First off – Anet, you created an absolutely wonderful game that has captivated me for over two years now and it will keep doing so. That much is certain.
I would personally like to re-suggest a topic that has been brought up several times in the past – and now that the game has some polish, a potential possibility to make the game just a little more perfect: The vertical camera slider.
Guild Wars 2 always had a fairly well-movable controllable camera; the horizontal slider has always been an option that many players use simply to make everything just a bit nicer and have characters block the screen less.
Yet as it is, the camera is better with some playable races than others – Norn and Charr are decently well off when it comes to camera control as they take up a far lower part of the screen and on a close-up, one doesn’t have to see their entire character model. Sylvari and humans have a decent range of possibilities but it starts being very uncomfortable on any slope – and then of course, there’s Asura who have trouble looking up without being blocked by their entire character model.
Screenshot 1: Shows how much of the camera is really unused in combat, causing you to see less of the enemy and to watch the ground. Particularly unpleasing as some of GW2’s prettiest sights can barely be seen as they are on towery peaks and in the sky!
Screenshot 2: Showing off how awkward looking up can be. Not always this problematic, but most of the time, it’s quite a possibility.
ArenaNet have already given us some amazing quality of life changes – including camera FOV tweaks, a fix that made the camera scale with the character just a bit more as well as having fixed all those pesky beta issues. So, thanks for all that you did, thanks for all you will do – this game rocks my socks off. And I don’t doubt you will be able to deliver more amazing surprises in the future.
So, thank you. And looking forward to more time spent on a wonderful game. (Even though a camera change would probably elongate that just a biiiit more. ;-)
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