Guild Wars 2

Even most JPs won’t get much out of gliding, in most of them you have to jump UPWARDS where gliding is useless. Even in those that do, gliding will be just another tool to solve the puzzle, like ride the lightning, Jump shot, Leap of faith, etc.
Sure there’s some potential for map breakouts, and that will have to be solved with higher “invisible walls” but i’m guessing those are probably solved by changing the y/z axis component of a string of code.
All in all gliding all over will be fun, and will be the first tangible thing that f2p people wil see HoT buyers having that they’ll want. And its high time we see some of the jungle masteries bleed into core tyria.

It will make risk jumps a lot easier tough.
In the end its more Air Time and More distance.

Plus you won’t die if you fail a jump.

Manu.6078:

Albadaran.1283:

Right… Mounts, Gliders, what will be next? Riding a dragon?

Hyenas with AA guns.

Be prepared…

/sing

Tommyknocker.6089:

As you are not on the design team you don’t know if they have worked out a way for it to work. And for all we know it will only be in certain zones and in certain areas. It may only be in that one area shown on the vid (orr). As it sits now we know nothing more than what we have been shown so instead of saying that WE don’t want something, maybe wait till all the facts are in first.

This is anet we’re talking about. If they did find a way for it to work, then end result will be countless other things.

Samnang.1879:

I swear if the world rained gold, some of you would still complain.

I think this idea is amazing, honestly I don’t know why it wasn’t implemented at HoT launch, but i’m so glad they’re implementing it. It would be great for new players, and also for old players, we can glide while doing Legendary collections in Tyria.

Of course we would because it would cause inflation thus whatever we have on the TP committed will be cheapened.

A lot of Tyria is already quite vertical, and gliding in certain areas is going to be a blast. Sure, it will add a few JP skips and some map breaks, but why is that a problem when there are already ways you can do that? I do want gliding in central Tyria.

Do not tell me what I want, I do want gliding in central Tyria.

Arena Net are not idiots, they are modifying each map to take gliding into account.

SoulSin.5682:

It will make risk jumps a lot easier tough.
In the end its more Air Time and More distance.

Plus you won’t die if you fail a jump.

Still won’t break most JPs.

Don’t tell me what I want, you’re not my real mum!

You can say no to gliding. I’ll wave to you as I fly over you.

Ill happily take my gliding in Tyria thank you.

…and instead consider giving some different form of traversing the environment.

The world of Core Tyria is much more flat than the HoT areas, and there is truly not many cases where we’ll actually need it. All gliding will do is give players immunity to fall damage, and mess up the mechanics of many jumping puzzles.

I think what upsets the players, isn’t the fact that they cann’t glide in Core Tyria, as much as it’s “not having any traveling mechanic”.
…that, and them falling to their deaths from Divinity’s highroads because they forgot they can’t glide!…

Instead, if you want to give some cool traversing mastery to the old world that badly, consider giving some sort of mount. Sure, it isn’t that useful for actual traveling with the huge amount of waypoints, but you can think of some clever uses for them besides an increase in speed. Then have one mastery for each of the five locations of the Vanila game (Maguma, Hoelbrack, Kryta, Ascalon and Orr), that gives a different mount that fits the theme of that area, and progressing each mastery would unlock more abilities for that mount.

If you want to allow gliding somewhere, consider just the big cities. It’s a cool place for all traveling methods to be available simultaneously regardless of location and expansion.

As a way to boost sales for HoT, I can think of nothing better than adding gliding to core Tyria.

I admit, I’m biased, since I want to use my glider in the main game – but it would also showcase one of the cooler aspects of the expansion.

So, to be contrary, yes, PLEASE, bring gliding to core Tyria.

Also, no mounts.

no to mounts for the 1000x

@kite – I’m curious how you’ll feel about it if gliding does come to central tyria. Will you staunchly refuse to use it or will you backflip?

Ironic name, btw.

No to mounts (for the 1000th time).

Yes to gliding.

Also…gliding will mess up JPs…..but flying mounts…won’t?

Man I KNEW this was gonna’ be another mounts thread.

no to mounts yes to gliding sorry op i like gliding never liked mounts in any game

I flipped a table after reading the first sentence.

No mounts. Yes gliding.

How do you know it will ruin JPs? I will not say much about that until I have seen the result becouse for what we know at the moment is that you will be able to glide in Orr and probably in the rest of the world but we don’t know if it will be locked in JP areas.
Mounts in my opinion will ruin GW2 even more than you think Gliding will.

