Guild Wars 2

Who thought that was a good idea?? It makes it much more difficult to keep your bearings when gathering or roaming. Was that the intent? If so, why?? And wouldn’t it have been a good idea to check with players first before scrambling part of the UI???

You can toggle the rotation on and off, it’s always been there…it’s an option on the side.

Some people like this, and its not uncommon for games to use a minimap that rotates with the direction the character is going.

I believe you can shut that off though. Should be a setting for it unless they removed it by accident. Still at work, so I can’t exactly check right now. It might just have got unchecked on you.

Hover your mouse over the mini-map, there should be an icon that looks like on arrow on the lower right, middle of three icons. That toggles map rotation.

Vayne.8563:

You can toggle the rotation on and off, it’s always been there…it’s an option on the side.

Thanks … never noticed that and I’ve been playing this game since launch. I did check the Options section to see if I could change it before I posted. I wonder why this patch suddenly changed the default.

a North, South, West and East convention? ppfff… overrated… lets break the laws of logic with this, lulz.

Now seriously, maybe if you are used to a game that had this,.. but i can’t see why anyone new to this feature would use it.

It didn’t get ‘changed’ on mine. And there hasn’t been a ton of posts about it. It may be possible you accidently clicked the icon without realizing. Or you are just ‘special’. Lol. =)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It didn’t get ‘changed’ on mine. And there hasn’t been a ton of posts about it. It may be possible you accidently clicked the icon without realizing. Or you are just ‘special’. Lol. =)

Anything is possible, but I’m almost positive that I didn’t accidentally click on the mini-map. I noticed the issue as soon as I logged on, but I suppose it is possible that I clicked on the screen after the client was active but before the UI was fully displayed. On the other hand, I use a Razer mouse (very nice for strafing with the help of the remapped side buttons) with it’s own cloud-based driver, and weirder things have happened with it before.