable righ click.
- Can’t set left click to automatic.

Half done job as usual by arenanet. It’s sad that some amateurs mods made years ago are better than this.

Right, but that mod was not dealing with the same internal limitations.

I will continue using Combat Mode, but this is hardly poor work.

You don’t have to “mash” your mouse button. You just hold it down!

CadeRG.4508:

You don’t have to “mash” your mouse button. You just hold it down!

A poor choice of words on my part.

I mean it would be nice not to have to hold the left mouse button down to continue autoattacks throughout every fight, and that the problem becomes particularly noticeable during long boss battles.

If a skill is set to automatically repeat normally, it should do the same when the Action Camera is active. If it has been toggled off (using Ctrl-Right-Click by default), then it should behave as it does now.

lorddarkflare.9186:

Simzani.4318:

- No rebindable righ click.
- Can’t set left click to automatic.

Half done job as usual by arenanet. It’s sad that some amateurs mods made years ago are better than this.

Right, but that mod was not dealing with the same internal limitations.

I will continue using Combat Mode, but this is hardly poor work.

Agreed, it’s a good start but I will continue using the combat mod until this action camera gets properly fleshed out.

Simzani.4318:

- No rebindable righ click.
- Can’t set left click to automatic.

Half done job as usual by arenanet. It’s sad that some amateurs mods made years ago are better than this.

You mean the job done by one guy, over the course of the year, on his off hours, because he thought it’d be cool?

Yes, i mean that, like the job amateurs did for their better mods and shared them, in their off hours and because it’s cool. And without the whole studio behind them.

GW2 might actually become my favorite mmo(not to mention the name) with this new setting. I never enjoyed having a hard time selecting a specific target back then(2012, came back a month ago), and I’m loving this, feels like I’m playing my favorite mmo now! It’s probably going to take a little bit to adjust to, but really, great job adding this.

Majic.4801:

CadeRG.4508:

You don’t have to “mash” your mouse button. You just hold it down!

A poor choice of words on my part.

I mean it would be nice not to have to hold the left mouse button down to continue autoattacks throughout every fight, and that the problem becomes particularly noticeable during long boss battles.

If a skill is set to automatically repeat normally, it should do the same when the Action Camera is active. If it has been toggled off (using Ctrl-Right-Click by default), then it should behave as it does now.

Joel created the new combat camera after being inspired by other action games. Nearly every action rpg/mmo/fps game requires you to hold down the left/right mouse button to continue attacking.

Give the new combat camera a chance, you’ll adjust to it, and will likely understand why it works this way

Although, your idea would be a nice addition for them to think about for future updates.

I don’t notice anything different. Is the action camera only for HoT?

echoeagle.5439:

I don’t notice anything different. Is the action camera only for HoT?

Go to Options, Control Options, then scroll down to the Camera section. Add a keybind for Toggle Action Camera Took me a second to find, I was looking for a toggle, not a keybind hehe

I toggled it on, got the dot, but it doesn’t want to lock on to anything. Only when I tab select do I get the cross-hair and circle. I their some combination of targeting settings I’m suppose to also use?

autotargetting on

Behellagh.1468:

I toggled it on, got the dot, but it doesn’t want to lock on to anything. Only when I tab select do I get the cross-hair and circle. I their some combination of targeting settings I’m suppose to also use?

Right clicking on a mob or NPC seems to target

edit
Autotargeting sounds easier :P

Autotargeting is on. This is GS 1 on a mesmer/chronomancer. I was looking forward to this.

So how do you look behind you while running without turning your character in that direction?

EDIT: you need an extra keybind for that. Yea, no thanks

Just tried it again, last time was last night after it went live. Works now. Thanks for helping.

I’m honestly surprised it turned out as well as it did. I was expecting it to be a mess at first but it’s pretty on par with actual action combat games like BnS and ESO. Good job Anet.

Just wish I could hold down the #1 skill I have bound to M5 to rapid fire like M1, It will be weird getting used to using M1 for AA after all this time.

Right click seems to work the same way my F key for targeting works (target closest enemy) so don’t really need my M2 button’s function since I can keep my same targeting habits. They said they had mechanical issues with allowing these keys to be rebindable but maybe it’ll be patched one day.

I’d also like being able to aim straight down at my feet.

ShaggyBodom.9360:

echoeagle.5439:

I don’t notice anything different. Is the action camera only for HoT?

Go to Options, Control Options, then scroll down to the Camera section. Add a keybind for Toggle Action Camera Took me a second to find, I was looking for a toggle, not a keybind hehe

Wow, this is weird. I don’t have the new keybind listed there as everyone else seems to.
Still just:

• Free Camera
• Zoom In
• Zoom Out
• Look Behind

Well, off to troubleshoot this I guess. :\

EDIT:
Apparently one must load a character into a map for the Options menus to update with these new features (Toggle Action Camera, Allow Skill Retargeting, etc).

I find this to be rather odd. It means a new player that logs in and customizes their settings would need to first make a character and load into the game world and then have to go back in and adjust these additional settings. If they do not reopen their options after making/loading a character, they would not even be aware of these settings existing as they weren’t there before when they were customizing them at the character select screen.

• I can only think that there is a bug there causing these two new options to not be in the Options until after loading into a map with a character.

although the action cam is great it’s a bit annoying that if you zoom in (i thought ego perspective and action cam would give me an awesome gaming experience similar to tes) it feels like you’re very close to the ground which makes proper targeting barely possible. that and your face seems to be at the height of everyones butt. even as norn and charr.
also it’d be nice if you could see your weapons and arm animations while in ego mode.