Mount thread #918827756123 confirmed.
kitten

Kite.2510:

Please DONT give Gliding to Core Tyria…
…and instead consider giving some different form of traversing the environment.

No. I like to have gliding in Core Tyria.

No mounts thanks. I like gliding.

There are JPs in HoT maps a couple of them actually. One you need LeyLine Gliding for, and there is one inside Tarir where you go up and up and up.. It was a blast and guess what, gliding didn’t ruin it at all. Just so you’re aware the argument that Gliding will ruin JPs is not a strong one and if that’s all you got sorry it’s not a good enough reason to not add a feature like that.

Kite.2510:

…and instead consider giving some different form of traversing the environment.

The world of Core Tyria is much more flat than the HoT areas, and there is truly not many cases where we’ll actually need it. All gliding will do is give players immunity to fall damage, and mess up the mechanics of many jumping puzzles.

I think what upsets the players, isn’t the fact that they cann’t glide in Core Tyria, as much as it’s “not having any traveling mechanic”.
…that, and them falling to their deaths from Divinity’s highroads because they forgot they can’t glide!…

Instead, if you want to give some cool traversing mastery to the old world that badly, consider giving some sort of mount. Sure, it isn’t that useful for actual traveling with the huge amount of waypoints, but you can think of some clever uses for them besides an increase in speed. Then have one mastery for each of the five locations of the Vanila game (Maguma, Hoelbrack, Kryta, Ascalon and Orr), that gives a different mount that fits the theme of that area, and progressing each mastery would unlock more abilities for that mount.

If you want to allow gliding somewhere, consider just the big cities. It’s a cool place for all traveling methods to be available simultaneously regardless of location and expansion.

We don’t want mounts, nor do we need mounts in this game. This game have waypoints, and a lot of waypoints. It is by far the fastest way to travel. And gliding is more about exploring then using for travel since again, waypoints are faster if you just want to move from point a to point b.

Disable it near jumping puzzles

I don’t want mounts(waypoints make mounts meaningless other than undesired fluff), and I’m sure they’d come up with a reasonable measure for no gliding in jumping puzzles… you’d have to be not that smart to think they’d allow JP’s to become cheese-easy like that.

sarcastic edit: here’s a gif for you.

Oh look, another mount thread.

No to mounts, yes to gliding.

There is too many wp’s in Gw2 for mounts to be useful…. which btw i find pretty sad :/
With that said i think it will be hard to make mounts fit in to the core world of tyria…

You people Isolate a word without reading the full text, asume the rest, and then go bananas.

Gliding is a Very big gameplay changer! It’s addition to HoT changed completely the way we perceive the world. I strongly believe the game currently NEEDS such variety between worlds. Having different gameplay mechanics will do wanders to the fatigue you feel from playing the same game for 3+ years. The more areas feel like another game, the better!
Gliding in the Flat Core Tyria will do little than mess a lot of things up (since the maps got designed without it), and in the long run it would be even MORE useless than Mounts!

How can you people (understandably) Hate mounts for being useless in a game with that many Waypoints, yet are ok to Gliding that’s even More useless in the flat world.

Besides that Link I left wasn’t inteded for Mounts in general, but rather to the first post, where it’s suggested that they’ll could be used as Tools rather than Speedboosts.

It doesn’t have to be Mounts!
You could Rollerscate in Ascalon and Pogostick in Orr for all I care, as long as it’s a different mechanic, and it’s ACTUALLY USEFULL TO THE MAP!

As a way to boost sales for HoT, I can think of nothing better than adding gliding to core Tyria.

As I said. Being allowed just in Cities is Ok. It’s where everyone shows off anyway…

Also, no mounts.

F*** Mounts.
Give me a Pogo stick instead.
But No Gliding.

Rio.4259:

Also…gliding will mess up JPs…..but flying mounts…won’t?

Wha…?!
Who in his right mind would EVER want Flying in the game? Are you Mad?!

Kite.2510:

You people Isolate a word without reading the full text, asume the rest, and then go bananas.

Gliding is a Very big gameplay changer! It’s addition to HoT changed completely the way we perceive the world. I strongly believe the game currently NEEDS such variety between worlds. Having different gameplay mechanics will do wanders to the fatigue you feel from playing the same game for 3+ years. The more areas feel like another game, the better!
Gliding in the Flat Core Tyria will do little than mess a lot of things up (since the maps got designed without it), and in the long run it would be even MORE useless than Mounts!

