Guild Wars 2

Press Esc -> open the Options menu -> go to the Graphics Options tab -> Set Character Model Quality to Lowest.

This replaces everyone else’s characters with placeholders. You won’t see what armor they are wearing or what the character looks like – you only see weapons and backpacks.

Advantages:

• It helps with optimization, especially in large events, since the models are less detailed and far less diverse.

• You avoid seeing a lot of ugly people.

• That guy who spent thousands in the Gem Store thinking people will stare in awe at his armor? You get to laugh at him as he looks the same as everyone else.

I only wish it would also hide backpacks, and replace weapons with placeholders too.

Changing the character model limit helps more than changing the quality when it comes to big events, I find.

Did people really not already know this?

I must be playing this game wrong because for me, half the fun is checking out other people’s characters.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Changing the character model limit helps more than changing the quality when it comes to big events, I find.

The side effect, at least for me, is that the character model limit replaces people by name tags. And the name tags themselves are ugly :P From a purely practical point of view, that is probably superior, you’re right. But from an aesthetic point of view, I prefer reducing character model quality – the placeholders are not badly done textures, they just all look the same.

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RoseofGilead.8907:

Changing the character model limit helps more than changing the quality when it comes to big events, I find.

The side effect, at least for me, is that the character model limit replaces people by name tags. And the name tags themselves are ugly :P From a purely practical point of view, that is probably superior, you’re right. But from an aesthetic point of view, I prefer reducing character model quality – the placeholders are not badly done textures, they just all look the same.

I also have name tags turned off, which also helps a lot.

RoseofGilead.8907:

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RoseofGilead.8907:

Changing the character model limit helps more than changing the quality when it comes to big events, I find.

The side effect, at least for me, is that the character model limit replaces people by name tags. And the name tags themselves are ugly :P From a purely practical point of view, that is probably superior, you’re right. But from an aesthetic point of view, I prefer reducing character model quality – the placeholders are not badly done textures, they just all look the same.

I also have name tags turned off, which also helps a lot.

Interesting! I’ll have to try that some day.