Guild Wars 2

(I imagine this has been suggested before, but either search doesn’t work or people aren’t talking much about the camera at all because I can’t find posts about it).

I’ve played computer games rather a lot for over 30 year now and have never had any of them cause physical problems. The most has been some slight wrist ache after thousands of hours of right-clicking in Minecraft.

GW2 does cause pretty severe pain in my right arm, however. Granted, I have played a lot and I’m not getting any younger either, but still, it does seem like GW2 is special in that respect and I’m pretty sure it’s due to having to hold down the right mouse button so much.

Would it be possible to implement a (rebindable) camera toggle key? And perhaps an optional mouse method where a single right-click locks the camera, another right-click frees it again, while holding the button down works as it does now.
(Obviously, the current method should be available unchanged too because that’s what people are used to).

I think that could save a lot of stress on my arm.

the best stress reduction system for your arm is already there! play less.

anyway, play around with your settings because when i rightclick my mouse and release my camera stays where it is and i walk sideways from my camera. use arrow buttons to move around instead. I dunno, I never got any pain from gaming extensive times, and yes i have been playing games for about the same amounts of time you do. pong was great wasnt it.

Search for immersive combat mod on google, it’s a mouse lock – action like mod for gw2, something that should be native but arenanet don’t have a general ui team.

Simzani.4318:

Search for immersive combat mod on google, it’s a mouse lock – action like mod for gw2, something that should be native but arenanet don’t have a general ui team.

Thanks. I’ll take a look.

mcwurth.2081:

the best stress reduction system for your arm is already there! play less.

Sure, but when it only happens with one game then it seems logical that there’s something about that game which causes it, more than just playing time (considering I have spent as much time on other games).

anyway, play around with your settings because when i rightclick my mouse and release my camera stays where it is and i walk sideways from my camera. use arrow buttons to move around instead.

That’s kind of the problem; what I want a toggle for is the mode you get when you hold the right mouse button down, i.e. the one where you can turn the camera with the mouse.
The only times I don’t use it is when I do something in inventory or crafting stations and such, so that means I have to hold the button down pretty much constantly.
That is rather different than most other games.

pong was great wasnt it.

It didn’t really make much of an impression on me, actually. A friend and I spent about ten minutes on it before we went back outside to play.
(I hope his parents’ had more fun with it because it must have been rather expensive back then).