How can you people (understandably) Hate mounts for being useless in a game with that many Waypoints, yet are ok to Gliding that’s even More useless in the flat world.

Besides that Link I left wasn’t inteded for Mounts in general, but rather to the first post, where it’s suggested that they’ll could be used as Tools rather than Speedboosts.

It doesn’t have to be Mounts!
You could Rollerscate in Ascalon and Pogostick in Orr for all I care, as long as it’s a different mechanic, and it’s ACTUALLY USEFULL TO THE MAP!

As a way to boost sales for HoT, I can think of nothing better than adding gliding to core Tyria.

As I said. Being allowed just in Cities is Ok. It’s where everyone shows off anyway…

Also, no mounts.

F*** Mounts.
Give me a Pogo stick instead.
But No Gliding.

Rio.4259:

Also…gliding will mess up JPs…..but flying mounts…won’t?

Wha…?!
Who in his right mind would EVER want Flying in the game? Are you Mad?!

You must have a creative guild. Because our guild hide and seek is about to become glide and seek. This alone will be a massive improvement to our guild get togethers.

Kite.2510:

…and instead consider giving some different form of traversing the environment.

Kite.2510:

…and instead consider giving some different form of traversing the environment.

i vote Yes to Gliding and NO to mounts , u want mounts ? → go play WoW or Lotro or whatever , but i wanted my core tyria gliding ever since i saw gliding in HoT , Unforunately i dont have a beat mount to death.gif ….. I loved the sneaky way they presented it by the way : )

cant wait for the actual release date now

I couldn’t care less if gliding is useful. Its just plain fun to jump off that mountain/tower/tree-top. It was probably my favorite single aspect in Aion.

Well, you can always disable gliding in JP area.

However, the thing is that, anet has and must implement all the features across guild wars 2 and not restrict to one part of the game. Otherwise, that is wasteful development and not consider a expansion if you are not expanding the whole game itself.

For all of you worried about gliding and JPs, most JPs go UP, not down, so gliding won’t be very useful for JPs. It might save you a few deaths yes but it won’t allow you to finish most JPs more easily.

You make it sound like i need a mount when i have 100% upkeep 33% faster running on my druid. Also, you can always restrict gliders in jumping puzzle areas.

yeah agree with OP….at fist i didn`t like the idea but adding gliding do core tyria will have in inpact on jumping puzzles making them immune to dmg.

Instead give dam mounts to travel faster

Yes to gliding, no to mounts,

For JPs: add some storm gusts or angry birds that only attack flying

Hopefully they’ll add mounts. The imbecile non-arguments of the anti-mount opposition can go to hell.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Hopefully they’ll add mounts. The imbecile non-arguments of the anti-mount opposition can go to hell.

Not like the mount side have any good counter argument….Oh wait.

Please DO give Gliding to Core Tyria…

Correction:

I do want gliding in Tyria.

Just waiting for that SAB genie to pop out and gloat about how he’s transformed the real world.

Raise your hand if you were playing for a few days in HOT, then had to go into a central Tyria zone and immediately jumped off a cliff and died. Raises hand. Yeah it would be nice sometimes if I didn’t have to remember you can only glide in HOT.

They should fix and improve other parts of the game instead of working on useless things like gliding. I don’t care about it at all.

Amaranthe.3578:

the maps weren’t designed with gliding in mind like maguma
it will kitten it up
and anet knows this to be true
the only reason anet might add this eventually is to encourage the weirdos who didn’t buy the expac to do it because they will see gliders in the starting zones
say no to gliding in main tyria

It will be just a big improvement for me. Faster traveling, a lot of fun. I don’t care about your opinion so please don’t tell me what other people want :P

Dsybok.1405:

Raise your hand if you were playing for a few days in HOT, then had to go into a central Tyria zone and immediately jumped off a cliff and died. Raises hand. Yeah it would be nice sometimes if I didn’t have to remember you can only glide in HOT.

(Raises hand for myself, and other people).

One time I was on a vista, high up, and I was looking down, wishing I could glide. Then suddenly 2 dead people appeared below me. So, I thought, I’ll do it anyway…. and jumped (then there were 3 dead people down there).

And yep, I’ve jumped from high up in Tyria fully expecting to glide, and had my expectations (and body) dashed to the ground.