Guild Wars 2

As the new expansion comes out I hear the words “Bigger Maps” and I ask myself how I can make them even larger, more real, more immersive…. and then I realize oh why not try this game in first person? The moment I went into 1st person the game was instantly much larger, enemies were way more detailed looking and having to fight them in 1st person was a lot more intense. The only problem about 1st person I’m having with however, is that I don’t really see my arms, weapons or much detail into my own animations. The coolest thing I saw so far was 3 skill on water scepter for ele, using the trident in 1st person was awesome seeing myself actually wield the trident and shoot the clone of it to the target location really made me want more out of 1st person after that. If Anet made some changes to the first person mode, imagine how big the world would really feel? How crazy fighting the npcs would really be? There’s so much to go off of this I don’t see why no ones worked on the 1st person camera yet, hopefully it’ll be worked on eventually, cause I’m a die hard PvPer but I’d sure get into PvE much easier If 1st person was like other games, seeing my casts and weapons, 1st mount riding, ooooooh the possibilities!

I have had many friends complain about the quality of first person saying it could be so much more, similar to a skyrim feel. I know the game wasn’t/ever will be meant for such gameplay but a lot of the RP’ers would definitely like to experience this bit of QOL updated.

Wait, there is first person?

Fractured.3928:

Wait, there is first person?

Action camera.

Honestly it can’t work. Action Cam is extremely clunky, and theres really no way to make it work better without disorienting view point snapping, or having to use exclusively use tab targetting. Another problem is ground target, which insanely difficult to use without a high vantage point from the camera.

If the core of the complaint by these folks is not seeing their hands in frame…… then they really have no idea what they want.

starlinvf.1358:

Honestly it can’t work. Action Cam is extremely clunky, and theres really no way to make it work better without disorienting view point snapping, or having to use exclusively use tab targetting. Another problem is ground target, which insanely difficult to use without a high vantage point from the camera.

If the core of the complaint by these folks is not seeing their hands in frame…… then they really have no idea what they want.

I don’t see how ground targeting is insanely difficult? There are a lot of things that would be difficult in 1st person, ground targeting is not one of those.

But there are already 1st person games that use ground targeting. The target just goes where your mouse currently is pointing towards. Basically just how it is now, but with a different angle.

Won’t be as easy to effectively do it, but I wouldn’t say anything more difficult than anything else as first person.

Action Camera and first person are two seperate things.

First person is simply when you zoom in all the way so the camera is in the same spot as your character and you can’t see them. You can use it in conjuction with Action Camera, but you can use the two separately as well.

Clice.5208:

As the new expansion comes out I hear the words “Bigger Maps” and I ask myself how I can make them even larger, more real, more immersive…. and then I realize oh why not try this game in first person? The moment I went into 1st person the game was instantly much larger, enemies were way more detailed looking and having to fight them in 1st person was a lot more intense. The only problem about 1st person I’m having with however, is that I don’t really see my arms, weapons or much detail into my own animations. The coolest thing I saw so far was 3 skill on water scepter for ele, using the trident in 1st person was awesome seeing myself actually wield the trident and shoot the clone of it to the target location really made me want more out of 1st person after that. If Anet made some changes to the first person mode, imagine how big the world would really feel? How crazy fighting the npcs would really be? There’s so much to go off of this I don’t see why no ones worked on the 1st person camera yet, hopefully it’ll be worked on eventually, cause I’m a die hard PvPer but I’d sure get into PvE much easier If 1st person was like other games, seeing my casts and weapons, 1st mount riding, ooooooh the possibilities!

I would never use it. I appreciate being able to see mobs coming up

I haven’t seen a single game that had both first and third person animations done well (yes, I have played the TES series, including a few hours of ESO; the third person animations are abysmal in every installment that has them). It would take a lot of time and money to make both viable, beautiful, and immersive, while most people are happy having only one of the two.

for them to make it great again it have to have been great before and it never were.

Just like Wvw… First person was never great to begin with :p