Guild Wars 2

When I saw the update for today, I was pretty excited. The snowflake glider is really nice. Definitely considering making it my first glider purchase.

But there’s one thing holding me back from doing so after watching a video of it in action, and that’s the sound effects. Why on earth does it reuse the “creepy, whispering souls” sound effects from the Soul River glider? Its a fitting sound effect for the Soul River glider, but snow? What does snow have to do with creepy whispering? It doesn’t make sense and honestly, even if it seems a bit silly, I’m not sure I would be able to tolerate hearing that whispering every time I pull out my glider. Its pretty irritating.

Is it a bug / mistake, or intentional? Any chance of it getting changed?

I think it’s supposed to be the howling of a blizzard.

Because they don’t have enough money to pay the art team to do something better than reusing the old glider and just applying a new skin and effects. I think this is a good example of how much money Anet has to spend on extras. No wonder their gemstore has been so grabby lately.

Yay, we are now at the point where we are getting recolored items.