Guild Wars 2

Jokes aside from the topic title… It’s been 5 years now and we still can’t sit in chairs? I made a topic like this several years ago and I’m upset to see when I’ve come back from a 2 year or so break and sitting in chairs, benches, sofa’s, stools, crates and even ledges is still not a thing that exists.

Why is this Anet? Several other games allow players to sit on furniture with the /sit command when they’re standing near said furnishings. I think it’s about time we got this ability too.

SAY NO TO SITTING ON DIRTY FLOORS AND ON THE GROUND!

ANet has explained why they haven’t offered this, despite their interest. It turns out they tied themselves into knots in the way they designed the races, so that it would take a lot more code (and difficult to maintain systems at that) to get each character of each race & size to sit in the same chairs.

Some players have suggested that the work required to make sitting on mounts might have included the groundwork for chairs. I’m not that optimistic, since mounts are personal and can be adjusted per toon, in a way that items static to the environment (e.g. chairs) are not.

tl;dr it’s more difficult than it sounds and that’s why it’s still not in game.

Imma Sylvari! I can sit on any dirty floor or ground I want, no problem for me!

Just let us spawn our own chairs. Yes it’s cheap. No it’s not immersion breaking compared to what’s already in the game.

Here’s what they had to say back then

Sitting and chairs

“So, what’s the deal with chairs?”

A brief, surprised laugh. “You know, I honestly have no idea. One of the great challenges that we faced with chairs, and this is kind of ironic, is that because we put in five different races of differing heights into the game, we found we had to make every chair uniform and have everyone always sit on them the exact same way or build an entire system that recognizes the height of the chair and appropriately animates your character.”

Johanson adds dolefully, “We kind of forced ourselves into a corner where we either go back and re-art every chair in the game, or we build this system for sitting. I think in the grand scheme of things, given all the other projects, we have going on, sitting, as important as it is, is not something we’re currently working on.”

With that in mind the best option might be a chair toy. When you click on it your char becomes a char sitting on a chair.

I came back from BDO and ESO and yes it’s pathetic that here we still can’t sit.
Sitting AND leaning can be easly implemented. How? Just make /sit do sit emote ANYWHERE. Same with leaning. No check and animation for chairs (no magic chairs coming out of nowhere like in some other mmo) etc. Just like we have /sleep now.

We position our character how we want and /sit /sit2 /sit3 /leanleft /leanright /leanback etc.

Doesn’t matter if we lean in the middle of an empty field (will look like some mime) or at the building wall in city or inside tavern or near some cart or npc or tree…
Same with sitting (look i sit on invisible chair!) – can sit on air or position character close to some surface until it looks good.

Better than nothing at all i say.

^ I like it. Now I want an emote to do that mime act where they pretend there’s an invisible wall. It would be so funny because the game is full of strangely placed invisible walls.

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I came back from BDO and ESO and yes it’s pathetic that here we still can’t sit.
Sitting AND leaning can be easly implemented. How? Just make /sit do sit emote ANYWHERE. Same with leaning. No check and animation for chairs (no magic chairs coming out of nowhere like in some other mmo) etc. Just like we have /sleep now.

We position our character how we want and /sit /sit2 /sit3 /leanleft /leanright /leanback etc.

Doesn’t matter if we lean in the middle of an empty field (will look like some mime) or at the building wall in city or inside tavern or near some cart or npc or tree…
Same with sitting (look i sit on invisible chair!) – can sit on air or position character close to some surface until it looks good.

Better than nothing at all i say.

You can already do that, if your character will fit in the chair/bench, jump on top and sit.

There are many other things that would be better use of time before wasting it developing better sitting animations.

Whenever they do make it so players can sit in chairs, they should disable your ability to sit in chairs if you’re wearing a backpack/wings.

Weapons already disappear in various interact states so not a problem.